I've been watching this on Hulu on occasion, and while I sometimes fall asleep in the second half of an episode, and I have other things on my screen when I watch (email, forums, etc.), there appears to be some science fiction in this show. Looks like the writers might have a plan. So that and Giancarlo Esposito mean I'll keep watching for a bit. No Fahey siting yet, but hope springs eternal.
This show needs a different lead villain. The guy in charge of The Monroe Republic does not inspire menace or dread. Mustache Dad is more intimidating. Lucifer would be more intimidating. Hell - even General Evil from this episode is more intimidating. The curly hair, unremarkable build, and thoroughly average height just make this guy look like a mincing little boy playing pretend general. And his name is Sebastian. Also, if you want me to buy the fluffy latina as some sort of jaded bounty hunter, making her cry a bunch was not a wise decision. And just to pick a nit, I lived about a half an hour north of San Antonio for a very, very long time, and it never rains like that. I don't remember it, at any rate. Torrential downpour? Oh yeah - we got all that noise. But not a gentle rain shower. And...uh...was that the Death Star superlaser?
I'm glad we've gotten some details about why the power went out and that Googleboy isn't hauling around the secret anymore.
Honest question: Why don't mines detonate as soon as you trip them? It seems to me like they would be a lot more effective that way. Also, you know I have to say it - the only CD player I ever had that did that came with a whole car wrapped around it. Further, I question the assertion that the last thing that happens before you suffocate is hallucinate, without so much as a hint of a persistent delusion. And why does New Hurley know that? Did the state make him take a safety class before he and his wife could sleep in the same bed?
I liked how everyone died except the main characters. And by like I mean I was all "God dammit, reverse that!" Also, was the final line of that episode supposed to make me laugh? Cause it did. Walter White would be proud of that lady.
Considering how much hyping they did of all the answers being revealed while Kashmir played, it's a bit (where a bit means 'totally goddam') annoying that it turned out to be a hallucination.
Sometimes I'm glad that I don't see many commercials. I never knew that they were supposed to solve any mysteries. Though something significant better happen in the next episode, since it's the last one for a considerable number of months.
Help me out, doctor people. If you jab....let's say a three quarter inch needle into some bony teenager's taut neck while some other dude forcibly pulls her head back like he's trying to tie her eyebrows to her shoelaces, I'm guessing that you're not going to end up in said scrawny teenager's vascular system, are you? I would figure that you'd be more likely to hit her windpipe. I do wonder if this show's writers had the chance to see that episode of Breaking Bad, though. You know. The one that I have to think they're intentionally riffing on with the end of that last episode. I mean, they had to be, right? Because Gus is on this freaking show. So....the mid-season finale.... tl;dr - mild to moderate boo.
Yes, to everything Brian Seiler said. How is new Hurley overweight? They've been traipsing around North East US for like 3+ months. They better skinny that mofo up before next season or else!
Some people, a vanishingly few people, can be incredibly fit and still carry a lot of fat (assuming plenty of food, i.e., not starving).
Fuck this show. I mean, what the fuck was that? One stupid god damn decision after another. NO ONE was like "Maybe we should destroy the amplifier" or "Maybe we should take the necklace" or "JUST FUCKING SHOOT HIM IN THE FACE WHAT IS THE POINT OF TELLING HIM ALL THIS IF YOU ARE ABOUT TO KILL HIM?" It's infuriating.
Yeah, watching this with my wife here's how the conversation went: Lokust: Why the fuck did he not just shoot him? Pebele: So they can have a dramatic sword duel Lokust: Why the fuck would they do that? It's not like melee choreography has been this show's strong point. Pebele: Good point The show was uneven, but passable, up until that point. This was aggressively stupid and makes it decidedly unlikely that I'll watch more. I guess it could make a miraculous quality turnaround like Falling Skies did, but the odds of that happening are low.
If they were going to have Miles not shoot him and lower is gun, it had to be from him actually hesitating. Lowering his gun to give a speech about how he needs to kill him? C'mon.
So, remind me what part of dumb fire rockets and machine guns are electrical? I mean, let's set aside the fact that whoever the hell is operating this bird hasn't lost a step in fifteen years - the air superiority that they've garnered here amounts to rsimple explosive rockets and a turbocharged gatling gun. Did all of those dudes from Ancient Discoveries on the History Channel just evaporate after the cameras stopped working? This isn't complicated shit we're talking about here. I mean, if you've read The Dark Tower you know enough about how bullets work to at least take a guess. For that matter, is Monroe actually flying around this critical, impossible invention that he finally managed to extort out of Elizabeth Mitchell in an aircraft so famously unstable that you could shoot it right the hell out of the air with a musket and a lot of luck? I mean, all you've got to do is fuck up one rotor and your entire advantage just got flushed down the crapper. Or, better question - how come if the amplifier on the helicopter reaches all the way to the other helicopter, they still need their own amplifier to power up the shoulder fired missile launcher between them? Come to think of it, why in the fuck am I spending all this energy aiming my fucking RPG launcher in Far Cry 3 when that's apparently supposed to take care of itself? And as for the other.....feh. Whatever. He had the personality of a rotted trout anyway. At least now we got a magic blue LED, which is already at least thirty seven percent more charming than the actor it's replacing.
Some rocket fusings are electrical since at least WW2, for example, the bazooka. M61 Vulcan MGs also use electricity to power to rotate the barrels, as do miniguns, to my knowledge. I don't remember the MGs in that episode, but unless there was a hand working the trigger, that's probably electric too.
