I had forgotten how much I missed ProtoMiller. Daaamn.
The opening warning-disclaimer has to have been the awesomest warning-label writing I've ever seen.
And that's just the moment opening into an episode thoroughly jammed with individual plotline advancements and interconnections, all leading up to that fight and that speech...
Well done. And only two episodes to go...
Why do I now kinda feel like the line "You want a war?" was a foreshadowing of the later shift in cancellation-disappointed Sense8 fans' attitudes toward Netflix...? :-(
Efforts like http://bit.ly/RenewSense8 might have something to do with that, too. Sigh.
Ho-leee... That finale felt like it crammed two or three episodes worth of tension and advancement into— Was that really only one hour?
I think Jonas has some serious 'splainin to do. Has he really become that afraid of BPO + Whispers, or has he been misleading our favorite cluster all along, or...?
And good old Milton / Whispers / Cannibal? War, indeed. Don't mess with the Master Gorski. I found myself so hoping that Will had killed that sadistic loon, introducing his twisted brain to that concrete wall, but it seems that Will's plan reaches out a bit farther than that.
Meanwhile, Whispers (and presumably BPO) now knows about Wolfgang and Kala, in addition to Will, Riley, and Nomi. That changes everything going into Season Three...
And, while they neatly captured Whispers and Jonas, I didn't see Wolfgang being rescued in there. (Did I just miss it?) Perhaps they weren't able to get to him in that operation, and the plan includes some way of using Whispers and Jonas to get him back? I suppose we'll just have to wait—like the Sense8 junkies that we are—for Season Three to find out. I can wait. Sure. No problem. What shaking? I'll be fine. Really. Maybe.
Yes, Joong-Ki, your sister is a Terminator. And she will. Not. Stop. Until you are Cluster-fucked.
Definitely got the impression that Sidious was very much enjoying this (then quite rare) opportunity to flex.
Wow. Just... wow.
I think the mind-boggling depth of them all being (what appeared to be) fully "present" at several different birthday parties at once was what impressed my poor struggling brain the most. But there was so much else. The varied real personal struggles of each of Will, Lito, Sun, Kala, Wolfgang,... and the way they keep growing more fluent with their connections, keep showing up for each other...
Okay, yeah, the sex-visuals were arguably a bit much, IMO, but those weird virtual-orgy-esque crossovers are completely consistent with the growing connections (and blurring boundaries?) between the cluster-members, so...
Did I mention wow?
Looking forward to how these struggles all proceed, and what the cluster does about Whispers -- did Riley's flickering eyes look like she was chasing the beginnings of an idea? -- when episodes resume...
Leon must be the mostly weirdly interesting individual.
Oddly enough, I rather enjoyed Elliot's unusual take on How to Succeed in Business without Really Trying.
Mar-GoPro? Heh. Gotta love the odd cultural cross-overs.
Woowww.
"I know who you are. You are the whirlwind." —John Pilgrim
"Behold, a whirlwind of the Lord is gone forth in fury, even a grievous whirlwind; it shall fall grievously upon the head of the wicked." —Jeremiah 23:19
"Damn right." —Frank Castle
Thank you, Jon Bernthal, for bringing to such life the Frank "The Punisher" Castle we will all remember.
I've grown used to expecting Will Bowman to go into full blown family-protection mode and start dropping bodies of anyone and everyone threatening his family, but there's something entirely different about seeing Katie Bowman do the same. Wwoooww.
That and, I gotta say, I was not-that-unpleasantly surprised to see Bob get a true gut-feel for the pain he's been inflicting on others. Not that he'll take it as a hint of any such thing, of course. But still...
Hmm. So how much of the Dark Army Minions' willingness to die for the cause is fueled by their belief that White Rose will bring them back once the mission is complete?
So, basically, Tannhaus created the break, Jonas/Adam and Martha/Eva perpetuated it, and everyone else suffered through this ultimate twist on Greek tragedy, all until Claudia finally figured out where the original break was. And we all felt our brains stretched and twisted trying to follow all of the convolutions that a bunch of time-traveling breaks and perpetuations would cause, despite what all the other time-travel stories have told us.
