The Originals SN3 EP20 – ‘ Where Nothing Stays Buried ‘

SN 3EP20: Where Nothing Stays Buried

Written By: Christopher Hollier & Carina Adly MacKenzie

Directed By: John Hyams

I need to preface this whole review with this …. SPOILERS AHEAD!

This is your last chance…. get out while you can.

Ok.  First, I never really liked Davina.  She just seemed sort of self absorbed to me.  But, the way they took her out?  Oh hell no!  That was way f***ed up!

Now, that I have that out of the way, let’s continue.

The fight scene between Klaus, Hayley and Lucien was so great.  And, Lucien finally got exactly what he deserved and the win10 hybrid is no more.  And the only thing that sucks about that is that it was one of my better snarky jokes, and I can’t use it any more.

The writers finally gave us Haylijah… which means one of them is probably gonna die now.

I can’t help it, and I don’t know why…maybe I just have a thing for bad boys… but I really like Kol.  And, when he got his “revenge”, I cheered.  And, when Vincent called out Freya for the way she took out Davina… yeah, I fist pumped over that one too.

I really liked the cover of Mike and The Mechanics song Silent Running that they used in the goodbye scene between Davina and Marcel.

The loss of Davina is going to bring about a Civil War in New Orleans, and it shouldn’t have to survive two of them.  All I could say when Vincent brought the win10 hybrid juice (oh look, I did get to use it again!) to Marcel to take was … Oh this is bad… this is very, very bad. (And Lucy, was saying it with me…at the exact same time.  It was like synchronized prophecy.  You should’ve been there.)

And with two episodes left in the season, we’re about to see just how bad it can be.

The Vampire Diaries SN7 EP21 – ‘ Requiem For A Dream ‘

SN7 EP21: Requiem for a Dream

Written By:  Brett Matthews & Neil Reynolds

Directed By: Paul Wesley

Just in case you skip all that stuff directly above this sentence and jump right into the article…. this episode was directed by Paul Wesley.  Paul Freakin’ Wesley, b!tches!  So, let me start there.  His directing of the action scenes was amazing…. that was by far my favorite part of the episode as far as the directing goes.  A close second, would be the great shots of Damon and Stefan’s phone call conversations, which by the way give us the best line of the episode.  The award goes to Damon (as usual) for the line “I’m sorry, I must have the wrong number, because I dialed ‘H’ for Hero.”

I have to admit that I’ve never been a real big fan of Matt.  And, to be honest, I really kinda hate him now.  For a while, I’ve called him “Deputy Dumbass” while watching the show with Lucy (my bff that watches with me every week).  Lucy laughed and agreed with my pronouncement the first time I called him that, so the nickname has continued.  This week Deputy Dumbass announced to Damon that he’d been promoted to Sheriff… so, of course, that prompted me to announce, “Oh? So now, Deputy Dumbass is Sheriff $h!thead.”

As far as Damon goes in this episode … it was pretty much his usual M.O. … doing the wrong things for the right reasons.  With everyone tag-teaming to try and wake Bonnie up, Damon was the one with the right idea.  Well, except he broke the first rule of this show. (Remember the Rule Book that I said I needed to write?)  Don’t piss off Bonnie Badass!  Damon pissed her off so that she’d wake up and come after him.  The only problem with that was… well…. she came after him.  And, when Bonnie Badass almost killed Damon, we got to hear him tell her what she means to him…and how much he admires her.  It all made my Bamon-shipping heart skip a few beats.  I don’t really have a problem with the whole Bonzo (that’s what I’m choosing to call Bonnie/Enzo and I don’t care what the rest of the fandom calls them) relationship; I’d just rather see her with Damon.  Anyway, back to the Bonnie Badass killing Damon thing… guess who saved him.  Go ahead guess.

Sheriff $h!thead.

That only earned him a couple of redemption points with me.  Don’t get me wrong… I still hate him.  But, you know what I think?  I think that’s what the writers are going for… I think they want us to hate Deputy Dumbass… uh sorry… Sheriff $h!thead.

The whole Stefoline scenario this episode really made me giggle a lot.  It’s nice to see Stefan finally following his big brother’s example.  For once, he handled things the Damon way instead of the Hero way…. and now Caroline is safe … well… safer.

All in all, I really enjoyed this episode, and it sets us up nicely for the finale next week.  Wow…is it really been a whole season already?  Where does the time go?

 

Russo Brother’s Accidentally Reveal Captain Marvel For ‘Avengers: Infinity War’

Right on the tails of the Russo’s revealing their plans for Avengers: Infinity War, they also let another spoiler slip – Captain Marvel will be in the line up for the Infinity War – Part I.

The blonde hero Carol Danvers, who is due to her standalone movie in 2019, was brought up by mistake by the brothers during an event at the Smithsonian Institute. During a discussion about Infinity War the Russo’s mentioned Captain Marvel by name.

A fan immediately pounced with “Did you just confirm Captain Marvel?”

“Um…” Russo replied, “Captain Barvel. Totally different character.”

Right Russo. Totally. We’re so excited for the appearance of Captain Barvel in 2018. Meanwhile, you can see fan reactions to this under the twitter hashtag “#MarvelatSI” to this and more statements from the Russo’s.

