Kathemy

I'm not claiming Max has never been wronged. I'm just saying it's impossible to claim that the pirates - Max, Anne, Teach, Flint, Jack, John, Billy, Madi, everyone - don't have legitimate grievances with her.

Ehm, okay... Let's check what Jack actually said, then? Max: "You hit the governor right when he was at his weakest. And at what result?" Jack: "What result? That result was because of your goddamn betrayal! Just now, that man and several others wondered aloud whether the smartest thing to do wouldn't be killing you and throwing you in the sea rather than giving you another opportunity to fuck us!" So. Is he talking about Max double-crossing Jack, or Anne? No. So, what is he talking about? The sinking of the pirate fleet, anyone? How will you spin that not to be a betrayal? Bottom line, Max screwed every single pirate in Nassau over. That's not open to debate, it's cold hard fact.

Point! Another thing: This is from the finale. So Jack survives up to that point.

Just going to point out here that:

What to say. This episode confirmed for me that Jack will almost certainly hang and Anne and Max will survive. If Max can waltz onto that ship and start commanding Jack without getting her head blasted off her shoulders she can survive anything. Nods to the show for killing off Eleanor. I don't think she deserved better. Why is it that every time a woman dies on a television show people start to talk about how she "deserved better"? If anything the show allowed her to go out a "hero", trying to save her "sister". Her slave sister. Also fully expecting the obligatory tumblrina complaints about "man pain" in regards to Silver and Madi, even though for every woman killed in an emotional fashion on this show, one hundred men die. It would be seriously weird if Madi was dead, though, for any number of reasons. I have to gravitate to the "no body no death" camp. Season four has included a fair number of deus ex machinae. For that reason I find it weaker than season three, but it's still a very nice show.

Oh no. Not another Ra's al Ghul. Please. Still, they did find the perfect casting. All hail Siddig el Fadil.

A couple episodes ago I was more or less convinced that Max would somehow be killed by Silver. Now, after the latest developments, I'm far less sure. They might kill either Eleanor or Max but I wouldn't be surprised to see every single pro-British character survive the show, with Berringer as a "token sacrifice". It wouldn't make for stellar television, though, in my opinion. Having Rogers, Elly and Max all survive would feel cheap.

Yeah, ehm, like Elizabeth I, Margaret Thatcher, Victoria... ... and as opposed to Lincoln, Allende, Kennedy, Palme, Guevara...

No, no. This is intersectionality-in-action. The basic tenet is that different forms of injustice can't be compared with each other. In other words it's A-OK that Eleanor is rich, white and owns slaves because "I'M A WOMAN WOE IS ME!!!" I'm rich? So what, I'm black. I'm rich and white? So what, I'm a woman. I'm a rich white man? So what, I'm gay. I'm a rich white straight man? So what, I have ADHD. It's the Swiss army knife of claiming victimhood.

Only a truly intellectually bankrupt identity-politics show would dare to make the relationship between a woman and her slave into her being wronged by him.

The Legacy prediction is understandably uncertain given the small number of episodes aired. It's currently got a higher avg than Gotham but it doesn't seem to have stabilized at its low yet. TVG has abandoned the "certain to be renewed" for shows that aren't 100 proof syndication-guaranteed, and Gotham is not.

As I said on fanforum, Zoey, come back. Everything is forgotten.

Yeah, I've been a bit sceptical to those titles (especially since I've seen "became the mob" which is a far better title) but they are still listed on all the credible outlets, so I have to go with them. "How the Riddler got his name" is certainly genuine, though.

<Doux Reviews> <Gotham, shopping for Harlequin> Just a little write-up I made about some possible upcoming events.

I don't want Gunnar to fight for Scarlett. I want Scarlett crawling back on her knees to lick his boots asking for forgiveness, and then we can talk about who should fight for whom, if anyone.

In my humble opinion Lucifer isn't even close to Gotham's level. It never shoots for the stars, it's basically a police procedural with a twist, saved by a charismatic lead. And talking about "clever" stuff... Would you say their constant teasing about the big Chloe reveal is clever? How about when they teased a Chloe/Lucifer kiss in the promo for the Fall finale and then actually used that tease as the cliffhanger for the break?! Gotham is sometimes awkward and oftentimes poorly paced or focused on the least interesting parts of the show but when they succeed you have fireworks. As for Gotham's renewal "chances" 24: Legacy's fourth episode just tied Gotham's all time low. I expect it to go fractional on Monday. Then we have this which really must be read: http://www.tvgrimreaper.com/2016/09/19/predictions-week-1-blackish-madamsecretary-scorpion-ncisneworleans-janethevirgin-theflash-are-certain-to-be-renewed/1933/

I think it's a bit easier to deduce the endgame now. Yes, the pointless Berringer was the token English sacrificial cow. No, none of the girls will die. That wouldn't be comme il faut. Rackham will hang. The governor will survive. Eleanor will survive. Anne and Max will survive and ride into the sunset together.

I love Black Sails but this was the most contrived stuff ever on the show. All hail the Rodgers ex Machina!!! Jack surrendering to Rodgers when he is in command of a gunship capable of blowing his ship to dust? Agreeing to be taken prisoner when he knows he'll hang? The entire idea of them entering the ship without first using their superior position and blow the crap out of her ensuring very few survivors on or below deck? Utter tripe. Yeah, I know dramatic license. I'm a huge science fiction fan. However, this ranks with the worst storyline crutches on television the last year.

Lucifer is a very decent procedural cop show with a fantastic lead. At the same time it's pretty infuriating in how it teases its audience, but I guess this entire post would fit better in another forum. It's easy for Lucifer to do pretty well. It's got lower production values and it's not even close to as ambitious as Gotham. In modern broadcast television ambitious means long arcs which means reliance on an audience attention span which isn't there. And, it doesn't help that Gotham's lead character doesn't work. At all. Period. This isn't to say that there were no factors making people tune out over the run of the show, there were several, but in my opinion Gotham's "high" is ten times Lucifer's high.

Eleanor no longer serves any real purpose for the show's story. The pro-English faction has to take at least one in the L column. No, the bloodthirsty punk in charge of security doesn't count. Also introducing her running to her granddaddy and coming back with a fleet this far into the show would feel like an ex machina. If the show has any guts, she'll hang.

While it is obvious that Bruce Wayne's "no-kill" thingie is a plot device, I can only try to make sense of it as follows. If the Joker stood above an unconscious Selina Kyle about to plunge a knife into her heart and Bruce Wayne had a gun, he would fire. Same with any defenseless, innocent person, really. We've never, in any incarnation of Batman I can think of, seen him allow a criminal murder anyone when his only resort was to kill him. I recognize that the fact he's never been put in that position is a contrivance. What I think of it - especially when it comes to Bruce Wayne at age 16, but otherwise as well - is that he will not take it upon himself to punish a criminal by killing him. He does, ultimately, believe in the "rule of law" when it comes to that extreme. He is not thoroughly disillusioned about society's capability to hand down a sentence. For all he knew Alfred was dead. Killing Jerome wouldn't have brought him back. His parents were dead. Killing Malone wouldn't have brought them back. That's all the sense I can make of it.

Max is toast. There's literally nobody except maybe Eleanor who cares if she lives, and virtually nobody who doesn't want her dead now. Be afraid, Max. Be very afraid.

About Flint besting Billy in a fight I really think that's about how it's conceived. Sword fight? I'm a 43-year-old fencer and I guarantee I could take most 20-year-olds with comparatively little experience. Fistfight? LMAO.