"we kept amethyst" HAHA i'm dying
The flow of this episode detracted from its dramatic effect. There were many good pieces in this episode, but their order and the editing of them reduced their impact. Naomi's rescue, the battle with the Rocinante, the battle at the gate, and the reunion with Avasarala, none of these hit with me the way they could've.
Firstly, the nice speech Avasarala gives during the reception would have been much better as the last scene of the episode. After the belters and Martians have taken over the ring, we would be concerned about the future, then Avasarala gives us hope.
The other development that didn't resonate with me was the dissolution of Drummer's team. I understand that they were torn between supporting Marcos and not, but that turmoil was caused by a threat of destruction, not a desire to work with Inaros. The ties between the crew were shown to be extremely strong, emotionally and otherwise. It should take an enormous conflict to break them. The crew knew that the agreement with Inaros was made under duress and so should have understood how fragile it was. The crew faced two options: cooperate with Inaros and do things they did not want to, or risk their lives and their family's lives by defying him. Both options would be reasonable and acceptable to the crew, and it doesn't resonate with me that the crew would be that upset by Drummer making the decision everyone thought she'd make in the first place. I could accept a decision by some of the crew to leave temporarily because their brother was killed, but to blame Drummer for this (and not Inaros) and completely break their bonds is a stretch given their relationship.
Ngl the biggest mystery for me this season has got to be Filip. More precisely, what the hell is going on inside his head?!
I can't read him. And I really wanted to know his side of the story. Like, is he all in with Marco's plan now? Or is he fed up with that manipulative asshole? Cause he was acting pretty weird in this episode. Is he on the fence about this whole thing, maybe because getting to see Naomi in person changed his perspective a bit?!
I loved Garnet before and now I even love her more. That show is damn perfect!
I can't believe Garnet was really two lesbians in a trench coat all along. What does this mean for the rest of the characters in the show? Are all the other characters smaller and gayer than we originally thought?
Holy shit. Well, that was quite the episode, arguably the best thing Supernatural has put out in a couple of seasons...
"Since when do we get what we deserve?"
All these years, I assumed that after the molotov thingy, Adam's soul went to Heaven. Call me an optimist but I liked to think the boys didn't save him because they knew it. I liked a good old "hey, they forgot Adam" joke, so I ran with that. However, he made me feel really sad for him. His last sentence, his face expressions and his eyes watering... Poor kid. I could feel how abandoned he feels and how his relationship with Michael was developed.
Jake Abel was the best part of the episode. Hats off to him! The duality between Michael and Adam was incredibly well portrayed. I'm so damn angry that we didn't get to see this any sooner. It was a bummer that he didn't stay at the end. I hope he comes back somehow. I'm pretty sure he'll be needed to lock God, Amara-style.
It's fun to see how your ideas about how Michael would be or act get subverted in just a second. After seeing Alternate Universe Michael being pretty smart but reckless, I wasn't expecting him to be such a chill guy. It's actually great to see a nice angel every once in a while. He's always been a strong angel, but pretty naive.
I geniuly loved how well he treated Adam and how he takes care of him, even protecting him. I truly loved their scene at the diner when Adam was talking about not being able to go to college anymore or just letting him eat a burger. Really nice angel our Michael.
I loved this version of Michael. He spent all those years in hell and he still manages to be the only well-adjusted brother. I loved how he just Men in Black those people at the diner. Also, the conversation between Adam and Michael while the former was trying to talk some sense I to him about the whole God thing was absolutely great.
Another one who steals the show is Donny. He's such a great addition to the show. His attitude and his one-liners always get me. Plus, his acting in this episode was great, especially when he was possessed by Chuck. I loved that scene, creepy and great at the same time. Even his cadence while speaking was Chuck-like. The way he channeled him was outstanding.
"What is it with you people?! Can't anything you do be easy?! I mean"
"Really? I have to leave? That's too bad" He proceeds to leave at the speed of light
"Excuse me. I need bourbon"
Our red-headed witch is back in the game and taking over Crowley's throne! I actually got mixed feelings when she was killed. I loved her send-off but I hated seeing her go because she's been a character which has grown on me and went from a villain into an ally. But seeing her again brought a smile to my face. And even in Hell, she's still fashionable as always. And classy: "Flesh on flesh sex. Amazon doesn't deliver here...yeeeet" and also how she counceled Dean and Cas, channeling what we're all thinking. "Boys...fix it!"
