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Lovecraft Country Ep 2 and 3 review (30 Minutes - spoilers)
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Lovecraft Country
Created by Misha Greene, and produced by JJ Abrams, and Jordan Peele production
Today we will discuss the first episode titled, Sundown.
(15:10 spoilers)
Lovecraft Country
2020 HBO Drama-Horror series adapted from a 2016 novel of the same name by author Matt Ruff. The story is about a young African American who travels across the U.S. in the 1950’s in search of his missing father
Starring
Jonathan Majors- Atticus Freeman
Jurnee Smollett- Letita ‘Leti’ Lewis
Courtney B. Vance- Uncle George Freeman
Michael Kenneth WIlliams- Montrose Freeman
First episode was a pretty solid opener. It did a good job of establishing the tone of 1950's America before going to H.P. Lovecraft on us. I really felt like this pilot episode was meant to be a LOTR Fellowship of the Ring type episode where Jonathan is Frodo and he leaves the safety of the shire, Chicago, to embark on a dangerous quest to fulfill his destiny. The beauty of this episode is that it transplants trolls, goblins, and Balrog’s for Jim Crow segregation and racism. Our heroes have to be quick, smart, and lucky in order to escape and make it to the safety of Lothlorien (Ardham, or that big mansion at the end of the episode). Really though I enjoyed the beginning because it becomes so crazy so quickly with War of the Worlds type dreams while fighting in the Korean War. Also, his conversation with the woman on the road about the Princess from Mars AKA JOhn Carter, is basically him.
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Watchman TV series HBO
Directors: Nicole Kassell 3 episodes
Stephen Williams 2 episodes
Step Green 1 ep
Adrij Parekh 1 ep
David Semel 1
Frederick E.O. Toye 1ep
Writers:
Cord Jefferson
Jeff Jensen
Claire Kiechel
Damon Lindelof (Lost) - creator
Alan Moore (wrote the original comic book but distanced himself from this project)
Stacy Osei-Kuffour
Nick Cuse
Actors:
Regina King as Angela Abar/sister night
Yahya Abdul-Mateen II as Cal Abar and MM
Tom Mison/ Mr. Phillips/ Game Warden
Sara Vickers as Ms. Crookshanks
Jeremy Irons as Adrian Veidt
Andrew Howard as Red Scare
Louis Gossett Jr. as Will Reeves
Jean Smart as Lauri Blake
Tim Blake Nelson as Wade Tillman/Looking Glass
James Wolk as Joe Keene
Hon Chau as Lady Trieu
Don Johnson as Judd Crawford
This is a show that tries to be complex in its portrayal of systemic racism and interpersonal violence against people of color. However, at times it doesn’t know if it wants to simply reenact racism by leaning into stereotypes and fears held in American society for decades or expose the false beliefs the behaviors reveal. Optically, it presses the shame button multiple places in the story, white man versus black man, white woman versus black woman (competing affections for the same black man - hits the “why did this fine and blessed black man pick a white woman and the competition that ensues). God as a black man. Etc. Ultimately, It didn’t strike an empathic cord, it was visually explicit, but the story narrative lacked the edginess of the visual effects. At one point I wondered if I was watching a porn video. Regina King and Hon Chau save the story with their portrayal of believable and amazing female characters. I’m not sure that even their heroics save this story from being an exploitive, manipulative, mess.
Watchman TV series is about systemic racism in that it depicts white supremacists and racists in different era’s committing racist acts on multiple levels.
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Hello everyone! Today we wanted to change up our usual format and take a break from dedicating a whole episode or series of episodes to one show or movie. Instead, we are starting our new segment, “Quarantine Watch”. A simple premise where Tom and I reveal what movies or shows we have been watching in order to stave off our descent into an isolation induced depression and psychosis.
Eric’s topics
Underwater- Janurary 10th, 2020
- Director- William Eubank,
- Starring- Kristin Stewart, Vincent Cassel (Serac), TJ Miller, and John Gallagher Jr. (Liam Dempsey)
The Dead Don’t Die- June 14th, 2019
- Director- Jim Jarmusch
- Bill Murray, Adam Driver, Tom Waits, Chloe Sevigny, Steve Buscemi, Danny Glover, Tilda Swinton, Selena Gomez, Caleb Landry Jones, and a bunch more.