Avengers: Infinity War Part I is due for release May 2018, with Part II following up in 2019, and Captain Marvel will make her solo debut in 2019.

Penny Dreadful SN3 EP1 – The Day Tennyson Died

Let the bells ring out and the banners fly, Penny Dreadful is back! Dreadfuls rejoice! For a list of all the main characters and the actors who portray them, please see my introductory post here.

The opening scene of this first episode sees Sir Malcolm Murray’s home in severe disarray. There are dust covers on the furniture, shuttered windows, flies, cobwebs, dirty dishes, rotting leftovers and a mountain of mail at the door. As we tread the stairs, we find Vanessa Ives in a similar disarrayed state. She is clearly beyond caring about her home, herself or her life. Her friends are scattered to the four corners of the earth. She is truly alone, having deserted, or been deserted by, her faith. She slowly drags her sorry self down the stairs to the back door, where a box of food supplies is waiting. As she drinks the milk straight from the bottle, and tears into a loaf of bread with her teeth, a knock comes at the door. A voice tells her he knows she is there, and he will not go away. He will knock until his knuckles are bloody if necessary. She opens the door and lets Ferdinand Lyle in. He glances around and tells her that he loves what she has done with the place. As they sit in the living room, he tells her that the bells they can hear are for Lord Tennyson, who has passed away, leaving London in mourning. He quotes Tennyson’s ‘In Memoriam A.H.H.’ “tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all”. Vanessa remains silent with tears welling in her eyes, while Lyle tells her that he is saddened to see her like this. He relates a time when a certain doctor helped him during his own dark days, and begs her to see this doctor. He offers to make the appointment for her. At this, Vanessa’s reserve crumbles completely, and she cries in his lap.

Across the pond, in New Mexico Territory, a train is puffing its way across the landscape. Inside one of the train cars, we find Inspector Rusk and a companion passing the time in conversation, discussing the terrain. Also in this car are a number of law enforcement types, all of whom are keeping watch on Ethan Chandler. Rusk declares that he needs tea. He inquires as to where the club car might be, and takes his leave of Ethan, companion in tow. In the club car, the bartender makes small talk, wondering what the prisoner did as he doesn’t look all that dangerous. Rusk tells him that the prisoner not only butchered a lot of people, he also ate a fair number of them. What a conversation killer! Yet another car contains a bunch of rough looking characters and a woman. The woman is Hecate Poole (Sarah Greene), one of now deceased Evelyn Poole’s daughters, who has seemingly followed Ethan and Rusk. I am not sure at this point whether she will be a big help or a big bad for Ethan, it could go either way. She did help Ethan escape the locked stairwell in her Mother’s mansion, after all, but whether that motivated by a desire to help Ethan or to help herself, I am not sure. Although I do suspect self interest, since Ethan as wolf then killed Evelyn Poole. The leader of this bunch of ruffians checks his watch, and nods to the rest. Obviously, there is a plan afoot! They get up and move to Ethan’s car, where they slaughter all the lawmen. The rest of the men in their own car are also shot dead, but Hecate is spared, because she “plays the woman card”. Yeah, I went there, lol. Rusk and his companion are alive and unharmed but outnumbered, so they merely stand and watch as the gang slings a now unconscious Ethan over the back of a horse, and ride off.

In Zanzibar, German East Africa, Sir Malcolm is sitting in a bar, drowning his sorrows as he composes a letter to Vanessa. He writes that Sembene is now buried in the mountains where he came from. He tells her that the Germans have captured many of the locals for slaves, his romance with Africa is done and so the land is tainted now for him. He wants nothing more than to be quit of the filthy place. He wonders what is next for him. He ends the letter saying that he will cable when he finally has his itinerary in mind, and hopes that the letter finds her well and at peace. He pays his tab, and leaves the bar, completely missing the nod that a suspicious looking man gives to another. He is accosted down the street by a woman who begs him for some money for her baby. He gives her some, but she begs for more, offering to fuck him for it. Sir Malcolm turns away, only to discover that she has a gun which is now pointed at him, and her fellow thugs have closed in to beat more money out of him. A complete stranger comes to his aid, and between them, they manage to put the thugs down like the mad dogs that they are. The stranger bends over and scalps one of the bodies, remarking “Old traditions die hard, don’t they Sir Malcolm?”

Somewhere in the far north, a ship is frozen into the ocean ice, at the mercy of a howling wind. The deck of the ship is littered with frozen bodies. Inside, a handful of survivors are disussing killing and eating each other, in order to survive. The Captain thinks they should die as men, not animals, and goes to comfort a sick child. One of the survivors thinks that the Captain should hasten the child’s end and let them eat. Caliban stands protectively in front of the child, and the survivor goes to sit back down. Caliban hums a lullabye to the child, and realizes that he has hummed this lullabye to a child in his previous life, before his resurrection by Victor Frankenstein. He asks the Captain how long he thinks the child has. The Captain thinks a matter of days at most, so Caliban decides that it is better the child dies quickly, snaps the child’s neck and leaves. When the Captain asks where he is going, he says “Home”. We leave Caliban slogging across the open ice.

