Aaron's mic is clearly just a wired vocal mic with no cable plugged in. The XLR connector pins are visible in a number of shots.
Mildly cute episode, but the security guard and Lizzie's mom stretch believability too far.
PS: What's the difference between Aaron Carter and Justin Bieber? Seriously, they're practically the same person. https://i.ytimg.com/vi/U0lFdlul_-Y/hqdefault.jpg
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@justin At times like this, when the URL auto-linker fails, it would be great to have manual Markdown link syntax.
The second episode was pretty good as well as we got introduced to more of the secondary characters. I'm pumped for the next episode as that is when the fireworks will start to go off a bit (as shown by that nice little preview we got at the end). I definitely prefer the anime to the manga so far, especially since nothing is being skipped and the art & sound of the adaptation is quite strong.
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I hope you used "fireworks" on purpose! It's a very appropriate term to use when talking about this show.
Finally a decent episode of the first 3 seasons
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@jeanduarte You've got 5 comments spread across 70 minutes that all say the same thing in two languages… I'm guessing Trakt was glitchy that day? :)
I thought it out of Saul's character to let himself be talked out by Carrie on the runway. He should've stuck to his principles and gone out with a bang. Disappointed with that scene. Otherwise, such a great episode.
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@patoo Could you put a spoiler alert on this comment? I think it needs one.
I'm really curious on how they got that arrow out his body
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@asnaghy Same, tbh… Magic, maybe?
Extraordinary story told in a very extraordinary way. Dave Patel and Nicole Kidman outstanding. The music beautiful. I love it
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@thekinkykid Dave Patel? Is that Dev's identical twin? :P
This show is pretty F good, except the fact they are constantly forgetting that there is no gravity in space
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@dumbsloth87 I think @fenkins was likely talking about the process Miller used to get the bombs off the cart on Eros. He very clearly lifted each unit up, then rested it on the cart as if it was very heavy while changing grips to lift it over the railing. Right before setting each unit down, the base lit up as if to indicate a magnetic fastener activating, but all of Miller's movements up until putting each unit down indicated that he was under gravity—which he wasn't, in-universe.
Maybe they'll finally kick Gracie out for good.
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@d2dyno Better Lindsey, really. Gracie's innocent here.
Homeland put cameras everywhere in that house, didn't they… even in the shower. WTF? I guess the Hosts don't have child pornography laws.
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@jamatiknakmuay It's called sarcasm.
A bit of a letdown this season finale, but two things were awesome IMO: Quinn's letter being interrupted by Saul wanting a minute with Allison, and the scene where Saul gets his really bad-ass revenge. The thwarting of the terrorists' plot went down way to fast though, not really consistent with the amount of time they spent building it up.
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@jelmerf "a minute with Allison"? Saul wanted to talk to Carrie.
A bit of a letdown this season finale, but two things were awesome IMO: Quinn's letter being interrupted by Saul wanting a minute with Allison, and the scene where Saul gets his really bad-ass revenge. The thwarting of the terrorists' plot went down way to fast though, not really consistent with the amount of time they spent building it up.
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@jelmerf Looks like the same comment got posted twice by mistake; this is the same as https://trakt.tv/comments/65851
Thank God Gracie is dead. She needed to go.
Also: Will. Stop blindly trusting new people you meet.
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@d2dyno Gracie's not dead… Her name was Lindsey. But yes, she needed to go. I'm perfectly happy about it.
The ship's engines burn out because Kara is preventing its forward motion? Please.
Struck me this week how damned convenient it is that everyone is so neatly paired off…
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@goncaalo Winn? No bet! Lol
Bram is such an unlikable character. Bland, always making bad decisions. I don't get why he cried over Maya. She used him and they were never serious.
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@d2dyno There is definitely a teenage boy stereotype that goes something like "hurr durr omg a girl likes me", and they're using it for Bram. It's not a good stereotype…makes for shallow writing.
Review by Aniela Krajewska
VIP8Yeah, baby! I'm all about crossovers. And a vintage musical crossover? Sign me the fuck up!
I love the fact that Melissa Benoist, Grant Gustin and Darren Criss all used to be on Glee. It must've been a fun little reunion for them to shoot this thing.
