immediately starts guzzling that tea
Ser Criston Cole is a Dragon rider now!
The combination of extreme realism and violent digital cinematography makes this an otherworldly unsettling experience unlike anything else. I am amazed and disturbed.
Brilliant depiction of Lovecraftian horror. They got the vibes down right. Perfect.
I know it's going to come off as preachy to some, but I don't care. This apparently has to be beat over some people's heads.
"Humanity had all the tools to heal their wounded planet and save themselves, but instead they chose greed and self-gratification over a healthy biosphere and the future of their children." That is so deep and so true.
If Vecna touches a single hair of my Max's, HE WILL HAVE TO SEE ME!! I DON'T ADMIT THIS TO HAPPEN!!!
PROTECT MAX AT AAAAAALLLLLL COSTS!!
Pardon my language, but holy fuck.
Easily the best episode yet, and for the sole reason of being an emotional wallop mixed in with some truly stellar visuals and ideas. Doctor Strange has always been one of my favourite characters in the MCU for the sole reason of that he is magnificently flawed - he is arrogant, unable to accept failure, and ridiculously human in his emotions. This episode puts that at the forefront by showcasing a Strange who goes to the dark side in his unwillingness to accept the death of Christine (whose relationship with Strange is done better here then in his own movie oddly enough) and the consequences that lend from that.
It's this emotional center that puts it a league above the other episodes with only maybe the T'Challa episode reaching those heights, and if anything proves that Multiverse of Madness, which is getting closer and closer, is a film to be extremely excited for.
Can you please stop rating the episode before it airs? Kinda kills the whole point of this site
LEXI HOWARD DID THAT :clap:
The parody of the baseball scene from Twilight (Muse included) fkng killed me.
The award for the most unexpectedly sweet moment of the season goes to Olivia and Anwar rushing to Ruby's side when she was hurting. Their friendship sometimes seems really superficial, but they truly do care about each other. I love that.
I'm still not on board with Maeve and Isaac, but I liked that their scene together showed a different kind of intimacy. It wasn't the usual graphic sex stuff, and it felt appropriate for the moment and for the characters.
I'm all teary at both Angel's and Papi's wedding vows (Indya Moore especially knocked the wind out of me). This may be my favorite episode of the show alongside last season's vacation one "Life's a Beach", since both are pure celebratory joy and Pose excels at that mode because of its total maximal commitment to it.
Another mind fuck episode and the best after credits so far
I'm not sure it hit me on the emotional level as it was intented, either because I feel Sayid was uninteresting for me since season 4, and Sun and Jin were also stuck on the level of "Where is he?/Where is she?" for 2 seasons now, which was faithful to their characters, but made them a bit boring. And Frank.. I can't even say anything about Frank. See where I'm going? I'm sad to see all of them gone, but it didn't hit me on the level as I think they wanted to. It nice to see Jack to find his faith though, even makes me nostalgic about the time he and John were arguing. Glad to see the circle coming full.
The horse is our hero. This episode, and series, is a great take on the dangers of blaming people for their ancients' actions.
So Kenny is the Hound and Mike Ehrmantraut.
well there goes my favorite lesbian badass goddammit this show wont let me REST
We're so used to penultimate episodes having a big, shaking event that sets the season finale, that this standalone episode of the girls enjoying their time was such a breath of fresh air.
Korra damaged and processing the shit she's been through? Yes.
This is the content we rarely get to see in female protagonists. This has been an amazing journey so far. Really feeling season 4 and the time jump
Huge spoiler alert in this comment but, and I'm definately not the first person to say this but; I feel like Zaheer tieing Korra up and poisoning her, and indeed all her tramatic experiences with Iman refrences sexual assualt. The way she talks about it afterward "I had no control", obviously strongly suggests. The ritual way in which they do is very real and scary for a kids show.
The best part of this episode is seeing how powerful Korra really is. Her firebending is amazingly strong because she has so much aggression and Zaheer is such a little pest in his fighting style.
That philosophical discussion between Korra and Zaheer tho
Finally an episode with a story and humor that did remind me of Avatar.
[6.4/10] We may have to come to a sobering realization as fans here, folks. Korra might be dumb. No, dumb is the wrong word. She might just have poor judgment. And maybe that fits with the character, consistently shown to have her heart in the right place but act a little too headstrong.