Sir Malcolm buys the stranger a drink, which the stranger declines. He asks the man if he is an American Indian, which the stranger confirms. “Chiricahua Apache by birth and by right”. The man asks Sir Malcolm if he is familiar with the West. Sir Malcolm admits that he is familiar only to the extent of what he reads in the newspapers. He is curious how the stranger knows him, so the stranger admits that he has been following him. He missed Sir Malcolm in London, and so has been waiting in Zanzibar for his return from the Interior. Sir Malcom wants to know what made him so sure he would return, to which the stranger tells him that he cannot die until he has served his purpose. Sir Malcolm asks him what purpose that would be, and the stranger says that it is to fight the great demons of the earth and sky until he is dead. Sir Malcolm claims to be done with that, but the stranger insists that he is not. And that Sir Malcolm must come with him to America, because Ethan Chandler needs their help. Sir Malcolm wonders that he expects him to go. The stranger tells him that he demands it. His name is Kaetenay (Wes Studi). If Sir Malcolm comes with him, he will tell the story. Sir Malcolm wants to know where, and Kaetenay says “New Mexico, my home and his home. He who is almost my son. You know you have a further destiny, let this be it. Our son needs us.”

In New Mexico, the group has stopped for a rest. Ethan is now conscious, and the gang leader calls him by his birth name, Mr. Talbot. Ethan realizes that all the people on the train died because his father wants him home. Ethan wishes them luck getting him there, under his breath.

In London, a dark complexioned man, walking by the docks is nearly inundated with the contents of a chamber pot being thrown out of an upstairs window. The woman throwing the contents screeches insults at him. He finds the address that he is looking for, climbs the stairs and bangs on the door. The door opens to reveal a disheveled and wild eyed Victor Frankenstein. Victor thanks Dr. Jekyll (Shazad Latif) for coming. They catch up on old days while drinking tea, and Jekyll notices the track marks on Victors’ arms. Victor tells him why he has contacted Jekyll after so long. He has conquered death and created monsters, none more so than himself, and he needs Jekyll’s help. Jekyll assures him of their friendship and Victor proceeds with his tale.

Vanessa has cleaned herself up, and is on her way to see Dr. Seward (Patti Lupone), a practitioner of mental medicine. She enters the office and announces herself to the secretary. While the secretary is gone, she scratches at herself. The secretary brings her to the inner office. The doctor enters, and Vanessa is immediately struck by her resemblance to her old mentor, Joan Clayton aka The Cut-Wife (also played by Patti Lupone in Season 2). Dr. Seward introduces herself as an alienist – a new branch of medicine to do with the mind. She claims that her methods, while unorthodox and expensive, work. She is abrupt, almost to the point of rude, and immediately draws the doctor patient boundaries.

There is a lively conversation between the two, resulting in Vanessa learning that Dr. Seward is in fact related to the Cut-Wife. Dr. Seward challenges Vanessa on several points – her scratching, and the downplay of her money. Dr. Seward takes Vanessa on as a patient, mostly because she is interesting, after doing a very fast but 100% accurate profile of her. Vanessa is interested too, and agrees to come back. Seward tells her she must break the cycle for just one day by doing something she has never done before coming back on the following day.

Victor gives Dr. Jekyll a tour of his “house of pain”, and claims that every sin of his creations hangs on him, which is why he has turned to the needle. Victor wants Jekyll’s help to destroy Lily, but Jekyll thinks that what he actually wants is to have Lily love him again, an endeavor which Jekyll is happy to take on. His field of work is in neurological chemical reactions of the brain, which he has been brought to by taming his own inner beast. He feels that is the answer to bringing Lily back to Victor. Victor agrees, with the codicil that if they fail, Jekyll will help him destroy Lily utterly. They arrange to meet at Jekyll’s lab on the following Saturday.

Vanessa leaves the Doctor’s office, and while walking is followed by a pale man. She is accosted by a young very pale boy who is selling mementos honoring Tennyson. The young boy tells her to savor the day, and calls her “my beautiful lady, my beloved”. WTF? As she continues on her walk, she finds herself entering the Museum of Natural History, where she is drawn to the wolf, (representing Ethan for her) and the scorpions which represent herself. She is drawn into conversation by the curator, Dr. Alexander Sweet (Christian Camargo), who tells her that the smallest ones are the most dangerous. They discover common ground, having both practiced taxidermy as youngsters. When Dr. Sweet needs to attend to business, she finishes her tour and returns to her home. Back at the house, she indulges in some cathartic cleaning, tearing off the dust covers, throwing open windows and generally putting the house back in order. She writes to Sir Malcolm, telling him that she has not been honest in previous letters. She misses Ethan, and if she believed in the old words still, she would pray for him, but that she has either left her faith or it has left her. Even though her immortal soul may be lost, yet she remains. She informs him that Tennyson has died, and that all London is in mourning.

Dr. Seward’s secretary locks up the office, and goes in search of a little stress relief. As he is getting it on with a prostitute in an alley, he is rudely interrupted by some unknown force and taken to an abandoned warehouse where the pale man, the young boy and others are crawling around the place upside down. Something approaches, causing these creatures to bow and scatter. A voice tells the terrified secretary to have no fear. The voice wants to know everything about Vanessa, and instructs the secretary to find out all her secrets, and bring them to him. The voice demands the secretary’s name. The secretary tells the voice his name is Renfield (Samuel Barnett). The voice then demands Renfield’s neck, his blood, and tells him that his name is Dracula.

