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The recap gave an "X" to "People Do Magic Right Out in the Open and No One Seems to Notice," but that actually did happen, in the Bent Elbow, when Killian did the trick with the flaming drink.
I'm still baffled by the whole Mandragora thing and how that was supposed to work, because if they need someone who "trusts" them why didn't they just use Ingrid's body for the host? She was already in their thrall. In fact I don't get why they needed the Mandragora in the first place if they can basically just do the body carvings themselves. Like the victims would be less frightened by the Mandragora than they would by Freddie or Tarkoff.
At least Freya knows Eva is a witch now, so hopefully it won't take her too long to figure out Killian is under a spell. Then again, it's Freya we're talking about, so who knows.
What I do know is that it annoys the crap out of me when they use "spell" as a verb. "You need to spell him." "He's been spelled." Uh, you should only use "spell" as a verb when it's a spelling bee. Cast a spell, hex someone, enchant them, but do not "spell" them, because then I expect you to go "K. I. L. L. I. A. N." (This bugged me on Secret Circle, too.)
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I cannot get past the GR breaking into everyone's homes, setting up dummies of their departed loved ones, without once getting caught or heard in the attempt. That's just absurd. In the first place, do they have keys to these peoples homes? Didn't they change their locks after all their photos were stolen? Does everyone in this town work 9 to 5 and go to bed at the same time? Nobody works the night shift? Is everyone such a sound sleeper they wouldn't hear someone break into their house and set dummies up, sometimes right down the hall? Did the GR drug the water supply and knock everyone out? Do they have magic powers or something?
I don't get the smoking thing, either. It seems to me these people dress up in white, never speak, and smoke all the time just to look creepy. There doesn't seem to be any particular reasoning behind any of it.
In the end, what I got out of this show is that it's all atmosphere and no substance. I appreciate that they had a measure (albeit a small one) of closure in case this ended up being a one-season show, but I won't be back for a second season. I gave it a fair shake but I find it utterly pretentious and preposterous.
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J-Team for the win. I can't believe that guy got $60K in the cash builder round, gambles for a living, then didn't go for the bigger offer. He could so obviously have won the $120K. He didn't even need the other two players in the Final Chase, I think they answered 3-4 questions between them. It almost makes me suspicious how poorly The Beast did in the Final Chase. But good on him for coming down to the stage and congratulating him, I don't think he's ever done that before.
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I didn't think he was that far away either. Like, he spun out in a farther arc than where satellites are located, but not nearly fast/far enough to be unlocatable.
Plus, the squadron of Volm ships was right there when the power station blew. How could they be all "Gee, where did Tom go?"
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So, we can skip the next couple of episodes? Thanks for the break, BB! You know damn well someone is going to push that button because the nominees, in particular, have nothing to lose.
It's easy enough for Nicole to tell the majority alliance to start making "big moves" but the fact is, it doesn't benefit any of them to make those moves. The final 4/5 got to where they are by NOT making big moves. It may not be entertaining, but it worked for them.
However, Derrick can only play that "I'm doing what the house wants" card for so long. Because at this point, the "house" is him and three other guys. Trying to play it off like he just doesn't have the control is utter BS and anyone should be able to see that. Not that it matters anymore.
As annoying as I find Frankie (and believe me, I do), it amused me to see him win POV because Cody's hard-on for getting rid of him rubs me the wrong way too. Then again it's a toss up when Frankie starts spinning around like a demented five year old girl at her first ballet recital. But for what it's worth, he went back to check to see how far Christine had gotten in the POV puzzle (not his own).
I despise those stupid tweets they throw up on the screen through the whole show but it cracked me up they actually showed one that said "Ugh, Frankie is still listening to Derrick." Amen. They're all idiots. Not 20 minutes before, Derrick was telling everyone Frankie would go home if Christine won POV.
At first I thought the audience was booing because they were unhappy with this eviction because honestly, it was worse than either Aaryn or Amanda got last year, and they were far more heinous. But it occurs to me the show is desperate for a "villain" this year and may have prompted the audience to react that way. Who else do they have?
It's kind of like how they keep pushing and pushing this dumb Nicole and Hayden thing, like anyone gives a flying damn about their showmance. How was that even a relevant question on Julie's part at this stage? Hayden wasn't even in the house anymore. The show is just desperate for their showmances and villains, so they've got to use what little they have I guess.
