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So glad this board has an Ignore button--not all do.
I answered you in a long rant on another post (sorry). More succinctly: no, it doesn't go downhill after Ep 5. I doubt any fan would think so.
Not accurate at all. First, there was nothing "funny" about Robin being obliterated by A-Train, unless you're a 12-year-old brat. Yes, it was shocking, and yes, the rather bland romantic banter preceding it lulled you into a state that you were totally shocked by it. But Hughie didn't find it funny, and it sent him down a dark road where he was manipulated and turned him into a murderer.
But that's just one point. The show was consistent from one episode to the next: dark humor, moments of anti-heroism, people struggling with their agendas, outright funny moments like MM whining to his wife about missing Downton Abbey, etc. I agree with Zeesha: this is just another hypocrite who likes to make fun of everyone but evangelicals, and when evangelicals get mocked, suddenly they are offended little snowflakes.
Rant over. :)
They look kinda similar in the cheekbones.
Thanks--I've never heard of Banshee but will check it out.
I was thinking he still needs food and water--so starving him to death wasn't an option? He also needed air to breath; they couldn't let all the oxygen turn into CO2 in his room? But I guess the show isn't totally serious, and that seemed a darkly comic way to kill him, and more exciting than suffocating.
It worked well enough for me. Not the best movie ever, but it was okay.
I think there was always tension beneath their druggie, hippie paradise, like they were living on a volcano. The map gets out, more tourists show up, and the game is finally over. So, broad strokes worked for me. Having him go jungle-crazy hunter was weird and didn't work, but I can overlook that.
Something that was haunting was how they partied on while their erstwhile party buddy died in the forest. It exposed them for a bunch of worthless people, so I was glad when the whole thing collapsed. Karma.
And do the comics explain who the father of her baby is? At first I thought it'd be Homelander, but that got ruled out.
I'd never heard of or seen Antony Starr before, but yes, he was amazing as Homelander. As much as I disliked that smarmy, phony Supe, I enjoyed every scene he was in. Starr really nailed that role.
The funny thing is these people were chosen to make peaceful first contact with aliens, and they can't even get along with each other for 5 minutes at a time.
Yeah, Netflix shows seemed like they were getting better. This seemed so amateurish. Watched first 3 eps and then the final one. Nothing redeeming at all.
Thanks for clarifying that. The TV show left me with the impression that they would only number in the hundreds. The comics sound a little more like X-Men, actually, if they focus on the social divisions caused by large numbers of Supes/mutants and normals. But I haven't read the comics, so that's just a wild guess.
I thought it would be a parody, but I think it stands more on its own as a story about how cynical and self-serving people can be, especially when they get a shot at power, but even when they don't have much. (Butcher and Starlight's mother aren't very powerful on their own but just as morally bankrupt as Stillwell and Homelander.)
Just finished bingeing and I was amazed at how good it was. Wow. Can't wait for season 2.
Thanks for that link
Those would be my guesses, just based on present-day human behavior. Probably not rape as in attacking someone in a dark alley and physically overpowering them, more like Harvey Weinstein pressuring women into it or they'd lose their job, so in that sense they would appear to go along with it no matter how much they hated it. And probably a lot of stories from other servant women too about "that's the way it is."
Just speculating, or mostly speculating. A relative traced our family history back to late 1800s Sweden where there was a milkmaid on a noble estate who didn't list a father on the birth record for her baby. We were left to wonder if it was a manor lord or maybe a boyfriend or maybe a fling with a stranger, but the family legend (yes, not reliable) was it was the manor lord or one of his sons who wanted to keep their name off the record.
Downton Abbey definitely whitewashed things both upstairs and downstairs. I think that aristocrats taking sexual advantage of servants was more common than Downton would ever hint at, though with Robert as the only nobleman in the house (and being very proper), I guess that reduced the chances of that happening. (He did dally with the widowed maid, Jane, but that was consensual.)
Great catch!
Just adding my 2 cents--I thought Mother went out of her way to demean and antagonize Woman, and she didn't need to, since Woman already hated and mistrusted her. So, I took that as an emotional attitude. She resented the intruder in her home, she resented her daughter's new BF who was a bad influence, and she also seemed rather snobby, as in "you're one of those dirty people from the ghetto who doesn't belong in my Downton Abbey."
Interesting theory. I would say that from what we see, Mother is doing most of the right things that a parenting book/video would teach, and I assumed that's where she learned them. But I like your point about daughter #2. Maybe she wasn't a mistake who was ejected but instead was used for observational learning by the AI.
Yeah, I'm a sci-fi fan, and there was less sci-fi 20 years ago, so I stayed on the lookout for it, but I never discovered Gattaca until I found it in Blockbuster. I'd never seen ads for it at all when it was released, and there was no buzz.