Still, one can only wonder what her thought process was when Unalaq was holding Jinora hostage and threatening to kill Jinora if Korra didn’t open the other spirit portal. Admittedly, Korra was understandably not expecting to have to make this choice, and so maybe her gameplan isn’t as refined as it could be, especially with a surrogate niece/grandchild/babysittee in the balance, but holy cow does she make a bad decision.
Maybe this is the cold utilitarian in me showing his util-weighing face, but man, trading one life (again, admittedly a life to which you have a personal attachment, which complicates things) for 10,000 years of evil reigning is a really, really, really poor trade. Nevermind the fact that it seems obvious that Unalaq, who despite the faintest veil of decency, seemed like the evil lord of evil from the beginning of this season, probably wouldn’t hold up his end of the bargain anyway. It’s just a dumb thing to do, and coupled with Korra’s initial trust of Unalaq this season, and her odd attempt to just declare Oman a fraud and expect everyone to believe her, it suggests that Korra doesn’t really think these things through.
I have to admit, I was a bit underwhelmed by the other adventures in the spirit world too. There was something neat about Jinora visiting the library that we saw in “The Library” and matching wits with the owl guardian that protects it, but on the whole it mostly serves to set up the hostage angle that didn’t really work for me. (Though I have to admit, I loved the brief but chilling look at what happened to the professor who chose to stay in the library in the corresponding AtLA episode.)
I also didn’t love Korra’s half of the spiritual journey either. I’ll admit, I enjoyed the Alice in Wonderland homages, the design of the spirit creatures was again very cool, and I literally gasped with Iroh showed up. But maybe it’s just watching this show in a post-Inside Out headspace, but there’s something that seems overly simplistic at best and harmful at worst to have the message of the episode essentially be that if you just think positively and don’t process any negative emotions, you’ll be in good shape.
Nevermind the fact that the battle between good and evil seems so much more rote in this season than it ever was on Avatar. One of the things I really appreciated about AtLA is how it eschewed simplistic notions of bad vs. good. Sure, Ozai was terrible, but the show took care to show how not every person from the Fire Nation was bad, not every person from the Earth Kingdom was good, the villains had damage and their own understandable motivations, and the heroes had flaws that meant they weren’t always crusaders for justice.
We still have four episodes left, so I’m not ready to declare anything yet, but there are far fewer shades to the current conflict in Season 2 of TLoK so far. We have a titan-level battle between the literal embodiments of good and evil; we have a big bad who has been nothing but mustache-twirlingly villainous, and we have the good spirit/malevolent spirit dichotomy. It’s all far too binary and uncomplicated for my tastes, and feels out of step with the ethos of the franchise. Again, I expect to have egg on my face when the show reveals some new level of depth in the final four episodes of the season, but it’s not promising or particularly interesting as a central struggle so far.
The episode does wring some juice from Korra returning to the material world and Tenzin’s reaction to the realization that his daughter didn’t come back with her (and Kya and Bumi’s earlier reassurances are a nice touch). But on the whole, it’s centered on two unsatisfying individual stories, with the backdrop of two-tone conflict, and a foolish decision from the main character to wrap it altogether. Not the show’s best outing, to be sure.
This series has become such a chore to watch. It has neither AtLA's charm nor magic, and I do expect it to be this completely different story set in a different age. However, I really cannot get on board due to Korra's unsympathetic character and the drama with "ThE nEw TeAm AvAtAr". A lot of the frames are noticeably sloppily done too. Anyway. I really love Jinora! I did not expect her or any of Tenzin's kids to play such a big role. I love how Tenzin despite being hurt is still so proud of his little girl. Aang's descendants are my favorite part of the show this season.
Where is Virgin dude? Ahh... I was curious about how he would end up...
Jessica is the perfect example why some guys think of girls/women the way they do. She had "special" conversations both with Mark and Barnett, then she was surprised that after she made up her mind and chose the latter, she fell between two stools and got angry when Barnett played the same card on her as she did on Mark. :clap: The devoted guy got dumped by a woman who isn't even worthy of him (by what I saw, at least). Then when she's dumped, she goes back to the devoted guy.
And dudes keep falling for Jessicas.
On a funnier note... Is Rory every guy's best friend or relationship coach or what? xD I wanna see him spitting that wisdom to girls too, not just the guys!
