"Welcome to dating in the 90s"
"I am Kavra."
Here for this so far. Good performances, strong chemistry. Hokey effects. I love it so far.
The show just keeps stepping it up. This was a joyous adventure full of fun and making full use of the characters. Ethan Peck is bringing so many good things to his portrayal of Spock. Pike's pirate excursion was delightful and I'm becoming genuinely heartbroken for how Chapel's feelings are being thrown around.
The real star here turned out to be Jesse James Keitel who absolutely slayed it, creating a character that I am super eager to see return. Slightly less impressive was the pirate Remy who felt like he was there only for joke purposes. Still fun though, especially as we got to see Pike in armoured apron.
And wow, that ending twist! I didn't even realise how much I wanted that until it happened.
Keep doing what you're doing, Strange New Worlds. This is so much fun. I just wish we were getting more Hemmer.
I've really gotta stop reading these comments....
i really like the pace for me i do not find it slow or boring, there is probaby to much story to tell and what are the showing is enough for now. I like how they trying to connect everything.
Also the opening credits are fantastic.
Well that was an amazing start to this epic journey. Got that great mando feel but slightly different. same same, Different, but still same!
can't wait for chapter 2! Favreau and team, you beautiful bastards did it again!
I loved the theme to this episode. Not only the idea of morality but also black magic. It seems like an infinite black hole of possible evil and that's so exciting. Obligatory blonde falls for Dean's ruggish charm as Sam wingmans.
REWATCH
come on baby
don't fear the reaper
baby take my hand...
ah, when they start showing how much Dean's heart is in the right place
look at my tough baby being so soft
Strong start, and I say that acknowledging that Asimovian truism is obvs not their goal. I legit love where they’re taking the whole “prophecy” narrative, since that aspect of the OG story would be hard to convey as a TV show..
Making it a battle of rebellious, savant-tier genius vs a technologically elite Empire of forgotten dreams—whose ruler is a clone controlled by an actual robot—really makes it feel relevant to our experience: moneyed royalty building an algorithmically-powered, AI driven—chatGPT, Google Bard, etc)—but potentially distopian future… Pretty excellent.
Jackson probably had one of the better send offs of any character on this show.
this episode made me so uncomfortable, plus it was pointless filler
Rachel is amazing. She knows what she wants and won't accept others treating her unfairly.
Gotta love the women on this show, the plot should be about them instead:sunglasses:
this season has been so depressing, good but sad sigh
Great (but emotional) episode. Now can we get into some uplifting stuff with some odd bits of humor? Make us laugh a little again.
Man, I've never been so anxious for an entire episode. I was so scared knowing that something was gonna happen to them and trying to brace myself for an incoming jump scare. I could hardly enjoy the happy, peaceful moment they were having.
Also, the mall had a lot of stores I recognized so I searched up where it was filmed and found out some trivia for anyone else who didn't know: this series was filmed in Calgary in Canada. Cool!
i am DEVASTATED this was such a powerful and depressing episode. ALL the awards for bella and storm
Each episode has me more and more impressed with Bella's portrayal of Ellie. It's excellent.
Also, Ellie checking her hair in the reflection was super cute.
Jeez, the snowflaky reactions of straight white men because not every single episode and narrative centres them - anything deviating from that priority is apparently "woke". Get over yourselves, you egomaniacal bigots.
Anyway, another great episode that nicely expanded Ellie's backstory - bonus points for the Mortal Kombat II appreciation, too :nerd:
There are episodes like these which are just freaking beautiful.
After all these years, all the up and downs, all the good and shit, all the 'cant wait for next weeks episode' to the not watching for years and having to catch up.
After everything I'm actually kinda sad to this show end. It definitely needs to but still. I mean I was 15 when I watched the first episode, I'm 27 now. I have been reading the comics for even longer. This universe, for better or worse, has been a big part of my life and I will definitely miss it.
Why do leaders that can't even provide for and manage their own kingdoms think that they can 'civilize and suppress' other worlds as well? Perhaps fix your own broken society before searching for more to conquer.
