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Well, Ken was working for Rimmer (or maybe his predecessor) in the first series, and they were bad guys. And Ken did hang with Bart even though she killed and killed and killed. So, let's face it, Ken's moral compass was pretty wayward from day one. Then he spends months in solitary confinement, in a constrained position and drugged and shocked over and over. That does things to a man. A lot of people in this country have no problem with locking a prisoner in a cel 23 hours a day, and are rather proud of being firm, rather than ashamed of the cruelty perpetrated in their name. What happened to Ken was much, much worse. And, as I watched the scene, Ken shot Dirk because he thought the universe wanted him there. And he didn't shoot the old man to keep him there either. So even now I'm not sure that Ken is all that malicious, as opposed to Doing the Wrong Thing for the Right Reasons. He took Farah, Todd and Amanda off the wanted list. Dirk can officially open his agency. And I strongly suspect Bart is going to be quite some comfort and that as a matter of fact, Ken will visit her, at least until he's afraid her feelings about what the universe wants are to specific about him. The upshot I think if going to a protagonist for the third season who is neither a blu-ha-ha scalawag nor an idiot. Actually it's kind of promising, I think. Pretty sure that was a puppy. Also, Bob killed his dog, not Susie. Scott I supposed stopped being a frog because that was magic, and without her magic, he's just a kid whose mother didn't like him (much less love him.) The oddest thing is not Amanda upstaging Todd, but Amanda upstaging Dirk.

Coulson also found out Daisy destroyed the Earth. Counts for a lot more. One of the structural problems in this show, which has kept me from watching it regularly, is that most of the characters are woobified, ignoring the dreadfulness of their personalities and their whole miserable organization.

Either the happy ending is the team "killing" everybody when they escape the evil future, then return Daisy to the past forewarned against destroying the Earth, leaving a presumably better future to play out. Or, they escape, come back. They think they'll improve things, but in the end Daisy destroys the Earth as fated. Or they are left wondering if they are were their own future (and Daisy is the ultimate supervillain) or if they were in an alternate timeline, and evil Daisy was someone else in that other timeline. Or they save the humans of an alternate timeline by killing Kasius, after which good Daisy from another timeline undoes the work of evil Daisy by using her powers to push all the pieces back together, or something along those lines. Or something equally absurd. The thing is, the only one of these that appears to be dramatically interesting, as in the characters make significant choices without help from the script for a happy ending, is the first one...which isn't terribly happy. Coulson is being stupid. If Deke were lying about everything and just in it for profit, he would already have sold them all, not just Daisy. If Coulson was genuinely insightful, rather than supercool, he would know that Quake, the Destroyer of Worlds, running about like the maniac history said she was, was lucky not to have Deke stab her in the back...which alone suggests that Deke isn't what he thinks. Saving humanity doesn't mean killing Kasius, who isn't the real problem, which is lack of resources.

Current events are against gay producer/showrunners, and the similarity between "Bryan Fuller" and "Bryan Singer" doesn't help. (Yes, Hollywood is that simplistic and reactionary.) As to the desirability, I'm not sure I want to watch Will grow into his murder husband. Why else would Will try to commit murder/suicide, instead of just murder, except he knew where his bliss at the murder of Dolarhyde would lead? As noted above, Will is Clarice Starling, and in the novel Clarice goes off with Hannibal. Further, the Will Graham of the series is tormented by his lack of a strong identity (no matter how much he says he knows who he is,) due to his "empathy disorder." (This is not a thing, but the script says so, so what are you going to do? Either work with it, or quit.) In addition, there is the sometimes overlooked fact that Will is picking up his desire to kill not just from his empathy with Hannibal, but his empathy with Jack. Yeah, sure, righteous killing in Jack's case, but feeling good about killing bad people is still feeling good about killing. Both Jack and Hannibal have been warping Will to murder. I would think Will not calling Jack out on it openly just makes his influence even stronger. But it's one reason why Will is tempted to kill, first, Mason Verger (by baiting him into a confrontation with Hannibal.) And you can see Will baiting Jack into a confrontation with Hannibal too. It is too often forgotten that Will had the goods on Hannibal in the attack on Verger. Like Mr. Robot, he needed only to confess to take out the villain! And last, but perhaps the most powerful prophecy of the end, was the supernaturally gifted Elliott Buddish seeing the evil in Will. We the audience know what Buddish's mystical visions of demonic people looked like, not Will, so that was for us, the audience, to see.

Looks like it'll finish the season run, but the Disney purchase is the dirt filling the grave, I think.

As I understand it, Falling Water season 2 premieres Jan. 6 at 10. That's a Saturday, so apparently the show is already canceled, and this is a burn off run. Has something to do with finishing the story line for Amazon?

Automatic guns aimed by sensors aren't affected by mind control. Esme needed help either to take them out somehow (the original plan to cut the power) or to get the prisoners away from the automated security (the hail Mary appeal to transfer them.) The moment the prisoners were in her reach, she didn't need the other...and she promptly tased Marcos. But she did thank his unconscious body!

