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Alright, I'm so sick of them portraying Georgia as having some kind of political acumen that people fall for. Wtf was her word salad nonsense about "Small Business Saturday"? A percentage of the profits will go to the schools? What profits? The profits those small businesses are making? She can't just volunteer them for that. That earned her applause room the group? Are they all gullible morons?
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On 1/6/2023 at 5:16 PM, peachmangosteen said:
I'm interested to see what the deal is with Austin's dad. I'm assuming he was the guy in an earlier ep that was banging on the door and saying he's going to kill Georgia.
I'm pretty sure the guy banging on the door was the first husband she killed, who she then had the biker gang "disappear" the body and that the private detective is now looking into. Austin's dad was probably already in prison at that point.
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23 hours ago, Steph Sometimes said:
And I like Ginny more than Georgia.
How could you possibly not?
I want to like her, and I can appreciate a lot of the things she's done are to protect and provide for her kids, but she is HORRIBLE.
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11 hours ago, millennium said:
Why does everything I'm watching lately have Ryan Murphy's name attached to it? I just watched "Mr. Harrigan's Phone" last night and there was his name in the credits. Now this.
As for the show, I'm getting tired of 1 percenters and their privileged troubles. The Agatha Christie gimmick of multiple suspects is getting old, too. But the joke's on me, I guess. I started watching thinking it was a movie and figured I could at least make it through to the end.
Like the ferret, I'm out.
Yeah, the "I want my kids to have their own rooms and a yard" was... something.
1. Am I to believe for a second these kids were sharing a bedroom before this?
2. For each to have their own room, you must buy a place that looks like it has about 10 bedrooms?
Watching a family obscenely overspend on a house they can't afford, only to then find they are immediately going to spend tens of thousands more dollars on remodeling already beautiful rooms... jfc. No wonder they went bankrupt before.
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17 hours ago, thuganomics85 said:
Well, that was a lot!
So, the Cultists were after the Stranger because thy thought he was Sauron this entire time. But in the end, he isn't. Instead he is a... wizard that is good. Yep, I'm about 90% sure I know who he really is, but I guess there could always be a surprise in store for that particular revelation.
Instead, it was Halbrand that was Sauron this entire time. Definitely some amusing irony that he was under Galadriel's nose this entire time, despite her being so gung-ho to catch him. But thanks to some mind-trickery, he's already escaped and heading to Mordor. Already dawned on a black cloak and a little bit of eyeliner too! Bad guy doing bad guy stuff!
Weird that we got so little Numenor stuff this go around, and we didn't even check in on the dwarves or Arondir/Bronwyn before we head off for what is probably going to be a two year gap before the next season.
Those were some nice looking rings, at least.
I know I shouldn't be comparing this to the films, but they clearly want me to look at Nori and Poppy's relationship as this show's version of Frodo and Sam and it was nowhere close to that level.
Overall, I did think these last few episodes were better than the first half and I'll definitely be back, but I'm still surprised that I didn't enjoy this as much as I thought I would. It had a lot going for it; the acting, the scenery (bummed that production is apparently moved to the U.K. now, which means no more New Zealand!), the effects, etc.; but for some reason it never was able to reach its full potential. Maybe it will fare better next season.
I'm really confused at how they melted all the gold, silver, and mithril together in one big pot, poured it into molds to make the rings, and somehow 2 came out gold and 1 silver... 🤔
Also, it really feels like they should have an awful lot of this magical alloy left over to make something else with.
Nori and Poppi did nothing for me at all.
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19 hours ago, WritinMan said:
I almost pulled a muscle cringing so hard at the Fiona Apple song at the end.
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Holy shit, I'm not even 30 minutes into this, and I already hope Bobby Cannevale gets killed for about 5 different separate reasons.
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5 hours ago, Harvey said:
Why did the scene where Nori says goodbye take 5 years? It was so extremely boring, I can't with this show.
Sauron's line about not seeing a difference between ruling and healing was cool at least.
I get really happy for a second thinking we were done with harfoots at least, then Nori had to tag along. And that goodbye scene, ughhh, I just didn't care.
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1 hour ago, PurpleTentacle said:
It was... and Bodybuilder-She-Hulk looked way better than the CGI Abomination we had all season. Which is a bit embarrassing.
I would emphatically disagree, but to each their own.
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22 hours ago, Danny Franks said:
Yes, people have been complaining that Matt made a couple of jokes, which is at odds with how serious he was in the Netflix show. But he came off here as a more confident and secure in his abilities as a vigilante. His whole act is more polished - attitude, suit, weapons, fighting style. But I will miss the grittier and less athletic fighting style of the Netflix show, because it had a feel of 'you can kick my ass, but not as badly as I'll kick yours' which really worked for Catholic Guilt Boy.
