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7 hours ago, SeanBug said:
So they're going to sacrifice Cruz to take this fiance guy out with a drone attack at a wedding?
No, Cruz is supposed to take him out by any means necessary. So the idea is that wherever and whenever she meets him, she will improvise a weapon and kill him on the spot. The drone strike is for her, after she has been captured and is in the process of being tortured. She could possibly escape but they are assuming that won't be the case.
6 hours ago, Chicago Redshirt said:There's no real reason why that wasn't considered that I can see other than "we can do it better ourselves and the chances of us getting caught are pretty small."
Having seen far too many shows and movies where the squad of Ultimate Badasses are the only ones who can save the world (even though they aren't even supposed to be there today), there is some element of this. Having said that, they also wanted to make sure no witnesses would be left alive as well, something the cops might not be as willing to do.
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So there is Morgan Freeman! Always fun to hear him say "this is some bullshit" in that legendary voice. But I wish the show had done a bit more to spell out who he was. They are at the White House but the President isn't there. But there are a group of angry bureaucrats present to remind everyone that this CIA-on-American-soil plot is not even legal. Okay, that is nice... but who are they? I think someone called Morgan Freeman Mr. Secretary. Secretary of what? Defense? Commerce? The Interior?
Also, who is Nicole Kidman's husband? He is glued to the newspaper at all times, apparently doesn't like sex (maybe he can't get over Nicole Kidman's doll-like face either) and says sage but ambiguous things every time she walks into the room. He's worth brokering information to and from even though she's the CIA director! He's a finance guy. The puppet master pulling the strings of the CIA?
For some reason I have the impression that the unseen bad guy will not actually be the bad guy after all, it will be the bride who will be behind it all. She's smart and crafty and she has done things that suggest she's into counter-surveillance. If the good guys can have Lionesses why can't the bad guys?
3 hours ago, Snazzy Daisy said:The highly-trained QRF team is more than capable to neutralize the home invasion situation. There’s no need for Kyle to be there. What a pointless arc!
I think there are two possible reasons for this. First, Kyle can get $30,000 on an ask but the QRF can't (although they do seem to spend money like it is water). Second, I have a feeling this is going to come back and bite him in the ass later. One of those kids is going to call the cops or something and then they will be in the position of having to murder three teenagers and anyone else nearby which they are probably not authorized to do.
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First, big props to Stephen Kunken, who plays Spyros. I must give credit to an actor with the power to annoy me with every moment of a character's existence. Spyros is such a smug, obnoxious prick and a little of him goes such a long way.
I'm not sure what happened in the Dollar Bill plot. He had some information that he wasn't ethically allowed to act on so he had to find some other way. So he ends up being forced to reunite with Mafee who is able to make these shady trades. Once that is done, Dollar Bill and Scooter have some weird poker game involving the serial numbers from actual dollar bills and when DB figures out that Scooter has been holding five aces this whole time, respect is given and they come to an agreement about how to get along so DB can do his thing. Erm, okay. I was hoping Mafee was going to get Dollar Bill stoned, that could have been fun.
Also, did I miss something with the visit to Jock? Chuck just brought him some nice cowboy boots and all was forgiven? I don't remember a boot fetish being part of Jock's character. In fact, that's more Chuck's thing. So I guess it makes sense that Chuck would think of it but it doesn't make sense that Jock would be so happy about it. I guess jail footwear really sucks?
I laughed at Wendy calling Axe's son Gordie Gecko and Axe taking it as a compliment. I understood that reference!
Speaking of references I'm pretty sure I heard someone make one and someone else say the target audience wouldn't get it! So rare for them to hang that particular lampshade on this show! Most of the time they just spout off obscure knowledge and whomever is receiving knows exactly what they are talking about, like Chuck and Dave having a boxing match by talking about old boxers. I know who the old boxers are which is to say I have heard the names but I could not virtually spar with someone by calling out their specific moves (unless it's the classic Tyson move of biting someone's ear off).
I wonder if Axe was just testing his crew with the temptation to work for him in Europe. Obviously he intends to join them so I would imagine he was just checking to see if they have the required level of commitment to oppose Prince? I guess the allure of shiny things is a running theme through this episode.
Least realistic aspect of the episode: a man needing to do molly because he can't get wood for Piper Perabo!
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Well, I liked Mayor of Kingstown and this show has the exact same vibe to it so I'm onboard for whatever this season brings us.
Also getting strong vibes of first season 24 here although that could be due to the daughter's car accident plot.
Nicole Kidman looks weird, I can't pin down what it is about her but her face is disturbing in this show. Could be that she's doing that reverse-aging thing celebrities do now where they end up looking younger than they were 20-30 years ago.
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Wasn't Ira also due to become a judge but Chuck sabotaged him to keep him where he was? I was waiting for that plot to blow up when it happened but it didn't come up again in that season.
