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The show has kind of embraced the crazy and borderline nonsensical this season, and in a strange way it works. I am still not sure if the callings and the driving force is good, so it will be interesting to if they go down this route or it ends up being something different. They have also covered ancient Egyptian religious beliefs, so it might end up being a broader picture and even if religious might be something more all-encompassing and not a specific religion like Christianity. Aren't sources of the flood story actually predating Noah and included in a number of cultures? Shows tend to overdue to crazy woman, but it might be more interesting than her being a star crossed lover with ?Pete? With how her parents treated her, she is someone who is probably already on the edge. For a while there I thought it was going to be that she had a crush on Olive, but it looks like they are going a different route. That said, if Major's daughter ends up being crazy - that might be a bit overkill. He and Mick have been so conflict free, that they need some tension, and I think it is pretty realistic that she would have some lingering feelings that would trigger jealousy. Even when you have moved on, the history and residual feelings deep inside do not completely vanish for a long time, if ever. Zeke just learned the lesson of what happens when you read someone's journal. You don't really want to know every inner thought of someone. I wonder if he had no control of feeling her thoughts there, or if he was suspicious and wanted to know even at a subconscious level.

I actually liked the episode and felt bad for Pete and and to some degree Kory. I thought the actor playing Pete did a good job showing that he had been bossed around by his sociopathic, emotionally and physically abusive brother and was struggling to break free of his control and do that right thing. That said, I thought the Angelina factor just distracted from his story. It was not believable that that they were all of a sudden had this great love and would have lived happily ever after. I really do not need to see her grieve for something that was not real. Although in some ways they were both so damaged and sheltered in their own ways, it was believable that they would grab on to this fairy tale "love" that would fall apart once the crisis was over and they got to know each other (still I don't need to see Angelina grieve and would not be sad if she left). I am glad they left Jace as a pure sociopath. It would have not been believable if he all of a sudden became conflicted and developed a conscience. I like Olive this season. The Grace and her brother arc was a bit too rushed, but they did have some decent chemistry so I ended up feeling a little bad when he died. While the show is not know for great writing, the line "you were my little brother, I was supposed to protect you" was effective. Both his and Pete's death showed that they might be more willing to kill people off. Not that I want a high body count, but last year there were a few too many times where someone was saved at the last minute. I still find Cal less annoying then previous seasons. I like Vance, and I liked when it was revealed he was a good guy, but I do think him being a little more gray on where he is at does add a bit to the drama this season.

Yes - it kind of felt like it was shoe-horned in and more for setting up something in the future instead of adding to the story. Plus, from what I saw at the end, I am not sure the actress will make an interesting villain. Even on her show Revenge, she probably the least compelling of the villains and gray characters on the show. I think they could have scrapped it and maybe spent the time developing Karly a bit more. I know we were supposed to think of her as some complex character who had good intentions who went down a dark path, but they largely showed someone who came across as a pouty teenager who was not going to listen to anyone and early on showed a sociopathic coldness of innocent people getting killed for her cause. My biggest complaint of the show is that they really did not have compelling main antagonist. I thought Walker was an interesting character, but they needed to spend a little more time with his turn-around at the end. His joining the team at the end seemed more like a plot device than organic character development. He was still pretty much in a steroid rage when we had last seen him. Those complaints aside, I did like the series. The acting was strong, the chemistry was good, much of the post battle was touching. It was nice that they spent some time with showing the characters as they were trying to figure out what to do next. I thought leaving it a mystery of how the father reacted to Bucky's confession was well done. They did not have a ton of time to play it out, and a shorter scene could have come off either cliché or simply unbelievable. Plus, I am not sure it would have been the right place to have another big dramatic scene. If the father would have blasted Bucky, it would have affected the feel of the party at the docks, and they would have needed more time to make any forgiveness scenario seem feasible. I liked the music playing on the closing credits.

I have completely blocked out the show. I know I watched it - I think until the end - but I cannot recall much after the first season. Were there annoying teens involved?

Cal looked healthier and seemed toned done a bit. He still had all of his specialness, but acted more naturally and did not annoy me. I know it is not a great show, but I enjoy some of the old school TV/B movie drama and acting, and thought it was a pretty decent episode. Was not expecting Major's daughter and the revelation that she seemed to be a caring parent (if all is that it appears on the surface. I know they are finishing filming the finale now. I wonder if it does not get renewed if they have any sort of plans to do a wrap up to close the story. I suspect the year absence did not help it and it is kind of a bubble show. I meant to watch this life and got the time messed up, so did with what I do with most TV and watched it on Hulu. This did make me realize how little network TV I watch now, especially live. I am guessing ratings across most network shows have declined the last few years. On a superficial note, Josh did not look bad in that summer shirt and those khakis. I know they like to put him in those sweaters - but it was a nice alternative look for him.

