My favourite DC movie so far , I might have a few new favourite superheroes...
Decidedly better than the DC lineup so far, and even a contender of other recent Marvel films. The humor was well executed, and exactly what you'd expect from a kid trying to figure out their superpowers. Zachary Levi was a perfect pick for the role of Shazam.
The last quarter of the film dragged a bit, becoming more like other DC films, taking itself too seriously. Other than that, I thoroughly enjoyed the film and couldn't leave my seat.
DC has made their best Marvel movie. No, that's not a knock on this film. It's a fun family adventure with a lot of heart. Levi is great as Shazam and Mark Strong is the 2nd best DC on-screen villain. They dive right into the magic elements of the DC universe and also tell an origin story lead by heart and family. This was a fun ride with some funny moments. It seems DC/WB is on a streak now with this Aquaman and Wonder Woman.
They'll just build a new one... and make the White Walkers pay for it.
Really nice pilot, loved the pacing! Looking forward to see how this is going to build.
Nice wrap up. Didn't care much for the whole "oh, finally lots of zombies" that some people have been missing so much. For me, the 6 episodes were really tight, the best one being epi 5 and this one keeping up with the pace built on the former. Strand has everything to be a fan favorite.
Reaching the end, I'll say this one last thing: I won't ever understand why so much bashing towards this great show. It's drama with zombies, for brains sake! No Rick, no Daryl, but The Walking Dead just the same.
I liked it. Evidently not a lot happened, which I expected, and I feel like the following episodes might be slow as well... but it feels right for me, considering that they don't know a whole lot about what's happening and don't have much experience surviving (except Salazar and maybe Strand, who seems to know his stuff). Victor Strand, a great addition to the main cast, seems to have secrets and I'm looking forward to that.
I like the fact that it's almost the complete opposite of recent The Walking Dead episodes -- we've been seeing ruthless killers, so now let's see people who still want to save everyone despite how dangerous that could be. At least here, when they mess up, it feels correct -- unlike in TWD (still can't get over experienced survivors letting their only doctor leave safety).
I really enjoyed this episode. Some action, some exploring, some character development, strong Dead Island vibes. Honestly I have no idea why people hate on this show. It's only on its second season but people already whine that it's slow like the forgot the WD was the same in the beginning and still is from time to time. Or some idiots say how they don't care about these characters. Did anyone instantly care for Rick and his group? Of course not. It's a work in progress. And let's be real these guys are just starting out and the apocalypse is all new and fresh and yet they are already kicking a lot of ass, maybe even more than the WD characters did in their first couple of seasons and they were more seasoned from the start.
Ugh, I really want to like this show. I love the main show, so have nothing but high hopes... that keep getting dashed.
Everyone seemed to act in just inexplicable ways this episode. Danial Salazar went from 0 to batshit crazy in record time. Lorenzo Henrie is a horrible actor so Chris' psychotic break is just painful to watch because the actor can't pull it off. I like Travis' character, but it's going to be pure agony to have him and Chris off by themselves. It means more Chris in order to keep Travis visible. Nicks constant bathing in walker blood has gotten old. The mechanic is overused and it's only been a few episodes since he discovered that the blood hides him. He must stop at every walker and flap around in the blood like a spawning salmon.
I actually thought this one was great, enjoyed it very much. I disliked everything they did in episode 7 (particularly separating the group, something that happens a lot in TWD and I'm not really fond of, even though it's obviously for production reasons) and wasn't looking forward to new episodes, was only sort of going to watch because I don't have a lot of shows at the moment, but I'm glad I saw it.
Even though I think it's very stupid that he simply left his family, Nick is still an interesting odd character and I see this whole episode as big example of it.
Also, I've noticed some parallels with this season 2 and TWD season 2. The way previous episodes were handled (people who want to save walkers, kept them locked up in a location, also the relationship between them and people who know better) and now this episode, which kind of reminded me of the Daryl-centric one where lots of bad things happen to him in the forest.
Will remain watching with cautious optimism.
Had an outdoor group viewing with friends on this one; gnarly episode and interesting to see the measures one has to go through in order to survive
Sometimes it's hard to remember that our real lives are distinct and separate from our online lives. Take it from some guy who enjoys his "likes" and hits from writing reviews more than he'd sometimes care to admit, it's all too easy to become consumed in our online presence to the point that we forget about our lives away from screens, away from the things that give us meaning and insight and the inspiration to post anything to social media.
