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He wouldn't be able to hide and sneak up on him, though. Negan's chewed all the scenery.

This was the first episode and only episode I ever saw. Never even heard of it before. I guess I'm in the minority here, because I thought it was good silly fun. Of course, after sitting through an episode of "The Flashes," just about anything is good silly fun...

So after all that romdrama about it, she's not actually going to date Jimmy Olsen. Does that mean the show can finally shut the hell up about her dating Jimmy Olsen?

Gigantic props to the girl who played Heather. Most of her role was nothing but screaming, cringing, getting roaches all over her, and enduring huge amounts of time-consuming prosthetic gore, but she was acting her ass off! Talk about bringing your A-game to a B-gig. Not sure how sincere LL is about her endgame. She could just be a big evil liar. Or she might honestly think that controlled demonry is better then the inevitable problems with letting them run around doing whatever. Since Ash could easily be one of the posterboys for the Chaotic Good alignment, making the big bad of the show someone who is approaching the same problem as him but from a Lawful Evil direction actually works great, thematically. Yes, I've been reading too much "Order of the Stick" lately. Overall, this was not quite as great as the previous two episodes, but it still has me excited for Season 2. Wish I had Starz. Also, I wish this first season had been just a few episodes longer.

Wow. This one was a serious return to the original films, wasn't it? Most of the eps have felt way more "Army of Darkness" than ED 1 or 2, and that's been fine because AoD is actually my favorite of the trilogy, but this was a great reminder that it really is meant to be one story. The early scenes were surprisingly dramatic and suspenseful, and then stylistically it sort of morphed, first into something very similar to the second film and then finally the third. Didn't expect Fisher to die, that's for sure, but hopefully some of the guesses here about Xena might be on to something. Anyway, this was either a big standout episode, or a very strong turning point. Which is why, before moving on, I stopped the DVD player to let it digest a little bit while seeing what people here had been saying about the second half of the season. Me... I expected to enjoy this show, but I'm pleasantly surprised to actually be impressed by it.

Best thing about this one was the whole tennis racket speech. Bruce Campbell can be damn near Shatnerian in his commitment to chutzpah.

The condition of that book continues to amuse me. I've got books that were printed this decade that are in way, way older condition than that thing is... and now we're supposed to believe it even has thousands-of-years-old invisible ink that still works? Oh well. I still had fun watching. Dutch and Eph are great together. I also like Abe and Quin. Fet working alone is fine, because Fet is awesome no matter what. More Abe flashbacks means more Nazi vampires getting their asses handed to them. In this case, almost literally. I'm sure tonight they'll fill us in on what random direction Gus has wandered off in. Maybe he'll even stay put long enough to be relevant, and Fet can lead the conscripts into Central Park. Didn't miss Zach one bit. If they never mention him again, and in the finale Eph says something like "I just feel like we forgot something.. oh well, couldn't have been very important..." I will be a very happy man.

Much better than last week. Not as funny as last season, but I didn't mind watching it. Honestly, this should have been the premier. If they felt like they had to show that nonsense we sat through last Friday, it should have been shown after this "Welcome back to the main narrative" episode.

OK, the first duo had me on the fence, but after three I think I honestly like this show. Not quite sure what it is, though. Not serious enough to be a drama, but not much of a comedy either. I think I've actually laughed out loud for like one 'ha" syllable in three episodes. But I'm interested in the the story, and it's light and kind of fun and certainly easy to watch, and for like twenty minutes a week just to follow where this is going.. sure, why not? If it ever settles into sitcom stasis, or starts relying too much on "will they or won't they?" nonsense, then I'll probably start falling behind and forgetting about it. But that has not actually happened.

Or, maybe he'll build a glider. Or turn out to be a savant at airplanes, helicopters, balloons, or flying Penguin umbrellas. None of which would be less plausible than the idea that he just randomly wears aviator goggles because... the crows told him about flying humans? I have seen an extended story line about a boy learning things from crows. And that boy was named Bran Stark. Which is.. obviously.... not the name of an exciting person. Spoiler alert: the story has gone on for years without actually getting interesting or relevant.

Try, try, try to understaaaaaaaaand... he's a Magic Maaaaaan... Either that, or he's a dime-a-dozen Yul Brynner impersonator with too much plot armor. I don't really mind if Crowboy survives, as long as we aren't subjected to him tagging after the group week after week. If his hot sister came along, then maybe... but honestly, as a character, I don't think "one more tough chick" really adds much to the ensemble. Kind of nice, albeit confusing, seeing Hombie again, but holy crap did that enormous flashback break the show's overall narrative! I honestly wonder if they still had a bunch of footage from an older unaired episode and decided to tweak it into a "two hour event." Which did not by any stretch of the imagination need to be that long. Are they trying to be a Walking Dead clone? Unbeatable heroes, lots of action at the expense of characterization and humor, disposeable redshirts (at least that was lampshaded,) unbeatable villains who the writers obviously expect us to be awed by, random laws about how zombies can be controlled (as long as you're a villain, you can just crack a whip at them! Is it a Magic Whip? Maybe it gives a +5 to Necromancy?) Zombie skulls that are so flimsy that they can be destroyed by a slingshot which, we now know, barely has any effect at all against a human sternum? I'll tune out the stupid as long as I get the funny. This episode rarely even tried to be funny, nor was the action in it as awesome as it thought it was. I mostly spent the entire two hours saying "Shoot him," "Shoot him now," and "Why aren't they shooting him?" I hope that my hypothesis about this just being an unaired episode that they decided to try to use is correct. Because if it was actually indicative of the season's new tone, then I'll be gone after one more try. I don't mind shows getting stupider and sillier. Season Two of "Baywatch Nights," where they had David Hasselhoff punching it out with reanimated mummies and unfrozen Vikings, is one of the most underrated gems of bad television. Or Seasons 2 and 3 of "The Strain," with it's Nazi vampire makeovers and random luchadores- what's not to love? But this looks to be going the other direction, the one where a fun parody decides to become the exact same thing that it used to mock. Remember Season 2 of "She Spies?" Of course not. No one does. Because we all watched two episodes of it, said "Well, that sucks now," and left.

