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That was a strange time one. I love Rami Malek, but he seemed oddly muted even for him until the mattress skit (which was the only time I laughed the entire show). And when he was given a gift like impersonating Pete, next to Pete, the writing wasn’t good and the lines were generic. I also enjoyed Todd, and the ribbons, though it didn’t require much of Rami.

I have no idea what this season is about.

I’m watching S 4, Ep 2, what the hell is this crap? it’s bad enough that the villain is a cause that starts with users abusing a drug. Now we have all this silly fantasy stuff wasting time. Ugh. Hopes this gets better.

The show feels like it has lost its way. Aside from introducing comic book characters, what’s the point of any of this? Is this some sort of treatise on death? Otherwise it feels like one big detour.

I guess many critics agree. I didn't see it. He tilted his head once like his dad, and showed a slight sneer once like his dad, but aside from that, if you had not told me who he was or who his character was, I never would have made the connection. I think their attempt to show how some wanted Young Tony to stay clear of the family business may have made it harder to connect him to The Sopranos' Tony. He seemed pretty meek overall. Like I said, the only lesson I got from the movie was that Young Tony was continuing the violence that the older generation was part of. Now, the actress who played Livia? Spot on. And Sil wasn't hard to play. The rest, were hit or miss.

I turned off the movie exactly halfway through and watched football instead. I don’t know what we are supposed to get from this movie, except that all the things we saw on The Sopranos were the same for the generation before them, including angry wives. Gandolfini’s son has barely been in the movie so far. It’s weird. Though the funniest scene was with him and a baby Christofuh. I’m mostly digging the Gil Scott Heron music. The actress who plays Livia is terrific - spot on. Update: Finished it. They should have ended it with young Tony waiting at Holsten’s. Not sure what all the PR focus on Gandolfini’s son was… the actor who played Dickie carried the movie. Ray Liotta’s character was actually wise, need to look up his role in the mythology. Uncle Junior was always an ass.

About a third of the way through the movie and bored out of my mind. It seems to be as much about civil unrest in the 60s as The Sopranos. Weird choices for actors playing younger versions of characters we know. Most of them don’t look like them at all. Dickie Multisanti is an idiot. He drove right past a plausible reason for his dad’s death and instead did it in an area harder to avoid blame. Hope it gets better. EDIT: Hope we can discuss this here!

It is so swarmy when Niles is with Dorothy. Makes me want to hurl. I love, love, love how inventive this show is. But I haven’t been able to crack the code, yet. It feels more like a bunch of hilarious disconnected events than a connected plot. I get that the show explores our heroes weak points, I just lose the symbolism at times.

Late to this show, with no comic book knowledge, and I found it thoroughly enjoyable. No stupid who wuvs who like on Titans. Each character first slowly outlined and then their moral conflicts revealed. And a lot of fun on Danny the Street. Well done, all.

This was a really interesting episode. I skipped the prior one, Hawk and Dove, because of lack of interest. Loved the psychological study of Bruce and Jason and Scarecrow and the psychologist. No stupid “who wuvs who” crap. Made me more sympathetic to Jason, which I would not have thought possible. And impressed by the Joker here, just dispatching Robin post haste. Wasn’t a fan of the secret pool, though. The actress who plays Barbara has a terrible actress laugh.

I don’t understand why Barbara, and Dick, think Bruce will see anything wrong with what he is doing (fighting crime and recruiting kids). Bruce thinks he is doing what he has to do. His quitting at the end was less an admittance he was wrong than giving in to badgering and to reality. Meanwhile, Super Boy can pretty much handle anything. The one thing I liked about this ep was it picked up the theme from the Nolan movies that once Bruce created Batman, it was inevitable that a Joker arose, and the morality of that.

That was definitely the wrong actor for Bruce Wayne. And Wonder Gal Donna was puzzlingly disappointing, powers-wise. Bruce actually had a family, Dick. It was taken away from him. I assume others besides TT live in that giant tower? If so, I would move out. I hope we can move forward now with a TT team and get past the who likes me/who I don’t like BS. Let’s have them work and live in the world and stop fighting each other. PS Liked the cheekiness of the closing credits song.

The best part of this episode was watching Deathstroke come in with the mail.

Pretty much fast forwarding through most eps in this pointless season. Including this episode of sulking, pouting and weeniness. Yes, yes, be a team and quit being self involved jackasses.

