The Originals SN3 EP19 – ‘ No More Heartbreaks ‘

SN3 EP19: No More Heartbreaks

Written By: Celeste Vasquez & Michael Narducci

Directed By: Millicent Shelton

Let me explain.  I have three favorite television shows (there’s several more that I watch, but just 3 favorites) on The CW.  And, the biggest thing I want from all of them is to be emotionally compromised.  This week, the first two let me down in that area.

But, the third one did NOT.

I cried, I said words I should never say in public (but do quite often), and, for about the millionth time I swore I’d never watch this show again.

But, like all those celebrities that are claiming that if Trump gets elected, they’ll move out of the country…. we all know I was lying to myself.

And being overly dramatic.

I’ll be perched on my couch next week, dying to let them emotionally cripple me again.  Even though…. well….. wait just a minute….

I don’t want to give too much away here, and by that I mean spoilers.  Because, this was a big… HUGE .. episode.  And, if you haven’t watched it yet, I don’t want to give you any warning… fair or otherwise.  I want you to be hit as hard as I was.

So, what can I tell you?  Well.  We learn in this episode that despite much evidence to the contrary, Klaus is a romantic.  Oh, and we learn that Lucien is the Biggest Douche in New Orleans.  Well, to be fair, we learned that several episodes ago… but in this one it was confirmed.  In fact, the point was driven home like a nail in the proverbial coffin.

Oh.  I also learned to hate The Ancestors.  I mean, at first it was just a strong dislike.  A “wow, they’re total asshats” kind of thing.  Now?  I wouldn’t piss on them if they were on fire!

On the Terri’s Tissue Box Scale this episode got the max … 3 tissue boxes.

That’s how many it’s probably gonna take you to make it through the episode.

And, oh yeah…. you’re gonna need that therapist on speed dial that I’m always telling you to get too.

Let’s all hope they do it to us again next week!

The Vampire Diaries SN7 EP20 – ‘ Kill ‘Em All ‘

SN7 EP20:  Kill ‘Em All

Written By:  Chad Fiveash & James Patrick Stoteraux

Directed By:  Kellie Cyrus

I really think that I need to make a Book of Rules for this show.  If I did, on the very first page, in all caps, in bold and very big font it would say …. DO NOT F**K WITH BONNIE.  And it would be followed by several exclamation points.  I would probably have to put it on the second page… hell, maybe the next 10 pages just to make the point.

In this episode, we learned that it’s not nice to fool with Witchy Bonnie.  She promised she wouldn’t open that vault and damn it, she meant it.  She made sure nobody made it out of The Armory alive.

I have to admit that for the first half of the show, I was doing a bit of bitching and complaining.  It mostly consisted of the phrase:  First Supernatural screwed me with a lame episode and now TVD is doing the same damn thing.  But, I was only half right, they were screwing me all right, but they were just giving me a lot of foreplay.

The whole episode was leading up to a big climatic ending.  Damon pulled a … well…. a Damon.  He did what he thought was best without consulting anyone else about his plan.  And, as usual, it blew up in his face…. right at the end.  The twist to beat all twists.

Normally, I would tell you all about it.  But, this time, I think I’m going to leave it up to you to watch the episode.  So, no major spoilers.  I don’t want to ruin it for you.  Just go watch the episode.

You won’t be disappointed.

You will, however, need a cigarette afterwards.

Even if you don’t smoke.

Bates Motel SN4 EP7 – ‘ There’s No Place Like Home ‘

Last week’s episode “The Vault” was full of raw emotion and truly heartbreaking for both Norman and Norman, no wonder he is messed up having to endure and witness his mother being treated like a piece of crap. Romero learned the secret that Chick threatened to spread around town about Norma and Romero assures Norma he is not going anywhere. It’s about time Norma has a man in her life that treats her with respect and love she deserves. Dylan finds a letter in Norman’s room from Emma’s mother and he finds that she check into the motel but she didn’t check out. Was it Norman or Norma who ended her life??

SN4 EP7 – ‘ There’s No Place Like Home ‘ 

Norman wakes with a fright as Dr. Edwards is by his bed and he quickly realizes he has blacked out again during their session, they seem to be happening more frequently and are triggered when he is stressed or in a pressured situation, Norma and Romero are embracing married life and are enjoying the honeymoon period. At Pineview Julian and Norman are doing some papier-mâché when Norman sees a photo of Norma, he arranges the torn pieces of the newspaper and discovers that his mother and Romero are married and Norman isn’t happy about it at all, you can imagine what’s going through this mind. Norma had big plans to fix up the house but life and the lack of money got in the way and it hasn’t helped that its been slow season for the motel. Romero produces the bag of Bob Paris’ money, but Norma is reluctant to take it, he tells her she deserves this money she needs some good in her life. Romero answers the phone and its Norman, when he questions Norma why Romero had answered their phone she lies to him but little does she know, he has already found out the pair are married. He announces that he will be coming home and since he had signed himself in voluntarily, he has the right to sign himself out. Norma is surprised and taken off guard as Norman challenges her to if there is a specific reason why he shouldn’t come home.

Norman pays Vicki Monroe a visit in the hopes of signing himself out but it’s not as simple as he thought, there is a protocol which needs to be observed along with a formal letter, Vicki also mentions his stepfather’s insurance has approved his coverage for 3 months. The fallout is coming and god help Norma and Romero when he starts to unravel. Dylan walks in on a fight that Emma and her father are having about her mother, Will asks Dylan to back him up and in the process puts him in the dog house with Emma, when she learns that Dylan met her mother when she was in hospital, but he had neglected to tell her and Emma is worried about her mother, Dylan who has Audrey’s letter makes it his mission to find her. He returns home and Norma’s in a happy mood but that quickly changes when he asks her about Norman and shows her the letter from Audrey, telling her he found it in Norman’s room and when he finds out that she visited Norman, Dylan becomes suspicious that she never checked out, but Norma refuses to admit that Norman could hurt or kill Audrey.

