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they’d make Jadis the White Witch out to be sympathetic because a guy broke her heart
Wasn’t Jadis supposed to be Adam’s first wife
its all there.You’re thinking of Lilith, but some of the offspring of Lilith were the Jinn and Jadis is said to be half-Jinn half-giant. So she’s a daughter of Lilith instead of Eve.
[adrotate group="5"]"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"Need Jerome back too.
The writers need to figure out a way to incorporate him full time. I honestly don’t know how they could do it without sacrificing some other stories but I think it would be worth it. If they got rid of Barnes and Lee, S4 could be a heady mix of the League infiltrating Gotham and Riddler/Penguin continuing their journey toward total villainy.
"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"Eh. I’m with HJ and DarkOneDearie on this one. Leave Narnia alone. I flippin’ love it too and that’s why I want A and E to just leave it be. Knowing those guys, they’d make Jadis the White Witch out to be sympathetic because a guy broke her heart and so she turned everything to winter to match her cold and unloving heart and turn Aslan into a morally ambiguous hero who makes bad choices for good reasons.
I already have a book series/TV show that takes Narnia mythology and dirties it up. The Magicians is doing just fine so A and E can just just move right on along.
"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"1×7 “The Other Side”
Man, I knew I should have fled to Canada back in November… (okay, semi-lame political joke aside…)
–Mostly a good episode but I hesitate to say great because I tend to be a bit of a purist when it comes to book adaptions and this is pretty much pure invention on the part of the TV show. It fits well with the world created by Atwood so I don’t have a huge issue with it but I do have to sit and ponder if I’m okay with the show having Luke’s story at all. It’s not just that it’s not in the book but that one of the big points of Atwood’s book is that it’s solely Offred’s story, and it’s told in piecemeal, clunky, and disjointed and you only get bits and pieces of other lives through Offred’s own perspective. It’s not exactly linear and it can have digressions (something that is explained in the epilogue) because her memory isn’t perfect and people don’t tell stories in neat straight lines. I think the show is trying to remove the final frame epilogue and make The Handmaid’s Tale a more complete (not sure if that’s the right word…?) story that encompasses more than just Offred hence why last week we got almost an entire episode devoted to examining Serena Joy and why Ofglen (Emily) has had her life opened up more so than in the book.
–With that said, it was still a really good hour of TV. I like the idea that survival makes strange bedfellows of us all. An army brat, a divorcee (and adulterer to boot), a homosexual, and a nun likely don’t have much in common or wouldn’t have run in many of the same circles in the normal world but here they band together because of circumstance.
–Where is Hannah or for that matter where are any of the other pre-Gilead children? This is another mystery that Atwood deliberately leaves unanswered (again, the epilogue really explains why. At some point I guess we’ll have to talk about the entire epilogue because I really don’t think the show is going to go that route, especially with the show getting a 2nd season).
–“Little America” in Canada. I wonder how that works. Is there a President? A Congress? Did the Canadian government fork over land to the American survivors and say “here!” How do the Canadians feel about this? Do the Canadians view the Americans as refugees and would they be hostile (*cough* keeping them in airports, denying them access to basically any sort of right or privilege? *cough*) I’m guessing not because the “Little America” didn’t seem like a ghetto or The Pale and they clearly have some sort of bureaucratic set up though again how does that work with the official Canadian government? Is Canada likewise undergoing a demographic plague like Mexico? If not, why? Is it because that country has always been a bit more forward thinking in certain social and economic problems?
"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"Well I think this was sort of answered in “Manhattan.”
It wasn’t that Rumple was a really different person when they got married and started planning a life. He was always kind and sweet–we see this even after the Rumple/Milah falling out that there’s a tenderness to him; and we see it in bursts with characters like Bae and Belle after Rumple became the Dark One–but there was also a hopefulness to Rumple. He was enthusiastic about going off to war, proving himself a hero, proving he was a good man and Milah certainly seemed to support that.
It was less about seeing something initially in Rumple that changed (like a latent character flaw) and more about Milah’s own perspective on Rumple’s actions on the battlefield (or lack thereof).
"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"I am left wondering how many people in the bunker are going to be left alive. I hope they find a way to show us some of that somehow. I guess they will talk about it
I’m guessing Jaha is dead and we’ll find out how at some point.
Along with deaths, I’m wondering about births. We know that Skaikru had restrictions on birth (one per family) because of limited resources. You gotta wonder if the Bunker and the Ring have something similar set up and how that actually went down with every one. I find it hard to believe Octavia wouldn’t have strong feelings about putting in that kind of mandate under ground.
"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"Some interesting questions/answers from the writers post S4 finale!
Speaking of what’s happening in the future, let’s talk about the final moments of the episode when we jumped ahead six years and seven days. Are we going to see flashbacks in season 5? Will we learn what happened in the bunker?
Time jumps are designed to be just that — to jump over some time. But I take your point. The time that we’re skipping is highly dramatic. [They spent] six years under the ground being forced to figure out how to survive. They realize that they’re stuck under there as Clarke tells us at the end of the episode. That’s going to be a story that we want to see. When we see Octavia at the beginning of season 5, it’s a pretty big “WTF” moment, and we’re going to want to know how she got there, so ultimately we will flash back and tell some story in the bunker and likewise on the ring.
So we’ll get space flashbacks, too?
When we go into the ring in season 5 and we see how Bellamy and Raven and Monty and the others have made it, we’ll be very surprised by what we find up there. Ultimately, we’ll want to tell some of the story of how it happened. And flashbacks are part of the DNA of the show, too, so it’s not like we’re like, “Oh, we’re going to do flashbacks for the first time.” We always do flashbacks!
Okay now i really want to know what’s going with Octavia!
"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"I was trying to edit a post in the Gotham thread (I made a typo), but when I hit “Submit,” it vanished. I tried reposting it, but nothing. Checked in another browser and on mobile — not there. My post history doesn’t show it, but I am listed as the last person to post in the thread, despite someone else’s post showing up.
I believe I fixed it?
"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"“Praimfaya”
–“I’ll be waiting. Under the floor.” (this conversation = cue all my Blake family feelings; that was intense)
–“I’ve got you for that.” Okay,maybe it wouldn’t be tooooo bad for Bellarke to make a go of it. Yeah sure, mostly cliche and predictable but it does make a certain amount of sense given all they’ve been through, both together and apart.
–“I left her behind. I left her behind and we all die anyway.”
–“It means she gets to take her spacewalk.” I love Raven. She was great in this episode taking charge and figuring out what needed done.
–I’m not surprised that Clarke got left behind and I’m pretty interested to see what her life (and everyone else’s life) was like for the five years apart. I’m guessing we’re gonna have a lot of flashbacks next season.
–Why do I get the feeling that they are keeping Echo alive to put her with Bellamy?
–Those were some crazy Praimfaya visuals! Nice job on the part of the CGI team.
–Six years and seven days? I knew there’d be a time jump but I guess I didn’t think it’d be that long. I honestly thought it’d be a straight five years.
–Who or what is in that ship????
Overall: this season has been a bit back and forth but I enjoyed more than I didn’t enjoy. I think they’ve opened up a whole new wave of drama since the ideas of “grounders and non-grounders” is sorta gone now.
"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"