Fade to black.

This episode sets up the season in a satisfying fashion for me. We have the introduction of more classic fiction characters, a new original-to-the-series character who may end up being a love interest for Vanessa, and the clue that Vanessa is still the object of a dark suitor’s attention. The question for me is, is Dracula a rival to the Devil, working for the Devil, or are the two going to end up being one and same? Time will tell.

Thanks for reading, and be sure to check out other blogs on Skatronixxx.com!

 

Russo Brother’s Announce Plans For’Avengers: Infinity War’ Part I & Part II

With the UK release of Captain America: Civil War right behind them, and the US release pending, people might think the Russo Brother’s would want to wind down a little, have some time on the down low.

People might be wrong.

In the space of 24 hours, Joe and Anthony Russo have announced two of their plans for Avengers: Infinity War, the two-part feature coming in 2018 and 2019 respectively.

The first bit of news, is that the Russo brothers are planning on a name change for the two titles. So far, Infinity Wars is just a working title it seems.

“It is misleading,” stated Anthony Russo, when asked about the current two-part title for Infinity War.

“The movies are two very different movies,” said Joe Russo, explaining why the title change has come about. “The intention is we will change it, we just haven’t come up with the titles yet,” he said. “But, yes, we will change it. And, yes, that is a scoop: we will retitle them.”

To top off this title change, the Russo brothers then made a nod to how Captain America: Civil War will affect things for Avengers: Infinity War (don’t worry, no spoilers here folks!)

What we do know about Captain America: Civil War is that it features Marvel’s biggest and bravest facing off against each other, in a heated conflict that’s ripped the team into two sides. Regardless of however the Russo’s choose to tell that story, it’s a story that will have an impact that will carry on through, and set the tone for Phase 3.

According to Joe Russo, that’s exactly what he had planned;

“What we love about [the Marvel Cinematic Universe] as storytellers is that we get to tell a story over the course of movies. We get to take the characters on journeys that, again, can be unique to the cinematic experience. So knowing that we’re doing ‘Infinity War’ really informs ‘Civil War’ because we knew we wanted to leave the characters in as complicated a place as possible to set up Infinity War.”

Scary words, Mr Russo, scary words – and yet also, completely reassuring that the MCU and the fate of the Infinity War movies are in the completely right hands. The whole point of the Cinematic Universe is that it’s a universe, and these movies have got to tie into one another and balance each other, even when it’s completely different directors and writers. It’s much like the link people make between Iron Man 3 and The Avengers; Age of Ultron – IM3 effectively ended in Tony Stark retiring and destroying all his suits, and then Age of Ultron opened on him kicking ass, running the Stark Tower as the Avengers Tower, and still very much working as a superhero, with no reference to the arc reactor he had removed from his chest.

The fact that the Russo’s are treating every project they’re given by Marvel as a careful piece to a bigger story, making sure they’re leaving their ends ready for the next beginning, is a massive reassurance for Marvel fans.

Avengers: Infinity War Part I is due 2018, and Part II is due 2019, pending name changes.

Supernatural SN11 EP20 – ‘ Don’t Call Me Shurley ‘

SN11 EP 20: Don’t Call Me Shurley

Written By:  Robbie Thompson

Directed By:  Robert Singer

OH.  MY. CHUCK!

Speechless.  Try to manage…. I just don’t have an even to can’t.

Cheers!

Chuck’s “World’s Greatest Dad” coffee mug!

Metatron?  Good?  Chuckdamn!

The Fog …. ooooh scary.

SA-UM!!

*SQUEEEE* The Samulet

Rob…uh God….singing!

Chuck saves everybody!

“We should talk”

You can always tell when we get a greater than great… totally awesome… episode of The Show.  It’s still trending on twitter more than two hours after the East Coast airing.

I’m not going to apologize for the review I gave last week’s episode.  But, I will say that this week they totally knocked my socks off and made up for it.  I’m still squee’ing.  And, holy crap monkeys, Batman, how are we going to wait until next week?!

 

Bates Motel SN4 EP8 – ‘ Unfaithful ‘

Last week we seen that Norman had started to make progress in his sessions with Dr. Edwards but that all changed in an instant when Norman and Julian were making things with papier-mâché, Norman comes across a newspaper clipping with Norma on it and quickly arranged the torn pieces together and discovers that Norma and Romero are married and he is not pleased . He wants out of Pineview and calls Norma to tell her so, but Dr. Edwards doesn’t think it’s a good Idea and nor does Norma. Dylan search for Emma’s mother leads him to find a letter she wrote to Emma in Norman’s room and when he checks the motel guest list, he sees Audrey checked into the motel but never checked out. Did Norman kill her or was it his split personality Norma that did the deed? I’m still not 100 percent sure and don’t know if well will ever know. Norman finally gets his wish and is released from Pineview on the condition he must take his meds and see Dr. Edwards three times a week for therapy. I foresee trouble ahead for the love birds Norma & Romero now that Norman is home!

