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None of the articles I've read about season four mention the actor
Spoilerwho plays Gabriel. Other main character actors are mentioned as returning but not him so I'm worried.
Not sure if that's considered a spoiler but just in case...
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That guy could carry Cruise in his pocket. 😆
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On 12/7/2021 at 4:33 PM, EllaWycliffe said:
This is kind of where I am at with Eddie. I like him, but I'm just kind of done with "Eddie is in danger and might die!" and if its not that, it's "Christopher the Adorable is sad over his mom/daddy's new girlfriend leaving/Buck being sad" and I have reached a point where I don't care what horrible thing happens to either of them because they are teflon coated. They could fall into a giant time warping sinkhole in the La Brea tar pits and two episodes later Christopher would be cheerfully riding a sabertooth while Daddy and Buck angst over how falling thru the sinkhole is affecting him. Eddie could eat a bottle of poison, be shot ten times, and be operated on by Hen and Ravi in an abandoned garbage dumpster they are floating in after Noah reenacts the Great Flood and he'll be fine. In the real world, Eddie would have already taken a less dangerous position - and they do exist, he could be a fire marshall the way Buck was.
I'd say this is true for all the main cast, not just Eddie and Christopher. They might kill off second tier characters, like anyone at the call center not named May or Maddie. But Athena, Hen, Chimney, Buck, or Bobby? Highly doubt it, unless one of the actors ever decides to leave the show. This isn't TWD or GoT where main characters dying is the norm rather than the exception. On this show, the main characters are all encased in plot armor.
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On 11/19/2021 at 8:58 AM, Jack Shaftoe said:
The dialogue in this episode was often so bad it brought back memories of the atrocious dialogue of the recent Foundation adaptation. Mat and Rand's misadventures felt more like a parody than a dangerous adventure. The rest of the characters did very little, Moiraine got stupidly lucky that her enemies decided to give her a break for an episode and she randomly came across other Aes Sedai. Nynaeve killing a trolloc with his sword and apparently not even getting a scratch in the process was a bit too much. I had hopes after episode two (pilots are often really clunky) but they took quite a hit.
Yeah, I have to say that this show is not making me want to read more of the books. I read the first two and lost interest and I already feel my interest waning for the show. I'll keep watching just to support the genre but the pacing is clunky, the dialogue is bad at times. the special effects are dodgy, and Nynaeve fighting the trolloc? Please. 🙄 I wonder if, after seeing the finished product, Rosamund PIke is regretting her involvement in this.
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13 hours ago, ComeWhatMay said:
Leonard’s a new man after his time in prison. Unspeakable times can break us or make us.
I think Leonard now realizes how strong he really is. If he's sticking around Grantchester, I'm excited to see what he's able to do with his newfound confidence. Loved him confronting Mrs. C about her scheme against Henry - "I'd know this shade of lipstick anywhere." 🤣 I also really enjoyed Leonard speaking to Henry and calling Mrs. C a "right of passage". Leonard holds no ill will against Henry and that was lovely to see.
Speaking of Henry, I quite like him. I loved that he explained himself to Will but also rightly pointed out that he's held to a higher standard and likely has to perform twice as well to just be considered equal. While I like Will, he does deserve to have some sort of consequence for always shirking his primary duties as the vicar.
I love Cathy and I'm glad she's sticking to her guns. As much as I felt for Geordie, he needs to sort things out for himself first.
Overall I enjoyed the season. The mysteries have always been incidental to me, even back in Sidney's day. I'm here for the characters so they could do away with the murder aspect altogether and I'd still tune in to see how these characters navigate their lives.
I still find it weird that they never mentioned what happened to Ellie, the journalist lady from last season. Then again, the police station has had staff come and go with no mention either.
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Confession: I'm not a superfan of the books. I only started the series last year, read the first two books, started the third, got about to the halfway mark before setting it down and never picking it up again. It still sits there on my desk, mocking me. I think if I had read them when I was in my twenties (or younger) and they had been one of my earliest introductions to the genre I probably would have loved them. That didn't happen. I came to the series after years and years of reading other books in the genre so even though I know that Jordan and WoT came first and inspired many of these later books, what I've read of WoT so far just seems rather tame. I don't feel any investment in the characters even though I'm a few thousand pages in.
I'm still looking forward to the show and am hoping that it will be great and thus inspire me to continue on with the series. I'm taking all overly positive or negative reviews with a grain of salt. Reviews from superfans, especially ones who have WoT specific blogs/Youtube channels, etc might be affected by the reality that the continued popularity of their blog/YT channel will be tied to the fate of the show. And non-genre fans often miss the whole point. So I'll watch and make up my own mind but I do also have some concerns because none of the trailers have overly wowed me.