Which is why I think I'm okay with the tack "Skank Hunt" takes. (Now that's not sentence I ever expected to write.) Look, online bullying driving people to suicide is a legitimate issue, and even if it's not widespread, making it the source of fun admittedly makes me a little uneasy. And yet, I think it's in service of that point, that kids and adults alike treat their online personas as their entire being, and that we as a culture and a society overinflate the importance of the digital part of our lives. The grave, faux-solemnity with which South Park treats the idea of someone quitting Twitter is not, in my estimation, an attempt to make fun of people driven to suicide (though it's certainly meant to be envelope pushing as the show always is), but rather an attempt to make fun of how big a deal we make over something as slight as social media in the first place, to where quitting Twitter or Facebook or god help us, Trakt, can be treated as such a cataclysmic event.
This is as good a time to mention that one of the ways South Park achieves this is in "Skank Hunt" is with some unexpectedly good design work, music, and cinematography. Even in it's construction paper cut out days, the show had a certain visual experimentalist quality to it. But in "Skank Hunt," the show goes a step further to drive home the faux-magnitude of what's taking place, whether it's the pan up to the sky as a little girl drops her phone into the river, or the leering shadow of Gerald as he wages war against a Scandavian olympic athlete, or the slow shots of what looks like a massacre as the South Park Elementary girls deliver break up letter after break up letter to the boys. This episode did a great job of using the "camera" of this still semi-crudely animated show to help convey mood and heighten the feeling of these scenes.
Throw in a ridiculous sequence sent to a Boston tune that subs Gerald's typing for tickling the ivories, a similarly goofy sequence of Gerald celebrating his notoriety to the silly strains of "Steal My Sunshine," and the swelling music that back the break up sequence, and you have a show that's using more than just its superb writing and bent premises to make its impact.
But the story and themes are still the core of Skank Hunt. The seriousness with which everyone treats a classmate quitting Twitter leads to the interesting point about the outsized importance we place on social media, but also does a nice job of driving the story, from leading the boys to kill Cartman...'s online presence, in a series of scenes the show mostly plays straight to hilarious effect. The story between Mr. Mackey and Scott Malkinson (who we haven't seen in forever) is South Park's humor at its darkest. Well, maybe not its darkest (see: Scott Tenerman), but still, only a show like this one could wring the humor in a beleaguered guidance counselor growing tired of comforting his "suicidal" student and wishing that he would (more or less) just off himself already. It's hard to call it well-observed exactly, but there's the germ of humanity in the scene to someone becoming strained even with one of the most noble duties there is, in classic exaggerated South Park fashion.
And then there's Gerald himself, who in a Heisenberg-esque twist, is enjoying his double life as a troll too much to avoid dropping hints to his wife and son. There's commentary in his role in the episode as well, with once again, everyone in South Park, from the children to adults, treating something as ridiculous as an anonymous person on the internet spewing profanity and photoshopping lewd images with such seriousness. That seriousness seems particularly interesting in contrast to how Gerald is just doing it to "stir the pot," because he thinks it's funny. There's a disparity between how the rest of the world responds to this, and Gerald's less than grandiose reasons for it. It's clear that he's just doing this for the fun of it, and also for the notoreity of it, and that by taking trolling so seriously, the people of South Park are actually just enabling and encouraging him.
There's more to unpack here, from the idea of collective guilt and collective punishment, to the continued presence of the member berries, to the promise of more storylines in the future stemming from Cartman's wrongful "death," and Gerald's attempt to troll the untrollable. But on the whole, "Skank Hunt" is an episode about how easy it is to treat our online lives with the utmost importance, and treat anything that impugnes them like a horrid, deplorable attack on our very being, when neither our silly online posts, nor the dumb screeds that they may engender in response, deserve that level of attention, importance, or concern.
Loved the pilot, it doesn't happen a lot that i love a show from the start and that it had me fooled. I did not see this one coming. Can't wait to see how this show will go.
Woah. To reiterate what everybody else has already said: what an incredible pilot episode. This is storytelling at its best.
Shit, that was an amazing episode and although I should have probably seen that ending coming, I did not at all. Very well done, there's not a lot of shows that have me crying over the very first episode.
Oh no! Can't believe it brought tears to my eyes once I started thinking about the family after the episode ended. That rarely happens.
Why couldn't he get better ? He was going to be 12 for her. Why does Miguel have to be there?
Why couldn't they be a perfect happy family?