Norma meets with Dr. Edwards and tell him she doesn’t think Norman is ready to come home and Dr Edwards agrees but unfortunately all he can do is petition the court that Norman is violent, Norma doesn’t want to go behind Norman’s back and asks to talk to him first to see if she can persuade Norman that come home is not a good idea as he is starting to do well at Pineview. Norman is distant and not interested in visiting with her and he knows she is being secretive, he produces the newspaper clipping he found and you can almost hear her heart start to race as she back pedals, telling him she only did it for the insurance and everything she has ever does has only ever been for him, Norman calls her bluff and wants her to prove it by letting him come home, Norman backed into a corner and feeling pressured agrees he can come home. Dylan gives Emma the letter he found that said horrible things about her father and no longer had any interest in finding her mother, look very likely Norman may have gotten away with it, or was it Norma?? I’m still not sure who was responsible for her death.

Dr. Edwards finds Norman in the art room after hours, painting the dog he made earlier and asks why he wants to go home all of a sudden since they had been making great progress, Norman breaks down and tells Dr. Edwards how much he means to him and how much he’s willing to work to get better, Dr. Edwards relents and signs his release on the condition they have three sessions a week. Norma returns home in a state and tells Romero that Norman is coming home, at first he is hurt that she made the decision without him, she tells him she had to tell Norman they got married and she did it for him. Norma is upset that she has ruined with Romero and her reassures her that its all ok and that Norman needs a decent father figure and Romero wants to be that so they can get though it together. Norma arrives at Pineview view to collect Norman but as she embraces him, Norma and Dr. Edwards both share a look of concern about Norman’s release, as the roll up to the house Norman has a creepy smile on his face, Norman is home…… Nothing good can come from Norman being home.

Yet another awesome episode this week, Romero and Norma are growing as a married couple, but I can’t shake this feeling with Norman home that something horrible will happen, anyone else got that same gut feeling? Can’t wait to see what next week’s episode with bring. See you back here the same time next week.

This weeks episode rating: 🎬🎬🎬🎬🎬

Supernatural SN11 EP19 -‘ The Chitters ‘

SN11 E19:  The Chitters

Written By: Nancy Won

Directed By:  Eduardo Sanchez

Okay peeps, let me start off by saying… I’m sorry.

I’m late with this review because I wasn’t sure what I wanted to say.  I really didn’t want to write something terrible about The Show that I love so much.  But, I’m going to.  Yep.  All I ask is please hold off on the stone throwing until I finish saying what I have to say and have time to duck and cover.

This was what The Famdom calls a MotW (Monster of the Week) episode, but I’m calling it a “place holder” episode.  Why?  Because all it did was hold the place on Wednesday nights on The CW for The Show.  Maybe they’ve spoiled me this season and made me expect more.  But seriously, this season has been so incredibly awesome that the bar has been set a little high, and this episode slid under that bar with room to spare.

First, I was a little surprised that we were getting a MotW episode this late in the season, but then it wasn’t even a “hurt me real good” episode like … say… Red Meat was.  Oh, don’t get me wrong, I got the whole “finish line” symbolism they were going for, and I did flinch a little at that one… but did it make me hurt?  No.

I also totally got the whole dual brothers sitch too.  I did wince a little at that one.  But it didn’t make my feels beg for mercy… it didn’t even make my eyes glisten a little.  And, I guess that was the biggest problem.

I want them to emotionally compromise me.  And, this week they didn’t even come close.  I want them to make me feel like this….

(source unknown)

And this week, I just wasn’t feeling it.  At. All.

But, next week…. next week, we get The Return of Chuck.  I’m sure I’ve made my opinion on this completely obvious, but just in case you’ve missed it…. God is coming next week!  So. Can’t. Wait.

Damien SN1EP8 – ‘ Here Is Wisdom ‘

Last week on Damien (episode 7) we learned a few things namely – Lyons has a black church on his property and likes to sacrifice goats and we also learned that Detective Shay uncovered some alarming information of Damien’s strange and dangrous behavior while at boarding school including a secret organization and an initiation that went horribly wrong and left Damien’s roommate Charles Powell with horrific burns to his entire body. However Charles is not impressed by their mutual school buddy Cray Marquand had talked to Shay and subsequently Charles brutally murdered Cray in the gym shower and cut out his tongue for talking to Shay.

 

SN1EP8 – ‘ Here Is Wisdom ‘

Simone and Sister Greta team up together to try to stop Damien, they enter the sewer below where Damien’s attempted assassin was killed by the car accident, where they find the lost Megiddo dagger, one of the weapons needed to kill the Antichrist. Damien sees the therapist for his PTSD who diagnosed him after his attempted suicide, its clear he wants nothing to do with the devastation surrounding that he is potentially the Antichrist. Shay is in the firing line over Charles Powell murder and the fact he has no concrete evidence that Damien is involved. Damien gets a “gift” and its Cray Marquand’s tongue with a roll of film stitched into it, as he gets the film out Shay pays him visit and is dumbfounded by the body count that continues to surround Damien but there is never any hard evidence linking to Damien.

Damien disposes of Cray’s tongue down the garbage disposal, maybe subconsciously helping an old friend? Shay attempts to follow Damien but his car wont start nor will it open, a fire starts in the car and Shay barely escape. You think he would have learned his lesson by now given everything that has happened to him, his obsession with Damien will kill sooner or later. Simone and Sister Greta bring Amani in on what they learned so far. Amani reviews the security footage from the break in at Damien’s apartment and sees Veronica scoping out his apartment out, the penny then drops and Amani realizes he has been played. Amani mention Rutledge and then the penny drops for Sister Greta and want Amani to get more intel from Veronica.