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10 hours ago, Xeliou66 said:
I think I may be done with this show, it’s by far the weakest of the 3 FBI shows, don’t like all the personal crap. I did like seeing Jess Lacroix make a cameo, I like the crossover cameos the FBI shows have, it makes them all feel connected.
I'll give it some time. Sometimes the first season is about a show finding its rhythm. I remember not being particularly invested in the mothership or FBI:MW during their first seasons, either.
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22 hours ago, sugarbaker design said:
Right, the actual murder mystery part on Grantchester can be classified as cozy, nearly all the murders happen off-camera. It's the serialized Sturm und Drang of the recurring characters that can't be classified as cozy. Father Brown didn't go to prison, Rosemary never backhanded Thyme, Miss Marple didn't have a drinking problem, Agatha Raisin doesn't have PTSD.
True. But that's probably why I never stuck with any of those shows for long, not enough meat to keep me interested. 😁
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15 hours ago, Cetacean said:
Wow, those must be some heavy duty cozy mysteries.
A husband drowns his wife and then lets his son go to prison for it? A young man is drowned in a prison bathtub by a minister? Throw in Geordie's meltdowns and treating Cathy like crap - personally, I find it very dark.
Well, a show about murder mysteries is always going to have dead people and the people who killed them, lol. But it's still all very "clean". There's hardly ever any blood associated with the murders and, for me, they lack any real deep dive into the darker psychological aspects of why people kill. It's not as saccharine sweet as anything on the Hallmark channel but it still feels pretty PG rated to me though obviously mileage varies on that.
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Finally got caught up with the season. I'm surprised so many people are finding the show dark this season. As sad as I am for Leonard (my favorite character!), and as worried as I am that the actor may be leaving the show, I still find the show to be pretty light in comparison to other things I watch. It's still very much a cozy mystery to me. And I personally like getting more of a look into the personal lives of the characters. They are what draw me to the show. The mysteries have always been incidental to me.
Ugh, I can't stand Will's step-sister. She's just annoying. I don't care one little bit about whatever her poor-little-rich-girl backstory turns out to be.
Whatever happened the journalist lady from last season, Ellie was it? That character just up and disappeared.
I'm glad Geordie's affair was brought back up again. That sort of thing probably always lives on in the shadows so I'm glad to see that Kathy hasn't magically forgotten all about it ever happening.
I'm hard pressed to see how Leonard can possibly ever return to his duties as Curate, which makes me super sad. I want him to be happy and to be able to be with the man that he loves. I just want him to be able to do it in Grantchester. Not realistic, I know. Darn it all.
I do like Henry though, so if he's the permanent Curate I think it could work out fine. He may be "by the book" right now but I think the Grantchester folks will worm their ways into his heart eventually.
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On 9/29/2021 at 6:11 AM, meira.hand said:
Alexa Davalos. She was amazing in the main cast of "The Man in the High Castle" SciFi series.
Yes, loved her in that show. I think she's a great addition to the show and I like that she's not necessarily sliding into her new role without a few bumps along the way. When you start a job in new place it takes awhile to get the lay of the land, so to speak. Plus, it never hurts to have a another smart, savvy woman around.
I can't say I have any interest in LaCroix's in-laws. I've never been much interested in his home life, period. I will miss Clinton and Kenny though. I'm not sure what went down with Nathaniel Arcand's exit from the show but I know that Kellan Lutz chose to leave for family reasons and. well, the show (and the team) have to go on.
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I'm still in. I like the actors and I think the team works well together. I'm not thrilled about the romantic relationship between Forrester and Jamie but at least it hasn't seemed to bleed over into their work life...yet, anyway. I think this is a solid addition to the FBI lineup and, as I recall, I wasn't immediately sold on OG FBI or Wanted either. It took several episodes in both shows for the characters to win me over.
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I think the concept is interesting but the execution is, so far, leaving a lot to be desired. A lot of the acting was just baaaad, IMO. Don't even get me started on the special effects...
I'm not one for hate watching shows because I just don't have the time for that, plus there is nothing about this show that leads me to believe for even one millisecond that it will last out the season. I'm one and done.
ETA: Oh yeah, the reference to LOST didn't endear the show to me AT. ALL. But at least that show started out strong.