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Also, there are a couple of local ads that begin with a BEEP BEEP BEEP noise. That sound is NEVER welcome, especially to advertise some crap on TV. When you live in a bad-weather area, you never want to hear that. Shame on them for using that tactic!
There's another one that starts with the alarm from a smoke detector and I always jump because I think it's mine. I can't remember what it's for though. Not smoke detectors. Probably insurance or something.
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Except he's not between the Earth and the moon. His ship was knocked by the shock wave of the explosion and went careening off somewhere. And there was no way to control it - Tom tried pulling on those wire-like things in the consoles and walls to no avail.
Wait, wait, wait. Either the Beamer can move at warp speeds, or it can't. Tom was between the Earth and the moon when the lunar power station exploded. It took them several hours to travel from the earth to the moon. So how far, exactly, was Tom "flung" by that explosion? Halfway to Pluto? How is that possible if the ship doesn't have warp speed? I can fan-wank, as Bishop has done, that perhaps the explosion knocked out whatever device the Volm used to track that Beamer, but I still have a hard time believing that they can't find any Beamer within a given radius. Tom simply could not have been flung that far away.
Not for nothing, the show wasn't great, but now it's kind of a pile of shit.
Personally I'd have graded the first season as a "C," the second season as a B+, the third season a solid B, and the fourth season a D. Maybe a D-. I can't quite bring myself to give it an F because I do intend to watch the final season so it hasn't put me off the show not to. I just hope they continue the tradition of getting a new show-runner every season because whoever was in charge of this one really blew it.
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Glad I didn't have to see all of Jordan.
What I want to know is, was he really completely naked? I always wonder that whenever they do bits like this and it's blurred out. The audience reacts as if they are, but I'm guessing they're probably wearing a G-string or something.
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Arrogance is never an attractive quality. Yes, Derrick is playing a great game, and yes, he deserves to crow about it a little, but still. Not attractive.
I'm beginning to think Cody is a bit of a dim bulb. The first Veto question was the easiest and he's the only one who missed it. He also did terrible in the Veto competition with the electric wires (the one Kathy Griffin hosted). Also, a dinosaur costume? That's . . . awfully random. If the connection is supposed to be dynomite = dinosaur, that's a real stretch.
At least we have some acknowledgement that Christine knows she's at the bottom of the alliance's totem pole, but it's too late for her to do anything about it. She still seems on board for getting rid of Nicole and Victoria followed by Frankie. That will leave her . . . in fourth place. I honestly have no idea how she thinks she's going to get to the F2.
I'm ready for Nicole to go home, her voice is making my ears bleed.
I know this episode was cut to make Derrick the puppet master of everything, but what they didn't show was
that it was actually Frankie who talked Caleb out of putting him on the block. Derrick may have laid the groundwork, but Frankie went up to the HoH room after Cody and Derrick were asleep and had a long talk with Caleb and convinced him he'd never put him on the block.
Hence Caleb's comment about seeing more "good" in Frankie than bad.
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Even if they don't usually start filming until November, the actors are only under contract for so long. If they let their options expire the actors are free to go elsewhere for work, and it seems unlikely to me that they can keep them waiting until just before they'd usually start filming.
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You might be thinking of the one where they get to Wendy's parents house and she says their having gouda, so he freaks out and says something about not knowing it was THAT kind of dinner and grabs the flowers next to the door to give to her mom. Then her mom is like "these are...mine." It's real stupid.
The weird thing about that ad is the family is sitting down to dinner at the kitchen/dining room table with Wendys and have apparently already picked up an extra burger or two for the boyfriend. Who does that? I mean, if they planned on getting Wendy's for dinner why didn't they just wait until the boyfriend came over so they could ask him what he wanted? Or why didn't the girlfriend text him and tell him they were going to Wendys and what did he want from there, if anything? It's not like it would have taken any longer, it's Wendys.
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I don't know there's any reason the Beamers which are relatively small have FTL, but I think Lexi said to Tom the reason it felt like 1G is that was how fast they were accelerating, which means if they needed to get half way then turn around to decelerate, they should have been able to reach the moon in about three and a half hours.
So the Beamers don't have warp capabilities - then why can't the Volm find Tom? There is a very finite area to search - the space between the moon and it's orbit around the earth. Unless I missed something and Tom went into some kind of time/space vortex. I mean, surely the Volm have the technology to track one Beamer that's somewhere between the Earth and its one moon.
