I absolutely LOVE how this show handles episodes that follow and focus on characters outside the main group. This was so good.
Holy wow, that was intense. Reese getting cornered by HR and the FBI, Finch pulling through at the VERY last minute (cut it real close there, but of course, what would this be without the thrill), AND Alicia snooping around. SO good. Also very glad that Carter and Fusco now finally know about each other.
Always a pleasure to see Clarke Griffin's mom back as the sultry fixer Zoe Morgan.
I'm jealous of everyone who got to watch this and the reveal at the end without knowing (what I have sadly known long before starting this) that the POI is Root and that she would eventually become part of the team. Because daaamn, Amy Acker did such a switch there, very convincing as the good doctor and then did the psycho hacker well lmao (come to think of it, it is very Claire/Whiskey too; I kept wondering why this particular actress x character combination felt kind of familiar).
Also... The Machine is sort of sentient? I know about AI, but that's a whole 'nother level.
I knew from the cold open and the music at the beginning that we were in for a ride. Holy sh—
Two decades later and I feel like I still know several of the lines by heart. There are small details I notice more now, but somehow it's still as magical as the first time around, even though the CGI and effects are noticeably from the early 2000s, this was pure magic back then.
I remember my first rewatch of this as a kid, the first book in my hand because I realized it was a very close adaptation, and I would look for the page in the book where the current scene would be and I was be so happy to hear the lines on the page being spoken onscreen. (I've stopped expecting book adaptations to be accurate since then, of course, but it was a nice memory, a reminder of simpler times.)
Wow, that was an amazing start. The art style is stunning (I keep pausing to appreciate it), the lore setup is great, the characters intriguing, and the end is definitely gripping enough to make you want to keep tuning in. I constantly asked my brother about some small details, curious if these were established in the game since I'm not much of a MOBA player.
Also, the opening sequence is SICK!
"This is a very frustrating conversation."
I don't know about you guys.. but this episode was hilarious to me. :joy:
AND NOW WE'LL NEVER KNOW WHAT THE TATTOO WAS
Shaw!!! This episode was very, very good to her character. This made me feel so much about her. I laughed, I almost cried, I got angry with her, and I officially love with her. So good.
And Carter!!! You boss ass b*tch!
Root on her own was already a force to be reckoned with. Her with the Machine? They never stood a chance.
This show came out of nowhere and I am loving every second of it.
REESE IN GOD MODE!
The Machine is a literal Deus Ex Machina and I'm not even complaining. Holy wow, POI never disappoints with its season finales.
The transition from the 2 messed up simulations to the last one with the kiss and meta lines was so unexpected, I have no words to describe how perfect and funny that was (except I died).
This episode's flashbacks and its culmination are probably one of my favorites of the show.
I don't think I fully appreciated the first time around just how well this show managed to (eventually) integrate Root into the team and how they were able to redeem and develop her character convincingly; I was too busy just enjoying her popping up whenever she did. From psycho kidnapper to core part of the group. * cries *
But dang, if they'd gotten the chip then... would've saved them a whole lot of trouble (and us 2 seasons of Samaritan lol).
A series that made chess feel exciting. I mean let's be real, I like and enjoy chess at times, but chess is admittedly not something I would have expected to be as intense as depicted here. Made me curious how accurate and truly powerful Beth's chess game was and what real competitive chess players thought of this (I Googled, and I wasn't disappointed).
Anya Taylor-Joy was so good! She takes us on a 7-episode trip of Beth's life highlighted by her triumphs and lows, her relationships and losses. At one point, I was pretty sure we weren't going to get e 'happy ending' after everything we've seen, but I'm glad to have been proven wrong. I loved that in the end, Beth learned to accept help and love and family where she can.
Season 6, in my opinion, probably has one of the most put-together plots of the show thus far. Maybe because, to me, it feels like it involves the pay-off of seasons and seasons of problems and solutions set up by the show. The monoliths and the fear dimension, the LMDs, their time traveling, and of course the characters' relationships. The shortened season also helped a lot with the pacing, but this now makes me feel like a shortened final season will not be enough. I am excited at the prospect of getting Agent Carter closure next season, though!
Holy shit, the moment the reactor went out? chef's kiss I got goosebumps!
What a satisfying ending
Also, that was like 3 Black Mirror episodes in 1, holy sh
This was so good.
But I am CRYING. "I chose a voice." Holy --
"She certainly makes an impression." - understatement of the year!
Loved the twist of seeing another hacker-agent pairing chasing down POIs! That last couple of scenes with Fusco and Carter (and Bear) was soo good.
