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I love how Lucas kept looking back and forth at Max and Steve shocked and dismayed, because every time he put two and two together the answer was always four! I was dying! 😆

This! I will not tolerate anything bad... Well, anything permanently bad happening to Steve. Because Steve is the best!

Good Heavens, yes! Love it. Love everything about it!

Dammit, Show! Watching this episode wasn't supposed to rip my heart out too! This is supposed to be a fun superhero show for crying out loud! Kudos to Marc's dad for trying to hold everything together. You don't see men being the supportive, emotional rock of a family in media very often. But also boo to him ignoring how unhinged his wife was. The woman should have been locked away! Ugh. I'm nauseous just thinking about what she put her son through! It was so sweet to see Steven be what he was really created to do, which was to help Marc deal with his trauma, and tell him none of what happened was ever his fault. He was never just a stress ball! My heart, y'all! My heart!

Nope.

Really, Layla? Bad guys want to unleash a god who'll automatically kill billions when she freed and you can't wait to hash out your daddy issues until after you escape? I would have respected her more if she took out Steven/Marc then dipped with the statuette. Ugh, anyway... I was getting serious Legion vibes from the last ten minutes. So. Many. Questions!

I liked the Spartans interactions with Miranda. It was surprisingly cute. All the pet slaughter notwithstanding. Quan... Ugh. Just... Really? Your father didn't die fighting for freedom, he died protecting your dumb ass. Did she even warn her people, or her aunt about the Covenant? I wouldn't know, because I started fast forwarding through her scenes after she threw a temper tantrum like a five year old. I literally hate her face! That assassin lady is pretty badass. And I see Burn Gorman is keeping it tight. Master Chief's plot was kind of boring, but not unwatchable. Not enough Cortana for one, and the search for the artifacts isn't all that interesting. At least not yet.

Episode 3 is better. Much, much better than the first two episodes. There's still some stilted dialog and awkward performances, but there's definite improvement all around. Pablo Schreiber also got real naked. That was pretty nice. Cortana is great! A real highlight. I like how her relationship with Master Chief is developing and the inherent conflict that comes with it. Very promising. Yeah, if I was Makee I'd be very pro 'fuck all humans,' too. Quan still suuuuuuucks! She's complete garbage. I mean, wow, is she really supposed to be likable? Or is she going to get a character arc to make her less of an asshole? If she is, then the show needs to hurry that shit along. Stat! And I knew Halsey's assistant? Lab tech? Fellow? was a creep from jump!

Layla has a lot of faith in Marc's abilities, and I think she's used to him getting them out of worse jams. Any other time she would have been right. Normally, Marc is at least on par with Captain America in terms of ability, and has a magic suit that can take a serious beating.

That's because Millie is a complete thug! 😆

So, am I supposed to like or root for Quan? Because LOL! No. It was a bad writing decision having her run out on those kids to supposedly "do something" only to do absolutely jack shit and need to get saved twice. The second rescue got her dad killed. Better to have her fighting and somehow surviving; her dad did, so it wasn't impossible. That way they still get to kill all the kids and not have Quan look like a coward and an idiot. Then she strong-arms the government into cutting a deal they absolutely didn't need to make to free the colonies. Because the perfect time to be playing games with a fucking totalitarian regime that's been stomping on your neck for a hundred years is when a genocidal alien race wants to wipe out humanity. Yeah, that's smart. I know the writers think it makes Quan look badass and important, but it doesn't, it just makes her look selfish, unreasonable, short-sighted, and dumb. And if they want to use the: "She's just a kid" excuse, get an actor who actually is, or at least looks like a real child. Yerin Ha is 24, looks it, and I can only suspend my disbelief for so long. The show wants to justify her presence, I get it, but they went about it in a badly written way. I shouldn't be hoping she dies every time I see her on screen. And that a lot of the plot seems to be driven by her being around does not bode well. Give me more of the Spartans, please, not the Scrappy.

The best thing to come of my experience watching this show is I ship Aaddie. That's it. The rest? 😒Eh...

