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Have I missed it, or do we still not have a premiere date? I know sometime in 2017, but we don't have much 2017 left!

Don't know when or if it'll be good, but according to IMDb we're getting We Have Always Lived In The Castle.

Netflix. This was the first I'd heard of it, but the cast includes Timothy Hutton, so I'm in.

There's something about DC's costumes that look "fake" to me compared to Marvel's. I can't decide if it's how they're filmed or the fabric of the costumes, or whatever, but the Justice League look more like they're dressed up like life-size action figures than costumes the characters would purposely choose. They'll probably look better on film than in pics, it's just distracting me more than I would expect.

I think I oversold myself on this when it was first announced. "A whole set of characters I haven't seen in live-action before!" "ABC is guaranteed to put effort into this because it's Marvel!" "They have to make it look good if they're showing it on IMAX!" When instead I should've been cautiously reminding myself that ABC only ordered a short season/miniseries despite being desperate for good material, and that with a small episode order comes a smaller budget that will definitely show on screen. And that they're probably only bothering with IMAX for legal reasons. Still, it is a short season and Lockjaw is adorable, so I'll give it a try. I'll probably end up rooting for Maximus to destroy them all, but that's actually not that unusual for me. *shrug* From what I've seen of him, Iwan Rheon is usually a good bet as an actor, so not sure what's going on here. Frankly, I'm more concerned by eight episodes of Anson Mount communicating with only facial expressions. It's... not looking good. And I actually like Mount - maybe I'm just mourning the loss of his long hair and feeling sulky?

I'm gonna need some kind of "what is it/where is it" chart for the infinity stones before the movie comes out. I know I've googled the info a few times and never bother to retain it.

Season 5 is coming!

According to closed captioning, it's Enslow Carver. Thankfully. We still need to sort out Cole's mom, I don't think there's time for many more twists in the family tree. Good catch with the strawberry. I just saw it and thought, "Mmmmm, strawberry." Maybe Jones had the foresight to build hydroponic gardens since scavenging really seems to shorten lifespans?

Unless I'm forgetting something, that's probably just guesswork on his part. They just shot up Titan and turned their supposed savior against them, and they know that the facility was going to be levelled within a year so Cole & Co. probably figured this was the cause. Olivia doesn't remember anything because her past was affected by her future self. The joys of time travel! It was Mallick.

Yep, she's supposed to be the Witness. When she saw her unmasked self in the house, future!Olivia's face was glowing red, which I think confirms it. It'll be interesting to see if we see her Becoming, or if they'll try to stop her before she fulfills her destiny. And I agree, poor Athan: a lousy childhood, a lonely life, and a miserable "future" always looming. For a long while I had a theory that the entire show took place in the middle of an endless domino effect of timelines. Time travel is discovered and people keep trying to "fix" problems only to make them worse. Eventually they go way back and discover patient zero and we get a plague, and then the 12 Monkeys taking advantage of said plague, etc., and the problems keep building themselves up into something worse in the newest timeline. I had thought that originally Athan or someone else was the Witness, but in this timeline Olivia gets pissed and starts a whole new chain reaction so she becomes the Witness. But we've got so much to cover in the final season as it is, I'm guessing we're just going with full-on evil Olivia for the entire season.

I had to rewind this part to check because I originally thought/hoped that it was just a random tech but yes, Adler got shot. Maybe he'd recover under normal circumstances but they're about to go on the run from Titan and I don't see him surviving that. Lasky got away. I kept waiting for Whitley to save them but that was a no-go. I know Demore Barnes stays busy but there had better be a reason he wasn't around when Olivia is still their "guest" and Jones & Co. are going on such a dangerous mission. Maybe he's downstairs working on Charon (a.k.a. probably a tunnel out of the facility) since they didn't know what kind of deadline they had. I'm pretty sure that woman is Constance, from the painting that hid the Word of the Witness. If she's the reason the Word went missing for three decades, maybe she's also working against Olivia. That would certainly increase the chances of her being Cole's mother. Either way, I'm certain we'll see her again. (It would be kinda funny if she is Cassie's mother-in-law, considering the face Cassie made when she saw the painting in ep5.)