Rick and Morty: Season 4, 2nd half
Creator: Dan Harmon
After Life - Nefflix Original; Ricky Gervias. Its a British comedy that follows a man after the death of his wife of 20 years due to cancer.
Homecoming - Amazon Prime. Julia Roberts, etc.
War - DC animated movie prompts the question: why can’t the live action movies be this good?
Empty Seats is a weekly podcast where we talk about the shows we love to watch. Most weeks those shows involve fantasy, science fiction, or horror topics. However, this week we talk about the ESPN documentary Last Dance.
The Last Dance
Direct by: Jason Hehir
A 10-part Docuseries covering the Chicago Bulls last championship season and the career of Michael Jordan, widely accepted as the best NBA (if not all of sports) player of all time. AKA the G.O.A.T.
What makes a good documentary?
First lets discuss how we feel about the documentary as a documentary. Did we like it, was it informative, and was it paced well.
- Did you like the jumping back and forth between timelines, or how each episode would focus on one of Jordan’s teammates.
- Is this a Bulls dynasty doc? Or a Michael Jordan Doc? Is there a difference?
- What was the goal of this Doc? Did it accomplish this goal?
- Why did they wait so long? Does this change how we would have viewed this if it came out say, 10 years ago.
- What about how it was from Jordan’s perspective?
Now on to the actual content.
Set the stage: when were you when..the Bulls won their first title? Jordan Came back 1996..and came back..2001 (standing ovation at the United Center when he played his first game as a Wizard)
- Was there a favorite part for you in the Documentary? (Tom: the reminder of what the GOAT looks like; first championships, behind the scenes humanizing, seeing basketball again)
- How about is insanely competitive drive? Do we think that shaped..(yes, is separates him from other great players imo)
- Was Scottie Shafted? Was it intentional?
- How many players did Isaiah Thomas hate, for real. Or is it the other way around?
- Jerry Krause had a nice run - looking at the players he brought in. How did you feel about the way he was portrayed?
- Finally, Jordan or Lebron? Or does Lebron not belong in this conversation yet.
- John Michael Wozniak- Curly haired security guard that beat Michael. And security guards forming his entourage.
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Westworld Episode 8: Crisis Theory
Recap
Delores is brought back to life by Caleb and she realizes she made the right choice in Caleb. She anoints Caleb as the leader of the revolution and then tries to get him to Incite HQ to upload Solomon’s plan. This doesn’t go as planned and she fights Maeve again, but this time wins before the Ghost of Charlotte ceases all of her motor functions. When awoken she` is linked directly to Rehoboam to find the key that is supposedly in her brain. Caleb is captured by Maeve and brought to Serac and Delores, but not before Maeve figures out that Rehoboam is actually in control and Serac is basically a puppet or mouthpiece. Serac kills Delores by deleting her memories, but not before she opens her mind to Maeve and shows her the reason behind her plans all along which was to save the human race. She chooses to see the Beauty in humanity and not its evil. Maeve turns and saves the day. Delores gives Caleb control of Rehoboham and he tells it to delete itself. The war is over….or is it? Everything else is pretty much inconsequential to the overall plot.
What a season finale. Delores gives her life to save humanity.
Westworld Ep. 7: Passed Pawn
Musashi is killed by Clementine and Hanaryo while Charlotte hangs in the background with a partially reconstructed face.
- One more Dolores clone is off the board. Who is Charlotte and the others working for?
Dolores and Caleb make it to the reeducation center in Mexico. They find Solomon there who is the father of Rehoboram. This obsolete AI program tells Caleb about his past as an outlier who was brainwashed into becoming a hunter of other outliers and the Riot app is run by Rehoborahm to find and apprehend outliers. Maeve soon arrives and Dolores and her get into a duel which ends with Dolores having her arm blown off before she can activate the EMP that kills her, Maeve, and Solomon. This is not before Solomon is able to generate a revolution strategy for Caleb who is now the leader, and the one to overthrow Rehoboram (and possibly the human race).
