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Well, lucky for Joel this was a cannibals resort so all the killings are justified. Because when he started murder the other guys who came for him I was like "this will be hard to explain, maybe they are someone´s fathers too." I don´t understand the constant lack of food and things in this world. Bilions of people are dead and more are dying every day. I would expect the exact opposite, just abundance of abandoned things of all kinds everywhere and the animals slowly taking the world back. But I quess hunting people is easier??? There were three human corpses but no animals except the fresh horse in the "storrage". What happened with Joel´s brother? Is that part of the story fully done? When the hunting party arrived and had like 6 strong men and Joel was still comatose I expected he will be the last minute save, not Joel himself. That was a quick recovery. And I agree it was weird how everybody disappeared at the end. I thought Allie will get out and the whole village will be there panicking. Instead she a Joel just meet and go towards the river, not covered and clearly visible from everywhere, and there is no one.

I quess I´m just too cold and cynical but I was mostly bored. The whole Bill/Frank story was so predictable and dragged on and on and on. It was like the first twenty minutes of movie Up, only featuring two gays instead and extended to a whole hour. It WAS beautifully filmed and acted but meant zero for the main plot. Also, it seems very weird FEDRA has not been doing any sweeps of the evacuated villages looking for supplies. And that the raiders never returned with more firepower after their initial attempt to take over the compound failed. Why would people be so desperate to get into QZ´s if they can just take over some townhouse, start grow vegetables, shoot animals and lead a relatively nice life. I just hope this is not how the show wants to fill the time. I know the amount of obstacles Joel and Ellie can face on their journey is limited and it´s inevitable there will be more side stories, but this is really not that different from what the latest seasons of Fear of the Walking dead attempted to do. If the show is just 15 minutes of Joel and Ellie and 50+ minutes of some meaningfull stories for originally minor NPC characters we never see again I´m out.

Well, this atleast explain why whenever we saw Luc they always portrayed him as the cutest, most innocent thing ever. Say what you want about Alicent´s kids but atleast they have some personality. Which is actually true about the waring sides as well. Yeah, it´s amazing how everybody respects and adores each other on the Dragonstone, but it´s kind of boring. And I´m getting tired of Rhae always having the last second luck like last episode with Rhaenys escaping and this with Corlys magically surviving and declaring for her side. Not defending Aemond here, that was pretty stupid and necessary. I quess he is still really pissed about the eye? But good reminder that dragons are still just animals and the riders control is only limited. Not sure how Daemon knew about the tragedy so quick. Luc was still young and he was trying to flight back during a heavy storm. Even passenger flights can get lost during storms. It would make more sense if they just waited and waited for his return, asked the Baratheons if he arrived, and eventually declared him lost at the see. Only the people at Baratheon court know about the fight between Luc and Aemond and that Aemond took off soon after Luc. But even if they admitted it all to Rhae (which they have no reason too) Aemond could easily lie he just flew away to calm down and clear his head and he had never followed Luc into the storm. There are no witnesses of what happened in the skies.

This is GRRM world and he will argue that there are no inherently evil people (well, except some psychopats), but normal people driven to evil things by circumstances. Alicent wants her son to be a king because it will secure her family´s power and now also fullfills her late husband wish, but that doesn´t mean she is also ok with killing her best childhood friend and her family. It´s also clear the transition wouldn´t be clear even if she decided against it. The plot was already going and she was the only wild card Otto had not accounted with. It was his lucky star that she was there when her husband king was dying. I don´t think she would go with it otherwise and Otto would have to use the original "it´s either we or they" argument. But he wouldn´t just give up because she decided to support Rhae. And I don´t think the show is siding with the greens in any way. Ali has a horrible allies and we spend a lot of time with her sons to see they are not the best ruling material. Meantime, Rhae gets the convenient out so she doesn´t even have to kill her first husband to be with Daemon and both her kids are shown as sweet, kind, innocent boys. Things are definitely not even and I think the writers are doing their best with the cards GRRM has given them. But if the story is supposed to go for another four years and Ali and Rhae will be the main players for most of it, they cannot have one of the players turn into a C-movie villain just cackling and planning to murder anyone who is in her way. That may eventually come if there are more loses and more tragedy coming after the war starts, but it´s too soon for it now. She already did some horrible things, but she still wants to believe there can be a happy ending with no war and her and Rhae´s family both alive and safe.

