Rambler

If you ever find yourself under attack, it's probably not the best idea to call the person that is trying to protect you a "useless bitch". Although if Yennifer had the ability to make the spider thing chop its own head off, I don't see why she didn't do that at the beginning of the fight, so maybe she had a point...

I was finally able to finish this one off while most of the network shows are on holiday reruns. This was an OK show, but hardly riveting must see TV. They had the makings of a decent story with the group of friends caught in the middle of a gang war, so I wish they had left the fantasy elements out as they just seemed silly and not well thought out. For me, the biggest problem was they never clearly explained how the Wu powers worked at all. Can you sneak up behind one and shoot him in the back of the head? Blow them up? I guess you can poison them because Kai tried that, but Six was on to him. If you could kill them by conventional means, it doesn't seem like it would be so hard to kill one, just come equipped with a high powered rifle and sniper scope. The woman who trained Kai was useless. "Here break these rocks and you will receive your Wu powers. You did it! Congrats now you know everything you need to be a Wu Assassin. Good luck! Bye!" You would think with all these former Wu assassins hanging around in the afterlife they could go over strategies of what they did that worked and what didn't, otherwise what is the point of sticking around there? So Kai has humongous fight with the Fire Wu and loses because he is unprepared. At least he is able to talk Six into giving up the Fire Wu. He then goes to face the Earth Wu. Except this time, he knows what the Earth Wu can do. How does he know? I dunno, it is never explained, but he is prepared this time and kills the Earth Wu in another good fight. OK great, now time to face the Metal Wu and Water Wu who are a couple, and the ultimate baddie the Wood Wu. On the other side we have the Wu Assassin teamed up with Jenny who has become the Fire Wu and Tommy who Kai just turned into the Earth Wu for the ultimate 3 on 3 Wu fight for the ages. On your mark, get set and… wait a second. Everyone is suddenly transported to Monk World and they all lose their Wu powers. WTF is up with that? Here I was expecting a CGI extravaganza for the climax of the entire series, and it just turned a regular brawl. I mean the red shirt henchmen put up a better fight than the Metal Wu, who just sort of flopped around. And then the demise of McCullough just seemed so easy and anticlimactic. I was wondering how they were going to kill someone who was immortal, but then it never happened in a way that was satisfying, so the entire ending was a letdown. Other observations: The fight scenes were amazing. Personally I prefer the fight scenes with swords and other such weapons as they seem more elegant to me. These were mostly the brutal face smashing hand to hand style, but still they were probably the best choreographed fight scenes I have seen on a television series. Iko Uwais wasn't very good acting wise as Kai. He just seemed so remote and monotone, and he mumbled his lines so that I had to have the closed captioning on to understand a word he was saying. I get that he doesn't speak English and he is probably much better acting in his native tongue, but it didn't make it any less painful to sit through. On the other hand, he is so good in his fight scenes that I can live with the bad acting. If there is a second season, I hope they don't bring Zan back as the big baddie. She was bland and just didn't seem to have the brain power to be a super villain. Katheryn Winnick played an ass kicking undercover cop. Her character kinda seemed to be thrown in to bring in the non-Asian demographic, but I am OK with that. Ever since I saw her in Vikings, I would probably watch a show with her knitting a sweater. I pray to the TV Gods to someday give us an action show starring Katheryn Winnick and Emily Beecham from Into the Badlands kicking ass and taking names. Or maybe even knitting sweaters. I'd still watch the shit out of that show. They advertised Summer Glau and she was mostly wasted here. She only appeared in a few scenes and didn't really do much. I was hoping they would give her a kick-ass fight scene like she had in Serenity, but it was not meant to be. I guess maybe she isn't as flexible as she used to be. Heh. The brief make out scene with Katheryn Winnick was a nice bonus however.

I realize that this is a fantasy show and therefore is not supposed to be hyper-realistic, but an explanation of how Lyra was able to survive such a long fall from the airship to what looked like hard packed ice would have been nice. Like just have her wake up in a poofy snow drift, or have the witch prevent her from splattering all over the ground by using her magic.

