Wish I could rate this an 11. I need to go back and rate every other episode of other shows down one.
This is a horror movie.
Gets better after the pilot but best thing about the show so far: the soundtrack.
The Imitation Game was a fairly typical and good biopic, even if it did stray a lot from the reality of the events. Turing definitely wasn't the lone wolf who single-handedly cracked Enigma he's portrayed as being, and was in fact supported by thousands of people, with many playing integral roles that don't even get mentioned in the movie. Most of the dramatic conflicts in the movie are just completely made up, with the real Turing being well-liked by his colleagues, not being so in the closet, not having issues with his superiors, never being threatened with getting fired, having entirely different bookends to his relationship with his fiancee and a far less "simple" end to his life. In fact, Joan Clarke never experienced such pressure from her parents and women in Bletchley Park outnumbered men four to one, so a major part of her role was practically fiction and just "hurr, women had it so tough back then" which, while it was indeed the case, isn't something that this particular story should be representing.
Of course, this is a dramatic movie so it does make sense to have some artistic liberties taken but at this point the entire movie's "based on a true story" only so far as its plot synopsis is accurate. In adapting it to a movie, there were also a number of unconvincing contrivances and convenient coincidences to move the plot along, with your typical chance happening causing a eureka moment, as well as entirely downplaying his homosexuality, presumably to appeal to a larger (older) audience. Now, excusing all the historical inaccuracies and keeping in mind it is meant to be just a movie, it's still enjoyable. Cumberbatch is fantastic, even though Turing's personality is largely exaggerated, and the rest of the cast are good too, even if the story doesn't care about any of them. Desplat's score's great as usual and there was a surprising number of comedic moments which I wasn't expecting at all from the promotional material. There was too much repetition of aphorisms and wink wink casual mentions of things that had happened earlier in the movie which all seemed pretty forced. If you're okay with biopics completely misrepresenting their historical figures, it's a pretty good movie.
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...
When they showed off the hard drives they took from the suspect in this episode, they showed a power supply. This is like saying they took a generator and showing an extension cable.
Oh my fucking god. During the conversation between Daisy and May' husband, I was struck by a random thought: what if he's Lash? It would work for him surviving that ambush, maybe explain why he supposedly left May, the thing they made all mysterious and shit, and would be ironic because of him evaluating other inhumans while also being shocking, personal and impactful for the main group of characters. And now the show reveals that is true. proudly brushes dust off of my invisible detective badge
"i've just got science stuff. stuff i've got to science the stuff out of" i love barry omg
Yeesssss, I was really missing Dr Wells. Love to see him being a douchebag. This episode was dope. Honestly, I love this new dick and badass Dr Wells. I was hoping to see Tom Cavanagh again in the show. He is absolutely amazing. But I have one quetion, is it a coincidence that Zoom sends Linda Park to kill the Flash? or does he knew more about it? I really think that Zoom is Barry from Earth-2 or from another time line. This will be awesome. I just want to know more about Zoom.
Anyhow, this was the best episode of the season so far.
I enjoy so much Tom Cavanagh's performance of another different character and the way he reacted when Caitlin and Cisco told him about his counterpart from Earth-1
Thea has the best line. "A bunch of superheroes hiding out at a farm house, I feel like I have seen that before in a movie."
RIP to all the phones who gave up their lives in this episode :P
Great episode this week. Some intense stuff. Coulson going all Captain America haha, loved it :D
Sad to see Ros and Banks die. Really thought they'd stay for longer.
Love to see what'll happen next. This is getting really exciting. Loving every bit of it!
The best new Star Wars film in three decades and one of the most satisfying films of the year.
A Perl vs Python rant? Really? It's like the show writer went on USENET to pilfer for quotes for the technobabble.
I really hate this anti-Putin and anti-Russian propaganda that is going on on american tv. There is no "mass corruption" in Russia as they say, and all those "anti-Putin bloggers" are just pets of american government who are spreading lies about "corruption" in Russian government and if any danger will get close to them (by the way, Putin did not pursuit ANY "opposite" blogger at all), they will flee to america to their masters. I bet that creators were forced to put this story about bloggers and Russian spies, because it seems to be totally out context.
