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I’m loving this, the mood, the cinematography, the mystery.
As for the big advertised twist, I’m really hoping for something like
Spoiler…in the Martian Manhunter comics the main character learned to be human detective from noir movies.
Here’s my bet they’re all aliens watching humans (John said „on the planet” and not „on Earth”, the penchant for aerial shots, the mysterious overloards).
The murder/ lost girl case is not as interesting as John himself.
It’s the necessary background to move the mystery of John’s true identity along.I’m surprisingly fine with that.
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I’m currently liking the show, but I enjoy the 50s flashbacks and Shaws storyline in general much more than the Randa kids.
They are both annoying and, though technically workings adults, behaving like bratty teenagers.
The only younger character I’m interested in atm is “May”.
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10 minutes ago, cdnalor said:
Hot chocolate from a machine is no way as good as they made it look. Bleh...
Neither is McDonalds, yet they went there past episode…
On the other hand, hot cocoa from a machine would be a novelty to Timely, a person from the past. I can see how something average to us would be groundbreaking to them.
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1 hour ago, JonasArm said:
Egwene putting the collar doesn't make sense though. We know that she can't touch anything she wants to use as a weapon... but she could grab it and put it around her slaver's neck? Not withcounting that she hung her by the collar but Renna couldn't attack Egwene.
It may also be that a collar does not consider itself to ever be a weapon, rather a gift. Or, since the act has never been done, there are no safety protocoles around it: collar encountered exception unknown error:)
I really loved this season, this episode I got teary eyed a couple of times and for different reasons: Hopper, Heroes of the Horn, standoff against Ishmael, sinking of the ships… so many great moments!
On the funny side, Rand’s Indiana Jones moment was a nice touch. And the tough prisoner guy (whose name escaped me and is now gone forever) saying: „I’ll hold them off!” and then perishing on his next breath.
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I have an issue with Velma as a show: I don’t understand the severity of reception.
Having watched 2 episodes, I don’t understand why is it supposed to be much worse than any other adult oriented cartoon.
I usually ignore the „oh no, woke-lgbtq-people of color broke my franchise” crowd, but this time it’s not only these channels, it’s almost everyone. And I don’t see why.Velma is not an amazing series. It’s average. But I don’t really see how its treatment of legacy characters is different from Comissioner Gordon’s reimagining in Harley Quinn (which is considered funny). Why is Velma less funny than some jokes in Rick and Morty?
I don’t see a stark difference, why one is much worse or better than the other.
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The kid that played Poppy was incredible, spot on!
For most part of the episode, I was thinking the boy who was cast as little Ian was not doing a good job… and then the father appeared and I understood. Wow. Right in the feels.
It was a sad, beautiful episode.
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Well, that was seriously disappointing.
The production values were from the 90s, dialogues written like poor fanfiction and the plot was totally predictable.
One good thing was seeing Warwick and Joanne on screen.
Having said that, hello my new angry watch! Haven’t had one for a while.
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Alright, not really sure how we can speculate if it’s „no spoilers” thread, but I may have one thing:)
Aneurin Barnard’s eyes are naturally green, however his 1899 character has dark brown eyes. The actor wore contact lenses on set.
Knowing the creators of the series, this can be important:)
edit: the allele for brown eyes is always dominant over the other two (green and blue). So the fact that Daniel has brown eyes can be important. Won’t write more as spoilers…
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30 minutes ago, Gillian Rosh said:
One other thing I liked in this episode - when Eyk returns to the Kerberos and he and Maura hug, the rest of the people are like "Um, guys...we kinda have some pressing matters to attend to." 😆
It's a moment of levity in a show that doesn't have many.
Yes! My shipping heart loved this scene!
To be fair, I really liked (narrative-wise) how their relationship progressed throughout the series: from mutual interest, frail trust, distrust, back to trust again. In the previous episodes we had at least two scenes of Maura running towards Eyk and him just firmly stopping her with prodding questions (1.04 and 1.05). Here he just hugs first, asks questions later :)
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2 hours ago, Grammaeryn said:
Anyone remember the US version of Life on Mars? 1899’s final scene sure seemed familiar….
But then the UK version was completely different:)
I think the US Life on Mars paralels were on purpose, especially with the Bowie song (albeit, not the titular one). I also believe the 2099 is another layer of simulation, what’s with Maura’s eye pupil being a triangle in the final shot - a clear indication that something’s off (if it was a US network show, I’d say that was made for shock value and will be forgotten next season, but since it’s Jantje and Bo, I have faith it’s a serious clue)
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15 hours ago, peachmangosteen said:
At first, I thought the fact that Eyk, Krester, and Ángel (and even Maura, with the wrist marks) all had scars was going to mean something but I guess they just happened to all suffer a scarring injury unrelated to each other or the simulation or whatever.
