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Disappointing that Tyler has no reaction at all to finding out. That Dodge who he had sex with was really a guy. Probably out of fear that a negative reaction would offend someone.
Still, no reaction is bad writing. It’s also silly that Kingsey apologizes to Gabe and Scot for not thinking of consequences. Of kissing one guy while being with another guy. Then says “I will just date you both. I can’t choose.” Without thinking of consequences....
Mystery wise the show still has me hooked. Just lose the Twilight like love triangles. Also, talking about consequences. There should be consequences of Tyler getting with Dodge or at least that leading to something.

The Mandalorian started out OK, but ended up as some half-baked, lazily written show that exist merely to lure parents to justify a Disney+ subscription. Kids get the usual Disney contents, moms get Baby Yoda, dads get Star Wars nerdy reference. The show almost feels like being made by a bunch of fanfiction writers with familiarity of the setting but zero sense of screen writing.

Nothing wrong with liking it, it's just the show appears to be all style and no substance.

Storyline shows no complexity at all. In fact, most of them are fillers. You can skip 4 of 8 episodes and you'll still understand the story just fine. Characters are completely uninteresting. None of them are developed. None of them had nuances: protagonists are morally good heroes; antagonists are one dimensional evils. The show relies only on a cute muppet and flashy action, but has zero substance. Had a potential great world-building with some details, but they chose to abandon it for rule of cool (and cute).

The "it's Star Wars, so it'll be simple" excuse commonly said by the series' defenders doesn't hold up if you actually consider other Star Wars titles such as Knights of the Old Republic, Republic Commando, Jedi Academy, Thrawn trilogy, the original and Tartakovsky's Clone Wars, and so on. Those titles are known for having remarkable storytelling; something that The Mandalorian doesn't have for its poverty of creative vision.

With an extra 14 minutes (including the credits), "The Book of Boba Fett" decides to use its time to show Boba Fett attack some thugs, take down a train, and do a dance around a campfire. Yes, I like the message that Indigenous people (the Sand People) shouldn't have to hide. Yes, I enjoyed the confrontations in Mos Espa. But with no character development, plot or conflicts, I'm worried about this series' trajectory.

Once again, the concept art looks cooler than the actual show (unlike "The Mandalorian", which looks as cool (if not cooler) than its concept art).

Edit: The flashbacks feel like sidequests since Boba's never morally questioned. He's just positioned as the good guy (even though he's had questionable morals in the comics, movies and "Star Wars: The Clone Wars"). He just takes down monster, takes down train, gets a staff and dances.

6/10

[7.4/10] I would classify this as a “good not great” finale. That’s a little bit of a disappointment, but considering how many other long running shows have ended with a thud in recent years, I will take “good”! The thing is that I don’t have any major problems with the episode, I just think I wanted a little bit more. I also think that some of it stems from the fact that the show essentially did its big series finale at the end of season 5, so this was all a bit of a bonus to start with.

The one problem I did have is that the solution to the big major problem is a little too convoluted and confusing. I’ll admit that my memories of the end of season 6 are a little hazy, and I typically enjoy stable time loop solutions to problems. But time travel plots can get really messy, and this was no exception. The episode basically stopped dead shortly after it started so that Fitz could deliver ten minutes of exposition.

I’m sure if you break it down, it makes enough sense, but Fitz and Simmons plan, not to mention the rest of the team’s plan for defeating the Chronicoms in the main timeline, was so cryptic and shrouded in mystery and wrapped up in timey wimey craziness that there wasn’t necessarily the clarity of intention or character that I like from my TV shows.

To the point, I really like Kora turning and using her powers to help the good guys, as the culmination of her journey and learning that family can be a positive thing, as represented by Daisy and her experiences, versus a negative thing, as represented by Nathaniel Mallick and his experiences. I like the idea of May using her empathy powers to help save the day, as the culmination of her journey this season. And I like how the team’s experience with Enoch influenced their plot to turn the rest of the Chronicoms good, replete with a nice echoing line of “As I have always been.” But the combination of the three works much better on a symbolic level than on a plot level. Frankly, the plot mechanics of the whole episode are a little wonky.

I also didn’t have much of a response to the showdown between Daisy and Mallick. It was pretty much a fait accompli, and the two leaping around the giant inflatable balls didn’t do much for me visually, even with the show’s best director on board for this one. Daisy's attempt at self-sacrifice might have made more of an impact if I had any belief the show might actually go through with it. Instead, it mostly played like an obvious fake out. That said, I appreciate that Kora again used her nebulous powers for good, this time managing to channel them to revive her sister, in a vindication of ehr journey and the season’s themes.

And that’s pretty much that, in terms of the plot. The day is saved. We jump one year later. And what’s left is all character moments and beats, some of which were great, and a lot of which were fine.

