Show is Getting worse.
Inserting propaganda.
The moment the uttered the words “right wing”, I lost respect for the show.
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All domestic terrorism in our recent history has been of the right wing variety. Makes sense.
That was just painful, in SO many ways...
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@cmonster Care to elaborate? What was painful? That it's ending? The acting? What?
Filler episode that added nothing to the story long-term. Meh.
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Everyone’s entitled to their own opinion, it just confuses me that with a long journey people would think they wouldn’t run into obstacles especially in a post apocalyptic dystopian world. Makes me wonder why Peter Jackson spent 11+ hours on 3 films to tell the lord of the rings(we’re not going to talk about the hobbit)when he could have much more easily spent 30-45 minutes having Frodo walk to mount doom throw in a ring and go home.
Character A is incapacitated. Character B revives Character A just in time to save Character B from imprisonment. Yawn. Such amateur writing no wonder every episode gets reddit gold. This weeks mega villain eats meat. So he must die.
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@htpcmac "Villain eats meat, so he must die" is an interesting way to characterize it when the villain is a pedophile leading a cannibal cult.
Enver Gjokaj (Lukka) looked so familiar, but I couldn't place him. Turns out he also played Victor, one of the main Dolls in Dollhouse, which I watched so long ago that my memories of it are hazy at best. (It's probably time for a rewatch.)
I didn't notice until this episode that Andre is Theo Huxtable—both played by Malcolm-Jamal Warner. Would never have figured it out on my own; I just happened to glance at the guest-star credits as they zipped by this time.
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Andre is Theo Huxtable—both played by Malcolm-Jamal Warner.
The writers threw in a small joke about this in the first episode Warner was in. Jeff tells him he's wearing a nice sweater, and Andre says, "It was my dad's." It's a very Bill Cosby-esque sweater.
[4.4/10] I really didn’t care for this one. All of the Roses were so inconsiderate and rude to one another, in a way that made them feel like they were reverting to their early season form. It really didn’t work for me.
Let’s start with the main offender. I actually like the idea of an emotional conflict where David is hurt that Alexis talks about how much she can’t wait to get out of Schitt’s Creek and Alexis is hurt that David isn’t more upset about her leaving, until the two admit they’ll miss one another.
The problem is just that they’re such frickin’ assholes to one another over it. David treating Alexis’s trip like it’s just a vacation, to where he’d have his wedding without her on short notice, feels downright cruel. His unwillingness to apologize for it is borderline mental. Alexis likewise lashes out rather than just expressing her hurt, and her trying to turn the fact that she accidentally booked her flight for the wrong month into a “wedding gift” to David so he can have his dream venue is terrible.
Neither of the Rose siblings deserves forgiveness or sympathy here. They’re just shitty to one another, and it makes both of them pretty unlikable. The one saving grace is Stevie’s reaction to it all, which is pretty funny, and the hints that she too is reconsidering her future.
Likewise, the Moira/Johnny story is broad at best and harsh at worst. Once again, there’s meat to the notion of Moira having a “near-death” experience that convinces her to retire from acting, only to immediately jettison her new perspective on life when she learns that her movie’s been picked up by a streaming service. But the way she entirely neglects Johnny and leaves him to get picked up by a cop for skinny dipping because she’s so involved in her own conversation with her agent seems pretty horrible. Moira is the character who’s arguably grown the least on the show, but even this feels like a bridge too far.
Overall, this is another disappointing season premiere for the show, which used to be something of a tradition, but one Schitt’s Creek had seemingly broken itself of. Sadly, that’s not the case. This may be the worst one yet.
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@guenguer Your unironic use of the term "snowflaking" instantly invalidates your opinions.
This episode was confusing af. And not in an enjoyable way.
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@the_argentinian Art and subjectivity are so weird. This to me felt like the best and least confusing episode of the show (I'm only up to here). That's not to say I know what is going on, exactly, but I feel more comfortable with the characters' motivations within the show's framework than I have at the end of any other episode.
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Hurley was on the TV in Secretary Han's house? What? This show is playing the long game.
The one scene I don't know quite what to do with is the one between Sun and Jin when Sun breaks into English talking to him. I'm just not sure if the character was really speaking English, or if that was a production choice to make her emotions clearer for the viewer by removing the abstraction layer of subtitles. Other than that, I loved this episode!
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@dgw >Hurley was on the TV in Secretary Han's house? What? This show is playing the long game.
Yes it was, which makes how quickly it was thrown together in January 2004 to make the September 2004 pilot season air date all the more impressive. They went to Hawaii with only the pilot's script "mostly" written, a cast of actors whose schedules weren't committed to the other fall 2004 pilot season shows, and the fuselage of a decommissioned airplane. It's no wonder Lloyd Braun was fired for approving this show; a massive gamble that Disney/ABC couldn't back out on after everyone got to Hawaii and the money was already spent. So, might as well go all in.
That this show even had such an incredible pilot episode was a minor miracle, let alone such well fleshed-out first season with episodes that were devised after filming began on the first episode.