HANDS DOWN TO THE SASSIER TRIO ON TELEVISION: CAPTAIN COLD, HEATWAVE AND WHITE CANARY.
Starts off pretty bad then all of a sudden you've been awake for 20 hours and binge watched the entire thing.
Persevere through those initial few bad episodes and you're in for a right treat.
I was pissed the whole time at Barry for not saying to Patty about him. He was so retarded for being mute all the time she started talking about them and even letting her go in the end like that when she said she's leaving the city. I was like "JUST FREAKING TELL HER ALREADY YOU IDIOT, DON'T BE MUTE LIKE THAT". Jesus. And Wally made zero sense to me, the way he was bitching to Joe about him, and it was him who came to them in the first place. WTF he wants then? Bad script really.
WTF! I definitely did NOT see that coming. Killing one of your main characters in your pilot (albeit part two) is unheard of. I'm really shocked. Hawkman is the shortest-lived main character in the Arrowverse
I hate characters like Pike, you just know that the only reason they exist is to cause trouble... Come on writers of The 100, you can do better than that...
as if the girl power until now wasnt enough with peggy, now we have a female villain whos super smart and super badass and i am so hyped
I thought it was impossible that Malcolm could be so easily defeated. But anyway, there's no Ra's al ghul but the consequences will be unbearable. Now Dahrk knows about William and Ollie doesn't even suspect that Malcolm and Dahrk are working together.
Anyhow, I enjoyed this episode a lot. I loved the father-daughter relationships alongside and I hope the season keeps on like that. Fights, betrayals and that Oliver. I need that Oliver from Seasons 1 N' 2. That is the one we all fans want.
Awesome episode. Looking forward to next week's. Excited to see how the plot evolves. and also to dig more information about the grave thing. Crossing names out of the list. The same goes for The Flash.
Peace out!!!
Just been rescued after months of painful, psychologically-traumatising incarceration at the hands of the multiverse's biggest, nastiest speedster? Pull out the "I can't leave - what about my life, my friends!?" line when your father tries to save you from a horrible death.
Whoever wrote that needs a whipping.
As soon as I saw Jay standing alone by the not entirely closed breach I fucking knew he's a goner. But what's up with the man in the mask "knocking out" his name? Is Jay a key to defeating Zoom? Is Hunter Zolomon Zoom after all and it wasn't just an easter egg for the comic book readers? My original thought that the Earth-2 Jay is somehow Zoom from the past and his experimenting with Velocity' variations will be his super villain origins, but surely Zoom wouldn't kill himself, so that went out of the window. I also had a crazy thought that the man in the mask himself is Jay, because the back of his head looked kind of similar. Man it's messing with my head. They sure keep up the mystery this season.
Every time I see Kane, I can't help but think of Desmond and how I miss his accent in Lost.
This episode was the first in a while that focused mainly in the relationships between the characters and the action was not very important. Liked the change of pace and I want to see how Liz will deal with these two men trying to control her life now.
im not seeing anyone making death threats to writers or crying and downvoting because Sinclair died, but its ok, he wasnt gay so he is unimportant and it doesent matter if he dies
i love Miller and i loved Lexa, but Lexa died to move the plot foward not because the writers thought "oh lets kill Lexa because she is gay haha so funny"
how many main characters have died? more than 10 for sure, so why we only focus on the gay one? gay characters are unkillable? for me they are the same as any character i dont make distinctions and neither the writers
My name is Barry Allen, and I am the dumbest Man Alive. To the Earth-2 people I am an ordinary speedster, but secretly with the help of Dr Wells I gave my speed to Zoom and became a normal guy. I hunted down the man who killed Jay Garrick, but in doing so, he took Caitlin as a prisoner and my speed was gone. And I am the only one dumb Enough to do it. I am the Dumb
Gonna give this a shot over the weekend. Heard so much about it.