SN4 EP8 – ‘ Unfaithful ‘

With Norman home the love birds have had to cool it so Romero has temporarily moved out, Norman questions the big TV along with the movie choices. The heating in the house has died but Norma doesn’t have Romero to keep her warm as she looks over at his side of the bed she is missing her husband. To stay warm Norman asks to sleep in bed with Norma and she reluctantly agrees, Norman can tell things are different between them but Norma reassure’s him that she is really happy he is home but she’s not being straight with him. To my surprise there was no spooning, I have to say that it always creeped me out a little. Norma and Romero are missing each other but she is waiting for the right time to tell Norman the truth, but is there ever going to be a right time to tell our tightly wound Norman? I think not!

Norman visit Romero and he is pleased to see him, the conversation quickly turns to Romero and Norma’s marriage and he says that he and Norma are to get a divorce “so as not to expose your fraud” but little does he know the two have fallen in love and are happy being married. Dylan is hesitant about Norman being home and the fact the Romero moved out, leaving Norma alone with Norman is concerning but he agrees to stop by before they leave for Seattle. While checking in at the airport Rebecca is stopped by the DEA and they tell her, they have forensic account that proves she help Bob Paris launder money through the back she managed and tell her they know Romero has been looking the other way and want her to roll on him to save herself. Well she spill the beans on her former lover?

Norma drops by Romero’s place but is met by a pissed off Romero, he tells her about Norman’s visit she tells him she is not giving him up, but is struggling to find the right time to tell Norman the truth about their relationship, whats a girl to do? She is torn between her handsome husband and her highly strung psycho son. Dylan and Emma arrive and she is super nervous to see Norman again, but Norman seems genuinely happy to see Emma and happy that her and Dylan are a couple. He thanks her for being his first real friend. Is it just me or did that have a “thanks but I’m going to kill you” vibe? I could be reading into it a little, but it has been a while since he killed someone so we’re a about due for another murder. Dylan, Emma, Norman and Norma go looking for a tree together and you could cut the tension with a knife, Norman is trying far to hard and Norma is moody but I don’t blame her she has to choose between her new-found happiness or her son and she desperately wants both. Her and Norman argue and she admits she likes Romero and that he is a good man, then suddenly Norman throws up. D-R-A-M-A!

Norma get Norman home but its to cold to stay in the house so they head down to sleep at the motel, Norman gets his own room and a short time after he hear’s a truck pull up and looks out the window, and it Romero coming to see Norma, but what Norman does next has taken him to a new low. He goes makes a peephole in the wall, to the room his mother and Romero are in and he watches as they kiss and start to undress each other and I imagine he watched the whole thing. Norma invites Romero over for a family dinner, that didn’t go to plan and ended in a screaming match between Norman and Norma, I was so proud of Norma in the moment, she stood up to Norman and pretty much told him that her and Romero are together so he needs grow up and deal with it, she made it very clear she is not choosing one over the other.

With only two more episodes left of season 4 who do you think will become Norman’s next victim?, will Rebecca roll on Romero to save herself? Will Dylan pursue finding out what happened to Emma’s mother? Check back the same time next week to find out if these questions and others get answered.

Damien SN1 EP9 – ‘ The Devil You Know ‘

Last weeks episode of Damien was full of wow moments with Powell, Damien’s roommate from boarding school killing Cray Marquand in Damien’s name however Damien tells Powell that he want nothing to do with him or being the Anti-Christ and savagely beats Powell within an inch of his life. Detective Shay is almost burned alive in his car whilst attempting to follow Damien, will his obsession get him killed before he gets the answers he’s so desperately seeking? Amani finally figured out that Veronica is in fact Anne Rutledge’s daughter and he is none to pleased he has been played, Veronica gets shot by the nun and very well could be a goner, but I’m hoping not I think she has more to her then “just the daughter”. Damien’s bat shit crazy therapist ends the episode with a blood bath as she stabs Powell to death with a pen and Detective Shay bursts in and puts a few rounds in her chest.

SN1 EP9 – ‘ The Devil You Know ‘

Detective Shay is take some heat over putting a few rounds in to Dr Andrews (bat shit crazy therapist) even though it was a clean shoot and clearly justified, however the brass don’t share his view coupled with him insisting that Damien is somehow connected, they ask Shay to turn in his weapon and badge. I feel for Shay he is slowly starting to unravel and he is going to get himself or his family killed if he keeps going. Damien receives a visit from the Lieutenant taking over the case and informs him that he has the right to having a restraining order against Shay, but i have to say there is something up the eager Lieutenant my gut says he is possibly another acolyte?? A critically injured Veronica is being held by Sister Greta in the hopes she will tell her the information she wants before Veronica bleeds out, but Simone doesn’t want any part in it and wants to get Veronica to a hospital before she bleeds out and she’s not in a good way but you she wholly believes in her cause it’s not just mummy’s orders.

