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Cthulhudrew

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  1. Is it just me, or did both young Jeffreys have brown eyes, but modern Jeffrey has blue eyes?
  2. "As we continue the Universal Studios Backlot Tour, on your left is the Bates Motel. If the camera were to show the house on the hill behind the motel, you might capture a glimpse of Norman's mother in the window..." Didn't they say they had the solution to bringing Ben back a couple of episodes ago? Why have they apparently dropped that topic for all of these much less important storylines?
  3. "... and up next on your Universal Studios Backlot Tour, a slight flash flood in the sleepy little Spanish town." Did RuPaul do the makeup this episode? So much foundation and eyeliner on everyone (especially that bartender).
  4. So UNIT bought Avengers Tower? Not entirely sure how I feel about the Bi-Generation. It was an interesting twist, and frankly I'd be fine if this is how future regenerations go (leaving the doors open for older actors to return without having to make "timey-wimey" excuses). I feel like if they were going to do this, though, 10/14 should have ended up with Rose (might it have been a little awkward with his other version, but they could always be a throuple). It will be interesting to see who they get to play the Master next time around, although I'd echo the comment above about bringing Missy back. Michelle Gomez was the best version of the character since Anthony Ainley (and I so wanted John Simm to be good, but he didn't get very good material and/or hammed things up too much.) These three Who specials were the most fun I've had watching this show in years.
  5. Add me to the list who felt that the scripting on this episode seemed especially , trite, relying on cliche-ridden tropes of colonial witch trials and shallow characterizations.
  6. I agree with you. Tate's expressions were a giveaway, plus the scene (to me) played out like Donna gently probing because if she just fessed up she knew he'd deflect and change the subject. She even makes a comment to that effect at the end about him finding excuses to "get out of awkward conversations" right as she was about to verbalize something important to him.
  7. This was the most coherent, best paced episode of S2 so far. From a technical standpoint, I thought the extreme long shot of Loki's "we are gods" line was an odd choice. Should have at least been a mid-shot or medium closeup. That's the sort of line delivery Tom Hiddleston excels at, and we completely missed any visual take. I wish they'd give us more character-driven stories again, though. Its hard to care much when the plotline is all this cosmic loom mumbo-jumbo rather than personal stakes.
  8. Season 2 feels like a real mess compared to S1. I'm not sure the writers knew what to do with this show when Michael Waldron passed writing duties on.
  9. Did Ian just triangulate an area with only two coordinates (girls' accident and Ben's sighting)? NGL, when I saw Tim Matheson at the end I was hoping that Ben leapt into Michael "Burn Notice" Westen when he and Dead Larry were still spies together. What a great hook that would be for this incarnation of QL: Ben leaps into other characters in the NBCUniversal realm: Ben leaps into Jim Rockford Ben leaps into The Bionic Woman Ben leaps into Thomas Magnum, P. I. Ben leaps into Law & Order's Lennie Briscoe Ben leaps into Rachel Maddow And of course, the series finale... Ben leaps into... Quantum Leap's Sam Beckett! "Oh, boy..."
  10. Baylan's secret plan was to get to Middle Earth using the One Hyperspace Ring, only he wasn't counting on Ahsoka the White to make the trek, too.
  11. @paramitch That was such an eloquent, thoughtful, and delightful post to read. I can't agree more with any of it. Also, I admit I did not notice the difference in the title card themes, nor how they come together (one more reason to go back and rewatch). Thank you so much for sharing!
  12. Even if the next two episodes don't end up with characters dying as cliffhangers, that still means they have had deaths (or fakeouts) as 50% of the season's cliffhangers. That's pretty lazy storytelling, IMO. 😕
  13. Just wait for the time travel episode where La'an has to ensure the official Starfleet fashion designer survives a Ferengi plot to hijack their brand.
