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Sandman

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  1. I want an episode where everyone is played by Michael Pena's ultra-fast-talking Luis. This was far too dark for me, to an unnecessary degree. Even the characters' acts of self-sacrifice ended up being warped into meaninglessness.
  2. I think my DVR didn't record these?! I thought "Renewal" was the end... ETA: How did I not see the 16th as the airdate?? Coolcoolcooolcooool. Thanks, @shoregirl.
  3. Oops! So much for my idea of a family resemblance being "plausible." Try "actual," Sandman!
  4. The central weakness of this episode was the divergence point, for me. It might not have been an all-consuming love in the movie, but Strange did come to realize that he did love Christine -- eventually. It's just that he had to reach a certain point of enlightenment, or at least self-knowledge, to understand that. It's a bit of a bootstrap problem, for me: his love for Christine becomes the thing that drives him toward mystic knowledge, but without a driver toward mystic knowledge, he never would have realized how much he loved Christine. Having Strange start from the point of being in love with Christine seems somehow like cheating. That being said, I do think the voice work in this episode was excellent; a totally involving and moving episode, bleak though it was. (What does it say about me that I was sure almost from her first syllables that Christine was being played by McAdams, but couldn't have sworn I recognized Renner right off? This isn't a knock on Renner, I don't think.)
  5. No one needs that universe. Ick. I dunno -- I thought Nebula calling T'Challa "Cha-Cha" was kind of adorable. I have more trouble imagining that Yondu could go straight than almost anything else in the episode, but I appreciate the implicit compliment to Chadwick Boseman represented by T'Challa's reality-altering eloquence. (I still haven't forgiven Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. II for soft-pedalling Yondu's threats of cannibalism to try to turn him into a substitute father for Peter. That never sat right with me.) But it was a fun heist episode.
  6. I actually find it quite believable that Holt could feel discouraged, dogged by the feeling that his thirty-odd year career hasn't resulted in the kinds of change he's been working so hard for, even if the public is more aware of the problem now. There is significant backlash as well, and concepts like defunding the police and critical race theory are mangled and shouted down by a large faction of the right wing without even really attempting to understand what these ideas actually mean. I will find it heartbreaking if Holt's and Kevin's marriage doesn't end up in a better state, but I'm not sure I have trouble believing in the reasons why it's (or might be?) faltering.
  7. Not only is his colouring similar enough to Fumero's to make a resemblance plausible, but it's easy to imagine Jake as a sweet-faced, serious-eyed baby with a mop of dark hair, too.
  8. It's the "... [signed] Raymond J. Holt" that always kills me -- still. But I don't want even to imagine a world in which the smell of mayo is enough to turn Scully on. It just ... NOPE.
  9. That was brilliant! What does it say about me that I think a Tiny Terry spinoff would be vastly more entertaining than either Young Sheldon, or Young Rock, for that matter? Loved the moment that Mac stood up in his playpen. From the casting of the kid to Samberg's wonder-filled response -- just about perfect all around. Amy and Jake's maple-scented flailing was endearing, and the end of the episode was just sweet enough. ETA: Between Holt's signing his digital phallus portrait to Kevin with his usual hauteur, and his genuinely surprising (to me), sailor-like "Not too thinky" cussing out of O'Sullivan, André Braugher was more than usually brilliant.
  10. Doing a rewatch on Disney +, and I just want to say how much I still love Peggy's platonic-but-blinding chemistry with Mr. Jarvis. James D'Arcy is just endlessly entertaining in the role, and a brilliant match for Hayley Atwell. Howard might be the role of a lifetime for Dominic Cooper; or maybe it's just that it's the most I've ever liked him. I enjoyed the "Captain Carter" episode of What If... but it feels a little superfluous somehow; that is, I agree with the comment upthread that giving Peggy superpowers seems almost beside the point. Edited to add: Not that I didn't enjoy watching Captain Carter hand out lollipops and whupass... Also, the moment Peggy picked up that sword to slash at the Hydra tentacle, I admit I thought of Captain Britain. (Excalibur, here we come?)
  11. I just about died at bleeped-out, blurred-out Amy. Oh, my goodness, I missed this family so much! It so happens I've been doing a Scrubs rewatch lately, and the cameo from Johnny C. was a lovely coincidence. Full disclosure: I also laughed my head off at "Amy was right: Drugs are bad." But then, Stephanie Beatriz's comic timing and delivery usually make me laugh out loud.
  12. Well, the "He's a friend from work!" set piece is delightful (I'm not made of flint, people) -- but I think that's largely due to Hemsworth's charm. I also laughed at Sir Anthony playing Loki playing Odin. But so many of the characters had to act so completely out of character that a lot of the jokes -- that the script was so clearly striving mightily for -- fell flat for me. And don't even get me started on Jeff Goldblum's ... whatever it was he was doing. ETA: Sorry for straying off the topic of Loki's glorious ... befuddlement.