I cracked when Cas asked Michael whether he remembered him and he replied "You called me assbutt and set me on fire". Those words from Swan Song will never get old.
Also, Richard Speigh Jr, once again, did an amazing job. The camera angle on the boys when they trapped MI hael was outstanding.
Unrelated to this, there's always one thing that gets me and that I don't think I'll ever be over and that's Sam's throat clearing when he's nervous. It gets me every time.
I don't get how the boys haven't updated the bunker's warning. Literally every cresture can step into. Amara, Chuck, Death, Asmodeus, every single one of them just waltzed into the bunker like it's nothing. And the boys still get surprised.
Speaking of Chuck. It was obvious the whole Sue was a trap and that Chuck was behind it. I remember the old Chuck, an awkward but cute guy, and now he's just scary dude appearing in parking lots. I hope nothing bad happens to Eileen, though. I guess hell just use Sam and show him his endings, or just try to heal his wound.
Overall, and amazing episode. Best one so far and Jake Abel had a great part on it. I hope I'll see again in more episodes. I'd be great to see all the archangels joining forces, along with aunty Amara, to lock Chuck in the cage. There were a couple of things that were off, like the classic rock music, which has been off ever since this season started, or that they're still trying to make Dean look like an idiot. But overall, finally a story-packed episode that promises a lot for next ones.
How...did Dean get there so quickly? Were Sam and Jack just staring in awe for half an hour till he showed up?
Dean with the dog was cute, but let's be honest, who didn't see that coming?
So, we have both Lucifer and Michael back in the picture. I'm thinking each uses their perfect vessel to team up against God?
Wow. How convenient that Lucifer managed to find and capture a reaper. After we had been told that there are no more reapers. Sigh
So, Lucifer shows up for five minutes and then gets killed with his only purpose in the entire episode being to make a reaper who shouldn't exist become Death, kill said reaper, and keep the book open for the boys to later read. Second sigh
So, only AFTER Castiel and Jack sacrifice themselves do Sam and Dean carve their names into the table? Eyeroll
Um. What? So, what the hell is the final episode going to be about?? What, is it just going to be some reboot or spinoff setup or something? Even if this were the finale, it still wouldn't have been satisfying. This was kind of rushed and so simplistic that it should have been at least two episodes so that it didn't feel absurdly easy and lacking in weight to finally beat Chuck. But then again, Supernatural has always had a history of underwhelmingly and anticlimactically ending big baddies...
Signed:
~SophieFilo16~
One of the worst finales to a series. All character arcs, build ups and growth abandoned so the brothers can regress to their season 1 self. Sam never mentions Eileen and Dean never talks about the circumstances of Cas's death. Other characters? Who are they? Only Sam and Dean make up this show. Family DOES end in blood.
This was just such an unnecessary episode. Leaving it at ep 19 would have been acceptable, instead they conjured up a quasi happily ever after that they pulled out of their ass. Leaving more questions then a wrap up should.
No reference to the reappearance of the people they “cared” about, not even a phone call? What killed dean? They couldn’t go to the hospital? Jack brought everyone back but not Cass? Wait cass is back just dgaf about them anymore? Is Sam with Eileen or some rando? No check in to see how old god is going. Not catch up with jack, is he alone now he’s god or what? No reunion of the whole family
Plus we’ve seen the long teary speech between brothers and drive in a car a thousand times before so don’t tell me they just ran out of time to show it all.
Like a lifetime movie all emotion no substance nor sensical to the story line.
OK, to be honest, I have mixed feelings. It wasn't all that bad - as Dean said, you knew this was always how it's going to end. And it really should, this is Supernatural not some rom com..
Well actually it was a com in some episodes, which I really loved. Trickster, the one Dean was afraid of everything, Scooby!!
But back to the ending, I liked the fact that they finally managed to create a heaven they deserved, and at this point, after all the times we've seen the brothers die, dying felt more like a choice. So yes, I was expecting this end for both of them.
The only thing I'm wondering about is how much effect COVID-19 had on the last episodes. We see very few of the cast, when the perfect wrap up would be to bring almost everyone together (at least the big ones) for a proper farewell. I would really like the last episode reshot, not to change anything on the way it ends, but to involve more loved characters in it. Also the acting could have been better.
I really loved the actors' thank you in the end and the "Carry on" song was very heartwarming throughout the episode.
Thank you Supernatural for all these years, you will always have a special place in my memories
P. S. Was it a pwn that Dean loved to drive the "Impala" and ended up being "Impaled" :)
I wonder what Troy wrote her.