Let’s start with my favorite of them. I love that Deke decides to stay in the 1980s so that he can send our heroes back to the main timeline. (This is also where I’ll say that the decision to bring the Chronicoms to the main timeline was pretty odd.) It shows great nobility from Deke. He’s very funny about it, but it’s also a sacrifice that he undertakes without complaint, even blessing the Daisy/Sousa pairing despite his prior crush. It even feels like a happy ending for him, potentially being both a rock god and the head of what’s left of Shield. I’m not sure any character has grown or become more endearing over the last couple of seasons than him, and I’m glad to see him get what I’d consider the best ending of the bunch.

Mack is still director, getting to close out on the helicarrier. Yo-Yo is still leading missions. And my favorite touch of the still-in-Shield crew is that Piper’s one wish for helping FitzSimmons was to get an LMD of Davis! Honestly, it may have been my favorite small touch in the finale.

Speaking of May, her teaching at the “Phil Coulson Shield Academy”, replete with good ol’ Flint(!) as a student, is a nice ending for her. I don’t know if it really completes the character’s journey for me, but it’s nice. She’s one of the major characters who kind of got her ending in S5, so it works as a grace note.

The same goes for FitzSimmons. The show gave away the game a bit when Simmons said “two become one then three become one” in her previous incoherent ramblings. The show got more juice out of her remembering Fitz than her reuniting with their child, but it’s still a nice beat. The fact that they got their happy ending with the life they made together up in space is a pleasant thought, and the bucolic tones of the two playing with Aliyah is sweet. Again, it’s all very nice, but just doesn’t carry the same emotional catharsis and impact their wedding did.

That said, I kind of like how understated Daisy’s ending is. There’s no “Me and Sousa are getting married” or “Kora is a whole new person”! It’s just “things are going well with both.” She’s built another new family and after feeling so lost in terms of romance and family when she started the series, having her end in a good but not “happily ever after” place is pretty darn good. It didn’t move me, but that’s okay.

Coulson’s ending is the one that threw me off the most. He, more than anyone, got his real ending in S5. But him getting his switch and his car is, again, at least nice, with a bit of a throwback to the show’s early episodes to boot, so I’ll take it.

At the end of the day, I’m not sure what more specifically I wanted. None of this material is bad. All of it is solid. I guess I just expected to have more of an emotional response after seven seasons and scads of adventures with these characters. It’s kind of a “life goes on” ending, which is bold in its own way. Still, it’s sweet and nice enough to pass muster, which I’ll count as a win given some of the series finales we’ve seen of late.

So farewell to Agents of Shield! A show that built its own unique and entertaining corner of the Marvel Cinematic Universe and used the freedom it found there for everything it was worth!

Where did all the production-value go?
The first two episodes dragged me into the world of Star Wars, but after that it‘s all down hill to me. Acting just meh, almost no good looking alien races anymore, heck even the droid from this episode was a pesky human in a bad costume. Just as bad as both of those Twi‘leks and the horned guy - bad actors in bad makeup. I really hope they fix this soon.

It did not meet my expectations that were set by the original trailers that Zack Snyder released. The fun parts are childish due to Whedon reshoots. Characters are deep, but they got dumbed down by reshoots, and the story is simplified.
The flashback scene is beyond awesome. Be sure to stay all the way until the end because the 2nd after credits scene is so good, it will blow your mind.

Also, I am hoping there will be a Snyder Cut because 2 hours just felt too short for this movie, and I know there are a lot more scenes that were cut for theatrical release, just like with BvS and SS.
All in all, it was a decent movie, but we deserve to see the real version of this movie as Zack Snyder intended it to be.

#ReleaseTheSnyderCut

Too long, often boring, dark atmosphere and more like an psycho-drama-thriller than adventure-action-sci-fi movie. I expected more and was a little bit disappointed from this movie. I was really sure to give it 10 points score but I can't give it more than 7 and that's only for the final battle and Wonder Woman, otherwise it would be 6. There are two B v S scenes and that's really not much for the movie called Batman v Superman.

And the end with 10 mins funeral...well...another cliché we saw too many times. We know he cannot die because of another movies and series and yet we have to watch 10 minutes funeral...why?
And what about Lex and Crypton ship? The most-advanced tech inside the ship and you can access the system with the Zod skin on your fingers? No other bio-metrics check? With all that technology? WTF?

I believe we fans deserve more than this.

After the 2014 Godzilla film, people demanded a dumb monster movie.
The result is something that joins the ranks of Jurassic World 2, Pacific Rim 2 or Rampage.
Happy now?

Pro's:
- Creature design/VFX.
- The set up for the 3 main human characters (the idea that drives them).