I know it could be the other way round as well. But I hate to even think about the possibility of things going bad between those two after the emotional heart-to-heart they had. Too damn real. So much emotions. It's just lovely.
i thought i wasn't going to cry in this one and then BAM the last scene with all the washing machine stuff
That scene with Rebecca and William broke my heart. The way he got so excited suddenly and wanted his son to visit him and have sleepovers... It hit me right in the heart. I had tears in my eyes when he put the letter and Randall's picture in his little book called "Poems for my son" ;__;
I completely understand Rebecca's feelings and how scared she must have been that Randall might get taken away, but Randall is 36 now and she still never told him. That's something I would have a hard time to forgive her for, too. She could've told him when he turned 18 or 21. It also makes me a bit upset that Kevin and Kate don't seem to see it as a big deal. I actually want Randall to be angry for a while because it is a huge deal.
I am incredibly grateful to Game of Thrones for this adventure I have found myself sucked into for some years now. I am grateful for all the emotions it brought me since day one, bitter and sweet alike. I am grateful for all the laughs, all the tears, all the jokes and gags, every single bit of it, I really am grateful and appreciative of it all. It's been just... wonderful.
That said, I am feeling robbed and betrayed right about now. This ending is arguably one of the worst series finales in the history of television and trust me I realize how bold of a statement that is. The terrible violations the characters have suffered this season, the lack of proper resolution to many of the plots and narratives developed over seasons worth of buildup, the seeking of shock value at the expense of quality writing... that and much much more solidified this as an absolute disappointment of a finale, as opposed to the marvel wrap it could've given this cultural phenomenon.
This episode does have its positives, as always the score, acting and cinematography are perfectly performed but I just do not think it's nearly enough to compensate for how lackluster the writing has been, as much as I wish they did. Oh well, sad as it may be, I'll just hold on to the good stuff and hope that GRRM's book, once finished, will tackle the ending in a more coherent, more respectful and more meaningful way. It's been real y'all...
P.S: I'll leave this here lest some people jump me again. This comment is a representation of my own personal opinion, I am entitled to one just as all of you are. If you enjoyed this season and felt this finale delivered what you were looking for then more power to you mate, but that doesn't nullify my opinion nor does it make yours any valid. If you want to discuss or challenge my views, I'd be more than happy to engage you on that basis but if all you have to offer are petty remarks then please keep them to yourself.
Bran: I can never be Lord of Winterfell, I can never be Lord of anything, I'm the Three-eyed Raven.
Also Bran: I'm the King.
Cried like a motherfucker during this episode. My god, the show producers have exceptional talent in organzing story lines. Also, mad kudos to the scriptwriters.
"My husband is a freakin' superhero"
This was, without a shadow of a doubt, one of the greatest episodes of television I've ever seen. The show in general is amazing, but this episode was just UNREAL. Sterling K. Brown and Ron Cephas Jones were simply breathtaking. WOW.
Playing me some Sufjan Stevens at the end there was just cruel.
What a strong start of this new season! The tone is set, Toby will need to understand that siblings bonds are way stronger than the one they love, and Randall trying to recreate his adoption surely makes me love Beth a bit more. Also good for Kate to finally realize it's her talent and not her looks, although I can truly relate to her thinking it's always about the looks since most of the times it is. That ending with the amazing version of One had me in tears again, I am truly happy that Jack probably dies from a fire and not from drunk driving I seriously would've hated that, although there is still a chance that he was drunk when the fire happened. Also kudo's to the writers for a Gremlins reference lol... It's funny that the big 3 is as old as I am (only i wont be 37 till november), so i can truly relate to some problems they have. Also I hope it will be a long time before we actually see the death of Jack cause when that happens it will probably be over for his storyline and I truly love Milo so I hope we won't see it soon!
I'll be damned if that talk between Randall and Beth didn't feel to be hinting at Jack's cause of death - as in falling asleep while drunk and smoking...
Brilliant episode and the reveal at the end of the episode was lovely.
That episode hit me hard. It was all so real - The way Rebecca's mother had this "casual racism" and tried to explain it by saying she grew up in different times. I'm so glad Rebecca kicked her out of the house and talked openly to Randall.
I also like how things aren't solved easily with Deja. We know Beth and Randall are trying their best but it's just realistic that it won't work out perfectly. Just like last season their story line is the most interesting to me so far.
I love this show, the way that we think we are reaching a point we know everything about the characters and suddenly there's another story to be told, something more to learn about their past or their future. I think this was an excellent episode