Noticed some things during my rewatch: Ep6: -The mine explosion in Hope Valley was giving me Silent Hill vibes, with the sirens and ash. -The dead lady that Jennifer finally faced: Ep7: -Jones had a time travel breakthrough after a "hallucination." No way that's insignificant. So, the Witness, or one of the good guys?

Rewatching to procrastinate on work. Thanks for an excuse, Syfy! Ep1: I'm referring to future!Cassie's streaky hair has her Britta hair. "Life got dark," indeed. Ep4: Ramse's death was well done, emotional without being melodramatic. Not surprised he told Cole not to undo it, I think the years of time travel drama and Sam's death wore him out. He was just done with it all. Cole sounded so young saying "brother" at the end, and you could tell that he was mourning Ramse and the news that his kid was the Witness. No wonder he needed to see Cassie after that. I just noticed that young Cole and young Athan are played by the same actor. Nice detail.

Boy: We heard you were a spook, not a squatter. Jennifer: I'm a lot of things, kiddo: brainiac mental patient, CEO-slash-corporate terrorist, future psychic gypsy pirate. But I ain't no squatter, bro. Olivia: You are the Witness. Athan: No, that's where you're wrong. But I witnessed. It just took her for me to see. Life isn't measured by clocks. And though you have an army at your back, you are alone and that is why you will lose.

Season Four has begun filming and pics are popping up on the cast and crew's social media. This nonspoilery article has a collection of Terry Matalas' recent pics if you don't want to look them up yourself.

My guess: they had just witnessed (heh) a woman magically disappear into thin air. They could also describe the vests, Christopher Lloyd's character, and of course poor little Athan's involvement, all information that Jones & Co. didn't have otherwise. All it would take is one person being determined to file a detailed police report despite probably looking nuts or using their experience to write a scifi novel or something, and the group is suddenly much easier to trace in time. This way there's just a spike in disappearances instead of a mystery cult to trace. Sadly, I'm sure they're also using the murders to indoctrinate Athan so that he's prepared for his "destiny." The speech he gave that was essentially, "everything dies because of time, we got what we needed from you, thanks for your sacrifice" and then having him be the one to gas everyone - they're definitely trying to get him in the "right" state of mind. And speaking of kids, how creepy was Vivian and the Missionary leading lil' Pallid Man away before the carnage begins? "That's not for your eyes. Yet." Ace parenting.

So long as it isn't Olivia trying to ensure her own becoming, I'm happy. Anyone else. Literally any other person. Jennifer would be squicky, but at least she's a decent person. I don't remember what we learned about his mother back in season 1 so I'm not sure who is a possible candidate. Maybe some time travel twist so that we get Madeline Stowe again? I'm 80% certain it isn't Olivia, but I'm 100% certain I won't be able to handle poor Otter Eyes' face while trying to deal with the latest mindfuck that is his life.

To me, Cassie and Cole didn't run from the others for the man, they went rogue for the child. Little Athan hadn't been making his own choices, so it's fair that they didn't want to kill him and believed that their grown son wasn't pure evil either. They were seeing a person instead of a monster. If there was a chance of talking Adult Athan down from the ledge and saving the world without killing their son, why not? Had they not been able to get through to him, I actually think both of them were capable of killing him. Cassie is harder than she used to be; and when they were at the house and Athan sorta lunged at Cassie, Cole didn't hesitate to aim his gun at his own son. I do think that it would've been harder on Cole than Cassie, because she accepts that nurture may win out over nature while Cole could only see his own blame in this. As for Jones going gray, I think that time has worn her down a little and growing closer to the people around her has complicated matters. Certainly Jones of season 1 wouldn't've let Cassie see her mother just because they "owed" her. But when it mattered, when she was aiming at Athan and Cassie was aiming at Hannah, Jones made what she thought was the necessary choice at her daughter's expense.

Binge-Watching Pro: getting through Athan's storyline in a few hours. Children of destiny tend to test my patience, so I don't think I would've loved this season as much if it was dragged out over 10 weeks. Binge-Watching Con: we just got the new season and now it's already gone and now we have to wait another year to see how it ends and I am not a patient person, Syfy! (end rant.) I'm kinda torn on how I feel about Athan. Yes, his storyline became predictable. But to be fair, a personal connection was bound to set him off eventually because he thought he was haunted by an inevitable destiny. I had hunches that he wasn't guaranteed to become anything, and I was certain when it was "the end" at the house and his first concern was for his parents to leave. The writers could've had a lighter hand with the familial similarities: a man out of time falling in love with a woman of medicine, her father's timepiece, a death by embolism. But in the end, gunning down the bad guys, side by side with his parents - that was a great scene. I love their family, even though all of them are probably doomed. I'll probably have something more substantial to contribute once the final episodes marinate, but for now.... I love this show. I just adore it. Next season is going to be awesome. And it's going to break my heart. And I can't wait.