Damien follows a clue that leads him to a trailer in the middle of nowhere in the woods, where Charles is waiting and is happy to see Damien, he tell him he killed Cray for him “just like the others” “I did it all for you”. Charles asks Damien “who should we kill next?” This provokes a violent and bloody beating by Damien and he leaves Powell barely clinging to life. Shay get the call and finds Powell beaten to an inch of his life. Powell tells Shay “I knew he wouldn’t kill me” Shay asks who did this to him and Powell’s response is “The devil…. The devil did this”. Damien visits his therapist who I think is not quite right herself, he tells her he would’ve killed Powell be he chose to stop when he did.

Amani figures out Veronica is Ann Rutledge’s daughter and confronts her. Rutledge is pissed that Veronica has been caught out and to please her or she is just plain shit scared of her, tells mummy dearest about Sister Greta to redeem herself. Veronica follows Sister Greta and in a struggle, Sister Greta shoots Veronica. Powell is in custody and awaiting his lawyer, when he get a visit from Damien’s therapist, Powell’s confused at first and then quickly turns frightened, yelling for a gaur to help him,the bat shit crazy therapist stabs him repeatedly in the neck with a pen, with blood every and Powell very much dead, Shay burst in and empties his gun into her. I told you there was something not right about her!

This episode was by far my favorite episode yet! Love the direction the writers are going in, but I also love that at every turn there is another twist that I didn’t expect. The show definitely leave you wanting more as well as creating more questions and mystery as it goes along and keep you interested because you have no idea whats going to happen next. Dont forgot to join me the same time next week for episode 9 of Damien.

This weeks episode rating: 🎬🎬🎬🎬🎬

 

Lucifer SN1EP13 – ‘ Take Me Back To Hell ‘

Well what a way to finish the first season of Lucifer, I really thought the handsome Devil was a goner that’s for sure. Don’t know about you guys but I am definitely looking forward to seeing where season two will take us and hopefully will answer some of the questions that the season finale left us with. Before we get into the final episode of Lucifer here is a brief recap of SN1-EP12.

SN1EP12 – ‘ #TeamLucifer ‘

When a member of a satanic church is killed. Lucifer is greatly disturbed that anyone would kill in his name. When it turns out Malcolm is trying to frame him for murder in the name of Amenadiel, Lucifer gets into a fight with him. Lucifer comes to realizes that it is Chloe who makes vulnerable to bodily injury.

SN1EP13 – ‘ Take Me Back To Hell ‘ 

Lucifer finds himself framed for the murder of the preacher that is lying on the floor in LUX with bullet to the head, Lucifer spurs the newbie cop to shoot him and as the newbie shoots Lucifer disappears into thin air and finds himself with his brother Amenadiel on the roof of the Roosevelt Hotel. The brothers have to team up in order to take Malcolm down the now at large dirty cop with a lot of blood on his hands and axe to grind with the world and nothing to lose with Lucifer’s Pentecostal Coin. Chloe finally learns what we knew all along that Dan was actually involved in the Palmetto case and that he lead her to believe she was crazy and seeing things that day.

Chloe and Dan work to clear Lucifer’s name but in order to do so Dan has to hand himself in for taking the weapon from evidence for Malcolm which was used to kill the preacher and to frame Lucifer for the murder and also for his involvement in the Palmetto case, might this be the end of the line for Dan or is there still more to his story? The brothers now playing nicely figure out where Malcolm is and pay him a visit, in awesome fight scene the brothers use some fancy foot and hand work all while taking on bit of lead, all the goons are down for the count when Malcolm encounters Amenadiel and stabs him with the dagger forged in hell, the only weapon that will take down an angel and a devil.

 

Maze takes a dying Amenadiel back to LUX and heals him with her only ticket back home, while Chole gets her hands on the money Malcolm left behind as was fleeing her bullets and finds Lucifer there too. Back at the station Chloe gets a call from Malcolm, he has kidnapped Trixie to force Chloe to turn over his money. Chole is instructed to come alone and when she gets there he turns Trixie over to her and gets his money but that’s not enough he wants Chole dead too but Malcolm is interrupted but Lucifer and in trying to save Chole and Trixi he is fatally shot by Malcolm. As Lucifer lays dying on the floor of an aircraft hangar, he pray to his farther God to save the two, promising to work for him again if he does. Lucifer farther answers him and resurrects him to full strength, but not before showing Lucifer a vision that greatly disturbs him.

Lucifer and Chole shoot Malcolm but he is not worried as he has his get out of hell free card, the Pentecostal Coin or does he? The look on terror on his face is priceless when he realizes he no longer possesses the coin and he is going back to hell for good. Lucifer clearly quit rattled from what he seen or didn’t see in his vision, tells the now recovered Amenadiel that he spoke with father and that he has asked him to recapture a soul that had escaped from hell in exchange. Amenadiel sees Lucifer is frightened and asks who exactly has escaped hell? Lucifer replies…… Mother!?

This episode definitely left me wanting more and has raised a few questions….. Where’s Maze? and why is Mother dearest in hell? This episode gives the perfect setup for season two, with tracking down Mother dearest the escapee from hell and will the brothers work together again to achieve the result, personally I hope so they make a pretty good team. I have really enjoyed this first season and each episode has kept me wanting more and Tom Ellis and Lauren German are outstanding together and are building a great emotional chemistry between Lucifer and Chloe which I look forward to watching evolve more throughout season two. This Devil has definitely left me wanting more and I cannot wait for season two.

 

Writer/Director Bio – Andy Koontz + Synopsis – Ekimmu: The Dead Lust

Every now and again, a person experiences a true epiphany in their life. They find something that they are truly passionate about and want to pursue as a career.

One such person is Andy Koontz. He is the writer and director of new feature length horror movie Ekimmu: The Dead Lust.

This film has been in the making for over 10 years and has been a labour of love for Andy. Production started in 2004, but was swiftly halted by Andy’s diagnosis of brain cancer in 2006. What followed was a fight for his life, but also a true passion and desire to give his film to the world.