Con's:
- Massively overblown (especially at the end).
- Too much exposition and way too plot driven. Emphasizing the plot is never a good idea when you make a film like this.
- The dialogue in this is awful, and does the actors no favours.
- The characters are hollow shells, and constantly act in unnatural ways. Especially what they did with Vera Farmiga's character felt lazy and not earned.
- It overuses the orange and teal look to a degree where Zack Snyder would be jealous of it.
- If you thought the final season of GoT had a lot of deus ex machina and 'plot armour' moments, just know that you've seen nothing yet.
- The action scenes in this are incoherent and underlit, and therefore hard to follow.

I find it funny that whenever we get one of these, the take away for most always seems to be: too much focus on the humans, not enough on the monsters!
Well, here's the thing: you can't really develop characters like Godzilla or King Kong, so watching them for 2 hours walk through buildings and punching things is going to get dull very fast.
Therefore, you need the human focus.
You know which director knows this? Steven Spielberg.
You know which movie knows this? Jurassic Park.
So instead of demanding more shallow elements for the next one, let's maybe ask for the filmmakers to develop the characters for once, and stop focussing on a plot we've seen hundreds of times at this point.

2.5/10

If what Chidi said to Eleanor didn't make you cry, what is wrong with you?

My name is Barry Allen and I'm the... weakest hero alive. I'm so sorry about everything and it's all my fault. I have so many locks on my door one would thing I didn't have superpowers. I'm glad my awesome wife and her awesome friends know I am the Flash cause I sure as hell don't remember that. I also think it's superswell that they are Team Citizen and I just LOVED the long pause as they look into the great beyond. I'm the Flash, or at least I was... Now I'm just The Streak. Cause my wife invented that word and it resembles the streak of shit in my underpants that I constantly have these last seasons.

Oh and Mohinder... He's in this too. I keep forgetting.

the worst part of this episode...losing Charlie... :-(

My god this show has become so bad

I just hope those horribly written 2040 episodes and "flashforwards" are finally over now.
They never made sense for the show and were boring like hell.

Well, the pilot wasn't terrible; definitely better than the YouTube teaser. Don't know if the show will need the Arrowverse in order to take hold (or not). Time and "Crisis" will tell...

I was going to watch this episode until I realized that it is a two part episode, now I guess I will hold off until either closer to next week's episode or until I get next week's and watch them back to back. I'll do the same with the week after when we get the huge 5 show crossover!! :yum::grin:

I think I'm on Maddi's and the evil commander's side. Just kill them all.

[8.4/10] I worried about how this show was going to do Logan/Veronica. In 3 seasons + a movie, the series had already been around the rosebush tons of times with those two, and since the fanbase has thrived on romantic drama, I was dreading however it would get inserted into the show.

But I really like this. Logan has matured. He has become healthier and more in control of himself, and an all-around more stable person. But Veronica is not healthy yet. As she notes in voiceover, she’s hardened into a different sort of person, the type she once thought she could get away from, but returned to being in the movie.

Her basically telling Logan that she can’t deal with him when he’s that healthy, and maybe doesn't love him when he’s better, is devastating and destructive, in a very real sort of way. Logan’s fist through the door is scary, but it comes from a true place. And in the same way, while some of the dialogue is overwrought, her trying to stoke the fires in Logan that nearly burned him up, just because she’s still smoldering, is a really interesting note for the sow to explore.

It also leads to some neat entanglements later in the episode. We see the type of ability that Logan is keeping suppressed when he single-handedly takes out a pair of rough-and-tumble hillbillies and gets himself a job protecting Congressman Maloof. It’s a nice touch that DIck mentions his money issues, and watching Logan be a badass, nigh-John Wick style, is surprisingly entertaining! The way it promises to complicate the relationship between him and Veronica, personally and professionally, is intriguing as hell.

I’ll add that I like that Veronica sees these patterns. She pushes those thoughts away with the carnal and doesn't exactly take Logan’s advice to talk to his therapist, but when she sees a reflection of herself in Maddie, it gives her enough self-awareness to apologize and see the harm she’s caused. As I said in my last write-up, it’s the sort of smart character work that the original show excelled at.

At the same time, the mystery stuff is pretty good here too. We’re introduced to Clyde (J.K. Simmons!) who’s playing off his Oz filmography by portraying one of Big Dick’s associates from prison. We see in flashbacks how he engineered his way into this role, and given how he sizes up and shoos along Dick’s date, he seems like a worthy foil for Veronica, whether or not his “can you find my ex?” routine is real or not. The “previously on” hints that the hotelier who died was leading the charge against Big Dick’s “NUTT” campaign, which makes Clyde an interesting suspect to boot.