Maura’s scars are addressed in-sim, so is Krester’s. I imagine Angel’s scars come from either the priest that Ramiro killed or self-flagellation.
Now would the scarred charactered beling to one group IRL or is that just a coincidence? A way for the sim to show code corruption, maybe?
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I’m also wondering if Maura that woke up has all the memories or just her sim 1899 ones? When she saw Eyk post waking up, she visibly gasped and stepped back, then looked at her ring. Now this could have just been her shocked reaction to seeing him alive after he got „deactivated” (which would fit the 1899-memories Maura) or maybe she was surprised to see him at all IRL for some reason?
Anyways, Season 2 announcement cannot come soon enough!
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I did rewatch the series, looking for clues I missed and of course there were those lingering looks from Daniel and the boy moving to protect Maura many times.
But because I’m weird, I’m currently wondering why the creators made it so that the captain’s white beard streak and the subtle scars on his face match (one is the elingation of the other) and why did they find it important to add these marks to Eyk’s face? I mean the actor would have looked weathered enough without them, so… maybe it’s important.
(also, the silver shell Daniel’s using to hack has ICCIC written on a side: International Conference on Cognitive and Intelligent Computing:))
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Had a lot of Lost vibes throughout: a group of people with „flasbacks” about their past, forced to work together.
I binged the series during the weekend and enjoyed it very much. Got me speculating like no other show for a while.
The characters were all interesting, which I find always surprising (in a positive sense) and the mystery was alright.
Happy they’ve wrapped up the ship plot (mostly) and opened a new chapter. There are still some questions left, of course: why did Daniel turn off the little girl? Is Daniel alive or a protective program created to save Maura? Is Ciaran actually Maura’s brother or another construct?
I hope season 2 is going to happen. And, on a complete shallow note, captain Eyk is extremelly easy on the eyes.
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There was this moment at the beginning, when Alex opened the wardrobe and took the shirt while looking at Sam - with no reaction.
Perhaps he thought it’s a mirror and he’s seeing himself? (Still with Alex is Sam theory :))
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I’m loving this, supernatural or whatnot.
And actually, this episode made me come up with a theory
SpoilerAlex is Sam.
He somehow transitioned, once to the past (the dinosaurs, the commet, Mexican bay is the place the commet struck afterall), once to the times around 2000s, when he set up Oceana Vista to „make memories”, aka recreate the context of his first passage…
The time-passing scrambled his mind.
Spoiler tags, because maybe it’s true?
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53 minutes ago, hnygrl said:
Maybe THAT is why the Tardis went all "Oh HELLLL no" on her? Cause the Tardis went UPSIDE DOWN to make sure she was out of there. What did she SAY? I didn't have captions on and it's gonna bug me till I can watch it again with captions.
To me, the Tardis didn't as much rejected as eject her to safety - the Tardis was burning inside, we could see the flames engulfing the interior as 13 was falling. Tardis' manoeuvre saved the Doctor.
I'm bummed we need to wait so long for the series. I need my female Doctor.
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Just saw it and loved it.
There were parts that felt glued to the film (the whole casino planet stuff felt like taken from parts I-III), but on the whole, it was better than Rogue I for me.
As for midichlorians - perhaps Qui-Gon Jinn was the only Jedi to talk about those things (and when he started, the other Jedi would just politely excuse themselves and leave poor Qui-Gon explaining his theories to strangers)?
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That was to me the best episode of the season. And that cliffhanger ending...
The tension was palpable, which is rare for a regular tv production - one usually knows how an episode would play out on a scripted show. We got used to the team being successful and the fact that they botched the first attempt at assassination was a nice surprise.
I guess Jaz missed for the first time on screen. Her shock was well done (good work, Natacha Karam!). The whole mission hung on her and she made a mistake. And then, suddenly, she became the last resort once more.
They did drop a few anvils this episode: "What those animals would do to her," said Hossein. It was only natural that Jaz would end up captured. Which reminds me of that time Ziva was imprisoned on NCIS. NCIS, being a family-safe show as it was, glided over the obvious torments a woman captive had to endure. As much as I love the episode in which Ziva is rescued, I always knew there was a huge chunk of cringe-worthy story missing. Will The Brave go there? Hopefully, it won't have to. (I call it now - Dalton will 'improvise' and get himself detained in order to get to Jaz).
Other notes from the episode:
- Amir and McG being brothers... I'd buy that, but in my opinion Amir was not the one who lost the gene lottery...
- I loved the opening with the team on the airport and the subsequent teasing in the safe house. There's not a single person on the team i dislike and that's a novelty in ensemble shows.
