"Now, who's the villain Flash? Now, who's the villain?" I got goosebumps, literally.
My body is ready, slugger.
Just 25 minutes in and I think Westworld could be the next Battlestar Galactica. It's more dark than the movie from the 70's. Just not sure why the engineers don't see all the crazy shit Ed Harris has been up to though. If they are always watching the robots.
Still, as a fan of the original movie, this show is pretty kick ass and I can't wait for more. The movie is pretty outdated and this show makes a great insanely awesome update. Even if all of it doesn't make complete sense so far.
Don't vote before the episode is out!
Wow! The pilot had all the beats that made me love the movie. Hopefully the rest of the season is as strong.
It was better than expected, CW never disappoints me and always makes series I just like it.
I trully don't think that professor Stoddard's findings have anything to do with the mammoth.
Also, wtf is up with Dan?! For a place with no crime they sure have the worst policemans ever.
Wow, how weird was that. I think episode 9 already felt like the season finale and most of episode 10 was just a huge clusterfuck. I liked the beginning and the middle of this season more than the end. But at least my favorite characters survived (except for Deb, I'm still not happy about the way she died).
It would be a surprise to me if this show gets renewed, but of course I'd watch it. The writers said they want to show more about Deb's past in season 2, which means more of her and more flashbacks. Yay!
This show is so trashy, but I like it. The writers don't shy away from killing off main characters and what they did so far with Amy (the average, boring female lead) is different too.
Kind of grows on you after awhile. It's like if Thor knocked up Jane Foster and showed up years later to spend time with his kid.
i cried. you've been great, show. (now can we have a film?)
It hurts my soul how pure Steven is.
Wrong!!! This is Season 4, not Season 3!
Very exciting beginning to a mystery. Who killed Danny? How? Why? All the dramatic elements get extremely well set up for what promises to be an exciting mystery, full of personal drama and compelling acting. I want to see the rest of the series, after this beginning.
A big hurdle, however: the British seem to have been infected by the "shaky hands syndrome", wherein camera men cannot keep their hands still while holding the camera. The camera work actually distracted me from the story. Hopefully the British will realize that the American fad of bad camera work can only detract from their otherwise exemplary work.
That was an interesting case! Poor little kid-beast in the end... really is an orphan now
I had forgotten how adorably cute Mulder was, and all the UST between him and Scully
I can't stress enough how much I personally enjoy this series. Bonus points for the 30 Rock and Fight Club references.
One of the best episodes up to now.
That cliffhanger is really neat. Can't wait for the next episode. As usual.
Especially considering the vision may suggest that Lowell knows something about that abducting children thingy that's going on as he must have eaten brain of some of them already.
"The Lannisters send you greetings." Relationship expert
This for me is one of the more memorable X-Files episodes ever. Some of the shots are super creepy & really stick with you.
Creepy mutant!!
I like the friendship between Mulder and Scully that even though she is not a full believer, at least she doesn't treat Mulder like a nutcase.
There's something about future-looking stories that feel special. Generational stories in genre works, whether it be Batman or Star Wars or Harry Potter have a certain appeal that comes from the idea that what we're watching is a link in a bigger chain, that each bad guy defeated or obstacle overcome is a ripple that's affected by the past and makes an impact on the future. A happily retired Batman, who has married Catwoman, passed the cowl on to Dick, and is raising a son is a detour from the crimefighter severely committed to the cause we so often see Batman as, and it's a welcome diversion.
There are, by necessity, a lot of narrative shortcuts in the episode. Alfred's voiceover works as a device to bring us up to speed and take us through the aftermath in a story that is, frankly, a little to big to be told in 22 minutes. But it works as a thumbnail sketch, with Damien Wayne's hesitance to take up his father's mantle firmly established, if not exactly explored, enough to sell the stakes of the episode. And the writing for The Joker (alongside his fourth wall winks) is the best it's ever been in this series, with his axe-crazy nihlism coming through beneath his gallows-humor exterior. Telling a generational Batman story in a half hour is a tall order, and while this episode isn't perfect in the effort, it builds on the backgrounds we already know for these characters to convey the import of individual choices, and the frame story of Alfred's novel gives the episode an easy out for continuity, while not selling short the story actually being told.
(Oh, and in the teaser, it's nice to have a hint at a conflict with Darkseid, and given The Question's connection Rorschach and his appearances in JLU, I've always had a certain fondness for him, so I enjoyed that segment as well.)
Maybe it's the fact that the end is nigh for B&B, but I really enjoyed this episode and the way it flashed back to how Batman had his first adventure with three of his most regular partners on the show. This was basically three shorts with a loose frame story, but as the opening teasers demonstrate, this show's great at shorts and each of them worked well. Green Arrow had the most standard adventure of the three, with Cavalier providing some comic relief and he and Batman engaging in their usual oneupmanship. Plastic Man's was the best, with a tightly-written little story and ample creative use of the hero's stretching powers. And Aquaman was great as always with his fish tale that got more and more harrowing the longer he told it. The frame story ending with Mr. Freeze felt a little perfunctory, but the end with Aquaman resuming his tale was the right comic note to end on.
As for the cold open with Space Ghost, I have to admit that I really only know the character from Space Ghost Coast-to-Coast, and so while I recognize the tropes of the old Hanna-Barbera superhero style (which the segment seemed to ape well, no pun intended) the segment didn't do much for me in particular beyond the novelty of seeing someone who, for me, is a pure absurdist comedy character teaming up with Batman.
Wow...three part Ogre storyline it's been simply awesome. I love how they are (re)building characters personalities true to the Batman mythology, just adding one layer at the time. I think this could be the greatest strenght of the show: just experiencing Bruce, Selina, Jim and all the main iconographic characters from the comic books evolving into..themselves!
S.S. Misery
It's obvious, that the whole Lapis-Jasper-Storyline is about toxic relationships. And they done it really well. People stay together not only for external reasons (for the kids etc.) but also for internal reasons. As Lapis say, she kind of misses Jasper. It is an unhealthy urge to surround oneself with people that drag you down. But i think the underlying motive of Lapis Lazuli is depression. First of all Lapis is blue, she is literally feeling blue all the time. Second she shows symptoms of depression (i am not a psychiatrist, though, so i could be wrong). No motivation to do anything, Steven has to urge her to come on the boat. Blaming herself for everything. Making herself miserable because she thinks she deserves it. Maybe, like Centi, she is corrupted in her own way. It isn't just fixed with repairing her gem.
It was a melancholic but also lovely episode. It was satisfying to see her stand up against Jasper. But i think that won't be the last of it. You can't overcome such unhealthy relationships with a bang, and i think the show runner know this.
I am not sure how i should interpret the title. Neither Steven nor Lapis nor Greg where alone in this episode. Maybe it's about Jasper, but i think it's more meta. Maybe Lapis is feeling alone at sea. She thinks nobody is there to help her, nobody can help her. But in reality she has a lot of people who like her (Steven, Greg, Peridot). She feels alone, but her friends are close, just behind the horizon.
Let us all take a moment to marvel over the fact that Gordon (Ben McKenzie) is being accused of murdering someone whose initials are "O.C.".
Having them all under siege was really intense! Which made up for the fact that Lex's storyline outside of the cordon was so boring.
Some decisions they make are stupid, but makes sense that they're all humans and make mistakes.
I'm glad that Dennis finally stepped up and showed that he can be anything else other than a jerk, and finally Tony is dead... Maybe now that part of the show will be interesting.
Jana really is badass!
And beautiful scene between Theresa and her mom in the end