- Lot to unpack here. First, what do you think of Caleb’s backstory in this episode? Does his reveal satisfy you from what you were thinking or expecting from Caleb’s character?
- Let’s unpack the Caleb Solomon dialogue. How does it add to this character’s story moving forward?
- How about the plan with the Outliers. 1 in 10 are reeducated and sent back into the world to kidnap other outliers. Why are we getting some mid-season bullshit during the penultimate episode
- Are we satisfied with Maeve’s story this season? What about her and Dolore’s elaborate fight sequence.
- Were you satisfied with the build-up to Delores v. Maeve? The fight? Or, how it ended?
MEANWHILE, Bernard and Stubbs are with William and they are searching for something. After figuring out about he outlier program and how Serac has been treating them like hosts, the 3 of them seemingly travel to find Caleb out in Mexico when they stop at a gas station. William finds a shotgun and is holding them hostage or is about the kill them
- Why are these characters in the show again? I feel like their importance is completely gone this season. Actually I feel a lot of characters are unimportant now. Remember when his control clicker was a huge plot device.
- William nows his purpose now which is to destroy every host in existence thus cleansing himself of his original sin which is his investing in this technology.
What can we expect in the season finale? Trailers have revealed that Dolores and Maeve are very much still alive and in for one final face off? Will we have any resolution for the plot lines of this season? I honestly have no idea what to expect at this point.
**could the Caleb set up have been handled in one or two episodes?
**Couldn’t they have involved William earlier or not added this - again
**Is this the first season of a “new show”?
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Tiger King: Netflix documentary
Directors:
Rebecca Chaiklin
Eric Goode
Carol Baskin
Joe Exotic
Bhagavan Antle
Jeff Lowe
James Garretson
...host of criminals and personality disordered individuals
Tiger King is a documentary covering the ownership, exploitation, and abuse of exotic animals in America. It also covers the rather unbelievable lives of the owners of these exotic pets who’s lifestyles often seem scripted as they incorporate Tigers, drugs, polygamy, Murder for hire, and running for political office among other things. Also since it is easily the highest rated show at the moment and the one everyone has been talking about since we all have been quarantined in our homes.
- The question on everyone’s mind. Did Carole Baskin kill her husband?
- Who do you hate more Carole Baskin or Jeff Lowe
- How are you anti big cat private zoo and own one yourself
- Who was your favorite character? Who do you think was the most fucked up in the head?
- Do you have any sympathy for Joe Exotic or any of the other main characters? Who do you have sympathy for?
- Would you buy a baby Tiger for 2k?
- How much of this documentary do you believe in that some of the footage they have is insanely lucky to have been shot (Like Joe’s 2nd husband accidentally shooting himself in the head). Was a lot of the conclusions the producers led us toward forced or fake?
Westworld Episode 4: The Mother of Exiles
Title is pretty self explanatory after watching this episode. All of our main characters are trying to figure each other out, and the audience is just trying to figure out what the hell is happening.
- Charlotte goes to meet William AKA The Man in Black to ask for his help in taking the company private
- Dolores and Caleb steal all of Liam Dempsey’s money before trying to kidnap him.
- Bernard and Stubbs want to kidnap Liam because they think Dolores replaced him with a host.
- Maeve is sent by Serock to track down and kill Dolores and this takes her to Musashi the leader of the Yakuza crime syndicate.
All of this culminates in a beautiful 3rd act where we find out who all of the hosts are. They are all copies of Dolores inhabiting other hosts bodies. William ends up at the center of the maze, broken, alone, and still trying to figure out who he is.
- What do you think of the episodes big reveal? They are all Dolores. Does it make sense? Is it an earned reveal in which we can believe that they are all Dolores? Where is this story heading now that we have had all the characters run into each other in violent fashion?
- What will happen with William? Trailers reveal his story is not over, but it certainly seemed like it at the end of this episode. And is he him?
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April Fools! It appears that a fake account for HBO Max announced that the Zack Snyder cut for Justice League will be released in early May. It turns out this was a fake announcement, but it does give us a chance to give out take on the idea of the Snyder cut.
Lots of release date changes for big movies.
- Black Widow premiere is moved to November 6 replacing Eternals
- No Time to Die November 25
- Top Gun December 23
- New Mutants does not have a release date - is anyone surprised?
