can't wait for season two to start!
This episode was a masterpiece. I love how the machine runs simulations. I love Finch's lesson about "anyone who treats life like a game of chess deserves to lose". I loved the simplified dialogue. I love both kisses. Fusko/Root for whimsy, and Shaw/Root because finally.
But I don't want to see Shaw go. She feels integral to everything. Apparently the actress Sarah Shahi is pregnant so this is the way they deal with that, but that means she is going to be jobless in a year or two, and we never saw the dead body. No body, no death. She got shot a lot but we have seen everyone else come back from worse. It took a grenade in the face to kill Reese in the simulation. So she'll be back. Calling it now.
You did it "The 100", you did it.
You left us last week with a bait-and-switch bisexuality storyline that possibly and probably hinted towards actual dynamical characterization, only to have those hopes dashed and smashed and scattered to the winds, and then you pulled an almost complete 180 to make everything meaningful and interesting again.
How many times will I continue to fall for this?
Infinitely, if not 100, at least, I'd pre-suppose.
So, last week was basically the worst possible episode imaginable. Everything that was built-up and worked towards was all but obliterated with random acts of blindness as each and every character seemed to forget all notions of sanity and reason, leaving everything at face value.
We even learn that allllllll the bone marrow transplant army mountain dudes, except the crazy Son King under the Mountain and his right-hand generic brutish white-dude-stooge were killed in Clarke's Gambit... which honestly just made it more incoherent as to why Lexa surrendered.
Personally, I'm starting to question the saliency of the feminism in this racistly-depicted matriarchal warrior society, and perhaps Lexa's appointment is a post-apocalyptical role of blame funneling.
In a society of warriors, you can have a small, fancy lady queen, so long as we can all blame her for all our problems.
Point-in-fact, the PCP super-heroin drugging that generates the "Reapers". It's a persistence of the "Mountain Men" society of war-ready American (or, AMERICAN) descendents objectifying the external, the others in society, to be their blood property, while also building a subset of warrior-warring people-pets who maintain the "order" and delineation.
Perhaps -- as is most explicable and rational in the face of the irrationality of events -- Lexa's surrender was an ingrained notion of inferiority to the "Mountain Men", which Clarke entirely failed to recognize.
This, I could understand. It'd be deeply horrifying, but it'd be far more understandable.
And as this episode showed in a near-completely brutalistic manner, Clarke jumps to action out of worry, even without rationale or reason. Not only did she save (some of) her people, but she ended-up doing exactly what she wanted to prevent ... she painfully and horrifically obliterated the "Mountain Men", women, and children. She even all-but-line-of-sight-directly killed Jasper's girlfriend, who spent the last 12 episodes consistently saving and supporting every single one of Clarke's people ... even sacrificing her own friends and family for the righteousness of the cause of anti-blood-slavery.
Yet, what is just soooooo infuriating, but weirdly so exemplified, is this persistent delusion of exclusion that Clarke has for her nearest and dearest.
Finn objectively went entirely insane. He had a Nazi-ish massacre of a couple dozen of people under his belt, all based on noticing Clarke's dad's watch. A flimsier rationale could not be designed. Especially not for everything that happened, with Finn's twelve dozen "oops! my finger slipped" insane and persistent reactions as he kept gunning-down person after person, for absolutely and entirely no reason. And then it took three episodes for Clarke to finally mercy-kill him to spare him from a public flaying (a.k.a., a fully conscious separation of his body from his skin).
The frustration is consistently in the pacing and tone. There is absolutely no distinction between the rampaging idiotic murder of dozens of "Grounders", and the absolutely, entirely boring courtship of emotional reticence between Raven and Engineer McGentleman Scruff, Esq..
Clarke will kill a dad to revenge against -- not even coerce, just fully and irrationally and irreconcilably pre-revenge -- a son, then subject dozens of ostensibly innocent men, women, and children to excruciating and inescapable radiation poisoning, and then apparently reconnect with the mother who sent her to prison and orchestrated her own husband's murder for political maintenance, in the span of all but 20 seconds.
I mean ... hormones and the moon are real things, but like, come on, you guys. Seriously, I mean, come on. Is anyone really this entirely cynical and callous and unstable?!
I mean, even I am entirely subservient to blessed Selenic Sovereign ... but come on ... take a beat. Have a thought. Think about what you're doing, for like, I dunno, 3 seconds, instead of 1. Let's start there at least and see how it feels.