During his many surgeries, radiation and chemotherapy sessions, Andy continued to work on the film, re-imagining its original concept and giving it the life (and title) that it has today. He continued to work on the film throughout his treatment and finally had a rough cut of the film ready to show in 2012, the year that he celebrated his remission. Following his remission, Andy went on to refine and truly finish the feature, which is due to be released this year….. finally, almost 14 years since its original conception.

The film itself is a ultra-low budget feature, but you wouldn’t be able to tell from the stills taken from the movie. Many people (cast and crew) worked for little or less to help Andy realise his dream of releasing this movie.

SYNOPSIS:

The unassuming town of Briar Creek seems to be keeping a nasty secret…

On a cross country trip home a young couple, Mike and Beth, make a late night stop in this little town, only to stumble across a mysterious girl lying along the dark roadside.

The evil lurking inside of her waiting…planning…plotting…

When the two girls find that they are somehow connected strange things begin to happen…

It’s only a matter of time before the two girls cannot control the inevitable.

The following days will lead them to question everything they know. All of their answers can be found in only the darkest of places. Where the sins of the past become the sins of the future,

Your sins will find you…

Andy truly is a survivor in many senses of the word. Not only has he conquered brain cancer, but he’s also survived one of the most arduous tasks that a creative person can undertake…… writing, producing, directing and having a role in your own feature length movie and doing it all on a shoestring budget.

You can find out more information on the movie by visiting the following pages:

Instagram: ekimmumovie

Twitter: @ekimmumovie

Facebook: facebook.com/ekimmumovie

http://www.ekimmumovie.com

Keep your eyes peeled in http://www.skatronixxx.com over the coming weeks to see an exclusive review of Ekimmu: The Dead Lust before its release.

All that’s left for me to say is: Happy Anniversary Andy!! I hope this movie is a great success for you!

 

A Look Back At Season 1 & 2 Of Penny Dreadful

Penny Dreadful was a term coined in the UK in the Victorian Era to describe fictional stories published weekly in serial parts, each part costing a penny. The stories quite typically featured the sensational derring-do of detectives, criminals and supernatural beings.

Coming up on May 1 of 2016, we return to the third season of Penny Dreadful, a story set in the Victorian Era, aired weekly in serial parts and featuring the sensational derring-do of detectives, criminals and supernatural beings. For those of you who have not been following Penny Dreadful, think a very much darker “League of Extraordinary Gentlemen” on steroids, but with the advantage and luxury of time for character and plot development.
Showtime consistently airs quality shows: Dexter, Homeland, Ray Donovan and Weeds to name a few. It is, I will admit, one of my favorite subscriptions, although the cost is significantly more than a penny! Penny Dreadful is no exception to the rule, and I am anxiously awaiting my fix. An introduction to the show is in order at this point. It was created and is written by John Logan who is doing a bang up job of bringing classic literary Victorian characters to life to interact with characters original to his series. Oscar Wilde and Bram Stoker would be proud. The series is shot on location in Ireland.

The Main Actors and their Characters:
Eva Green as Vanessa Ives, a Clairvoyant and Medium
Timothy Dalton as Sir Malcolm Murray, an Explorer
Josh Hartnett as Ethan Chandler, an Old West Gunslinger on the run
Danny Sapani as Sembene, Sir Malcolm’s able assistant
Harry Treadaway as Victor Frankenstein, a Scientist who wants to cheat death
Billie Piper as Brona Croft, a prostitute who becomes Lily Frankenstein
Reeve Carney as Dorian Gray, a beautiful, hedonistic philanderer

Recurring Characters in Seasons One and Two:
Helen McCrory as Madame Kali/Evelyn Poole, a World Renowned Medium
Simon Russell Kane as Ferdinand Lyle, an Egyptologist at the British Museum
Rory Kinnear as John Clare/ Caliban
Douglas Hodge as Inspector Bartholomew Rusk
Olivia Llewellyn as Mina Murray-Harker, Sir Malcolm’s Daughter

SEASON ONE

In Season One, we meet Vanessa Ives, a medium living in the house of Sir Malcom Murray, in Victorian Era London. They have formed an uneasy alliance to find and save Sir Malcolm’s daughter and Vanessa’s childhood friend, Mina, who has been turned into a vampire. Mina was turned by the Lord of the Undead specifically to capture Vanessa who is the real deal psychically speaking, and who is slated to be the Devil’s bride. Aided by Sembene and Ethan Chandler, the season is mostly centered around their hunt for Mina.
Victor Frankenstein, who is attempting to build his second creature, is recruited to examine captured vampires or their corpses, and to perhaps come up with a cure, so that Mina can be saved once found. Along the way, Ethan meets and falls in love with Brona Croft, who is dying from consumption. She is a prostitute, and numbers among her clientele the eternally youthful Dorian Gray.

Vanessa and Dorian meet at a party for the renowned medium Madame Kali hosted at the home of Egyptologist Mr. Lyle. Some pretty spooky stuff occurs during an impromptu séance, where Vanessa accidentally and rather vulgarly channels the spirits or perhaps demons.

Dorian gets around, sleeping with not only Brona, but also with Vanessa and near the end of the season Ethan as well. When you have a portrait that takes on all of your age, sins, diseases and disfigurements, STDs are not to be worried about.

Dr. Frankstein’s first creature, Caliban, returns to him, having suffered much in his quest to track his Creator down after Victor abandoned him. In stark contrast to Victor’s second creature, Caliban is dark and twisted and wishes fervently for a companion. He kills the second creature, and hounds Victor to make him a female. Ethan eventually asks Victor for help with Brona’s illness. A little judicious application of pillow to face, and voila! Lily is begun.

