This was the best episode so far, the one-liners were hilarious.
An amazing finale to one of the best series of all time IMO. Up there with Breaking Bad for me.
The 10 minute garage scene was the best sequence of television since the episode Ozymandias in Breaking Bad. Just incredible acting all around.
One thing I have always loved about the show is the music selection - again here it was perfect with Brothers in Arms and With or Without You fitting each scene perfectly.
I'm so sad the show is over!
Or, hear me out, “they” is just a word, a way of referring to a person without even thinking of or referencing their gender, much in the way of “that person/being” or heck, even “it”.
It doesn’t have to be woke, it can be just a neutral word choice. Relax folks.
Even if it is or was a non-binary reference, it is ONE WORD and was not flashy or overtly in your face at all. It didn’t bother me either way. The negative or hateful comments do, however.
"It's funny, the day you lose someone isn't the worst. At least you've got something to do. It's all the days they stay dead."
Azbantium plot hole aside, this is very well acted. A lot of the Capaldi-era episodes have been lackluster on the writing front, the acting front, or both—but this one is a masterful performance. If I have only one major question about "How?!", that's a massive improvement.
I, for one, really appreciated the "Oh, snap!" moment when I realized that my suspicions had been right: the whole "cycle" premise had been foreshadowed at the very beginning.
(The "plot hole" is the azbantium room not resetting, when all the other rooms in the entire castle reset to their original state after some time. Why should that one not reset? Obviously because the Doctor would never be able to escape if it did.)
DADT hits so much harder when a gay president enacts it. Damn Ellen is between a rock and a hard place.
The tension with the Russians is unreal. I wish Poole could tell them to gtfo her hab.
This episode was very weird.
Yuki Tsunoda, WHAT A LEGEND.
David Hewlett's performance is absolutely phenomenal in this one. I have no words.
No words, that is, except to nitpick that this "dangerous" mission to a Wraith-occupied planet is a little too easy—especially the part about getting back to Atlantis, which is neither shown nor even referenced.
How did they find Number 5 in the department store? He removed the tracker. Not that we have any idea how, when, or why he got the tracker in his arm in the first place or who is after him or why, so many unknowns in this show still. Vanya is supposedly normal however she is constantly popping pills, what for? I think that the pills are hindering her abilities to show, I wonder what they can be? And if these 7 kids were adopted and have abilities or mostly then what about all the other kids who were born in that one day, who weren't adopted, wouldn't they have abilities also?
I’m stumped.
I thought I’d hate the season and the finale, just like almost everyone is doing, but I thought it was perfect. Incredible last episode.
The end sequence, when Jon comes to a certain realisation, is something I unexpectedly smiled at. I loved it.
I don’t understand how the “writing was crappy”, as folks are saying; because it was magnificent. This is what the entire series was made for: an unexpected turn, just as GRRM wanted.
How can anyone say character development was lost when it was everything?!
I hope the spin-off shows us Arya’s adventures in the West!
It's as if they took several of my favorite skiffy films of the past and threw 'em in a blender and got a decent result. Good casting certainly doesn't hurt. In just this pilot episode, they got the table set and the plot moving at full speed.
Slow but necessary episode. They could have
made it more emotional and intense though, it was pretty dry.
Best episode of the season so far. Good action and a fast pace.
Hopefully, the final episode will be the ultimate solution. :thumbsup_tone1:
That was some good stuff. Helen again wants to focus on the bigger issue and not on humiliating one family, Lindsay only on payback for his grudge against Walters. Then there's Helen and Dale splitting up, Dale hooking up with some guy while drunk, Helen with Charlie (which was kind of on the horizon, especially after they both looked quite disheveled when they were waiting if that article about Helen would see the light of day)... and Nolene realizing that she doesn't want to be a stay-at-home wife.
Honestly, I was cheering for Helen when she destroyed the tapes... but seriously confused when she ended up at Charlie's. Was all this just part of a bigger picture against News at 6? I think it's sad that Helen and Dale lost the ability to talk. I remember that talk they had at the end of season 1 when Helen had learned about Dale, there was mutual understanding and love. Somehow, in the year in-between they got comfortable, but they lost that connection. They've simply grown apart.