Are you suggesting the situation would be different if Daemon and Rhae were the one in charge? He would want to get rid of Alicent´s kids too. And all the Hightowers and their sympathizers as well. There would be a lot of opposition against the queen who just returns from her voluntary exile and has zero idea about wre things are going. Especially if she was forced to either kill or atleast lock in dungeon most of the kingdoms current "government".

This was so terible! Everything in this finale was awfull. From plotting, through acting, to that horrible horrible song during the end credits. Honestly, if Amazon isn´t firing people left and right after this giant production fiasco I will be shocked. Why was Halbrand suddenly smirking in every scene like some C-movie villain? Why was Galadriel suddenly suspicious? Why he was sent healing to Celebrimbor forge in this giant elf city? Why there was like 5 different moment, where somebody says something and somebody else is like "OMG, heureka" during the ring manufacture scenes? That fight between evil priests and not-Sauron had no continuity. The harfoots runs away and second after they are back at the scene. The mortally wounded guy forgets he is dying until the end of fight. The priest appeated and disappeared on a whim. And did the writers thought even for a second somebody will be fooled with the "Heil Sauron" intro? Of course, then we have the cold blooded harfoots, who could care less about Nori and her family, and their new leader, who wanted them to cast away and let die in atleast three different episodes, doing the longest goodbye scene in history of LOTR since the ROTK extended versions. It´s amazing how the writers are so full of themselves they actually believe we care about these characters so much people will not be bored to death with 10 minutes long goodbye. And finally we have the pointless Elendil daughter continuing her neverending quest for a purpose, so she is magically there when the king dies and shows her the secret passage to the flashforward machine. Atleast the sleeveless florist, her evil son and elvish stepfather were missing this time.

Aegon is a shit, but Otto seems a pretty competent leader and he and Alicent has ruled the kingdom for years now and it seems not so bad. So it makes sense a lot of people would want the stability to continue. Rhae has peaced out years ago to have her happily ever after with Daemon and now she just expects she can dance back in and take over? It makes very little sense. Why she even wants to be a queen? Does she have any big vision for the kingdom? Who will be her main advisors? Does she know anything about what´s currently going on, the budget, wars and other tribulation the council is dealing with? No. She knows nothing. She could and should stay in KL after she married Daemon, attend the council meetings and be in active opposition to Otto. She should also stay because her father she supposedly loves so much got more and more ill and he would sure love to have his most beloved daughter close. But she is selfish and only thinks about herself all the time. She is like some long lost daughter who reappears on father´s dead bed and expects to inherit everything. It´s crazy anyone even wants that position. Danny atleast had her big vision of breaking the wheel and social revolution. But even she hated the mundane daily proceedings. Alicent is still young, her king husband almost dead, she had no fun for years. She should be happy someone wants to take over so she can finally pursue her own interests.

This is her third??? child in 5 years? I don´t think even the best mother of the world would be excited with yet another child crying endlessly in her arms. Yet she is still there personally taking care of him/her. I think she is just tired and feels utterly betrayed. And I think the show portrayed the change well. We saw how first she liked and respected the king. She was not into him THAT way, but she didn´t mind his company and he even asked for her advice here and there. But then they´ve got married and he started to treat her more as the broodmare and personal pleaser and caretaker. She felt she is giving him best and gets nothing in return. And on top of that she went through all that drama with Rhaenyra. Whenever Rhae did something questionable and she had an oppurtinity to use it against her she never did. She always defended her. And then she discovers not only that Rhae lied to her about her virginity, but the king knew that and still unjustly fired her father just to protect his daughter´s position. So I think sir Cole´s confession was the last straw. And you can tell when she enters the wedding she now just fully hates both the king and Rhaenyra. And she is done with always putting them first. Kind of sad, because I think one honest talk/fight between the two girls would probably resolve everything. But HOD is ultimately just a very expensive soap in a fantasy settings and huge misunderstandings resulting in years long conflict is a staple of the genre.

