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  1. 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).
  2. 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?
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. Did I miss something, or was Fury's reason for not calling in super-powered help (if you disregard G'iah) really that he'd made this mess himself so he'd also have to clean it up himself? That kind of explanation works if you've accidentally spilled something, not when you've caused an international incident where the bodies are piling up and humanity might be facing extinction! I realise the true reasons are story-telling/actor-availability-related, but they could have thought of something better. As others have pointed out, Fury comes off really horribly here. Considering that that one guy's finger turned Skrull when Sonja cut it off but the guy himself didn't, I'd guess there's a fair even chance getting some fingernail clippings or simply cutting off some hair would do the trick. I had to laugh at the last scene, when Fury calls for his transport up to the S.A.B.E.R. ship and then just stands their chatting with his wife while the transport beam is already on until the poor sap at the controls gets impatient and sends the elevator down to him anyway.
  6. The thing is, once you step through the arches you don't really know it isn't real - right after N. goes through the first arch, her dad asks her why she's holding the poisonous roots in her hand, and she says she doesn't know and doesn't remember how she got there. The way I interpreted it is that it's like when you're in a dream - you know something isn't quite right, but only once you wake up your awake mind kicks in and reminds you that, yes, obviously the six-headed, five-meters-tall dog wasn't real, and even if such a thing existed, they certainly wouldn't be dancing the lead role in The Nutcracker! So the test isn't stepping through the arch and going "well, I know for sure a second ago I was in the tower's arch room and this is a test, logically nothing can really happen to me, guess I'll just hang around here long enough for the exit to appear, yawn", but you're thrust into a situation that doesn't feel quite right with a vague memory that there's *something* you need to do, but you can't quite put your finger on it. The actual test is trusting your gut instinct and abandoning the "fake" world that nevertheless seems 95% real to you and going with that 5% voice in your head that tells you something is wrong and you need to act *now* to fix it. (At least that's what I took from N.'s experience, since we haven't seen anyone else's.) "Air B&B host" ...lolol I'm worried that this is some sort of twisted blackmail plot to get something out of N. - Liandrin is now in a position where she can get Egwene thrown out of the tower pretty easily (Elayne seems to have been an unintended casualty). I'm not sure why she'd think she'd need to do that since N. was pretty friendly with her already (and N. would definitely not take something like that lying down), but that's where my mind went. Though I have to say, if I was absconding from my place of work/training in the middle of the night, I *wouldn't* be wearing my blindingly white work uniform lol (surely they must have the things they came in *somewhere* if there's absolutely nothing else in a darker shade?). Loving Elayne so far. "I urgently have to go... wash my (still full) cup!" lol I was confused at first why Rand and Selene would be sleeping in front of the hut when it's *right there*, but I guess they unintentionally fell asleep at the fire or something. Still, that was a bit of clunky blocking. Lan was distractingly good looking. Could have done with more Matt this episode, the new actor's doing a really good job. Poor Min, I'm guessing the beginning of that dream/vision/thing was part of her past, and it seemed like an awful experience. Really liking this season so far!
  7. I seem to be in the minority here, but I for one really liked the Groundhog device. Though, with all the talk of time travel, I was wondering halfway through if it would turn out that whoever has the monolith book is influencing time to repeat the gala until things go in their favour. In general, I was a bit disappointed how little magic is going on at this mage's gala - would have been a nice opportunity for some fun visuals. I didn't even realise right away what the twist at the end was supposed to be - I knew with the music and cut-to-black that they were going for some kind of shocking reveal there, but Stregebor not being the (only) bad guy was so unsurprising to me I had to watch the scene twice to make sure that there wasn't something else I was missing. And as others have pointed out, unless there's way more we don't know Geralt isn't exactly in danger here. I wish they'd had a scene with Jaskier or Ciri, I've been worried since last week that the prince distracting Jaskier away from the cabin is a ploy to get at Ciri, but otoh, since nothing happpened in that regard I guess not, since if that were the case it would make a good cliffhanger, at least a much better cliffhanger than the one we got.
