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I find it hilarious that they've apparently decided that the best way to deal with the backlash to the murder-protohobbits last season is to completely retcon Nori and Poppy's clan into some sort of fundamentalist cult who left the actual proto-hobbit community to start their own thing and never told their younger generations the truth about where they come from. It's like they're some weird 70s commune where the kids end up writing tell-all books once they're deprogrammed. It's a bold choice to fix things by making the unlikeable characters from last season even more unlikeable, but the even weirder thing is that it's actually working, at least for me.

No matter what else happens this season, it's already going down as a win for me. They'd have to really mess up to sour the scene where the Sauron-goo oozes itself onto the street and is run over by a cart. Never not going to think about that whenever he pops on screen - 10/10, full marks, will watch again.

Did we ever find out why Jennifer popped out of a giant squid? Or was the connection supposed to be that Reginald put her in there, and that's why the mission where Ben died happened on the same day she appeared in the other timeline (that would still leave the question of where/how she lived until then, and why she can't remember)?

There's also the possiblity that Sage is doing what she's doing for no other reason than to mess with everyone for her personal amusement/satisfaction/revenge on society, no end goal required. After all, despite Homelander thinking she's with him because he's offering her a sweet deal with Vaught/the Seven, if she's even half as smart as she's said she could have plenty of power and money any time she wanted to. She'd just need to find herself an investor and a project manager, hand them the cure for cancer/global warming/what-have-you, and she can have whatever luxury and influence she wants. The shapeshifter getting away from the Boys the first time was ridiculous. You can clearly see she's still very bloody when she leaves the building, but when the boys exit what can only be seconds later, there's loads of people walking around completely unconcerned, as if somebody looking like an extra from a horror movie hadn't just pelted out of there. At least have the street be empty!

Yeah, I've read that too since. Still seems to me like it would make more sense to cut it into small pieces (also easier to save some for later that way)... I think the next time I'm going to eat an apple I'm going to try doing it with a spoon, who knows, it might be nice.

Armand brought up the real question of the episode: How does Madeleine eat an apple?

That scene sucked me in so much I didn't realize until halfway through it was an almost exact repeat of what Santiago was doing to the victims in the climatic scene of the TdV performances, which just gives the whole thing an additional delicious layer.

That was such a gutpunch! I really liked the score this episode. Anybody else find it unintentionally hilarious when Nicky/Lestat's boyfriend turns around playing the violin while watching Lestat and Armand on the balcony? I had to go back and check twice that the guy in the restaurant with Daniel and the guy that butted in during Louis' and Armand's conversation in the cafe weren't the same person, they looked so similar. I understand why Claudia wanted to join the coven (especially given that she wasn't told the rules beforehand) - first of all, she seems genuinely enchanted with the theatre, so that was probably a huge pull. And her other attempts to find vampires weren't exactly successful. We know Armand mentioned a 'London coven' to Louis, but Louis and Claudia don't seem to spend much time together anymore. And of course just when he is about to tell her after all, she opens up about what happened to her with Bruce - very convenient timing to have a reason for him not telling her.

I don't know how the Theatre de Vampire hasn't been exposed yet - surely if they encourage their victims to state their names on stage every night, sooner or later one of their patrons is going to read in the paper the next day so-and-so went missing and remember that's the same name they heard the night before (even with the war barely over, something like the raid we saw in the episode is bound to be mentioned somewhere)? I was expecting them to get their victims from much further away. Or perhaps Annika's (?) escape in the play we saw wasn't staged after all and they usually have a different show? It was nice to see Claudia happy for once. 1940s Armand definitely knows something is up in regards to Lestat. Louis was not careful at all going to that lawyer, and Lestat being so melodramatic that he writes an 'alas, do not revenge me!'-letter without (as far as we know) any cause was funny.

"How is anyone gonna dance a quadrille to this?" - This is why Hetty's my favourite ghost, and Rebecca Wisocky's delivery is on point. Regarding the Patience issue - it seemed to me that Patience was attracted to the house by the vibrations of the DJ's set, and she possibly didn't stay with Flower in the well because she didn't see any point in it. She's been roaming the ground for over a century, she probably figured nobody'd find Flower there anyway and she could always find her way back by Flower's screaming if she felt like company, so she wasn't present when rescue came. Donna's reaction when Peter said his hand had disappeared before she realised it had actually disappeared cracked me up - you can see her being taken aback by the weird addition to the roleplay scenario and then rallying and going along with it. "Did a piranha get it?" I thought Thor and Flower lying to Nancy and ditching her to go join the wedding was rather cruel, though as somebody upstream noted Flower possibly just forgot about it.

I know it's been some time, but was Alberta being able to communicate with an Alexa ever resolved? It seems like she should be having a lot of impact on the outside world that way. Loled at pretty much everything in the stripper storyline - and did I put the Jurassic Park theme song on while reading the comments? You bet I did.

It continues to annoy me every time Leland does something Kristen could obviously report to the police, but never does. (I still don't get why she didn't have him arrested or at least investigated when he stole her therapy notes. If nothing else, you'd think the therapist would do it - pretty sure having your notes easily stolen out of your practice is a liability issue.) Having a doctor insist you need to have your daugher operated on *right now* (with the implication she could drop dead at any moment), whithout even seemingly wanting to take the time to explain to you what he's doing and why, and then immediately afterwards saying whoops, everything is miraculously ok, better than ever, should definitely be a red flag telling you to get a second opinion (and possibly another doctor).

I wish they hadn't had the vote (and, to a lesser degree, the wedding day) in the previous episodes. So much of this finale fell flat for me because every other time somebody expressed fear or anger about someone dying/being hurt, all I could think of was that they were Team "whelp, guess I'll lie down and die", so why be upset if that's what they wanted anyway? Not really sure what killing Luther accomplished, either - if he hadn't died, am I supposed to think they'd have just sat still and let themselves be disintegrated rather than go through the passage? On a different note, I'm not sure the world we see in the end is actually a real world at all rather than some sort of simulation. I don't think Allison got a bonafide HEA either, considering the 'Ray' and 'Claire' here are highly unlikely to be original flavour Ray and Claire (and if they somehow are, she'll have a whole lot of explanations and childhood trauma to manage since this is not the world either of them are used to). I'm also not sure what the deal Allison made with Reginald actually entailed - she seemed genuine about not being involved in Luther and Klaus' deaths, and I can't remember her doing anything that qualified as particularly helping Reginald. Maybe we'll learn more about it next season?

I realize the scene where Brother Dawn jumps was supposed to be tragic, but I couldn't help imagine a child-aged clone tripping down the stairs and thus discovering they were perfectly safe from falls, then proceeding to yeet themselves down greater and greater heights for funsies. That's definitely a thing a child would do.

Late to the party here, but I find it hard to shake my suspicions of Demerzel. I know they were leaning heavily on her having feelings for the original Cleon and his clones (romantic vs. motherly I'd guess), but I wouldn't be surprised if it turned out she was either involved in the terror attack or pulling the Cleons' strings even more than we've seen in some sort of revenge-of-the-robots plot. I also find it a bit weird that, over 3 decades on, the colonists are still living in what amounts to huts. Didn't they plan ahead for better buildings/infrastructure? This place looks like one medium-sized winter storm could blow it away.