By the end of Season One, Mina is found and put down by Sir Malcom, Vanessa wants to be exorcised, and Sir Malcolm accepts her as his daughter. We discover that Ethan has a dark secret, as he transforms under the full moon into a homicidal werewolf, leaving his father’s bounty hunters ripped to shreds at the Mariner’s Inn. Unfortunately for him, there were also innocents in the Inn at the time. Their deaths weigh heavily on his soul. Sembene knows that Ethan has a secret, although he is not certain what it is. Sembene himself is a bit of an enigma, but I did get the impression that his relationship with Sir Malcolm probably has one hell of a back story.

SEASON TWO

In Season Two, the focus is on Vanessa’s backstory, Ethan and Vanessa’s doomed relationship, Ethan’s secret, Lily’s transformation and Sir Malcolm falling under the spell of witches led by Evelyn Poole/Madame Kali.

Vanessa takes up ministering to the patients in the cholera tunnels in an effort to stave off the torment of the disturbing occult images sent to devil her by Evelyn Poole. Here she meets Caliban, as this is where Caliban stays when he is not at work or checking in on Victor’s progress with Lily. Caliban hides his face in the shadows as they converse about literature, poetry and man’s inhumanity to man during her visits to the clinic. Their connection to each other is not known to either. She eventually leaves London with Ethan to return to a piece of property that Vanessa’s mentor, the Cut-Wife, a master of the dark arts, has left to her. This works out well for Ethan who wants to leave London.  He is being hunted by Inspector Rusk in regards to the massacre at the Inn where Ethan had been staying with Brona before her death.  Ethan and Vanessa realize that although there is potential for a relationship between them, they each have too much baggage to allow such a relationship to bloom.

Meanwhile, Dorian takes up with a gorgeous cross-dressing woman, introducing her to society at a ball he has thrown for her. Angelique eventually finds out Dorian’s secret, for which she pays the ultimate price.

The Egyptologist, Ferdinand Lyle, has been blackmailed by Evelyn Poole into spying on Sir Malcolm’s group  and is found out by the group. But he and Victor have done some invaluable work on a relic named the Verdis Diablo. They have learned how this relic pertains both to Vanessa, and to the plans that the Devil has for her.

Evelyn Poole, aka Madame Kali, is revealed to be the powerful head of a witches’ coven, working to bring Vanessa to the Devil’s side, literally. Her particular brand of magic involves freshly killed baby bits and dolls, which is just gruesome, and yet has the right feel for this series. She has a room full of dolls which includes her newest addition, a life sized doll of Vanessa powered by a baby’s heart.

Vanessa and Ethan return to London, where Vanessa defeats Madame Kali, shatters the doll by using the Verbis Diablo thus mastering the Devil.  Sir Malcolm is released from the spell that he has been under.

Sembene and Ethan bond over the course of the season. Ethan learns that he is not the only one with guilt and a dark secret. Sembene was in the past a slave trader, making a living selling his own people into slavery. He tries to teach Ethan that his wolf curse is more a divine gift. Unfortunately,  Ethan wolfs out and kills him while the two are trapped in a stairwell inside Evelyn Poole’s mansion. Ethan, a broken man, determines to turn himself in to Inspector Rusk.

Caliban spends most of the season as a captive in the basement of a wax museum, after losing his job backstage at the theatre, and finding a new job as a caretaker at the wax museum. His bosses become his captors when they realize that they could make huge sums of money displaying him. Being betrayed by yet another human being restores his non-faith in humanity. At the end of the season, he escapes, kills his captors and heads for parts far North, first stopping at the cholera tunnels to collect his things. Vanessa finds him there packing, and tearfully says goodbye to the most human man she has ever known.

Throughout the season, Victor has come to love Lily, but is brokenhearted when she reveals that she is not the loving companion that he thought, and that she has merely been using him throughout, being fully cognizant of who she was and what she now is. She has taken up with Dorian again, and they seem to be heading towards becoming an immortal and immoral power couple.

Inspector Rusk has been working quite hard to connect the dots in the Mariner’s Inn massacre and is coming to believe that though the victims were ripped to shreds in an animalistic fashion, a seemingly normal Ethan was somehow involved. However, when Ethan confirms this by turning himself in and confessing, instead of handing him a death sentence, the Inspector hands him an extradition order.

So at the end of Season two, Ethan is captive on a ship bound for America, Sir Malcolm is on a ship bound for Africa to take Sembene home, and Caliban is on a ship bound for as far away from humanity as he can get. Victor sinks deeper into his long standing drug addiction, and Vanessa throws her crucifix into the fire, acknowledging that she is truly and completely alone.

Showtime has released the full episode of the Season Three Premiere to YouTube. Unfortunately for me, it won’t play where I am, so I will have to wait for the official airing on May 1. Depending on where you are, you may be able to see it.  Meanwhile, here’s an official trailer to whet your appetite.  Enjoy!

The Flash SN2 EP17 – ‘ Flash Back ‘

Its time for another Flash review and in this episode we see Barry travel back in time in order to learn from the Earth-1 Dr Wells aka Eobard Thawne how he can increase his speed in order to battle Zoom if they find a way back to Earth-2.

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Barry is still trying to think of a way to increase the speed at which he can run and as he is having a meal with the West family Wally arrives and gives them an update on the project he is working on with his college teacher on how to create more speed in a car. As they are discussing the reading Wally has to undertake he mentions that he cannot exactly go back in time and speak to Enzo Ferrari and ask him all the questions he would like answered. Barry has a look in his eye that tells us he has a plan in mind and excuses himself and heads off to Star labs to share it with the team.

Barry arrives at Star labs and tells Cisco and Caitlin that he plans on going back in time and speaking to Dr Wells (Eobard Thawne) to see if he can gain information on how he planned to make Barry run faster in order to send himself back to his timeline. Cisco and Caitlin think this is a good idea but as they are discussing this Earth-2 Dr Wells arrives back from looking for his daughter and advises Barry that the idea is too risky and they can come up with another way to make him faster. In true Barry style in this series he does not listen and enters the tunnel and travels back in time.