Well, would you look at that. Fuckboy isn't just a former slave owner, he's a former prince of slave owners. What a catch, am I right?
(Can he please just die already?)At least Kara dumped his ass for now, but let's be real, this is the CW. She'll take him back despite the fact that he's a toxic piece of shit. Just free her from this awful relationship. What do I have to do? Cause I'd sell one of my kidneys to make that happen.
Cop Maggie! Cop Maggie! Cop Maggie! Give me more of that, please! Give me 42 minutes of that, I don't give a damn. I love her so much.
Winn is really unlucky when it comes to the ladies. But seriously, this one was his fault. Having sex in a museum? Don't you have a bed for that? Or, I don't know, a kitchen counter? Or any other flat surface in your apartment? If you want an adventure, go skydiving, not commit felonies. And fine, I understand why Lyra did what she did, but why did she even need Winn for that in the first place? She's invisible, for crying out loud. She didn't need a patsy to take the fall. The police would have never been able to prove it was her, anyway.
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@aniela-krajewska Yeah, Lyra needing a patsy was the least believable thing this show has done all season…
Hmmm, they're starting to drag their feet. We used to have action, this episode was a total bore
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@ramadri I second @jamatiknakmuay… if you're expecting constant action, you're watching the wrong genre.
Review by Andrew Bloom
VIP9[8.4/10] Despite the fact that, more often than not, Homeland tells its stories piecemeal, developing different threads until it ties them together when the endgame is in sight, it likes to draw thematic parallels. Characters may not cross paths for episodes, but still have a connection in the kinds of choices presented to them. And in “Flash of Light,” many of our heroes are pulled between loyalty on the one hand, and their principles, what they think is best for the world, on the other.
The easiest example is Carrie herself. Even when prompted by the President-Elect to squeal on Dar Adal (or, to use their delightful euphemism of choice, give the administration something with which to “leverage” him), she is reluctant. Carrie doesn’t like Dar Adal, and as her confrontation with him outside of Franny’s school indicates, she thinks that he and his ilk are a big reason why the world is in its current state, a state she wants to change. But she was an intelligence officer, and as she puts it, even Dar had her back in that guise. She does not want to betray that loyalty, that group of people bound by the sacrifices of people who died in services of it, even when pressured by the soon-to-be leader of the free world.
But on the other hand, she’s committed to the vision for that better world. The President-Elect’s pitch is a persuasive one, that if sidelining Dar means reforming the CIA in her image, helping to create a world with fewer Brodys, fewer Aayans, fewer Quinns to be perpetrators and casualties in this war, then it may very well be worth it. The episode leaves things ambiguous, but hints that Carrie, for the moment, hasn’t given them much, though the possibilities weigh on her.
They weigh on Sekou as well, and come to a head as Carrie confronts him. After her stunt manages to get him released from prison, his orders are to lay low and not comment to preserve the deal. Sekou initially seems accommodating, but when former associates accuse him of being a snitch, he releases another video defending his honor and outing the real informant. Sekou too has principles, and wants to show that he is as committed to his cause as someone like Carrie is committed to hers. He wants to wake people up, shock their consciences and let them see the ugliness of what he sees as the truth.
The most powerful moment, however, is when Carrie calls him on this. She displays a loyalty to him, a sense that even though she doesn’t know him, even though she’s virulently opposed and offended to the things he says and does, she stands up for him because she doesn’t think what happened to him is right. She, better than anyone, understands what the intelligence community’s approach to terrorism has resulted in. (And her statement that this has gone crazy since 9/11 is pretty bold stuff, even for a show on premium cable.) But she gets through to him, enough for him to appreciate her loyalty, see the look of joy in his mother’s eyes at having him home, and realize that there is something at home worth preserving, worth sacrificing for.
Saul is tested in similar terms. He meets with the Iranian puppet he installed three years ago, to try to get to the bottom of the parallel nuclear program suspicions. Saul continues to harbor his own suspicions that he’s being set up, or at least used by his brethren in the CIA. But he’s also loyal to where he comes from, enough to where he wants to be absolutely sure that his compatriots aren’t on to something before he acts on those suspicions. As his partner in crime resists but hints at, they’re too invested in what they’ve built with Iran to let it go so easily, and it’s enough to risk a lot to preserve.