This series got off to a promising start. You had the mystery of what the ex-Imperials wanted with baby Yoda, the conflict with the bounty guild, flashbacks of what happened to him when he was a child, and snippets of Mandalorian culture sprinkled in. The last few episodes however, it just feels like the story has stalled out. All he is doing is taking jobs to make money. Rinse and repeat. If this were a 20 episode network show, I would expect there to be some filler episodes, but not in a limited 8 episode run. This is not a bad show and I would have no problems if it was a free network or cable show, but if this is your prestige show designed to entice me to spend $$$ to continue to subscribe to your new streaming service, it is not doing its job very well. YMMV

Anybody else try to pause the screen on Jaime's list so they could see what was "illegal in some states, but not New York"? I tried, but it was too blurry for me to read. I need to get one of those fancy CSI computers that allow you to read a license plate from a shaky cellphone photo taken a mile away. I see them so often on these cop shows that I am sure they exist.

Local police: "OMG! A woman reported that her husband didn't come home from work last night. This is way too big for us, we need all our officers to guard the local doughnut shops! Call in the FBI immediately! Only they have the resources to solve such a huge case."

Mad bombers not leaving a lot of margin for error. They were still casually strolling around when Jo threw the bomb at them, sprinted out of the building and then all the bombs blew up seconds later. What were they going to do if one of them tripped and sprained an ankle? I wonder if they were still in the building when the bombs went off? Also it was weird that they didn't notice this big police SUV parked in front.

Dear Showrunners, If it is absolutely necessary that every recurring character on this show not named Baez be white as the driven snow, would it kill you to maybe have a couple of minority guest stars in each episode? Thanks.

Sebastian, why are you letting the guy you are supposed to be protecting wander away like that? I'm pretty sure bad guys setting off the fire alarm to cause a distraction was covered in your Intro to Bodyguarding 101 class. It's hilarious that the plan for the Prime Minister's son to run away was dependent on the second guard being totally incompetent at his job, which he was. Then Pride and the Prime Minister are under heavy fire, and all Sebastian can do is cower behind a wall even though he isn't bring targeted. Even when the bad guy runs past him, does Sebastian shoot him, or point his gun at him and yell at him to drop his weapon? Nope he lets the bad guy continue to blaze away at the fleeing car so he can run up behind him and fight him hand-to-hand. The guy who had already knocked him out once before in the hotel room. Nice judgment there Mr. React Team Wanna-be.

Up until that point I was thinking that this was going to be a nice, quiet episode where they didn't need to rely on having a shootout-of-the-week, but I guess it was just not meant to be.

Well the first part was SOP for Danny "Laws Don't Apply to Me" Reagan. At least we were spared the scene where he barges into Erin's office and throws a tantrum because she released the suspect that he had no admissible evidence on. Thanks Gramps! The second part he was probably he was probably thinking "Score! Free Ranger tickets. Gotta keep our eyes on the game… I mean suspect after all." Anyways why was he on this case in the first place? Isn't he on the Major Case Squad or whatever the NYPD calls it? This seemed like a simple domestic dispute that patrol officers normally handle. At least make one of the couple a politician or relative of a law enforcement official so it sounds somewhat plausible he would be investigating. Likewise, why is Eddie now working days and is partnered with a new senior officer? Just throw in a line that she was filling in for the other officer's partner who called in sick. Sheesh the writers aren't putting in any effort at all this season.

"Ooh look there's scratches on the gas cap! That's a sign that a bomb might have been planted in the truck. You know what would be an absolutely fantastic idea? How about we stand around chatting right next to the truck while we wait for the bomb squad to arrive."

Just my opinion, but I think it is a mistake to have your main character's face covered all the time. I find it hard to feel connected to a character if you can't see the emotions on his face. The people guarding baby Yoda must have been ex-Stormtroopers because they sure couldn't hit the broad side of a barn.

There is just no way the God Account can be an Artificial Intelligence. Sameer puts the lottery ticket into one of his girlfriend's random purses. That purse just happens to be the style that Cara would like enough to take off the rack and open up to find the lottery ticket. I could maybe find it believable that an A.I. could predict that Cara would like that particular purse's style, but to predict that she would also take it off the rack and open it up is pushing things, but not impossible. What would be impossible for any A.I. to do would be to influence Sameer's girlfriend into buying a purse in the same style that Cara would like in the future, and also influence Sameer into picking that particular purse to put the lottery ticket in. Either the God Account is actually God or the writers aren't thinking things through.