It really isn't at odds with that, though. Matt displayed a sense of humor plenty of times on the Netflix show. Yeah, he was serious much of the time, but the situations he was facing were much more serious and for higher stakes than anything that was happening in this episode.
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17 hours ago, TV Anonymous said:
Did Matt get a new costume at the Daredevil series finale? I do not like this costume, I liked the all-burgundy one.
Daredevil being unknown in Los Angeles make sense. In the world of larger-than-life Avengers, minor superhero from Hell's Kitchen may not draw attention. My question is whether Matt is a California bar member. But he obviously is.
So Jennifer who is single and living alone have sex with a man. So fucking what? This is 2022 - assuming that that is also the date of the show.
2025-27, something like that. MCU jumped ahead 5 years between Infinity War and Endgame.
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18 hours ago, Chicago Redshirt said:
Not necessarily completely unknown. Just unknown to Jen.
Assuming D+ series have happened in chronological order
Kingpin is already a thing as seen in Hawkeye. It seems clear that they are rebooting Daredevil to some extent so the events of Netflix S1-3 aren't guaranteed, nor is the notion that Daredevil and Kingpin have ever crossed paths.
Though it's been a while, I was under the impression Matt slept with Claire during S1.
A lot of people managed to get that impression for some reason.
Nah, never got to that. They had their first kiss, Matt went to work, he came back later that day and she broke it off w/ him. Pretty clearly there hadn't been any sex in that period, he was furiously chasing down the Russians, and she was still a mess after having them beat the shit out of her.
Editing to add- Let's face it, in the world of TV today, if two hot lead actors are having sex, no way is it happening completely offscreen😂
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This episode gets a thumbs up if only for the fact they finally let Matt get laid. The only Defender they didn't let get any(I don't count the flashback w/ Electra from who knows how many years before).
Now poor Karen is the only series regular that is left in the Netflix shows that they haven't let have sex.
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47 minutes ago, paigow said:
This version of Daredevil is completely unknown beyond NYC??? I guess the Punisher & Kingpin have not happened yet.
I know a lot of people will jump to that assumption, but I don't think that's a certainty at this point. In a world that has faced(at least 3) multiple alien invasions, an army of robots, a war between superhero factions, had HALF THE POPULATION snapped out of existence/killed, all the global issues and grief that would stem from that, and then had the Avengers invent time travel 5 years later to bring them back- I'm not sure how big the story is of a local hero who operates almost exclusively in a single neighborhood of New York that takes up less than than one square mile and the crimes of a local business man turned crime boss. Additionally, Daredevil doesn't have any official ties to the Punisher, he gave that collar to Officer Brett and the NYPD, so the general public wouldn't even know he fought and captured him. Most of those events would have taken place 8-10 years ago when the 5 year time jump is accounted for. Factor in that we don't know if he was snapped out for those 5 years or what he's been doing at all in that period, I can't say anything is definite. I would assume they wrote it to be just as such, as to not put the Daredevil show writers into any corners.
I would add, that is also how I felt about Kate Bishop not knowing who Kingpin was in Hawkeye. She would have been about 10 years old when Wilson Fisk was making the news, not an age most kids are paying attention to that kind if stuff, and also a world filled with much bigger, more exciting superhero things going on. As she got older, I don't know that a "Whatever happened go Wilson Fisk" story would have gotten a lot of attention with everything else happening in that world.
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On 5/29/2022 at 12:42 PM, slowpoked said:
My husband watched it earlier than me, and separately, and he has a different perspective. Trevor wanted a surefire acquittal, and found a corrupt judge in Holder who was willing to take bribes to tamper a jury. Trevor hired Jerry independently, and maybe really thought he was a good criminal defense attorney despite being a lone wolf in Los Angeles. (That was unusual for me too - LA has more than its fair share of high-powered, high star-wattage crim defense lawyers for the Trevor Elliotts of the world. This wasn’t like some rural, far-off area where there’s only a couple of good lawyers. I mean, imagine Zuckerberg hiring a crim defense attorney off a Facebook or a bench/bus ad. I would think someone like Trevor Elliott has his own internal corporate lawyers who could recommend him to the Johnny Cochrans in LA).
While Jerry was working the case, he found out about the potential tampered juror through his own investigation. He asked for a continuance to look into it, and that’s why he got killed.
Incidentally, did we ever find about that “FBI investigation” of Jerry that Haller and Griggs were discussing about? Or is it just one of their theories that went nowhere?
Jerry paid far the tampered juror himself.
Presumably, the fact he was talking to the FBI is what got him killed.
