Running thoughts commentary.
Watch how suddenly suspicious Sian seems much less suspicious by being … up front? If we believe her not knowing how to hack of course and all that. She seems pretty smart. So suspicions are back on.
So Rohan and Bill were in some sort of thing together, and both got killed for it. There were three cups though so probably someone else on the team was with them and likely to be targeted next. I would guess the Chinese lady, she keeps having reactions, and also did not love seeing all those self organising AI.
also suspecting someone outside of the team, as Rohan signalled to someone who seemed to not be part of the household.
Then there’s always staff – easily overlooked, immediately suspicious. The head concierge has been fishy from the start, and still is.
Then there’s the rich pedophile… we love hating him so he’s probably not it.
Still Andy is the most suspicious one! That never changed.
Who else here thought Zoomer was really Bill’s kid, ever since their interaction at the table and Andy’s glare?
Also not me wondering how a car parked in Iceland forever would be warm enough for them not to have visible breath clouds. Also not me rolling my eyes at people thinking they know how to drive in a fucking blizzard in Iceland. :upside_down:
Wish
Is it just me who thinks that song with Asha and the King seems somewhat inappropriate… it’s so most definitely a love song, and while it’s directed at the wishes, just listening to it, anyone would with ease be able to interpret it as a couple singing to each other. Or the child they’re having together or something, either way, focus back on King and Asha and that does taste a little bitter.
I love how later it connects both Bambi (the rabbit AND the actual deer the bear calls Bambi) and Alice (mushrooms and flowers anyone?). This movie is a trip. (Again, all those shroom references! Lmao) And in the end with Wendy and Peter… there must be so many references to other Disney films I haven’t noticed haha. Other than how basically every citizen’s wish turns them into another Disney movie … tangled, wreck it Ralph… And Saba I suppose was a hats off to Walt himself :)
I thought that if Disney managed to pull off the “misunderstood bad guy”, I’ll like this. I guess they started there, but it turned more into a “villains making” story.
Cute film. Not nearly enough songs to count as a proper Disney film though, right?
I watched this without knowing anything about it and…
This is already so weird! I love weird.
At first it irked me how people want to make her seem like the crazy one, I always hate that. But then it’s like I myself feel a bit crazy. The show keeps dropping lines that give me deja vus.
The first time was when her aunt says “she was like a sister to me”, that whole line, and I thought there was one like “he is like a brother” at which another person gets mad and replies “why is it always LIKE a brother why can’t it be just brother” sort of thing, and it feels like it might be from the film “The Humans”.
Then this “your trash is now my treasure”
And with the princess thing I already felt like I was going a bit insane somewhere in the back of my mind.
And just when we’re thinking she’s just “simply” sleepwalking but not actually going anywhere else, she… does? And where the hell did that cat go. Is it now in another time line?
And why the f does her ancestor? want to kill Rufus?
So her mother was “sleepwalking” like this too? And it killed her eventually?
I’m having SO MANY QUESTIONS.
And the show is giving deja vus inside of deja vus. The “princess” and the “ride” topic for one. Even the patrolman looked a bit like Kevin.
I’m just so fucking glad Kevin is not one of those people to think she’s crazy.
The fact they keep calling it boat, like it’s a tiny dinghy.
And as if they’ve never seen titanic - when the water gushed in my second hand trauma hit.
And then suddenly the show skips several hours just like that, too.
The twist too, her believing Rufus had abandoned her and having so much rage about someone killing her mom, in the end it’s all the mother who did the abandoning.
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All in all "Viktor" tries to deliver a good message, somewhere wrapped up in the story, and the show tries to deliver both that and the "but is that truly justified", but the last few episodes felt a bit anticlimactic, I'm not entirely buying the justifications.
Wasn't buying the "a few happy days in the snow" plot either, and wondered why the hell Imogene would, but ah, of course there was a bigger plot behind it.
I had wondered why the carts were rescued too.
I do like how they’re all one big team in the end. They could host a completely different show. Maybe they will, if season 2 becomes a thing.
And in the end, Imogene does put away the person who killed her mom, I suppose.
Well, the first half of the how was a lot more enjoyable than the latter, but I still did like it.
Nothing near as great as Only Murders though. Not even close.
I like the atmosphere from the get go.
Dark, smoky, foggy. To begin with, our main character doesn’t speak, and no body mentions it, just takes it in stride.