OMG cache is pronounced like cash not cash-ay. Cachet is a symbol of prestige. Hearing these supposed military men asking "Did you get the guns from the cachet?" was totally ridiculous.

Jaime: "He threw water on my cops. That’s clearly assault, so I arrested him." Also Jaime: "So I threw water on the suspect. It’s only water, what’s the big deal?" I kept waiting for someone to point out this obvious contradiction, but of course nobody did. Erin said the dude was convicted based on eyewitness testimony and blood evidence. Wasn't the blood tested at the time of the trial? That seemed really weird.

I am scratching my head trying to figure out why Bishop's hometown would choose her to be Potato Queen. She was a nobody in high school, then moved away to the East Coast and became an NSA and then NCIS agent. Did I miss an episode where she became famous? This is the burning question I need an answer to, never mind about Kasie's hard-luck boyfriend. Also, inviting someone to be Potato Queen, then taking it back because the local weather girl suddenly became available seems like a total dick move. Shame on Potato Festival organizers.

Typical lazy writing. Set up a situation where the commissioner has to make a tough choice. Now it seemed pretty trivial to me, like something Garrett and the H.R. department should have been able to handle, but I guess it was very important since there was much Frank sighing and he had to talk the problem over with Pops. Then it turns out that the cop conveniently faked the cause of his injury. So instead of having to make a hard decision and face the consequences of that decision, Frank is let off the hook and all that agonizing that went on before became a complete waste of time for the audience. So the only suspect Danny zeroes in on is the guy that the lawyer freed from a life in prison. Brilliant detective work! At least Baez got to call him an idiot (in so many words).

If you are going to kill off one of your main characters, why do you have to make him look like a complete idiot? Pride: "Stay put, we’re only a couple of minutes away." LaSalle: "Oooh I saw some bushes move! I guess I gotta leave my witness behind unprotected and investigate these suspicious bushes without any backup. OK I change my mind. Instead of searching the outside where the bushes are, I think I'll just break into the house where I have no idea what the floor plan is, and there might be ten armed men inside for all I know." What a stupid way to die. Since she was one of the bad guys, I don't see why the daughter saw the need to stroll into the cabin and put herself into the line of fire. Then again, it didn't seem like she was the brightest bulb on the tree... I guess Pride never watched CSI:NY. If he did, like the rest of the audience, he would’ve known instantly who the killer was. At least they didn’t drag the “suspense” out for long.

Here is an article you might find interesting: First new shade of blue discovered for 200 years to be turned into Crayola crayon The writers probably saw that news and wrote it into the story. Nothing about the first painting made from it though.

I can't believe Katsumoto never taught his young partner one of the most important rules of police work: Never, ever show pictures of your cute kid or you're doomed. The only thing worse is to announce that you're only a few days before retirement. Thankfully it wasn't fatal this time. Hopefully a lesson was learned.

After they figured out it was the sister who kidnapped him, they pinged her cell phone to track her location.

There are allegations of excessive police use of force all the time, but I have never heard of protesters showing up at an officer's place of residence before. Maybe that has happened before in real life, I don't know, but the point is, for that to happen, the allegation against the officer must have been really, really bad. So why can't we hear what the officer was alleged to have done? What was the evidence that exonerated the officer in the eyes of Frank and IAB, but not the judge and the public? The idiotic writers don't tell us because they are unwilling or incapable of showing any nuance. Nothing is shown from the protestors' point of view because the audience cannot be allowed to feel one ounce of sympathy for them. The protesters are plainly horrible people because they should accept that the officer was completely cleared by Saint Frank and the NYPD. Of course the police would never, ever cover up misconduct by one their own officers so what is there to protest? The underlying message here is that whenever you see people protesting - say an unarmed black teenager that was shot a dozen times by a police officer who was subsequently cleared by the department and D.A. - you can just ignore it because clearly the protestors are unjustified and only doing it for publicity and because they hate the police.

Red's husband accidentally finding the buried missile at the exact moment in time that all these cicada agents are being activated seems like an amazing coincidence…

I wonder if Jubal's wife left him because he was always yelling at her...