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So she's kind of Vesper Lynd. Who was inspired by a Polish spy whom Fleming met: Krystyna Skarbek. And Lucy inspired a Lucy in a different book.

The motive was not explicitly stated, but it was mentioned the guy had a sexual assault charge lifted once. But truth be told, we were not given enough data on that one. I like Weatherly, I really do. Ever since the Dark Angel days. But I need more to this character than being a smug, super-intelligent guy who likes helping people. Does he have flaws? Is his main flaw his smugness? Show me the ex-wife! Let him be wrong about something major!

I think they're starting to get their stride - it sort of reminds me of the first season of Agents of SHIELD, when I found the characters boring and bland, up till a certain twist. I don't find these characters boring, but I'm waiting for a twist, for something to uproot the cadence. Lucy needs to start working against Rittenhouse eventually. Maybe Flynn dies in mid-season finale and Lucy goes on to continue his work? I am weak when it comes to tv romance, I'm already looking for signs between Lucy/Wyatt. I believe the green-eyed monsterism he had this episode was rather subconscious on his part. But Rufus was teasing him. It's weird to notice a lot of humour in an episode with the Nazis, but - there it was. The funniest episode to me till now. Loved the rapport the team had and Wyatt's fanboying over Flemming.

I'm ok with all three main characters. I like their dynamics and dumb decisions. I still believe there's a hidden agenda behind who was picked to join the team and that Wyatt was not the actual best there is, but has been picked to screw things up eventually. Rittenhouse knows the future and designed the team to make it happen - whatever "it" may be. Long story short: I think Lucy was not picked because she was the best historian available, but because she will write the memoir Flynn will use/is using now. Wyatt was picked because he is likely to screw things up with his wife-obsession and can't take Flynn in a one-on-one fight. Rufus already spies on the two and is the only pilot available. Theory: There is another mole in the organisation and mid-season finale will address that.

This is just my pace: uber arch of mystery + small crumbs of adventures, scattered along the way. We have been spoiled by Netflix and want it all at once, but I keep telling myself that patience is a good thing. As long as the pay-off is worth it (here's looking at you, LOST). - - - What makes me wonder this episode: Walter, the milk-drinking homicidal host. We saw him decommissioned in the Pilot, this time he was along for the ride to victimize Dolores. Is it another model with his face? Was it another timeline? Bulletproof Cultists Are they guests or are they hosts programmed by Ford not to take bullet wounds too seriously? Having guests roam wild like that, armed with knifes and axes is dangerous to other guests, so I'm thinking Ford-programmed hosts. The old man is up to something. Also, I believe Teddy's not dead - he may be strung up a tree like those previous cult victims we've seen before. Someone may find him next episode :) Timeline itself How is Dolores able to leave her storyline to have a chat with Bernard and then come back? Battery life Are hosts running on batteries? Was Dolores so exhausted at the end, because her battery was running low and needed recharging, or was that just because she was physically and psychologically exhausted? Do hosts eat or drink? Business model It seems that some guests stay for longer periods, some come in just for a day. Maybe you can buy a package of 1-day / 5-day experience? Most hosts run on 1-day stories (like Dolores and Teddy), but some have larger arcs (like Rodrigo Santoro's character from the Pilot). So, the richer the guests, the better the experience (even if some of the days are repetitive). I can easily imagine a twisted guest who spends a week in Sweetwater and rapes Dolores night after night. It's terrible that her sole purpose in the narrative seems to that - to be the gunslinger's girlfriend whom the guests can harass.

I enjoy the world-building of this series, but what I consider the real strength of Killjoys is the character interactions. They just play off each other in such a nice manner - brotherly banter, friendly remarks, hate-lust undertones... Yes, it's full of cliches, but it's done much more gracefully than any other sci-fi show I've seen recently. The dynamics are just right. Also, a healthy dose of Johnny is a win in my books. Pawter is correct - he IS a good man. (And a cinnamon roll that could kill you) Dutch is really a catnip of the Quad. I don't mind that much - she is awesome. I wouldn't be surprised if her DNA turned out to be altered in such a way that makes her attractive to most hot-blooded beings. I mean, if she's a clone of the Black Root (another tree analogy :)) anything's possible.

At least we know why Emma was brought back to the narrative this season... That was brutal. - - - I was hoping the transplant plot would mean digging deeper into Ahmed's parentage (I'm still weirdly hung up on him being Bassam's son and the reason Leila married Jamal in the first place). I hope Jamal's not dead-dead, only mostly dead... Barry's friend is making sweet eyes at Daliyah and I can't blame him, she's an effortless beauty.

Nusrat, no! (I saw it coming, though. But still, she's the most tragic character in this show.) I know most people here don't like Barry - I'm in the minority who does. Right now he's waaaay over his head, trying to do the right thing in a world where there's no right choice. Although he did surprise the whole room when he said he's not running in the elections. I'm pretty sure he'll change his mind soon... I'm also pretty sure Molly is going to dig herself a grave. Her jealousy may be semi-founded (there is great chemistry between Barry and Daliyah, and there's little to none spark between Barry and Molly), but the way she's "knowingly" looking down the other woman... "We share a lot of things," she says. Does it mean she can share her husband? The thing is, I actually like Daliyah while I dislike Molly, so the whole martial-bliss vs extra-martial affair makes me a little biased towards extra-martial activities. It probably makes me a bad person.