You are literally living in a post-nuclear society ... let's not consistently revert to the nuclear option ... no matter how much we miss our mum.
I, too, would enjoy a hug now and then, particularly in the most trying of times ... but you get a pillow or two, you squeeze 'em and put one between your legs, and you go to sleep and see how you feel in the morning.
Doesn't that sound far more manageable and tolerable than the latest mass-murder of the moment?
Cra'y cra'y, for days.
Anyways, of course Jaha then like tosses dudes to the "Tremors"/"Dune" lake leeches so he and Murphy can follow the drone to the island of lost dreams, where it turns out that there is a playboy bachelor billionaire lighthouse ... fuck you, "The 100", for exploiting my weakness!!!
Ugh, ok, I guess now I have to tolerate this story, though of course I can help but be bored with the stupidity that is a semi-sentient fancy-lady-hologram AI who speaks in abstract illuminati riddles and wants to continue to build this story as a pre-cursor to "The Matrix".
I mean ... sure, technically there's nothing else like this on TV, but also, novelty is not intellect nor entertainment, inherently.
I do like to contend though that Jaha suffered massive oxygen deprivation in his last few hours on the space station, and that explains why he's behaving like he is, because he is quite literally -- and non-mockingly -- brain-damaged. That would just be so wonderful, and would really clear a lot of things up, in terms of characterization.
And that's the thing, "The 100", you got me, I'll watch you next season, I will, and I would even, with much trepidation, recommend you to others to watch. You are definitely no "Hawaii Five-0", but you are assuredly some kind of deformed subversion.
Your pacing is horrific, your tone is consistently insane, and your narrative is like "What if only cynical, idiotic assholes survived the nuclear annihilation of humanity ... what would they do if we stick them all in the same room?".
Not to smash a tofu (vegan for "beat a dead horse"), but It's the nuclear fallout and only 2/3rds of the characters in your show are familiar with CPR and basic First Aid. Reflect on "Donnie Darko" for a hot second and revel in the insanity of "The Knick", antiseptics revolutionized modern society. The 1899 may have well been the middle ages, if not Ancient Egypt (-2999) compared to 1999, because of the societal and technological and medical advances. Never have we ever experienced such revolution to the fabric of our basic cultural and societal reality besides the notions of portable food storage (anti-spoilage) and persistent anti-bacterials.
Focus on that you sexy teen adults. I mean, come on. Have a conversation ... once. Just once. Please.
I love that the dude from "Lost"/"Scandal" is the very first person in the very last possible moment to suggest bone marrow donations. Like, you just went through some insane wars and murders and crazy power struggles, and no one ever thought to just have a fucking blood drive, instead of some kind of ghettoized Reganomic CIA insane doping regimen of creating cannabilistic soldier pets to harvest and dispose of these sanguine people-shaped sacks clambering all around the place.
Insane.
But I'll keeping watching.
So insane.
There are two things that bugged me in this episode:
Rose, the actor for Liv, seems to have issues staying serious while acting. You see her smiling several times when she says her lines and it gets cut shortly after. At minute 3, when she turns back to the corpse for example.
Or the significant amount of scenes where she generally seems too lively. This was the opposite in episode 1. While there she said at the end she can step her game up, she's still undead. Even if she eats the brain of an artist who's upbeat and she behaved like that even before she did.
The second thing is the zombie make-up. From scene to scene it sometimes looks very unevenly applied, especially around the eyes and you can see it when Liv raises her eyebrows.
Other than that I loved it. The "lesson" at the end was great. The chemistry between Ravi and Liv felt much more natural. The introduction of the second zombie was better than I expected.
But I must admit, that I do understand if people don't like this show. It's - at least so far - nowhere near an action/suspense driven show, it seems to be one of those lesson at the end of each episode type of shows. These tend to be less good received overall.
This episode gets bonus points for a female character being protective of a male character as well as the male objectification through a female without any kind of specific buildup or social comment on it as if it is natural. Something that is usually not done in our oh so equality centered society/media but frowned upon when it is vice versa.
Fisk is one of the best villains I have seen in a long time. They seriously nailed it.
I have to say, from season to season I find myself liking felicity less and less. She is so one dimensional...
Basically....
Liv eats the brain of a man that's a hacker/internet troll.The brain is rather old,about one or two weeks ,her vision gets blurry occasionally because of this.
She starts playing a fantasy game on his computer and starts to eat and drink a lot of junk food.
