Rambler

Well jeez, just have one person stay at the gallery and the other person go get the parents. It ain't rocket science people.

I have this funny feeling that New York being a sanctuary city was originally written into the story. A lot of law enforcement officials support the concept of sanctuary cities because studies have shown they lead to a decrease in the crime rate. Then TPTB realized their right wing audience would probably throw a fit if they heard anything positive about sanctuary cities so they had all references removed from the script. The abrupt way they ended the story with Anthony going undercover and catching the guy just smelled like a last second re-write to me. On the other hand, it might also have been your typical Blue Bloods idiotic writing. It's hard to tell the difference with this show. I don’t think she thought the plan through. She got taken to a hospital, so between all the copays and deductibles she probably ended up losing money.

Emily says that Piper will be destroyed if she becomes self-aware, but that can't be true because isn't Piper at least a little bit self-aware? How else would she know about the thingamabob that she cut out from behind her ear? I am starting to get a little suspicious of Emily. She claimed to Jo that she didn't know much and only worked on a tiny piece of coding; however, when Jo first met with Augur, Emily was floating around the head honcho like she was a top level executive, not a minor coder. She has to know that Piper went into berserk mode, yet she never warned Jo that Piper might be dangerous. Kindred warned Jo that Piper was dangerous, so maybe he is actually a good guy? My current theory is that Emily is one of those mad scientist types who is secretly tinkering with the A.I. for nefarious purposes and causing Piper to glitch out.

White supremacists had threatened to shoot up the club the week before. I believe violent white supremacist groups are considered by law enforcement to be domestic terrorists and so they come under Federal jurisdiction. In real life I kind of think the DHS would be the agency investigating the original threats, but once the shooting occurred, it wouldn't be surprising that the FBI would be called in because of the previous threats.

I wouldn't hold my breath. The company she's looking to join funds green initiatives and minority startups, is funded by a tech billionaire and is located in San Francisco. In Blue Bloods world that translates to a shady company that secretly funds eco-terrorists and imports illegal aliens so they can take the jobs of hard working Americans. I give Nikki a few weeks of driving a Prius and eating avocado toast before she finds out something like the company is really a front for ANTIFA, and she pulls out her fork and runs back home.

Dear Mr. Ex-Prosecutor Dude, There was no need to kill anyone. I guess you didn't know this, but since you kept hard evidence of the candidate's crime, there is this whole group of people who go by the name of "reporter" who would jump at the chance to take down a presidential candidate. In fact, since the candidate appeared to be a female liberal, there is a particular news organization named after an animal who would probably tell your story even without any evidence. 😉

Well that explains that, but I am still scratching my head as to how that particular title relates to this episode. At least "Whistleblower" had the advantage of being kinda funny. In other typical Blue Bloods silliness: Eddie is supposed to be working nights, but she pulls up to the dead cab driver in the middle of the day. This split shift story line is off to a rousing start. With the amount of cab rides in New York City on a given day, what are the odds that the killer is going to call the cab with the undercover cop in it? Must be like a gazillion to one. The cab chase was stupidly directed. Once the backup cops hear the perp high jacking the cab, there is no reason for the radio to suddenly go dead. Whether the radio is on or off makes no difference to the plot at that point, and when the backup van gets stuck in traffic, it contributes to a Keystone Kops like feel to the scene. What they might have done was have the perp enter the cab with some kind of cell phone jammer that blocked the radio signal. Then while the backup cops were confused and trying to figure out if he was the killer or not, an unaware Jamie drives off and they lose him in traffic. At least this way, they lessen the chance of the audience injuring themselves from excessive rolling of the eyes.

The body was found on a Naval Base so I guess that gives NCIS jurisdiction. The victim wasn't actually a Marine so the synopsis was incorrect.

Is this really the title of the episode? If so, I find it hilarious given the current news, but I am scratching my head trying to figure out how it would relate to the story.

Well the premise of the story was actually pretty interesting this week. Unfortunately they spent way, way too much time on the agent's backstories to develop it into an interesting case. The stepson might as well have had a giant neon sign over his head flashing "I am the killer" since there was no time to introduce any other people who might be suspects. LaSalle's brother, Pride's nightmares, Hannah's angst about being demoted plus case of the week are just too much to cram into one episode. Just concentrate on fleshing out your main case and having only one of those boring backstories please. Thanks

So the bad guy steals a nerve gas bomb and wants to release the gas on a base and kill hundreds of people because no one will tell him how his daughter died. Pride confronts him just before he is going to release the gas. Pride: "Don't do it! We have your daughter's CO here who will tell you what happened." CO: "Well… you see I got some bad intel and I sent your daughter and some other men to check it out. They got ambushed and they all died. The end." Bad Guy: "Ah OK, I guess that explains everything. I surrender." WTF??? THAT was the big secret that nobody could tell the father about? Well I guess there was no improvement to the writing team this offseason.