But it puts other loyalties and friendship in the crosshairs. As it was in the prior episode, Saul’s sister is emblematic of this theme, chastising her brother for taking the side of the Arabs and betraying his people, but lying for him to Mossad in order to keep the cover on his story. And Etai is nominally Saul’s friend too, someone who presumably doesn’t want to lock Saul in de facto jail until he spills the beans. But Etai is just as loyal to Israel, to his people, and to the idea that they need a place of safety, even when it seems like they’re beset by risks on all sides.
The only individual who isn’t being pulled in these directions is Quinn, whose spy instincts seem to have sniffed out something genuinely fishy rather than a product of his paranoia. I don’t know how I feel about him turning out to be right in his Rear Window-esque madness, but the episode does well to toe the line between him being on to something and him just being crazy, replete with dismissals from Carrie, fairly well. The man from across the way is, at least seemingly, involved in taking out Sekou
And that is how Sekou’s loyalty is rewarded. When he takes down his video, goes back to work, and tries to, for lack of a better term, straighten up and fly right, he gets caught up in forces much greater than himself. It’s not hard to imagine that this is false flag terrorism, whether it’s Dar Adal or Conlin or someone else affiliated with the intelligence apparatus going with a last resort to prevent the new paradigm dreamed up by Carrie and the President Elect from having the popular support or political climate to be instituted.
Like Aayan before him, he becomes a pawn in a greater game, perhaps not wholly innocent, but someone who seems to understand that the people of this country, the people he’s trying to wake up, are not all bad. That they understand and are, perhaps, worth respecting. As he turns that corner, he becomes another casualty of the back-and-forth that Carrie is desperate to stop, a move that Dar Adal believes would be a dereliction of duty, of his own loyalty to his country and compatriots.
That is, perhaps, the larger theme of “Flash of Light.” That individual loyalties and individual beliefs about the greater good conflict in difficult ways, intersection at choke points that bring people in opposition to one another. When that happens, no matter how well-intentioned everyone may be, people get hurt, sometimes innocent people, and stopping that takes hard choices between the connections you’ve shared with other and the chance to preserve what you believe in.
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@andrewbloom It appears that the spoiler tags in this review are not functioning properly.
I got about 25 minutes in and, though I was enjoying myself, had to stop. As yet I have not found any source for this documentary that includes subtitles for the non-English portions of the audio. There are several interviews and archival clips with dialogue in foreign languages, and I feel it would be unfair to myself and to the film to watch it without understanding these parts.
So, for now, I'll keep this on my watchlist knowing that as soon as I find complete subtitles, I will finish it.
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@adamk Both would be great, to guarantee that I can get a copy and so I can see where they originated.
You can email them to <your_username>@<my_username>.me, and thanks so much!
I got about 25 minutes in and, though I was enjoying myself, had to stop. As yet I have not found any source for this documentary that includes subtitles for the non-English portions of the audio. There are several interviews and archival clips with dialogue in foreign languages, and I feel it would be unfair to myself and to the film to watch it without understanding these parts.
So, for now, I'll keep this on my watchlist knowing that as soon as I find complete subtitles, I will finish it.
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@adamk I got the subtitles you sent, and watched the rest of the film with them. I didn't notice any subtitles for the foreign-language parts, though.
I got about 25 minutes in and, though I was enjoying myself, had to stop. As yet I have not found any source for this documentary that includes subtitles for the non-English portions of the audio. There are several interviews and archival clips with dialogue in foreign languages, and I feel it would be unfair to myself and to the film to watch it without understanding these parts.
So, for now, I'll keep this on my watchlist knowing that as soon as I find complete subtitles, I will finish it.
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@adamk Interesting… To be fair, I started where I left off (~26m into the film), rather than going back and starting over. Maybe they just didn't bother with any of the foreign dialogue toward the end? There was a long stretch in the middle with no non-English speech, and the bits at the end were Iranian television captures, not interviews.
