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CletusMusashi

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  1. This was the funniest episode they've ever done. Love the buddy cop dynamic developing between Datak and Rafe. "Don't kill him." "I promised the wife." (shrug.) The Irathient Jewish lawyer would be offensive if the actor weren't so funny. And, let's face it, anything that can put a little bit of humor into an Irissa scene is a good thing. Plus, at least they're shamelessly owning up to their stereotypes. They're not trying to have it both ways, like certain other shows. (Cough! Ferengi! Cough! Cough!) Yewll really is getting squirrely. Understandable. When you've got as many big things to worry about as she does, you really can't afford to sweat the little stuff. Including, for example, doctor/patient confidentiality in regards to a racist serial killer-for-profit. And Mercado. Oh, Mercado. I am so sorry I ever thought you were duller than Pottinger. Weren't we all saying just last week how we wished the show would turn into more of a Castithan transvestite musical? No? Just me then? Well, in any case, mission nearly accomplished. All he needs now is backup dancers.
  2. I don't know about Miami. Maybe a bit further north? "Spring Break Sharknado: Where the Sharks Are" or somesuch. 'Course, it could just be all of Florida. Or Texas. But anything we might have looked forward to seeing a rodeo champion do on the back of a flying shark was already done by Fin is this movie. Maybe Alaska. Of course, they'd need someone local to team up with against the sharks, but now that they've gotten some big names to appear in the series I'll bet they could get Sarah Palin.
  3. I figure if there's a third it'll probably be New Orleans. During Mardi Gras. Bonus points if there's an oil spill involved, turning it into a flaming sharknado.
  4. I've actually been wondering lately whether or not The Hat bestows immortality. I mean, seriously, how else do you explain Carl still being alive?
  5. KAOS Agent nails a lot of the things about the episode that are "off." But, honestly, at least for that point in the series, I like those flaws. Real life has baggage. Issues that create group awkwardness do not always get settled. Bigger problems come along, fights get put on the side-burner, and life sort of drifts back to a semblance of normality. Everything not being resolved sets the stage even better for things like Buffy keeping Angel's return a secret. Of course, too many things not being settled properly just turns the whole group into a miserable dysfunctional pile of idiots, so you've got to only do those rough edges in moderation. A little bit in Season 3? No problem. Every single moment of Season 7? No thank you.
  6. Might need to rephrase that.
  7. One thing I appreciate is that Buffy's vamps did not have The Ancient Secret Council. True Blood, Forever Knight, Being Human, Lost Girl, the other version of Being Human, Twilight, The Laurel Hamilton books... it's not a bad idea in and of itself, but it's been done into the ground. Enough already. And, yes, they could have gotten away with it in the early seasons, because it hadn't been quite that over-done yet, but they didn't even try. If anything, Buffy flat-out subverted the trope, almost from the very start. Yes, the Aurelius cult was a big deal, but we saw that many if not most vampires were not affiliated with them and really just wanted to party and suck blood. And when the Maestro finally got taken down, they did not do the now-traditional "His uber-powerful boss comes to see what happened," schtick. Instead, they showed a fascinating story of completely different vampire personalities, from all over the place, moving into the power vacuum and clashing with each other.
  8. Why exactly did Sara drink the antidote instead of just running for her life sooner? Never even mind "why was it just sitting out at room temperature right on the shelf with no doctor or guards around?" Just.. what exactly was her motivation supposed to be? "I want to give the vampires even more reason to want to drain me?" "One of the writers told me that I'm supposed to be the final villain of the series, and I am therefore contractually obligated to always have an antidote with me?" "I want to cure my sister, even though I don't even know she's sick yet?" "I plan to market the cure, and I am going to do that by ignoring this antidote and screwing some random yoga teacher for as long as possible?" I give up. The James Bond capture grated at first, but once I saw that it really was just a hardcore negotiation, I was okay with it. Still not sure why most of the Yakuza have to fight with swords though. If they had guns they might have won quickly enough to catch Sara. If they want, they can call their call their guns YakUzis. I was also, briefly, annoyed by the fact that they captured Pam so easily. Again. But obviously she really liked those shoes. Kind of stupid, if you're just talking about combat pragmatism, but I'll give her a pass on wardrobe choices, because holy crap did she look hot this episode! Sam should tell Nicole to move ahead, then get his affairs in order, move out of town with Nicole, and start a new business elsewhere, out of Crazytown. Loving the Andy/Holly dynamic. I wonder if we're moving toward a final Violet smackdown delivered by the combined mojo of Andy, Holly, and Jessica? The Tara scenes bored me senseless. What a waste. I was sympathizing with Bill for a while, but... sorry. You don't get to publicly kill people just because you think they're overcharging you. Most clients in similar situations don't even get the option of moving to the front of the line, because they aren't super-rich. I can't help thinking the whole problem could have been resolved with a little bit of... oh, I don't know... maybe haggling? Offer like 1.5 or 2 million, and wiggle it from there. I mean, WTF are they gonna do, say "Nope, sorry, the fat mailman vamp offered us $9,999,999.99?"
