The only thing I didn't like about this episode was that Bill died, meaning we didn't get to see him interact with Ellie, which was a wonderful part of the original game.
Aside from that, this episode is near faultless. It's the most original thing the show has done so far, by taking a side character from the game and fleshing out his backstory. It's deep, it's emotional, and it's a joy to watch.
Anyone complaining about wokeness and forced LGBT content has no clue what they're talking about. Bill and Frank were always a couple, even in the game. It's just that we didn't meet Frank in the game because he was already gone. Literally the only part of any of this episode that is not faithful to the source material is the fact that Bill died before Joel and Ellie got there.
Still struggling to care about this one. Also a whole room of gods couldn't see what Arthur was really up to? Instead they were talked out of it by him saying that Khonshu's host had 'issues'. Bit wishy washy imo.
Why didn't they send the replicas to space? They can't make another of the same replica, but somehow you can use someone elses if you use their tag? Conceptually flawed and predictable.
Don't know where the high ratings come from. This show is not good. It's slow, empty, cliché and totally not "cool" or "tough". Luke Cage was the only show that was nice to watch. Probably something to do with the American cliché of having the worst life, drinking alcohol to drown in your sorrows and having had loss (which we all have in our lives). Being able to relate doesn't make this a good show. Hoped for a surprise, but it's nothing special and even a bit bad..
"Hey Siri, Call 911" Boom. Problem solved.
Season 2, in my opinion, was just a little bit too much of everything. Too many twists, too many side storied, too much violence. On the other hand it lacked in mystigue. The implied story of the evolution of an AI into independence degenerates into the old story of the search for immortality. With the upper echelon having the upper hand because of their money. As for the violence in this season: I don't think it was nessessary. In S1 the violence shown by the guests towards the hosts made sense to underline that human thought of them as toys, as a lower form of existence. After all, a host can't die so what do we care. Now it seems violence is just there to be there, everything has to be bloody. And we have a load of muscle packed, stupid security that gets shot down at every instance.
While watching further and further I wondered how this could ever generate into a third season. To be honest I am totally fine if the ending of this season beeing the end of the show. A kind of open ending where you can let your imagination fill in the rest. We know that a third season is already confirmed and the post credit scene of the final episode layed the foundation. But I am not sure it would be a direction that interests me.
Trish is getting kind of annoying.
For now (and it hurts me to say this), Moon Knight is the worst Marvel's tv show (Inhumans does not count)
Woof. This was pretty awful. Basically every scene where Jessica and Luke talked to each other in this episode made me want to put my face in my hands. It was painfully overwrought, with soap opera level dialogue and acting through most of their quieter moments. The close ups of their hands, whether it's passing along money, or a handshake, or wrapped around his waist on a motorcycle ride, were cheesy as hell. Everything was just laid on way too thick.
Plus the whole Antoine thing felt like it was a leftover plot from Burn Notice, replete with the generic loan shark guy who gets outsmarted and beat up. I just can't take the guy they have playing Luke Cage. Maybe it's the writing, but he's just so milquetoast and bland. He comes alive a little bit at the end of the episode, but his lines are just so cornball ("Out of time." "I was wrong, you are a piece of shit") that I can't take it seriously. The Jessica-Luke stuff was the meat of the episode, and it was really really rough sledding, both in terms of the writing and the performances.
The only thing keeping the thing from being a complete dud were the two minor sidestories in the episode. Hope being pregnant and wanting to get rid of anything Kilgrave left her is a really interesting angle. The fact that Hogarth is trying to study Kilgrave and figure out if his power can be replicated is another interesting twist to the story, which they foreshadowed a bit earlier. At the same time, Kilgrave wanting to get something without commanding it (bolstered by his poker game) is a very interesting avenue to take the character. I can't help remembering Lisa's admonition to Homer in the Stonecutter episode of The Simpsons that getting everything you want all the time would leave you joyless, and I think that's a cool tack to take with a character who, in a short time, has already become one of Marvel's most intriguing villains.
But yeah, this is easily the worst episode of the season by a significant margin. While I still like the plotting, and the concept of Jessica admitting it was her who killed Luke's wife when she thinks the bus driver is going to be killed over it, the execution is so ripped from a bad action movie that what should be a huge moment in the series had next to no impact. This episode should have gone to a different writer and director. Again, woof.
(Edit: Holy crap! I just looked up the director on IMDb, and he directed a bunch of episodes of Burn Notice! No wonder!)
What a lame episode. If Trish is going to be like this for all season it's going to get hard to follow through it.
The response to this movie makes zero sense to me. Most people liked the first one and they think this one is better, while I thought the first one was mediocre and this one is even worse.
They really got away with making the exact same movie again. No glance into an urban city, or more info about the aliens, no explanation why Lee and Evelyn decide to have a replacement baby in a world where you have to be quiet. There was nothing further explored plot or character wise. Just more slow walking through New York, characters acting impulsively and making dumb decisions that constantly put them in danger but that doesn't matter because they got huge amounts of plot armor. They added 'evil' people for no reason. No explanation, at all! Why was the message on the radio some cryptic code? The aliens can't speak English.
Scary monster screams very loud, has beyond hypersensitive hearing, and kills people out of shot, and it just takes a 13 year old girl to find out that maybe a high pitched sound could possibly defeat the aliens. The parallel editing was obnoxious. Like, we get it! They don't have to do that for the entire second half of the film.