Part of me wishes I could jump and bounce off things like that.... then again... looks kinda dangerous
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@danio-1972 "You know this is dangerous stuff. You get hurt if you don't know what you're doing."
Até parece que eles ia conseguir sair, tem 3º Temporada pela frente.
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English translation: "It looks like they could get out, Season 3 is ahead."
@rebeligado Please post in English, per Trakt comment rules. :)
Acho que o frio é o jeito do Domo de eliminar as pessoas, sendo aquelas mais fracas.
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Another English translation: "I think the cold is the Dome's way of eliminating people, those being weaker."
English only, people. We have comment rules!
Have these writers EVER picked up a science book?
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@mystify-x Not many Hollywood writers have…
The movie might be showing its age, or maybe I'm showing mine. The structure just felt off. The pacing was much too slow until the last quarter. There's something grating about Maverick's character—there's supposed to be, but I couldn't really find anything to like about him. And of course the romance is entirely unnecessary, but that's been a Hollywood problem since long before this movie (and still is).
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@mr-sackamano Or maybe you do…
Man the only reason I watch this in hopes of having comic storyline and good superhero action from time to time but couldn't help but cringe at the vagina-ego-telecom-dominance in this episode -.- less of that. plz
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@afterkush Duplicate comment alert :) It posted multiple times.
FedEx containers? Syfy are you serious?!
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Oh, it's not about the in-universe use of them. "Syfy are you serious" as in, they really put a present-day brand into the show. Given how completely unbranded the Expanse universe is overall, it seemed out of place. The characters' use of those containers makes perfect sense!
[7.2/10] Solid, informative episode. The main story did a nice job of breaking down the goal of the Paris Climate Agreement, what Trump's objection to it were, and the lack of foundation in those objections, while mixing in some of the usual sideways comedy. The opening stories were perfectly fine, but nothing to write home about, and the "60 minutes feeds interviewees soundbites" bit didn't do much for me.
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Not only did they reuse the 60 Minutes gag, they used it twice in one episode. Must be an idea drought in the LWT offices.
Ugh. Where to start? I'm embarrassed to admit that, as a teenager, this was one of my favourite episodes when it first aired. I though the concept of being trapped inside a board game was really cool. And yes, the idea still is pretty great, but when it's executed like this it just makes you want to turn away in shame.
The concept of the episode isn't the problem, it's the poor writing and absolutely horrendous acting involved, from both guest stars and the main cast. Alexander Siddig again comes off the worst here, I can only assume that it's a mixture of him following direction and having very little experience. Falow is way too over the top, and the Wadi in general are a stupid design in all aspects. The less said about the hopscotch scene the better, you can almost feel the embarrassment the cast members were experiencing.
The only ones who come off well here are Quark and Odo. Odo gets a fantastic scene with Lt. Primmin (we won't be seeing him again), mocking him about Starfleet procedures. Quark has a funny grovelling scene in which Armin Shimmerman doesn't hold back chewing up the scenery. And the writing of the episode itself isn't a total loss, the opening scene with Sisko and Jake is just a beautiful father/son piece.
To make matters worse, the episode drags. The final sections in the cave just seem to go on endlessly. This is a really weak moment for the show, but for all that I think I still prefer it to the terrible previous episode ('The Passenger'). There's at least an element of silly fun to be found, but for God's sake don't show this to anyone you want to introduce to the show or sci-fi TV in general.
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@lefthandedguitarist Ah, first season Trek spin-offs… They never get better, do they?
(Your comment like brought me back to see that I left two shouts on the same day… Why, past self?)
Is my sweet sweet daughter Helena back with the Ukrainian nuns?? And that end scene was so cute! One of my favourite songs.
Also, Alison meeting Cos for the first time, high on mushrooms. Amazing. I'm glad they've begun to tidy up those "lose ends" before the end of the show, because that's basically what I love most about the show; clone interaction, whatever it may be. If it were up to me they could just live their lives in a big mansion together, happily ever after.
Back to the episode. Did Kira really cut that cute mouse? I'm worried about her.
There's so many other things I'd like to mention, but for lack of time I will keep this short.
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@lomb4x I'm sure you've found out by now, but even before watching the next episode I knew it wasn't the mouse we needed to worry about…