I read that as Holland Taylor and got excited. I suppose there is no chance that is a typo and it is really Holland Taylor joining the show. I imagine her character would be irritated and throwing shade at everyone except possibly Vance.

I just watched the finale of WandaVision. If it would have been Once I enjoyed the series. I think I know just enough Marvel to enjoy some of the Easter eggs but not so thoroughly that I noticed every inconsistency with the Marvel universe or had expectations outside what was actually happening specific to this series.

Did Agatha forget or is she trapped inside a character she is forced to play? Does she have awareness of who she as she is forced to play the cheery nosey neighbor saying corny lines that she would never say on her own? I enjoyed the episode and the series. I was a little worried that a lot was going to be left unresolved and left hanging until the next Marvel movie. I thought they did good job wrapping up series and dropping a few teases about what might be next. I am a fairly casual Marvel viewer. I have seen most but not all of the movies but not that knowledgeable of the Marvel Universe outside that. My X-Men information might come from the 1990's cartoon and some memory of the first two movies of the original 2000'a series and think I only saw the first one of the redo set back in the 60s. Because of that, I really did not have a huge investment of an alternative Pietro and took Agatha's word for it in the previous episode that he was just some random person, and his purpose was more of just throwing Wanda off emotionally. Plus, his sitcom character really did fit the trope of the irresponsible younger brother of a sitcom parent. There are so many high concept tv shows the last 15 years or so (perhaps starting around the time of Lost or going back further Twin Peaks) -- whether hero related and/or sci-fi related that would greatly benefit from a limited nine episode run. So many of those shows have a good original idea but flounder when either the original plot/mystery is resolved and they struggle to find some reason to keep all of the characters in the same environment or they keep stretching out the original premise past its expiration date to keep the series going.

At the time I was thinking he thought it was quiet because he was not hearing all of the turmoil in his mother's head, but yes, obviously this. I like many of others watched the Agatha team multiple times (loved the Munsters theme as a kid as well). Who would have thought Lily from Crossing Jordan would have had such a good career. Not that she was a bad actress on the show, but the character really annoyed me towards the end. I am thinking the scene with her faking out Vision at the edge of town the previous week was mainly to fake out the audience. With what happened with Sparky and how she seemed not to notice the things around her I was starting to suspect something might be up with her, but I dropped that thinking with the Halloween scene in the car. I am now rewatching Age of Ultron, because I do not remember much of it and the twins. I might finally watch Captain Marvel as well. [sorry if I am duplicating previous statements - read through the thread quickly.]

Would it even be an evil twist? Mary Poppins was always gaslighting the kids -- "we never jumped into a chalk drawing". I have heard it is even more pronounced in the books.

And they rated Belle high because she liked to read, but ignored the fact that she was not smart enough to realize there, in fact, was not really any good inside Rumple and spent her final days isolated with him in some strange rip-off of Up.

I actually agreed with a lot of that list, but the Belle - Rumple ranking totally torpedoed it for me (and not sure how believable/earned Regina's redemption was). I also liked Evil Pan.

I remember watching the season 6 finale when David and Hook did their beanstalk adventure. While it ended up being irrelevant to the plot - at the time I thought I could not remember the last time I had seen any characters just have a fun fairy tale adventure. I had similar feelings when I did the season 1 rewatch and David and Emma had their parallel dragon battles. It was nice to see a little action adventure compared to later season finales where it would be two people in the dark street shooting magical smoke at each other while full of angst.

I noticed he did not mention you should watch IZombie. I wonder what his thoughts were on that show. I thought he was entertaining there for a couple of years, but his character probably outlived its shelf life and should have been written out after a couple of season. I am not sure I would call OUAT a kid's show -- although some of the writing was juvenile. I never watched Alias, but wasn't that a show that was really strong the first couple of seasons, but kind of went off the rails the last few seasons? I wonder if they hold up as well some of the later seasons hold up. It is a bit odd that he replies to a fan and disses her opinion. He could have simply said - thanks - but you should also check out Alias.