Still, for me it was like Legion. You knew the swans swimming on the pond were ridiculous, but it looked so cool!

Amy, and Reese, and a bucket truck, and a dedicated tool set on a very large tool belt. And more than one day, too, I think. But how did she pay for this, and where is the warehouse they kept it all in?

My feeling about the ring is that taking it off when there's no one to move on to is taking it off to make dating easier. Don't think getting laid is an essential aspect of moving on.

LaureN AND ANDy....my goodness, that sounds so much more forced (otherwise mumbled) than Andy and Lauren, which to my ear just sounds smoother. But I guess the point is that Lauren is sexy, therefore senior in the hierarchy, therefore she comes first. Speaking of which, when she berates Andy for giving in, being senior, I think that is supposed to give the show's position. Andy's breaking because of the threat to Clarice was him being a weakling and a fool. It is obvious why Andy wasn't tortured to break Lauren.

Yvette dancing with Tyler! Past subjects reappearing! Amy goes out of her way to friend-zone Nate with the excuse of not being ready, then doffs the ring! The first righteous is a baby! Didn't see one of them coming, not real happy with Amy. It seems odd to me that The Good Place which is still monkeying around with a deranged universe/God who works on a demerit system without noticing how superficial that is, gets so much buzz, but this doesn't.

The more this goes on, the harder it is to imagine these people running away together. The show dropped a couple of anvils to the effect that Alex is the computer whisperer and Chase's superpower is being supersmart while still being cool. The parents are making less and less sense. Tina's magic powers make her the boss, what point is there to all these other people.?

Reed and Caitlin told his wife on Jace. No wonder the dude decided to drop the mad science torture for regular jail. The arbitrary plotting where he's the only character who doesn't instantly die from perfectly aimed gunshots will be matched only by his not being fired for leading so many men into an ambush and losing nine mutants. A catastrophe like that, heads roll, and it won't be Campbell's even if he did simply shoot a civilian dead. Cops do that, with nothing but embarrassing explanations, but when cops get killed, that's not how it works. Campbell announced to the audience he hoped to get to Otto Strucker's research first, so I think we can guess the next item of the chore list, finding it first. Whether "it" is a MacGuffin is anybody's guess. The nonsense words about what the biometrics showed are pretty uninterpretable. I couldn't tell if it was supposed to be a cure for mutant powers, a bioweapon that kills only mutants or a handy weapon that can kill anybody Campbell wants dead. Perhaps the point is merely to start with mutants? I'm not even sure what these people think "biometrics" means. The old Bertillon system was biometrics, as were the fingerprints that replaced it. More and more I've been finding the Struckers the more engaging part. I think it's because they are still making choices. The others are not so much, because in the end they are hopelessly trapped in a dilemma. They are powerful enough to win fights, but in the end it does them no good if they can't eat, sleep, and basically live a life. They have to have enough people to have their back to do those things, and the show is premised on the reality that most people aim at their back instead. The thing is, comic book superheroes are basically fantasies about how you can do anything when you grow up. If you try to ground the fantasies, like where these mutants need to make a life, aka get a job, to be grown up, then, powers or no, a real life involves other people. But the show refuses to admit other people. None of the mutants has family, and Marcos is the only one with a friend. But the only ones with a family are the Struckers, so the Lauren and Andy in a way the only mutants who are dealing with outside society, in the form of their parents. . So, with the YA mutants the show is basically setting them up with a problem, them refusing to let them try to solve it. It just one job at a time, none of which is really going to address their problems. Wifi sending the data would have served. Yes, it would have made more sense if they did trash the room. What makes zero sense is them somehow reaching past the room to trash just a little bit of the wall. I can't think of a reason why their power didn't destroy the collars, but since the script says they didn't, then Campbell could just shock them if they got out of hand. Wouldn't it have made more sense if Lauren and Andy got the special adamantium collars?

I had been expecting the big reveal was that Amy was supposed to be the one Yvette was guiding. But this show is so wild, in the way it keeps changing up the premises, even if on the surface it's a leisurely "Watch Kevin screw up!" show, I don't know where they'll go. Alien non-corporeal mind reading intelligences carried by meteors, targeting Amy, would best fit an alien conquest plot. Then they read the mind of weird Kevin and get really deranged, but much nicer? That seems far fetched even for this show. On the other hand, Kevin announcing that Ignacio is back to uncool foreshadows him being an agent of the Devil? But unlike the meteors, he's not confused and is going after the correct target, Amy? They're awfully close, for me at least, of falling into the "if anything can happen, nothing matters" trap.

The universe may have wanted to fire Bart/Chekhov's gun to wipe out the Kellum Knights...but all in all I think Ken would have been much nicer to her.Seeing Bart die hurt her, I thought. I think Ken's plan for Bart was more like hanging out, than whatever Friedkin would do. Speaking of which, Ken versus Friedkin was by itself worth the episode as far as I'm concerned. I agree there's a magical reset coming for Wendimoor. If everybody there stays dead, how will there be any dramatic tension wondering whether Amanda will stay with her new friends?

