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geebsTV commentary:
Westworld- Still lots of mysteriousness. Which I think can be a problem for shows like this, because sometimes it ends up too confusing for people. Like I saw an article that had a bunch of questions following this week's ep- one of the questions they had was why the Man in Black didn't even flinch whenever the hosts shot at him, while Mcpoyle (heh, I don't actually remember Jimmy Simpson's character's name) got knocked down. They were all, "Is the show already contradicting itself?" Now, I think I had also heard this in an interview, but I think the main reason is Mcpoyle is a newcomer, while the Man in Black has been playing for 30 friggin years.
I mean, I think the guests do feel something when they get hit. So, for someone who's been at the game for 30 years, they prolly get used to it/learn not to flinch/build up a sort of tolerance. And its not like the park could really program the guns to take that into account- "Oh, this guest has learned to take it, better up the impact a little!" because that would be an incredibly dangerous feature, if the hosts could up the damage as opposed to host=lethal hit, guest=non-lethal hit.
Which brings up the whole cyclops vs the cultists thing. They surrounded him and he did like zero damage to them. Now is it because these are supposed to be scary, super-tough hosts, or is it some kinda fucked up scenario where guests can pretend to be psychotic murderers working for Cyclops' sworn enemy guy?
And speaking of fucked up scenarios, the article was positing that's Dolores' current scenario, she's this vision of innocence and chastity who's "quest" involves hooking up with the perverse outlaws in town who mean to slaughter her family and ravage her? That can't be right, because that would be incredibly fucked up.
Also, another thing that annoyed me about the article was there reasoning for the one host to bash its own head in- they posited that perhaps it was 1) its glitchiness drove it crazy to the point it wanted to destroy itself or 2) killing itself was the only way it could stop itself from trying to kill Shannon Woodward's character. Like it was a last ditch imperative to protect her. I actually think its a 3rd option. Its off on some mission caused by the weirdness afflicting the robots, and destroying its own brain was a countermeasure to prevent the programmers from figuring out what's going on.
NCIS: LA- Heh, I would be kinda offended if I were Nell. Like the scene in the end, they act like Nell's sadness was finally getting to do more field work, at the expense of Kensi being in a coma. And so she feels guilty. But I would think part of it is feeling inadequate upon hearing Granger was looking for Kensi's replacement.
They've established Nell wants to be in the field. She may not be as lethal as the other folks, but as she told Hetty, that's fine. She wants to be her own person, and thinks she can make things work with her own methods different from how Callen, Sam, Kensi or Deeks would do things. So I'd think she'd hope they would at least make her Kensi's replacement, and be searching for a replacement for her in ops.
So like I said, I figured she'd be annoyed/upset/frustrated that perhaps she's not on the list to replace Kensi if they ended up having to.
OUAT- Interesting tale. So, we learn Jekyll/Hyde's back story. Jekyll was wanting recognition for his work, and he was also in to the daughter of the guy (played by Valerie from TVD, between this and SPN, looks like she's getting a lot of work this year) who's respect he was trying to earn. So Rumpel visits him and gets Jekyll to finish his formula and drink it. So he turns into Hyde and convinces the girl's father to finally give Jekyll the approval he'd been searching for. Only, he also catches Mary's eye.
She tells Hyde she could never go fro Jekyll. Not because he's less handsome and nerdier than Hyde, but because he lacks passion. His work is all about how emotions are a distraction and how they must be removed to really excel. So Hyde and Mary hook up. But then she's shocked when she wakes up next to Jekyll. They get into an argument, and being a whiny jerk who can't accept Mary has her own tastes which don't involve him, accidentally defenestrates her.
After this mess, Rumpel finds Hyde, and upon learning it was Jekyll who killed Mary and Hyde actually cared for her, gets angry and curses Jekyll and Hyde to the land of untold stories. Rumpel was hoping the formula would get rid of pesky things like emotion that were holding him back, so finding out the serum didn't work was pissed about how his time was wasted.
Which brings us to the present. Turns out Jekyll's been harboring a grudge against Rumpel, blaming him for Mary's death. If he hadn't finished the formula and taken it, Mary would've never gotten killed. Even though Jekyll was the one who killed her, and is also forgetting her agency in the matter- she was never going to go for him, regardless. So there's a lot of double bluffs going on. First the Evil Queen shows up at Rumpel's with Hyde, all, "I promise to not hurt Belle, too bad that doesn't apply to Hyde!"
So Rumpel puts a magic field on the ship trapping Belle inside to protect her. Then EQ and Hyde go to Jekyll's to destroy the new serum he's been working on. So Rumpel thinks Jekyll hid enough of it to use against Hyde and pours it on the Dark One's dagger so Rumpel can use it to kill Hyde. Then they have Jekyll (who only now learns Belle is back and alive) hide on the Jolly Roger. Only when Rumpel confronts Hyde, the dagger does nothing, because he says he switches on Jekyll's formula before hand. Not only that, since Rumpel was foolish enough to let the dagger go in shock, Hyde pulls it out of himself and uses it to control Rumpel.
Luckily, he only uses it to make Rumpel take him to the docks, where he can see something deliciously cruel- Jekyll going after Belle, and her being unable to escape because of the protection spell. But Hook is there to save her, and Jekyll ends up accidentally getting impaled on a harpoon. And then to everyone's shock, Hyde also expires.
Which is upsetting for Regina, since 1) the only way to stop EQ may be for her to die and 2) since Jekyll was still capable of evil, pulling EQ out of her didn't do anything really. She still has the capacity for evil and as such might just eventually get recorrupted. (So would that mean there would be two EQs floating around at that point?)
Other stuff. Heh, apparently Henry and Violet are a couple and flaunting it all over school. And MM's new TA is secretly Jasmine, though she's keeping her identity secret for some reason.