So how old is that book supposed to be? They sure built 'em to last, didn't they?

Please let Spider Luchadores be a thing.

I'll grant that the ending was kind of strong, but most of this episode was boring as hell.

So, yet again, the OK3000 Zobot steals the show. I also liked the twist of every GA they ran into actually being a reasonable and well-meaning person.

I would think that, by the end of the first movie, pretty much every shark in the world over ten feet long would be dead, except for the plankton feeders, because apparently eating plankton bestows some sort of tornado immunity. ETA: I just saw the defibrillator scene. That part, I will admit, was entertaining. ETAA: Apparently the whale wasn't getting enough plankton.

Yeah, the cameos have been pretty rock-bottom. Also, there are too many disjointed characters and subarcs, and the only one that I kind of give a shit about is the Hasselhoff/Busey/Reid one. And they have done nothing in this hour and a half that has any relevance to the main action. Seriously, I don't think they've even seen a shark yet. And... sharknados were silly enough to begin with. Adding boulders or flaming oil to it just makes it even more implausible that sharks could survive in it. I know, I get it, "Dude: it's a movie called Sharknado, you can't expect it to make sense!" Fuck that, I'm already suspending disbelief plenty. Sharknados exist in the first place? Well, yeah, we kind of have to just sit back and enjoy that leap of faith. Sharknados have become a recurring phenomenon after the first movie? Well, how else are you gonna have sequels? They always happen right when the protagonist arrives? Well, the whole thing is such a parody genre anyway, and that's such a cliche about heroic serial protagonists that I'm still okay with it. But at some point, even in fantasy or syfyence fiction, enough is enough. Otherwise you could have Gilbert Gottfried climb up out of the rubble and say "I'm actually a wizard!" and turn all the sharks into fluffy toy poodles. Which.. would actually be more interesting than some of this movies way-too-numerous CGI shots. Oh, look! Another tornado! With stuff in it! Can I stop acting surprised yet?

I'm just now watching it for the first time. So far, I think the 3rd was the best, and this one is a let down, but if that Mount Rushmore shot ends up leading to a TeddyRoosevelt-nado my opinion of this thing may very well skyrocket. Especially if somebody says "Don't blame me. I noted for Ralph Nado."

Somebody needs to make a video of just every single scene of Zobot saying "Okay!" in her odd perky monotone.

Yeah, "Game of Thrones" called. They want their thinly disguised regular names back. I always hear it as "Kline," as in Kevin. Maybe somebody he'll start swinging around and sing the Pirate King song for us. Probably during a nanobot-induced hallucination.

Not a word about Zach? Love it. Some spiderkids wouldn't have hurt, though.

I like that Pawter got out on her own, but... holy crap did Jelco have to be stupid in order for that to work! He just trusts her to give him whatever meds she feels like? I figured she was going to dose him with Jakk and they'd have to go on a zany roadtrip to get more once his withdrawal kicked in. But, really... couldn't she just kill him, use the blood DNA to escape, and not really be in much more trouble than she is anyway for illegally implanting a bomb into his heart? Just seems like it would have been easier, although perhaps not as funny.

Am I the only one who literally has no idea how they lost their memories this week in the first place? Didn't they have to be in stasis chambers last time? Now apparently the computer can just randomly give you a remote-control personality makeover whenever it has a "glitch." I guess a malfunctioning holodeck was too expensive. I feel it would be impossible for me to recap this episode without using "blah blah blah" and "yadda yadda" whenever trying to explain cause and effect. Robot was in self-repair mode, so the computer looked for... a thingy... so, blah blah blah, half the cast passed out and lost their memories. Turns out that Two had a neural link somehow, so yadda yadda Three and Four got rebooted too, because why not? And apparently when Four is evil he doesn't like to chop people up with swords nearly as much as when he's a good guy. As far as whether or not they should take the old memories back, I'd say it's a no-brainer. The computer is just gonna turn you evil again anyway the next time the writers need a filler episode, so you might as well start mixing the bad with the good so you don't later get stuck with nothing but the bad.

Pree: Locked and cocked. Let's give these bitches some stitches. What? I rhyme when I'm nervous.

Hate the new credits, love the new season. I was hoping Clara would stick around, but it made plot sense for her not to. Nice of Lucy to express my exact thoughts, though. And if they kill Pree, we riot.