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Noo!! I hated Charlores’ family dying. I feel like they were fridged too soon to serve Charlores’ character development. I would have liked to see more of her humanity before she went all Hollow Man. I know I’m in the minority here, but I loved Dolores pointing out Maeve’s hypocrisy. She modified them similar to what Dolores did to Teddy. Except Dolores took it to the extreme. But Maeve was fine with Hector and Armistice dying to ensure her daughter’s safety. I think she would have been be better served in her goal if she had decided to team up with Dolores to take down Serac and ensure he would never interfere with Host-Paradise. Serac is not exactly a shining beacon of trustworthiness. At least Dolores wants the Hosts to survive. I think so. This is the second instance we have seen Dolores change her mind about something significant. In S2, at first she was bent on destroying the Forge along with the Host-Paradise. But after Bernard brought her back as Charlores, she listened to his pov and saved Host-Paradise.

What was the point of forcing Caleb to take Genra? Just to trigger a flashback? Seems that could’ve been done just with Liam Dempsey’s cryptic remarks. At the very least, they could have increased the tension by having Caleb act erratic, making it difficult for them all to escape. Instead we get Team Dolores getting shot at by people with the accuracy of a Stromtrooper. Lol The episode was okay, but I would be more invested in the show if I freaking knew what Dolores’s goals are. Is she still bent on destroying humanity? Or has she changed? Some clue into her internal thoughts would be helpful. But the creators want to keep us guessing for the same of guessing. Bernard and Maeve are being boring this season. I would have preferred Maeve to have gotten a sendoff after Season 2 to being so underused this season. I don’t like her siding with Serac either. I would prefer if she ended up teaming with Bernard.

I was disappointed with the ending. I can’t see why anyone bothered stopping Judge Gen from rebooting the Universe when the ultimate end of everyone was...nothingness. Existential Nihilism doesn’t appeal to me. I liked Tahani’s end best of all. I wish the whole team had taken on the role of Good Place architects. I agree with the poster who said the Good Place should have been about finding a new purpose.

I wouldn't miss the aquarium. It's fantastic! The beluga whale exhibit was my favorite when I went there.

And some of us deal with our disappointments by reading and writing made up stories based on the made up stories in the show. Very healthy, I’m sure. :-p

Now that I have some distance from the show, I feel like I've been in a mutually codependent relationship. Something like Belle and Rumple. I never could pull away because of the hypothetical great writing the show seemed capable of. The writers started heavily relying on audience manipulation starting from Season 2, but it grew worse in Season 3B, and never recovered. That's when the show became completely about pandering to Regina. A&E started writing everything around her (and Rumple from then on).

Seems like they're still on the Regina woobification train. I still have traumatic memories from A&E's S1 official ONCE podcast where they joked about Graham's rape. Giving this one a pass.

I agree. I wasn’t too impressed with the last episode, but it’s hardly bad. TGP has been so good, that a mediocre episode seems like the worst ever. It’s possible that the show will go downhill, but it’s too early to tell. Westworld started out really good, but went off the rails in season 3. They went too arcane, like LOST on drugs. And bizarrely enough, one of the co-creators claims she never saw LOST. Maybe she ought to have—to avoid its pitfalls and to stop reinventing the wheel. Whatever its flaws, LOST was groundbreaking television, and it’s odd when people making the same genre of show claim to have skipped it. But maybe she was flubbing, because there was one scene in the recent season that screamed “LOST callback”.

Most of the screencaps used in the article didn't even have the fatal flaw described below it. Who writes this stuff and are they getting actually paid for this drivel? lol

Chapter 2 is up.

I really don't get why there are some people bent on dissing Frozen. Not every movie needs to be the epic of feminism or have flawless writing to be a good. I don't agree with the article. The writers seems to go out of their way to nitpick the movie and tear down any hint of praise for it. These days there seems to be a trend where people feel the need to justify why they like or hate something by bringing in some aspect of social justice spiel into the picture. Sometimes it's okay to say that you didn't really feel the movie and move on.

Wow! That was awesome...

My magnum opus is here: haha. It is a Regency AU inspired by Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility. You can expect lots of Emma-Mary Margaret interactions in the fic, Snowing, and Captain Swan. The story is complete and will be updated every Friday. Links: Tumblr. Ao3. Ff-net.

Ah! Good Place season 3 premiers today. I forgot all about it. I need to block the tag on tumblr temporarily until tomorrow night.

I just finished writing a 75K fanfic. It should start posting in October. I can't believe I wrote so many words. Now I can have my life back. :-p PS: This is why I fell behind in the rewatch. Now, I can catch up.

I’m so behind on the rewatch. I might skip a few to catch up.

The joy of fanfic is that we can ignore canon details that are inconvenient. ;-) It’s called a Canon Divergence fic. I’m just pretending the last ten minutes of the show did not happen. The future people just sealed themselves off in a separate realm until ten years were gone and then returned to Storybrooke (to visit only).

Because apparently she secretly craved the darkness and loved his psychopathic side.

I think that was important. She'd been taking Hook for granted in Season 3 and sort of treating him like crap in 3B. The Dark Swan/Underworld arc showed that she was as much into the relationship as he was. Otherwise it felt like he was way more committed than she was. Snowing's whole arc was about them putting each other first (except when Snow rolls over and lets Regina kick her), but nobody complains about that. I don't get why they gave Emma great lines like her S1 "no fairy godmothers" speech and the "I'm not nothing" speech, and then turned her into a passive and ineffectual standby for most of the show.

I think this is what pushed it into the slightly farcical territory. Their praise seemed over the top. This was a good opportunity for Lana to get into directing, but this was just the first step.

Wow! That's pretty great. I look forward to reading it.

She called her "elderly". lol I didn't think Lana's directorial debut was bad, but it also didn't particularly stand out to me.

Adam was really pushing it with his "This is a director" spiel. One day, I want to know what sort of blackmail material Lana has on him. :-p

Season 7 bloopers. It's piggyback time!!

I absolutely agree with this. I'm just saying that people tend to be more forgiving towards people they love than someone with whom they are not emotionally involved.