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  1. I thought Renna might be suicidal at that point because, assuming she grew up in the Seanchan culture, which seems likely, she's been taught since she was only a child that channelers were the lowest scum imaginable and deserved to be collared and lose their status as a sentient human. Now she finds out she is one of them, the lowest of the low. As Egwene said to her, "We're the same." I believe at the point that Renna said, "Use it," she had released Egwene, so she had to know that Egwene could kill her at that point with no risk to herself. I do think it is "use it," but like I said, I could be wrong. Definitely the speech recognition-generated closed captions are often terrible, but I haven't noticed as many errors with scripted shows like this one. I would hope they would use actual people to at least proofread what the engine generated.
  2. The closed captions said, "Please...use it." Not sure if that was an error on their part, but that's what I was going by. I thought she meant "use the Power to kill me quickly," maybe.
  3. This was an awesome episode (and season), and I'm so pleasantly surprised. I must admit I was pretty disappointed with season 1, but they redeemed themselves this season in every way. The only thing that really bothered me was Hopper's death. That was terrible, and I don't care - they should have come up with another way to give Perrin and the Whitecloaks a vendetta against each other without killing poor Hopper! Well, and the other thing that disappointed me was that Mat fell for Ishamael's illusion. However, I can forgive it since Mat was so great for the rest of the episode. Finding out he was a hero of the horn, figuring out how to use the evil dagger without being contaminated by it again, all great! Loved Egwene getting her revenge on Renna. Mmm, sweet revenge served cold! It's great storytelling that Egwene was able to use what happened to her at the hands of the Seanchan (getting stronger in the Power, being treated as a weapon) to fight off a freaking Forsaken for any amount of time at all. I wondered, too, about exactly how Egwene was "allowed" to place a collar on Renna, and how she was able to use the One Power against her while Renna still wore the bracelet, but ah, well, whatever. I still bought it. What did Renna mean when she said, "Use it!" after she released Egwene from the collar. Use what...to do what? Great scene with Moiraine and Rand talking it out, making up, and reconnecting the Warder bond. The fiery dragon that Moiraine made was great, too. Moghedien was super creepy and even scared Lanfear. That's pretty bad.
  4. Egwene's eyes looked worse and worse throughout the "breaking in" scenes. That made all the beatings she was getting seem more real. I'm assuming some kind of contact lenses were used. I interpreted that scene to mean that Suroth was concerned that the other Seanchan were becoming impressed with Loisal's tree singing and might develop respect for him, so she laughed and clapped and successfully made it seem like a cheap party trick. I'm really liking the Elayne character. I hate the Seanchan so much.
  5. I'm on the last episode, and this is about where I come down. It followed the pattern of a meant-to-be-serious mystery a lot of the time and then threw in the really over-the-top details that were supposed to be funny but weren't and took me out of the "serious" part of the story. I probably have a higher-than-average ability to suspend disbelief because I didn't find the circumstances of the daughter Elizabeth's death that out of place. I was figuring there was more to it than meets the eye, so I overlooked it. It wasn't really until the last three episodes that I was completely taken out of the story and it was all just over the top. The acting wasn't believable anymore for a drama/serious mystery but wasn't funny enough for a dramedy, either. Disappointed because I was liking it until the end there.
  6. Okay, I'm glad I'm not the only one who was wondering why Rand and Selene/Lanfear were camping under the stars when they had a very nice-looking cabin right there! I enjoyed the scenes with Moiraine and her "younger" sister. Love the Cairhienin costumes. Liked seeing Rand kill off the Fade.
  7. That's the only thing that makes any sense, but she seemed to love her son, and you'd think that would overwhelm any embarrassment she might feel over a past relationship and resultant "child." IMO that's a weak point in the story. Surely she could have gotten help for him some way. But oh well, this show is crazy!
