PurpleTentacle

Only the last three days, but yes.

This was a lot better than episode one. Now I'm excited to see where this goes. On the list was a black heart, but Agatha said that was just because it was black marker. Even though her real name is Mrs. Davis, she was called Mrs. H(e)art during Wanda's hex. We are meant to believe that she is the wrong one and Aubrey Plaza would actually be the correct choice, but I believe in Mrs. Davis.

In the first few minutes it seemed like a nordic crime drama and I got all excited. Then it veered more into generic american cop show and my excitement dwindled. When Agatha got her memories back this went really down hill. I don't think I ever not liked a performance of Aubrey Plaza before. Even when she plays broad and over the top, like in Legion, she is usually amazing and you can sense the fun she is having. This seemed so "well, it's a living", doing it for the paycheck. I'll continue watching, but I'm a lot less excited than I was before the show started.

Technically what you are saying makes no sense, since the planet is a body in the system and you want to know that body's movement. It doesn't matter that it itself only marginally influences the system, you want to know how it is influenced by the system, making this a four body problem. If there are even more planets in the system, including them in the problem would be stupid, but excluding the very planet you want to know the movement for, is even stupider. Again beside the point.

Completely beside the point.

This was a very good show. But I have to say it was 90% the fault of the almost-nun that she died in that attic. I mean that wall was paper thin and there was even light shining through the cracks. A toddler could have broken through that. Since this was set in Ireland I don't see why english laws would be relevant.

I guess they were worried about the accusations and rumours. It's also not like he conciously decided to trap her in the cellar, he wanted to talk to her and then things escaleted further and further. What I found less believable was that Janice was supposedly super smart but acted super dumb at times. Did she really think escalating the situation was a good idea? Though that tracks with how Moffat writes "smart people". They are always assholes who never play nice, even if it could save their life. Also would she really think that an extremely smart kid would just knowingly hand her a thumb drive full of unencrypted child porn? Wouldn't she think that the vicars story is more likely? At least with the catholics the seal of confession can only be broken if you confess a plan to hurt somebody. Even serious past crimes like murder are covered by the seal. Not sure how exactly it is with the anglicans, but I assume it's similar. But considering how far he was willing to go to protect his son, you'd think he'd still do it... You can't actually trace flash drives. That's something the fucking vicar made up to trick Edgar. It also doesn't seem like Edgar is well enough connected or savy enough to trade anything privately. All the material he has will be publically availible and law enforecement will have had it for years.

I'm not going to subject myself to rewatching season one, but as far as I remember it was pretty clear that they had something in the past and were possibly rekindling it. It wasn't new at all. Theo is a bit lighter than Arondir, that's about it and not unexpected. Would you not thank your husband if he saved your son, even if it's also his son? Also she clearly hasn't told him. It's the most obvious and most cliched route there is, so considering the writers of this show, of course they are going to take it. I assume these are the kinds of writers who like to "subvert" established lore. I mean Gandalf is running around middle earth hundreds of years too early.

Don't get me wrong, I love Dolly Wells, but when David Tennant threw her down the stairs like that I was hoping this was a Scream-situation where she would be dead and all the marketing with her in it was just a red hering. But regardless, after one episode this is very, very good. Let's hope they keep up this level of quality. Edit Episode 2: Janice is playing an interesting yet dangerous game. It took me till the end of the episode to figure out what she was doing. She made a big deal to the wife about what she'd have to give in order to get the e-mail password, then she just gave the password to the vicar, leaving the wife to wonder what he might have given Janice in return, when in reality it was nothing, sowing mistrust. But I'm not sure what her end goal is here. At the moment it seems to me like she would have been better off to just wait it out and try to calm everybody as much as possible. Instead she is escalating the situation. Episode 3: I really think Mary is right, Janice thinks everboy but her is dumb and thus she is advancing the completely wrong strategy. Instead of deescalition, she has escalated this situation at every turn. By some miracle it worked out for her so far, when realistically it should have gotten her killed sooner, but it's still not a winning strategy. That would have been to appeal to the vicar's better nature and pretending like she came to believe him, after a while. She seems to be a good actress, she could have sold that... Though since these dumbasses actually sent the e-mail from their own house, maybe she is right, maybe everybody but her is a stupid... Episode 4: Yeah her laptop and phone missing, that's the problem. Not that the police might check where the e-mail was sent from when people notice she's missing or presumed dead and it will come up as your house, as these e-mail providers log your IP adress forever. Also for a supposedly super smart woman Janice doesn't seem to have much of a problem with a gas heater running in an enclosed space... Man people fall down stairs and get hit by things in this show a lot. - This was a very good show. Characters acted stupidly at times, but believably so, well at least most of the time. Very tightly written. I'm a bit sad that it's over so fast but that's better than it dragging on for too long. Also that last scene was a fun twist. I'm wondering if there will be a second season. The brits sometimes take their sweet time, so that there isn't any news yet might not mean anything. But now that I've seen that it's written by Steven Moffat, I really don't want there to be a second one. He has a tendency, oh what am I saying, a rule, to flanderize his own work, that usually starts out great, till just a bad farce. I'd hate to see him do that to this show.