Sadly, I think Jeremy will be back somehow. But it would be poetic justice if he ended up in an asylum. But show, how could you make me actually feel sorry for Chet?... As for Rachel suddenly being in love with Coleman - I believe Rachel is in love with the idea of being appreciated and this time, it's Coleman who tells her she's something more. Rachel seems strong and independent, but deep down she just wants someone to have her back and lift her up. She once thought it was Jeremy, then Adam. She even considered Quinn to be that person. Now it's Coleman's time. Rachel is in her "princess" state - she's hungry for some love. And a little power. Never forget power. Ruby - too bad, she overplayed her hand. Had she not talked about changing, Darius would have went for it. But he's a bit too attached to his way of life, a bit too accustomed to luxury. Budging feeling won't change that (yes, I think Darius fell for Ruby as well). Yael - she's designed to be hated. She may have an agenda, be an undercover journalist / blogger / Coleman's girlfriend... I still enjoy the show, but I agree with those who say they miss Season 1. I miss the technical mechanics of how the show was produced, the behind-the-scenes tricks of the trade. I have less interest in Quinn and Rachel's love lives.

The only thing I missed was the intro song (I liked it in S01 and was looking for a full-length version, no luck). The rest was just as I remembered: high-speed ride with my favourite characters. Ok, so D'avin is still a bit bland, but the rest of the cast makes up for it. I guess whatever Doctor Sam Carter did do D'avin before S01 makes him immune to Level 6? I'm really looking forward to this season!

Should we assume that next season opens with Dany's fleet decimated and the dragons dead? 1. I saw no dragon-carrier for the poor things to rest, they will lose strength and drown soon enough. 2. But before that, they will get hungry and start to eat the horses under the decks of those ships... 3. ... tearing the ships apart to get there.

I wouldn't say no to a graphic novel wrap-up dealing with all the lose ends of the finale. Is Souza Mr Carter? Was future Mama Stark somehow connected to Peggy? As Paul Bethany is now Vision in Avengers, can't we get James D'Arcy to voice Jarvis in Tony's suit? I like Friday, but I miss Jarvis.

Well, I didn't think it was as bad as Last Stand, but still, there was much ado about nothing. And I can't really understand one thing - a studio spends a lot of dollars on such a film and they can't hire ONE person who speaks Polish to write the Polish dialogue? It was so bad, the whole scene with Magneto and the police was turned into a comedy - an effect that undermined the rest of the film for me. The phrases used were all too formal, as if taken from - I kid you not - the Bible. Or some old book. People don't talk that way.

Once she starts taking meds, she won't be contagious (if they won't find mycobacterium in her spit, that is. It still needs to be checked). Still, she legaly shouldn't be working if she's ill. TB can be really streanous on your body and some people have bad reaction to the meds - which, I believe, still didn't change much from the beginning of 20th century. So, probably, the Chicago Med will introduce a new, experimental drug treatment for April, because the regular TB treatment is kind of... boring? You just take a handful of pills each day, every day. Oh, and your urine turns orange :)

TB means a year of semi-aggressive treatment and at least a few months of not being in close proximity to children. In the light of marriage proposal from a single father, April has all right to feel hopeless. (Speaking from experience - TB is no fun, although it's 100% curable if the medical regime is applied correctly. It's also almost impossible to deduct where the infection came from. You may have an infected person spit blood on you, and you'll not going to be infected. It all depends on your own personal immunity. TB survivor here. I still don't know how I contracted my illness. I know that I never went to the stage in which I was infecting others, we caught the bugger at the right time. Anyhow, TB means no work, hospital or home confinement for at least 9 months and a lot of pills.)

I'm waiting for this to happen because frankly, Nikolaj is too good an actor to be wasted in the background of Kings' Landing, running after Cersei.

When Sansa and Jon were talking about wishing to go back to the day they left Winterfell and yell "don't go!"... Well, isn't it what Bran can now kind of do? (A lesser show would use that device. Let's hope that's not the idea for the finale)

It kind of scares me, but I understand why Elijah did what he did this episode. If there's one thing consistent, is his devotion to the family - and had he not seen the vision with Klaus dying and Hope in danger, he probably would never find himself on that fateful bridge. Which brings me to another point... ...What if Freya is behind it all? What if Freya is not really Freya? Nothing would have come to pass without the visions. Yes, the initial ones did not originate from Freya, but soon enough the seer was dead and the lost sister was the only link to the future - if it was convenient at that point. (I know, it's probably lazy writing, but imagine how much more interesting it would have been to have a mastermind so cunning that it managed to hide in between the characters and manipulated everyone... Particlarly Elijah, actually. He was the one to stab Rebekah, help Freya drain Davina and kill Marcelus...) On side note - Davina's send off whas powerfull. The girl went down with a fight. Naturally, I'd prefer for her to stay on the show, but if we need to say goodbye, that's a way to go.