- Artemis Fowl is moved to Disney Plus - Is anyone..nevermind
- A Quiet Place II September 4th
- Mulan is moved to July 4th
- The Eternals will open February 12
- Shang Chi will open May 7, 2021
- Dr. Strange moves to November 5th
- Thor opens February 28, 2022 .. lets stop ourselves.
In a field
I am the absence
of field.
This is
always the case.
Wherever I am
I am what is missing
-Mark Strand
Westworld Season 3 Episode 3: The Absence of Field
This episode brings us back to the “Real World” Dolores is saved by Caleb which means Caleb is now being hunted by the RICO app. He is abducted and interrogated when Dolores saves his life. She then proceeds to totally tear down his reality NEO style. Caleb ends the episode basically pledging himself to Dolores and her cause.
This episode though, Is Charlotte’s episode revealing that she will be a central character this season. She is CEO of the Delos Corp, and it is found that she is bought out by Serock in a hostile takeover while also learning that there is a high level mole which turns out to be her working for Serock. She also meets up with her son Nathan Hale which causes her to grapple with the duality of lives she is living. The episode ends with her meeting Serock in which she has been trying to steal data for Serock, most likely the data that she was trying to get out of Westworld last season.
- Who is Charlotte Hale? It seems this will be a key mystery of the season and there are theories abound on the internet.
- Is this now? Is this reality...real? I have my doubts.
- Who is the “old friend” Delores said they will be meeting?
- Next week we will see the Man in Black. Is he alive? A host? In a simulation? Do any of us really have free will?
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News & Notes:
The #1 distributor of comics, Diamond distributors, stops all shipments of new comic books due to Covid-19: Stuff got real, real quick
Wonder Woman 1984 release date pushed back 2 months - 8.14.2020
Will movies like “Bloodshot” which was released March 13 (budget of 45 million) make its money back (earned 10 million before Covid 19 hit). Valiant Comics
Invisible Man had a budget of 7 million and has made 28 million - money recovered
The Hunt is upside down, 14.5 million budget and earned over 5 million
Michael Bean cast in Mandalorian season 2
Kathleen Kennedy rumored to be ruining season 2 trying to fill plot holes created by Rise of ...She also is rumored to want Baby Yoda to be a reborn form of Yoda himself (itself?)
Westworld Season 3, Episode 2: The Winter Line
Directed by Richard J. Lewis
Starring: Jeffery Wright as Bernard
Thandie Newton as Maeve Millay
Did you like this episode? Why or why not?
This is Maeve’s and Bernard’s episode.
Bernard heads back to the island looking for Maeve. He finds Stubbs who tried to kill himself.
- What do you think of the buddy team up of Bernard and Stubbs? Will it live up to the highs of the Bernard-Elsie tandem?
- How about that giant Easter Egg and the Axe fighting scene?
- Will they find Maeve, and will she be able to help Bernard.
Maeve finds herself in “WarWorld” reenacting the occupation of Italy by the Nazi’s.
- Here we go again, Maeve having to question the nature of her reality.
- Was the discovery a mindtrip? Or did it fall flat.
- How about how she decided to escape the simulation
- How about having Hector and Lee return to support our favorite host.
- Who is Serock? Do we think he will be the baddie this season, or more of a neutral character kind of like Ford in season 1.
- How do we think the Maeve vs. Dolores showdown will go?
Rick and Morty Season 1 and 3
- M. Night Shaym-Aliens
- The Rickshank Rickdemption
Looking ahead how do we feel this season will progress now that we have touched base with all of our main characters. Who will win, will humanity or Robotkind win? Where is WIlliam AKA The Man In Black?
News & Notes
Wonder Woman 1984 release date is not pushed.
The Witcher 2 hasn’t shut down production
Rosario Dawson rumored to play Ashoka Tano in the Mandalorian season 2.