[9.0/10] There’s so much to talk about in this one. X-Men’s Quicksilver as Avengers Quicksilver! Bulletproof hotpants! 1980s TV spoofs! Scarlet Witch’s stand-off with Sword!
But here’s the thing that stands out to me, the thing that grabbed me the most while watching this “Very Special Episode” -- Vision confronting the woman he loves over what’s happening. That moment has extra oomph because of the effects. There’s something eerie about the two of them arguing over the end credits until they stop. There’s something scary about the two of them rising into the air at the same time they raise their voices to one another.
What stands out about it, though, is the emotional rawness in the moment. Vision isn’t just upset; he’s worried that he can no longer trust his wife, that she’s done something terrible to him, to everyone, and doing everything in her power to keep it from him. Wanda is trying to hold it together, feeling just as vulnerable and admitting she’s not even sure how this started. They are both just so messed up by what’s happening, so riven by it, but in ways that drive them apart over whether to tear this all down or do everything they can to continue propping it up.
The tenor of the scene is familiar to anyone who’s spoken with a loved one who’s unwell, who is not themselves, whether through grief or mental illness or some other trauma that jeopardizes their ability to process the world as it is. There’s an honesty to that scene, one that is frankly startling, and it’s the kind of place I never really expected an MCU project to go. It’s draped in reality-distorting fiction and the trappings of family sitcoms, but somehow that just makes it all the more disturbing and poignant when the truth of those moments bursts through those bracing layers of abstraction.
That’s bolstered by the second most stunning revelation of “On a Very Special Episode” -- that Wanda stole Vision’s corpse from Sword. More to the point, that he left a living will and wished never to be revived, not wanting to be anyone’s weapon. It’s plain that Wanda, either by herself or with the help of someone else, revivified him, and that he’s starting to reckon with the margins of what happened to him, if not the full picture.
He’s starting to see through the illusions and deceptions that Westview is made of. Again, the show does so well making the moments where it breaks the sitcom rhythms unnerving. Agnes’s “should I take it from the top” bit is eerie, and for once, Vision has a chance to realize it before Wanda resets things. Instead, she tries to play it off, tries to distract him with puppies and doorbells ringing and other head-fakes that Vision’s nevertheless noticing.
It comes through in the odd behavior of his coworkers, who respond to a Sword email by reading and laughing in unison. Vision briefly frees Norm, who is understandably frantic and undone and, most importantly, in pain over what’s being done to him. The secret truth of WandaVision is that it’s not a comedy show or sitcom homage or a superhero series. It’s a horror show, and Vision’s starting to realize that. He’s realizing that everything is wrong here, starting with him, what he can and can’t remember, and the mother of his children.
Meanwhile, there’s some more traditional but still cool developments on the outside. Monica Rambeau, Jimmy Woo, and Darcy Lewis are trying to save Wanda, trying to show her compassion despite what’s happening, while Sword Director Hayward thinks she’s just a terrorist who needs to be taken out. Meanwhile, our trio of familiar characters are finding solutions to the problem, realizing that 1980s tech can penetrate the Hex without being transformed by Scarlet Witch’s powers.
Of course, it doesn’t go unnoticed by Wanda, and she storms out of the Hex to threaten Heyward and everyone else when, unbeknownst to Monica, he tries to use their drone to eliminate her. It’s a scary moment, one only slightly cut by Elizabeth Olsen reverting to her dodgy Eastern European accent. We see definitively that Wanda has at least some control and awareness of her surroundings and what’s happening, enough to want to protect it from interlopers and those intruding on her surroundings.
It’s become increasingly clear why she’s so protective of her perfect bubble of happiness and what she is running from -- grief. The show channels that idea through 1980s sitcom pastiches in an amusing fashion, with Agnes as the friendly, albeit intrusive neighbor, kids growing up too fast, and dogs dying so that parents can give an important lesson about making peace with certain facts of life.
At the root of it, though, is a deep sense of loss and the artifacts of reckoning with death, something difficult whether you’re a child or an adult. Wanda says to her boys, and to herself, that she cannot reverse death, that they cannot turn away from it, because some things aren’t meant to be elided and some lines shouldn’t be crossed.
We confirm that she has brought the corpse of the man she loves back to life, presumably because she couldn’t deal with his absence and the tragedy of what happened to him. The commercial break this episode name-checks Lagos, the Nigerian city from Civil War where Scarlet Witch accidentally killed dozens of civilians when trying to redirect a blast, more mess than any paper towel could clean up. And she reflects, at her sons’ urging, on the loss of her own twin, Pietro, the only lifeline she had when she lost her parents at the same tender age Billy and Tommy are now.