4 episodes wasn't enough haha. I loved it especially the extra scene. Can't wait for the next Witcher season
I love how Chloe is more concerned about the Coach giving the players the test than the fact that there were fountains of fire all over the field.
One of my all-time fav shows, I'm finally rewatching (I believe a decade on from finishing the series - crazy), in conjunction with the new Podcast, Talk Ville - hosted by the Lex and Clark of this show, Michael Rosenbaum and Tom Welling. That means potentially 4-5 years of weekly re-watching Smallville.
I'm now getting to the see show with their knowledge and nearly with new eyes - as it's been so long since I've watched this. Obviously the special effects and just the visual quality of the recording are dated, but that's 20 years ago (I know... I keep saying it).
The first half of this episode really hinders Tom as he has to play this timid dweeb but in the 2nd half, he gets to open up and be more natural. Michael Rosenbaum is an excellent Lex and he just gets better and better as the show goes over. Its interesting watching Allison Mack on TV again, after all that's come out since. John Glover and Annette O'Toole are fantastic as the older stars, while John Schneider always looks like he's smiling and it's bugging me.
Some of the dialogue is hokey as it desperately tries fit in the ties to a larger Superman story. Some lines like "nothing will stand in the way of our friendship" (after knowing the guy for a few days) are bad, but made tolerable by Rosenbaum's acting. The way Ross and Sullivan come to suspect the "freak of the week" is extremely forced and rushed, this is a Clark centric pilot that in hindsight probably should have been 1 hour (or at least 5 more minutes). Even the tension between Whitney and Clark feels rushed .
Overall, this is a god pilot from a show that would only get better and better. After the end of the first episode - I wanted to pick up immediately with Episode 2, but that's for another week.
Not sure what I was expecting from the last ever episode, but I don't think that was it. It was a good episode, but until the last few minutes it felt like it could have gone anywhere in the season.
Still, there's Ark of Truth and Continuum to go yet.
And those last few minutes really were rather charming and a bit bittersweet. The missions to save the galaxy continue.
Chevron 7 locked.
In this case, even Netflix failed me: According to IMDB trivia, the Stargate wikia, GateWorld, and a blog post by producer Joseph Mallozzi… this was originally a longer episode (63 minutes vs. 43 minutes, excluding commercials), and was cut down for syndication. Twenty minutes is a lot of material to cut, even if part of it was a "last week on Stargate SG-1 segment—and the list of omitted scenes in the shortened version is damning (see SG wikia).
Fans were right to be mad at MGM for issuing those early DVDs with the shortened version. Without even having seen the original cut, the syndicated version still feels like it's missing something. I'm mad that Hulu, Netflix, iTunes, and Vudu all have the shortened version despite later DVD releases of the show coming with the longer original cut. (Google Play might have the full version, but it's doubtful. Can't tell because it doesn't show episode runtimes in the store.)
My next step will be to request the Season 8 DVDs via interlibrary loan, just so I can watch this episode as it was intended.
GateWorld: https://www.gateworld.net/sg1/s8/threads/#production
Wikia: https://stargate.fandom.com/wiki/Threads#Notes
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0709210/trivia?item=tr0671344
Joseph Mallozzi's post: https://josephmallozzi.com/2011/06/04/june-4-2011-a-sneak-peek-at-the-standing-sets-for-transporter-the-series-they-eyes-dont-have-it-the-stargate-sg-1-season-8-wrap-up/
Put the damn kid down Teyla. You would be a lot more useful, and increase the likelihood of saving everyone including your kid, if you would just put the kid down and go defeat Michael and his minions. They are counting on you being completely useless and you are proving that assumption to be correct. Dumbass...
The wraith make a much scarier enemy than the Goa'uld. They almost make the Goa'uld seem silly.
♪ A single man tear ♫
No todos los asesinos son descendientes míos, y no todos mis descendientes son asesinos,
pero muchos lo son, los suficientes para saber que exterminarlos es lo menos que le debo a este mundo.
