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That was a nice twist! :open_mouth:
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@acoucalancha hope that's true, but the writers' strike might change that
Review by Acoucalancha
VIP4Some payoff, lots of well-shot edge-of-your-seat action and we finally have our first monster kill!
- "Leaves changing colors and falling off the trees"—so are we getting winter at some point? Do the creatures hibernate? And they're going to lose all their crops for real if the cold happens.
- Bullets don't do anything to them but Boyd was able to cut it in the throat. He even grabbed him by the throat and for a second there the monster looked afraid and that was before the worms entered. Are the monsters helpless when you attack them, unafraid? Knives work that's for sure. Monster wasn't bleeding at all though.
- I hope they do an autopsy on that monster. Also, we'll find out why they hate the sun. Will it burst into flames?
- Loved the ballerina. Her existence means that she was probably present in the Martin scenes. Was she the one that threw the rope down the hole to Boyd?
- Confirmation that the worms were keeping Martin alive to the point where his body was decomposed and still kept alive. Transfering the worms for sure killed him. To that point, doesn't it mean that the worms won't let the monster die sinse Boyd transfered them? Will it wake up in human form in the next episode?
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Yep maybe "From" is just like the Netflix Korean zombie show named "Kingdom", these monsters hate the daylight is because thay cannot take the temperature? As Boyd found out the leaves falling, maybe it heralded that the winter will come and then monsters can be out all of the day? That's really a challenge for everyone.
Review by Acoucalancha
VIP4Guess what... more mysteries! I'm fine with new mysteries i'm just worried this show will lose a lot of people if it gets too convoluted. Some answers please, just something!
- What the monsters did to Kelly was clearly intentionnal, they're more intelligent than I thought. I mean you need medical knowledge to know where to put the rod, right? They wanted the day people to find her alive, installing fear and chaos. Did the monsters set the alarm on the phone?
- Where's the boyfriend, he's dead apparently but nobody found him.
- It's confirmed that phones don't go through.
- Sinse they talked about traps this episode, someone please make a trap for one of these creatures. It would have to be metal i'm guessing sinse they reduced the wooden box in season 1 to nothing. Maybe the delivery truck Victor uses as a base?
- The wood sculpture thing Ethan did on the patio and Tabitha saw in the catacombs, I don't think it's any good to leave it there during the night. Is it a beacon for the monsters or something? The deformed weird woman in the catacombs took the sculpture down and that has meaning I think. Sinse she doesn't seem evil to me, maybe she's trying to help Tabitha by telling her to take it down.
- Everything is clearly being controlled by someone/something, there's just too many coincidences. This entity is trying to break these people and it's working really good.
- Elgin being scared of the lake, what's up with that? Is there another kind of monster in there or did he have a vision of people dying in there. If people die in the lake it would have to be in the daytime, right cause who would swim at night? A daytime monster?
- I think that violin was from Victor's mother.
- Somebody please put Victor, Jade, Ethan, Tabitha, Jim, Sara and Boyd in a room to talk. Give them a few hours and every mystery in this show is resolved. Communication guys!!
- It's about to get a whole lot more crazy with Sara returning... maybe she has some answers?!?
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Yeah. It is super convoluted. The show’s about to lose me. Feels like they are making it up as they go along…
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VIP6Jeez, 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:
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@2ls1t These are the same kind of people who would complain about black people being in movies one century ago. Deep down they know they’re out of touch and behind the curve, but it takes years to realize that. It’s fucking embarrassing, I apologize on the behalf of straight white men.
The Queen Who Never Was…
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she should have burned them all
Am I the only one confused about what the f is going on? Maybe I haven't been paying enough attention.
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@the_argentinian I feel like I understand everything, at least so far, but there's plenty we haven't been told yet. Last season ended with humans being freed from control by the AI that was sort of optimizing what happened in society. Becoming aware of this, people in the world began taking part in violent riots. At some point after, this became a "war" between humans and hosts, presumably due to their hatred of the AI - this was within the 7-year period between seasons, and off-screen for us, but referenced by Caleb and Maeve.
We don't know the scope of this war as of now, but we do know Caleb and Maeve at least have seen some action together - it also seems that there are human factions against the hosts, as shown in this episode. Caleb and Maeve assumed the war ended, but hosts were sent to kill them - so they've been brought back into the fold. On the host side, the Charlotte Hale host from S3 is leading the hosts (using the William "Man in Black" host, as well as hundreds of others), and they have some sort of grand plan that involves inviting humans to the park once again, now on US soil. It seems that Hale is hell bent on control.
The hosts can now "reprogram" humans by using the flies, which I think may be an evolved form of last season's tech that altered people's minds. Caleb and Maeve thought they were infiltrating the park and finding out what the hosts were doing, but they were just lured there all along, all to capture/use the flies on Caleb - he's somehow important for their plan, but we haven't been told why yet. (My thinking is since he was involved with the "memory alteration" tech before, maybe there's something about him they need - guess we'll find out. They've also been teasing that Caleb may have forgotten something relating to an injury he sustained during the war.)
Meanwhile, Bernard has been in the Sublime all along (in between seasons) - I kinda forget why he went in in the first place, but think it's to explore ways to "fix" the world itself or at least seek an outcome that would be good for everybody. (If you forget what the Sublime is, it's the technical "dreamscape" where lots of hosts found save haven towards the end of S2 - the bad guy from S3 wanted to get in there, and apparently so does Hale/William hosts, but Dolores had the key to it in her mind, so getting there is a big no-no). While there, Bernard saw countless simulations of the future of the world and seems to have discovered what to do, which he began to do this episode. (Stubbs follows him unquestionably because he was programmed - by Bernard - to do so, in S3, which is ironic.)
He's back ! Vader enters the picture and immediately the heat is literally turned up. One shot, one breath of him has more weight as ten minutes from the Third Sister.
I had not imagined that him and Obi-Wan would meet that early. And now we have the question of continuity. There has to be another meeting because that one could not have been what Vader was describing in Ep IV (with Obi-Wan being the Master and he the apprentice). Yes, those things matter to me. But as one-sided as the duel here was it had me on the edge of my seat. The lightsabers in the dark, the musical score, Vaders voice - that was an amazing sequence.How on earth did Reva get past Leia ? There is one tunnel leading to where the pilot was waiting and she had to pass Leia to get there first. Yet she was there waiting, the pilot already dead.
All in all by far the best episode. Obi-Wan talking about Padme and his memories of his own family was another great scene.
Now I'm hyped.
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@finfan yay, we disagree! This show has been nothing but fanservice with a dumbed down Obi-Wan (and plot, in general). They noticed how much success a cute little guy with the main protagonist made in The Mandalorian, and now they're trying to repeat the formula with this one. Except Leia is way more annoying than she is cute. The introduction of Darth Vader in this episode was absolutely great, but then his scene with Obi-Wan looked like it was fan made. I couldn't feel any tension or sense of danger from that "fight", whatsoever. Maybe because we know the fate of those characters. But, still, I think of all the three main new Star Wars series, this one has been the most dull of all.
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VIP4That was so goooood! A whole episode of non-stop action and the animation is top tier. I did good to stop reading the manga because I have no idea what is going to happen.
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@acoucalancha It's arcs like this that make me super glad I don't read it as well