Interesting at the end to see some of who would still have existed without all the mad timeloop feedback yarnballing the family trees (and thinking through why they're still there and others aren't), and that Hannah would be the one to somehow Kenobi-sense the millions of voices crying out in release...
Daaaamn.
There was probably no way to wrap up all of that interwoven complexity in a way that would make all viewers happy, but I'm at least satisfied that this wrap-up make some sense and tied (so to speak) up the loose ends, despite the loss of some characters that will now never be. Well done.
As weirdly entertaining as the whole Five-vs-Five thing was to watch...
Would it have worked (and been much simpler) to never contact fourteen-days-ago Five but instead to quietly stalk him until he, as he did before, dropped his mission and briefcase to transport himself back to 2019, and then grab the briefcase he left behind? As it turns out, this seems like it'd have cost them the same amount of time and a lot less risk...
Other than that, fun and crazy entertainment as always...
So much wow.
I'd wondered how this movie would manage to handle so many varied superheroes and their interactions. I'll just say here that: It works.
And now I'm going to be wondering for the next year: What the heck did Stephen see?
And why was Nick's unquestioning impulse to send a message to them/her?
I suspect we won't know much on those until the releases of Captain Marvel and Avengers 4.
Also, nice reference with the episode title, "Out of the Past", a 1947 film-noir crime drama movie...
Lots to like about this one. Things coming together, things splintering apart.
One gripe: Of all people, Primus Jayna-Zod should know that if the paramount objective is to kill that one lead figure, then you don't stop at one shot on him, however fatal the result may look. You keep firing. Against an enemy like this one, you keep firing until there's nothing left. But, oh, well. Aside from that...
Thank God for pause-buttons, because...
Messenger Bunny 1: At castle, getting married.
Eliot (to Quentin): Does that sound like Margo to you?
Messenger Bunny 2: Need help now, dickwads.
Eliot: Definitely Bambi.
LMAO.
Man, every puffed-up local mini-lord that tries to prey on the passing-through Joelorian and his charge just get destroyed, don't they?
The deadliest flashdance ever. (Daayam.)
And that hint of it's-going-to-be-okay smile emerging at the very end, as he finds the sorely missed taste of supportive family among the power of the dark side...
"Now, matters are worse." —Yoda
Daaamn. I was really growing to like Alex, too, but... sigh... The risks of trying to recruit from that volatile mix of assorted desperates into what they're trying to do... I can't even imagine.
Oh, poor Timothy... :-(
And Starlight's hidden fist-clench... damn.
Jack Bauer is a scary MacGyver of emergency enhanced interrogation tactics.
Did anyone else kinda-sorta want to hear IG-11, somewhere along the way, say "Come with me if you want to live."? ;-)
Naming an episode such as this after that Orwell 1984 reference... Oddly fitting.
Just wondering: Would anyone consider declaring that one of the seven Paragons needed to save the multiverse is a Paragon of Humanity to be just a little uninclusive toward our just-as-threatened non-human friends? (Coluans, Daxamites, Dominators, Kryptonians, Martians, Thanagarians, etc.)
It'd've been particularly amusing to see the Queen Dominator (whom we once saw visit Earth 1 looking for her baby who eight-year-old Ray had named Gumball) show up to help...
IAC, otherwise, good stuff. Little things to pick on here and there but, mostly, as promised, the best Arrowverse crossover yet.
And, now, with the possibility of Spectre-Oliver...
"I always knew that working with you guys was going to blow up in my face, but it's about to get literal!" —Deke Shaw
Okay, so the world of the lands surrounding that Stygian railroad weren't as thoroughly thoughtfully fleshed out as I'd've liked. But, it was a nice way for Donna and Tim to meet and return, and it gave us a last (and better) goodbye for Hank.
And for everyone mad that Hank didn't get his return, consider: Donna and Tim woke up in the bodies they'd left behind: how would that have worked out for Hank? :-(
Now that was The Ultimate Odd Couple Saves the World (and Each Other).