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Just curious, in this day and age of hi tech, why is wearing a wire still portrayed as literally taping a big ass, easily found wire and microphone to your body? Is that actually what law enforcement uses? Ignoring that you could probably accomplish the same thing by downloading an app to your phone or a smart watch, you could certainly disguise the equipment as one of those things, or a set of ear buds, or sew it into the lining of clothes, or a hundred other ways of concealing it. I mean, I was asking this question 25 years ago, even then we had good enough technology to hide a listening device better than just taping it to someone's chest, now it just seems ridiculous.
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Ok, maybe I missed something, I do zone out a lot watching this show, but are we given any explanation how team Galadriel knows exactly where there is an army of orcs attacking some tiny little podunk town in the middle of nowhere, and is aware that it is happening right at the moment so they have to ride there at full charge straight through the night just to get there in the nick of time?
I was under the impression she just had a feeling evil was afoot somewhere in Middle Earth, and something bad was happening in the Southlands(though I'm not sure how she even came to that conclusion), but I have no idea how they knew EXACTLY where they needed go and to get there with the utmost haste.
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On 9/30/2022 at 2:25 AM, Camera One said:
This episode kept up the tension pretty well. Though it was also kind of depressing with all the gore and redshirt deaths and an ultimate "win" for the villains.
After trapping the orcs and toppling the tower, did they seriously just go back to their old village (situated above orc tunnels) to shelter in place? Arondir knew how many orcs they had. His own fellow watch guard members couldn't handle them. What made him think these lowly villagers could? The "We survived them once before!" speech was a stretch. Was it not an option to head north or west?
Well, thank goodness the Middle Earth Express delivered Galadriel's army in 3 days or less. Surely they could have plotted the last few episodes in a way that didn't feel so unlikely and convenient.
I agree that finally, Galadriel was not totally unlikeable in this one. I think she was still held back by her wooden dialogue. I was thinking maybe it could also be the delivery to a lesser extent, but she's generally more natural with Halbrand than with the other characters. I wanted to like her scenes with Isildur and Elendil, but didn't really. Getting back to the horrid dialogue, even Meryl Streep would have difficulties delivering "One cannot satisfy thirst by drinking seawater".
So much for the theory that Halbrand is Theo's father.
Finally, the utter ridiculousness of Galadriel not even bothering to look at the secret weapon that Adar so desired. Did Arondir not fill Galadriel in about the hilt being a key of some sort? It made no sense that Arondir would give the wrapped hilt to Theo to give to the Numenarians to throw it in the sea. Shouldn't it be sent to Gil-galad? Did they cut a scene of Theo telling everyone the hilt was gone and replaced with an axe? Since they just jumped to the volcanic eruption. How did that barkeep end up with the real thing?
Discussion of this show is pretty slow compared to some other similar shows. I wonder why. I thought this episode was still average, but definitely one of the better ones so far. With most shows, I tend to enjoy the conversations more than the action, but in this show, it can be okay until someone talks. They really need to hire better dialogue writers.
Halbrand as Theo's father has been a theory?
I've been assuming he is secretly Arondir's son since he's been introduced, and haven't given it a second thought.
The whole don't look at the wrapped sword hilt/just give it to Theo... that's just too much stupid for me.
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Ok, what the hell is this exchange-
Gil-Galad- " hey, I CLEARLY already know that the dwarves have found mithril, and your reaction right now is TOTALLY confirming my belief that they have found mithril, but I'm going to keep pestering you to tell me that the dwarves have found mithril. "
Elrond- "I absolutely can't break my oath and tell you that the dwarves found mithril! I very specifically promised my friend Durin that I wouldn't tell anyone about how they found mithril! I would be a horrible friend and be breaking my oath if I told you the dwarves found mithril!"
Of course, later Celibrimbor and Elrond are debating whether he should break his oath while Celibrimbor is HOLDING ELROND'S PIECE OF MITHRAL!?
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8 hours ago, Zuleikha said:
I liked this episode, but I didn't think it was well written. Lulu didn't make any sense. I kept waiting for something to happen as a result of all the wedding cruelty, but there was no real payoff. Titania's barely been on the show and was easily defeated before, so seeing Titania easily taken down at the wedding felt anti-climactic.
The Nikki/Mallory plot was funny, but they also came across as bad lawyers. Mr. Immortal was their client. They didn't need to like him, but they did need to advocate for him.
Renee Elise Goldberry has amazing chemistry with her scene partners, and I really thought they were setting up a relationship between Mallory and Nikki. I am too old for shipping so fine, if they're not, they're not. I move on. But I wish they would have paced or staged the scene differently, especially since Nikki's a canon non-straight character.