This show was just a hot mess from the very beginning, unless it was created to cure insomnia. In that case, it was a rousing success. The main plot revolved around Myfawny trying to recover her lost memories, but unfortunately it was told in the most boring way possible. She just wandered from person to person, who would spout exposition about what led up to her memory wipe. Nobody tried to stop her or hinder her in any way. If she needed top secret redacted information from a computer, she just went down to the computer room and got the information without anybody around to ask her what she was doing or why. She needed to talk to a chained up prisoner? She just asks nicely and they let her talk to him alone with no monitoring. She needs to find out how her memory was wiped? The kid who did it just shows up at her door because he magically knows where she lives. She gets arrested for the incident at the park and her off the books shenanigans, and it lasts about two minutes before she throws Linda under the bus and she is completely free and above suspicion again. She can visit her sister without anybody following, or wondering where she went to. Since there weren't any obstacles put in Myfawny's way that she needed to work through, her character never really developed and the main story just became very static and lifeless. Another big problem was that the bad guys were never shown to have anybody with EVA powers to match the Checquy. After the beat down in the subway, the slave traders just basically disappeared from the story as any real threat. That left everybody in Checquy not named Myfawny with nothing to do for almost the entire season. With the bad guys basically just watching from the sidelines, there was zero sense that Myfawny was in any danger whatsoever until the last episode. She never once had to use her powers to defend herself, so the show might as well have been about an accountant with amnesia for all the tension that was generated. The last episode was just the same old crap that the rest of the season was. Myfawny is caged in a van being driven to whoever bought her. I am thinking: "Aha! The serum that that suppresses her power will wear off too soon because they underestimated the true extent of her power that was shown in the bridge incident. Finally we are going to get to see her electro-frying some azzes! Oh wait! There’s a little girl caged in there with her. Obviously they are going to somehow work together and overpower the guards using their combined abilities. I wonder what clever plan Myfawny will come up with?" Nope, the random guard that was assigned to transport her just happens to be a member of the "resistance" and lets her out of the cage. Wow so exciting!!! She then goes back to the bad guy's hide out. She used to be some sort of bureaucrat, but now she apparently has become a ninja, because she can wander through the compound without any of the guards seeing her. She makes her way to the head honcho, who is completely unguarded cuz reasons, and zaps his face off. Now that looked pretty damn cool, so why couldn't we have been seeing things like that happening throughout the entire season? Also, how is Myfawny able to control her power so that she can call it up on command all of a sudden? That just happened out of the blue with no build up whatsoever. What they should have done was have her rediscover her power at some point, and then slowly train it up throughout the season so she could call it up and focus it at will. They then should have given the head bad guy some other badass EVA power and have them duke it out for the finale. But no, I guess we can't have too much excitement on this show. If there is a second season to this show, which I seriously doubt, I sincerely hope they replace the showrunners because they have shown zero ability to tell a decent story.

Linda called Myfawny to reassure her that she was OK with her leaving the Checquy. She told Myfawny "We both know it's for the best", and then finished with "I'll miss you". Myfawny replied "I'll miss you too", which I took to mean she had decided to go along with the mind wipe and was telling Linda goodbye because she wouldn't be seeing her again. Is there some other way to interpret this exchange?

She did give her consent. Linda called her and brought up the fact that she was never happy in the Checquy and that she needed to medicate herself to get through the day. At the end of the conversation Myfanwy told her "I'll miss you", which meant she explicitly gave her permission. At no point did her sister have a gun pointed at her head forcing her to do it.

This was one of the more enjoyable shows I’ve seen in the past few years. However, now that I've watched the entire season, I do have a question about the basic setup. So Vought injects babies with a drug that gives them superpowers. According to Starlight, they have no knowledge of this, and they grow up thinking that God gave them these abilities. When they become adults, I guess Vought somehow gets them to join their company. Now is it entirely voluntary? If so, I would have to believe there would be a certain percentage that wouldn't want to take orders from a giant corporation, so I guess there would be superpowered people running around in this world who don't work for Vought? If all this is true, why wouldn't the military or other government agencies recruit these independents to come work for them? From what I understood, the politicians didn't object to having superpowered people in the military per se, they just didn't want to have them there under corporate control. So take Mesmer for example. I guess he got kicked out of Vought, because he squealed to Homelander in the hopes that he could get back in. So if he wasn't working for Vought anymore, why is he relegated to signing autographs and posing for pictures? You would think some agency like the CIA would kill to have someone with his abilities on the payroll. You capture a terrorist and instead of wasting time torturing him, you just have Mesmer come in and read his mind. So is there some sort of contractual obligation where people with powers can only work for Vought? If so, then what is it and how is it enforced?

For a moment I thought the dolphin was put in there to teach The Deep a lesson about sexual harassment, but that ended quickly (and messily heh). Just as well I guess, since the perv actually seemed to be getting into it at the end there.