  8. It seemed to me that they were suggesting Jaskier is the descendant - a bard to sing the last note of the song.
  9. I find a new show I really love and obviously on the day I watch the finale, it gets cancelled, eurgh. Still, at least we got this season, and if they had a plan for two more, maybe we'll get them in book form or something (sure would be nice). I can't remember exactly why, but I've had the impression since a couple of episodes before the finale that good vs. evil Elora is a "two sides of the same coin" thing. We're told repeatedly that "Elora Danan" isn't so much a person as an eternal concept that gets reborn again and again as a person with "Elora Danan" powers to save the world, so it would make sense to me that if there is an eternal evil that wants to destroy the world and just happens to look like Elora Danan (whenever it's not a wyrm), it's her opposite-but-same counterpart, rather than a separate evil that made itself look like Elora Danan to trick Graydon. Poor Graydon, though, now he's never going to get out of there. Not that I had high hopes of him not being one of the big bads in one of the other two volumes, but still. When Boorman went back into the temple, I hoped he was somehow going to end up rescuing Graydon, or at least keeping him company, but alas... And obviously, the most pressing unanswered question of them all - how are they going to get back UP that waterfall? (Elora's magic. It's going to be Elora's magic.)
  10. I feel like I'm in the minority here, but I really liked it. I thought Jade would turn out to be Elora Danan (because of the red hair) and was surprised when it turned out to be Dove, who I'd pegged as the comic relief/heart of gold character.
  11. I think Maura made herself forget her husband and her son on purpose - I can't remember which episode, but I'm almost positive Daniel had a line to that effect (before the son thing was revealed, it was only alluded to as some nebulous "trauma"). At this point, my theory is that the characters' 1899 pasts are a sort of "translation" of their actual memories, that is, for example in Tove's case, that something similar happened to her in the 2090s and the simulation just dressed it up in 1890s surroundings. (That is, of course, unless 2099 timeline isn't "real" either, but we'll have to wait for season 2 to get more evidence of that.) I agree! I like him too. In the forum of one of the early episodes I speculated Daniel's backstory would turn out to have something to do with Maura and it would be sad, and that was mostly due to the actor projecting at Maura so hard lol (and also due to the fact that the only other show I've seen that actor in wants you to very much see him as the "noble sacrificial hero").
  12. I'd have to check, but I think they were tied to that hay wagon.
  13. The biggest mystery to me right now is the brother. Assuming that the spaceship is actual reality, I think they were all in virtual reality for the space journey (that spaceship looked really cool, but it didn't look like it had a lot of creature comforts for passengers) and Maura's family is the heads of the shipping company in real life too. Maura and her husband seem to have been in charge of the VR; the simulation must originally have been some comfortable 1899 ship journey to go with their real-life 2099 ship journey. Then there was some kind of shism between Maura and her father (not sure what, or where the brother comes in here) and at the same time Elliot died (maybe a pod malfunction, or a meteor hit the capsule with his pod, or he fell ill, there's plenty of possibilities), and Maura went of the rails and decided to change the VR so she could forget her son was dead, trapping them all. Now the dad wants out - he doesn't care about anyone else getting out - and Daniel wants Maura out because he thinks she's the only one who can fix whatever's wrong in reality (the whole thing with her brother). And the reason the journey stopped being pleasant and started being a looping journey from hell is either because Maura was careless programming in her grief or (and I tend towards this explanation) was done on purpose as part of her father's attempt to get at the key and get out. Or I could be completely wrong about all of this lol. I think the hatches under the beds might be because their real memories and experiences are bleeding through to the VR environment and being translated to equivalent 19th century memories. There has to be some kind of translation mechanism for existing memories, otherwise the real, 2099 passengers would be way more unfamiliar and uncomfortable with 1899 culture and tech - for example, I certainly wouldn't know how to properly put on elaborate 1899-style rich people clothing, at least not without it feeling weird. (Though maybe they gave all of the 2099-era passengers a crash course on manners and customs of the late 19th century?) I think this is already explained - it's what actually happened in the simulation. The eight (or was it seven?) days on the ship play out, then her father captures her, drags her back to the room in the sanatorium (this is the "I'm not crazy"-scene), injects her with the thing that makes her forget whatever she's learned during this iteration of the time loop, and the ship simulation starts all over again, ending with her being dragged to the sanantorium again, and so on and so forth. When we see this at the beginning of the first episode, it's what's actually happening in the simulation at that time - the end of one loop and the beginning of the next one. I hope we're going to have some plot in the ship simulation going forward where some of the characters that survived to the end remember and have to do some sort of quest to find pieces of code (/objects in the simulation I guess?) that got scattered when Daniel reprogrammed stuff. Ideally, plotwise it would link up with the real-life stuff - so, they'd need some information in the real (spaceship) world to save everyone / solve the real world issue, but this information is hidden in the simulation so everybody needs to work together there. I don't think they'd have called it "1899" if that time period will never matter again.