This show is really going to have to step it up pretty soon. Yeah, the over all premise is pretty original, but it's kind of just...stagnant. My roommate and I started watching it, but soon found ourselves talking during episodes because we were bored or it wasn't holding out attention. We'll at least finish out the season, but something different is going to have to happen soon if I continue with it.
This show could be great! But it's never going to be and after this season I'm going to quit it like I quit Heroes. Which could have been great too.
I'd be careful with that, if only because I remember the first season of Supernatural was not its best (the second elevated things a touch, the third was interrupted by a strike and featured Maggie from The Walking Dead doing a somewhat atrocious character, and then the fourth and fifth were top ten shows for their seasons). I'm willing to give it some time, and it's going to be around for at least as long as it continues to rep this hard, which means at least another whole season, and as many more as The Voice can deliver it. I do wish that Kripke would start poaching some talent from his other show, though. In particular, this show could use a Ben Edlund comedy episode.
Alright, Hollywood. Once - just one time in my goddamn life - could we have a show where nanomachines do a good thing BEFORE they destroy the world? I'm sure we're going to find out that the new star of the show isn't really a blue LED but is instead full of wonderful healing devices, but that doesn't count and you know it. Nanomachines have the capacity to end disease and make humans immortal, and somehow the first widespread application in this world was turning off people's blenders? A task that could be accomplished with some heavy duty pruning equipment and a pair of rubber gloves? Or a tree? Or a strong breeze? THAT'S the first (and last) thing that we did in an organized fashion with potentially the most powerful technology in human history? Oh, Eric... The good news, I guess, is that the writers know as well as I do that this is some bullshit, because this wasn't a reveal. It was just idle dialogue and a pencil sketch at the top of the episode. So that's good. Also, making Gus Fring a Lionel Richie fan isn't helping his lovability. At least put him on some Commodores to ease us in before you drop that on us.
For obvious reasons (okay, maybe not entirely obvious - you're going to run both hours of The Voice and then bail? that's not cynical at all, NBC), this will be preempted tonight, so if you watch it live, that won't be happening.
Wait wait wait wait wait wait wait...so, did Georgia, like, corner the patent on whimsical steampunk bullshit, and that's why nobody else figured out how to make one of those delightful buses that whole walking distance away from the border your glorious civilization appears to be situated? I say I say your respect for intellectual property is downright gentlemanly of you, you glorious half-racists. Like you could fool me. I matriculated to Jack C. Hays High School, mother fuckers. I could identify that thing by the suggestion of red. At least the director had the sense to put Tracy in a full uniform when she went undercover. I half expected her to sport a kicky nouveau confederate belly shirt so that the slower teenagers in the audience could finish. How noble of this show to brave the wrath of so many unresolved whackings in the name of verisimilitude. Fret not, dear boys - you can almost make out all of H.G. Wells's tits over on Defiance if you're quick about it. Though I guess if you were quick about it you wouldn't be in this mess. But let's look on the bright side. It might not have been in the actual show, but the whole mournful "Baby wants a Mustache Dad ride!" speech I put in the doughy little terrorist's mouth (Alec - because nothing says Genuine Class like half a rebel flag juxtaposed against thermonuclear megadeath) is one of the hilariouser things I've had involuntarily foisted into me by a show since the first season of Once Upon a Time. Christ but I'm all over the map tonight. I can't decide if it's worth the laughs I get out of it to dip this close to hypoglycemic shock. Edit: And to cap it all off, "all out war?" Not "total war?" No love for the Clausewitzian scholars in your audi...I can't even finish the sentence.
Somebody please tell me that the building at the end with the mysterious black lady we've met once who had a necklace and her balding minder was not The Tower. Because, you see, there's just one thing about towers. It's small, but important. Towers, you understand, go up. If the show has managed to get that wrong, I may never be able to stop belittling it. Although I will give the show some credit for improving. I'm not sure in what direction it's improving, but at least now I'm going into episodes with a sort of mild interest to see where things go, as opposed to the dull certainty that I had in the top half of the season. I think they're trying for quite a lot of unearned scenes (next week played up Tracy Spiridakos and Guy Who Only Doesn't Remind Me of Twilight Werewolves Because He Does, In Fact, Wear a Shirt finally boning down, which would be significant if they'd had more than five minutes together this entire season and the entire relationship was even a little bit more arousing than a tub full of tepid, used bathwater), and if New Hurley proves just one more time how not completely useless he is with the show sitting back, waiting for me to feel surprised or inspired, I may have to choke it, but I do want to know where in the holy hell this thing is going. I feel fairly certain that the producers aren't comfortable enough to let Elizabeth Mitchell or Mustache Dad go, so I don't think it's going to work out the way that her character does, but I don't quite know what to expect, which is better than the current early series, you have seen all of thee stories all of the times before phase that Defiance is going to have to go through for the next six or eight episodes before it feels comfortable enough to do anything outside of expectations.
So maybe I stopped watching this too soon. I haven't seen the last 3 because I couldn't stomach wasting 3 hrs of my life on another shite show.
I don't know that I'd call it good, but it's not predictable. Kripke certainly isn't afraid to move people around on the board - Gus Fring is working with Georgia now with Mustache Dad. Or he was. Not sure what the status on that is at the end of this episode.