Covid-19 impact on the movie industry
Films releasing on Digital streaming services early due to Covid-19
Black Widow Release date pulled per Variety.com
Mulan and Fast&Furious 9 release dates delayed
Trolls World tour straight to streaming
Star Wars: Rise of Sky… will release digitally, early 3/13
Frozen 2 3/15/2020
The Invisible Man will release on digital streaming formats early for $19.99
The Hunt will be available 3.20 for $19.99
Onward (Disney) will be available for $19.99 3/20
***Discussion point; will this change how movies are released moving forward? How will this impact our viewing habits given the likelihood of future health events, etc.
https://time.com/5805624/movies-streaming-early-coronavirus/
Glamour.com - top 21 Pandemic and virus movies
Movies can sometimes be a foreshadowing or even a warning for real life pandemic and viral events.
https://www.glamour.com/gallery/best-virus-movies
55:08
Westworld Episode 1: Parce Domine
Dolores- Evan Rachel Wood
Bernard Lowe- Jeffrey Wright
Caleb Nichols- Aaron Paul
Charlotte Hale- Tessa Thompson
Maeve Millay- Thandie Newton
Man in Black/ WIlliam- Ed Harris
Liam Dempsey- John Gallagher
Martin Connells- Tommy Flanagan
Kid Cudi- Francis
Marshawn lynch- himself
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News & Notes
HBO is planning a series based on the video game "The Last of Us"
Taika Waiti is directing a remake of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
The Outsider Review 32:00
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Yoda to appear in future eps of The Mandalorian according to Billy Givens on Google news; are we surprised
Mark Ruffalo in talks to appear in Disney Plus SheHulk, will they find another way to humiliate Hulk?
Henry Cavill rumored to be the new Wolverine actor, does this excite you?
Kong Vs Zilla is getting good reviews in advanced showings, does this mean anything?
Have you watched the trail for Artemis Fowl, the new Disney love action movie based on a story by Eoin Colfer? Thoughts? Add Colin Farrell as Artemis’ father. Fantasy action thriller.
David James from Google news reports that Johnny Depp is eyed to be Joker in Matt Reeves Batman series, have you cleared the vomit from your airwaves? Thoughts?
In case you’re wondering, WB plans to make a sequel to Joker and create kind of Jokerverse
Justice League Dark: Apokolips War now on DVD/Streaming. The “maybe” final installment in DC’s animated trek into the JL. It combines the heroes from the JL, the Dark series like Constantine, and the Teen Titans. Have you watched any of these movies? What do you think of taking the path or animeish movies instead of live action. Does it work better?
Uncharted: Venom director Ruben Fleischer signed on to direct. Starring Tom Holland, Mark Whalberg, and Antonio Banderas.
News and Notes for February 24th, 2020 and The Outsider ep 4 & 5 review
Witcher News: Production on season 2 has started
- New castings tell us what stories will be in season 2
- Paul Bullion will play Lambert, another Witcher
- Yasen Atour will play Coen, a Witcher
- Kristofer Hivju will play Nivellen, a man cursed to be a monster, A grain of truth
- Mecia Simpson plays Francesa
Netflix is in production for animated movies for the video games Overwatch and Diabloo, both properties of Blizzard Entertainment.
Sonic the Hedgehog is the box office winner again and has now made over a $100mill domestically and 200mill worldwide since it opened on Feb. 14. Have you seen this movie? Do you want to or do you care?
Upcoming releases:
- The Invisible Man starring Elizabeth Moss opens Feb. 28
- Gun’s Akimbo starring Harry Potter and Samara Weaving
New recording
Trailers
- Westworld season 3 final trailer, season starts March 5th
- Stranger Things season 4 trailer, no release date yet. Last 3 were 4th of July and Halloween twice, shows hopper
News and Notes for February 2020 and The Outsider ep 2 & 3 review
92nd Oscars results
Best Picture- Parasite
Best Director- Bong Joon-ho, Parasite
Best Actor- Joaquin Phoenix, Joker
Best Actress- Renee Zellweger, Judy
Disney plus marvel shows release schedule
- Falcon and Winter Soldier late 2020: Anthony Mackie, Sebastian Stan, Emily Van Camp, Wyatt Russell and Daniel Brühl
- Wanda Vision fall of 2020: Elizabeth Olsen, Paul Bettany, Kathryn Hahn, Randall Park, Kat Dennings, and Teyonah Parris. Wanda will co-star in Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness movie
- Loki early 202: Tom Hiddleston, Owen Wilson
Birds of Prey: Has made 85M worldwide/budget is 84M. It's believed that a movie needs to make 3x the budget to break even.