Damien talks Amani into getting close to Veronica so he can get the advantage over Rutledge and Lyons, Amani the good mate he is agrees, but neither of them know that at that very moment Veronica is actually bleeding out. When Amani attempts to make contact with Veronica he gets her voicemail and while leaving a message he is kidnapped and bundle into a black SUV by masked men. Damien calls Simone and want to meet with Sister Greta, Simone tells him it’s not a good idea but he insists that he has nowhere else to go. Sister Greta asks to see the mark of the Beast, she then hugs him and says “You Are God’s Child”, he goes on to relay to Sister Greta and Simone his encounters with the 7 wounded vets that were chanting at the VA. She says they were the 7 headed dragon from Revelations. Sister Greta seems to feel for Damien and is eager to help him but in fact she is about to put a Megiddo dagger right into his side, even I started to belive a little that maybe she did want to help him, but she was there for one purpose and that was to stop Damien.

Amani finds himself in the company of Rutledge and she wants to know where her daughter is as well as who she is and where can she find her, after an exchange of words Amani agrees to take Rutledge to the Sister. We see Shay enter Damien’s loft and he gets more than he bargained for when he encounters several voices and one being his son’s asking for help we also see the little girl who follows Damien around tormenting Shay, needles to say he high tails it out of there, Simone and Veronica escape and find themselves in the woods and they hear Damien screaming, Simone sit Veronica down to quickly find Damien and Veronica becomes tangled up in some evil possessed branches. Meanwhile Damien comes up close and personal with demonic figure with faces of the vets he encountered at the VA and Amani and Rutledge find Veronica.

All the pieces are starting to fall into place and no doubt all will be revealed in next weeks season finale “Ave Satani” make sure you don’t miss next weeks episode I have a feeling its going to blow our little minds.

DC’s Legends of Tomorrow SN1 EP13 – ‘ Leviathan ‘

Leviathan refers to something really, really big.  In this episode, Kendra earns her keep. Sort of.  That’s big.  A character returns.  That’s quite big.  Savage has a daughter.  That’s really big.  I mean, what self respecting woman would get close enough?  But as Martin says “Apparently it’s true.  There’s a lid for every pot.”  But none of these things are Leviathan-esque.   Read on to find out exactly what Leviathan refers to.

The episode opens with the WaveRider entering the airspace above London in 2166.  Into the middle of a barrage of artillery fire, London Blitz style.  Martin thinks they should develop a plan of attack, but Rip fears that there is no time.  They must rush in where Angels (or Time Masters) fear to tread, and make their attempt on Savage now.  He is apparently out in the open and therefore exposed and vulnerable.  Rip, Snart, Rory and Sara attend a rousing exhortation to the troops being given by Vandal Savage, blending into the crowd dressed in Nazi/Stormtrooper Officer style uniforms.  As officers, they are right up front.   As the speech ends, Savage and entourage leave the stage. The four are spotted by a blond woman (Jessica Sipos), dressed in a high ranking officer uniform.  This is obviously a woman to be reckoned with. She appears to recognize Snart, locking eyes with him with a smirk on her face.  Snart knows they have been made.  The four fall into line, and follow. Kendra, watching proceedings from the WaveRider, zooms in on the blonde woman, and realizes that she is wearing the bracelet that was present at Kendra’s first death.  Snart and Rory make the snap decision to play it like Chicago.  Rory trips Rip up as a distraction, the entourage turns, and our four leap into action, taking out several guards.  Snart, Rip and Rory go after Savage, while Sara engages the blonde woman.  Reinforcements arrive, so Jax, who has been standing by in the jump ship for just such an eventuality, extracts the team.

Back at the ship, our team wonders about the blonde woman – who she is, why she has Kendra’s bracelet, and how the H E double hockey sticks are they going to use a bracelet to end Savage.  Gideon is tracking the approach of a party of bodies, and tells Rip that they appear to be Resistance fighters.  Rip takes Ray, Jax, and Martin and goes to meet with them, leaving Kendra and Sara to try to figure out how to use the bracelet.  Rip offers the Rebel Commander (Sharon Taylor) their help, and they are taken to the camp, where the Commander tells Rip that they have a lot of refugees from Whitechapel, and wonders if his wife and child might be there.  Rip is dead certain that they are not.  Martin and Jax wander among the refugees, disturbed by their plight.  The children are hungry which tears at the pairs’ heartstrings.  They return to the ship to get provisions for them.  Meanwhile, Rip and Ray are waiting  by a fire barrel for the Commander’s return .  Ray wonders why they are here and are not trying to get Rip’s family to safety.  Rip tells Ray that before he enlisted the Legends, he tried to do so over and over, beginning with Egypt.  He has seen his family die countless times, because it seems that time wants to happen.  The Commander returns, and says that there is no retinal scan on file for Rip, and that his friends disappeared 150 years ago.  A report comes in from patrols that Delta Camp is under attack.  They arrive at Delta Camp to find that it has been decimated by some unknown weapon.  Back at the WaveRider, Ray and Martin work together to find out what weapon was used.  Snart and Rory meanwhile, come up with a plan to obtain the bracelet, and Kendra is tasked with going through her son’s journal to see if there is any mention of the bracelet and how it can be used.  She and Sara open the trunk containing the journal and see Carter’s mace.  Kendra flashes back to when Carter trained her to use it, in case she ever had to face Savage without him.  This gives her an idea how the bracelet can be used to end Savage.