Obvious plot with “the geek” getting loose, of course that had to happen. But intrigued of where this is heading. I love carnival stuff, the era of freak shows. And oh, did I :eyes: when I spotted those tarot cards on Zeena’s desk. Looks like they’re only using majors though, the fool, the emperor… the star hmm.
“People are desperate to let you know who they are, desperate to be seen.”
Oh, and a closer view of those jars reminds me instantly of there being a pregnant lady working for the carnival. Uh-oh, im thinking, uh-oh. But that story didn’t play out, luckily.
I like young, somewhat mute Stan much more than the man he turns out to be… chasing profit.
And I’m happy Molly is smart… quiet, but smart. Hope she will make the right decisions. Alas, she also loves.
Wonder what the doctor’s angle was. Did she do it out of power only? Did they have a past we don’t know?
Toward the end of this, I kind of hoped it would turn around into him becoming a new Geek. That would be a great circle. Whelp.
Side-story first.
I love that Lee-Hyun told her all that. Yet I still want her to choose Joo-ik. I think they both graduated away from each other, no matter how painful it has been or how much they still love each other. I think what she said in the other episode holds true - that ultimately she’s in love with the 18-year old him. There’s been mistakes. His brother on the other hand has been so careful and patient all this time, in the shadow, never forcing himself on her (unless we count that first encounter pshh), pining away secretly. I love and pity energies like that. I feel sad for him. They’d be great together. Him, and a more mature Ji-na.
Ugh I hate this episode :sob:
He wants to save her life, by leaving? I’m on her side there. You can’t recover from losing love like that. You can get better, but you can’t completely recover. Unless like she wants to, without loving anybody. But that’s also not worth living. And the time between having lost and finding again, I’m not sure that’s worth living either. But we humans have this pesky survival instinct, so we might make it. But what’s it really worth, living life broken?
Hate it.
But also, doom can’t disappear from the world, can he. He’s always part of it. He could just disappear from her world. I suppose… I suppose if he really completely vanished maybe she’d forget him. And she’s strike lucky very soon, as there’s no doom whatsoever, and fall in love. That’s what he wants anyway, I guess.
“I mean nothing if I exist without you” :sob:
“I was born to make you happy”
Just let me say again how much I hate this episode ☹
How are there two more??? He'll come back, right? He has to come back. World with humans always has doom in it. But I'll hate it just as much if he comes back and just ends up watching her from afar, the one person who's changed him, made him love, yada yada. That's even a sadder story for him than it is for her, as he'll live forever. GRRR.
What an exciting episode
The only thing I didn’t get is how come the witch’s daemon wasn’t there when they got slaughtered in the end of the previous episode, and how come some got slaughtered, Lyra got taken, but they didn’t kill all of them and neither were the losses and her being taken discussed by the Gypters. Since last episode I had assumed the entire camp had died, but everyone’s just frolicking in this one. Maybe I missed that Lyra was in a different camp for some reason, but neither the witch’s daemon nor our lovely bear friend warned them or helped.
I definitely must have missed something.
I love how this show illustrates the intricate and fucked up the world of grown ups is, with all its complications and falsehoods, while the world of children is so idealistic and pure.
Mrs Coulter probably really means well. But she’s so disconnected from her own daemon and struggling with her own inner issues (…”demons”), she couldn’t be further removed from her purer origins.
Love the blind siding of Mr Scoresby. He’s really not the type to wanting to have any kind of responsibility. Those types sometimes make the best leaders. The ones that don’t want to be. I will be awaiting some beautiful character growth here.
Another creepy bit here and what an ending once again.
Looking forward to the two worlds meeting eventually.
I experienced this as both bad and good at the same time. Lots of great moments. Lots of eh moments.
Lots of leads in this one.
Ghost, acting territorial.
Antlers watching a video about an octopus. Who camouflage themselves as pretty much anything to then strike at prey.
Just weird it would hang around there for six months and then suddenly decided to be “territorial” and eat people.
But also, the whole nope thing… for once someone is realistic in a somewhat creepy flick. Seeing something scary? Nope.
The thing with the eyes doesn’t necessarily make sense. Being this big you wouldn’t see eyes this small. We could explain it with awareness though, I suppose. You just know when something is looking at you.
When OJ is baiting it in the end with its morphed form… all big and pretty and flashing colour … mating behaviour? :joy:
The whole chimpanzee thing didn’t make much sense though. Unless it was just meant as a decoy. Neither the story got explained, what actually happened with him, nor did Jupe play a big role at all. His entire childhood trauma … might have motivated him to “tame a predator” but that part of the story was incredibly loose.