Well, nobody really dies in comics, unless you're Gwen Stacy or Uncle Ben, so here's hoping Leonard will be back. He's not dead, he's only resting. Somewhere in time. I'm pretty sure that being in the centre of Oculus Spring Explosion has to have some nice benefits. Now I need to go and rewatch Prison Break season 1. Thanks, Legends. (Also, I do believe Rip's son is not dead, but will in fact be the mysterious character played by Patrick Adams)

I imagine Manning's Broken Heart occured now, because she was fully hit with the weight of her loss the moment she realized she lost the ring. The ring turned into her husband substitute in her mind, and there she was, losing him again. This time of her own negligence. It's entirely normal not to grieve at all, and then to be flooded with grief in one instance that you colapse totally. Speaking from eperience. You just need the right trigger. (but yes, Maggie telling everyone to look for a ring? Quite annoying. My dad lost a mobile phone in a hospital once - actually, it must have been stolen - and just one nurse helped me look for it, even though nothing was happening at that moment and it wasn't in the ER) I second those who say they kind of agreed with Halstead this time. I think he was right, he just appeared as a jerk, because that's how he rolls. Every medical drama needs to have their JW story. And each time the no-blood rule is brought up I think it's utterly impractical.

I still hold out hope for Davina, because we didn't actually see her dissolve into pieces. I like her and want her back, even though her fate was mostly of her own doing - the ancestors were much less intrusive before she had Van's mother killed. She seemed to be the main face of the ancestral oposition. I get why Freya did what she did and I appreciate that Lucien is - finally - dead. I still think there had to be a better way to go about it, one that didn't involve turning a freind into a mortal enemy. Now, as for the enemies... I feel this season lacks a good enemy. We had an interesting premise with the Originals-B-roll, but it all fell flat. In the end, the big bad seems to be Marcel, while the B-roll are either dead or trapped for eternity. Unless Aurora surprises everyone soon. (Still happy Cami's gone, though. I am a bad, bad person)

...went to tumblr, saw the uproar and despair over Cami's death, shrugged, came back here... Well, took them long to get there. I do admit that I never saw the purpose of Cami's character. Ok, she was the token human pet, Caroline-by-proxy to Klaus, but beyond that? Nothing too compeling. Once she became a vamp things started to get a bit more interesting, but... Couldn't we actually have had one decent human character who is neither a witch nor a vamp, nor a wolf? A strong (not b!tchy), reasonable (not judgemental) and interesting (duh!) character?... No? Ok. I cringed when every character and their uncle was trying to save Cami, while nobody gave Kol a second thought. OK, Davina did. Sort of. But then again, nobody ever stays dead on this show, so... I guess Cami will be back, sooner or later. I do hope Davina will be back, sooner than later. That's a character I may miss for real.

As someone mentioned already - Kendra is trully the Laurel of LoT. The thing is, I like the actress, but the material she's given is abysmal. It's like the writers, left with two femala characters in the main cast, just had to make one of those an emotionally compromised whishy-washy pseudo-warrior. "Oh, look! She can fight! But she also has emotions! So many emotions!" Well, emotions didn't stop Sara from being effective. I know all women characters shouldn't be from one mould, but they really learnt nothing from Arrow. Side question : once Vandal is killed, will the Hawks stop reincarnating? Their rebirth and Vandal's immortality seems to be a package deal. If so, then once Kendra kills Savage, this Carter is the only one she's left with - right? So, why not try to make new memories with him, Kendra? If you're trully destined to be together, the Cosmos will make it happen. Ugh, I'm really infuriated when popular culture teaches young women that they can forfeit everything for "Twu Luv".

I didn't expect to like this series as much as I did - it's still campy fun, but it's fun nevertheless. The main character is nicely cynical, which is always a plus in my books. The sister dynamics is well done. I only have a problem with hill-billy vampires / the Revenants. I don't yet understand their menacing powers - are they imprisoned in the Purgatory town, what is the legend exactly, why the Earp family... etc. But I'm hoping everything will be explained soon. Plus, I'm intrigued by Doc Holiday. Much more than by Bobo. Wynona was the middle sister, Willa was the oldest and the heir - but then she was "killed". I'm also waiting for her to appear, preferably as a vessel to the demonic woman who turned Doc Holiday into an undead gunslinger.

I binge-watched the whole series over a course of the last week (hello, Netflix) and finally got to this episode. I do agree that Cami as a vamp is more interesting than a human, but... It's just a faint improvement. She grates either way. And she behaves irrationally, even for this show, where consistency is a rare occurence. However, I'd love for her to be the big bad, because it'd mean she could finally die. It'd be interesting if she was everything the prophecy talks about: friend to Klaus, foe to Elijah and family to Rebekah - all in one, combined. Who says the prophecy talks about three different people being the killers? I liked the blonde witch that looked like Dakota Fanning, so of course she had to die. But what is the secret Elijah is so determined to keep? The red doors or something not yet revealed? Tristan's location? I'm also probably one of the few people on the planet who like Hayley and ship her with Elijah, so there - I liked the final scene. Also, happy to see Kol, but Davina is really getting herself over her head. Again.