What confused me was Tom's apparent familiarity with the creature. "She" seemed to know him and he seemed to know her. THAT'S the cliffhanger for me. What is the relationship between them? His "I had no idea" is spoken as if he knew of her or had heard of her in some way.
It seems obvious to speculate this is his first wife, in some altered form, since we were shown a picture of her twice at the end of the episode. That being the case, "You're beautiful" seems like an odd reaction (to say the least). I'd say the more realistic reaction would be "Holy fu*! what the hell happened to you!??!"
Overall, the finale was symptomatic of the entire season: entirely too much time spent on a character that was a.) a mistake to begin with and b.) that nobody cared about.
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I will tolerate Keith's narration simply because I like Dateline, but to me, he sounds like he should be reading children's fairy tales, not a program for adults. I find his narration distracting.
That's pretty much the way I feel about him too. His narration is too often overly flowery. And he tends to ask a lot of leading questions in his interviews.
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The use of the word "nom" drives me crazy. The douchebag guys are bad enough, but something about the middle-aged blond woman taking a bite, then looking around as she says "nom" makes me extra stabby.
Yeah, me too. When I was a kid, food was "nummy." Not that "num num" is better than "nom nom," but at least it makes more sense. I don't get where "nom" came from.
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The fact that we haven't heard anything by now is definitely not good news. I would have expected them to start filming the fourth season if there was going to be one by now.
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Also, I don't think Tug McGraw was a yet big star in the world of baseball at the time he impregnated Tim's mother.
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They become a thing of the past very quickly and I don't remember ever seeing the winner on any prominent talk shows, not even The Talk.
Rachel went on The Talk.
It's sad when you can't wait for the show to end (which is taking forever) so you can watch these nincompoops get slapped in the face with reality.
We say this every year but the truth is we never get the satisfaction. They don't follow these people home and record their reactions to watching the show or reading internet posts about themselves. They go back to being insulated by the very people who made them the delusional egomaniacs they are.
That's why some perverse part of me would almost like to see Frankie make it to F2 with Derrick and win the whole thing, because it would mean the very thing Derrick benefited from all season long would end up being his downfall - the stupidity of the jury. Most of them have walked out of that house thinking Frankie and Christine were running the house for some odd reason, and Derrick might have a tough time convincing them he was really the one running the show.
I just don't really get what Frankie's plan is. To make it to the final five and then win every competition? For that matter, what does Christine think her end game is? Does she think Cody will take her to F2? Surely she knows she can't beat the four guys in her alliance in every competition, especially that grueling first part of the final HoH. Neither Frankie nor Christine seems to have really thought out this whole final five deal they have.
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Saying that vacuum somehow affects Lexi's powers was especially clunky. Arbitrary depowering in plot service is bad enough but the lack of style in the fictional science is appallingly tone deaf.
You know, I could almost buy the reason why Lexi couldn't use her magic mind powers to blow up the lunar power station, because of gravity blah blah blah. What I didn't understand is why she couldn't use her mind powers to blow up Scorch and Miri once they got on board the mother ship. Because, artificial or not, there's gravity in that room. Otherwise they'd all be floating all over the place.
So yeah, Lexi's powers work, except when they don't.
Also, how long does it take a Beamer to fly from the Earth to the Moon? Because assuming Eshpheni have FTL capabilities, shouldn't it only take a few minutes? The entire cocoon building process seems like something that would take several hours. They should have been able to get to the moon and back before she finished something that massive.
Finally, I don't understand how Tom is "Lost in Space" all of a sudden. I mean, how far out of orbit did the Beamer spin? It's not like a needle in a haystack unless he went into warp drive and traversed the galaxy. He spun out of control in a very direct course, between earth and moon. Are we to believe the Volm don't even have the technology to track something as specific as that?
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I thought Victoria came out looking the worse after that segment. I'd rather listen to 30 minutes of Christine laughing than three minutes of Victoria whining about how much she hates Christine.
I don't think it has to be an either/or situation. Both women are annoying in their own way.
I admit, I did kind of crack up at the "Holla" montage. The thing of it is, though, it's not just a punishment for Derrick, because everyone has to put up with it, not just him. And at first I thought it was Frankie's voice doing the "Hollas" but it's just someone who kind of sounds like him, which makes it worse.