The episode where she cursed Snow and Charming was really the only time split EQ showed potential of being a true threat. She was ruthless, efficient, and I believe toned down the the camp. I am not sure she even did anything after that except drop vague references to what happened to David's father (I don't remember a lot of the season). The pacing and momentum was strange that season. Something big would happen and instead of going with the dramatic build, it would be dropped and not revisited for months. There were also a number of things simply resolved off screen. Yes - Emma told me you killed my Dad - I know this should be a big moment but we will deal with it in 15 seconds. It is really amazing (but maybe not surprising) that they gave split EQ a happy ending. She did not do a single thing to justify redemption. She did not even stick around to help uncurse Snow and Charming.

As much as Regina annoyed me in the last few seasons, when I rewatched season 1 a couple of years ago, I was impressed with her acting as both the evil queen and the more evil in a different way Mayor Mills. Mayor Mills was cold and calculating and quietly ruthless. The Evil Queen was not just camp, but underneath her sneering façade a bundle of raw anger and pain. It is understandable why she was a popular character. When I watched that season when it first aired, not once did I think this is a character they are going to redeem. Until the finale, I assumed she did not care for Henry at all. If they were going to reform her -- (or what they should have done is make her a gray character at best, not a hero) -- they really should have made the formation of a bond more gradual and a couple of seasons instead of Henry not really liking her to hero worshipping her on the flip of a switch (I think for stopping a spell from destroying the town when she herself cast the spell to hurt Emma and Snow?). It should have been more of a process with some slower steps.

I did not on the first watch. I did not necessarily on the partial rewatch last year before the show left Netflx, but I did notice some scenes that seemed to be written to give that fan base some very vague, slender hope. The Henry has two moms I think also fed into some fantasies of them setting up house. Still, it was pretty obvious they were going with Hook and Emma as endgame and Regina supposedly was in true love with Robin, and there was no real intention to pair them. I thought they had good antagonistic chemistry, which in the world of TV clichés can lead to romance, but never saw any moment any of that even hint at romantic leanings. I also thought their scenes as friends came off as false and never genuine. While I don't think Snow should have necessarily forgiven her, I bought their friendship more - perhaps because it had a dysfunctional family vibe to it - that cousin or aunt you had a stormy relationship growing up, but still sent them a Christmas card and meet them for coffee. The Regina - Emma conversations about co-parenting Henry etc always seemed a bit awkward and clumsily written. It also did not help that if it was not discussing Henry - their scenes of support were largely Emma telling Regina she is a hero.

I have to confess I watched All My Children for a number of years. When soap writing is lazy - they do this a lot when they want to redeem a character. Near the end of my run of watching it, they brought on a bad girl named Babe, and quickly decided she should be a heroine. They quickly had everyone singing her praises - even going as far as saying she was love. Sadly, they were too lazy to alter her story arc, so she was doing really bad things as everyone was saying how great she was. The show had a need for a bad girl at the time, and the actress was not bad and was much more interesting as a schemer with flashes of vulnerability than the ever weeping heroine, so it was too bad they did all the contortions trying to make her a heroine. Although I guess this is not as offensive as the soap staple of reforming a bad girl by assault. Hopefully they have moved away from using that.

They probably could have done a better job with that, but I did think they did a good job of capturing the 80's styles without doing the broad brushes that you normally see when you see the 80's styles shown. There was not an excess of acid washed jeans, big perms etc., but the cut of the clothes and things like the style of hair clips, the short boots, seemed authentic to 1987.

They had a scene at the end where they showed everyone at the wedding party and than an image of what they looked like in 1987, including Flora the bride, Miles, Owen, and the father. The reveal did make more sense on why it moved Flora to tears, because it probably triggered something in her subconscious even if she does not remember the events at a conscious level. I did also think it was odd that older Jaimie sounded like she was now some blue blood English lady, when her final scenes with Dani were not really that many years before that. It seemed like it was a bit of cheating by the show producers to keep people from knowing who she was by having her talk and dress in a completely different manner. I did like Hill House better, partially because I watched it first and it was more of a novel set-up, but also did have some more creepy imagery and did a better job of doing a slow burn and growing dread the first part of the series. However, I think Hill House fell apart a bit more the last two episodes and did not live up to its full potential and probably had too neat of an ending. The last two episodes of Bly could probably have been shortened into one 90 minute episode (I think they could have cut down the origin story and the post-lake events), but I do think it might had a more poignant ending with Dani's sacrifice than with Regarding the origin story - might go and respond in that episode, but it either should have been shorter and more of a prologue before they returned to present day and Dani being dragged to the lake, or they needed to do a better job of fleshing out the characters and making them seem real rather than the barely two dimensionally way they were presented. I did like it, but it could have probably been two episodes shorter. I felt the same way about Hill House as well. It did not quite have what it needed for nine episodes. I think I might have merged two of the sisters and had one less sibling.