  9. Was I the only one who was more surprised that Lafayette and James hadn't been screwing each other all season? I mean, pretty much every scene consists of them lying next to each other, getting buzzed, and exchanging bodily fluid. And the thing about James and whatsisname (the killed in 'Nam friend,) being sexually involved was already spelled out clearly enough the first time we heard about it. Laf needing to double-check was just weird sloppy writing.
  10. it was a good episode until the Bill flashbacks started. Those have to go. I could justify this by talking about how they detract from the primary narrative, alter the show's pacing, yadda yadda yadda, but ultimately my complaint is that they are BORING! Lafayette seems to be the official Fourth Wall Guy. Not only was he the one a few years ago who told off Sookie about how her policy of "just do the right thing and everything will turn out all right," tends to kill everybody around her... but this week he pretty much did the same thing that Xander did on Buffy and told the writers that he was tired of being the show's comedy relief guy. Note to Yakuza: if you have automatic weapons, and you know that vampires a real thing, you should always be armed for them. Swords? In 2014? Not as effective. Sarah's sister is awesome. Andy's speech made no sense. Jessica being bothered about killing his daughters keeps reminding him? But otherwise he can just shrug it off? No. I think a more appropriate speech might have been "Listen, I understand it was just a one-time loss of control, but I need to move on past it, so I've asked Keith/ Violet/ Random New Vampire of the Week to take over my family's protection. Here's the address of another family that's been asking for somebody to help them." Lettie's drama is getting really old. Can't one of the vampires just glamour the addiction out of her? Sarah Newlin can die. The show already has too many characters. We already know she's horrible, so nothing she does will be surprising, and for a group that puts out genocidal plagues to also have made an antidote doesn't really make sense. After Jackson's big speech about heroic deaths I figure he's a goner soon. Not sure what Violet's going to do. Hopefully it doesn't involve Hoyt, although with the timing of him about to come to town, I suspect it will. Enslaving him would be a very successful "fuck you" to both Jessica and Jason. Last week's episode was a good solid A. This one I think would have been an A-. But the Bill flashbacks dragged it down to a B+ at best.
  11. Yeah, it's not the actor's fault. Bill is just one of those characters whose personality tends to be whatever the writers need it to be for whatever story arc they have in mind. I stopped caring what Bill thought about anything, because I lost any expectation of his character development mattering in the next season. Nowadays, I like him with Jessica, and I like him mangling Sookie's name, but other than that I don't really have any use for him. And that anvil they set up, about whether or not he's a different person because of the blood transfusion? No. Just fucking no.
  12. I'm getting tired of watching people hallucinate. The Yewll stuff was kind of interesting, but ultimately this whole episode was just a bunch of extraploation. A whole episode of characters talking to dead people? Babylon 5 already did that. It's not even a new thing for this show. They were doing it early last season with Rafe's son. At this point, all it's doing is broadcasting: a. How little death actually means on this show, character-wise, and b. How inevitabe it is that we'll see Kenya again.
  13. Totally down with the elephant plan. I mean, if they can kill Tara offscreen, why not a bunch of no-names? And it would be such a "love it or hate it" thing for the writers to pull. Can you imagine how much it would piss off viewers who had no sense of humor?
  14. So is Eric going to be like Dr. Hibbert on The Simpsons? They're just going to keep doing flashbacks in order to see how many extremely dated hair styles they can stick on him? That might actually be fun. A few that I would like to see are: his 1950s ducktail, his 1960s early Beatles phase, and, of course, his 1970s disco perm, complete with chains and white polyester.