Can anyone explain how this most expensive show ever can have so cheap looking sets? Yeah, the CGI extensions and sceneries looks great, but then we are seeing the Númenor for real and it´s some small place with bunch of bored and terribly directed extras. Feels more like Xena or StarGate SG1 with it´s uncount number of village planets of 20 people. The same with Orcs. The scene where they are looking for the boy had zero tension. It looked like a computer game with bunch of NPC´s saying random generated lines when they are not yet alarmed of the player presence. Galadriel continues to be insufferable. So the dwarves are building the big furnace literally across Celebrimbor´s window? And the dwarve workers apparently just relocated there? Yet, he somewhat knows Durin has a secret even if he´s staying home in the mines thousands miles away? Does anything of that makes even an ounce of sense? And then we continue with the soap opera "everything is just sets anyway" cuts so Elrond just immediately transforms back to Disa and we can have another needlesly long and drawn out scenes from Durin´s home to finally reveal he is secretly mining Mithril, which honestly, who cares? Of course nobody from the production design bothers to change anything between these and the scenes from episode 2, clothing included, so it´s very obvious all these scenes were filmed during the same session. Really, I think that´s the common theme of the show so far. Nobody from both from and behind the camera just seems to care and does just the expected minimum. Extras looks bored, there is no mood in the lighting, actors in background seems lost, plot progress makes very little sense and there are huge gaps in continuity in almost every cut. Compare this with HOD which plotwise is just a simple soap opera in a fantasy settings, yet everything just feels so much more tense and real.

This episode was really stupid. If all Victor´s defence of the tower is one cowboy on a pension and bunch of walkers camping around main entry he has no right to call himself a dictator. Did he seriously forget there are some long range weapons the enemies can use to occupy the tower? And the zombies could be all easily eliminated by the MRAP, all Grace had to do was ride over them. So was Mo truly sick? Why Morgan tried to poison Victor? And why would Grace ever agreed with such a stupid plan? Good to see Alicia finally back on screen. But tents?! And so now we will have three potential leaders. My quess Alicia´s approach will be somewhere between Victor´s Castro and Morgan´s Gándhí, so maybe the best one.

The stuff on Terminus is just your standard syfi space opera now, just with a better budget. Which I quess is fitting because Salvor reminds me the main character from KillJoys. But what the hell was that flashback masked as vision where we finally saw Hari planning his "murder"? Like, even if the Vault is responsible for the visions, it injects Salvor with this particular information 30 years after the fact, just when Gaal discover the body? But why? How it is anyway usefull in her situation? The last thing I would wanted to have around as Empire is a creepy acting AI robot who also happens to be a religious fanatic. And why he even let that space Oprah enter the ceremony and steal the show? That was such a stupid move. Yeah, that florist girl is playing a dangerous game. Even if the young Empire is truly interested in her now, that could eventually change. Or his brothers discover their relationship and gets rid of her. There just isn´t a scenario where it could end well for her. Besides, am I the only one who thinks this newest "nicer" Empire will eventually turn to be the worst of them all? He just seems like a typical psychopat in making. And he is fascinated with death, that´s never a good sign. The Anacreons spend hours just randomly shooting anyone in sight, yet all the people they needed happens to survive? Whatever. But it´s good Salvor and her dad decided to bond just minutes before he goes and sacrifices himself for no reason. Six episodes in and I still have zero idea what the big Plan is about.

Ok, this is the second episode and I´m already little annoyed with Gaal, the special one. Like the budget room scene, where she immediatelly questioned the whole deal. Maybe she was right, but you just don´t badger the room like this being the know it all and make everybody else look stupid. Also the show tries to convince us she is working extremely hard and is treated just like any other ordinary pasenger, yet shows her mostly spending time in a luxury pool all just for herself or f*cking in the simulator room, which always make me imagine the people who are running the simulators and sees them going at it and be like "Oh no, not again". Anyway, the idea that the whole ship including Hari doesn´t know about her and Raych relationship is just ridiculous. They are watched and monitored 24/7, all their vital functions included. Now, what was the deal with the dinner scene? It seemed to hint that Raych is actually quite normal (read stupid), because he as kid didn´t steal the books to learn, but just to sell them. And then Hari somewhat adopted him? It seems there is a lot of hidden resentment and Hari was reminding Raych who he truly is (and that he probably is not a good match for a genius like Gaal). Now, the Emperors. Sorry, but with so much shortsightness and stupidity how they even managed to rule for so long? They just left the fallen tether lie on the ground for months on their home planet, yet spend bilions to send thousands of battleships to bomb some forgotten planets into stone age from orbit? And what about the names? It seems clever, but will be Dawn always named Dawn even when he is the old one? Or will he became Day when he takes over an active rule? Also, he is about 10? He will be adult in 10 years, ready to take over, and Day will be about fifty. Dawn is already questioning Day´s decisions now, it´s no way he will just let his "brother" to rule. This is an imperium which controls the galaxies, yet all we see is three people, their one spy and AI nanny who is apparently also in a charge of terror investigation. There has to be a huge ruling circle and thousands of powerfull people who might be questioning the Emperor´s decisions on daily basis. And the Emperors would have to try very hard to keep them content and loyal, especially if almost all AI was apparently destroyed (seems both Dune and this prefer using humans intead) so all the manpower is still made from flesh. I have no idea what the end was about, but I will be sorry if that´s it for Hari. But the actor is quite famous (read expensive) after Chernobyl, so maybe he was just there to introduce us to the story.

