I'm sorry, but hating on Laura for making an impossible choice just seems idiotic to me. Anatol threatens to kill a human or a Synth (incidentally, the only Synth child in the world) and when she saves the human, she is horrible? Stanley forgets all their talk about kindness rather than hate the only guy promoting violence? Sam chooses to leave people he said he liked seconds ago... to go with guys he just saw threatening others? The kids close the door on her..... rather than consol her and hate Anatol?
I see no reason for hating Laura. If anything, she shouldn't have chosen anyone and should have made a deal of pointing out how Anatol is the only irrational being there, but that takes an extra level of bravery when your kids are in the frickin' room.
Other than that, I feel like this was a great episode more because of the direction, editing and sound design than the actual content. The background music is always on point but this time around it just felt like the best ever, that scene with Max closing the gate was perfect, captured his anger/frustration wonderfully.
Content-wise, besides the Laura/Mia/Stanley plot... the Niska story felt mostly like a filler. Scenes in the rain were great and Niska is just awesome in all she does, but the story is too slow and leaves you with this feeling that they're just padding it out until the finale, the fight on this one was just a "hiccup" until she's back on track.
With Leo/Mattie it's more of the same, but worse, because with Niska at least you expect a payoff, but with these two... I could be wrong, but it doesn't seem to be going anywhere, it just feels way disconnected to everything else going on unless that spy girl ties them to the main plot somehow. The pregnancy added to it just feels dull.
Great episode artistically, frustrating one story-wise.
Review by Lucas MeloVIP 8BlockedParentSpoilers2018-08-11T10:58:06Z
I'm sorry, but hating on Laura for making an impossible choice just seems idiotic to me. Anatol threatens to kill a human or a Synth (incidentally, the only Synth child in the world) and when she saves the human, she is horrible? Stanley forgets all their talk about kindness rather than hate the only guy promoting violence? Sam chooses to leave people he said he liked seconds ago... to go with guys he just saw threatening others? The kids close the door on her..... rather than consol her and hate Anatol?
I see no reason for hating Laura. If anything, she shouldn't have chosen anyone and should have made a deal of pointing out how Anatol is the only irrational being there, but that takes an extra level of bravery when your kids are in the frickin' room.
Other than that, I feel like this was a great episode more because of the direction, editing and sound design than the actual content. The background music is always on point but this time around it just felt like the best ever, that scene with Max closing the gate was perfect, captured his anger/frustration wonderfully.
Content-wise, besides the Laura/Mia/Stanley plot... the Niska story felt mostly like a filler. Scenes in the rain were great and Niska is just awesome in all she does, but the story is too slow and leaves you with this feeling that they're just padding it out until the finale, the fight on this one was just a "hiccup" until she's back on track.
With Leo/Mattie it's more of the same, but worse, because with Niska at least you expect a payoff, but with these two... I could be wrong, but it doesn't seem to be going anywhere, it just feels way disconnected to everything else going on unless that spy girl ties them to the main plot somehow. The pregnancy added to it just feels dull.
Great episode artistically, frustrating one story-wise.