IMO, this is the best RTD episode for the new season. However, as others have noted, there are a number of large holes in the story. Questions remain like, why was the Doctor absent, where did he go, and what did ghost Ruby say to people to make them run off and treat young Ruby like persona non grata?
6/10 - for an intriguing story and decent acting.
I'm surprised they did another Doctor light episode, but I very much enjoyed it. That's three in a row now!
I'm just so glad that this show appears to be worth watching again.
Really interesting episode, not the "kids these days are on their phones all the time" kind one might have thought watching the trailer, but instead focuses on a much more serious issue surrounding the mentality of certain groups, and how those specific echo chambers function.
It's definitely an episode that is made by its ending. The hyperbole of the allegory might seem too exaggerated at first. But when things start falling into place it becomes clear that it serves a purpose and helps highlight the main message.
The final part is what makes the whole episode really work, for me the ending was quite fitting, given the point that the story was trying to get across, and Ncuti Gatwa was phenomenal in his performance, especially during the final scene.
This was a great episode but it made me wonder why did they lead the show and even bothered producing those first two absolute garbage episodes when they clearly are able to have decent ones like those last two?
RIP Josh.
The end is near so of course Julie Plec must again kill as many fan favorites as she can.
She's so edgy sometimes I'm worried she could cut herself. [mic drop]
What the hell did I just watch? What? So in the end the last surviving Original is Kol? Seriously? WTF?
I hate everything about this series finale. Well, not everything. There's one tiny upside, and that's Rebekah finally getting to be human. Girl's wanted to have a baby since the days of The Vampire Diaries. So I'm really happy she'll get her happily ever after. Really, she deserves it.
Everything else? No.
It would've been so much better for Elijah to sacrifice himself, after all the crap he put everyone through this season. He should've redeemed himself from his selfish actions from the beginning of the season by being selfless in the end. Klaus dying and leaving Hope an orphan is bullshit. And unnecessary. He could have lived happily ever after with Caroline keeping him on a well behaved leash. Or at least, he could've become a human, too.
To me, this feels like a cop out. The writers didn't know how to deal with him being alive in the Legacies time-line, and so they went the easy route and got rid of Klaus, one of the best, most complex characters I've ever seen on a TV show.
I'm upset and disappointed. I mean, c'mon. Since when is killing off practically all of your main characters considered to be a good ending?
The finale felt too abrupt, too many loose ends. For example, what happened to Elizabeth's plagiarized work? Especially now having Calvin's biological mother in the picture now and her wealth.
It's a shame they lost the freeway issue, but I thought that was realistic. I didn't expect a happy ending there. Sometimes fighting for things that matter to you end just like that – for you losing on the matter and losing all the hard work you've done too. I never read the book, so I don't know if that story was even part of it.
What an amazing show. It‘s such a heartwarming but also an exceptionally tragic story that is told so well. Brie Larson really shines in her role and the performances were brilliant across the board. Can’t recommend this enough.
Calvin's backstory was explored in the book, but not to this extent. I appreciated a whole episode devoted to it and am angry all over again about what happened to him, especially now that it's been reframed.
I KNEW IT WAS GOING TO HAPPEN BUT STILL:broken_heart::broken_heart:
The final showdown with The Lady was anticlimactic as such things often are, and it seemed as if they did a poor job of allotting enough time to it in terms of how they mapped out the entire final season. Still, there was much goodness to be found here, and everyone got a nice ending -- including Khlyen and The Lady's former shell. Heck, even Zeph was tolerable. Mostly. And it was good to see Pip again.
As Johnny and Lucy prep to head off for a year's worth of adventures on their own, I'm already wondering if there's gonna be a reunion movie at some point down the road...
So, was this a series finale? Because it felt like one and, if it was, then it was a tad underwhelming. Some regulars barely had any screen time (Fancy, Pree, Haircut), while others had a wee bit too much (Zeph & Pippin). Also, that "epic showdown" from this episode's synopsis is clearly overselling it.
Not a great way to end the show but, then again, this was never a great show, to begin with. Still, it was an OK episode.
I still miss Dark Matter, though, and I do feel that Sy-Fy cancelled the wrong show, at the time. Anyway, farewell, Killjoys, you were a fun joyride.
"I'm gonna miss this!"
Mixed feelings as a book reader.
I like how they stuck to source material for the Wallfacers bit, even quoting lines from the book verbatim. It was kind of like an apology for episodes 6 and 7 being 100% original material, not in the books, and both episodes sucked...