My gods. Another random jewel I happened upon. What an inspiring piece of art.
“Dreams and illusions are serious things.
They can enslave people.”
Damn, I love movies with dream sequences. These are excellent.
As I have a huge soft spot for weird flicks.
This one is DELIGHTFUL.
And the actors. They actually look like real people, not like movie stars.
“Waste of time. The man’s an absolute artist.”
I wish people would take dreams more seriously, like they do here. What a world. It’s like some secret homage to the Sandman.
“We are in a series of infinitely nested computer games”. Ah yes. A work of my liking.
I love “exit technician”
That little head turn and “mmh” when she says “you’d do that? You’d stay up all night and watch me sleep… and not exit me?” was the best thing I’ve seen in a long time. This was gold.
“The only reason anyone suspects that you exist, is because that’s what the mathematics point to”
My gods, this thing is fantastic.
“You died… and yet you are alive in dreams?”
I’m eating this up. Or the thing about sorcery and poetry being so similar that it’s difficult to differentiate. “Both rather highly strung and no one believes in either of them.”
This episode has gone all over the place, and it’s still 45 minutes to go. At this point I’m angrily impatient for it to end. And all the character growth we’ve seen in this show, the past few months of their lives, suddenly has gone out the window, and why? Because of some lady’s mind games? How in the hell did she manage to become so convincing?
She’s already lied so many times, why believe anything that’s coming out of her mouth? I don’t get it. Compulsory liars will be liars. Arisu is so annoying this season :sob: I mean sure if he really doesn’t want to live anymore then just end it there, what does it matter to us or any of the other players at this point.
“Life is like a game — enjoy it more.”
In the end I’m glad I managed to battle on through. This last season really didn’t hold up, but the ending was kind of nice. Somewhere along the lines I had suspected some kind of purgatory-esque thing. A brutal way to get another chance at life, but still.
And somehow I was still rather moved when they tried to resuscitate Ann
And omg the last 15 seconds, I almost got scared. Nooooooo :sob: don’t let there be another card! But it had said the game was cleared so… that shouldn’t be a thing.
Loved the prison episode, hated the rest of it.
I thought the Jack would be someone nobody suspected. I thought maybe it was the woman, because it was so quickly assumed that she was under his control, yet she could have just been acting. But when she died I realised, damn, there’s another one no one suspects.
I didn’t really get the way of communicating with the snacks. You can’t see your own mark, and each only got one snack. Would mean they told each other the marks before getting the snacks and then either getting their own suit or the suit of their partner, so the others could confirm it’s true or not. But if it weren’t true, what would they say? Plus in the end they started lying, had they also “conveniently” abolished their snack routine? :dizzy_face::dizzy:
Also, that’s the dumbest hunting scene I’ve ever seen. Disregarding that those bunnies would probably have scattered as soon as they first starting tossing each other around, why go through the “trouble” of trying to catch them this way… setting up a simple trap would have taken half the time. Even just bringing a big carton or blanket would have had bigger chances.
And the film maker just so finishing his 8mm film whilst basically dying AND getting it all ready for them to watch at the same time, uhm... what? Just after making a point it is analogue film, somehow it just magically converts from camera into ready-watchable material in a minute or so. :expressionless:
A bit too obvious, including the few jump scares it had. Not scary at all. Annoying plot and characters. Figured out how to escape it way before the character did, and more effectively so.
What I found annoying was how bad Rose was at articulating herself and explaining the situation. Of course it’s a plot thing that people aren’t supposed to believe her, but then don’t make her a character that is supposed to be smart and articulate, make her a character that is believable as being somewhat dense. Not a therapist. Especially not a therapist, since she’d have known exactly what to say and not to say to not sound crazy. You don’t start with “I know this sounds crazy”.
And Trevor turned into such a red flag. The first scene he was so supportive, but then Rose goes through trauma and he almost immediately pulls away and removes himself as support system.
A lot in the movie was so unnecessary. Like, In the prison, when Joel says he’s not going to leave was unnecessary. It’ll increase trust if he does plus she could just tell him afterwards anyway.
Her keeping running or using weapons against a thing that has no body was annoying. Just stop running? What’s it gonna do if you just don’t run? It can’t kill its own host. It needs someone to spread so… yeah the cop out way to get rid of it is isolating yourself and just starve it out. Think of it as a parasite. Apparently it needs a new host every week or so.
A more effective way would be to isolate yourself somewhere and either do the heroic version where you k:asterisk_symbol::asterisk_symbol: yourself without anyone witnessing it, or you kill somebody without anyone witnessing it, and it can’t hop into someone else.