Oh god, did they real steal the base idea for this plot from Demolition Man? Let´s see. We have benevolent villain who wants to make life better by overcontrolling every aspect of humans life. We have these rebels, aka outliers, who are caught and reprogrammed to be "good and productive citizens". And finally, there Simon Phoenix, now called Caleb, the guy who was reprogrammed not to be good but to be merciless pawn used to eliminate and kill the rest of outliers. Atleast in Demolition Man, they were able to reprogram people in their sleep. In Westworld future they apparently still use the Street Fighter way, replaying the loop with fake memory again and again in VR until the brain accept it as its own. Anyway, I hope Clem and Hanaryo just enjoys the rest of their life away from both Dolores and Maeve. They did their job, now it´s time to chill. I just wish Stubbs would join them. Has has so little to do and he is a host, but he is still the most humanly character left, and I´m very afraid he will be sacrificed in the final episode with no reprint. So in Solomon´s fake reality US is using guided missiles on Crimea and there is no immediate Russian reaction?! That´s some truly terrible calculations. No wonder it was put away. If all it takes to put host down is use an EMP the war is already over. Serac could just load one on an old plane and unleashed it somewhere above the area Dolores is. Ideally, he could put a tracker on Maeve and got rid of borh in one shot. Sorry, but if I was Serac´s brother woken up after X years of reprogramming and the first thing I saw was this truly terrible holographic voicemail I would be pretty pissed. I have no idea what was the point of that whole subplot. I really, REALLY, want to know what´ s on that flash drive. It´s a list of contacts and instruictions Caleb should follow to become a leader? How the plan for revolution looks? And again, Solomon was replaced for a reason. Why is Dolores so sure the plan will be working? And why would Serac let it have access to the current data? This season is just full of plot holes. I feel like the writers are desperate to be relevant and current and do all this commentary about technology and how it changes world, but they have only very little idea how the technology actually works.

This show has really perfected the we are pretending to be a high quality TV full of inovating ideas and deep meanings while in reality rehashing every overused action scifi "B" movie clichés from 80´s and 90´s. The best thing on the show is Ramin Jawadi music. Even when the plot is pretty boring like this episode his music still elevates it so much. "If you look at the world economy, there is a negative void worth of 3 trilions." I mean, what? What that even means? And then Charlotte just orders his assistant to find whoever this supersecret investor is and she comes with the answer the same night??? And honestly, Dolores, you didn´t do even a small research into who Charlotte was before you send whoever is inside her body back to her home? She/he didn´t even know Charlotte has a child or how her ex looks? I know Charlotte is a big and powerfull person, but I don´t think even she could just murder someone in middle of a park with eye witnesses all around. And who was that guy? First, she suggested a playdate so I thought he is a father of the other boy Nathan had been playing with, but then she took something from his pocket and called him a predator??? So, Dolores presents Caleb with his most deepest and secret child memory, he asks how it´s possible and then she mumbles something about Rehoboam monitoring all his contacts, social networks and other things. But that´s just big data analysis, exactly what he suggested before. She never game him an answer. It would make sense if he was one of the former Westworld visitors and then his memories was transfered to the Rehoboam, but otherwise I too have no idea how she and/or Rehoboam could know that. From what I understand this is exactly why Seraph needs the Westworld data and technology. People thoughts and desires is the last piece of puzzle Rehoboam needs to make its predictions/simulation truly perfect. Anyway, so far I don´t see any signs they are playing with different timelines again. For a while I thought Charlotte´s line today had been a memory or a flashback and it all happened before what´s going on with Dolores and Caleb, but then she checked on him a second after she left Charlotte´s hotel room. And everything else seems fit.

As I said, my problem isn´t with her being smart. It´s the awkward pauses and the way the show makes her be the one who has to come even with the most obvious things. This whole episode Pike was like "common people, give me some ideas, I have none." And then everybody stays silent until Michael finally saves the day. And it happend like 8-times during the episode. I understand she is the main character so the focus is primarily on her, not the captain or the rest of the crew. I just think it´s not written well and feels forced and unnatural.