Past Jennifer: Primaries! They're trying to tell you something! Present Jennifer: *holds up sketches* Could they do it in English please? Future Jennifer: Yeah, that was always annoying. Cassie: I thought you were inevitable. Written. Every little kick was like a knife in my heart. When you left me, I felt... free. But then I saw you, only for a second. You were crying. And small. And I knew that you were-- Athan: Good? Cassie: Nothing. You were nothing. Not yet. Whoever you are today is not who you have to be tomorrow.

Okay, just started binge-watching so lumping things together by night instead of episode is tricky, but the basics: Cole: Cole Needs A Hug may as well be the synopsis for every. single. episode. If he's dead at the end of the series I'm gonna be so pissed. Cassie: kudos to you, for looking slim and trim and fitting into your skinny jeans right after giving birth Deacon: poor guy gets ripped apart protecting Jennifer, gets put back together roughly, gets haunted by his dad for a year, and when he finally gets his reunion scenes? Cassie: Hi! Also, where's Cole? Cole's face: Oh... It's you.... Jennifer: I get secondhand embarrassment really easily, so her theatre run was a bit much for me, but the meta bit about building an audience and advertising more was wonderful. 99 Red Balloons was also an awesome way to look inside her head, because it was so colorful and fun while the balloons full of glitter are bursting when real Jennifer is seeing headshots. Simultaneously funny and sad, like all the best Jennifer scenes are. Olivia: I just love her. I love competent female villains. I will continue to love her until she succeeds in killing any of my favorite characters. Witness: so when Jennifer referred to baby-in-a-box as a "weapon" was that just because they hadn't revealed the baby twist yet, or is there the slightest hope that the Witness is playing everyone and somehow the C&C baby and he are not the same person? I mean, the Witness is definitely playing everyone, I'm just curious what the big twist (probably in the season finale) will be.

Is season one available on Netflix or one of the other streaming sites? I didn't think we'd get another season, but now that we are I have some people that I wanna urge to binge-watch.

Most of the cast doesn't look too bad, but poor Serinda Swan looks like she wandered over from her side job as a princess at the Magic Kingdom. Between this, Shadowhunters and Riverdale, tv really needs to back away from the poorly-done red dye jobs.

I'm not surprised this week's ratings weren't spiking. Speaking as a casual viewer, I'm guessing there are plenty of people like myself that knew this episode was coming and just didn't feel any enthusiasm for it. I've seen every episode of Galavant because that show was delightful. The recent Flash musical episode really worked (for me) because you could see how much fun the cast was having. When musical television works, it works really well. Maybe this episode did. But after so many seasons when it could've stood alone as something special in a series that seems tailor-made for a musical episode, we're instead given a last-minute effort, from a creative team that frustrates me, this close to the finale and cramming in THE wedding into the same episode?? That doesn't sound like an episode created from a spirit of fun; it just feels like a gimmick. Why waste time with that? I found pics of the Captain Swan wedding on tumblr and for me that was enough. I just can't muster more interest than that anymore, and it's probably the same for a lot of viewers. I'm sure the ratings will go up next week for the big finale because for a lot of people this is the series finale regardless of season 7. Personally, I'll tune in for nostalgia mostly, and to say goodbye to characters that I loved even as I hated the stories. But I doubt we'll get a huge ratings bump. I think a lot of fans said their goodbyes a long time ago and don't need to see the show one last time. It will be enough to browse social media afterward out of curiosity, just like I did with the wedding this week.

It could just be two hours of the actors reciting the Wakandan phonebook and I would still see this twice in theatres. But unlike Civil War, where I knew that two hours wasn't enough to satisfy the hype I had built up, with Black Panther my expectations keep rising and I'm okay with that. It's so refreshing to be eager (borderline giddy) about a film early on and be confident that a year from now the film will prove me right.