Wauw, that scene in the plane... Of all the superhero flicks I have ever seen nothing even comes close to this. And this for an ip that has existed since 2006... And from their standpoint... It's kinda made sense? The combination of these two things and the sheer brutality of it sets this show apart (there are more things ofcourse) from everything else.
All I could think was: how do these maidens eat?
Would be an ok episode were it not for:
I appreciate the sentiment they were trying to convey at the end but...
I think this is one of those cases where NOT showing it would have been all the more poignant. Have Reddington face off with the bull and cut to black. And end it there. Maybe - VERY MAYBE - add a small eulogy at the end with the team talking about him or switch it with Zuma's excellent scene in the bed. Don't show us his "mangled" and contorted body and have Ressler call Cooper to mention "he got him". That's just wrong. Disrespectful to the characters and the 10 years.
Still not the worst ending of a series though.
#justiceforHarambe
When a show consistently makes you root for it's characters, smile for the prospect of what is to come and have a sense of hope and "glee" in your eyes and heart you know you're watching something great.
You know... when people tell you to shut up... you shut the fuck up.
Also what is it with the 30 minutes.
The soap opera writers that have been put in charge of this ,once revered, franchise continue to distort and abuse the long and beloved history of Star Trek canon to subvert it to their own hand. In past seasons we've seen that Burnham was the reason Spock became who he was, we've lost beloved characters who have rejected everything they were before, Romulus was blown up and now we don't even have Vulcan anymore. Whatever reason these "writers" might have to do this is beyond me but it should be clear by now that it's malicious. Their ilk have destroyed 50 years of canon on Doctor Who, destroyed Star Wars and pretty much done the same to Trek. If rumors are to be believed they will soon include the Guardian of Forever and possibly deliver the final blow to Star Trek.
To the people defending this soap opera dribble... Well I don't know what to say to you. Character development, plot and the concept of coherent writing are cornerstones of anything that's good. These writers can't even keep track of events in the same episode let alone use a massive overarching storyline or how to benefit of over 50 years of worldbuilding.
It's disgraceful really what they have done and they should be ashamed of writing something that is below mediocre. But that appears to be modernday "entertainment" and by god... I hope it bites them back in their ass cause we'll all be worse off if it doesn't.
What a weird episode.
What a weird plan that apparently noone saw coming? How weird noone decided to just shoot Negan in the nogging? What a weird bunch of speeches and how weird people appeared to be riled up by something so lackluster? How weird that Negan thought bringing out that one guy from that one place would work? How weird some people all of a sudden don't seem to be so appetizing to a horde of zombies. How weird there was apparently only one side to this war? How weird to shoot at windows, to blow up just a courtyard? How weird all those cars could drive out of that area? Weird flashforwards or dreamsequences. Weird aging that only seems to affect Rick.
Weird that the writers of this dreck seem to keep getting away with all this contrived bullshit. There was almost no suspense, no ROAR moment... what a mess. I don't get how Fear the Walking Dead can be so drastically different and more realistic than this. I'm sure there will be good episodes this season but I'm getting a bit tired of the stupidity of the characters and events and the way these episodes play out. I'm so annoyed with this episode and I haven't even listed all it's flaws (including the unlogical nonsense I usually tend to ignore... You are holding an automatic rifle and all you can say is "what?" when your archnemesis tells you you're gonna shit your pants?" COME ON!!! At least let the magical priest lose his weapon on the way?)
Also weird "everyone" seems to love it btw.
Well this was some pretentious boring bullshit...
I'm currently watching season 6 of the original Magnum PI and was surprised to see this pop up. I immediately thought about how they could fuck up the themesong that I spent many tries attempting to record completely on my cassette-recorder but upon viewing this I must say they didn't fuck it up.
The rest however...
The thing that made Magnum PI so great was the fact, despite being a marine, that he was real human being... this Magnum, from the get-go is an action hero jumping from space and blazing his way through the Jungle, driving backward and shooting others... Why is it so important that these remakes need to lose the human aspect that made us cling so much to these characters. The original Magnum wasn't less of a hero for being afraid to get shot or hesitating to jump from one building to the other... On the contrary.
Couldn't care less that this Higgens is a woman but... where's connection between these two characters. Higgens and Magnum were at odds at the beginning of the original series but these almost seem to be at each others' throat. And let's not start about destroying the iconic Ferrari not once but twice (I know, it's popular, the A-team movie did it too, apparently it's their way of saying "fuck your past").
I'm not the kinda person to say this shouldn't exist but I do wonder why it needs to be so different from the original (same with MacGyver) that it barely resembles the source material. Maybe I don't like sucky reboots and rather have mediocre sequels, maybe I don't like bulletproof hero's but people with heart... and this comes from a person who still adores the 80s
Full disclosure: I haven't watched the complete episode (edit: I have now) and I started skipping scenes to see if it would stay like this (and as far as I could tell it did). I have three more seasons of original Magnum to go. I'll be with the lads, Higgy baby! (though I guess new TC won't be saying this to new Higgens any time soon)
Great ending!
To put it in the words of Carol: "Took you look enough"
A woman saying "I love you so much" during labour? What fantasyworld do these people live in?!!
Amazing episode. Simply amazing. Hearthbreaking, sad, exciting, thought-provoking... It left me dumb-founded for quite a long time, not cause of the surprise of it all but how heavy it weighs on the soul.