Westworld- Still lots of mysteriousness. Which I think can be a problem for shows like this, because sometimes it ends up too confusing for people. Like I saw an article that had a bunch of questions following this week's ep- one of the questions they had was why the Man in Black didn't even flinch whenever the hosts shot at him, while Mcpoyle (heh, I don't actually remember Jimmy Simpson's character's name) got knocked down. They were all, "Is the show already contradicting itself?" Now, I think I had also heard this in an interview, but I think the main reason is Mcpoyle is a newcomer, while the Man in Black has been playing for 30 friggin years.
I mean, I think the guests do feel something when they get hit. So, for someone who's been at the game for 30 years, they prolly get used to it/learn not to flinch/build up a sort of tolerance. And its not like the park could really program the guns to take that into account- "Oh, this guest has learned to take it, better up the impact a little!" because that would be an incredibly dangerous feature, if the hosts could up the damage as opposed to host=lethal hit, guest=non-lethal hit.
Which brings up the whole cyclops vs the cultists thing. They surrounded him and he did like zero damage to them. Now is it because these are supposed to be scary, super-tough hosts, or is it some kinda fucked up scenario where guests can pretend to be psychotic murderers working for Cyclops' sworn enemy guy?
And speaking of fucked up scenarios, the article was positing that's Dolores' current scenario, she's this vision of innocence and chastity who's "quest" involves hooking up with the perverse outlaws in town who mean to slaughter her family and ravage her? That can't be right, because that would be incredibly fucked up.
Also, another thing that annoyed me about the article was there reasoning for the one host to bash its own head in- they posited that perhaps it was 1) its glitchiness drove it crazy to the point it wanted to destroy itself or 2) killing itself was the only way it could stop itself from trying to kill Shannon Woodward's character. Like it was a last ditch imperative to protect her. I actually think its a 3rd option. Its off on some mission caused by the weirdness afflicting the robots, and destroying its own brain was a countermeasure to prevent the programmers from figuring out what's going on.
NCIS: LA- Heh, I would be kinda offended if I were Nell. Like the scene in the end, they act like Nell's sadness was finally getting to do more field work, at the expense of Kensi being in a coma. And so she feels guilty. But I would think part of it is feeling inadequate upon hearing Granger was looking for Kensi's replacement.
They've established Nell wants to be in the field. She may not be as lethal as the other folks, but as she told Hetty, that's fine. She wants to be her own person, and thinks she can make things work with her own methods different from how Callen, Sam, Kensi or Deeks would do things. So I'd think she'd hope they would at least make her Kensi's replacement, and be searching for a replacement for her in ops.
So like I said, I figured she'd be annoyed/upset/frustrated that perhaps she's not on the list to replace Kensi if they ended up having to.
OUAT- Interesting tale. So, we learn Jekyll/Hyde's back story. Jekyll was wanting recognition for his work, and he was also in to the daughter of the guy (played by Valerie from TVD, between this and SPN, looks like she's getting a lot of work this year) who's respect he was trying to earn. So Rumpel visits him and gets Jekyll to finish his formula and drink it. So he turns into Hyde and convinces the girl's father to finally give Jekyll the approval he'd been searching for. Only, he also catches Mary's eye.
She tells Hyde she could never go fro Jekyll. Not because he's less handsome and nerdier than Hyde, but because he lacks passion. His work is all about how emotions are a distraction and how they must be removed to really excel. So Hyde and Mary hook up. But then she's shocked when she wakes up next to Jekyll. They get into an argument, and being a whiny jerk who can't accept Mary has her own tastes which don't involve him, accidentally defenestrates her.
After this mess, Rumpel finds Hyde, and upon learning it was Jekyll who killed Mary and Hyde actually cared for her, gets angry and curses Jekyll and Hyde to the land of untold stories. Rumpel was hoping the formula would get rid of pesky things like emotion that were holding him back, so finding out the serum didn't work was pissed about how his time was wasted.
Which brings us to the present. Turns out Jekyll's been harboring a grudge against Rumpel, blaming him for Mary's death. If he hadn't finished the formula and taken it, Mary would've never gotten killed. Even though Jekyll was the one who killed her, and is also forgetting her agency in the matter- she was never going to go for him, regardless. So there's a lot of double bluffs going on. First the Evil Queen shows up at Rumpel's with Hyde, all, "I promise to not hurt Belle, too bad that doesn't apply to Hyde!"
So Rumpel puts a magic field on the ship trapping Belle inside to protect her. Then EQ and Hyde go to Jekyll's to destroy the new serum he's been working on. So Rumpel thinks Jekyll hid enough of it to use against Hyde and pours it on the Dark One's dagger so Rumpel can use it to kill Hyde. Then they have Jekyll (who only now learns Belle is back and alive) hide on the Jolly Roger. Only when Rumpel confronts Hyde, the dagger does nothing, because he says he switches on Jekyll's formula before hand. Not only that, since Rumpel was foolish enough to let the dagger go in shock, Hyde pulls it out of himself and uses it to control Rumpel.
Luckily, he only uses it to make Rumpel take him to the docks, where he can see something deliciously cruel- Jekyll going after Belle, and her being unable to escape because of the protection spell. But Hook is there to save her, and Jekyll ends up accidentally getting impaled on a harpoon. And then to everyone's shock, Hyde also expires.
Which is upsetting for Regina, since 1) the only way to stop EQ may be for her to die and 2) since Jekyll was still capable of evil, pulling EQ out of her didn't do anything really. She still has the capacity for evil and as such might just eventually get recorrupted. (So would that mean there would be two EQs floating around at that point?)
Other stuff. Heh, apparently Henry and Violet are a couple and flaunting it all over school. And MM's new TA is secretly Jasmine, though she's keeping her identity secret for some reason.
