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call me ishmael

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  1. I think the plot line was necessary because otherwise the show would have had to be "Grimms" and Nick wouldn't have been almost destroying the world each week because he doesn't know what he was doing. After all, if Nick, Trubel, and two ghost-grimms could defeat the destroyer of worlds in a minute or two there wouldn't have been much suspense with a whole line of them.
  2. I like Kris Marshall on Death in Paradise but he is too.much like a mix of Matt Smith and Peter Davison. I'd like a woman but doubt they will go there. But what I'd really like is not having everything being about the end of the universe as we know it. I realize classic who was limited by budgets but you didn't have the feeling that THE MOST IMPORTANT PERSON IN THE WORLD had arrived when Doctor Who walked in a room.
  3. If by her "not a true Grimm" you mean "poor writing" then yes.
  4. That's true. But if the intention was to have Enough have second thoughts we would have had this scene from A's perspective. But I don't remember anything like that although maybe I'm forgetting. The difference I think is here they are making it seem as if Mao made the proto-people for Mars but in the book it was all Earth as A had to confess to Bobbie.
  5. Thanks. That is how I remembered it. I worry that the show may be going soft on Errinwright. As I recall there was nothing at all like this in the books.
  6. Umm, granted it has been years since I read the book but wasn't the protomolecule soldier Earth's in the book? And what's with making errinright having a crisis of conscience? He was playing as hard as he could till he got busted in the books.
  7. I think that if Hank and Wu do come back they should be the ones to raise the two kids. They are the only ones responsible enough to be parents aside from Monroe and Rosalie and they will be busy enough.
  8. I suspect that when the staff is broken up again they will use that as an excuse to bring Hank and Wu back. Otherwise he would have just thrown them really hard against the wall or something.
  9. I think the High Kings and Queens have to be from Earth. Fen has no royal status in that way.
  10. Granted it is a long time since I watched it but in Revenge doesn't Kenobi say "you were" the chosen one? And that you were "supposed" to be bring balance to the force? Since it was a prophecy there was always the chance that they had gotten it wrong and it seemed like Kenobi at that point thought they had. Which might mean he had in fact moved on to Luke. And as to whether it was Luke or Vader in Return that brought balance back it was Vader who killed Palpatine but it was Luke's faith in Vader still being Anakin that caused that to happen.
  11. It was a bit odd that Obi-Wan didn't tell Ezra not to tell anyone. On the other hand, Leia had to have had some information that he was still alive on Tatooine for New Hope so maybe Ezra passes it along later. Organa knew that he had gone there but not necessarily that he was till alive. I was a bit unsure about the closing scene with Luke. He looked pretty young there. I had assumed that we were getting pretty close in time to New Hope but this made it seem like we were years apart (although I realize from the prequels that the chosen ones grow pretty fast given how much Anakin caught up with Padme). I did like the scene where Chopper was trying to decide between doing the smart thing and continuing along the ridge and the loyal thing of following idiotic Ezra out into the sand. His equivalent of a drone sigh really sold it.
  12. I'm sure i missed something as to why this is wrong, but is it possible that the other place is the world where there were no Grimms? Yes, there are the symbols but given that the stick can't cross over perhaps when they went there they were simply killed. And the Wessen didn't need to woge because they were never threatened. Skeletor may want out but he can't be sure of victory without a hundred kids (unless that is just a backdoor way to ensure a spinoff...)
  13. I'm amazed that Ve hasn't simply stolen Emily away to work for her to be honest. She is remarkably talented.
  14. Maybe they are going to announce that Nick is going on this season's BIP...
  15. or perhaps when Bellatrix caught up with Harry in The Order of the Phoenix...
  16. I thought Tenley was great at first but after the Bachelor, BIP and Bachelor Pad not so much...I don't think it is prince charming she needs but a break from reality tv.
  17. I just looked over this thread and don't see any consensus about Johnson being smarter than Holden to be honest. There are a couple of people but it is pretty split. There is some disagreement about keeping the nukes secret though. But it is interesting about different reactions. I saw the call to Holden's mother as showing that he--unlike Naomi and Amos--was rooted somewhere without--like Alex thereby becoming all territorial about where he was born. And the teasing about the number of his parents was just to show--not that I find it as convincing on the show as in the books--that he and Naomi have a real connection.
  18. I may be being influenced by my reading of the books but she certainly was more appealing and interesting in print than on screen as far as I remember.
  19. I don't really see how the show is setting this up this way. I finally caught up to the last two episodes and watching them back to back made me think that the show was showing Johnson to be trapped in not seeing any new possibilities brought about by the new situation whereas Holden saw the possibility of breaking the old disagreements (my suspicion on that is that they will both be right). The show is really going out of its way to suggest that being trigger happy is a real problem (note the depiction of the generals who want to believe it is a martian trick or the unflattering depiction of Bobbi who really seems driven more by rage than by anything else). When Johnson confronted Holder on the Roci my reaction was that Johnson was the one who was clearly trying to control other people for his own ends and that it wasn't a flattering look. And the way that Naomi's refusal to destroy the protomolecule is being played as a betrayal is another indication that Holder is supposed to be the moral center of the show. Oh and one other thing. Declaring that he had the missiles for no particular reason would only convince both Earth and Mars that he was as dishonest as they claim and they still have a lot more fire power. And frankly given that there are parts of the OPA that would want to use them I can see internal reasons for keeping them under wraps--although it is probably impossible for something like that not to get out.
  20. Totally agree. I realize this is the bachelor that hotbed of advanced gender thinking but I'm pretty sure that special education teachers get certified and it isn't clear to me how easily that can be moved across national lines. On the other hand, digital business person with some some idea can happen almost anywhere. So after he gets eliminated from DWTS he should move to Canada. If his business fails he can always join Jillian on Love it or List it.
  21. I assume that the star destroyers merely were disabled and short-circuited. They will either limp back home or Thrawn will show up in his own shuttle and tow them back to base because this was all part of his plan.
  22. I think that the creators were too confident that they would get a second season. They finally got to explicitly sending the scarecrow, the cowardly lion, and the tin man off on the road that Dorothy will have to travel at the very end of the show so it seems like the whole first season was setting up the elimination of the wizard and moving onto the Beast Forever. But they were so all over the place that they probably didn't get the ratings they needed to continue. I did like the closing scene with its throwback to the movie and Dorothy thinking that it was all a dream (i am assuming that the walnut business was to make her think that was why she saw the black lines on West's hands?). The thing I really don't get is, if in fact it was East who had imprisoned the Beast forever, why did she put up with the Wizard claiming that it was all his doing? I would think that would have been a pretty good card to play to keep him in line. Personally I would believe Glinda as the assistant to the Beast forever. Boy is she a nightmare.
  23. I'm a big fan of Thrawn but i'm getting tired of the all-wise, all-calculating shtick that they have developed. I'm sure it is leading up to him driving them out of their base (although you do wonder where he went after that given that you would think he would follow up if he is so astute) but the endless episodes of them getting away so that he can put yet another nail in their conference is tiresome. I thought this was a big letdown from Sabine's episode. and yes, Kallus was an idiot. That just makes it worse.
  24. I think the reason that Emily and Tyler "didn't fit the challenge" is that they didn't want them winning 3 weeks in a row. I didn't see alien and it did remind me of Tina Turner. That doesn't mean that it couldn't read alien but if it is ambiguous then i think it is lame to declare it out of the challenge as Glen did. I thought it was easily the best although Cig and George did a good job. But if we are talking alien i kept seeing a duller version of Nebula in their basic shapes gearbox or no gearbox.
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