I never liked Wendy and I like her even less now. Give me the cold calculated emotional void of Marty over the manipulative, backstabbing sly fox that is Wendy.
Excellent acting from all of them though, especially Tom Pelphrey who will be missed.
That moment a big smile appears on your face the second Escobar walks out of the shadows.
Keep being amazed at the amount of ninja zombies there are in this world. Zombies that can just silently creep and shamble their way up to a person but then suddenly attack with the most noise you ever heard.
I guess it's normal for zombies not to realize that if they remain silent for all the time they might get some more brainz
This show has completely lost the plot. It's just "stuff happens on a train" by now, little or nothing to do with the greatness that is Snowpiercer The Movie
Nothing in this episode felt earned and because of this nothing felt real. Sure there was setup but it didn't make enough sense to make it reality. The scenes I should have felt emotion, ofcourse cued by sensitive music, didn't do anything for me cause... I don't care about any of these characters anymor. I rooted for them in season 1 but then they stopped being "human". And for the story... We're just going through the motions, following the rails from point A to B with whatever leaps they force on us.
To think there would come a day I'd be bored when two attractive women are fighting.
A hologram within a holodeck simulation of a chateau on a ship.
Popup ads that remind us the Tribbles are food and look like Pixar cartoons.
A man who isn't allowed to smoke on his own ship.
Seven of Nine without her catsuit being snarky to Picard for whatever reason she has.
Space techno and space pimps with a space pirate who overacts more than he should.
Apparently Quark has a bar on the BladeRunner planet as expected.
More space drugs.
Picard, the frenchman who can't speak french, tries to speak french again.
Elnor clearly is st0pid Data while the blondie with the eyes that almost touch eachother is not-so-smart Tilly.
A lot of back and forth editing that didn't make sense AND was annoying/confusing.
A lot of moving from here to there from there to here from nowhere to nowhere.
There's a lot more wrong with this episode, with this show and with Nu Trek. Goddammit
This is a great throw-back to the old Karate films. It acknowledges the flaws of morality in the movie that Daniel is actually the instigator an gives us enough nostalgia to remember the awesomeness that was Karate Kid. I think the storyline mixes the old vs the new very well in many aspects and although you expect it to go wrong at every turn... it never does.
I can't wait for the second season. The only problem: who am I rooting for again?
So far this seems to be the Lost of the 2020's including but not limited to:
- waking up eyes
- strangers with secrets living together
- ticking clock spelling doom
- timey-wimey stuff
- deep basement-like structures
- mysterious outside force controlling it all + the tech to do it
- puzzles and hints wherever you can find them
But it has done in 5 episodes what Lost stretched out to 5 (and more) seasons.
Let's hope they stick the landing like they did with Dark.
Hey, remember that video plotline well its... what... no... NO they're all singing!! NOOOO PLEASE MAKE IT STOP
My name is Barry Allen and I'm the... weakest hero alive. I'm so sorry about everything and it's all my fault. I have so many locks on my door one would thing I didn't have superpowers. I'm glad my awesome wife and her awesome friends know I am the Flash cause I sure as hell don't remember that. I also think it's superswell that they are Team Citizen and I just LOVED the long pause as they look into the great beyond. I'm the Flash, or at least I was... Now I'm just The Streak. Cause my wife invented that word and it resembles the streak of shit in my underpants that I constantly have these last seasons.
Oh and Mohinder... He's in this too. I keep forgetting.
Please make sure that the plotarmor around Offred is lowered in the following episodes. She gets away with wayyyyyyy too much in way too many public places and there is NO real danger for her it seems There is for others but she doesn't seem to realize that . Why did she say "by his hand" in such a sneering way? Was is revenge or did her one facial expression give me the wrong idea?
Come on fellas and felines! We all know what happens to shows where the plot armor is too strong! #neverforgetseason8
Even though a lot of plotpoints were expected this was a very exciting conclusion to the previous episode. The space battle had me on the tip of my seat and I had a few chuckles while we're at it. No lenseflares, no shakey crap. The show makes me feel how I felt when I was 17 watching Star Trek, Space Above and Beyond and other great sci-fi.
Can't wait for the next episode.
FOR THE GLORY OF AVIS!
The difference in writing with Strange New Worlds is staggering.
Where one explains to me - among many others - the obvious that some pseudo Vulcan phrase means potato/potato this show offers me my own "intellectual" journey.
It still changes elements from original Trek (last week the Bio-Borg, this week you know what) offering more than just member-berries and expands the universe instead of changing and subverting what was already there.
I still applaud the stroke of genius from Seth MacFarlane by starting this off as a comedy series only to Trojan Horse it into a full fledged modern copy of Trek.
Yeah, this doesn't happen and the misconception about the tradition is once again skewed to the bias of American eyes.
Granted I'm from Belgium and the tradition is slightly different from the Netherlands but still.
Even the Dutch don't do whatever the hotel staff and public was doing unless they were in character of Zwarte Piet. Which, they were not. I know this show is satire and shows an extreme view of things but still...
Good episode, just don't fuck with Zwarte Piet
Another episode where our former hero gets scolded and apologises for everything. At least Joe is smart enough to leave the series.
Do canaries yawn, cause I sure did?
Yeah no... I have ignored a lot of unrealistic stuff in the past, a lot of things that wouldn't just happen they way they did but this time they went a bridge too far... Noone inserts a usb drive so fast on the first try... EVER
This would have been a good ending to the series.
