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  1. Best place to start is at the ending. I couldn't figure out why the show was playing somber music when Maya and Rohan were approaching and then when he was eliminating them I was waiting for him to reveal he was just punking them....and then he didn't! I have no memory of anyone ever being eliminated on an Uber Leg. Is this new? Self-navigation appears to foretell the doom of Team Nurse. Some of her detached reactions were strange...especially "that's weird" the realization they were on the opposite side of town, the proper reaction should be "that's terrifying". Random bits: That was really, really stupid not letting the Team Topgun waste time discovering there were no more horses. In another reality that might have cost them the race. Derek and his wife are labeled as "Grandparents," but seem anything but. I got to root for Team K & K just because of the tragic backstory of one of the cousins. LOL, did anyone expect an ex-NFL player to have anything other than a bombshell as a girlfriend? That orange body suit might come to rival the red booty shorts some woman was running around in a couple races back. Firefighters barely registered at all-same with the Girlfriends. Anytime someone screws up by not reading the clue is always fun. I want to like the mother and son team but I don't want this kid to be neurotic on every leg of the race. Loved the drone shots of the city skyline. Looks beautiful. Lastly it was jarring when we came back from commercial and the Siblings were suddenly free of the trap they had put themselves in with the car. I had to rewind to see if I missed something but I didn't. It got cut off somehow. Anyway..dont' they know the big R on the stickshift is for reverse? Good premier over all.
  2. I thought the same thing. They were desperate to save a major character in Bhanu and to a lesser extent Kenzie so this seems suspect as did the doctor when he returned the second time. Its like he was forced into looking like a bumbler misdiagnosing the first time to please the producers so they could pull someone and engineer saving someone on purple tribe.
  3. Man, they can smell that rat all the way up on the International Space Station. Countless times we've seen people medevaced and yet the vote goes on. Yet here we have producers who realize Bhanu and Kenzie are characters—characters they can work with and provide good grist for the editing room. So they needed to save whoever was going home. Unfortunately for Brandon? he was the sacrificial lamb. Putting on my tin foil hat, it almost seemed to me the doctor didn't believe what he was saying...he looked like a man with a gun to his head forced to make the call to pull him. Of course, I could be totally wrong, and it's all legit, but it reeks of TPTB manipulation. In other news Bhanu-fest was a bit much. As was too much time with Liz and Ben...my least favorite players. Ben feels like he's playing a character. Puzzle filled room guy....I don' t know what to make of it. Its not against the rules but something about it just feels untoward in the advantage it gives him. Kenzie accurately pegged Bhanu as a fan who thinks from the couch they can ace the game, but when they are actually on the island.... I feel like the medevaced guy should have been allowed to say goodbye in Venus in private and pass off the clue and the location of the buried box. Hey, if they'll let a guy who has the challenges in his backyard do that, I think passing off the stuff to Venus should have been allowed. Edited to add: They should have paid the estate of Kenny Rogers a royalty for a few riffs of The Gambler for the Bhanu scene.
  4. I saw the episode I was like this must be A real budget saver. When they showed up at the Mexican town It just screamed Back lot. And those were probably Standing Cave sets Used on all sorts of productions. I almost died laughing When the flood hit Is the flood that you see On the universe studios tour. . At least you used to Back in the 90s when I was there. On a positive note Sarah was drop dead gorgeous And I had to look up the actress afterwards
  5. Funniest Episode of the new season. Maybe the ghost That got sucked off1 that was trapped Somewhere in the house And no 1 ever knew About him or her For whatever reason.
  6. Yes! She sure showed them especially that finger waggling jerk Alicia? And any time Rupert is defeated is good for me.
  7. Shii Ann the She Devil, still my ALL TIME favorite castaway ever!
  8. This 100% I really do not care for those. She's an attractive lady so it unfortunate. I don't even like the ones on the side of the nose.
  9. Ghandi and Metallic in the same episode! That just needed to be said. Two hours…too long. I actually had to fast forward through the music competition as I was getting bored. Instead of wasting time with that would it be too much to ask to finally see the strategy sessions before a challenge. Speaking of which that arch challenge was one of the best in many, many years. Legend has it purple is still out there trying to get it to stick. Venus…Venus I want to root for you so bad but you are making it hard. That was an unforced error bitching about the challenge that they won. I think her real problem is for the first time in her life she can’t trade off on her good looks and cute booty and she doesn’t know how to handle that. I am intrigued by enemies turning to ride or dies. I hope she and Brandon? can follow through. For some reason I got great glee out of watching Tevin suffer during the challenge. The two clones bantering back and forth was a delight but it got ruined when Liz turned obnoxious shouting Yes…you…can! Shut up already. Bhanu will self destruct long before the rise of a dominant alliance post-merge. Jess….mercy killing but she took it well and is off to Ponderosa to have steak with those ants.