This ep must be where the “teen” part of Teen Titans comes in, good grief. Everybody’s feelings are hurt, awwwwww. Enough that they leave a stranger who is unable to care for himself is in bed. Awesome, heroes! I can imagine what Batman and Superman say about you all at the bar. Also? Dawn and Hank are so annoying. They are the couple you would like for 5 minutes and then try to lose.

After a great start in season one, you’re losing me fast Titans. For some reason you have gone all CW on me. Garth loves Donna, Donna can’t forgive Garth, now Dawn loves Dick (hey, when did that happen?) after Dawn loved Hank, everyone asks Dick for love advice. Ugh. Way too much soap opera. I was praying for Deathstroke to appear for half the episode.

I don’t understand the actions of the Titans, now that they are back together. Why do they insist on having lives apart when as soon as they do, someone comes after them? Why wasn’t the first question they asked about Deathstroke’s daughter “why is he trying to kill his own daughter?” Why do they train blindfolded vs say, with no hearing or one leg? Why isn’t everyone, including Kory, more interested in why an alien is on Earth and what she and her people want? Why does Robin segment his team, creating resentment instead of being inclusive? There aren’t 50, it’s manageable. Why do Korey and Wonder Girl have jobs, anyway? What really is beginning to bother me is that the show is spending more time on CW-style relationships now and less on the darkness and unique perspectives of superheroes. That is why I bailed on Arrow, Super Girl and Flash. I don’t care who likes or dislikes who.

I’m not sure there is a more annoying couple than Hank and Dawn. Every conversation is her praising Hank for “looking really good” at something, and him responding with a fake aw shucks it ain’t me. Then they fight. Ugh. I like Dick/Robin as a psycho who can’t help himself. Gar seems kind of useless. A tiger who took down what, one guy? They need to find a way to make him more versatile.

I’m not sure what balding has to do with it. He just seemed too frail to me in terms of his size and movements.

Well, finished season one. What was all the alternative reality stuff in the final episode? The first 5 eps or so were a lot of fun. The last 3-4 were weirdly slow or went on tangents that weren’t very interesting.

I’m just catching up on this show, and have enjoyed it way more than I expected, but I hate, hate, hate false drama like having Raven and BB leave to rescue her mom when all Robin asked was that they recon for 5 minutes. Also, everything they need to do appears to be in a 60-minute radius. Love Robin as a psychopath as well as all the darkness. Can BB turn into other things? This show really slowed down with ep 8 and ep 9 (Hank and Dawn), which I largely FF’d through.

This show made the Nazis too smart, and the hunters too weird. At its core there was a truth, Nazis adopted into the US and given new lives, but most everything else was, I don’t know, catoony? Like Tarantino light. That includes the reveal, which I suspected since Joe said they didn’t tell the grandson something about Meyer (I suppose they meant Meyer’s relationship with Ruth, or possibly the grandson relationship), which made me suspicious and start guessing at the meaning. His killing of the Barringer woman without confirmation was what made me think he wasn’t who he said he was, and the rest was easy. That said, I didn’t buy that a former Nazi could so identify with his victims that he became one of them. Just like Ruth being a Nazi spy makes no sense because she is helping the Hunters kill dozens of Nazis while she … what? I agree she needs them in Europe for some other reason. There were some well written moments, but the cartoonishness made them less meaningful.

The scene around the table was well done but jibberish. I was trying to figure out if Mindy had lost her mind. But I guess it was just religious. Finally they return to the guy in the basement. I kept wondering about him. I don’t know why they tried to defuse the bomb at all. It barely took out a subway car. There was no evidence of a biological weapon when they saw the bomb. Clearly Offerman is trying to bring people to the dark side, one step at a time.

Is the fact the US and Soviets recruited Nazis at the end of WWII news to anyone? This has been known for many decades, so maybe in 1977 it was news but certainly not now. It feels like this show thinks it is teaching us something but so far, it’s pretty obvious stuff.

YMMV, but I find Chris completely reasonable. Most of his comments were in response to how exasperating Amy is. He wouldn’t have to set dates and times if she would get anything done in a normal amount of time, and halfway well. Hating the rocks was an opinion, to which he is entitled. Look at the office. She may have made space for him, but her space, piled with crap, was unusable and would still make him uncomfortable. That’s not how reasonable people compromise.