They sure turned this season around! Holy sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet!!
But if he was so powerful, why the hell did he grow up and remain working at that facility? Did I miss something? Was it because daddy modded him with a chip so he could run pirated games on him? Wait, what?
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@misnomer My take on it was that Brenner still needed his genetic material to help produce more telekinetic wunderkinds, so he installed an inhibitor chip on the kid and basically raised him as prisoner.
I have just one major problem with this... are we supposed to ignore the episode where Eleven found her buddies from Hawkins lab in the city from the second season?
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@mirakdva That was 006,its true that they hadnt written 001 by that time but in this season 001 says:"When 006 was still around",so she ran away before this events.
so the rope gets stuck afloat in the gate between two dimensions but people don't
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I was thinking that it might be because of momentum or external forces besides gravity but then I realised, by that logic the rope should have been pulled down into the upside down as soon as they started to climb it. So instead I’m just going to put this down as one of those things that doesn’t actually make sense but who cares, it’s a tv show about a lot of nonsense things so I’ll happily suspend my belief on this.
Deepfake Eleven doesn’t look like a Beetlejuice shrunken head at all, nope, not one bit.
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it’s not a deepfake, it’s a child actor. martie blair is her name
Isn't Ben supposed to be the brains here? He was able to phone call Kristen and David yet didn't think of messaging them instructions on how to find him?!
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Exactly. And he gave up really fast! He was only down there for a few hours but he made it seem like it was days.
This movie is Visceral, Wild, Action Packed, and Incredibly funny. Me and the homies were probably annoying the rest of the theater with how hard we were laughing at the crazy shit this dude does.
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@mastercoonman I agree. Brutal and Hilarious. I couldn’t stop giggling but in a good way. “Yeah, you’re dead mate.”
Soooo... Is Sister Andrea God? An angel? How cool is that? I remember her from SCTV. Thinking of her here as some type of, "Chuck," from Supernatural makes me giddy!
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@vwfringe wow. i hadn't had this thought but now you say that .. i sure hope so. Maybe not God, but an angel to guide David along. Great observation
Shout by BabaYaga007
The VFX is top notch , but sadly this is a show for kids. So , it has way too much plot armour, predictable storylines and very mature dialogues from little kids.
If you're fine with that , you'll probably like this.loading replies
the books' target audience is middle grade, what were you expecting :sweat_smile:
personally i don’t feel to old for this at 25 and enjoy the show very much :blush: but to each their own!
Makes you wonder if there was a roommate that the nurse killed. She probably just worked for Leland though. David was most likely her only target.
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They had his badge hanging in her locker
Really enjoying this series, but... How is the headset suddenly working when it was broken in a previous episode? If it's a backup, where was it in the previous episode when they were almost shot down? These things can totally ruin a show for me.
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@vrtualme when the copilot was taking place in the pilots seat she told: this is broken I will switch to mine and used her headset. It was more or less stupid in the last episode that the pilot was not doing the same :see_no_evil:
Liked the premise and to see Luke Cage in a different role :muscle::nerd:
The “you can’t read in dreams” part made me do some research to confirm. I like a show that makes me think and drop little facts like that :man::school:
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You can read in dreams though. I have done it.
This episode made my Star-Wars-loving wife really happy, and that's all that I care about.
I loved the lightsaber fight, and the audio engineering on Darth/Anakin's voice. Awesome.
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@blakblu Haha! Of course I know the underlying voice. And - there were complex audio effects layered on top of the voice to make it sound the way that it did in the show. Those effects were awesome!
Shout by FinFan
I like the period, the first moments of the Empire. With sixteen episodes in total I hope we get a lot of world building aside from the main story.
Anyone else thinks Hunter looks a lot like Rambo ? I Don't think it's intentional, though.loading replies
Hunter Rambo? Yeah, kinda.
And Tech, when he has his full helmet and gear on, looks just a bit like Ant-Man.
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I like the period, the first moments of the Empire. With sixteen episodes in total I hope we get a lot of world building aside from the main story.
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@finfan I was thinking more Charlie Sheen from Platoon.