So she does what she’s already done -- she brings him back, after a fashion. It’s an inspired bit of stunt-casting to bring in Evan Peters to quasi-reprise his role as Quicksilver. But beyond the jolt of the misdirect and reveal is a simple truth, that this whole thing is wrong. It is a coping mechanism, one meant to shield Wanda from yet another horrid demise marring her personal history.
So she, or some other force working with and through her, has constructed this place to evade that destabilizing realization. Vision is breaking out of it, shaking off the cobwebs of his violative rebirth and seeing through the comforting lies that Wanda is straining so hard to hold onto. It is difficult, hollowing, wounding to watch someone you care for undone by grief and trauma, dragging the world down with them. So much of what WandaVision does is clever or exciting or amusing. But what it does here is disquieting beyond words, and deeply, painfully true.
PSA: hold ON through the credits there are TWO post-credit scenes
Ru made the exact call she should have. That was the least entertaining lip sync on the show.
She had to leave she wasn't funny at all
What the heck?! Give me back season 6's queens! These people ain't no queens, seriously!
And also, not putting the queen with the black bra on elimination, seems like a move to make more trouble in the work room, but if there is a thing that Ru hates more than an old drag who can't do drag let me know down here; he's really always sending home old bitches first.
i don't like these queens, this challenge was awkward for a first challenge and i'll miss santino, but let's go. party.
HOW did trixie GO HOME and PEARL stayed??? trixie nailed the lipsync and had more to show than pearl. pearl's only pretty. but whatever. i'm done with this season.
i actually ended up discovering today who won this season and... everytime i see her i think "oh no, HOW did she win??"
this season will be my least favorite, i know it. never wanna watch again.
Worst season so far, I feel like Pearl: bored to death. Seriously, what the hell is going on here?
Arrax fucked around and subsequently he found out
Dare I say it, I think this is by far the best batch of finalists of Rupaul's Drag Race. They were all fantastic and, really, it was anyone's game. Very happy about the winner though! She slayed all throughout, especially considering that she never seemed overconfident about her performances.
I don't know... the challenge is called "evil twin" and the judges are complaining that some costumes are too similar looking. There was nothing twin-like about most of the concepts, except for Kameron's and Eureka's. I get that Kameron's outfits were more Halloween than drag, but I think she nailed the idea. Don't name the challenge "evil twin" if you don't want a good vs evil iteration of the same outfit!
Ru. What the fuck.
Too much emotional/trauma porn condensed in 1 hour, horrible reunion.
"Why didn't you burn his body with the others in the fuselage?"
"Because the writers needed it to be accessible now."
Always thought this episode was kind of dumb. I understand not telling Sawyer anything, but if Kate had just told Jack that there was a memento of hers inside, that would've avoided all of the conflict. But, no, gotta drum up some drama over nothing. Also, Sawyer had literally handed the case to her at first, but she passed it off in an attempt to make it seem unimportant. That was stupid as hell.
The idea of an unpickable lock is kind of funny, after watching a bunch of LockpickingLawyer videos. Although it would indeed be difficult with the supplies on hand.
Watching through Lost again after so many years. The time takes nothing away from it. This episode starts the culmination of the season and seeing how far they've all come and how close they've grown... Its so powerful. Still brings tears to my eyes. Beautiful show.
I guess this is supposed to be stage play sort of episode, one with tour-de-force performances if you will. While many important things are said, it just didn't work for me.
From the get go, I am hung up on the premise, that Carol (HR) would mandate employees to answer team player personality questionnaires, categorizing them into an animal no less.
Going back to important things, Jo disrespecting Brad was disappointing. I was hoping for Jo to be more multifaceted. While Brad was always fun to watch, he has emerged as the most interesting character this season. Sarcasm and greed aside, Brad is the protector of Mythic Quest franchise. It's rather disconcerting that Jo wasn't able to connect the dots.
Ian and Poppy was even more disconcerting. His final reaction to Poppy was so uncharacteristic that I thought he was being sarcastic.
I loved David as the wolf though.
PS: I enjoyed your use of backstory.
This is a beautiful standalone short film inside a sitcom, about a 20th century narcissist who dreams of writing stories for 21st century MMOs.
That's a sentence I never thought I'd write.
