Suddenly everything came to a head this episode! Which makes you wonder how it can escalate even further. We have the pay off to the build up of Chase x Gert and Nico x Karolina and it ended with the kids facing off with their parents! So much in one ep!
Looks like they're side stepping Mollie being a mutant and having it be related to the rocks? Understandable with sketchy ownership rights and not having to explain the further universe. Still all works pretty well. This felt like a mid season break or something. Can't wait for next week!
Another great episode. Karolina kissing Nico and looking so happy afterwards was really cute.
Quite a few revelations and what a cliffhanger at the end.
Molly's parents found weird rocks that glow and shape shift at the location that Jonah bought off Mr Wilder. That same night their lab was bombed, they were killed... but molly was playing with one of the rock when the explosion hit... this is how she got her powers.... They died because they found out something Jonah didn't want them to know and Leslie did the dirty work . I had suspected some of this, but I didn't think Molly's powers, her parents death and Jonah were all connected... I love the writers.
The group is in shambels after Chase destroyed their only way to know the truth about Pride... so now they do to the dance.
Molly's parents found that escavating the site that Jonah wants to "develop" will trigger massive earthquakes that could level the city, on top of the really weird rocks that are on that site... They tried to stop it, but they failed... they died.... For Jonah, and Leslie, his goal was more important.
As the kids found out, they realize that they might be the only ones to stop it, even if they are way over their heads... but i also love that their parents are also way in over their heads.... they are finally starting to see the reality of their parents' situation...
Well, the romance between Alex and Nico died the moment Nico found out about what Alex knew about her death. I love Nico's rage as his silence and letting her live with the pain and doubt by herself.
Yay, we also get a dance and all the kids look lovely. Oh how fast they grow up.And look Chase and Gert opening up about their feelings, in general and for each other. I love my children. Potential apocalypse is always a great excuse to say fuck it and just go for it. No excuses, no judgements, only unabashed sincerity.... and for Gert and Chase that means acknowleding what they've been dancing around and leads straight into a kiss, and a bit more of a hook up but also much more than a hook up. .... And seems like Karolina got the memo too... She went for it with Nico and its was sweet, soft and everything i want for them. She kissed the girl. And the girl kissed her back. I love my lesbian/bi daughters. They grow up so fast... Also Karolina, you might need to give Nico a step ladder to reach you. Tol/Smol.
Stupid Frank.. you had to go and try to be the big man, but you just sold out the kdis to Jonah. Stupid Fuck. And now the cats out of the bag, the parents know and they will have to figure out how to protect their children from the reach of Jonah. And from getting themselves even more over their heads.
The kids trying to fix their parents' screw up (what Pride was created for, what Jonah wants). This is the whole "the sins of the father", as kids inhereted the mistakes of their parents, but they also developed the traits that would have save them from making those sins. And it's beautiful... but like in all tales of parents vs children, the kids must battle their parents... and I;ve been waiting for this since a few episodes back, and its everything I could ever imagined and more... also, yay for the showdown to be done in beautiful formal wear. Nothings says a fight like a black tux.
Shit, Jonah is scary AF.... love the casting for him.
Fave lines: "You're all assholes" Alex to the group
Fav scene: Gert and Chase hooking up and Nico and Karolina kissing. My children, grown up.
A good outing, but one where the writer(s) seemed to have been given an order to make those two relationship moments happen. Because they didn't seem to be integral to any story line(s) and certainly weren't presented in any sort of "organic" way. Instead, they just seemed to be soap for the sake of soap, added in at the last minute as an afterthought. And really, while opposites can attract, Chase and Gert just push the whole suspension-of-disbelief thing to its limits for me. The rest of the episode, though, did a great job of keeping things moving along on both the parents and kids fronts, although it bothered me that Alex was the only one unwilling to instantly forgive Chase for what he did at the end of the last episode. Actions like that need to have consequences that don't get written off moments after they happen.
Shout by posterchildBlockedParentSpoilers2018-01-04T14:48:59Z
i have waited so so long, for years since i read the comics, for this episode to happen. gert and chase finally getting together. karolina making the move on nico. THE LEAPFROG!
just a bit mad that the name runaways comes from the sacrifices and not because, you know... they run away.