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geebsTV commentary:
12 Monkeys- What the what?! Everything's effed! So this ep, the heroes all fail miserably. Cassie and Cole spend a year undercover at the factory that's supposed to explode, trying to find the Primary. After a long and fruitless search that comes down to the wire, they think they do, but it turns out its a trick, someone paid off by the Messenger sent back to that time. Because they totally missed the Messenger right under their nose. But that's because he had decided to quit the mission and ended up marrying the real Primary.
Who proceeded to start dying of cancer, so the explosion ends up still taking place, a mercy kill of his love. Cassie ends up in a coma, and Cole takes off, supposedly because he feels like he's bad news and it will keep her safe. She wakes up soon afterward, can't find him, so she bides time being a nurse and secretly helping doctors with her advanced medical knowledge. She finally manages to track down Cole, who's living in a small shack in upstate NY. The very house she saw in the red forest in her visions. Basically, as she arrives, Cole accidentally cuts himself on a saw, staining the grass with his blood, and basically the whole scene plays out just like the Striking Woman told her.
What's frustrating is that Cassie is being all vague and "I've been here before!" instead of outright saying, "This is the house where the witness lives!" Anyways, Cassie is pissed at Cole for running away, saying he really did it because he's a coward and she knows he's in love with her and couldn't deal because she eventually has to go back and die. But Cole says he's tired of all this and says, why does she have to go back? He thinks they should just quit and let the chips fall where they may, what does it all matter? Either way things aren't going to end well, so why not just live their lives happily rather than fighting for an end where they die or things get uncreated or whatever anyways.
I mean, he feels bad, but he says they should just leave it to Ramse, who he hopes will kill the witness. Too bad he doesn't. That mission also goes horribly awry. The convoy is tired, and starving, and Jennifer loses two of her Daughters. One of the other Daughters also doesn't accept Jennifer, that its the other version, the one that Deacon killed that she pledged herself to. So she's kinda pissed when this Jennifer holds her back from killing him.
Eventually, she gets mutinous, and she and Ramse fight it out. Ramse wins, but Jennifer stays his hand. But yeah, tensions are high because they don't think Titan exists and this is a fools errand. Hannah scouted the area its supposed to be and saw nothing. But since the storm is almost upon them, they check again anyways. They being Ramse, Deacon, Whitley, and Hannah, with Jennifer choosing to stay with the Daughters, who have refused to go any further.
They come upon like a refinery or power plant looking complex, which Hannah didn't see last time. And so they go in, and see the witness on a dais surrounded by weird red symbols on the floor. Instead of just shooting the witness, Ramse tries to get them to reveal themselves, and he fails to notice the Witness' friends sneak up on them. So after a few seconds of the witness just staring at him non-responsively, he turns and sees Deacon, Whitley, and Hannah have been taken at knife point.
Another of the Witness' robed friends mortally wounds him with a punch dagger, and he collapses to the ground helplessly. Ramse is forced to watch them execute the others, and all the while, the scene is interspersed with images of Cassie and Cole making love, having chosen to quit their mission. So C&C quit, the team is dead, all and all a bleak ending where it seems like the Witness wins. But I guess something will happen next week to snap Cole out of it and put them back on their mission?
12 Monkeys- What the what?! Everything's effed! So this ep, the heroes all fail miserably. Cassie and Cole spend a year undercover at the factory that's supposed to explode, trying to find the Primary. After a long and fruitless search that comes down to the wire, they think they do, but it turns out its a trick, someone paid off by the Messenger sent back to that time. Because they totally missed the Messenger right under their nose. But that's because he had decided to quit the mission and ended up marrying the real Primary.
Who proceeded to start dying of cancer, so the explosion ends up still taking place, a mercy kill of his love. Cassie ends up in a coma, and Cole takes off, supposedly because he feels like he's bad news and it will keep her safe. She wakes up soon afterward, can't find him, so she bides time being a nurse and secretly helping doctors with her advanced medical knowledge. She finally manages to track down Cole, who's living in a small shack in upstate NY. The very house she saw in the red forest in her visions. Basically, as she arrives, Cole accidentally cuts himself on a saw, staining the grass with his blood, and basically the whole scene plays out just like the Striking Woman told her.
What's frustrating is that Cassie is being all vague and "I've been here before!" instead of outright saying, "This is the house where the witness lives!" Anyways, Cassie is pissed at Cole for running away, saying he really did it because he's a coward and she knows he's in love with her and couldn't deal because she eventually has to go back and die. But Cole says he's tired of all this and says, why does she have to go back? He thinks they should just quit and let the chips fall where they may, what does it all matter? Either way things aren't going to end well, so why not just live their lives happily rather than fighting for an end where they die or things get uncreated or whatever anyways.
I mean, he feels bad, but he says they should just leave it to Ramse, who he hopes will kill the witness. Too bad he doesn't. That mission also goes horribly awry. The convoy is tired, and starving, and Jennifer loses two of her Daughters. One of the other Daughters also doesn't accept Jennifer, that its the other version, the one that Deacon killed that she pledged herself to. So she's kinda pissed when this Jennifer holds her back from killing him.
Eventually, she gets mutinous, and she and Ramse fight it out. Ramse wins, but Jennifer stays his hand. But yeah, tensions are high because they don't think Titan exists and this is a fools errand. Hannah scouted the area its supposed to be and saw nothing. But since the storm is almost upon them, they check again anyways. They being Ramse, Deacon, Whitley, and Hannah, with Jennifer choosing to stay with the Daughters, who have refused to go any further.
They come upon like a refinery or power plant looking complex, which Hannah didn't see last time. And so they go in, and see the witness on a dais surrounded by weird red symbols on the floor. Instead of just shooting the witness, Ramse tries to get them to reveal themselves, and he fails to notice the Witness' friends sneak up on them. So after a few seconds of the witness just staring at him non-responsively, he turns and sees Deacon, Whitley, and Hannah have been taken at knife point.
Another of the Witness' robed friends mortally wounds him with a punch dagger, and he collapses to the ground helplessly. Ramse is forced to watch them execute the others, and all the while, the scene is interspersed with images of Cassie and Cole making love, having chosen to quit their mission. So C&C quit, the team is dead, all and all a bleak ending where it seems like the Witness wins. But I guess something will happen next week to snap Cole out of it and put them back on their mission?