Snart and Rory infiltrate the base where the blond woman is training soldiers, and kicking their asses.  She dismisses them at the end of the lesson, and they leave.  She hears someone clearing his throat, and looks up to find that Snart and Rory both have their weapons trained on her.  She asks “Mr. Snart” what she can do for them.  Rory says “We just like bright, sparkly objects. Like that bracelet” Cassandra wants to know if this bauble is worth risking dying for, to which Rory shrugs and says “It works with my outfit.”  Hahaha!  Good one, Mick!

Snart and Rory return to the ship with the blonde woman, and put her in the brig, where she drops the bomb that she is not Savage’s lieutenant, she is Cassandra, Savage’s daughter.  And Savage will come for her.

After some discussion on the bridge, Len steps up and offers to get the information they need out of her.  Kendra asks Rory for his help in burning something, making Rory’s day.  Len goes to the brig to chat with Cassandra, “May I call you Cassie?”.  Cassandra is expecting interrogation techniques, or torture or something equally bad, but Len merely compares his Dad to hers.  She tells him that Savage is in no way like his father.  Her father is a hard man, but saved the world by killing a madman, Per Degaton, who released the virus that killed the world and her mother.  He is more or less a hero in her eyes.  He is engaged in a war with dangerous radicals who want to kill him and rule the world.

Rory melts the bracelet for Kendra, who uses the molten metal to coat Cart’s mace.  Rory is not certain that Kendra will be able to kill Savage but she assures him that she can.

Martin and Ray have discovered that the weapon used to decimate the Delta Site is not any type of explosive.  Using a defunct satellite’s imagery, they find that the weapon left some extraordinarily big footprints.  Liquids shake and the globe on the bridge wobbles in time to the sound of approaching footsteps.  Kind of reminded me of the approach of T. Rex or the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man, lol.  Ray and Martin bring the refugees back to the ship, while Rip shows an uncharacteristic lack of empathy for them.  No doubt because time wants to happen.  Rip tells Gideon to take off, and put the floodlights on.  In the glare of the floodlights we see that neither T. Rex nor the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man is  approaching; it is instead a Leviathan of a Robot.  This robot is transparent, with all of its system details excitingly picked out in glowstick green, and with the symbol of an atom on both chest and head.  The WaveRider fires to no avail, as the Robot snatches it out of the air, very much as you would an annoying insect, and throws it as far as it can, which is a very long way indeed.  An hour away to be exact. The WaveRider lands hard, the propulsion drive damaged.  Our heroes pick themselves up, and Rip – again with a considerable lack of empathy – thinks that they should take the jumpship and abandon ship.  Martin strenuously objects as the jump ship will not be able to hold the refugees.  And then collapses, with a piece of shrapnel sticking out of his belly.  They get him to the med bay, where Gideon works his magic after Martin pleads with Jax to not let Rip leave the refugees behind.

Len, meanwhile, releases Cassie from the brig, and takes her to the hold, to show her the “dangerous radicals” her father has told her about.  She is not quite buying it, so he tells her that her father was the one who released the virus, and has Gideon show her the footage of the meeting in the Kasnian Conglomerate, where Savage indicts himself.

Rip has lost hope on the bridge, and is not even attempting repairs because there is only a little more than half an hour before the robot gets to them.  Ray, however, tells him he just doesn’t believe in fate, that choices can make a destiny, and that they can choose to fight, even if they die trying.  He has a plan to stop the giant robot.  Ray’s speech convinces Rip that he does believe in fate; that fate brought them together to stop this future.

Cassie, who’s mind has now been changed, will help them get into the bunker to finish Savage.  Kendra and Ray share a tender moment before she leaves with Sara, Snart, Rory and Rip.  Ray has an idea to use the power from the auxiliary time drive to reverse the polarity of the dwarf star matrix in the Atom suit.  In other words, he’s a-gonna get big.  Real big.  Lol.  Jax helps him to hook up, then retreats to the relative safety of the WaveRider, where he uses a comm link to be Ray’s number one cheerleader. And the fight of the Leviathans is on!  In the bunker, Savage is told that the robot is encountering resistance, which he cannot believe is possible, until he sees that Ray has done something brilliant.  An officer enters and whispers something into Savage’s ear, which puts a smile on his face.  Cassie is back.

Savage meets with Cassandra, and realizes that the bracelet is gone.  When he asks her about it, she says she must have lost it during her escape, but Savage knows she is lying.  Cassie accuses him of lying to her for her entire life.  Savage tells her to call in the ones she no doubt helped to gain access to the bunker.  Sara, Rip, Rory and Snart enter, and Savage accuses them of turning her against him.  Snart tells him it didn’t take much, and Rory says “Nothing at all, actually.”  Cassie calls Savage a monster, as his guards arrive.

Ray is struggling with the robot, so Jax tells him to use his lasers.  Ray explains that they are actually beams of compressed light, but uses them.

