Well that wasn’t confusing at all......not
thankfully it makes sense by the end
Well that was weird. Thought I was watching the wrong show? Lol!
Not really sure what was going on, more questions than answers. :thinking:
I had to check several times just to make sure I'm watching the same show
[HBO] A messy script that's constantly running ahead of events, as if it's so eager to explain itself that it leaves constant narrative gaps. Episode six, a kind of short film anthology, is intended to be explanatory but leaves more questions than answers. The new showrunner Philippa Goslett has the mission to fix the mess (if it is possible) and, on the way, eliminate the sexist tone of the show.
Season 1 Part 1 Review:
Joss Whedon's fourth (and possibly last) TV series is one not to miss if you're a die hard fan of the creator. Like the freshman seasons of his other shows (not including Firefly), Whedon's show take time to flourish into the ambitious and beloved fantasy/sci-fi works we love today, the same's the case with this series. Although flawed in many places, The Nevers is Whedon's most exciting original effort since Firefly, with a premise that has numerous seasons of story in it.
Whedon does plenty with the Victorian era, giving us some fantastic Gothic dialogue seasoned with his trademark wisecrack banter. The characters here are absolutely amazing and prove to be descendants of the Scoobies and the Serenity crew. I'd even say that Whedon's nerdy aesthetic makes this more lively and iconic than say Penny Dreadful, which got dull in many moments. With Emmy season in full swing, I think Laura Donnelly deserves a nomination for her fierce and tortured protagonist, one that I was beginning to love more than Buffy Summers. Everyone's at the top of their game, even the male characters are intriguing due to the number of Brit character actors playing them such as Nick Frost and James Norton.
It's messy, but once you get to the mid season finale, you will see that Whedon had one hell of an ambitious story to be told. Unfortunately with his leaving, what he had planned will never be known and it will now be the duty of showrunner Philippa Goslett. It'll be interesting to see where she takes the series and if this runs for more than two seasons, Goslett will be the name associated with the series moving forward. However, Whedon re-using a technique from Dollhouse to tell the story for the midseason finale was ambitious and mind blowing, showing viewers they had no idea what was coming. I can only hope Goslett can come up with exciting twists and characters shown here.
Ya just gotta love this show! Fabulous! Stupendous!
Suspicious 'X-Men: Days of Future Past' vibes here. :joy:
I'm very glad to know something about Amalia after all, and now it makes perfect sense how she behaves slighly erratic at times, when it seems she lets some of the world slip through and get at her to the point she even seems vulnerable. The immediate link between how she sees Knitter and Penance also adds a lot to her character, as someone torn between accepting the world as it is and fighting for a better one.
Also, brilliant work from Claudia Black mimicking just enough of Amalia's mannerisms to have me going back and forth "Is that...? No... Is it?" :rofl:
I'm not confident saying that all the cards seem to be at least aluded to, but the bigger picture looks much more interesting.
What the fuck is going on? We need the Snyder Cut to this episode.
The entire team making this show should be fired. What a fucking mess.
I don't like where all this is headed. It was all really good until this last episode.
The only thing I liked is the last line fucking prototype
That was one weird episode but if you remember that it all started off with a craft in the sky dispersing some kind of spores that penetrated certain individuals then it'll make some kind of sense for now.. A lot more to come I think ;-)
I was so confused for the first 15 minutes of this episode. I suspected for most of the season that Amalia was either an alien or from the future, so it was nice to have that confirmed, but the origin story left me with more questions than answers. We know that in the future there are two factions at war, but it's not clear what exactly their motivations are aside from one wanting to save the world and the other determined to... keep it shitty and post-apocalyptic, I guess? Also there was so much jargon/made-up lingo that wasn't explained. I have no idea what a Stripe is. I know exposition dumps are not great most of the time, but I feel like we could've used one here.
Once we got back to Victorian times the episode got much better. It was fun to see how Amalia ended up running the orphanage and how she became the posh badass that we've gotten to know over the course of the season.
"I left Penance behind because you said 'Find me'. I left my heart to come talk to you" Did she just... literally call Penance her heart? AND she told her her real name that she protected all this time and didn't even tell her spouses? And this show wants me to believe that their relationship is platonic? Sounds fake but okay.
This one is the cherry on top. Brilliant storytelling, with so many revelations (finally!) and promises... I didn't expect to love this show, but I do, almost as much as I hate cliffhangers. Now to wait forever again to see who else made it, if it's Knitter and she's gone dark... doubtful... but, I have hope. wink
From the look on his face and what we saw in Amalia's vision, it seems like Penance will ultimately choose Zephyr/Amalia (has already chosen, if that stare in this episode's closing is anything to go by) and Mr. Birdlow may side with his sister (Edmund Hague's puppet), Augie will be like CCTV for them lol... aaaand then domino effect. I can't wait...
(3rd rewatch addendum)
...I mean I clearly can (wait)... this indefinite return shit is frustrating, but, well, here we are... still waiting.
(post shitty news about the cancellation)
....aaaaaand another one bites the dust, cancelled like all the others because it's "too woke". At this point I might just stop watching current television altogether, perhaps thats the puritan push anyway.
Ah well, so it goes.
It still could all be Stripe’s pheen trip or last neurons firing
SPOILER ALERT
Just finished this, "last cookie," in the bag...what a trip!
I got it. I loved it. Only unanswered question for me WAS, besides who else time-jumped and where/who they landed in, whether Claudia Black's character, "Stripe," offed herself knowing she'd go through the portal, but, after I had a think, I don't believe she did. I believe the tentacle arms of light were simply our favorite martian deciding she was a good candidate technically & spiritually after her brush with the true believer (the, "spored," & reformed, "Free Life," PDC soldier).
I'm not gonna give too much thought to the question of whether this signifies a never-ending time-loop, since it's made clear the murdered scientific team knows there was a temporal incursion by their collection of Victorian era memorabilia. I believe the last Galanthi couldn't have any experience of his/her time-travel, just knowledge something had happened.
[Claudia Black from Farscape! Science Fiction royalty....]
The only thing I don't understand is how many people didn't understand the narrative technique employed here. I didn't care much for the story itself, but it was very elegantly done.
And at last we have an in-universe explanation for why True's English accent is so bad.
When you have someone who can see glimpses of the future, who needs a "Next time..."?
Such a good series, and I hope the loss of its creator doesn't negatively impact it too much (sadly, it almost always does, in reality).
Am I watching episode 6 or a new series? #confused
Shout by Andy GilleandVIP 6BlockedParent2021-05-18T11:44:20Z
This episode reminded me a lot of the Dollhouse Season 1 finale, "Epitaph One"