  14. I did not like this episode. It felt like half-a-dozen semi-interesting plot ideas and one good performance in search of a story. It was trying to do way too much (La'an's sense of isolation, guilt over her heritage, a romance, a historic journey into Federation history, a mild retcon, action) and ended up not doing anything at all. La'an and Kirk's "romance" came from out of nowhere and went nowhere, which meant that the viewer wasn't really brought along on the journey with them and couldn't share in the apparent loss that the writers wanted you to have with La'an at the end. Not to mention that "Kirk" didn't feel like any version of Kirk that this viewer is familiar with (even an alternate timeline version). "Kirk's" struggle whether to condemn himself to oblivion or save the future with his brother in it was such a "blink and you'll miss it" moment that his sacrifice didn't mean anything- and he didn't end up living long enough to actually make a meaningful sacrifice on that end anyway, having his life taken randomly by the out of nowhere Romulan villain. La'an's confrontation with her past in the form of young Khan was pretty empty, as it came out of the blue in a last minute reveal and all she does is remark on how young he is. There wasn't any real sense of a morality play of "do I kill baby Hitler in his crib or not?" because it was buried under the rest of the plot mess. Romulan spy girl was a pretty two-dimensional character, and the plot device of having the Lanthanite character who is so ageless that she forms a fortunate link to the past that La'an is able to exploit echoes the use of Guinan in TNG and Picard so much that it comes across as lazy writing. I thought Christina Chong did a good job with the character, as usual, and I continue to like La'an, but I just don't think the writers gave us a thoughtful, well-crafted journey for her in this episode at all. Lastly, can Trek writers stop with all the time travel stories already? You've got the boundless reaches of space and the future to explore. Stop pulling us into the past with tales like this. We have plenty of modern shows we can watch instead. Thank you. Not to mention - wouldn't they have needed some kind of $$ stake to start the gambling with in the first place?
  15. "We could really use... the Flash!" "Hey guys, did you call my name?" "Barry! You got out of there!" "Yes- I only needed to disappear for the cliffhanger of last episode; it really wasn't a relevant plot point." 🙄 This whole finale was really poorly written and executed, but I think they saved their absolute worst material for this episode. Why else would we get such mellifluous lines like: "That's what I call mind over matter." "Thawne - STOP. TALKING." "Just another trick I picked up from my Earth-90 doppelganger." Maybe Barry messed with the timeline and the Writer's Strike happened months earlier in the Arrowverse? ETA: Also. SO. MUCH. YELLING.
  16. The thing that stuck out to me (aside from the tiny bones) was that it looked like there was a spot of illumination as if from an incandescent light bulb. There has been speculation about mines underground, so my thought was that was a mining tunnel and (for whatever reason) the lighting still works. I agree with others who say that the transition to selective sacrifice was far too abrupt given the pacing of the rest of the season.
  17. Not happy to see Starfire (the best thing about this show) getting sidelined at the end, and Brother Blood turned out to be a pretty anemic villain. On the other hand, I'm glad to see they finally got Kory and Dick together, and that was a pretty good way to end it all. This series had its ups and downs, but I enjoyed it for the most part. It took some of them some time, but these actors did a great job with their characters, even when the writing was more of a hindrance than help (Teagan and Joshua in particular both started out fairly rocky, but visibly improved in their performances over the seasons). Overall, happy with the series and the finale.
  18. Holy cow. Ariana's "Over and Done" was incredible.
  19. I enjoyed seeing Matt Letscher again as Thawne, but didn't we already get the story behind the second Flash in the past before? I'm pretty sure they did the "let Thawne kill Barry's mom so that history gets closure" was done back in S2 or S3. Not treading any new ground here. Or maybe I imagined all of that. I just can't tell any more.
  20. I'm only seven minutes in and I am not sure I can keep watching. The camera work is too cutesy by half. Weird framing that really emphasizes the height difference between Joe and Cecile (half the time I wasn't even sure the two actors were in the same studio when they filmed it). The strange narrative screenwork of Kione writing to her dead "sisters" and the fourth wall breaking. The camera following Eddie around "cleverly" hiding his identity for a surprise shot. I like experimental film and camera shots (FX's Legion is still one of my favorite shows). It just feels so off-putting in this show, and so awkwardly done. Plus we had some more cringey Chuck/Allegra scenes. 🤮
  21. This episode made me want a Clark Kent series where he just acts as a tenacious investigative reporter taking down bad guys with the power of the pen (and a little x-ray vision and super hearing). Also... Since they already had Sophie for one brief non-speaking role, couldn't they have at least added her to the fireworks scene with Lana and Sara, too? #stilltheinvisiblekid 😔
  22. Not to mention how many times Clark has come close to death.
  23. How do they go from Jordan lying unconscious, green wound steaming on his chest, and the veins on his chest and neck black and distended to "Kryptonite doesn't affect him. He's totally fine!"?
  24. I liked the episode as a character exploration of Gar which has been sorely lacking the last three seasons of Titans. I hated it because it was yet another case of this show derailing the momentum of its story arc with a last minute sidebar episode. They've done this every season. I guess points for consistency? 🤷‍♂️
  25. Sorry, I should have elaborated. Having all the crew members in terror for their lives and pleading and crying was part of Vadic's emotional blackmail with Jack. If one of the crew was stoic and unmoved, it might have lessened the impact of their situation, I guess is how I was looking at it. (ETA: Not to mention Vadic was obviously a bit of a sadist, and was enjoying the suffering she caused everyone who could feel fear.)
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