Well, I was apparently overly influenced by the dialogue where Gemma tells Abby to imagine the stars, and she did so while looking like a girl doing yoga. That just seemed so opposite to the kind of "put the brain in neutral and let the instincts take over!" approach, I got confused, evidently. It just looked like it was really, really hard to imagine an internal galaxy with your head ringing like a bell.. But maybe I just have a slow imagination.

Little women beating up big men is, I've been forced to conclude, to a large degree a sexual fantasy. I suppose little girls can be watching and thinking "I want to beat guys up!" But I'm afraid I really imagine guys thinking, "Sexy!" Doesn't look believable to me, especially May with a giant hole in her leg. Lampshades don't always stop the glare. The idea that Abby could compose her mind after her head is bounced around is why her fight scene looked so much like gratuitous woman beating, in my opinion. The multiverse theory says this Daisy isn't the world-killer. The future people deciding to erase their existence by sending Daisy back in time prepped to *not* become the world-killer seems like an interesting story to me. Except that AoS pretty much always ignores other people in favor of the regular cast being the only ones who win, bigger and bigger and bigger, except they still suffer more and more and more. Again, my opinion/

Watching it solely for Ritter hijinks is watching a one hour comedy. One hour comedies are always kind of flabby. They have to add something, like SG-1 added action/adventure. But whatever they add, like SG-1 it needs to be tolerably well done in its own right. My opinion only.

Since anybody can put the gloves on, I didn't think of the "fistigons" as Chase's power. Am I alone in thinking fistigons tells something embarrassing about Chase's mind?

What powers do Chase and Alex have?

If Geoffrey gives too much money to Nana B, the unbought cops will have a good idea how he paid Darius for the confession. Barely enough money to pay for the medicine is enough money to pay for the medicine. Dairius' real problem is buyers' remorse. The staff can solve all the problems, and the fact that they aren't bothering to just means Nico is ridiculous, just like the rest of the plot. All the complications are strictly self imposed. Also, since Nico is the only one who matters, what's with all these other people?

The reveal that Yvette is a liar too is yet another change up. I'll say it again, this show changes premises more than The Good Place. Kevin's desperate search for redemption? Completely justified because he was such a vile, worthless excuse for a human being? Or, a delusional self-image fueled by life threatening depression masked by his frenetic pursuit? The reveal that Yvette told God she'd fix things is so far from all previous Hollywood theology I'm back to wondering if the meteors are just imagining their time in heaven. Yvette/Kevin folie a deux? Which is why Dave and the others aren't on board. Can "Warriors of God" be evil like Dave and Ava, who are happily watching the apocalypse unfold? Or is there something else going on?

Andy whose power is tearing things apart has never torn so much as a hangnail off a human being. Not so strange he's the one to back off. It is unclear whether Lauren even realizes she has the ability to squeeze the carotid artery, leaving the target unconscious in seconds (or irrevocably dead in, say, four minutes.) Simply compressing the neck work too, if aiming is hard for her. I don't know if Lauren is being written as deeply inhibited or just not written, left without any real agency because she's an innocent. About incest, it's not clear whether Reed has connected the dots. Also not clear whether John/Thunderbird, who sometimes has super hearing and should have had the sense to listen to grand-dad Otto every second he was talking, has either. But then, it's not clear why he has to be reminded by newbie Esme that the Struckers are "heavy hitters." As to incest overtones in the sibs? Visually, the wind in the hair and the moony expressions read as sexual excitement. If the writers don't want to go there, though there is always a simple cure. They need merely write it like any platonic relationship, and it will be convincing...if they give Lauren and Andy romantic lives with someone else. Andy's dialogue insinuating Lauren was sexually active can backfire, coming across as sexual jealousy/possessiveness if they don't show Lauren actually active. I'm not sure they aren't too committed to virginity as virtue to write Lauren as sexual. There is an over contempt for Andy the character, not just on the part of the other characters, but I think the show tends to share it. So, it seems highly unlikely Andy will get a love life. But then, the writers may intend the incest subtext, and won't write significant others for the sibs on purpose, even as they maintain plausible deniability. I'm not sure who Emma Frost is, but if Esme is supposed to be a clone, she's after clones, as noted above I think. Andy making a significant choice was more dramatic than this show usually is. But then Lauren choosing to trash the building and kill everyone in it would be a significant choice too, except one the show couldn't easily walk back from.

Bob before he had his mind blasted by Susie didn't seem to have much ability to help. It was one thing for Hobbs to not have been blasted but put into a quarry. But it's a different kind of far fetched to think Bob the Blob would know. Was he primed to mislead Farah and Tina into a trap? But why would the Mage care about them, rather than Panto? Bart may be Chekhov's gun.