Barry arrives in the past at the exact time that his past self if about to fight Hartley Rathaway just as he is coming to terms with his arrival his past self looks over and spots him causing Barry to run off into a nearby alleyway to regroup. He tries to contact the team but his earpiece malfunctions and he has to take matters into his own hands and speeds off to grab his past self. As he reaches the alleyway he attempts to use a serum to knock his past self out but he does not go quietly and the pair rush around before Barry manages to inject him and knock him out. Barry switches the flash symbols over to avoid being found out that he is from the future and rushes back to knock Hartley unconscious and take him back to Star labs.

When he arrives back at the lab and puts Hartley in his containment chamber the team ask him to remove his ear pieces but he explains he can’t do that as the pain is agonizing to him. Barry has a flash back of Hartley using his ear pieces to escape the chamber by using them as explosives and tells Cisco to check them for low level radio waves and as if by magic he picks it up straight away although this peaks Dr Wells interest in how Barry could have known that. Barry then talks to the old team and drops that he has been thinking about how he can become faster and starts to draw the speed equation on the board, you can tell by the look on Dr Wells face that he is not sure what to make of all of this but agrees to help Barry figure it out.

We go to the police HQ and a patrolman is in Barry’s lab when we see the map of the city move but there are no windows open and the next thing we see if some sort of Harry Potter looking creature spring out of the board. It makes it’s way out to the main lobby of the station and the police on duty start to open fire but obviously this has no effect, the team receive news that the station is under attack and Barry jumps into action but not in time as the creature makes an escape through a window. Barry is busy tidying up the mess and Joe comes into see him to check if he is alright as he seems different before heading off and we see the return of Eddie. The pair have  brief chat and Barry tells Eddie that he is putting together a video for Iris’s birthday in 3 months and asks Eddie to record a message for Iris so that he can play it to her on her birthday.

Barry arrives back at Star labs and Dr Wells asks Barry how he managed to come up with the complex speed formula in such a short amount of time and not mention it to anybody, Barry tries to explain how he came up with the idea but Dr Wells does not seem to buy it. Dr Wells asks him who he really is and Barry’s response is it’s me Barry you know me, Dr Wells does not believe him and springs up from his chair and knocks Barry unconscious. Barry comes to and he is chained to Dr Wells chair he attempts to phase out of the cuffs and Dr Wells advises that he knows he is from the future as he has not taught his Barry how to phase through objects yet. Dr Wells then moves quickly to his right and Barry is not phased by this confirming that he knows he is from the future as his Barry would have been shocked by that move, Barry starts to laugh and then comes clean with Dr Wells about why he has come back in time and that he is facing another speedster.

Dr Wells then fills Barry in on the creature that has been chasing him and that it is in fact a time wraith and he is after Barry as they have had enough of him travelling through time changing events. Dr Wells knows Barry has to return to his time Barry advises him that he is not going anywhere until Dr Wells helps him increase his speed. Cisco and Caitlin go to take Hartley his new ear pieces in order to help stop the pain he is feeling in his ears just as the time wraith appears looking for Barry and forces the pair into the cell with Hartley who then comes up with a plan to use his new ear pieces to cause a sound that will drive the creature off this is successful.

The team are regrouping and in an instant past Barry reappears and shocks Cisco and Caitlin causing Cisco to ask a string of question all of which both Barry’s are able to answer  causing Dr Wells and Future Barry to come clean about what has been going on. Eventually Dr Wells gives Barry a flash drive with the completed formula on it and advises him that it is time for him to go back to his time. Barry rushes back to the tunnel and starts to build up the speed to take him back to the future but the time wraith comes after him and as he catches him up Barry begins to slow down. Eventually after Barry manages to get up enough speed to time jump as past Barry lends a helping hand to counter act the wraith slowing him down he takes the time wraith with him.

Barry arrives back in his time but is floored by the wraith who starts to suck the life from Barry. Hartley arrives on the scene as he uses his gauntlets to shock the wraith but they are not strong enough to destroy the wraith after a quick tweak to the frequency being used he manages to destroy the time wraith and it appears the team may have a new member.

Barry then arrives back home and find Iris sat on the couch looking at a photo album of pictures of her and Eddie, Barry has a heart to heart with Iris and tells her that he found a video clip that he had Eddie record and has only just found it and gives it to her to watch before going to bed and the episode comes to an end

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DC’s Legends of Tomorrow SN1 E12 – ‘ Last Refuge ‘

Last Refuge

In the opening this week, we discover just exactly how the Omega Protocol works.  Kind of nasty, actually! Once the offending time pirate is disposed of, the Time Masters give the Pilgrim (played by Faye Kingslee) her next assignment, our team.  Fair warning, the episode itself contains some timey wimey inconsistencies, and some huh?? moments but what the hey!  It’s a TV show, not rocket science or Doctor Who, and still thoroughly enjoyable if you take it with a grain of salt.  Oh and BTW ladies and gentlemen, Leonard Snart is not only a damn fine looking cowboy, he also makes one damn fine looking fireman!!  What?  I can appreciate!!  It’s allowed!

We find the Legends at the scene of a burning home, searching for young Rory (Mitchell Kummen), who is tearlessly watching his world burn from some nearby bushes.  His parents are quite deceased inside the home.  Len observes that this is not his element, and does little more in this scene than to prop up the firetruck.  But he does so in style!

Behind young Rory is a menacing woman getting ready to shoot him out of existence. The Atom bursts out of the grass in the nick of time, and blasts her into the middle of next week, while channelling his inner Terminator.  (Come with me if you want to live!).  The team scoops up young Rory, and take him back to the WaveRider, where grown Rory leaves Jax in charge of babysitting in the hold.

