S04.E07: Someplace Far Away From All This Violence

[paulvdb]

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The Super Squad continues to work on helping Hope, much to her dismay. MG makes a last-ditch effort at helping the Super Squad, but things do not go as he had planned. Meanwhile, Lizzie searches for answers as Josie goes to extreme measures.

Airdate: December 2, 2021

[RachelKM]

This episode felt like filler and it was oddly paced.  The Super Squad/Hope stuff felt like more of what we've been watching for weeks, i.e. Squad making plans to save Hope, Hope being snarky but not all that evil, Squad failing to figure out Hope (only this time not as a simulation), and Hope posturing to one or more threats.  And then it was all intercut with Lizzie's Western themed nonsense mindscape in which Professor Alaric and Ric are split into two characters, one of whom might have been Mad-eye Moody and John Wayne's love child, and Hope is killed by.... [checks notes].. Salvatore bother guns?

And, oh yeah, Cleo is talking to herself via the projection crystal and Kaleb is hunting with Jed and is apparently prepared to attempt to claw out an Argus's eyes in successive fistfulls before being willing to Dracarys it.  And, side note, Jed is a curiously unconvincing GOT fan... 

Did I get that all right? 

[GaT]

How long is this Hope plot going to go on? It's so repetitive, they just keep doing the same thing over & over again.

Is it just me, or does anybody else have trouble hearing what Hope is saying? She talks really fast & low & most of the time I just listen to everyone else to figure out what she says.

[ybrik]

Okay I didn’t hate the episode. In fact I enjoyed it for the most part. I do agree they are at that line of becoming too repetitive with the Hope stuff and with the school stuff. Hopefully now that they have finally had their first interaction with no humanity Hope things can move forward. Hope can start really going after the Triad. Now we start to see the school start to have drama in how to deal with Hope. 

Really wanted to learn more about Jed’s backstory.

So Cleo is going to use Finch and Ethan as the measuring stick for whether to tell the squad the truth? I also find it a bit presumptive that she feels she is the one who should make the decision of who should know or not. 

While the western was cheesy, it was a good use of the therapy box and advancing Lizzie’s story. The therapy box has access to Lizzie’s whole mind so these were things that she has learned in her life but the therapy box is creating a scenario to show her. She is a witch and she knows that nature is balance and that it finds ways to balance things out. So somewhere inside of her she had to know that nature would find a way to balance when the tribrid was born. Also she has probably known the stories of the Originals and their creation her own mind worked out the way to kill Hope would be found in the Salvatore School aka the Damon and Stefan gunsl  

[foxfreakinmulder]

On 12/2/2021 at 11:46 PM, GaT said:

How long is this Hope plot going to go on? It's so repetitive, they just keep doing the same thing over & over again.

Yeah, and I for one don't miss her when she's not on the screen. I'm also tired of hearing her say, you can't kill me, you can't kill me, you can't kill me. Until the end I thought Alaric was having a coma dream. So now what is Lizzie going to look for those guns and chase after Hope? Is the Triad girl Hope keeps talking to the one from the Originals that turned Camille? If so I thought the Originals disposed/took care of them?

[tennisgurl]

I know that it hasn't, but it feels like Hope with her humanity off has been going on for ever. Its the same things over and over again, I am so over Hope being snarky but not too harmful (except for possibly but probably not killing Alaric but probably not) and totally unstoppable. Its boring and I just want this story to get moving. Give Hope her humanity back, bring poor Landon back from the dead, and get it over with. Or have Hope actually do something evil instead of just posturing.

Kaleb and Jed was the best part of the episode, I would like to know what Jed's backstory actually is. I normally like the alternate universe/genre mashup things this show does, so I enjoyed some of Lizzie's western, but it felt weirdly placed in this episode, it really needed more time to grow or to just be moved to another episode. All of the plots were so disconnected, like they were spliced together from multiple episodes. 

I'm sorry, there will never be a time that I don't laugh just a little about vampires "turning their humanity off" like there's a button on their necks that you can switch on and off. Its like The Simpsons episode where the Krusty doll is set to evil.