When Frankie said Donny was holding back TA, it's possible (though not probable, I know) he was referring to the mission Donny refused to do, when they wanted them to make the vote come out hinky then blame someone else. In regards to just that, he's kind of right, because that mission was the closest they ever came to actually doing something that might have affected the game. Everything else has been totally lame. But at this point, I'd rather they pull Derrick and Frankie aside and say "Sorry, but since you voted Donny out, TA is over."
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Everything about these last two episodes - hell, this entire season - felt very derivative of other sci-fi shows and movies. The fog, the crawling slug things, everything. I also don't get how destroying the power station killed all the crawling slug things.
At least Lexi is dead now, so I'll give them that. But I never understood the point of turning her blonde. That just never made any sense to me, and she looked so much better with dark hair.
I don't know what or who the hell that was supposed to be that Tom saw at the end. Total WTF ending.
I wonder if the next season will have yet another show runner. There's just no consistent vibe to this show, I feel like they might come back next year having thrown everything that happened this season out the window.
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Ew. Christine's husband is kind of...ew, he also acted like a hyper, nerdy 7th grader. I think she's kind of ew too so they make a good couple. I'm trying to imagine what their kids would look like.
Ew.
I don't dislike Donny but I don't feel sorry for him either. First he tells Julie he knew his age and look would make it hard for him to blend in, but his strategy would be to make friends because he "has an art" for it. Then when she asks him why he went to bed early instead of staying up and trying to bond with the others, he says it's because he had nothing in common with them and wouldn't know what to say. So - what exactly is this "art" he has for making friends?
I also have a hard time believing he's so smart when he says things like "My feelings was hurt." Then Julie asked him who hurt his feelings and he says "no one in particular." WTH?
I guess I'd be more impressed with him if he showed some awareness of what actually went down. There was a majority alliance he couldn't break into, run by Derrick, and Derrick called all the shots. Derrick decided he wanted Donny out, so out Donny went. If he'd said that to Julie, I would have been impressed. Instead all we got was "I never did nothing to none of those people" and "my feelings was hurt."
I know emotions run high, when you're on a reality show (?) with people you don't know that well, but if I live to be a hundred I will never understand grown-ass men bursting into tears at the mere sight of their daddy. There's close, and then there's whatever the hell Cody and his father are.
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It's not pretty when a 40 year old still has a 20 year old mentality.
It's more like a 14-year old mentality, and it's not pretty now, when he's 31. It wouldn't be attractive at 21 either, for that matter.
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I didn't know Todd Glass was gay, but I've heard his stand-up material before and I never thought he was very good. We used to have a comedy radio station here so I became familiar with a lot of stand-up comics out on the circuit. If he and Stewart started out together, it must be somewhat daunting to go on Jon's show considering what a huge star he's become, compared to Glass, who I'm willing to bet few people have ever heard of before.
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There are pros and cons to having multiple players in the final chase, the biggest pro being able to start three steps ahead. But yeah, the biggest con is that someone can be too trigger happy and buzz in with a wrong answer before someone else gets the chance to answer correctly.
I don't think the game needs re-structuring, though - I think it needs smarter contestants. Well, maybe not "smarter," but people who are better at trivia games. I hate it when they get people on here who have no business being on this show! How did they even get past the audition?? This last one drove me crazy. The guy from Yale ( ? Harvard?) only got two questions right in the cash builder then took the lower offer of $2000!!! At one point they kept saying "it's more important to get to the final chase than earn money," but - is it? Isn't this why you're on the show? Maybe if you're just in it for the fun of it, but 52K split three ways is not life-changing money. I was so disappointed in these people.
It seems like in the first season they had at least one contestant every episode who was really good at trivia, but these past two seasons they seem to be having a hard time getting people on the show who are good enough to really have a chance at winning. It's like just going outside and pulling random people off the street to play Jeopardy. You can't do that. You need to qualify to get on a show like this.
S16.E33: Nominations #11
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Ironically, he's been good at physical competitions, but not question-and-answer ones. Because he's so delusional he thinks he knows shit he doesn't.
That said, I'm going to be generous here and give Frankie the benefit of the doubt that his tearing up at the Jeff and Jordan music video was genuine, just because he wasn't jumping up and down and twirling around like a demented windmill like he usually does when he's getting attention. It also cracked me up when they cut to Cody and HE was tearing up too. LOL.
But, yeah - this is one pointless freaking week.