Maybe in the third and fourth movies, that will get green lit, they can cut the closeups of feet or brooding eyes and pull together their fictional universe into a coherent, functioning world.
I honestly find all the romantic/ecchi scenes disgusting quite frankly. They should just give up on that bullshit, the MC is like 37 years old or something, like.. comon bruh..
Although that bothers the shit out of me, I still find the story, the fight scenes and the scenery very enjoyable.
Would I recommend it? yup
Not really my kind of movie. I can see why some people would love it.
"I can't stay depressed forever."
Not quite how that works.
Agree with all the comments posted already. Season 1 was great but season 2 just draaaaaaaaaaaags on and on. The endless flashbacks coupled with the dreary and overly long 'deep and meaningful' monologues trotted out by the lead characters at every opportunity (and way too often) just make this a season I wish I hadn't bothered with. It was bad enough after the first couple of episodes but I persevered with it hoping it would improve, it didn't. Each episode could easily have been 30 minutes shorter (and would still likely be too long and boring). Episode 8 was by far the most boring, I dread a new character being introduced, you just know your'e gonna get 1-2 hours devoted to their back-story at some stage! It's as if this season moved away from the rather interesting theme of season one to probing in at greaaaaaaaat length and in minute (and boring as hell) detail of what's in the 'mind' of these robots. Won't be venturing into season 3 that's for sure; a season to be endured rather than enjoyed.
Not as good as previous specials, shame about all the woke stuff catering to the out of touch.
How did those looking after Jugo survive that long taking care of him without knowing he was a man-eater?
I wonder how long they're gonna milk the Captain America association... And yeah, I get that he was a direct part of the main character's story and whatnot, I just feel like being "that guy" for some reason. Maybe I'm a bit bitter Marvel can't share any Avengers with their tv counterparts, in this case it could have worked as a flashback or something.
In all honesty I really want to like this. I'm crazy about MCU and I suffered through Incredible Hulk, Iron Man 2 and the first season of AoS because I'm dedicated dammit, but it's like the worst for me when I can't relate to any of the characters. And this is exactly my problem with AC. The inevitable stereotypes and sexism of that time don't help too, that's for sure. And seeing a character that is supposedly breaks the notion of a stereotypical female use her "womanly wiles" or "female problems" to get her way, or running on hills (what sane person even wears those calve-breaking ridiculous things?) is kind of disappointing. That being said, I understand the concept of getting things done by whatever means necessary or more like with the help of your best weapon at hand, I just don't particularly want to see that on screen. Too overly utilised and beaten to death behaviour. It just makes Carter appear as a female agent, not just agent, and there should be no gender in that kind of job. In the circumstances they've put her in the pilot what she did was indeed the best way to handle things, but no one actually had to put her in those particular circumstances in the first place. Okay, this is getting overly long, and it's not like anyone's gonna read it anyway. I'm just annoyed I can't get into another part of a great universe. I'll give this show a second shot though and watch another episode. But either way, I don't think it will lose a lot by not getting me as a fan, so.
The information for this season is incorrect. "Membership Drive" is actually episode 7, making all other episodes off by 1. Episode 6 was never aired. And then "Enter the Dragons (2)" is listed twice.
Refreshing. British humour at its finest.
How could the footprint only belong to Tokio? They all wear the same shoes.
The thumbnail of this episode isn't from this anime, the anime drawing isn't like this, i think it's from moshoku tensei
Pretty good BMW iX3 advert
Does anyone know why they didn't just resurrect Tom into the avatar body the same way they resurrected Miles.
Also very funny how they can swim for minutes underwater but not if there's fire on the surface.
A reference to balloonshop 4:30!? I thought I recognised Olan.
Horribily realistic. From vocal mannerisms to body language, Hopkins' performance breaches reality all too convincingly.
An extremely uncomfortable watch for those who can unfortunately relate.
The metaverse realised. But who really has time to read all the T&Cs.
You learned what the cards' suits mean so maybe think about it for a bit before jumping onto the first conclusion someone makes! I don't know all the tiny plot inconsistency/holes makes It feels like all the characters are a bit dumb and I don't find myself rooting for them. Also the insta-bond between people is crazy everyone is like I just met you and this is crazy but live on for your wife and child who I have never met maybe
I hated this movie, not because of what it represents, but because the jokes were not funny at all, and the scenes that were supposed to be emotional didn't make sense because the characters were so bland and so I couldn't get attached to them at all.
Also, I loved Taika Waititi's scene in The Suicide Squad but he does a really terrible performance as Hitler. This movie tries too many times to be both serious and funny and I think that is why I couldn't enjoy it. I don't usually give a 1/10 to a movie, especially when it has such a good IMDb score, but this is the exception.
Also, it is very stupid that every time someone dares to post a negative review about this movie, they get attacked and downvoted to oblivion. Comedy is subjective, this is also why there are a lot of people who don't like movies like Monty Python and the Holy Grail. The fans of Jojo Rabbit kind of remind me of the toxic fanbase of Rick and Morty who will always tell you that if you don't understand the jokes, it's because you have a low IQ.
And, the thing is that I knew just 20 minutes in that I hated this movie but because of all the hype, I forced myself to finish it, and I never should have done that because it was a complete waste of time. From now on, if a movie doesn't hold my attention enough for the first 20-30 minutes, I'll just move onto the next one. I could have been watching way better stuff during that time instead of this garbage.
Didn’t laugh once.
No idea why this is rated so highly. It’s just crap.
No further analysis needed.
3/10 at best.