  13. Am I remembering it wrong? Didn't Nicole also work against Abe's interest while she and Elvis were ... married, I want to say? Maybe Elvis just gives me rage blackouts and I'm confused. I did not know about the Abe-Brandon connection, so thanks to those who flagged that for me. The list of what this show does not know or does not fully understand is frighteningly long and varied: civic structure, public service, criminal and civil law, medicine, biology, structural engineering, basic chemistry & physics, temporal mechanics ...
  14. How are Nicole and Abe so chummy? That's what I want to know. Elvis and "Nicki" were trying to get Abe sent to prison not so very long ago, I seem to remember. Their friendship now seems at the very least unlikely.
  15. You can come sit by me if you want; not hating Thor: The Dark World doesn't seem crazy to me. (Full disclosure: I think Thor: Ragnarok is by far the worst thing in the MCU: an irretrievable tonal mess that treats its main character with scorn, and I think I'm considered crazy for that -- so you may not want to sit near me!)
  16. You know, I think I'd be okay with the universal (omniversal?) restoration of free will as the endpoint of this series. (I do wonder what the Time Keepers' being artificial constructs will mean. I was beginning to speculate that the Time Keepers would turn out to be Will Ferrell, still trying to super-glue all the Legos.) Sylvie's speech about how "the universe wants to break free, so it manifests chaos" is a straight-up mission statement for a trickster god. You could make a pretty sturdy argument that the function of a trickster god in any mythology is to preserve randomness and thereby the possibility of choice. ETA: Did I see Richard E. Grant as Old-School Loki? This might be fun.
  17. The whole premise of the Sacred Timeline bothered me from the first episode (like ... so much for free will!) But I hadn't thought of the torch/taser things as possible reset button technology; nice catch.
  18. And this is different from Ava's usual sort of pointlessness how, again? I keep thinking there's a pun to be made about the Original Shin of this show, but I can't get the bat off my shoulder.
  19. Or maybe he just couldn't bring himself to? I feel you, Steve; I do. Without even watching the episode, I feel you, man.
  20. I usually feel like a minority of one when it comes to Meet the Parents, because I think it's truly vile. Just unrelievedly nasty, through and through. (Cringe comedy has never been my thing.) I just don't get it, either, but now I don't feel so alone. So, thank you, @andromeda331 And thanks to @Ms Blue Jay for the chance to sort out my attribution.
  21. I think Justine was introduced before Rachel married Carl (and I think I stopped watching before their "love story" (ick) anyway), but that marriage seemed so incontrovertibly wrong to me that it the show had plainly lost its way. I could never bring myself to watch after that. Another World was the soap I loved first and best, and the idea of Rachel falling in love with Carl Hutchins ruined it.
  22. I think Maggie actually said this, or something very close to it, when Sophie first talked about what happened. Having said that, I can't imagine why Maggie wouldn't have gone over with Sophie what exactly she was going to say in telling her story, nor can I imagine that the issue of naming Peter didn't come up until the moment Sophie uttered his name in the podcast. I think Maggie had a slightly "Eeep" kind of facial expression, but that's it? Yeah, I don't think so.
  23. And Nash's world just got at least 15% more interesting. I'm not saying I'm gonna line up for tickets to A Million Little Things in the Multiverse of Badness, but if Baron Mordo is part of the cast next season, I'll at least watch the premiere. For whatever it's worth, it was my impression that Delilah came up with the idea of moving to France permanently after Sophie spent time there, not before. I don't think selling Sophie on the move was part of any agenda on Delilah's part. Otherwise, why not discuss it while Sophie was there? I also seem to remember that going to France to visit Delilah was Sophie's idea, not her mother's -- but I could be mistaken. SunnyBeBe, don't forget Katherine's varied and expensive forms of passive aggression as examples for Theo of how (not) to handle anger.
  24. Didn't Maggie give up her apartment? Did she sublet? Was it empty the whole ... year? (I don't actually know how long ago it was in Million Little Things time since Maggie left for Oxford.) I found it jarring that she's just back there, podcasting away, seemingly without transition. And yes, Maggie's apartment is what I'm choosing to focus on right now... ETA: Except to add that, while I'm glad Javier Sr. is so unswervingly loyal to his son that he's prepared to alibi him out, the fact that Junior is going to let him is incredibly disturbing and feels out of character for Gary -- but this whole Vigilante Gary thing feels deeply wrong to me. (See "grimdark and stupiddumb," above.)
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