Tatiana Maslany is so good at playing drunk.I got that impression, too, and it came across kind of weird. Like she was excited to get some one on one time with an office superior who she had some personal interest in. I know that kind of office relationship/romance plot is pretty common to the legal comedy/drama genre, even though it would probably cause a lot of HR headaches in this day and age, but it felt kinda odd.
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6 hours ago, AnimeMania said:
I think they did by settling out of court. Mr. Immortal seems to have committed multiple crimes that would have come to light if taken to trial. Spousal abandonment, Child abandonment, Bigamy, and various forms of fraud. I don't don't see how Mr. Immortal could be declared dead if he comes back to life before any "official" person can declare that he died.
But they clearly weren't advocating for the most favorable terms for their client as much as they were for the wives. Honestly, Mr. Immortal seemed like kind of like a dumb ass for not firing them.
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Ok, I'm finally chiming in in this show. I love anything Tolkien related. I want to love it. I want if to be great, if only to shut down the incessant, tiresome "go woke go broke" crowd. But it's just not doing it for me. I can't get through an entire episode without losing interest at some point. I find myself missing things just because it doesn't hold my attention.
Last week seemed like a small step in the right direction. This week, as soon as it opened with the harfoots and those ridiculous bird's nests they wear on their heads, i started to mentally tune out. They feel more like ewoks than hobbits. And the map, ugh. Ok, the ewoks... err, harfoots have just walked a nonsensical lap around Middle Earth, meanwhile 24 hours pass in Numenor.
And now the fight scene in Numenor. I'm all for badass Galadriel. And it was nice to see her display at least a slightly different emotion for once. But the fight choreography didn't do much for me. And the logic of that scene... umm? "If you touch her flesh you will be promoted". Immediately, you have guys taking massive, full on swings with live swords trying to remove her head from her body.
" Good news, you are now promoted to Lieutenant in this expeditionary force. Unfortunately, the expedition is now cancelled since you lopped the head off of the elf that was leading us into this."
And promoting someone due to the fact that while half a dozen men are attacking Galadriel, one if then managed a lucky, glancing blow, seems pretty questionable. I would imagine if would be much wiser to choose leaders based on things like leadership skills. But that's just me.
Ok, that's all I got until I can push through the rest of the episode.
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On 2/10/2022 at 7:57 PM, Spartan Girl said:
So regarding the whole curse, I found a little plot hole: how did Angel holding baby Connor for the first time NOT count as a “moment of perfect happiness”? He seemed pretty happy in that moment to me!
Meh, I've heard that argument before, but I've really never bumped up against it. The first time I held my son, it was absolutely a moment of incredible joy, but there was also huge underlying feeling of fear- that I wouldn't be up to the task, of all the things in the world that could harm him, and a thousand other worries about his future. I remember a couple of days later when we were leaving the hospital, my ex-wife and I stopped end looked at each other after we had put him in his car seat and simultaneously expressing our disbelief that they were actually letting us take this fragile little baby home to take care of, neither of us felt qualified.
Now, when you factor in that Angel literally had someone hunting him down and trying to kill him when Conner was born(and who might presumably kill Conner as well), I would imagine no matter how much joy Angel felt or appeared to express at that moment, it was FAR from perfect happiness.
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On 8/30/2022 at 12:53 AM, Camera One said:
I really liked "Smallville" at the beginning, but eventually, it just got too repetitively frustrating. After Jonathan died, and Pete was written off, and Clark graduated from high school, the show sort of lost me. I managed to stick around until the end of Season 6, and I've been meaning to finish the show but the start of Season 7 was just really boring and I never get beyond a few episodes.
After clicking that Annette O'Toole link posted above, I listened to a few of the podcasts on Youtube that Michael Rosenbaum (Lex) is doing with Tom Welling (Clark). I didn't know they were doing an episode-by-episode rewatch of Season 1, and I'm finding it quite interesting to listen to with some neat behind-the-scenes details, and also their discussion of each episode. I was surprised both actors seem to discuss the show in a positive way, since I would have thought they were tired of it by the end of its long run. Hopefully, they continue with these podcasts. It makes me want to rewatch Season 1 again.
They're planning on doing all 10 seasons. They have both really embraced the show and the fandom in recent years, they just needed some distance to move on and do some other things w/ their life for a while. They're hitting the convention circuit pretty hard now, which is especially surprising for Tom, plus the animated project they are pitching and this podcast, they are really all in on embracing Smallville and it's legacy. Obviously, the financial aspect of all that is a big motivation, but they seem to really view the show and their work on it in a positive manner.
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S02.E10: I'm No Cinderella
in Ginny & Georgia
Not on a respirator.
While were don't ever see him conscious, I'm not sure it is confirmed he was in a vegetative state. A couple of times Cynthia mentions he didn't recognize her, which to me suggests he might have periods of consciousness.