And okay, Root's still crazy but I'm warming up to seeing her lurking around. Enemy of your (in this case John and Finch's) enemy, after all... I'm trying not to spoil myself too much despite knowing some things to come, so I don't want to search for it, but I'm definitely hoping we'll see Shaw again very soon. I was kind of hoping the last scene would be them recruiting her. I don't know how I can bear just going back to the case-of-the-week stuff after that (but I will anyway)!
Reese and Carter (and Fusco, with goodboi Bear) actually working together and making a freakin' great team!
This was a really great episode. Good mystery and its unraveling was good; even though I kind of expected that the random guy at the beginning of the flashbacks was gonna be the culprit, just because I've watched too many procedurals for it to be somewhat just part of the formula, I didn't expect Root's past identity until just before the reveal.
Very high stakes episode! My worry for Finch and the Machine was very real.
I'm really loving this season so far! Would it be such a stretch to say this feels like one of the best RPDR seasons yet?
I am sad about the eliminated queen, but at this point it feels like all of them are really killing it, so any one of them going home tonight onwards would have been a shame. I will miss Crystal's gender-fuck armpit hair looks though! That was legit not something I expected to see and enjoy so much before she graced our TVs with it lol
So good! This episode definitely showed me that these queens are up there (and coming from RPDR Down Under, I definitely needed a good DR season)!
So good! Wasn't the vibe I was expecting at all, but I was pleasantly surprised. Definitely thought we were at least going to see more of the Red Room, though, so that was a bit disappointing. Still, entertaining overall, and hopefully we'll see the Red Room in future installments.
Such a shame that this had to come out only after her character's death in Endgame, but I think a good BW future is still a big possibility either in Yelena taking on the mantle eventually, or Nat being brought back once the multiverse gets effed up.
Also, that post-credits scene! I wonder how weird that appearance would have felt if the viewer hadn't seen TFATWS yet (or, if as originally planned, this movie came out before that). Also just realized that she's being very Nick Fury-esque now, assembling an Evil Avengers crew lol.
This season was amazing! Hands down my favorite of the show.
Holy sht, Nate's attitude and annoyingness went from 50 to 100 from the last episode. WTF
His closing scene legit had a supervillain vibe lol. Can't wait for them to take him down a notch next season.
I felt so bad for Raelle! :(
The 10-year-old was so frustratingly cute and creepy at the same time, but I also kind of couldn't get over the fact that the scene was basically 2 machines having a conversation.
Viva las Vegas! Cute wordplay. ;)
Cutting out Gamora's episode this season when she was still part of the finale was a bad (okay yeah, a sad one since it was because of COVID delays) choice. I'm guessing / pretty sure it's the episode that was pushed to Season 2, but still. Now we know she and Tony will be allies in the end (and judging by the leaks, they weren't in the beginning of their episode).
That fight scene was badass! (Although I do agree, it was almost too easy, but at this point, I was so sick of Ultron as a villain overall that I just wanted it to be over.) When they "beat" him around the halfway mark, I knew there was no way they were done, it was stressing me out. Glad Nat found a new home; I was just wishing that that would happen to her; I was confused for a second and didn't recognize that she was sent to the Avengers Assassinated verse.
I GASPED when Shaw showed up at the library! She literally came out of nowhere, it was one reveal bomb after another.
"Hanging around a derelict library with you, your poorly socialized guard dog... and Bear here?" LOL poor Reese would need an ointment for that burn.
"Cheer up, Keeley. It's a funeral." - best line of the episode
Would love to see more Sassy!
Rebecca singing Rick Astley for her eulogy made for a better scene than (what I thought was going to happen) her lying or being painfully honest about her father. Also glad she finally figured out a way to talk to Rupert that won't contribute to him being insufferable, but that Nate exchange was sus though. And here I thought that, after the past few episodes, the theories where Nate will sabotage Ted someday were bull.
Also always knew that Jamie and Keeley weren't just over. Not really looking forward to how this will affect the three characters in the long run, hopefully the writers will do this right.
A whole saga and it turns out, the key to intergalactic peace is a rager. Just do it on some deserted planet and y'all are good to go lololol
This episode was pretty funny as a whole, but dang, Darcy hit different. :joy:
Also loved Jotunn!Loki's appearance! (Guess this is where Loki/Sylvie's big change start to come into play, where this Loki will finally not have a miserable end.
When Thor made his "smile a little" comment, I went OOF and got excited because we know just how much Carol loves that.
Jane's character was very... OOC though? It felt like she was dumbed down for the story. Pretty sure they could have approached this some other way.
All in all a pretty fun episode. One of the better ones after the (imo) not so good past 2 episodes.
I was also spoiled by early leaks of the season's episode plots on Reddit, so I was surprised that we got an early glimpse of Ultron/Vision here.