So Rose can’t kill anyone (also here the guy at the prison was misleading. He said that the only way to escape it is to kill someone while someone else is watching, but that will just pass it on), fine. Apparently she won’t consider the heroic option either. Ok isolation it is.
Now, had the film stopped after she’d set the house on fire, we would have a nice little message: face your trauma and you can overcome anything.
That doesn’t happen. Being a horror movie and all, I called it, especially Joel coming to “the rescue” and fucking everything up was an obvious plot, but still, ugh.
Speaking of the end though - maybe Joel managed to think further or realise this; but if he just were right stay with her as she dies, the chain would break. The film ends before we see what he does. We expect him to run, as he lacks that one piece of information/confirmation with the “killing someone”… but he could have figured all this out by himself.
My last words for this…
We all knew the cat was going to die, it was too focused on, but … what happened with the train?
That’s the question that remains unanswered.
For someone who did not grow up in an Elvis-family and only ever knew the major facts around him, yet no details, this experiences as an enjoyable theatrical experience.
I loved the angle of recounting it from the “bad guy’s” perspective, and the theatrical performance of him, he’s really reminded me of the Penguin from Batman rather an actual real life character – which works so well with how this story is feeding off of little Elvis’ comic book fantasies and riding on the “Elvis trapped in a web/cage” storyline.
The entire cinematography is bombastic and sensational – another thing that fits with the story they’re telling, but does give very little pause to the viewers.
I enjoyed Butler’s performance as Elvis. The way the film is centred around him but never really gives insight into him, like the elusive and untouchable rock star worked for me. We only really experience him through the eyes of others. He himself has very little of a voice unless he is on stage.
That said, it was enjoyable and I appreciate them “bringing Elvis back”, but it does have little rewatch value. Once you’ve seen it, you’ve seen it. I’m not hungering for more, I’m probably over satiated.
I don’t expect very much of marvel sequels, so all I expected was some strange goodness and a sweet little ca—cloak!
Which it delivered.
Personally I didn’t mind it was as long as it was, I barely noticed. It wasn’t quite as scary as some people said it would be.
I liked the whole “you make a mistake and they make you a hero, I make one and they make me a monster” thing, it’s been a trending social discussion. Which I don’t think they solved that well, because in the case presented in Strange, while Wanda was reasonable at first, she did try to communicate and no one really listened (or rather, no one believed her), it did make her a “monster”. She started out reasonable but during her entire dream walking processes she somehow lost it, to the point of seemingly not realising she didn’t just hurt a lot of people, but in fact kill them. So far removed from the Mother-Wanda.
I loved how much the dream walking as well as the travelling the multiverse was so close to actual Astral projection and shamanic journeys. Loved that.
And what I’ve always liked with Strange is how you can make a weapon out of anything, as long as you can imagine it. So I appreciated all the little “weapons”, although maybe they could have come up with more. The music scene with the notes I really liked though.
In the end, the “monster” was reminded of her humanity and did the right choice, but did that make her a hero?
(A statue of Wanda is what I’d like to see here but maybe there is one. My friend chased me out of the cinema before the extra bits so I’ll have to watch them somewhere :upside_down: will be disappointed if they don’t make Wanda a heroine though.)
Not the worst but also definitely not the best.
The child actors in the beginning were horrible.
This comes off strongly as either a very low-budget marvels film, or a covid production. There were barely any actors to begin with, let alone female actors who’d pass any Bechdel or other test. But that wasn’t what I expected this film to do.
The story was a little rushed. There was little depth to it, like no real consequences for the outside world - just a singular story about a singular fate (expanded into two, three people) Another thing that makes it feel like they just tried to pump out “another one for the franchise, let’s slap a pretty face on it and it’ll sell ok enough”. There were a lot of moments that weren’t thought through, or plain silly.
Like the fight down in the subway - not only would there have been CCTV, there were a lot of witnesses that could have told the FBI already then that it wasn’t just ONE “vampire”.
Another thing is how Morbius apparently was highly suspected by the FBI, but they hadn’t tapped his phone or tracked him in any other way? Unlikely.
And what the heck is the other FBI agent trying to do by shaking the litter box of the cat, calling “Kitty Kitty”? That’s the dumbest I’ve seen in a while. Yeah sure, that’s how you attract cats. “Look, fresh litter! come kitty kitty!”
As well as Martine randomly getting scratched by an otherwise extremely docile cat. That’s just convenient eye roll material.