Let's see what happens from here.
Ah, the glorious turning point in the war against the Dominion. The entire plot is fantastic and mostly without fault, and this episode gets special mention for the beautiful beat down Damar finally receives.
7.5/10 (points deducted for Odo's continued... suffering) shudder
Solid season intro! It's right back into the story with a little action, a little exposition and even a little romance.
I'm living for every scene with Odo and Kira, their bond is the glue that still holds the station together. Totally agree with LHG about Bashir - with the reveal of his "enhancements", he's become more robotic in these latter seasons. More than Data and Seven have ever been, gosh, he's worse than Voyager's Doctor and it makes no sense, and I hate it.
Also, yes, about the Sisko family interactions, the actors are great and those scenes are always a delight to watch.
Weyoun and Dukat are a rock and hard place for everyone. I hate those consistently horrid characters SO much (the actors did a phenomenal job), it's great. :laughing:
8/10
I'd like to forget this episode exists, not because of the story, it has potential, the actors are all wonderful too, but as LHG said, it kind of falls apart near the end.
My biggest issue however, is with the terrible character betrayal of Odo. He would NEVER have done something like that, because he'd put his respect for Kira's wishes over his own feelings - as he always has... so wtf writers?!?!
Right, moving right along, it's like it never even happened.
It just baffles me this type of comments where people complain of the time jumps. It is not that hard to understand and the books did the same thing jumping every 50 years or so. Go along with the story, this is not about individuals or specific characters, this is about foundation and the story of this plan no one knew how could save the empire.
Great show with great production value and a script well written that delivers information in different ways without explaining everything to everybody.
It’s long in exposition but it’s still a fantastic creation.
Colonel Carter Count: 13/19 episodes this season. (You'd think I would have stopped doing this after Tapping stopped skipping weeks, but here we are one episode before the end of the season, still counting.)
It's too quick to add to IMDB trivia (they don't like "blink and you'll miss it" goofs), but one of the fast-scrolling data screens that Beckett & Keller look at has the typographical error "CHEMCIAL" in it.
Colonel Carter Count: 10/16 episodes this season—and this appearance's a doozy. Good to see that Joe Flanigan got some time off of his own this week after carrying almost all of last week's episode by himself (with help from several guest stars).
Despite the holes one could poke in the physics (the added occupants don't actually add that much weight to the room vs. the room's own empty weight—and they could just ditch the smashed crates and other useless junk out the red door if the extra weight really was such a problem) and the obvious "TV suspense" elements (literally every plan going wrong somehow, except for the one last-ditch effort that succeeds by the narrowest possible margin), this is still a really great episode for the three characters who occupy most of its screen time. Dr. Keller perhaps shows her interest in McKay too soon, before the relevant discussion happens, but still: nice character work.
Some follow-up with those silly kids would have been great, but I get why it didn't happen. It's not actually important.
For as awful as Ferengis can be, I love them so much. Ferengi episodes are some of my favorites, and the Rules of Acquisition always crack me up. Wallace Shawn does such a great job as the Grand Nagus. Sad that Quark let Pel get away, though! They could have had such a profitable future together...
Working at MIFT must be a dangerous profession as they seem to have lost a lot of employees according to Cutter.
Honestly, I am disappointed so far. They are showing everything I don't care for and nothing I am interested in. The launch at the end looks great. But seeing them screw around with girls and drinking all the time makes you wonder if those guys have The Right Stuff.
This episode parallels season 2, episode "the chase" they actually show that in the "previously" segment. If you are looking for thematic episodes skip this, but if you are into character inclined episodes, watch it. It is basically a reaffirmation for the new season, of a dynamic between Toph and Katara that is contentious, like water eroding away on earth.
Lost my shit at "Anyways Here's Wonderwall"
Am I the only one seeing Eli Vance and Alyx Vance from Half Life 2 in this Episode?. They are even working on a teleporting device, trying to recover him from subspace, just like happened to Gordon Freeman...
One of the funniest shows ever ;D
This was a GREAT episode. And I'm saying that because YES MY BOY IS BACK <3