- The final seconds of the episode, with Jaz counting down to her jump (and broken leg)? Surprisingly tense!
On the whole, Jan 1 can't come sooner.
...But if they solve this cliffhanger the way they solved the 1.01 truck beach explosion, with the team chilling in Turkey and a different sniper joining ranks, I'll be really, really mad...
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I'm loving the fact that all the members of the team got their moments: Jaz was a bad@ss sharpshooter, Preach was the eyes and ears of the team, Mcguire the impromptu field hospital of one, Amir the invisible guy and Dalton the brains on-site. Yes, the dialogue is by the numbers ("No, it's you and your team who is courageous," says the brave wife of the ambassador) and the good guys can literary shoot through walls. But I'm enjoying the show for what it's worth (Eyecandy and guns).
Some anvils being dropped with Preach talking of kids and relationships to Dalton and Jaz (me don't like that, show!), but I hope it was just making ground for them both saving the girl in the end.
I'm willing to bet some extra change from my pockets that Patricia's son is not dead but kidnapped by Isis and will return in mid-season finale... But "Homelanded". Meaning, we would not know if he's turned or not...
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I have nothing against Ms Heche. I think she's quite believable as a competent woman in charge.
On a side note: I remember some discussion on the forum around the inevitable hookup between Dalton and Jaz... I beg to differ. If I can see any chemistry on screen, this episode it was between Campbell and Dalton. I know she's older than him (her son must have been close to Dalton's age), but still. I'd dig that.
I wonder which episode will touch upon Campbell's son's death. There's a mystery there to be explored.
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Well, they killed yet another named female character. That's progressive... I guess that's why in Kirk's times women are delegated to wo-manning the radio - that way they can't go and get themselves killed stupidly...
I don't think I be much interested in a tv show that keeps doing that to it's female characters. It's like they thought "oh, we have a strong female-human-vulcan unyielding main character, yet another strong female would be too much".
It's 4 episodes in and I'm still not taken with any of the crew, Michael included. The plot is very predictable - I guessed the 'Ripper' purpose from the moment Mike said it's not carnivorous... Boring. It's like they want to be so dark and brooding and ask questions what is morally applicable and whatnot, but it's war. People are dying. If there's a technology that makes it possible to jump behind enemy lines, it's no use to cry over a creature.
Myself, I can cry over how terribly out of place the Klingon makeup is and how that plot makes me want to fast forward.
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Euron keep reminding me of a cross between Captain Boomerang from Suicide Squad movie and young Sabretooth.
I like the fact that Dany is losing. She's like a warrior with a lot of powerful weapons that she keep using the wrong way. Also, I was waiting for someone to point out to her that it's cute that the Dorthraki crossed the sea for her, but they're used to warmer climate and it's winter out here. Those guys and their horses will be dying of pneumonia soon.
Dany and Jon did not disappoint in their script-fueled chemistry. I knew I was watching the beginning of mutual fascination and acceptance, that will lead to a fiery romance. (In other words - the Mother of Cliches)
I understand people being frustrated with the show Jamie (my fav character from the novels by far) but I also acknowledge this Jamie is in a totally different spot that the book one: his Cersei remained saner for a longer period of time, he didn't learn about all her romances and he's getting some wins. In each episode he's pulling further away from his sister, but keeps turning back. This time Cersei simply f*cked the idea out of him. I do appreciate they keep showing him as stepping away from unnecessary cruelty, as opposite to Cersei.
Finally: the Westerosi portals strike again! Some characters have the ability to bilocate and/or travel faster than light.
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Loved the look and feel of this film, how it sounded and blinded you with it's flourishes.
But I much prefer the graphic novel version of the story.
SpoilerIn 'The Coldest City' Lorraine arrives in Warsaw and is greeted "Agent Satchel", fin.
I guess the producers really wanted the audience to root for Charlize's character and didn't want her to be the bad Soviet spy after all. Too bad, as that would be much closer to the era and fitted with the rest of the film, instead of being a happy end glued on top of it.I wanted the film to revisit some of it's previous narration to show that Lorraine was telling half-truths: that Spyglass wasn't shot by Percival, that Delphine wasn't killed by him, etc.
That would make the movie a solid 9/10 in my books, now it's just 6.5/10.
S01.E03: Shibuya Crossing
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Another crazy theory then: the society of polyglots consists of time travelers from the future- or travelers from alternate, post-apocalyptic dimension, the one where our moon was destroyed.
I’m still most invested in “aliens” theory :)
Any Fringe fans around here? The typewriter in the case was a little callback for me to that show.
Plus, they didn’t show the keys, we don’t know if there are letters, pictograms or anything else there.