Science Fiction, Fantasy, Super Hero Movies 2020:
- Call of the Wild February 21
- The New Mutants. April 1, 2020
- Black Widow May 1
- Wonder Woman 1984 June 5 - 45:00
- Venom 2. October 1, 2020.
- Godzilla Vs Kong. November 19, 2020.
- Dune. December 17, 2020 -.55:38
The Outsider Ep 2 & 3 Review
Director(s):
Andrew Bernstein (6 eps)
Jason Bateman (2)
Charlotte Barandstorm (1)
Writer(s):
Stephen King
Richard Price (for TV)
Cast:
Yul Vazquez Yunis
Ben Mendelsohn Ralph
Jeremy Bob Alec
Julianne Nicholson Glory
Jason Bateman Terry
Marc Menchaca Jack
Cynthia Erivo Holly (outside investigator)
Duncan e. Clark Frankie Peterson (dies at the start)
Story Summary:
The Outsider is a True Detective style horror, murder, mystery show is set in a suburb of Atlanta with a rural America feel. A grusesome murder of a boy leads to the arrest of a popular little league baseball coach. Evidence points to supernatural, if not foul, play. But, how can the main suspect be in two places at one time? The story unfolds sliding toward the supernatural in bone-chilling ways while remaining grounded as the mystery unfolds for the viewer. .
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Director(s):
Andrew Bernstein (6 eps)
Jason Bateman (2)
Charlotte Barandstorm (1)
Writer(s):
Stephen King
Richard Price (for TV)
Cast:
Yul Vazquez Yunis
Ben Mendelsohn Ralph
Jeremy Bob Alec
Julianne Nicholson Glory
Jason Bateman Terry
Marc Menchaca Jack
Cynthia Erivo Holly (outside investigator)
Duncan e. Clark Frankie Peterson (dies at the start)
Story Summary:
The Outsider is a True Detective style horror, murder, mystery show is set in a suburb of Atlanta with a rural America feel. A grusesome murder of a boy leads to the arrest of a popular little league baseball coach. Evidence points to supernatural, if not foul, play. But, how can the main suspect be in two places at one time? The story unfolds sliding toward the supernatural in bone-chilling ways while remaining grounded as the mystery unfolds for the viewer. .
Episodes 1: Fish in a Barrel
Witcher Ep. 7-8
This Game of Thrones-style series is based on the fantasy book series by Andrzej Sapkowski, it is a story of fantasy, fate, and family. Geralt of Rivia (Cavill) is a solitary monster hunter who struggles to find his place in a world where people often prove more wicked than beasts.
Created by Lauren Schmidt Hissrich for Netflix
The Witcher timeline: https://thewitcher.tv/the-witcher-deconstructed-timeline
Starring: Henry Cavill as Geralt of Rivia, The Witcher Freya Allan as Ciri Anya Chalotra as Yennefer Eamon Farren as Cahir MyAnna Buring as Tissala Wilson Radjou-Pujalte as Dara Adam Levy as Mousesack Gaia Mandadori Pavetta Bart Edwards Duny
Summary of episode 2: https://www.comingsoon.net/tv/features/1116560-the-witcher-season-1-episode-2-recap
1210 Yennefer is sold to Tessaia 1210-1249 Gerald becomes “The Butcher of Blaviken” 1249 Gerald evokes “The Law of Surprise” 1263 Gerald and Ciri meet
Witcher timeline https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/netflix-releases-official-witcher-timeline-104825444.html
https://www.sideshow.com/blog/10-creatures-from-the-bestiary-of-the-witcher/ Creatures of The Witcher
5:19 transition to story (spoilers) The Witcher Ep. 7, “ Before a Fall”
This episode brings us back to the “present day” or 1263 a few days before the Fall of CIntra. Geralt see’s the Niflgaardian army marching toward Cintra. Sensing the danger he makes his way to Cintra to take Ciri under his protection. When he makes it to Cintra he finds Queen Calanthe less then willing to give up her only grand daughter and heir to the Cintran throne to an inhuman stranger. She first tries to kill him, then trick him, then imprison him when Geralt shows he is intent on keeping Ciri safe. We then go through the final scenes of the battle of Cintra through Geralt’s eyes as he breaks from the Dungeon and looks for Ciri. Bring long gone now, Geralt flee’s the city and continues his search. Q- Bringing it back to the beginning. Does this do a good job of tying the two stories back together in a way that is “good”. Because I think it was creative, but do we think it was a good way to do it. Q- Does this make sense? Or like episode 4 are we left scratching our heads again?