It's the writing. I've re-watched Hugh Dancy's performance in Hannibal more times than I can recount, and I call tell when he's connecting with a character and their writing, and he's not connecting with this role. He is floundering around trying to create a character for Price. To find something in the scripts to give his character depth and personality, but it's not there. It's not there for any of the DAs except Jack McCoy, and that's because there's, what? Fifteen years of characterization and familiarity to fall back on with him. Right now, the cops have more personality, and more depth, because the writing is better for them. And it shows, because the actors playing the police pretty much nailed their roles right out the gate. Even the writing for Cosgrove, despite the awkwardness of his borderline racism and thin blue line garbage, has given Jeffrey Donovan a meaty role to really chew on. And I'll throw in the direction isn't very good--that can't be helping, either. 😲Hugh and Jeff switching roles would work perfectly! It's too late now, but still...

🤣🤣🤣 Y'all need Space Jesus!

I'm not feeling it, at least not from this episode. It's a bad time when Anthony Anderson's Bernard is the one I like best, because I could not stand him during the show's original run. Waterston was fine, Manheim was fine, even Dancy was good, though I might need a little time to warm up to him. At least he's not the torture loving dick Cutter was... Yeah, I'm still mad about that. Donovan's character (I'm not going to bother remembering or looking up his name) was intolerable. I ended up skipping every scene when he went on a tirade, and the other ADA was blah, whatever. Not super impressed by the Mothership's return so far.

The best thing about the play, which was amazing all around, honestly, is how unselfaware Ben was about the whole thing. It was so dark, and then creepy with the, 'My uncle is my daddy now' lyrics. I mean, what was he thinking writing that line? Absolutely sublime! 🤣🤣🤣

Another one? Okay. I was a little misty-eyed when the crew showed up on the bridge wearing Starfleet uniforms. I was also shocked--shocked!--Diviner double-double-crossed the crew. The crew using the Diviner's ignorance, desperation, and innate sense of superiority against him was a pretty solid plan. Though I am curious what his beef is with Starfleet? The Federation isn't perfect, but I doubt they did anything bad enough to justify Diviner enslaving a bunch of people.

Vigilante sounding off against those white supremacists was a mood! 🤣 God, Chris's dad is the absolute worst! Sooo, has he been a butterfly this whole time, or is it a recent development?

They've shown M'gann a few times since Conner died. And it was easier to watch her pain because she had other characters to play off of. Gar is harder to watch because he's more isolated. Six episodes of Gar depressed is a lot, and I think it was a mistake from a pacing standpoint for there to be that many. Most entertainment (I hate to say this, but...) know to skip over the rougher parts of showing clinical depression. It's boring and irritating, and it isn't engaging to watch at all. While I appreciate the care and detail put into Gar's ordeal, it sure ain't fun to watch.

Gar is frustrating, and if I'm being honest, and hypocritical, it is a pain watching him right now. But I like how YJ shows how messy handling someone in the depths of depression can be. And from personal experience, I can say they're putting a painfully accurate representation of it on screen. It's a little triggering.

Filip is a lil bitch. There. I said it. And I hate saying it because real bitches get shit done, and that lil bitch could never. But he a lil bitch. Loved Holden slipping and calling Clarissa Peaches. And I don't think I appreciated how fast Clarissa is when she juices, because damn she took that guy out fast! Aww, and she's crew now! My girl Naomi is going to have so many more issues to work through by the time this is all over. When she was talking to Monica in their last scene, I wonder if Avasarala was thinking about that Belter she had tortured back in season one? Okay, so I'm not crazy thinking Steven Strait is scarily thin! Drummer! Let's Go!

The only slack I'll cut people who won't wear masks and anti-vaxxers is I won't cheer when they die from Covid. Still, I didn't hate the overall message Trey and Matt tried to send with the specials.

Holy Easter eggs, Batman!

Wait. So, Cartman converting to judism isn't a long con? I am stunned.

Same. I always liked him, he seemed so upbeat and kind irl, but this sort of attitude coming from him is a complete let-down. Damn disappointing.