  14. I'm in the Daniel camp, but that's probably because the only other show I've seen him in (that I know of) went hard on him being the heroic love interest lol The deaths in this episode didn't hit home for me as much as they could have, probably because this episode also placed so much emphasis on this not being real, and the fact that I know it's still real for the characters couldn't overcome that. I wonder if the other survivors are going to remember what happened too? I hope so, I love those kind of time loops! Or, since they're in the ship graveyard (/archives), does this mean they'll have to cross over the way Daniel did at the start of the season? I did have a chuckle at the end of the episode when I realised Eyk had been sitting around there the entire time the storm played out. I wonder what the thing is that was so awful it made Maura want to forget the truth. For a moment I thought Elliot might have died (awful + his hideout is in a grave, and the grave features prominently in Maura's memoryscape) and then possibly been replaced by a construct or some kind of cyborg (he did have the company logo tatooed onto his neck), but he clearly can leave the simulation and none of the people from the outside treat him like there was something substantially wrong with him. Of course, this is supposing this whole thing doesn't have another layer of illusion and the "outside" with the TV screens is a simulation too. Just had an idea as I typed this - what if the TV room is part of the simulation? And the key stops the simulation, giving whoever was the person who stopped it control over what happens next in the "real" world. If Elliot did die, maybe Maura hid the key because she doesn't want to go back to the real world where he's dead and prefers to live in the fake one where she either doesn't know of him or there's a fake version. Still, that doesn't explain why Daniel thinks it would be bad if TV room guy got the key...
  15. Yes, I was wondering that too... Then again, we don't know what their deal is - possibly she has some sort of contract with them and can get them locked up or in serious trouble if they break it (of course, what she's doing doesn't seem exactly like it was legal in 1899, so it's more likely the problem would be shady business partners rather than the police... on the other hand, they didn't seem super worried about getting away once they'd reached the US). Regardless, if the ship goes back to where it came from, even if there's no external trouble Mrs Wilson could simply refuse to take them along again, so they'd be stuck in Europe.
  16. So the fact that Virginia touched the black crystal/coal thing is going to cause major problems, yes? I hope she doesn't infect any other characters with it, but I'm not particularly optimistic... I'm still half convinced the boy is Maura's and Daniel's son, and if they've been married for 12 years, he should just about fit in age. Lucien's mysterious illness has been brought up often enough by now that I'm starting to think it's going to be relevant to whatever's behind what's going on, or at least explained by it, in a "malfunctioning pod" kind of way.
  17. Lol! (Also, I have to admit I too thought for a moment that - from the showrunners' perspective - they'd kill off a couple of people this way to make it plausible that they spent longer at sea, but then the passengers just kept on jumping...)
  18. Wow, that was heavy stuff. I was surprised how many people there were on the ship. Also, I did not expect Krester to go overboard! Though I do expect some of the people that have died (?? depends on what's really going on) to make a comeback, since I think it's unlikely this is the entire cast for the rest of the series (though possibly for most of the rest of this season? I have no idea at this point). It also seems that the people who died before were basically "turned off" by remote control. Though in this episode, the stranger said something along the lines of "I don't want to hurt you" before he was forced to fight the guy in the boiler room and turn him off , so whatever that thing is doing it's either not pleasant or not easy/possible to reverse. I'm super intrigued about that talk between the stranger and the boy - so apparently this has happened before, several times. I wonder whether Maura used to be one of them (aka the group that are trying to stop whatever's going on) but got caught up in the collective illusion somehow. I'm wondering whether the "creator" the boy referred to was Maura's father/the shipping company's CEO (who seems to be in some sort of dystopian version of the 80s?) or somebody else entirely (Maura's father seems to be being built up as a bad guy at atm so they're probably not the same?). At the moment, I'd say there's a good chance that all of the people on board have lived through this before (at the very least our main cast?), and if that's the case I can't wait to see them go futher down the rabbit hole and realise it! There's certainly something screwy happening to time, though at this point I think it's less likely to be about time itself and more likely to be because they're in some sort of simulation (maybe the remote thingy chucks people's minds out of the simulation, leaving behind their simulated bodies as husks?).
