Bellagar

Are these writers serious? They put J.J.'s life on the line just to stir up more of this love triangle drama. How utterly disrespectful to the character.

"You think that's what I'm doing? Closing myself off to possibilities because I'm waiting for a life with J.J.?"
Except he's not. Has he--and the writers--forgotten about Maeve? And that celebrity woman he kissed in the pool? Yeah, he liked J.J. There's no question about that. But he certainly hasn't been avoiding relationships because of her. He only closed himself off after Maeve's death. If anything, he is closing himself off from J.J. because of Maeve and because of J.J.'s family.

"I don't know how to be in this world if I'm not wishing for a future that's with her."
Okay, stop this crap. This is really how you're going to write the final season? Really? I can accept that Reid has feelings for J.J., but by no means does his life revolve around her. I can't even imagine Reid daydreaming about a future with J.J. I can see him fantasizing about Maeve but not J.J. These writers need to pull this ship back. They had a chance at it in season 1 and tossed it out the window. Now that both J.J. and Reid have moved on with their lives, the writers can't pull this out of nowhere and try to say they're dependent on each other. If Will had died, say, 2 seasons ago or back when he was in that hostage situation, then it'd be a different story. But J.J. is over here confessing to Reid while her husband and children are in route to visit her after she almost died. That's just feels disgusting...

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SophieFilo16

I was so confused for the first 15 minutes of this episode. I suspected for most of the season that Amalia was either an alien or from the future, so it was nice to have that confirmed, but the origin story left me with more questions than answers. We know that in the future there are two factions at war, but it's not clear what exactly their motivations are aside from one wanting to save the world and the other determined to... keep it shitty and post-apocalyptic, I guess? Also there was so much jargon/made-up lingo that wasn't explained. I have no idea what a Stripe is. I know exposition dumps are not great most of the time, but I feel like we could've used one here.

Once we got back to Victorian times the episode got much better. It was fun to see how Amalia ended up running the orphanage and how she became the posh badass that we've gotten to know over the course of the season.

"I left Penance behind because you said 'Find me'. I left my heart to come talk to you" Did she just... literally call Penance her heart? AND she told her her real name that she protected all this time and didn't even tell her spouses? And this show wants me to believe that their relationship is platonic? Sounds fake but okay.