How did Bert know where Sally lived? Stalker much?
"What if this is just DeMarcus thinking that poop is funny?"
"Poop is funny."
Well, now I know what it would look like if BoJack Horseman was real…and naked.
That was a nice homage to The Godfather towards the end, but the way Luke talked to Misty was too much of an abrupt shift in character. I know Mariah hoped the club would corrupt Luke, but I figured that would happen slowly during season 3, not two minutes later in this episode.
I have an easier time following Westworld's timeline than this season of AD.
This was a really freaky and well-made movie. It built the tension up very slowly, cutting it periodically with misdirection and great humor (the whole audience was cracking up a lot). It went in a different direction than what I was expecting from the trailer and kept me guessing, but thinking back on it, I realized there was lots of foreshadowing early on ( the "strangers" at the grandmother's funeral, the grandmother wanting Charlie to be a boy, the grandmother insisting on feeding Charlie herself, Charlie cutting off the bird's head, the symbol on the telephone pole that knocked Charlie's head off, etc. ). I didn't think it was very scary—though that's my typical opinion of most "scary" movies—but I was never, ever bored. The story sucked me in, and Toni Collette's performance was so good. Definitely worth seeing.
So did they blow their budget before they got to the Tahiti scene? It was so jarringly and painfully obvious Coulson and May were standing in front of a green screen. It's like no one even tried to blend them in with the environment.
Also, the notion that SHIELD's little team could save all the people in the numerous buildings that the ship crashed into was ludicrous.
Otherwise, this was a great and emotional ending to the season (and thankfully not the show). I'm looking forward to Season 6: The Search for Fitz.
"Hey Mack, I think my legs are broken." <— GUT PUNCH
DRAX: Tell him about the dance off to save the Universe!
TONY: What dance off?
PETER PARKER: Like in Footloose? The movie?
PETER QUILL: EXACTLY like Footloose!
"You on the bride's side or groom's?"
So the grandson of two geniuses is a total moron…nice.
Also, how did that woman get Deke's DNA to run a "genetic profile"? It's not like he was wounded and bleeding in the jail cell.
Also also, thankfully, this "fear dimension" didn't bring Ward back from the dead…again.
Jessica's mom: "You're just going to waste good booze."
Jessica: "It's bottom shelf."
Ah, mother-daughter bonding.
This season should've been released on Mother's Day to honor Jessica's awful moms.
"I should've punched him in the Tesla years ago."
I didn't realize how much I missed you, Jessica Jones.
"Have you even tried Zima?" LOL
But seriously though, where is this bar that doesn't make you pay or open a tab when you order?
In a word, magical. The Shape of Water is a beautiful and superbly crafted film with excellent writing, direction, art direction, cinematography, acting, and music. It's arguably del Toro's best work and easily my favorite film of 2017. This is why I go to the movies!
"Did you make me one?"
LOL. That sandwich bit had me dying.
Despite all its high points, this episode had one big letdown at the end. After the last trailer teased the shot of Hopper throwing Nancy the rifle, it turned out that she didn't even get to fire one bullet. Seriously? She couldn't kill one demodog (it'll catch on!) before Eleven saved the day?
Such an amazing episode.
Mad Max earns her name, Mike (briefly) outsmarts the shadow monster, Hopper finally opens up to Eleven and does everything to protect her, Eleven unleashes all her power, and Dustin keeps breaking the tension with just the right amount of comedic relief:
"Demodog…like demogorgon and dog…put together."
Then there's Steve. Can we talk about Steve for a minute? In season 1, he was a first-rate dick, and I was so mad when Nancy ended up with him at the end of the finale. This season, though, he totally redeemed himself by repeatedly putting himself in danger to protect others. In this episode he was beaten to a bloody pulp while protecting Lucas from Billy, and when he comes to, what does he do? He takes charge and leads the party again.
Meanwhile, this season Nancy hooked up with with Jonathan "I hang out with my little brother because I have no friends" Byers because Murray Bauman claimed there was something between them. There was so much character development and relationship building this season, but the writers seemed to skip over Jonathan. He mostly just moped around and was almost as useless as Will, which made Nancy's attraction to him seem that much more forced. Hopefully next season Nancy will see the error of her ways or Steve will find someone better.
In the meantime, I'm officially on #TeamSteve.
I get that some people didn't like the tonal shift of this episode and interruption of the main plot, but I loved all the Star Wars references/parallels.
El trying to pull the train car was obviously reminiscent of Luke trying lift his X-Wing in The Empire Strikes Back (except that El succeeded!). Kali essentially tempted El with the dark side of the Force by teaching her use anger to strengthen her powers. Kali even manipulates El into force choking one of "the bad men" almost to death before El has a change of heart.
In the end, El chose to use happy, loving memories (not angry, painful ones) to connect to her friends and, discovering that they are in danger, left Kali to save them. This is similar how Luke had a vision of Han and Leia in danger and left Yoda to save them.
The questions remaining after this episode: Is El walking into a trap like Luke did? Can Kali be redeemed? Will she return to Hawkins to help El? Would her powers even be effective against the demogorgons or the shadow monster?
C'mon, Dustin. Didn't anyone tell you not to feed pollywogs after midnight?
I'm waiting for that thing to grow into a demogorgon (or something worse).
"I know. I know."
To echo many others who enjoyed the film: I don't know what I just watched, but I know I liked it.
I read many critic reviews after watching the film in a hope to better understand it, but I think Roger Ebert summed it up the best:
I was never, ever bored by "Cloud Atlas." On my second viewing, I gave up any attempt to work out the logical connections between the segments, stories and characters. What was important was that I set my mind free to play. […] Any concrete, factual attempt to nail the film down to cold fact, to tell you what it "means," is as pointless as trying to build a clockwork orange.
Claire: "Danny's prepared his whole life for this fight. He's the Iron Fist."
Colleen: "And he will tell that to anyone who will listen. I know him. Deep down inside he is still just a kid looking for his family."
It's not just you, Colleen. Everyone can see him acting like a child.
