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On 4/4/2024 at 6:23 PM, Danny Franks said:
And how do they get off, when they reach their destination?
I read the book decades ago, and the only answer I’ve ever been able to come up with is “Verrrry carefully.”
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5 hours ago, Snazzy Daisy said:
“You would’ve liked her.”
That’s BS, Jubal.
Linzer is only marginally less sympathetic than Rina herself was. Jubal is letting sentiment (or something more hormonal) cloud his judgment. But then he never seemed to see Rina for the desperate, unprincipled climber that she was. So … it’s kind of in character for him — yay?
I’m just glad I’m not the only one who immediately thought “What? No, he wouldn’t — she was awful! I do mostly like Jubal’s and Forrester’s scenes together. Kleintank and Sisto have a nice chemistry.
But the whole collaboration with the CIA storyline didn’t make sense to me since the purposes of the FBI and the CIA seem diametrically opposed: law vs. destabilization.
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12 hours ago, Snazzy Daisy said:
I want to blame Tim for everything but then he looks so tormented while breaking-up with Lucy. He’s been carrying the guilt of feeling responsible for Henderson and Coyle's death for a long time.
This just seems like the kind of detail that should have been built into Tim’s character from Season 1 — not pulled (unless I am very much mistaken) out of some neophyte writer‘s bag of tricks two weeks ago.
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Tim's reasoning for breaking up with Chen is idiotic -- this whole plotline seems created out of whole cloth to make everyone (with the possible exception of Diaz) look as stupid as possible.
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Dr. Ripley's knowing about Pawel's gambling will mean Dr. Charles will be forced to testify at the malpractice hearing. Which will in turn cause Liliana to break up with Dr. Charles. Which will create bitterness between Ripley and Charles.
It would be nice if the show didn't telegraph its dramatic choices so clearly. It would also help if the plot line of Daniel's relationship with Liliana didn't have "DOOMED" stamped on its forehead from the beginning. :: sigh:: What can you do?
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Or it’s hubris on the part of the Bene Gesserit (… which, I know: “Gee, ya think?) breeding for a particular quality or genetic combination, and thinking they can control or destroy whatever else may result.
I confess I’m surprised that Irulan seems to think the BG was interested in helping her father maintain his hold on the throne. When Gaius Helen Mohiam tells Irulan that her father will lose the throne in any event, she seems taken aback by this. Book!Irulan always seemed more loyal to the BG anyway, so the version of her in this movie comes across as a bit naive, not to be more aware of the Sisterhood’s true loyalties.
SpoilerI like to imagine the BG’s reaction when it’s revealed, some 5 or 6 millennia later, that the ultimate Quzzical Hatrack isn’t a Harkonnen or an Atreides at all, but Duncan Idaho ver. 19.0 or something:
“… I’m sorry, what?”
(Which feels like a particularly cheap retcon by Brian Herbert to me, but still: Missionaria Suckstobeyouva!)
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On 3/5/2024 at 11:13 PM, Frost said:
Casting Christopher Walken as the Emperor was a mistake. I swear, he sounded like a bad impersonator!
For what it’s worth, I found Walken’s particular vocal patterns less evident (less exaggerated?) than sometimes. I do find it interesting that both Villeneuve and Lynch cast actors with highly distinctive voices as the Emperor. No one else sounded like Jose Ferrer!
2 hours ago, Grimnar said:Well, in novel, if everything would be all according to plan regarding Kwisatz Haderach, then his father would be Feyd and great grandfather would be Vladimir Harkonnen.
So it was never the best plan😁
Edited to add: Or maybe my whole premise is too simplistic. Maybe Feyd-Rautha’s nature isn’t directly heritable?
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Does making Feyd-Rautha so explicitly psychotic and bloodthirsty create a bit of a plot hole? I don’t remember that in the novel. Nothing against Butler’s performance, which was equal parts mesmerizing and skin-crawling creepy. But doesn’t the Harkonnen House brand of evil & crazy represent an instability the BG would want to screen out, rather than breed in? Mohiam is sure they can control him, but his genetic material must be inherently flawed, if not entirely useless. Unless the literal translation of “Kwisatz Haderach” is “Kookoo for Cocoa Puffs.”
Or perhaps Villeneuve is suggesting that the BG is overconfident in its own planning.
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Are we supposed to have any degree of sympathy for Dr. Ahmad? Because I really don’t. She’s impulsive, careless and yet so exhaustingly sure of her own rightness she’s snippy and disrespectful to her teachers. What the hell was she calling Marcel “Professor Snape” for? Sure, mouth off to the one guy left in your corner. That should work out well for you. I’m tired of her weekly self-created crises. Ending her career would be a boon to medicine.