All in all, with a lacklustre story, it could have gone straight to Netflix and not been shown on the cinema at all. Still, it wasn’t as terrible that I regretted seeing it. I was mildly entertained. Wished the bits of humour had been more on point. The Venom joke was ok, but otherwise, it just felt mostly tired. Pretty, but tired. I don’t think many people would have gone to see it, weren’t it for Jared starring in it.
Lovely film about family, “kin”, and friendship, with just a dash of crime, danger and sci-fi.
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I enjoyed how little the sci-fi was, and how we don’t actually know what their story was. I enjoy open stories like these. Elijah will know some day, when he’s older. For now, he’ll just be waiting. Like us. In case they do make a follow-up. The lady from the FBI did say “We’re not done” though, so that might be a bit of foreshadowing.
I usually get hung up on when people do exceptionally stupid things, but here we had a nice balance with Elijah, who pretty much only did the smart things. Which is probably one of the things that would remind of Stranger Things - it not necessarily being the adults making the best decisions. Jimmy with his wasting of money, and going right back down a slippery slope of gambling… really? You’re technically free, and you’re going to waste the bit of money you have on hotel rooms that probably cost $500 a night and go to Nevada out of all places.
Ty wasn’t doing so much better - Jimmy’s counter part. Why he wouldn’t at least cuff Jimmy at the police station while going off to check in the noise is beyond me. There must have been tons of sets ready for use.
Loved the ending! In all ways. And yes, it was “pretty cool”.
Great film, in cinematography and storytelling, but I struggled with how much of an idiot they portrayed Gawain to be for most of the film.
Of course we wouldn’t have any story if he had listened closely to what the green knight had said and not taken the entire head off, subsequently pushing himself into the deepest pits of despair, believing his life would be forfeit if he went in the journey… but that also made the story.
What a weak character he starts out as. Silent even when the woman who loves him asks a crucial question. And too trusting of strangers in the wood… not even taking his sword when he runs. That was entirely too silly. Not at all convinced his journey makes him any stronger or better. Sure, he does find some courage in the end of the film, but not after having been a coward all his life.
Although a cool cinematographic trick, panning the camera around and showing his bones in the future, I’m so far confused as to what purpose it served. It seems a little useless. A moment of confusion and “oh is that it”, but then it’s taken back?
I liked the “are you real or are you a spirit?” - “what is the difference? I just need my head.”
As it becomes striking that he is on a mystical journey and this is not a common story at all, it was increasingly well received. The fox in his colours, the beautiful books, impossibly deep springs … I am not familiar with the original tale but I was suspecting him to have been the green knight and it being a circular story. At the very least for him to having freed the old and becoming the new. But it seemed like his mother had called the knight to begin with, so many questions arising as watching.
Be wary of promises where you exchange gifts. She might give him a child. I really wanted him to interact with the blind lady on his own. I wonder what she was all about. Was she symbolic him? Blind and mute?
Absolutely adored that the lady in the castle in effect made a photograph of him. That was terrific.
“Red is the colour of lust, but green is what lust leaves behind after, in the heart. In the womb”
Love how both Gawain and his fox were in a trap by the two in the castle.
A wonderful mystical journey and stunning images. Worth the watch.
Him suddenly my wanting to end the game right then is the biggest bullshit.
All of those people died for nothing. Or are their families getting the prize money?
Sang-woo was too desperate to giving up on the money anyway.
I felt like him being like “oh hey I’ll be a hero let’s just end the game” was such an insult to everyone’s toils and struggled up to then. Glad “218” chose to do the one valiant thing he did all game.
I should not be surprised to see him go back to being his useless scumbag self after the games, but seriously. You made a promise (well, not really, he almost made a promise) and had very big plans of what to do with the money, among other BE A FATHER TO YOUR KID, but no, zero character progression, reverted right back. I’m livid lol. He never deserved to win.
But then… the old guy. I had not seen that coming. And then suddenly all these theories at once in my head… he’s the very first winner. He’s the host. He’s always been in the games and won them all, or just inserted himself and as he got older, people started ignoring him… except for Gi-Hun.
Who proceeds to be pathetic and choose his selfishness over his family :upside_down: I’m so done.
The tension in this episode was almost too much to bear. I kind of loved it but I also hated it somehow.
What a .. massacre.
Of course they'd shut them all off from the mainland, but still, what is the endgame? I had wondered earlier - either use the island as food, or make a vampire army. So I suppose it's army. But now there won't be any food left for them, so they'll have to go to the mainland to eat, aka "spread the gospel".