I finally got through it. It wasn't easy but I did it. Had to resort to playing video games on the side to not fall asleep. I might be out soon. At least season 1 was fun to hate watch, this is just increadibly boring. I still don't like the "let's cram modern politics into lord of the rings"-thing. Also where did that giant eagel come from? It just chilling there? So they killed Bronwyn between seasons? Guess the actress wanted out (can't blame her) and they didn't want to recast yet another character... It was actually just ever so slightly above 3 hours, without the previously on and the end credits. Episode 1: 1:07 Episode 2: 0:56 Episode 3: 1:00 I know it feels like 4 hours, hell to me it felt more like 5, but that's just because it's so insanely boring. I'd say it is a bad watch and yes, the Wheel of Time is a lot better. Not the greatest show ever made, but at least it's entertaining. Also just wrong and foreshadowing with a sledgehammer "I never knew my father, but I know he's not you." Um boy, you are the only two people with that skin colour in a hundred mile radius and he used to nail your mom. Do the math!

I think I should elaborate on my statement above that Sauron having reformed yesterday is boring. How much more interesting would it make him as a villain if he had reformed a long time ago, but used that time to plot and scheme, to amass more influence and power over centuries, after he had failed with the direct approach. Like where did he get that symbol of the royal family that died out hundreds of years ago? Maybe he was invloved with them way back, or even ended their line to sow chaos in the south lands, that he could eventually exploit. Nope, he reformed yesterday and got that symbol from a dude who's family served the royal family hundreds of years ago and who still carries it with him. Riveting and so believable! /s On top of that of course the convenience that he just ran into Galadriel, a high ranking general of the elves, like a day after he had reformed. It would make him a much more interesting villain if he had arranged that somehow, after searching for an opportunity for years. But nope, most massive coincidence ever.

No I did not see that stalagmite and I suspect most people didn't. It's basically a wall of black when not viewed in the most optimal of conditions. If showrunners have to tell viewers in interviews what was happening, it's probably a problem and I don't think it's really cool. Also mighty convenient and boring that he reformed just yesterday, for reasons I guess, after sloshing around for a thousand years. But whatevs. It's not like that's the biggest problem with the writing here... Anyway, thank you for clarifying. At least now I know what the intention was. Well, the other ones aren't so much fallen... except Saruman. But that comes a few thousand years later, or 20 years ago in a Peter Jackson movie, depending on your perspective. (just going by cinematic universe here)

I got that it was a flashback pretty quick, but what took me by surprise was that Sauron having been killed by his troops happened like yesterday? I thought that was hundreds of years ago. Or did he spend hundreds of years as sludge? In that case what took him so long to reform? At that point all of Adar's alarm bells should have been going off. How dumb can you be to not see what he was doing in that moment? They told him to pledge his loyalty to Adar and he is all like "oh yeah I pledge my loyalty to the lord of Mordor, wink wink, nudge nudge." Can we just start calling him Gandalf? Keeping up the stranger thing seems a bit weird at this point. Wasn't it even confirmed last season that it's Gandalf? Or was it just all but confirmed? Good for him.

Like two minutes in and this is already rage inducing again. God damn it Galadriel, would you stop keeping vital information to yourself!? If your ring gives you a vision saying that Sauron has returned to Celebrimbor, tell somebody! If you see something say something! I know she is a lot younger here, but it's hard to believe that this dumbass will become the wise Galadriel we know from Lord of the Rings.

Guess Luther, the writers and me totally forgot about her. The Durango was created when she created the Marigold, as a byproduct. I think it's an allusion to how matter and antimatter were created in (amlost) equal parts in the early universe. The two merging also wiped out their home planet. I guess it only resets timelines when all of the Marigold and Durango annihilate each other and there was clearly still a lot left. Of course like I said before, that means the ending doesn't make sense.

The Highlight of the season were clearly Nick Offerman and Megan Mullally. It's been too long since the two of them have been in something together. Sad that we didn't get more of them here, but every scene with them was gold. I was extremely disappointed by the Klaus storyline. I love the character, but the writers haven't given him anything good since season 1. So it's not that I would have liked for his storyline to be cut, but just be something better. What really worked well was the Five and Lila storyline. No notes here. The ending of course made no sense. First, there were a bunch more kids born from the Marigold, the members of the umbrella academy were just the ones Hargreves managed to adopt. We were told that in the first season, got it reiterated last season and even this season there were hints towards that fact in the other timelines. Even if that wasn't the case, why would it be enough for the umbrellas in this timeline to merge with the Durango? Wouldn't every piece of Marigold in every timeline have to merge with Durango to fix things? Overall it was fun, but a steady decline after the first season.