Savage senses Kendra, but sneers that “She can do him no harm”.  Rory tells him that he “clearly didn’t get the memo”.  And the fight is on.  Kendra grabs Savage and flies him away from where the rest of our heroes are fighting the guards and to where she has some swinging room. She does some serious damage with her bracelet coated mace.  He is completely shocked, and down more than he is up.  Kendra is about to deliver the coup de gras “for Carter”, when one of Savage’s helmeted soldiers enters and fires at Kendra.  Kendra attacks this soldier, knocks him out and his helmet falls off.  As she leans over the soldier, she realizes that it is Carter (Falk Hentschel).  BOOM!  She attempts to finish Savage off, but he tells her that he has locked Carter’s mind away.  He doesn’t know who he is and he never will.  Savage taunts her that if she kills him, she will do so knowing that she has killed the only one who can unlock Carter’s mind.

Meanwhile, the robot has KO’d Ray.  Jax desperately tries to talk Ray back into consciousness, and is successful when he tells him to “Choose to live!”  Ray shakes it off, then runs straight at the robot, who is running at him.  Ray finishes him off with a beautiful classical clothesline move that decapitates the robot.

Rip appears at Kendra’s side and urges her to finish Savage.  Rory tells her via comms that whatever she is going to do, she needs to do it now.  Snart, Sara and Rory are outnumbered and losing.  Kendra tells Rip that if she does, Carter’s mind will be lost, and Rip counters with if she doesn’t he will lose his wife and son.  Savage continues to taunt her.  “Well, my love, what’s it gonna be?”  Kendra backs off, saying “I can’t.  I’m so sorry Rip, I can’t.”  Rip says disgustedly “Lets get them back to the ship.  Both of them.”  And knocks Savage out.

Snart brings Cassie to the Rebel Commander, who wants to know why she shouldn’t kill Cassie.  Snart tells her that Cassie will be an asset to the cause.  Cassie says that she knows that Savage may be incapacitated but that his forces are still strong.  She knows their tactics and weaknesses.  The commander accepts her.

Ray enters his and Kendra’s quarters, saying that Sara had told him that Savage is on the ship, but that she was a little stingy on the details.  He wants to know if everything is ok.  Kendra tells him that they need to talk.  Uh-oh!  That phrase usually doesn’t bode well for relationships.

Martin has regained consciousness in the med bay.  Rip welcomes him back and tells him that they have managed to capture Savage, battle his army and defeat a giant robot, and he managed to sleep through it all.  The refugees are safe, but Martin wants to know for how long, since time wants to happen.  Rip tells Martin that for once, time is on their side.

Rip visits Savage in the brig, who is very upbeat for a captive.  And really, why shouldn’t he be?  He has retained the upper hand on Kendra, and by extension, on Rip as well.  Will Rip be able to save his family, now that Savage is not dead? As Savage puts it “Time will tell”.  Fade to black.

Favorite Moments:

Once again, the complementary duo of Snart and Rory.  Snart has always been a smartass, and I have always had a soft spot for smartasses.  Rory is definitely coming into his own as a smartass as well, with quick quips and one-liners.

Snart’s empathy with Cassie.  They both have horrible fathers who they each thought were good men, deep down.  His admission that he has had to learn that with crap fathers there is no “deep down”.

That moment when Ray clotheslined the giant Robot!  And it’s head went sailing off into the wild blue yonder, leaving the robot to clutch at where it’s head had been until realized it was a dead robot walking and toppled over.

Kendra kicking ass and taking names!  I knew she had it in her!!

Silicon Valley SN3EP1 – ‘ Founder Friendly ‘

While acting primarily as a comedy, Silicon Valley raises a number of serious issues in its season 3 premiere. Early on in the episode, Erlich in a fit of rage runs over a robotic dear, before leaving the car and kicking it. Robotic abuse is a serious matter that is not acknowledged as it should be in this day and age. By choosing to draw awareness to the issue, Mike Judge has started a movement. Feel free to watch this video PSA on the issue below.

Now that this issue has been brought forward, we can continue with the review.First of all, Fuck Rigby. Since his debut in Silicon Valley, Rigby has been presented as the guy who the audience is supposed to stand behind and support. We’ve seen his transition as a naïve coward to an arrogant owner who believes he alone can lead Pied Piper. This means that he is mutinous to the idea of a new CEO for the company, since he has taken them so far in the role already. However, as noted by Gilfoyle, he is a great coder but a terrible manager. The company has gone as far as it can go under him and a new CEO is the breath of fresh air that the show needs. Richard is great though, awesome guy.

Bighead’s story is the part of the show that always seemed like filler to me, while it is kind of funny  to see him fall ass backwards into success season after season, his parts always seemed like throwaway jokes. This episode however shows what I hope is Bighead’s push to relevance with his payment of $20 Million just to leave the company. Hopefully this means he’ll take the money and use it to further Pied Piper or Hooli in some way or another. Judging by that hope, he’ll probably refuse the money to stay with his roof friends.

The climax of the episode shows Richard coming to terms with taking a reduced role in the company as CTO under new CEO Action Jack, who seems like the nicest guy on Earth (He knows Aviato?). However, jack s only in if Richard stays so there’s some wiggle room in the power struggle for Richard going forward. If things go wrong he can always cash out and put digital moustaches on people and their pets. Either way, Silicon Valley has started out great this season and I  can’t wait to see how it goes.

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