On the bridge, Rip and Rory inform the team that because of the precision required by the Omega Protocol, the Pilgrim only gets one shot at each of their younger selves.  If she makes multiple efforts, this could result in possible irreversible temporal damage. Conversely this also means that the team only gets one shot at extracting each of their younger selves from the timeline.  More on this later.  Gideon has traced the Pilgrim to Sara in Starling City in the year 2007.

Young Sara (Caity Lotz) is handcuffed to a desk in the police station, getting a first hand look at the criminal justice system from the inside for a paper that she is doing for school.  Quentin Lance (Paul Blackthorn) makes a joke about it being every father’s dream to lock up their daughters till they turn 30.  The Pilgrim continues the Terminator motif, crashing the police station and shooting from the hip at every cop in her way, while searching for young Sara.  Sara runs, only to end up at the end of a hallway containing a window and two locked doors.  Rory busts through one of the locked doors to defend young Sara, just as the Pilgrim rounds the corner.  White Canary jumps out of nowhere and engages the Pilgrim with her staff.   Having defeated the Pilgrim again, they take young Sara back to the hold to keep young Rory company. Grown Rory is not sure that this is a good idea.  Grown Sara notes that even before the League of Assassins, she could handle guys like him.

The Pilgrim has now hidden her temporal wake, so Gideon cannot track her.  Ray begins to panic, wondering how they will know which member the Pilgrim is after next, how long it would take to feel the effects of being erased, and is he maybe already dead, can anybody hear him.  There is plenty of stunned disbelief and eye rolling from the rest of the team.  Snart highlights this in a succinct “No”.  I have said it before, and I will undoubtedly say it again, but for a smart man, sometimes Ray is just not very bright.  But! he looks good.

Rip tells the team that he and Kendra are safe from the Pilgrim.  Snart observes that this is convenient for Rip.  Rip wants Snart to explain, so Snart points out that they know next to nothing about Rip’s past, and that he doesn’t trust a man with secrets.  Rip explains that this is deliberate as the less they know about him, the less valuable they are to their now numerous enemies.  Once again, Snart snorts “Convenient”.  Sara distracts them by pointing out that there is a fight going on in the hold.  Young Sara smacks young Rory, and grown Rory laughs.  Sara breaks it up, telling young Sara to keep her hands to herself but next time hit with a flat palm, and telling young Rory that he is not young Sara’s type.  While young Rory seems to be calm, cool and disconnected, young Sara is a little freaked out, and has a lot of questions, most of which grown Sara answers with a blanket “you have to trust me”.

In Ray and Kendra’s quarters, Ray tells Kendra that when stuff gets overwhelming, his safe place is the years they spent in Hub City.  He tries to tell her about the ring he wants to give her, but is inexplicably suddenly being knocked around and rapidly bruising.  The WaveRider heads to 2014 at Palmer Tech.  Firestorm tries to blast the Pilgrim but she is able to stop him by turning time against him.  Rip grabs a bit of younger Ray’s Atom suit and blasts her out of the window.  While this fight is going on, older Ray is in the med bay on the verge of dying, when he (finally) tells Kendra about the ring. Kendra picks the ring up off the floor where it has fallen and slips it on her finger, saying that she wants to spend the rest of their lives together.  When the Pilgrim is defeated, younger Ray is sent to the hospital, and older Ray begins to recover.

It seems that Firestorm’s power was stalled because the Pilgrim has the ability to use temporal micromanipulation, which essentially means that she can mess with time in her immediate vicinity.  Rip feels their time would be best spent by kidnapping the remaining team member’s newborn selves.  Martin thinks this is a brilliant plan, Snart thinks it’s morally questionable, and Rory thinks it is outright suicidal.  Rory and Rip explain that if they take too long to return their younger selves, history will be altered.  Snart thinks that it beats dying.

Kendra tells Sara that she is engaged, but is very obviously not thrilled about it because of the circumstance in which the engagement occurred.  Sara asks her to go to the hospital to snatch baby Snart, and they will figure out how to tell Ray after.  But hey, guess what?  Ray overhears the conversation, and predictably gets the whipped puppy look.

In Central City at the hospital, circa 1972, Kendra and Sara, disguised as nurses, enter the newborn nursery.  They waste a little time oohing and aahing over baby Snart.  In Sara’s words, “he is just the cutest baby in the world!”.

In the WaveRider’s hold, young Rory tries to pry the door open, but when young Sara inadvertently places her hand on the ID strip by the door Gideon cheerfully opens it.  Grown Rory, Sara, Kendra and baby Snart enter.  The team leaves baby Snart with young Rory and young Sara, but grown Rory can’t resist growling at young Rory not to drop his future criminal partner.  Martin imagines holding his own baby self, but Rip says that they are not to participate in their own abductions, citing paradox prevention.  Martin thinks it would almost be worth the risk to see how their fathers felt.  Jax confides that he never knew his father, who had shipped out the day before his Mom went into labor, and was killed 2 weeks later in Somalia.

Rip and Rory appropriate an ambulance and show up at a car on the side of the road where baby Martin is being delivered in the back seat by his father.  They whisk the baby away, telling Martin’s parents that they will meet them at the hospital.  Martin rounds a corner in the hospital where baby Jax is, to see a man in army fatigues looking into the nursery.  He notices that the man’s name is Jackson, and fetches Jax, so that he can meet his father.  It seems that James Jackson (Eli Goree) did in fact get to see his newborn son, because his transport was delayed.  Time constraints meant that he did not get to see his wife, however.  James Jackson tells Jax that Jefferson Jackson was destined for great things.  He has to go, but asks Jax to tell his wife that he saw the baby and will be home just as soon as he can.  Jax wants to tell him about the IED in Somalia, but because of paradox, feels that he can’t.  The Pilgrim is thwarted again.