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This isn't supposed to have aired as of August 11th? (Spoiler tag edited out after air date)
Wow, I was 100% correct about Dollar Bill's firm, High Plains Capital. Mafee is high and Dollar Bill is plain! I made that joke back in the day based on Dan Soder (the actor who plays Mafee) appearing on a comedian's Youtube channel where he let us know in no uncertain terms that cannabis is not a performance enhancer in the competitive sport of table soccer. You can see it here, it is hilarious watching him get absolutely destroyed by an opponent who is wearing oven mitts.
I'm not familiar with that "I'm so awesome" song that was playing when Wendy was coming in to MPC at the beginning. I can only assume they were using this music ironically.
The reporter was a little over the top. I mean, even for this show. And I don't really buy the whole thing where he can just barge in because he's going to write some story that is going to talk some shit. I guess the production team on this show doesn't read a lot of papers lately.
I know alliances are always shifting on this show but I don't specifically remember Taylor rejoining Team Axe and if the reason for this was supposed to be the office shenanigans in this episode, I'm not sold.
Also not yet sold on Prince as Hitler. Wishing to stop the United States from turning into Idiocracy does not necessarily call for Nazi tactics.
I guess Hollywood ankle monitors let you just wander as you please? I was under the impression that real ones keep you confined to a single location which should be an area somewhat smaller than "lower Manhattan".
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3 hours ago, Zaffy said:
So Batal -my middle name is Ripley- might survive? But will it be as a human? Maybe she will become the Gorn Queen?
That was kind of funny. The creature comes up, snarls at her and then immediately departs in a scene shamelessly lifted from Alien 3. Listen, Gorn youngling, I have seen Xenomorphs before and you sir, are no Xenomorph.
I would not love it if Batel was rescued from the planet only to die from the unwanted pregnancy which must be terminated because of the risk to the mother. Say, I wonder if they are reaching for a particular metaphor here, perhaps trying to drag some modern-day politics into the plot? Nah...
42 minutes ago, tv-talk said:I mean Christine was the only person left alive on the ship?
Yeah, that was weird. The Cayuga is a decent-sized ship, you'd think there could be one or two more sealed compartments somewhere inside the hull where crewpersons might have holed up awaiting rescue. Too bad, you've been reassigned planet-side!
45 minutes ago, tv-talk said:And as much as I've been waiting for the classic Trek 'no human can do this, only Spock can' moment...why was that again? No human can float over to the ship and stick magnet jets onto it?
They didn't really show him doing it but there is an implication that Spock has to pilot the Cayuga's saucer which makes this a weird reference to the Insane Clown Posse's Wizard of the Hood album, which is a retelling of The Wizard of Oz. "I seen her in the window so I was running around moving shit and aiming it so!"
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I will chalk it up to confusing editing although I also thought someone called him Mueller in a scene. I guess he isn't Cathy's dad though since Jack does not seem to recognize him and I believe they met in the first season.
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I'm ready. I hate-watched all 10 seasons of The Blacklist and I actually enjoy this show so I'm looking forward to it.
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That was a fun episode. As others have said, not quite as great as Once More With Feeling but not bad either and it could have been really cringe. I have read an interview that said they were trying to do a musical during Picard and I shudder to think of how that would have turned out. But the SNW cast did an admirable job here and had some great songs.
La'an missed out on an opportunity to bust out her Roots leather jacket during her ballad. If DTI let her keep the watch, they certainly let her keep the jacket.
I liked how the crew speculated that because the anomaly looked like a zipper it would also function like one and they were just plain wrong. That does not happen often in Star Trek. Usually it is "we understand this new thing to be similar to something we are familiar with therefore they function identically because the plot requires them to".
The Klingon boy band was hilarious. I would have also enjoyed a rap battle. The Epic Rap Battles of History guys are still around and they've come a long way since Captain Kirk vs. Christopher Columbus.
Edit: I just rewatched the Klingons singing and there is a half-second shot of Uhura looking over at Sam Kirk... who is grooving away to the song.
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On 4/21/2023 at 6:04 AM, EtheltoTillie said:
This show has Homeland DNA (the showrunner wrote for Homeland, apparently), so I appreciate that.
Makes sense because this is the show I wish Homeland had been.
I love the contrast of Keri Russell's unambiguous American sensibilities contrasted with polite British understatement. Paraphrased:
"Is that what begging sounds like?"
"If the President could make a statement..."
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Is it just me or does this moment look like it is straight out of a Beastie Boys video?
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3 hours ago, Zaffy said:
OMG....... we are watching Disco, aren't we??
I found this episode to be more of a Disco episode than a DS9 episode, that's for sure. I saw them reaching for the Duet parallel in this episode but they didn't quite get there.
I don't know why everyone is so offended that the Klingon killed his own men. Klingon captains smoke their lieutenants all the time for any number of reasons and you'd think by now they'd know that is a feature rather than a bug.
What is so special about M'Benga's warrior juice? He said it was adrenaline and pain inhibitors, doesn't sound hard to make if you ask me. Is there Deltan parsley in it and the commandos can't synthesize it because they can't get the mixture just right or something?
FWIW, I don't think Chapel saw a damn thing and she is straight up lying to Pike. It will be interesting to see if this comes up again next episode.