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Ok, I'm really confused what the writers were thinking. They made up the entire brain rocket plot, only to have it fail. Why make up a bunch of dumb shit up only for it to be entirely inconsequential? Were they trying to make it more emotional? The book was plenty emotional if they didn't strip away all the depth and nuance in their adaptation. Also, the author goes into detail about how nukes don't work in space, so they can't just nuke the alien fleet. Then these moron writers make an entire plot line around nukes in space. While writing adapting the very book that says that's impossible.
I'm glad they at least included the bug scene at the end as a nice way to wrap up until next season. Like, ok, maybe we are bugs, but we still have hope for survival.
I think this was a reasonably good episode overall, it somewhat brought the spark back after extinguishing it in episodes 6 and 7.
Now I'd like to see the show directors forced to write "Stick to the source material" on a chalkboard 900 times before they work on Season 2.
Most 'meh' finale ever...
Maybe it will get interesting in 400 years........
Everything fell apart when they introduced that stupid fucking rocket with the bombs. How did they even get the bombS up in space in the correct spots and then get them to stay in that location? Not looking forward to season 2 tbh.
I love it when candidates are so certain of their own genius, despite being told the opposite by industry experts and even Lord Sugar himself, they resolutely stick to their terrible guns.
I’m sure she still thinks her advert was brilliant…
The series wasn't quite what I expected. I thought it would be more focused on missions, but it turned out to be more about romance. However, I guess it was my fault for expecting something else.
This show should've been called Monarch : Siblings with Daddy Issues.
The trailer was super misleading . And this was an utter disappointment.
Coming off the last few episodes and Carlos’s vengeance to find justice for his father, I wasn’t expecting this season finale to be this moving. Glad they brought back Gwyneth, even if it was for just a moment.
Had no idea Gina Torres could sing! And what a beautiful song they choose to go with. You can’t go wrong with Sondheim.
It’s interesting how they choose to end the season with the 9-1-1 call, instead of being the episode opener as it usually happens. I was convinced Owen would dwell on this “suggestion” from his brother for a few more episodes. (I just found out they are actually brothers in real life like whaaaaaat)
What’s up with this senseless violence just to move the plot along? TK’s mom died not too long ago and now Carlos’s dad? If you consider as well the latest developments from Wyatt, this show just turned quite dire.
really don't appreciate how they're trying to make me feel bad for jinny by making her marry that atrocious man because she's just been nothing but awful to all of her friends all season (but i will, because that man is atrocious)
I never thought that Marvel would dare to do a scene like that, where Rabona and Miss Minutes murder the former AVT agents in cold blood, woww... it was too strong a scene.
Wow. I’ve never watched a K-Drama be this fast-paced but, I guess, it’s a semi- K-drama, lol. I’m super confused with how I want things. I thought I wouldn’t like Kitty but I do and I love Dae so I hope they’ll still be endgame since it has to be the main point of the show. After everything, they have to come together in the end.
This is an exact representation of how I expect teenagers to feel and experience new things and relationships. I’m already guessing how the second season will start: Q will out Florian so Dae keeps his scholarship and room, things will be awkward between Juliana and Yuri, and Professor Lim will have Kitty back in KISS in no time and the drama shall resume from there!
Super excited because I love a good non-complicated non-dragged-out K-drama and this is such a light watch, Will great acting from the regulars.
I might have spied a cast member or two who were current school-goers who were also literally in the 1993 yearbook, though, lol. That took me out.
Great episode. True what she said though. Didn’t do Jack shit except motivate the next generation to hate and bomb America. The only people Americans can kill / steal shit from and not worry about any retaliations are the Native Americans, blacks, Latinos, and all the other smaller nations who don’t have the monetary means to strike back.
This show is one hell of a contraceptive.
After watching the season final I really don't know what to make of it. Jen discovering her powers would have been too on the nose so I was wondering what the cliffhanger would be.
In "MALE" shows it's always justice, revenge, betrayal while for most "FEMALE" shows it's either parents/kids or relationship changes ( marriage, divorce, etc )
So yeah I was a little bit underwhelmed when a show that, so far had balanced the rough with the romantic; had gone such an obvious path.
The writers probably felt the same way, because they course corrected and let the "cat lady" end up dating her actual cat. But the big twist, finding his family, felt right out of a Spanish TV novella
So now I have to root for Kash & Jizz, a scrub and a pet? While there are "real" superheroes flying around, not to mention centuries of Don Juan's ( heck even the original ) Carrie can summon.
The show wouldn't be the same without Kash and Jizz but we "wingman" are going to need a bit more redemption to make the difference with a guy like Luke.