Oh man, season 5 can't come soon enough!
A deeply disturbing and uncomfortable watch. Lucas Hedges gives a deeply rooted, present performance. Nicole Kidman's role is the pivot of this piece, and, unsurprisingly, she completely embodies the compassion and love needed. Russell Crowe does well with what he is given, but this is where I think the film fails - it never sees the father's crisis of faith and oversimplifies a very complex internal battle by characterizing faith as judgemental, manipulative and ultimately hateful, so it gave Crowe very little to work with (I think this was the unresolved issue of the author - he never really sees his father, and so that story is never told or the crisis resolved). Personally, I'm still waiting for a film that faithfully brings both real crises to the screens. I give this film a 7 (good) out of 10, but the whole story remains untold. [Drama]
I loved the way how Setrakian did it.. great episode...
thank you The strain!!
Ouch! Poor David... That's gonna hurt.
Damn that was one hell of a cliff-hanger.
Come up with an awesome plan, have Richard f*ck it up, have their asses saved out of nowhere, rinse and repeat. I still loved it though. Richard talking to Dinesh telling him to "hit the most densely populated areas" like a suicide bomber was A plus stuff!
This may be the twin episode to last season's "International Assasin", but to me it feels like the weirdest 'greatest hits' episode to a series ever, and ultimately might be the very best of the season up there with last week's as a result. It's a mix of everything the show has ever done, from the first season's despairing brutality (that twin scene is almost-look-away disturbing), second's evolution of adding dark humor and bewildering surreality, to this third's purposeful, music-cue-perfected, unique own thing. It's uproariously funny, full of dream logic that almost tantalizingly matches up with the main storyline fully but not quite, profoundly sad with its weird but perfect matchup of songs and grief, and just so, so magnificent. "Now what?" I have no idea, but I trust we are in too good a hand that will refuse to deviate from its own path, and thus turn out to be very satisfying at least.
Good start, though they almost dropped the ball at the very end by quoting Mother Teresa as an exemplary humanitarian.
Other than that slight error in judgement, this could still be a good sci-fi show.
Damn. Freddie was nice character.
best episode of the season. felt like it got everything to a very satisfying ending. also, that guy is gay as fuuuuuuuuuuuuuck
"Boobs...... Boobs...... Boobs...... Boobs...... Boobs...... Boobs....."
Fantastic episode! The writers did a phenomenal job setting up this episode. We now know where and who the blink drive originates, but the banter between the cast and the primitives is great.
As an aside, I think this is the first time I have seen a tv show be realistic when a door is kicked in! They actually f*cked up the door frame. The ensuing action was pretty funny.
So, pretty much the one thing keeping me from actively wishing Ryo would get killed is that the fall of his house is part of that dark future, but I'm fed up with his annoying antics.
Did not see that coming
Richard telling Dinesh to go into a densely populated area xD Just as Jared pulled his headphones off hahaha. Had me laughing hard.
Erlich mansplaining "mansplaining" was emblematic. Jared's quasi-schizophrenia was disturbingly funny. Gilfoyle's perseverance in being a jerk is so truthful - I think no other geek comedy show was able to accomplish such realistic portrayal of the IT people (at least in my own experience).
it's like the dark version of Queer as Folk
the fact that this was more fun than the entirety of S12 so far says a lot
The comment about "screwing the secretary, eh? A bit of a cliché" was brilliant.
"Say goodbye to eternal life", yeah what a threat by a masterkiller like Eph. Cheesy one-liner.
Being the stupid clichéd love affair that it really is, I didn't and don't care for the secretary, but must question the way Palmer was secured. Actually he wasn't secured whatsoever by his bodyguard. He was made a much simpler target instead.
Previously, the bodyguard even directly looked into the scope of Eph's rifle but didn't see anything. It's equally absurd to even think a second about Eph being able to hit Palmer in the first place. He wasn't able to do so with a much lesser distance and a still-standing Eichhorst. He should know it himself that he is incapable of hitting his target. His alcoholism is no excuse here.
Hilarious was also the secretary being operated in Palmer's office. What the actual f. What an unsterile and unprepaired environment. But in a hospital the master's appearance couldn't that easily happen, right?
The script seems pretty rushed, written in a too strict timeframe or too little care or even both. I think it's both.
I bet Palmer is only killed by Eichhorst later on. Cliffhanger was pretty obvious, at least the book part of the cliffhanger.
All in all an okay-ish episode. No Zach, that is worth a bonus point.
The German in the book, was it Google translated?
The complete English title of the Occido Lumen is supposed to read as "Occido Lumen - A complete account of the first rise of the Strigoi and full confutation of all arguments produced against their existence".
German was:
"Ein compleat Konto des ersten Aufstieg der Strigo und volle Widerlegung aller Argumente gegen thier(?) Existenz produziert"
If I translate that back as it is (ignoring that compleat is not German, just like thier), I'd end up with:
A complete bank account of the first rise of the Strigo and full confutation of all arguments against their existence produced.
Better would have been:
Eine gründliche Auseinandersetzung des ersten Aufstiegs der Strigo und eine volle Widerlegung aller aufgestellten Argumente gegen ihre Existenz.
Sounds still somewhat bumpy and lengthy but that's what the English title says. It kinda goes around three edges instead of one.
To say "going to proof the existence of the Strigo" is shorter than saying "going to refute produced arguments against their existence" and means the same. In English the lengthy version sounds better, in German it's the shorter version that sounds better.
In our digital world you might expect maybe not 100% accurate non-English texts but you could demand a little more than that.
Especially considering the actor of Eichhorst is actually German. Shouldn't be a big deal asking him for an appropriate translation of at least the title.
The mythology described on the other page is pretty much accurate but the German is not at all. But interesting nontheless, if you care for mythology that is. The other sides of the book are written awkwardly as well, but most of all umlauts and the ß are missing entirely. This would suggest the used font didn't support umlauts when they copied it from Google to print it out. Seriously, it's no problem to use ue, ae, oe instead of ü, ä, ö or ss instead of ß but leaving them out completely? No-Go.
I know the book thingy is only a minor thing, even though the book itself plays a bigger role, but I like to pay attention of how my native language is (ab)used in fiction.
NOW things are picking up!!
This show does the best of mixing sci-fi and action in this episode s*** just got real I love this season
This is such a great, great show. Talk about brave journalism. It's really admirable what these are doing and it leads to an amazing program.
Finally, Shaw reuniting with Root. And it was sad and beautiful and wow... I love them so much.
I can't believe this amazing show is over soon :(
Tom is such a good actor and BTW,thanks for so many close-ups:)
This was far better than I was expecting and as it turns out I did not miss Mike nor the "Princess" at all. I especially enjoyed the growth of Katrina, I would love to see her get more air time now.
Lol @ that military guy talking on the pohone that he holds up side down - talking to the speaker, mic in the ear, typical military.
Twisted tail! A thousand eyes! Trapped forever!
I think that the rise of the androids is going to be a bigger problem than the current war. Maybe they'll swoop in and take advantage after everyone else has been severely weakened? And there'll be something wrong with that update, perhaps an exploit?
Gotta love Mrs Witty Android. »In…dispensible« xD