6 hours ago, Jodithgrace said:I hope that the musical episode will be like Buffy’s Once More With Feeling, which uncovered riffs and secrets, and wasn’t a happy, feel good episode, despite the humor and terrific music.
Same here. OMWF was a gimmick episode but it did some heavy lifting plot-wise. So I hope this is the direction we go in as opposed to Lucifer's musical episode which was both fun and funny but otherwise unremarkable.
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10 hours ago, magdalene said:
I already knew Jack Quaid was a charmer.
I'm not sure if it was intentional or not but I loved how Ortegas and Chapel snuggled up to him in the lounge. Lower Decks has established that Boimler does have a certain charm with the ladies but he's totally oblivious to it and/or finds it annoying.
Great payoff for Una's plot from earlier in the season. Having said that, while she is the poster child for Starfleet, I don't think her genetic status ever gets revealed or else Dr. Bashir wouldn't have had to struggle with the same issue so many years later.
Does the end scene mean that the LD crew is gallivanting around the galaxy drunk on Orion booze all the time?
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Did a bunch of episode end up on the cutting room floor or something? I feel like there was some important stuff missing here. There was a shot of a missile in a silo getting ready to launch. No dialog, no tense scene of NORAD dudes waiting for the red phone to ring, etc. Just a shot of a missile, you figure it out. Same with some dudes in a dusty locale driving a Humvee and a classified folder getting handed from a nameless character to another nameless character. All I could think of was that I hoped whoever was handing that folder out had proper authorization to do it.
I did like Gravik in this episode. We finally get a good sense of who he is and what his motivations are. I wish we had seen more of this Gravik instead of the "look how evil I am!" version we've been watching in the other five episodes.
Who was that one woman at the end who got attacked and turned things around on her attackers? I'd like to know more about her!
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7 hours ago, thuganomics85 said:
I'm choosing to believe that Spock and Chapel were still just playing that chess game the entire time
I'm pretty sure they played one game of chess, Spock let Chapel win (Kirk calls it but he thinks it's because Uhura distracted Spock) and then they went off to do... other things.
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15 hours ago, tired and hungry said:
I didn't get the part at the end when Sonya asks "Why Finland?" Fury says something about skrulls liking the cold. Was that her realizing that Fury's wife was a skrull??
I think so but I also took it as a reference to Big Game, a movie Samuel L. Jackson starred in that was set in Finland. That movie has a silly premise but is a lot of fun.
When the baddies came after G'iah and Priscilla, I noticed a lot of folks bleeding red. I thought maybe it was a setup to have them kill a bunch of humans but they just left right after Priscilla said she wasn't going to. I appreciated G'iah having the genre-savvy to point out that sticking around in a location that you know is going to be attacked is a terrible idea.
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3 hours ago, greekmom said:
There is a trailer already.
The first four episodes of season 3 leaked online a few weeks ago... or so I heard.
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They weren't too clear on the space geography in this one but I am pretty sure the "Vulcan system" consists of at least 40 Eridani A and 40 Eridani B, with the planet of Vulcan being in the B part. The haunted moon was in the A part... I think.
As for Vulcans not exploring it, I could see that. It takes a dumbass human pilot to see a dangerous anomaly and fly closer to it while the wise logical Vulcans keep their distance.
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One moment I appreciated in this episode was Hudson being out of it after the car crash. I was in a car crash this year and those first few moments after are a whole other world. It is rare to see that in TV and movies. Usually a character gets hit by a vehicle or is in some high impact situation where they should be damn near dead but they can solve quadratic equations while doing jumping jacks five seconds later.
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3 hours ago, Neiman said:
It was quite fitting that Ressler was the one to find him.
Also quite fitting that Red had to die for Ressler (in a fucking helicopter!) to be able to catch up to him. Hilarious that Ressler went to the right address but forget to search the entire property.
No payoff with Siya, I really thought she was going to be a double agent. Maybe she was originally written that way and they changed their minds.
I don't think Lizzie got a single mention in this episode.
I guess when they were tossing around ideas for the finale someone must have said "we'll come up with some bull shit" and that is exactly what they went with.
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On 7/11/2023 at 3:15 PM, SeanBug said:
I laffed at the shot of the White House and the caption "White House, Washington DC". Oh, thanks for clearing that up. I thought it was the other White House. And we have established the bad guys are in Myanmar you don't have to keep telling us that.
This might actually be a deep cut reference to The Hunt for Red October. Every single time the action moves to a new location, there is a heading to tell the reader where they are. I think Red Storm Rising does the same thing but Clancy dropped it in later books.
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10 hours ago, paigow said:
Did the kitchen walls have bullet holes before anybody started shooting?
I don't know but it sure looked to me like God came down from Heaven and stopped those MF bullets.
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21 hours ago, oftentimes said:
I'm really going to miss all the snark about this program.
This show is the Hattori Hanzo of honing snark. What once was sharp wit is now, after ten years of this show, snark that could cut God.
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Now we'll never know if that nudity coordinator got out of the bathroom!