Back in the WaveRider, Rip announces that “We are here”.  Snart wants to know where “here” is and Rip invites them to come see for themselves.  An older woman (Celia Imrie) comes out of a Tudor style home and greets Rip.  Rip says “It’s good to see you too Mother”.  Shocker!  This is a safe haven, and a home for orphan children who are marked for eventual Time Master status.  It exists in a secret location in history, and the Time-Masters will never think to look for their younger selves there.

Snart warns Mother that he is a handful.  Mother gives Rip a meaningful look and assures Snart that he is not the first tough case to arrive at her door.  Mother is Rip’s adoptive mother, and she is more comfortable using his birth name, Micheal.

Grown Rory catches young Rory playing with a match in the hallway, and rips a strip off him, making him feel worse than he already does, although he appears defiant.  Young Rory accuses him of sounding just like his father.  OUCH!

Mother gives Rip a pep talk, telling him that feeling selfish is a load of codswallop, and that he won’t accomplish anything by wallowing, so for goodness sake pull himself out of it and get the job done!  Tough bird, she is!

Jax is upset, and of course because of their psychic connection, Martin knows this.  Jax has always wondered how his father would feel about the good things he has accomplished.

Kendra finally tells Ray about her earlier incarnation, and what she said.  Ray tells her that he overheard her conversation with Sara and when she decides what she wants, to let him know.

Gideon has intercepted a trans-chronal beacon from the Pilgrim.  She is now holding their loved ones hostage, and will release them if they give her their younger selves.  She shows pictures of Sara’s dad, Martin’s wife, Snart’s sister, Ray’s first fiancé, and has Jax’s dad with her in the camera view.  Rip has Gideon hail the Pilgrim, and offers his younger self in return for the safety of all the team members, their younger selves and the release of their loved ones.  She accepts, and they arrange to meet at an abandoned Time Master Outpost.  Mother comes, bringing the younger Rip/Micheal (Aiden Longworth) with her.  She doesn’t approve, but takes time to assure everyone that their younger selves are safe and sound.  The Pilgrim arrives, Mother tells Rip to give her hell, fistbumps the younger Rip and leaves.  The Pilgrim asks where the rest of the team is, and Rip says that they are around.  She wants the younger Rip immediately but Rory demands proof that she has their loved ones.  She zaps Jax’s Dad into the outpost, Rip tells his younger self that he will be absolutely fine, and the exchange takes place.  The minute that Jax’s Dad is in the clear, and young Rip is talking to the Pilgrim, Ray gives the signal, and everybody attacks.  But the Pilgrim’s ability to micromanage temporally means that everyone and their weapon beams are moving in very slow motion.  Younger Rip stabs the Pilgrim in the leg, distracting her so that the team can converge.  The Pilgrim is destroyed.  Grown Rip says that he knew what younger him would do if threatened, because he had been a cutpurse from the age of 5, who starved more than he ate, and yet survived.

Grown Rory sees that young Rory is still playing with matches, trying to burn his hand.  Grown Rory tells him that they are the same person, that none of it was young Rory’s fault, that he had spent his whole life blaming and hating young Rory for something that he didn’t mean to do.  He tells young Rory that he can’t change what he did, but he can change what he becomes.  He advises young Rory not to be like him, but to be better.

The team members speak with their loved ones.  Jax’s father is astounded at how Jax has turned out, and thinks that is because he did a good job of raising him.  Jax tells him about the IED that will end his life, and begs him to be careful.  Kendra tells Ray that there will never be a right time for them to get on with their life together, that they should stop waiting, and get on with it.  Rip tells Jax that maybe time wants he and his father to be together this time.  Rory says that he has just finished pulling younger him’s head out of his ass and though he is not certain it will stick, he had to give it a shot, since he saw that younger Rip was able to change.  The teams’ younger selves are left at the Last Refuge under Mother’s care. Their loved ones are returned to their timelines after taking amnesia pills.

Rip tells the team that history is starting to set as evidenced by Clarissa not remembering Martin.  No one knows how long they have till the changes stick, but they do know that they have to move swiftly to stop Vandal Savage, because with their younger selves removed from history they have quite literally run out of time.  They need to challenge him at the height of his power in 2166, even though to do so is highly dangerous.

At this point I normally do my favorite moments, and I did have plenty, believe me!  Mostly Rory’s speeches to his younger self.  Rory is developing empathy, and three cheers for that!  Not to mention he has some serious admiration going on for Sara.  And finding out that Rip was a right little bastard as a youngster. However, this time I want to point out the huh?? moments and the timey wimey inconsistencies that left me wondering.

HUH?? Moments:

Snart doesn’t seem to be even a little upset over Lisa being taken.  In spite of the fact that Snart’s love for his sister is FIERCE!  Yes, Lisa is a tough girl, but still.

During girl time with Sara, Kendra reveals that she has not yet told Ray that the woman she met with in the old west was herself because she and Ray are happy together, so they should be able to enjoy that before she drops the doomed relationship bomb on him.  When, since 1958, have we ever really seen any actual happiness between Ray and Kendra?  Their relationship seems to me to be fraught with sadness, anxiety, tension, near death experiences and whipped puppy looks, but not a lot of happy.

Timey Wimey Inconsistencies:

The major one for me is that the Pilgrim only gets one shot at each team member’s younger selves.  I can accept that.  However, if that’s the case, then why was it necessary to take the younger selves after the Pilgrim’s attempt on each was balked? After all, younger Ray was left in the hospital in his time.  And why couldn’t the younger selves be put back immediately once the danger to them was over?  I hope we eventually learn the reason for leaving them at the Last Refuge.

The next one is the paradox prevention step of not allowing Martin or Jax to help abduct themselves.  Again, I can accept that it would be best for grown selves not to interact with young selves, but both grown Sara and grown Rory had helped abduct their younger selves and interacted quite vocally with them. And apparently, Rip has amnesia pills that would by definition cancel out any possibility of paradox.

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