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They couldn't just let Max and Helen be happy together for five minutes. *sigh* And this is all for nothing because I don't really believe that either actor is planning to leave the show.
Reynolds just needs to let go of that whole relationship mess. Unless he's truly ready to share his lover with another man...and all that that entails...then he just needs to let it go. There's no chemistry there anyway, IMO.
C'mon Bloom. You're smarter than that.
Iggy needs Dr. Kapoor. 😢
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13 hours ago, possibilities said:
I knew something bad was going to happen, but I didn't think the lawyer would do it, or that she'd do it in such a gruesome way.
A bullet, maybe. From one of the stalker fans who maybe followed Their Hero, or was tracking the efforts to find him, perhaps. But a knife to the throat? From the lawyer who had seemed so afraid just moments before? I thought I'd watched a lot of tv, but I didn't see that particular move coming.
Same here. I figured one of the courtroom fangirls would be the one to take out Lou so the lawyer reveal surprised me. I can only guess that she fell for his "charm" while representing him, that the firing was real and she felt bad for disappointing/failing him. Her killing Lou was her extremely misguided way of getting back into his good graces.
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That was an unexpected ending. That said, it looked to me like Eddie was shot fairly high up on his right shoulder which doesn't seem like a necessarily fatal wound.
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So Max is an unfit parent because...he's single and works? Yeah, good luck with that, Gwen.
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On 5/17/2021 at 12:16 PM, marcee said:
I quite enjoyed this episode.
For what it's worth, here's what I picked up: Pheen = Morphine. Stripe, Boots, Crescent, Knitter - those were all names for their military positions: Boots - being boots on the ground/infantry type, Stripe - appeared to be combat/assassin, Knitter - knits things together; she was their medic, Crescent - appeared to be their leader.
This is pretty much what I gleaned from the episode too. I think audiences have just become accustomed to watching tv with only half their brains "on". We watch while also scrolling through our various social media accounts, folding laundry. cooking, etc. So it's jarring when we come up against a show that doesn't spoon feed us but instead insists that we pay attention and that we use context to derive meaning. I find it refreshing. I don't claim to understand everything - and I had to rewatch the episode with closed captioning on - but I appreciate that I'm being challenged. 😁
It was great to see Claudia Black again.
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2 hours ago, Proclone said:
Occasionally the "f*cks" sound like they're added in to meet some sort of profanity quota. Language could be used to good effect like having very proper Penance drop the f-word for dramatic effect, but sometimes it seems like they just throw it in because they can and they haven't said it in X amount of minutes.
I must be really desensitized because I haven't noted an excessive use of profanity. lol
The whole Galanthi thing doesn't really bother me either. I read The Malazan Book of the Fallen series where the author drops readers in the deep end of the pool without so much as a "hello" and a pretty important magical element isn't explained until like book five or something (in a ten book series). By then readers have pretty much pieced it together. So this show barely registers on my frustration meter.
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I wasn't interested in Owen's arson storyline so I was barely hanging on for most of the episode, was even thinking this might be me my last Lone Star episode but then that final scene hooked me back in for next week. But, really, I'm tired of all the Owen centric storylines. I'd like a little more focus on the rest of the firehouse.
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I have zero issues with retiring. I'm out as soon as it's financially feasible. Maybe even before then if I can swing it. 😁
How is Taylor still friend zoning Buck? Poor Buck. He keeps swinging and missing. lol
Glad the assistant made off with the five million. Literal payback for putting up with his douchebag boss.
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Well, I'm bummed. I bet it ends on a cliffhanger too.
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On 5/6/2021 at 7:01 AM, Rebky said:
The news outlets shove the current "reality" down our throats. We do not need it inserted in the shows we watch to escape that. Judge us who feel this way if you must but the fact remains. There is a reason the awards show are not watched. Some people are sick of it.
If only people of color/LGBTQ could so conveniently tune out "reality" instead of living it every single day. 🙄
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26 minutes ago, TexasGal said:
I wonder about Lavinia also. But, when they showed the touching (THAT sounds wrong! 😄), I'm pretty sure she was already in a wheelchair and Augie was pushing her before he fell down.
You're right, I'd forgotten about that. Darn, no mermaid tail!
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in Reacher
Same here. I binged the show this past weekend and was entertained, which is all I was looking for. I'll be back for season two.
I really liked Neagley too and would love for her to show up again in the next season. I totally agree on your take on Roscoe. I hope she stays in Reacher's rear view mirror. I did like Finlay though and his interactions with Reacher. Maybe Reacher will stumble onto a case that takes him to Boston.