Maybe they'll say so in the next episode, but at this point it's really this big question of whether it's all just fanatism that just works very well for the "angel", or whether, in that story's reality, vampires really ARE angels, and the whole books and myths of christianity are really based off of that - vampires.
Well we had the one educated atheist already die off and choosing death rather than continuing the madness, but his opinion now sorely lacks.
The way I'm seeing it, is that this is a rather nice twist of how dangerous fanatism can be, in the "wrong" hands. It wasn't even ill intent to start with - Pruitt truly believed he had been blessed and it was all a gift from god. But when it arrived at Bev, with her fanatic mind... meeting the psycho bitch she is, that doesn't bode too well. So I think this is a story of "Fanatism going VERY VERY badly", but who knows. Maybe vampires are a gift of god.
I wonder whether they'll reveal who the "angel" truly is. I mean he never speaks, but somehow he and Pruitt etc are communicating. Otherwise why get dressed up and stand in front of the altar like that. And he found him in some ancient tomb...? Maybe he's one of the original apostles.
... Maybe he's Jesus. :upside_down: He has risen indeed. Sexy.
The manipulation again. Please just get rid of Martin, he makes me so sick.
“Look at me I have so much to do, don’t make noise, go into the tiny office with 3 people blabla”
“But it’s hot”
“No you’re always hot” turning everything around to make himself a victim and her second guessing herself and apologising for everything she does. "Me me me me you don't even care about me or you'd have asked how my meeting went" says he who doesn't give a shi*** what's happening in her life, ever. I just can’t with this prick.
I'm so glad her dad brought up that he "might be" a narcissist.
But holy ... I about lost it when he tossed the cat. The old sick cat with its back injury. Now THAT ... that is just outright vicious and cruel. Someone please shoot him in the head, it's the USA after all. UGH. And then it just gets worse. She's threatening him (in his mind) with oh no maybe we have problems and he tries to isolate her from her friends. GET THE FUCK OUT WOMAN holllhyyyyyyyyy
But also, how could she live this long with him and her friends not noticing anything? ... I guess it's the language barrier. Scary.
I hope Justine leaves Martin before the end of the season, he’s just so terribly toxic. He only cares about himself and his son.
At the dinner party? He only had words to put her down, for her not doing it perfectly, for her ruining HIS image and HIS dinner party, for not giving enough. (She cooked the entire evening, what did he do? Polish his glasses?)
Then the backhanded comment on the football field, how boys need their fathers more, practically down talking Justine in front of everyone. The other guys just exchanged glances, but this is exactly one of those moments you have to tell your “buddy” that what he’s saying is not ok.
In the morning this episode, “ew don’t sneeze on me” instead of “oh no poor baby, can I get you anything, shit that must be bad for your work”, no, just, don’t you dare sneeze on me. Wow.
Then the fridge…? All the food MARKED… and as his and Albert’s no less. What the fuck?
And then oh my gods. He’s basically putting up a front of having been worried all day (since when) to get to f:asterisk_symbol::asterisk_symbol::asterisk_symbol: her, I retched.
Please divorce him asap, freaking manipulative narcissist.
Creepy child continuing to be creepy.
Glad Darri has a conversation with the landlady, although he’s a science person he must believe her somewhere, somehow. And hopefully “realise” his wife is in danger. Or suspect it at least.
Also wow Rakel, wow. I hadn’t expected that.
I find it peculiar how none of the Dopplers recognise themselves. I mean at least the Gunhilds could talk to each other and realise a lot of things.
The ravens are so ominous. Does it keep dying and being reborn, in an eternal cycle? At first I just thought it only happened once but it just died again. :thinking:
And something about Gisli is off. I don’t recall what his story was, but unless he just transferred it’s strange he doesn’t recognise Darri’s child or doesn’t know his story. Like, saying it’s a custody case. Living in the same town he should know their child died. And the thing about there being an alarm at the camp but him ignoring it makes me wonder whether Ása actually managed to warn the town but nobody listened……..
Also: Icelanders behaving like tourists, driving in dangerous conditions. And running out of fuel no less.
And wtf. This show is exceptional at cliff hangers.
So we know it’s not just the dead coming back, because of Gunnhild. But she kind of had gone back to Sweden so in a way she was “dead” in Iceland. But now Gríma…? Maybe it’s her before the trauma? Like a different version. Like they’re all different versions of themselves.