At least we didn't have to wait long to find out the answer to the burning question that the two kids were arguing about at the beginning of the first episode. Since we now know that Translucent has diamond skin, then the Deep would not be able to order a shark to bite Translucent's dick off, and he would thus go down to defeat. Although, now that I think about it, maybe the Deep could shove an electric eel up Translucent's butt? But then again there still remains the problem that Translucent is invisible, but I wonder if something like a dolphin's sonar would be able to locate Translucent's butthole? Of course, the Deep would have to figure out that Translucent was vulnerable to electricity in the first place, and since he doesn't seem to have a lot going on between his ears, I seriously doubt he would be able to figure all this out. So in conclusion, I would have to say that I agree with the kid that said Translucent would kick the Deep's ass in a fight. On the other hand, I did like Aquaman, so I probably would tend to agree with the other kid, who preferred to see the Deep's movie. Yeah, Invisible Force sounds boring and the bus poster for the movie wasn't all that anyways. This is an example of the very important thoughts that run through my head when I am trying to fall asleep at night.

Between this and the episode on the X-Files where the genie granted that guy his wish of becoming invisible and Deadpool 2, I'm starting to think that maybe invisibility isn't that great of a superpower to have...

I would have to agree with the others who think this show has been a big snoozefest so far. A big problem for me is that the powers that these Rooks have, while they might sound intriguing on paper, turn out to be completely boring when translated to the screen. First we have this dude who can change the composition of the air in people's lungs, which sounds totally badass, until you get to the part where he manifests his power, which just consists of him staring intently at his target until they choke and fall over. Then you have Hive Mind over there whose only power seems to be finishing each other's sentences and acting like robots when they are around each other. You would think that Myfanwy's power would be cool to see, but the only time she has used it, they just showed a shot of the lights flickering and then the bad guys fell over dead. And then they capture a leader of the bad guys and bring him to HQ. OMG what awesome power must he have that he needs to be isolated and chained up like Hannibal Lector? It is soon revealed that he can… wait for it… put himself into a state of suspended animation and then wake himself up! Oooh so scary! It's almost as if, when they were creating this show, the head honcho at the network said: "I want a superhero show like the ones on Netflix, but since we don't have the budget of Netflix, let's just give them powers that don't require a lot of costly special effects." Another thing I don't like is that the overall tone of this show is just too bleak and clinical. There is no warmth or sense of humor. I don't remember anybody on this show even so much as cracking a smile. The only emotions on display are Myfanwy's near constant state of fear and confusion. Everybody else just seems to be exposition spouting robots. I don't care about what happens to any character on this show. Well maybe I care the teeniest bit about the girl in the wheelchair, but that's probably because she is only on for about two minutes each episode and hasn't had time to grate on me yet. All of this is to say that if Starz cancelled Counterpart to make way for this show, I think they made a big mistake. Counterpart was much better than this show.

I don't think so. At the end of the story, Joan told her something like "Nah I don't believe a word of what you just said." And Cassie gave her a smirk like she was saying "I didn't think that you would fall for that, but I gave it my best shot”.

Watching Steve and Robin sneaking around a secret Russian military base in cute sailor outfits has got to be one of the funniest visuals ever, especially since I think of them as wearing their very own dorky superhero costumes. It was curtains for the Russkie once Steve got a hold of the microphone and started twirling it around like his signature S2 baseball bat. Never bet against Steve with a club in his hand!

Didn't Eve already give Konstantin that information in exchange for the location of the safe house that Villanelle was staying in when she was in England? I had the thought that maybe Carolyn was paying him off for manipulating Villanelle into killing Eve.

I thought the season was OK, but kinda disappointing because I was expecting more with the change to Netflix. My main problem was that they introduced Eve, the mother of all humankind, and never really did anything interesting with her. When she first showed up, I thought she was just pretending to be dumb and naive because she had found out that Lucifer had killed her son and she was out for revenge. Since she had been in Heaven for so long, I assumed she absorbed the wisdom of the ages and would be a worthy opponent to Lucifer. So I sat back and waited the whole season for the fireworks to start and then... nothing happened. There was no big bad guy, except for maybe a minor demon that Maze could probably take out with her pinkie, and Eve turned out to be your typical bored housewife who leaves her husband to have a fling with her old high school boyfriend trope, with a squishing a demon's eyeball with her heel variation thrown in. On the other hand, I did enjoy seeing all the old characters again, except they made Dan annoying again. Hopefully Dr. Linda straightened him out.

Over on NCIS: New Orleans, they had Pride spend most of the season talking to a dead CIA agent. Now with Gibbs channeling his ex-wife in this episode, I think we can reasonably assume that TPTB have all along been testing out the concept for the next chapter in the franchise - NCIS: We See Dead People.

Jeez people will put anything on Facebook these days. "Just got back from my trip to Mexico and I had the bestest time ever!!! Here's a pic with me and the head of Mexico's biggest drug cartel. People keep telling me that he's a murdering bastard, but I found him to be quite nice and charming. I mean how evil could he be with that dorky Hawaiian shirt he has on???"