Liv has her first kind of date with Lowell or drop-by as Lowell expressed it.Lowell tries to kiss her,she ducks,it gets awkward and he leaves.Lowell can no longer play at shows(he's a musician)because he gets all ''full-on-zombie mode'' so he only plays in the studio.Then at the very end of the episode they kiss outside the studio.
Blaine kills Jackie(at least that's what it looked like.Most likely she's dead.).
Liv finds out about Blaine's shady business,at least some part of it.
Opinions....
I thought this episode was interesting.It was cool to see her eat rotten brains and what the effects of doing so was.
Agreed, outstanding episodes, I love the ones that are almost all about psychology. Between the lasting psychological effects of this episode and last week's episode with the issues with Hotch's father in law, so near the end of the season, I suspect this season's cliffhanger finale will be Hotch considering retiring from the BAU.
This was probably one of the best episodes this show has had in a LONG time. I'll even go out on a limb and say that it might be one of the best the show has ever done. The entire time I was on the edge of my seat and it completely freaked me out. It goes to prove you don't always need a ton of blood and gore to have a successful scary story. Cheers to MGG for another fantastic directing job!
Is it just me or this is getting really boring?
Is it surprising that an episode without Fish Mooney is one of the better episodes?
This is the kind of series that can be awesome with a good writers but sadly sucks cause a terrible writing
Malcolm: And no offense none of you are particularly good actors.
Tell me that was not funny :-P
I can't stress enough how much I personally enjoy this series. Bonus points for the 30 Rock and Fight Club references.
One of the best episodes up to now.
That cliffhanger is really neat. Can't wait for the next episode. As usual.
Especially considering the vision may suggest that Lowell knows something about that abducting children thingy that's going on as he must have eaten brain of some of them already.
Matt could use his eyes 'till he was 9 years old. The movie Top Gun was released in 1986. ;)
The series start very well developing the characters but the last episodes really bring the awesome factor to the show. Vicent D'Onofrio playing Fisk is absolutely brilliant, what a performance. Great season. Can't wait for more.
One of the best New Girl episodes ever. Filled with heart and some laughs. Loved the crepe flip scene -- I wonder how many times it took to get that shot. :)
This is one of the best episodes I've seen in awhile, great ending :)
F...., never been so angry for an episode ending before now..... (Read the book)
If Eddie killing himself erases RevFlash from the timeline, then who went back in time and killed Barry's mum? Who rigged the particle accelerator to explode and make the Flash? What put Eddie in the position that he felt he had to kill himself just then? Cisco, you're Vibe now. Explain this with movie references, because it does not make sense.
I like how they're trying to make the Sand Snakes more interesting (Rosabell Laurenti Sellers cof* cof*). Cersei, you´re almost there, walk the walk Queen Mother!
the best episode i've ever seen
I loved it!
It's not Firefly, and budget restrictions do take its toll in every aspect, but it still ticks all the boxes I want in the genre, with the potential to grow and become something spectacular.
Yes, the crew needs to gel, the writing has to get clever and the fresh actors need to learn how to deliver. But that's just how it is these days. A new show rarely starts off "perfect".
I had moments of utter joy whilst watching the pilot, and that's enough for me
It is the best episode i have seen in a very long time. As good as Dexter and Breaking bad
Okay, this show has been Fight Clubbing for a while now. Disillusioned protagonist tries to take down global financial industry through his schizophrenic alter-ego? But the end scene, where they just start playing The Pixie's Where Is My Mind? There's homage, and there's just straight up copying. This show is great, but it is seeming more like a gritty, modern reboot of Fight Club rather that its own thing.
Wish I could rate this an 11. I need to go back and rate every other episode of other shows down one.
Another 5 minutes of this and I'm gonna be mad! It's not my fault this is happening!
I am really tired of drone episodes. That being said, I liked this episode much more than the pilot. Jane is still kinda whiny and constantly repeats "But I don't know who I am", but she felt a little bit more real this episode. If Jane really is Taylor, then they would have uncovered more in the first two episodes than all of season 1 The Blacklist or Lost. I love that the mystery is slowly being revealed right from the get-go.
The secondary characters (other agents) are taking a larger role - I hope that this continues. Series are always better when secondary characters are distinct and well-thought out. Anyways, I look forward to next weeks.
Calling it now, for the season finale, he discovers he's been taking placebos this whole time...