First ten minutes or so: Tell me a man wrote the script without telling me a man wrote the script.
Well, it was obvious that Ryan didn't just kiss that girl. But let's lean back and unfold how toxic Jane is, once again. She made a huge deal out of the "just kiss" thing, as if he'd done the worst thing ever. Then he tried to tell her the truth after she made such a huge deal out of how important truth is (I agree, but not with the way she handles it), yet she kept continuously cutting him off.
NOW that it's out, she'll likely blow up again and blame it all on him.
People make mistakes, yet she's so dishonest about it herself. It took her so much to get over a "just kiss", of course Ryan knew that if she ever found out late, it would all go to hell. He tried to make right by her, she kept blocking him from it, so in the end he just rolled with it. I get that. Now it's likely going to go to shit again, but is anyone looking at how her behaviour is way more toxic and unhealthy than his? I hope Ryan gets away from her. And Jane gets cancelled. Just, no, lady. No.
I was really looking forward to this, as the promise of what it could be is rather enticing.
I'm not entirely on board with the execution however. Seems like it might have been hyped up a bit too much.
I had some problems with for example, if you're out with your kid in the woods, you never know what happens, you might get into an accident, you HAVE to have a contingency plan. Like a document, a letter, that will explain to him how the world really works, and what the fuck money is, so that he wouldn't just throw it all away (which in itself I thought was stupid as well, after all it was in a box that was marked like a treasure, so unless Gus really is a stupid boy (and they didn't portray him as such), even if he doesn't know what it is, he'd have realised it has some sort of value. That he just tossed it all out made me cringe). The fact he didn't leave him anything like it, DESPITE going to the effort to hiding that box from him and making a treasure map is just a grave oversight and basically could have killed Gus. Ignorance in a world like that, as we soon see it, is deadly. So I have quite a big problem with that.
And I'm not really on board with how the characters are portrayed, they're a bit too comical. I suppose... if this is marketed for children, then maybe I can see why they would have made the first bad guys to appear seem so clowny. But I still don't think they would have HAD to do it that way. A lot of villains in a lot of PG stuff are really mean, even terrifying, and it works much better.
Well, the world is interesting, so I'll keep watching. It just didn't meet my expectations.
Ok I was warned that there were many "plot twists", but I didn't quite think it would be... like this.
Uhm. Here, a summary. Obviously, spoilers.
First my impression of the brother's friendliness being so fake, yet how the main char focusses so much about him, like the entire plot will be about the brother with the limp.
Then I noticed he was studying words like Hypnosis and thought, I'm sure that's a clue.
Then... fucking jumpscare, I nearly lost my shit.
Then it steers into something totally else, not creepy at all.
Then I got to the point when it definitely "twists" and I wasn't even sure the mom was the same actress anymore.
Then... uh... yupp I was right about the hypnosis thing. Ah so that's why the weird dreams.
And... I'm not sure I can keep up the twists if this keeps twisting, but I guess the room mystery is cleared up as well as the abduction. Also suddenly, main character shifts.
Then... "How stupid how are to run in a straight line from a car and keep looking back" and "come on, he had an airbag and stuff, you don't die from that"
To... "Oh shit, what?"
To "wait are we really in 1997 now, CAN I ACTUALLY BELIEVE THIS"
Oh this looks like a homage to the Rear Window. Intriguing. And they wrap it into one of my most hate-loved theme, "The Delusional (Woman) whom no one believes". A nightmare. Let's see where this leads.
I do like these fine lines of delusions and reality (or what we think is reality anyway). A lot of the details just seem so off. Like how people keep rushing into her house at the most (in)convenient times, all at once.
Or the cat. The cat continuously licking his paws, that's not... normal. She might have gotten some sort of clue if he hadn't ran away when she tried checking. If not, then that's a weird detail to put in there.
I did notice how "Jane" never actually mentioned her name. When Anna called her Jane, she only said something to the effect "What makes you say that I'm her", but there never was a definite. Her signing with that name could have been a joke. So we watch with the question in our head, if she really never was Jane, was she actually in the other house, or was that a delusion, and if so, what is the story they're trying to cover up? An affair, maybe? "Jane" had been over there with the boy as well, so he'd have to know who she is. He also never confirmed her to be the mother. He never said who she was either though. ... Well, that gets cleared up.
I love how this played out! Unexpected wake up call, not just for Anna. Really impressed with this one, great thriller.
I like the theme of a sceptic/cynic coming to a town that clearly seems to be all about the afterlife, and "giving in to temptation". I'm thrilled to see where this is going.