  19. I keep going back and forth on whether the boy used the pyramid to teleport himself or just "respawned" (new theory: they're all in a computer game?). On the one hand, teleporting would explain nicely how he showed up again, on the other hand I think we saw his impact on the water, and he's neither wet nor injured when he comes back. We were definitely meant to notice the ring-shaped scar/injury on the stranger's finger. Are/Were he and Maura married? (The boy could be their son?) Also, I used to think Maura's name on the Prometheus' log meant something shady was going on in respect to her having been on board, and while I still tend in that direction, it might also mean she's travelling under a false name or that she was booked on the Prometheus but didn't make it on board. She doesn't seem to remember having been there in any case.
  20. Lol, me too. If I wasn't invested before, I sure am now! My newest theory is that they're all in some sort of computer simulation (possibly a repeating one?), but I'm sure that theory is going to be overthrown too. I wonder what (if any) importance there is to the fact that the songs we've had so far seem to be all from the late 60s to early 80s; if I remember correctly, the TV setup from last episode didn't look particularly modern either... I did find the whole "we need to search the boilers for human remains" a pretty transparent excuse for Eyk to find the passenger list (I've got no idea why he didn't take the whole book), considering that if they needed to get rid of bodies the easiest & quickest way would have been to just throw them overboard. Ángel seems to need only the thinnest of reasons to cheat. At least he looks really snappy in that suit! I realise that they want to keep the "boy" near the main characters for plot reasons, but keeping him in a cabin all day with no attempts to entertain him that we've seen doesn't really constitute "taking care" of him in my book.
  21. At this point, I feel like everything is possible, but I'm settling for "they're really on TV screens" for now. My initial guess was that they're all really in the institution Maura dreamed she was in and it's some sort of dreamscape experiment, but that wouldn't explain the TV screens, so I guess that's out. Usually, I'd be extremely wary of a show with the type and amount of mystery we've seen so far, but the showrunners have a lot of my trust after they pulled off "Dark". The main problem for me so far is that I read deeper meaning into every single little thing lolol (Everytime the mystery man meets Maura outside her cabin, I'm going "oh, for sure sooner or later we're going to see a version of this scene from his perspective and we'll have massive backstory showing that she actually knows him well and doesn't remember and it'll break my heart".) I wonder if mystery man is related to the boy, as they certainly look enough alike for that to be the case; he's probably the one who locked him in at any rate. Not suprised the priest isn't actually a priest. More surprised he's not actually Spanish - a friend and I were joking before the reveal that "the twist is going to be he's actually a priest, but not Spanish", but it turned out both wasn't true lol. Must have been a fun early easteregg for Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking watchers! Also, it seems that the shipping company is in on whatever is happening; I wasn't expecting that!
  22. I think the one whose brains Lestat didn't punch out was still alive - there was a definite, audible reaction when Lestat broke his legs so he'd fit inside the tomb (eww!). I love this show so far, but I wish the vampires would 'waste' less blood. It seems weird to not drink someone dry when they're already killing them anyway.
  23. I can't be the only one who finds it pretty funny that Galadriel realises Halbrand is Sauron when she finds out the Southlands haven't had a king for a thousand years. From the moment that plotthread first appeared, I though Galadriel deciding that he's the king of the Southlands based on a random sigil he happens to wear was either really bad shorthand from a writing perspective or was set up that way to bite her in the behind later, but this is extreme. It also makes the behaviour of the Southlanders last episode when they were told that their king is back rather weird in retrospect. Presumably it won't be hard to depose her, given that the political situation in Numenor was already volatile and Miriel's latest decision, the expedition to Middle Earth, turned out to be an unmitigated disaster...
  24. I loved the scene where they're both in their coffins having a little chat. Lestat speaking through the closed coffins was hilarious, and later they open them up to reveal that they're both in their pjs, with slippers next to the coffins and satin-y bed(coffin?)clothes - they made those coffins look positively comfy lol
  25. I thought that that podunk town was some sort of capital city for the podunk area (hence also the close proximity to the watchtower), but now that I think about it some more somebody should have recognized Halbrand in that case.... I'm still not 100% convinced he's some long-lost king of the Southern people. That Bronwyn recognized his little keychain symbol makes it more likely, but he could also have taken that off somebody (a corpse in battle? He clearly has battle experience, so that much seems to be true).
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