I'm on the first episode and it drifts a bit too much into fantasy land, with how much is clearly staged here. With the motel it always teetered on the edge, but this fell off the cliff. I mean it's pretty clear that Trixie and David don't pay for the reno, but HBO does. Hence the lower budget with the lower episode count. That's a fantasy I can accept if they don't bring it up too much. But David not having approved the house before Trixie bought it? Oh please. Again, I know all this house-hunting stuff is completely fabricated, they probably already decided on this house long before they saw the other ones, had actually competent realtors, etc. but that pushed it a bit far.

Also they made such a big deal about the shower and the result was really "meh". If it's really that expensive how does it not have more jets and stuff? I guess they wanted that retro aesthetic, but I'm sure you could have gotten that or at least something close with modern functions. What does something looking pretty give you if it doesn't do its job well?

I mean, they are literally a supe-fighting-team, sponsored by the US government. In their headquarters they don't have anything lying around that could kill your run of the mill supe (I'd classify Deep as such in terms of resistance to damage and regeneration ability)? Like not even a chainsaw or a machete to chop off his head? How long can that take? 30 seconds? My suspension of disbelieve has officially snapped.

They really want to sell me on the boys not being able to take Deep out permanently? We have never heard that he has any super resistance/healing/etc. above your normal supe. The boys have to have something around to take a supe like him out. Hell in season 1 they had a guy, member of the 7 when that still meant something, with impenetrable skin and took him out by shoving a stick of dynamite up his ass. Now every garden-variety supe-asshole seems to be invulnerable. For example Neuman, once a great threat due to being a remote-head-popper and politically well connected, now also unkillable. Yawn. It is getting really annoying. Also makes Homelander seem less intimidating. When everybody is invulnerable and an existential threat, nobody is. The writing has really gone down hill on this stuff. I get that writers and showrunners grow close to the actors over time, but to be great, they really have to put that aside sometimes. How much cooler and more fitting would it have been if Deep would have been killed this episode, because he got cocky and underestimated the boys? And also, I love her, but maybe let Kimiko die of the virus. Let her whole thing with Frenchie be unresolved. We need something to up the stakes in here, show that this is real and not a sitcom, where everything turns out okay at the end. Or is raping Hughie every episode now what counts for tension in this show? I'm not entertained by it, that's for sure.

"Any" is probably a bit of a stretch. In reality it's probably just "most". Hughie's dad was braindead. Considering that it did a remarkable job at healing. Stormfront was at one point immortal, something not many supes have, not even Homelander, but all the V in her blood couldn't heal the injuries Ryan gave her. So I guess there are limits. I also was hoping that Simon Pegg would get a little more to do with V in his system. Instead they just killed him, those bastards!

If it was always the plan for this season they didn't integrate it well. But I doubt it. Just because it's in the books doesn't mean it automatically happens here. They diverged dramatically from the books, including Daniel's and Armand's relationship. It seems very much like they had this episode written in a way that would have ended the series and that would not have involved Daniel being turned, as that opens too many new doors. Then, when they got renewed, they decided to stick closer to the book afterall.

I think were sufficiently wraped up. Of course not everything will be wraped up in a season finale, that isn't a series finale. What shoddy plotting did they chalk up to shoddy memories and/or perspective? The only thing is the tractor salesman in New Orleans. That was a retcon to a fuckup they had made in season 1. But everything in this season was clearly a deliberate setup for the "twist" at the end. Like Sam being in two places at once. Even Louis would never die of having too little blood. It just drives them slightly insane. Probably same happened with Lestat, but that seems to be kinda his normal state.

Oh yeah, one more thing. Could Lestat not also have saved Claudia? He still seems very broken up about her death 70 years later. He also seems to be extremely powerfull, certainly more powerfull than anybody in that coven besides Armand, but probably also him. If what he says is true he can't even be killed if he doesn't want to be killed. I would have liked a bit more of an explaination as to why he coudn't or wouldn't save her, when he saved Louis. Also why does the Talamasca want to break up Louis and Armand? What do they care if one Vampire is lying to another? Did I miss something? Well maybe that will become clear in future seasons.

I agree with others here that the season dragged in parts and while I can understand wanting to keep the actor around and employed, it would have done the show more of a service and would have been a much bigger impact, if Lestat had been actually gone for most of the season and only shown up at the trial. Maybe they could have instead given him time to do a short film or something. I'm sure he has offers. On the other hand there were also good parts. The new actor they had for Claudia was great and I loved all the parts she was in. Then there was the flashback to the original interview, which was great. The trial at the end was exciting and you knew something else was up with it, which was intriguing. But yeah, the other parts really could have been condensed by ~2 episodes. But I really liked this ending this episode. I think it hit all the right beats from a story and emotional perspective. The only thing I don't like about it is Daniel having been turned into a vampire. I don't know if it's really the case, but it feels like a hurried reshoot after they got renewed for a third season. It also doesn't fit with what Louis said to Armand. He said "You are not to touch him! Do you understand? You harm him in any way, I will kill you. Do you understand?" There is no loophole there. Turning somebody into a vampire certainly involves touching and harming. If he had said "don't kill him", then there would be an argument to be made, but he didn't. So I hope Armand is actually dead after this. Otherwise I will have lost all the respect I had for Louis. This should not be, can not be, an idle threat.