Anorexic weighing herself, entity smashing scale... Me: Aww... Such a kind ghost!
Watching this feels like the wife is the real ANYthing in the family. First he's like "she's the real believer" then he's like "she's the real artist". What else? Oh yeah, he's not a real professor either, not a real guy either I guess!
I did feel like the ending was a little rushed though. And sitting there thinking about the ending/resolution... Now I'm not 100% sure they said that "good wins", they definitely said that evil doesn't. Which I guess is true in a sense, the evil are damned, so ultimately they don't win. But the good didn't really "win" either. Sure, everyone will know about him being the bad guy, but a lot of good people had to die for it. So in the end... no one really wins. Which, I guess, is life.
"Evil spirits only commune with evil doers... and evil only thrives in a house it's welcome" ... Huh! I like this.
Jane better fix her typo in that article (or more like, omitted word). Oh yeah, I zoom in on that shit, want to see whether the writers of this show actually write good articles :joy:
That was such a weird place to pick up the Bold Type again, just after watching Bitten s2 where ... well, the thing happens with Logan. It was so weird suddenly seeing him here... as a fucking blind date lmao.
And Alex has been such a good friend to basically all of them, but he barely gets any screen time, and now they've made him some sort of "second choice"/third-wheel guy for Sutton? Ouch.
I don't see what the big problem with Natalie is. If you keep messing up your job and "still don't get it" after several explanations, you get fired. Just fire her if she can't fix it herself.
Also the "my friends are YOUNG"... not necessarily the word I would have used, but it's definitely one that works.
Can someone explain the applicable US laws to me here, I don't see why Sutton and Richard can't just take this to HR and report officially as dating, as usual in company policies I'm aware about?
Some plotholes here, but ok. We'll just fill those in with our imagination, like how they both found her phone and Rachel so very quickly. Also why would Logan put Rachel in a hidy spot but then not cover her scent. Wasn't that one of the Alpha and Omegas (lel) of trying to stay hidden? Logan should have known this.
I like that the pack is together for this.
But also we get another heavy foreshadowing for Elena (and Clay?) becoming Alpha next.
They're wasting so much time with Santos though. Since they aren't aware Jameson is in the house (bit weird though, they should have been able to sniff him out), it might have been a ploy, in a way, to grant him time to do whatever he was intending to do. Again though, with the plot holes. Jameson just suddenly disappears, so does Rachel. Did he grab her? Does he even know she's there?
And why are they running yelling through the woods when they should be sniffing her out. Doesn't make sense.
Ohhh, reveaaal! Now we know who Jameson is. I hadn't actually seen that coming. Although I suppose it should have been obvious, what with him knowing so much about them and them not having any idea who he is.
Loved the ending. Something like that had to happen.
And she's still so hung up... shakes head
A number of fallacies in this one. Still enjoying the show, it just heaped up a little to ignore haha.
So we probably don't have to talk about that a wound of this depth should probably have bled a lot more than what they depicted on Jeremy.
So now that we've got a little bit of info on pack law and organisation, I do see where the Mutts are coming from, too. I don't know how the packs are organised, as in, is it one pack per state, one pack per district... etc. For just a handful of "wolves" to hold power over this many more mutts is quite impressive though (also, unlikely? We're assuming the mutts just always kept to the laws because they didn't want to get slaughtered, as pack rule dedicts, but if they'd joined forces at any time, they could just overrun them).
And the whole story line with Logan now... We know that werewolves can be BORN, and there's normally no female ones. Which means that Rachel's child, if a boy, will most likely be a werewolf (and according to WhatsGoodInAStoryToCreateTension, that's what it'll be), and if a girl, not, because... no female werewolves usually? Which is probably also why he's "guessing" that she's pregnant with a girl, while it's more like he's really hoping for it. If not... there'll be a hell of an explaining to do. You said you wanted kids... it's just a little puppy, it's basically the same thing though, why are you mad? :joy:
What I don't get is that werewolves are supposed to have immense healing powers in this universe too, right? I remember a scene with Elena getting bitten by the coyote, and when she changed back into a human it was almost healed. She and Philip tend to see each other naked A LOT, if it had healed at a normal rate, there'd have been questions.
So... I don't understand why they're making it so that it's impossible to heal in the situation(s) we're presented with now. Doesn't really make a lot of sense, lore-wise.
On that note, also him whispering to his son... it's a nice dramatical gesture, but everyone in the room were werewolves, they'd have picked up on it.