Yennefer travels to Nazzir in Nilfgaard where she is reunited with Istrid. They reunite somewhat momentarily before their relationship is reluctantly cut off. Then Yennefer is met by the mage Vilgefortz who asks her to come back to Aretuza to discuss the Nilfgaardian aggression. Once there, she takes a trip down memory lane before reuniting with all the mages for a council meeting to discuss supporting Cintra who has not allowed Mages for sometime. The council votes to stay out of it, but Tesseia and Vilgefortz leads a company of mages to fight Nilfgaard. This leads them to Sodden Hill where they will make their last stand. Q- why did she return? What is she getting out of coming back to a place she seems to so thoroughly detest. Same with going to fight at Sodden Hill. Tesseia asks her to do it for her, but seriously, none of her motivations make any sense. At least not till next episode. 16:00 why is Yennefer back? Problems with time. 24:00 Geralt
Episode 8, “Much More”
32:08 Like Episode 2, this is Yennefer’s story. As they prepare for the Battle they occupy a castle sitting on the only crossing over the vast Yaruga river. Yennfer and the mages hold a vaillant defense against the Nilfaardian army and Fringilla. However, there are not enough of them and one by one they are killed or incapacitated until only Yennefer is abe to save them. She is told unleash her chaos in which she wipes out the Nilfgaardian army in a storm of fire, but then she herself disappears. 45:04 Geralt actually, and literally, takes a backseat in this episode as he is bitten by a Nekker which is deadly to humans. In and out of delirium he spends the episode having flashbacks to him as a child and being abandoned by his mother Visenya
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This Game of Thrones-style series is based on the fantasy book series by Andrzej Sapkowski, it is a story of fantasy, fate, and family. Geralt of Rivia (Cavill) is a solitary monster hunter who struggles to find his place in a world where people often prove more wicked than beasts.
Created by Lauren Schmidt Hissrich for Netflix
The Witcher timeline: https://thewitcher.tv/the-witcher-deconstructed-timeline
Starring: Henry Cavill as Geralt of Rivia, The Witcher Freya Allan as Ciri Anya Chalotra as Yennefer Eamon Farren as Cahir MyAnna Buring as Tissala Wilson Radjou-Pujalte as Dara Adam Levy as Mousesack Gaia Mandadori Pavetta Bart Edwards Duny
Summary of episode 2: https://www.comingsoon.net/tv/features/1116560-the-witcher-season-1-episode-2-recap
1210 Yennefer is sold to Tessaia 1210-1249 Gerald becomes “The Butcher of Blaviken” 1249 Gerald evokes “The Law of Surprise” 1263 Gerald and Ciri meet
Witcher timeline https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/netflix-releases-official-witcher-timeline-104825444.html
https://www.sideshow.com/blog/10-creatures-from-the-bestiary-of-the-witcher/ Creatures of The Witcher
The Witcher Ep. 4, “Of Banquets, Bastards, and Burials” -Cripples, bastards, and broken things Geralt is asked by Jaskier to attend a DInner party in the Court of the Kingdom of Cintra. It is a courting party for the hand of Princess Pavetta, Calanthe’s daughter. Geralt’s job is to protect Jaskier from the lords and nobles who wish revenge on him. Instead Queen Calanthe takes an interest in the Witcher and attempts to hire his services. This is because Calanthe knows of a beast who will crash the party and take away her beautiful daughter Pavetta. Sure enough the party is crashed by a helmeted knight who has “claim” over Pavetta according to the Law of Surprise. It turns out the knight is cursed and so he has the head of a hedgehog and so this is why Calanthe enlisted the Witcher’s help and demands the Knight be slain. Geralt refuses and instead defends the knight. This starts a brawl and ultimately it is found that the knight, named Urcheon or Duny and Pavetta are already in love with each other. So despite her reluctance, Calanthe accepts Duny and allows him to marry her daughter. This lifts the curse on Duny who turns back into a human. To repay Geralt for saving his life Duny offers him whatever reward he wishes. Geralt claims the Law of Surprise as payment and it turns out Pavetta is pregnant. The child will become Princess Cirilla and thus bind her and Geralt with Destiny. 17:47 Q- What do you think of the show choosing this scene to show that all 3 storylines are in different time periods and showing that this dinner party was at least 15 years before the Fall of Cintra. Q- Did you like the story of the cursed knight falling in love with the princess and being able to lift the curse, reverse Shrek style. Q- Did this scene make sense? I found myself having a hard time following a lot of the dialogue and events. Q- The Law of Surprise is introduced here and it, plus destiny, becomes one of the defining themes of the Witcher story. Did they do a good job explaining it and do you buy it as a lynchpin of the show moving forward.