  10. Season premiers are always hard to post about because so much is going on and most names of the castaways are unknown but here goes. Jalinsky... completely self-inflicted gun shot wound. It was nice to see a quitter get their comeuppance right off the bat. And that had to be one of the coldest goodbye ever. Did anyone even say goodbye? He sure didn't...just basically turned his back on them and left. Man, you could see Q was smoking at tribal when Jalinsky was saying WE quit the challenge when it was all him. I hope they bill him for the smashed hourglass prop. As for everyone else. *Please don't cast an actual actor again. Watching Tevan preening for the camera all season is going to get real old real quick. *Why do people like Jess and the woman who can't eat anything apply for the toughest game show on television? *every time I see young people with sprawling body art I imagine the mortification they will feel visiting the doctor in their 70's and 80's. When the taut young skin is long gone. *Well we know CBS still owns the music rights for the ANDY GRIFFITH theme. That was pretty damn funny. Also was the sight of a woman litterly dangling off the nose of the gecko. Glad Moriah I think her name was didn't get voted out. She seemed so fragile about not being able to make friends if her team had done to tribal and she was put out she would have been devastated. Lastly, if you are going to do tribal at Grauhman's Chinese theatre at least have the concrete tiles with the hand prints and signatures of superstars like Boston Rob, Pavarti (can't believe we didn't get a flashback with her name-dropping) Ozzie, and other luminaries still remembered across nearly 25 years.
  11. Well, it's done...it was rushed...it needed two full hours. And it was very incoherent. At one point I thought the vintage truck and cars were driven through the vortex into 10,0000 BC. In honor of the rambling finale, I'll just post some random thoughts. *Petra watches her mother be murdered and we don't even cut to her reaction. *Paara and Ruth never share a scene together. *Silas killed off camera in the dino attack? Who knows...nobody asked about him. *I had no idea where Eve went with the EMP and was never clear why they said she went home. *Why does the double aurora explode when it closed? *What LA are they returning to....one with a giant sinkhole. Is the Hollywood sign still destroyed from 1988? What are the ramifications of all that 21st-century stuff and people from the base and the tower stranded in 10,0000 BC. *There should be so much to deal with from the return...what about the scientest woman helping in season one...what about Gavin's adopted sister what would their reaction be....what about the rest of the world? *The daughter and her Zena squeeze don't even get a tearful farewell? I'll stop there. On a positive note, they at least bothered to get all the redshirts home instead of killing them all off in a flaming arrow attack ala LOST. Still I don't understand the leisurely pace....I would have been bum rushing the vortex elbowing people out of my way to make sure I got through. I wonder if anyone besides Tye decided to stay behind. And they did pull a surprise....I thought reformed drug dealer and reformed kidnapper would stay behind. They get a happy ending but Lily is still dead. Appreciated the final shot of the destroyed clearing and the green aurora in the sky as a nod to the earlier version of LABREA when there at least seemed to be a mapped-out plan. Lastly...what happened to the Confederate gold?! Is Scott going to dig it up in 2021?
  12. Late to the game here but just watched the JOY/JEFFREY-Wilkes Barre episode. I found this another atypical episode where everything was flipped on its head. I hate to say it but halfway in I was thinking whatever happens to the Joy family-they've got it coming. And for the first time, I felt sympathy for the killer because he was left with no choice but kill himself or spend the rest of his life in prison and that would be the Joys getting revenge from beyond the grave. They truly brought it on themselves and Jeffrey was a victim. PS Another great teen narrator-some of his comments were priceless.
  13. Ugh, this was not the episode to come back to after hiatus. Very little on the coding to bring Ben home and saddling it with a very annoying leapee that I would have been happy to see get rubbed out by the mob. Hannah gets character assassinated trying to feed Ben that business about loving two people at once. Just say you gave up on dating him once every ten years. Will Hannah turn out to be the Big Bad in the present? This seems possible as this episode did not paint her in the best light. Damned if upstate New York suddenly looks a lot like Hazzard County and how convienent that they jumped off the bus a stones throw from the brohter's house?
  14. It feels like they have an entirely different group of writers this season. It's as if they are trying to channel the most absurd elements of the original series. And it's not necessarily a good thing. Gone is the more grounded approach of the first season to embrace such foolishness as a judge making pickles and men unable to climb ten stairs. Not a fan. Surprised Flobert is hanging around. It looks like with Wyatt as clerk they are transitioning him away from being a zany version of Mac to the new 'Phil the Bum' sidekick for Dan...but sorry nobody could ever fill those shoes (not even when they came up with a never before mentioned twin Will). The core of the show is Dan/Abby interactions so that keeps me tuned in...along with the eye candy of the Prosecutor.
  15. Agreed on Jackie Hoffman. I always stand up and take notice whenever she appears in something. Excellent character actress. Disagree on FRASIER. You are missing out. It's actually very good. The British actor playing Alan is the MVP. The only weak link is the nephew David...he is out of place in a modern-day sitcom. Straight out of GILLIGAN'S ISLAND but he's only there to appease Niiles/Daphne fans. It was great seeing Lilith again and hoping for CHEERS cameos next season.
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