Also, Pawel the sketchy brother can go, too.
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Is there anyone whom Voight has really cared about who isn't either dead or gone?
Camille, Justin, Al, Nadia, Noah -- all dead;
Lindsay, Brown Halstead, Olive & his grandchild -- gone.
I don't know if it's enough to settle his karmic debt, but he's basically lost his entire family.
And Trudy should probably get the heck outta Chicago, like, yesterday.
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I honestly thought Noah might make it —at least at the beginning of the episode.
Voight’s going to rip that offender in half with his bare hands.
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What’s Chief Robinson’s deal? She clearly hates Violet for, uh, reasons. She’s a walking red flag her own self.
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Hmm. Does this iterative process also apply to determine the lengths the Nefarious Redheads (formerly Rosalind, now the almost-as-ridonkulous Monica) get to go to?
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I almost gave up at the autopsy scene. I mean, obviously Bailey can do everything ever, but, seriously, what would possess Nolan to think they could or should perform an impromptu autopsy?
If the episode immediately following your main character’s wedding is called “Trouble in Paradise,” is it lampshading, on-the-nose, or a tacit admission that your show’s OTP is :: pppbbbtt:: ?
Nolan seemed much more excited about his new spy tech toys than about his new bride. They’re not supposed to be giddy twenty-somethings, obviously, but that is … not good.
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21 hours ago, Snazzy Daisy said:
Noah’s 👁👁 being stapled open are truly disturbing.
At first, I thought it looked like Noah had been blinded. Nightmarish.
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I think I liked it, but as soon as Voight told ASA Chapman “We’re all he’s got,” I knew Voight would end up taking the kid in.
The Justin-anvils were thick on the ground.
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Considering what a game-changer AW was to the form and substance of the genre, I agree.
And I definitely remember the location shoot where Catlin saved Sally from the runaway horse.
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Does anyone know if Heida Reed had an option in her contract for a short stint on the show? Or maybe she signed on for only two seasons? Because Kellett’s backstory now feels kind of like a ripcord that was always waiting to be pulled. I’ll miss Jamie, I think. Reed had nice chemistry with the rest of the cast.
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Is it wrong that I wanted the show to prove to me that Tank was fine before anyone went back into the building?
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"The Unholy Ms. Reynolds"? In 1947? Nnnnope. (Mind you, it is Michelle Yeoh we're talking about, so maybe she's also a time traveller?)
I thought it was properly atmospheric, and I liked Tina Fey in this dramatic role (although her Midatlantic accent comes and goes more than Alicia's ghost). I was sorry to see Michelle Yeoh peg out so early.
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Oops. Wrong thread.
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I find I agree that linking the stories into a continuing narrative wasn't as effective in this season. And, while I can see the argument, at least to some extent, that Peggy's become a little too perfect, I find the character, and Hayley Atwell's performance, so appealing that I can't summon much outrage about it. (Agent Carter remains one of my favourite pieces in the Marvel Universe output, partly for its light touch.)
I also found Strange Supreme's heel-face-hell (heh) pivoting a little hard to follow -- or care much about, since Marvel seems to be making a habit of reversing character growth for plot-related reasons, in ways that I find mostly cheap. (:: side-eyes Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Blame The Woman ::)
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On 6/30/2023 at 12:04 AM, SeanC said:
All that said, when assessing this series as a whole: Raiders of the Lost Ark was cinematic lightning in a bottle, a true classic. Every subsequent entry, setting aside nostalgia goggles, has not approached that level. Dial of Destiny is not a great film, but I think it sits comfortably enough in the canon and serves as an amiable ending for Indy. Say a 3.5 out of 5, probably a shade generous, but good fun.
This sums up my feelings pretty much exactly. I don't mind telling you, though, that when Marion finally showed up on screen, I sobbed like a baby. (Maybe Chekov's Divorce Papers should have been a clue? Likely. Does that make me a sucker? Don't really care.) The reunion scene alone was worth the limitations of the rest, maybe even bumps it up to to a 4 out of 5 for me.
Edited to add: I assume that the "Indy wakes up to a noisy neighbour" repetition-slash-return scene meant that he was returned to a point before the murders actually happened (admittedly I haven't thought about this too hard).
It was nice to see Sallah again; John Rhys-Davis always makes things better.
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OMG, even in animated form the Grandmaster is charmless and boring as fuck.
Someone needs to tell Jeff Goldblum (and Marvel) he's not nearly as funny as he thinks he is. This episode was just a slog to get through.
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S06.E06: Secrets And Lies
in The Rookie
Yeah, really not sure why they need to turn Celina into a bubblehead. Can Nolan be that bad a TO?
One Smitty’s plenty — more than enough, in fact.