  8. Boy, was not expecting the way Uno died. Whoa. This show made the Seanchan look even more frightening than I imagined when I read the books! That was quite a feat. At first I thought Nynaeve was supposed to be married to Perrin in the Arches #3 scenario. I forgot all about Lan or that Nynaeve was already supposed to have a love interest. It was kind of weird that Lan was supposed to be in the house, but Mat and Perrin were just hanging around outside with no other villagers. Wouldn't Egwene and other Two Rivers residents be there also? Not that it matters since it was just an illusion, but could they not get some of the other actors for that scene?
  9. I don't understand why Liandrin wouldn't get a Yellow to heal her son. If that was explained, I missed it. Not sure why she got so angry at Nynaeve, who was just trying to help and does have knowledge of how herbs work.
  10. I've read all the books, though it's been a long time, and I'm also having to use X-ray to see who everyone is supposed to be except for the core group from last season. It doesn't help with how much they changed from the books, either! The channeling looks better to me this season so far. Fight scenes still too dark. Have forgotten just about everything that happened in the first season and just kind of trying to figure it out as I go along.
  11. I love this, too, showing up the hypocrisy of the supposedly "good" guys. I also liked the episode about the poor (grave robber) and how Aziraphale (the good guy who really is trying to do the right thing, in his case) was just focusing on grave robbing = bad without realizing how difficult it would be for a poor person (frankly, especially an unmarried, poor woman) in that place and time to get a "respectable" job that would provide any decent chance to get out of poverty. But Crowley totally got it right away. I didn't really care for the Nina and Maggie subplot. Actually, Nina seemed to outright dislike Maggie and disparaged her record shop and everything. What did Maggie find so alluring? There wasn't enough time to show that, but I'm glad they didn't. The ending was so sad and depressing, and now I come here and find out a third season isn't a guarantee?! WTF?
  12. I just finished season 1 over the weekend and strongly enjoyed it. It's been a while since I enjoyed a TV show so much. It reminded me of the original "Charmed" and "Dead Like Me" a little bit. The only two things I didn't like at all were that the antichrist was only a kid (would have preferred an adult character for that) and the whole witch hunter subplot. I guess they had to tie the prophetic witch to the present day somehow, but I hated her descendants and the original witch hunters and their descendants.
  13. That definitely came off weird to me, too. IMO it's a mostly sweet/bittersweet story with a little bit of a slightly spooky supernatural angle thrown in. The lack of development of Craig's friends, especially the girl he was dating, was a commentary on how smartphones and social media were almost addicting to people and taking the place of actual interaction IRL. At least with his friends, he had a relationship with them before he and they all got smartphones, but he didn't really meet the girlfriend until after he already got his iPhone. So they didn't ever talk as much as just text back and forth. ETA: It reminded me somewhat of the "Death Note" concept.
  14. I'm so ticked off that I wasted time on this crap. The first few episodes interested me enough to keep going, but the last couple of episodes were kind of goofy with so much emphasis on the cult itself and the sad ending with Suzanne giving up her husband and daughters for creepy Mae. I thought Suzanne had started to realize that she was transferring her issues onto Mae and trying to save her younger self by helping Mae. They showed her continuing with therapy when she had been resistant at first, as if she realized that she had issues that she was trying to fix by obsessing on Mae. But apparently the therapy was not helping. IMO the writers didn't want to make it a super pat and Pollyanna ending, so they didn't show Mae getting sent to Fernwood and the Mathises going back to their lives. And they wanted the twist that Mae switched out the bouquet colors herself. So they gave us that really sad and creepy ending. I don't think the supernatural stuff was really *doing* anything. It can be interpreted either way, but to me Mae's little altar was just a way to show what she wanted to happen, not that Lucifer was actually granting her wishes. But it makes NO sense, even in her twisted little mind, that she would go back to the cult and risk death just to find out if Suzanne would come for her.
  15. I actually liked this more than expected. Binged it all in one day. Really enjoyed Wednesday’s friendships with werewolf girl and bee boy and how the other students like Bianca who might have seemed more adversarial at first turned out to be good people, too. I thought maybe the sheriff was mostly okay, just gruff, but basically he was going to let Xavier be convicted for crimes he knew his son was actually committing.
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