Review by Tagouga
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- Anthony’s face when Prudence was singing :joy::joy:
- I get teary eyed whenever Penelope cries :cry: I love her character so much from the books however I can’t help but think whether some people would be annoyed with her in this episode
- What Daphne did was bad! Simon assumed her mother had told her about how babies are made and he assumed that she understood what was happening and she was satisfied with not having children. That does not mean that he wasn’t wrong in withholding information about his reasons, he should have been honest. However, with all that in mind, Daphne’s actions were wrong! She should have come to him and confronted him instead of using sex as a sort of power over him to get what she wants. The whole thing was a result of miscommunication which turned into anger and resentment.
SPOILERS ahead for non-book readers:
- I know Penelope wants to protect Colin but she will never resort to shaming anyone. So Marina’s pregnancy reveal kind of disappoints me. I feel the whole idea behind Lady Whistledown is taking a different turn. Penelope should have gone to Eloise or Lady Bridgerton with the truth, I just think this will have major repercussions once we get to the reveal in the future
- Now to the problematic scene. It is not as awful as it was in the book, however, that is not say it was not wrong. Simon was not drunk here and even his reaction and the stuttering was a bit tamer, I thought there would be more emphasis on it. At this point, Daphne doesn’t even know about his stutter! Also, being in Daphne’s mind in the book, knowing her thoughts, and the fact that this happens after she learns all the truth about his father and his stutter makes it even worse. God, I hated this scene in the book, and what made me resent it even more was how the aftermath was handled. Daphne didn't really regret what happened, she thought it was good that she took advantage of the situation as this might be her only chance to get pregnant. For me, Daphne's character never redeemed herself and Simon forgave her (without her even apologizing) and went along with it too easily. So I want to see how the aftermath will be handled in the show because even if this scene wasn’t as messy, it was still very uncomfortable.loading replies
@rikayla Yes especially towards his family!
Why is everybody complaining? It’s an awesome show. If you want to see some aliens, watch the countless shows about alien invasions - there are many.
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@levim79 personally I like to get some back story on the characters, how else can you know who to root for?
Why is everybody complaining? It’s an awesome show. If you want to see some aliens, watch the countless shows about alien invasions - there are many.
But this one…is different. And that’s good. It’s about the people, not about the aliens.loading replies
Same, I love what they’ve done with this show.
Why is everybody complaining? It’s an awesome show. If you want to see some aliens, watch the countless shows about alien invasions - there are many.
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@levim79 I thought the same, I'm really enjoying this show.
Why is everybody complaining? It’s an awesome show. If you want to see some aliens, watch the countless shows about alien invasions - there are many.
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@levim79 What a joy it was to read this!
People complaining because they want to see aliens, shootings, explosions, etc., and it bothers them to see a series that tells the human side, that tells the drama that would be from the less supposedly "heroic" side, even though they have countless series and movies to watch over and over again the same thing.
Review by cutecruel
Here’s an unpopular opinion for y'all.
Very excited to finish The Haunting of Bly Manor, because watching it has been a boring experience. There's a difference between a slow burn and watching an unlit candle. I honestly couldn't get into this one. I mainly continued watching it hoping it would get better. I should have known that it wasn't going to be as good as The Haunting of Hill House from the first episode and how it didn't seem to intrigue me at all.Plot was terrible, so many plot threads unfinished. They changed the main bad guy 3 times:
First - the fiance. He disappeared after showing himself at the end of the episode and never talked about again, no further explanation;
then - Quint and Rebecca. They dropped them as if they were any other random ghosts. If you spend so much time building up characters at least give them a meaningful ending;
then finally - lady in the lake. Speaking of which, the black and white episode was annoying as hell. The entire episode was a narrator telling you everything, felt like an info-dump episode, and that goes against the “show don't tell” mantra. You can fast forward through about 90% of it and still get the whole story. I found myself repeating “get on with it already!”. I didn't get that “shay wood slipe, shay wood wawck”? until they repeated for the 50th time! It stopped being poetic quickly and just started getting old for me. And I was hoping for something a bit more substantive than a 1700s ghost story. So predictable. I believe this was an attempt to create a second outing of a story similar to the bend-neck-lady, and I think it could have worked if I had already known more about Viola. To have an entire story about two characters the viewer have never met on the penultimate episode of the show just feels out of place.
