3 things needed to be achieved in this episode to ensure the success of the season finale and the build up to an epic season 2.
1) Ellie is the strong element on the equation, she is truly special and not a clever little girl. She is a natural leader and powerful women (super clear during the talk in the cell and when she grabs that cleaver, cleverly );
2)that Bella Ramsey can be adult, raw, fearless and agressive . Her face covered in blood, the knife cuts and the fire behind makes it very visual
3) and finally that the the relationship with Joel is of love and dependence. They would do anything to save the other. When they meet at the end we can see it in their eyes.Thats why this simple episode needed an amazing performance and we got it. Truly incredible and remarkable with so many small references to the game and one HUGE one: Troy Baker :)
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@movielijst Came here to say the same thing :joy_cat:
They're really hitting us over the head with this 'Jess and Nick are meant for each other' stuff now. Like they're cute but there is nothing subtle about this. Just pull the cord already
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@reiko_lj Yeah, but they had to stretch all this out for another "season" (even though it was a shortened one). :weary:
@lexieknight Thank goodness Winston and Aly make it tolerable, along with Schmidt and the points of entry :grin:
This is an adolescent high school soap dressed up as a wannabe SciFi. Maybe it's just trying to find its legs, but I very much doubt it.
The whole thing looks like it was developed on a shoe string budget and then someone spent half of it on lunch.
I only rolled my eyes several times this episode.
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I remain hopeful. Stargate Universe seemed like a soap opera too with all the interpersonal drama at first, but it grew out of that.
Too late to avoid cancelation, but it did grow out of that.
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I didn’t know Dan Aykroyd was in this!
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@rasslingrob7 Same. Absolutely did not recognize him, though the "blues" theme should have been a big hint.
Another one Trakt thinks is 23 minutes, but is actually 25…
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@thatvegasguy Mm, I figured out how to edit the external data sources. Or maybe for this show, someone else did. Fixed either way.
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VIP7"We may not be a global epidemic yet, but... we've leapt from bat saliva to humans and... and we've just killed our first few villagers."
Watching this during COVID, and I hear that line :grimacing:
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@morphinapg ikr? I had to double check the air date
Man, that short-form intro didn't last long, did it? Though I really wonder why the latter half of this season on Hulu (so far) has had eyecatches inserted between segments. I didn't watch any of the Stargate shows during the original broadcasts, so I have no frame of reference for whether that's a syndication thing or part of the initial cuts.
Having Picardo deliver that line about "a… 'federation', if you will" was an absolute master stroke because he spent 7 years on Star Trek: Voyager playing one holographic component of a Federation starship.
Unfortunately, Picardo was the only master stroke of this clip show. I suppose the silver lining (if one could call it that) is that Atlantis proved that it inherited the DNA and habits of SG-1 before it, saving budget for the season opening and ending arcs by aggressively optimizing costs for the middle stretches.
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@bkoto Didn't have Syfy, and wasn't really aware of them at that age anyway.
Syndication is best explained by a proper source, rather than my two-finger pecking on a smartphone: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadcast_syndication
Bridget's look during her first appearance in this episode could be ripped straight out of The Suite Life of Zack & Cody or something. Big Ashley Tisdale vibe, but maybe it's the other way around and the Tisdale look I'm thinking of was actually a callback to Kaley Cuoco's role here? (Remains to be seen if Bridget's altered style is permanent, though.)
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(Remains to be seen if Bridget's altered style is permanent, though.)
It wasn't. She's back to straightened hair a few episodes later.
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VIP10Fortunately for the effects team, MacBooks can, in fact, run Windows. Doesn't explain why that one was, but it's at least possible.
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Update from the future: Slightly more difficult now that Apple has switched to in-house SOCs based on ARM designs instead of off-the-shelf Intel mobile chips.
KARR exploding at the end was short-sighted, I'd say. Now there's no chance of it coming back in a future story.
I like how this was basically Knight Rider's version of "Datalore" (ST:TNG). Yes I know this came first.
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@tygerboi Argh, I bet somebody (probably TMDB) changed metadata to combine the two-part airing of 1x01 back into a single episode, and Trakt shifted all the titles around. Now my history for the season is all messed up AND I've lost any plays/comments for episode 1x22 (now 1x21).
Always known this was a possibility. Haven't actually seen it happen before now. :weary:
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@tygerboi As alluded to in https://trakt.tv/comments/600967 I'm pretty sure this is a case of metadata changing long after these comments were posted, and not necessarily for the better.
KARR exploding at the end was short-sighted, I'd say. Now there's no chance of it coming back in a future story.
I like how this was basically Knight Rider's version of "Datalore" (ST:TNG). Yes I know this came first.
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@tygerboi I'm not sure whether non-VIP members can see these forum discussions, but I created a thread about the apparent (possibly destructive, in 1x22's case) metadata changes here: https://forums.trakt.tv/t/knight-rider-season-1-metadata-shuffled-probable-data-loss/16429
Since when is Latina a name?
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Spotted Phill Lewis in season 6 and apparently I missed him (or missed mentioning it) in this episode.
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The thing I watched in a 16:4 wooden frame TV as part of a show aired in 16:4 on my 16:9 TV was actually funny. For this moment alone, Phil dancing and Geoffrey dressed like Bootsy Collins this episode ain't totally shabby. I like most of the episodes focused on Phil anyway. Like in last episode, you feel how important the relation between Phil and Will is for this show. Question: Was Soul Train a real show?
PS: one of the best Carlton dances on the show. Geoffrey is extra naughty in this episode. Hillary's miniscule B-plot is funny. It leads to nowhere. I adore her anyway. She deserves her own episode.
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Question: Was Soul Train a real show?
Yes, and Don Cornelius was its real host up until shortly before this episode aired. https://trakt.tv/shows/soul-train
(I'm over here laughing at the idea of cropping Fresh Prince to 16:4, btw. You'd lose most of the picture!)
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There's only good joke about hiring a guy as a lead character of a TV show without previous acting experience.
It's probably the most homophobe episode in this show 3/10.
PS: was that how soap operas were made? It was a live show?
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Live used to be the standard way to create television. The earliest shows are lost forever because they simply weren't recorded anywhere.
Soaps held onto live production longer than other scripted-fiction genres. It's hard to beat the turnaround!
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VIPThis doesn't make sense. How is it that she said yes when he doesn't even know her.
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Pressing onward with previously planned story beats after Josh's actor left the show was a questionable choice.
