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AudienceofOne

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  1. Thematically, this episode was good. Really good. If we accept that Westworld is just humanity in a microcosm then the idea that the real world is just Westword but kind of bigger, more complex, and messier is a good one. Thematically it worked - we even have actual human beings freaking out over the idea it might all be a simulation and various people speculating that life is a rigged game. So far, so Westworld. Even without the Westworld. But... and it's a big but... the execution was meh. Caleb declaring he "wanted someone real" before Dolores literally fell into his arms? Nazis? Clumsy dialogue about building supercomputers to replace God? Maybe this is a simulation written by a hack writer.
  2. My imminent blog post will be entitled 'Not With a Bang But With a Whimper'
  3. For a show that prides itself on whatever "new narrative" it thought it was telling, half the female characters gave birth to something and the other one disappeared (what did happen to Kady?).
  4. He has booze and someone to bonk, that's all he needs. It's not like he's had five seasons of character development and his main relationships are with a whole heap of people he'll never see again or anything. I'm too tired and bored of this shitty little show to care how it ends at this point. But the Elliot resolution came the closest to making me legitimately angry. Alice is in the New Fillory but Elliot isn't? WTF?!
  5. Boy this whole plotline would have had a great deal of emotional resonance for Quentin. It's like it was almost designed with him in mind. It's such a shame he left the show entirely of his own accord when he was clearly needed for this final season (that was sarcasm if you didn't get it). This show has been slowly bleeding to death from its self-inflicted injuries for 13 episodes and I'm actually just glad it's been put out of its misery. RIP Magicians.
  6. Boy they're just phoning it in at this point, aren't they? This was some of the most laboured, clunky writing I've ever seen on this show. Some song choices were good but the others were just... there. If they want to do a musical episode every season then at least put some decent thought into it. I think they forgot. I don't think they even know what show they're writing at this stage. This woman did not give birth to this man. Why would they have the connection? She's a version of his mother who gave birth to a version of him. Why would they have a magical connection? It made no sense.
  7. I think we all know at this point how much I hate Julia but, holy hell, that doesn't mean she deserves to be put in this awful "I'm just a human incubator for a man, override my bodily autonomy please" plotline. I couldn't work out what the hell the writers were trying to say here. Penny's feelings are not more important than her being in yet another magical pregnancy. You've summed up my feelings on Hyman too.
  8. That was... an episode that happened. I do like the show going back full circle to the Chatwins. It's where the show started and it grounds the narrative a bit. The Alice/Kady thing with the page and the Couple lost me completely this episode. Not sure what that was all about.
  9. Whereas if they'd all been white men, that would have been 'normal' and therefore unnoticeable...
  10. "Like every parent, she wanted to conduct unethical medical experiments on them..."
  11. I actually HATE this and it's a really common trope in, particularly, the American superhero genre. The writer enables the lead to be a snowflake while ensuring the dirty work happens anyway. RTD pulled this off in the first season but only just. If the Doctor's morality is enabled only by having somebody else come in to pull the trigger for her than the Doctor's morality is meaningless. This is like Clark Kent refusing to kill somebody but that person dying in the next scene anyway or Chuck refusing to carry a gun but knowing that Casey or Sarah will do the killing for him. In this the Doctor refused to press the button but ten seconds later merely handed the button to somebody else and walked away. The idea she's now somehow free of that act is laughable.
  12. Making sense doesn't bother me. It's the way it undermines the foundations of the Doctor's character. There's a tension between people who want the Doctor to be super epically special and those who just want him to be some old grump who wanted to travel the world rather than sit at home in a bureaucracy reading about it. I mean, if the Doctor is an immortal trans-dimensional being whose life is constantly being rewritten then everything can be seen to make sense. It doesn't mean I like it.
  13. That was amazing. Turns out there IS a retcon that would annoy me more than the Doctor founding the Time Lords with Rassilon.
  14. Because... and I feel like a broken record at this point... Quentin was the heart of the show. And if you stake your own heart, you die. They are trying to do this thing where they move Julia to the heart of the group but that doesn't work because (a) Julie is the fucking worst* and (b) see a. *My dislike of Julia in no way stops me from agreeing with everything you say about her relationship with Penny. He doesn't actually know or like her as a person and she deserves somebody who does.
  15. I don't remember who said last week or the week before that the relationship between Elliot and Fen was off and she was being used for comic relief without any reference to her previous arc, her relationship with her husband (ex), or her daughter? I agree 100% and it's starting to annoy me too.
  16. Absolutely no clue why they didn't capitalise on their setup for the other Penny. They were clearly angling for something there but seem to have jettisoned it completely. And it's not as if they couldn't get the actor or something (which is one reason why they ditch plotlines in TV). I can only assume it got dropped when they came up with the brilliant edgy move to kill off the heart of their show. I agree with you about this Penny. He's definitely the inferior version.
  17. No idea but his folksy Good Bloke shtick is starting to annoy me too
  18. The Cyberium is just a tool he's using for his genocidal rampage.
  19. It's because they are being driven by the Lone Cyberman who is motivated by a deep loathing of humanity. As the Doctor said, his behaviour is irrational since he's a Cyber extremist while simultaneously behaving entirely like a human.
  20. You mean attempts to make a narrative point? Yeah I hate when TV does that. Themes and subtext and having something to say are so SJW. Also, there was one if you were paying attention and it was about refugees. While I found the way in which everyone ended up where they were clumsy, I did appreciate the idea of putting companions out of their comfort zone in this way. Following the Doctor around is like being a tourist on a cruise ship. All you have to do is show up and someone is there to make sure nothing goes wrong. Having them completely cut off from the Doctor and not knowing if she will find and save them in time was a nice piece of existential disquiet. Still have no idea why the Doctor couldn't take the Cyber vessel she ended up on to find the TARDIS but I guess that's the story for you. Apropos of nothing, why have Graham and Ryan ditched the grandson/grandpa thing? I liked that.
  21. I hate Julia. I miss Quentin. Otherwise this was a good episode, Margo and Elliot in Fillory with the fairies in particular. I can't say the "twist" of the Dark King being responsible for the Takers was much of a twist since he is the only one who can banish them back from whence they came. Kind of worked that out from day 1.
  22. She was saying that the literature of Shelley was influential enough that its absence would so radically change the future that it could lead even to her companions not being born. That she had a choice between a future being killed by the Cybermen or being destroyed by her in stopping them. She chose to keep that future intact for now in the hope she can stop the Cybermen later. It was, as always, her decision since she's the only one who can see the consequences of her actions in terms of the timeline.
  23. Cheap gag and the only thing about this episode I really didn't like.
  24. The fact you have to assume is the problem. She just pops up suddenly and Mwahahaha's all over everything. It was really clumsy writing, which I do not expect from this show (or at least never used to). Also, I finally realise what my biggest issue with this episode was - the 'apocalypse' they were trying to save the world from for an entire episode? Was the moon, not the harmonic convergence. So the biggest threat to Earth? Was them. They were just trying to clean up their own damn mess. Appleman's usual acting masterclass aside, neither of these episodes were particularly well-written and it showed.
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