Other major problems with this season:
The first half was episodes that were just backstory on each character and droned on and on. The characters kept making predictable and dumb decisions that are typical of cheesy Hollywood films - “Why don't I go in the closet alone at night....oh, look at that, the kids locked me in! Wow, how surprising.”; :rolling_eyes:
The uncle haunting himself was pointless. I was expecting something more sinister about how the parents died, instead we got no explanation about what happened;
How the hell had no one in the family ever heard of Viola or the other ghosts before? The Wingraves are just so lucky to have never been up at the same time that Viola was visiting;
Why the lady in the lake didn’t immediately kill Dani when she grabbed her neck? Peter got killed in two seconds, meanwhile Dani’s being shown a house tour;
There are no rules around who is able to see ghosts and who isn’t. I also couldn't understand how Flora seemed to know so much about the ghosts. She even says the other ghosts told her to stay away from the lady in the lake but how did they tell her? The ghosts have no faces and can't speak;
How didn't adult Flora connect the dots? Sure, Owen said the kids don’t remember much but even still Flora knows that her rich parents died in a tragic accident, her uncle took care of them, and they moved from England to America when they were kids. This is incredibly specific, how doesn't that ring any bells?;
There is so much useless dialogue that just goes absolutely nowhere. I felt a strong urge to stab my ears watching that first interview scene with Hannah and Owen over and over again. Every character was given a 10 minute monologue about their complicated feelings. Jamie’s plant monologue stood out to me as the most unnecessary one;
Speaking of which, there is so much exposition and explaining. So much repetition. The flashbacks while the characters are trying to figure out if they’re dead are an absolute bore to watch. There wasn't enough content for 9 episodes, could’ve easily been reduced to 5 episodes and still kept the emotional impact. And SO many scenes dragged on forever. There were a lot of points where I was just thinking, "get to the obvious point and move on". I get that the Scottish guy is going to take Becky into the lake, he doesn't need to keep alluding to it for 10 minutes. Same with them about to take the kids, while Dany was whining in the background. Why she was even there … so that she can hear the magical phrase, “it’s me. it’s you. it’s us.”. How convenient;
I don't like any of the characters. Dani annoyed me to new extremes, her character was just so dramatic. How many shots of Dani’s mouth kinda open do we need? I swear this was her only face expression during the whole season;
The ending felt so forced, rashly thrown together, with the unnecessary and convoluted time shifts leading to the most obvious, overly sentimental and corny reveal, with some more terrible dialogue, written to tug at the heartstrings of people. Flora’s quote at the end about how, “you called it a ghost story, but it’s a love story” just seems like a huge cop out. And people agreeing are just regurgitating the horrible ending. It was not just a love story until the end. If it wasn’t for the LGBT representation, people would have been more honest and called it what it is. :nail_care:
For the people (especially the Brits) complaining about the accents and asking for English actors. Where were you when you LOoOOvED Chernobyl? A show without even one Ukrainian actor? You guys are such big, fat, dumb hypocrites. :face_vomiting:
Overall, Bly Manor is aimless, dragged out, and sloppy. Not even close to being as good as its predecessor.
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@cutecruel I wholeheartedly agree with most of this.
However I think the dead fiance and the uncle evil ghost being ultimately useless is on purpose.
That is an interesting idea in this show (that actually worked very well in Hill House and I agree seemed badly patched on the story here) that there is not the classic opposition of the horror genre "there are ghosts" vs "this is all an hallucination". Here there ARE ghosts, but there ARE hallucinations too. Dani's ghost is all in her head. We never see him do anything. She justs sees him, that's it. Just trauma induced. Henry's one is probably alcohol induced but is also only in his head.
I've never saw a episode so humanized. You can feel the pain from the villain and the heroes. And the long take (car scene) was the best of MCU until now - I didn't remember any long take, just saying.
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@xenzio Yeah, but the characters are really there LOL
I've never saw a episode so humanized. You can feel the pain from the villain and the heroes. And the long take (car scene) was the best of MCU until now - I didn't remember any long take, just saying.
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@charlesnandes yep, I agree, it's a great scene, feels like you're trapped.
Just disappointed in the use of Scott Glenn as the Ed Harris Needful Things character. Not one mention of what happened in Needful Things.
So why is his character even in it ?
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@jim222001 I liked that they put in there how he taught her the slight of hand.