  15. So did the actual writers just come back from vacation and take over or what? This is the show that I remembered liking. Oh, sure, you can nitpick on certain incongruities, like the time spent discussing Kevin's death versus Tara's, but in my opinion that flaw lies with the bad episodes, not with the good one. What are they supposed to do, just keep on writing the worst crap they possibly can, in order to be consistent? We had no Lettie, no Violet, no Yakuza, the flashbacks actually expanded the characters' backstories rather than just wasting time, Hoyt is back on the show, we've actually seen New Guy 2.0 in the same scene as Jessica, Lafayette got to be in a scene where he wasn't blasted out of his skull, Willa is so great that I'm kind of pissed they didn't add her to the show earlier... hell, even Suckehhhhh didn't annoy me. And did she actually say "it's just lunch," about Bill biting her? God, I wish I believed her, but hilarious line anyway.
  16. There once was a fellow named Shane who had something askew with his brain. Weirdest part of it all was his fondness for Carl. I mean, that's just completely insane!
  17. I'm still very confused about their legal system. Are there courts, or judges, or... anything? Basically, the show writers call up the Mayor every week and tell him who they need to be in jail and who they need to be out of it? However, I'm not really watching the show for logic. I'm watching it for exciting character twists. Which I am enjoying. Also, until told otherwise, I am assuming that Jessica's full name is Jessica Amber Lynn. "Berlin" for short.
  18. Yeah, the sombrero's a must. Somebody needs to make this thing.
  19. Giles threatening Snyder, Giles playing the guitar, Giles drinking brandy, Giles and Joyce on the hood of a police car...
  20. So vampires can smoke pot but not swallow pills. How about snorting coke? Might explain why Eric was such a moron during the 80s.
  21. That, or... next week, they'll introduce new characters, to serve as love interests for Lettie Mae, Sarah Newlin, and Third Yakuza Guy From Left. Also, don't forget: we still have to see the rest of the story arc about Bill's family photographer. I think after he took that picture he a had a wart removed from his elbow, which led to a whole series of amazing adventures with Bigfoot.
  22. Wish granted. Lyanna Stark lives, and she marries Robert. Robert, of course, continues to be a drunken whoring buffoon, so she eventually has an affair with Jaime Lannister. Cersei finds out about it and takes revenge for this act of "stealing her brother" by visiting Winterfell, burning it down and killing all the Starks in their sleep. Later, when Jon Aryn dies, Robert makes Stannis his Hand. Robert is killed by a shadowbaby, Stannis becomes king, and Mellisandre becomes Hand. Mellisandre+ Power+ Wildfire= Armageddon. By the time winter comes, there are only ashes waiting for the White Walkers. I wish that Tyrion and Varys would go undercover as a ventriloquist act... or, as one very tall man under a long coat... or, a fat woman pushing a baby in a stroller... any classic undercover cliche gag will do, really.
  23. When the show is good, I can do without any Sarah Newlin. But right now, yeah, I'll take her over flashbacks to the time Bill had family pictures taken 150 years ago. Or those idiot Yakuza guys. Wouldn't it be hilarious if they all got blown away next week by Sarah Newlin, for taking swords to a gun fight? I don't even get if they're supposed to be vampires or not. If they aren't, then their acting as Nan's muscle against Eric and Pam was just ridiculous. But if they are, then why didn't they just glamour the Yogi guy into telling them what they wanted to know?
  24. Angelus. His dialogue was badly written, compared to that of the others back then, and the way that Boreanaz acted the role when he was in 'Gelus mode never did it for me. Angel? A bit cliched, but decently done once you got past that. Angelus? Just a smarmy, petty buffoon. The only thing I liked about Angelus was Spike heckling him. And to be honest, his curse was a mind-bogglingly stupid idea. Instead of using their magic to, say, kill him painfully, they just make him sad until one moment of happiness occurs (which seems kind of inevitable, eventually,) and then he's back again with a vengeance. I could never really understand what their motivation was beyond "it's in the script."
  25. If that doesn't take, I'll settle for them showing us that Sam has been paying visits to the local zoo. Let him get really pissed off (at the town mob, at the hetvamps, a the Yakuza, I don't really care which,) and turn into like a hippo or a rhino or an elephant.
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