I thought the Land of Untold Stories had a good set-up for that and thought that is maybe where they were going, but alas, that whole plot line was quickly dropped, except for an occasional untold character seen in the background as an extra at the bar etc. I know there was a Lost episode that focused on a never seen couple that did not advance the overall arc got a lot of negative flack at the time, but I did not mind it. If a filler episode is well written and interesting, I would rather have a handful of those than episodes twisting themselves incoherently to have something to do with what will be in the finale. As mentioned earlier, Grimm's episodes tended to drop in quality at the end of the season when they focused on the big arch rather than the monster of the week, and the X-files best episodes were the monster of the week vs the ones more centered on the shows mythology.

Different concept, but I think people who liked OUAT might like Grimm. Generally, I thought it was stronger when it was just focused on the crime of the week. It did have some similarities to Once in some of its overarching mythology was not always thought through and there were a couple of characters they tried to have their cake and eat it too in whether they were pure villain or someone who should be redeemed.

I apologize if this has already been covered, but I do have a question regarding Frozen 2 (which I assume is going to be "no"). Did they work into any of the events that happened on Once into the movie, such as what the parents were trying to do on their trip, a vague mention of Auntie Snow Queen, Anna and Kristof getting married?

One more random thought -- more noticeably from watching parts of multiple seasons over the summer. As much as Snow and Charming were used less in the later years, they really did not know how to utilize Belle. There are a couple of episodes where they really had to contort themselves to find a way to work her into certain arcs for a couple of epsides. And one more, since I just watched the Henry fountain scene. The awkwardness between him and Violet was all the more apparent, because I had just watched the Hercules episode, which was not necessarily great, but he and young Snow did a good job seeming like they were crushing on each other. And a final petty comment, why was Violet dressed like an American Girl doll?

My last long convoluted post about the show - the Underworld. It actually was not a bad concept, and had some decent episodes. My biggest complaint was that it was that they had too many episodes on the Mills family, when they could have explored Snow having unfinished business with her Mother. David could have had more than two scenes with his brother, especially since the actor was available. It was nice to see some of the characters they brought back - such as the blind witch and especially Cruella (who would have been more interesting running the place than Hades. They could have even had that be their same-sex love story and kept the Zelina factor in there). It is always fun to see Pan, but Gold's joy at killing him a second time just highlighted that he is not someone who deserved a redemption. I am not saying Pan deserved a second chance or that Gold should have felt any love for him, but anyone with human emotions should have felt some pang of regret for having to kill their father not revel in it (and really it was not even necessary, he could have left him in the Underworld to face a judgment by someone more impartial). Hades could seem menacing at times, especially at the beginning, but mainly his trying to seem menacing was just distracting. His whisper speak with halts, seemed like a cross between a spoof on a 80's soap hero and a creepy stalker. Also, if they wanted to push the big true love Zelina story, they might have wanted to go with someone closer to her age. This might have been one of the times to not follow the Disney version and go with someone who had a bit more of a charisma that you can see generating some passion in Zelina. Even though Snow and Charming were supposed to be this true love -- you could tell by their looks they wanted each other - same with Hook and Emma. Zelina and Hades generated none of that chemistry that you thought would trigger a true loves kiss (and should have a true loves kiss even worked when Hades was clearly working Zelina at the time and probably did not actually love her?) Between that and Ruby and Dorothy having a true love kiss when they barely knew each other really cheapened that plot device. One quick random thought about the season 6 finale. The Hook Charming adventure. Why did they not do more fun adventure flashbacks in the EF? About midway through the series, every flashback seemed to end in misery or was dreary from the start. They needed more fun adventure for fun adventure sake. Explore some of the wonder of the realm without it ending in death. I have rambled on long enough. I no longer have Netflix access, so this most likely be my last post like this for quite a while. I do kind of wish I would have stepped up my rewatch a month ago and caught more of seasons 5 and 6, and possibly the season 7 finale (not sure I would have watched any more of season 7). If I don't eventually subscribe to Disney Plus, I will probably buy season 1 at some point, and possibly a couple of other random episodes (season 3 finale etc). As much as I have mocked the show, I will miss having access to it, and there were some legitimately good episodes. Generally it was well cast and fairly well acted.