We also get an interesting wrinkle in the form of the two Mexican men trying to figure out who killed their boss’s nephew in their own extralegal way. One of the neat things about the original Veronica Mars is how it would address racism, and while some of it’s a little tongue-in-cheek here, you see it through those two characters and the way that lily white Neptune responds to them. The fact that they killed some robotics competition rival is also a neat little wrinkle in the investigation.

I’m also interested in Patton Oswalt’s role as the pizza guy/amateur crime-solver. He seems like comic relief (and another good chance for continuity gags with his tweet), but I had him pegged as red herring comic relief. The catch is that his declaration that the Congressman killed his brother’s fiancée creates a neat fly in the ointment for Mars Investigations.

The same goes for Maddie, the hotelier’s daughter. The show gets a little too didactic about it, but I like the fact that she is an echo of Veronica -- somebody who is resourceful, demanding, and more than a little reckless, who wants answers to questions no one can seem to resolve. Hopefully the show doesn't keep gilding the lily, but I like the dynamic between her and Veronica.

Last but not least, it’s always nice to see some familiar faces! I like how Dick Casablancas hasn’t changed at all, and his “I had to think about two things at once” bit was a big laugh. I also didn’t expect to see Liam Fitzpatrick as one of the returning figures, but it’s a nice way to quickly signify danger to the audience, and Veronica pulling a gun on him makes for a tense scene!

Overall, this is two episodes in a row that feel like worthy successors to, and continuations of, the work the show did in the 2000s. There’s plenty of interesting personal and professional and mystery threads for this season to tug on, and I’m enjoying the ride.

Like how they did a little tie in to Smallville.

Honestly, what the hell is this?

Stephen Root... Danny Trejo... awesome cameos!

on the other hand, the gang of scooter-riding-calvin-klein-models look way too comical for this show --- wtf??

It tries to spin too many plates, and it fails in every sense of the word.
Just for comparison, take a look at Wandavision.
That show consists of 2 storylines, namely inside of Westview and outside of Westview, and both of those storylines belong to the same plot.
Then take a look at this show:
- There’s the stuff with Karli and the flag smashers
- Then there’s all the stuff with John Walker and his storyline as replacement Cap
- It also wants to act as a Civil War sequel by picking up Zemo’s storyline and the Wakandans chasing after him.
- Let’s not forget about Sharon Carter and the stuff in Madripoor
- Oh yeah, there’s also a very ham-fisted and tacked on plotline regarding how Cap was supposed to be black
- And finally you have all of the personal stuff of Sam and Bucky, which also includes the therapist and Sam’s sister

I dare anyone to summarize the plot of this show in a few sentences, you simply won’t be able to because it’s so incoherent.

That’s not even to mention how dumb and poorly thought out this show as a whole is.
It wouldn’t be such a problem if it took itself less seriously, but no, it wants to make a point about how world leaders aren’t uniting us. It wants to talk about what it means to be black in America.
Do I need to remind anyone: this is a show where our 2 ‘heroes’ broke a criminal mastermind out of prison in return for ... intel.
It’s a show that thinks it’s morally justified to have the protagonist throw terrorists out of planes, and then have that exact same character confront someone else about the implications of killing.
And so on, and so on, even to the smallest things.
There’s this scene in the final episode, where a random UN employee just hands Bucky her phone and she’s like: “here’s Karli, she wants to talk to you”. Like, how did she get that phone number? Why didn’t you just write a direct confrontation between Karli and Bucky? They were already in the same building.

There are two things that keep it watchable: Kari Skogland’s direction is very good (loved the first action set piece) and the acting, for the most part, is solid. Erin Kellyman is by far the weakest link, and she lacks any kind of real presence as a terrorist leader. Wyatt Russell, Anthony Mackie and Sebastian Stan do a lot of the heavy lifting, and I can’t wait to see where they take those characters next.

4/10

Binged this in a day and yes it ends with a cliffhanger.
Mostly enjoyed it. Sometimes there are pacing issues and occasionally the acting was a little bit lackluster.

yo, Gina Carano got Thiccccccccc!

Do they actually have high school students writing these episodes?

The ending was so sappy and corny. That was probably one of the worst episodes. Barry vs the mirror people.

Hey Ray, remember when you lied about a shoulder injury & killed that kid with a grenade, you self-righteous wanker.

Major Spoiler: This one will blow your mind with the Dodge twist. Although, it’s also funny that Tyler didn’t only secretly get with Dodge. He got with a guy who was in disguise as a woman lol.

Really good. They're just kicking ass this last season. Just when the show has really found it's footing again, it's over.

This was the first episode where I felt the show finally figuring out what it wants to be. Hard to describe, but it drew me in more, I connected with characters more, and I didn't get bored like I have on previous episodes. I think having the new suit is helping a lot, but there's more to it than that as well.

Very good episode. Altho the similarities of alice and harley make her not totally unique. Her back story is interesting