25:30 Elsewhere this episode Yennefer has been in the court of Aedirn for 30 years now. She is accompanying Queen Kalis when their carriage is ambushed by an assassin who wants to kill the Queen. Yenneger tries to defend the Queen for some time before leaving her for dead and taking the child, who also dies. Q- just one question. Why tho?
29:03 Ciri is taken in by the Dryads of the Brookilyn forest. They discuss with her about the magic in the forest and in th
Witcher Ep. 2 & 3
This Game of Thrones-style series is based on the fantasy book series by Andrzej Sapkowski, it is a story of fantasy, fate, and family. Geralt of Rivia (Cavill) is a solitary monster hunter who struggles to find his place in a world where people often prove more wicked than beasts.
Created by Lauren Schmidt Hissrich for Netflix
https://www.bensound.com/royalty-free-music/cinematic
The Witcher timeline:
https://thewitcher.tv/the-witcher-deconstructed-timeline
Starring:
Henry Cail as Geralt of Rivia, The Witcher
Freya Allan as Ciri
Anya Chalotra as Yennefer
Mimi Ndiweni as Fringilla
Eamon Farren as Cahir
MyAnna Buring as Tissala
Wilson Radjou-Pujalte as Dara
Adam Levy as Mousesack
Lars Mikelson as Stregobor
Summary of episode 2:
https://www.comingsoon.net/tv/features/1116560-the-witcher-season-1-episode-2-recap
1210 Yennefer is sold to Tessaia
1210-1249 Gerald becomes “The Butcher of Blaviken”
1249 Gerald evokes “The Law of Surprise”
1263 Gerald and Ciri meet
Yennefer trains at the magical academy at Aretuza
She manipulates her way to court mage at Aedirn
Her cohort at the academy, Fringilla becomes mage at Nilgard instead
Geralt meet a travel companion nambe Jaskier
Triss Merigold enlists Geralt’s help to kill a dangerous Striga that’s been terrorizing the town - there’s an unexpected connection to King Foltest
Witcher timeline
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/netflix-releases-official-witcher-timeline-104825444.html
https://www.sideshow.com/blog/10-creatures-from-the-bestiary-of-the-witcher/
Creatures of The Witcher
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The Witcher Introduction to the series and ep. One Review
Netflix Original based on the book/video game
IMDB 8.7/10 Rotten Tomatoes 59% critics score
80 million dollars / $10 million per ep
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This Game of Thrones-style series is based on the fantasy book series by Andrzej Sapkowski, it is a story of fantasy, fate, and family. Geralt of Rivia (Cavill) is a solitary monster hunter who struggles to find his place in a world where people often prove more wicked than beasts. Along the way, Geralt meets a deformed young woman named Yennefer of Vengerberg (Anya Chalotra) and Cirilla (Allan), a young princess with a dangerous secret. Together, the three must learn to navigate the increasingly volatile
Star Wars: Rise of Skywalker Review Initial reactions This movie is bad. A vomit sandwich of Star Wars that is more a Michael Bay movie then a star wars movie. As convoluted and confusing a plot as I have ever seen, especially for a star wars movie. Way too many new ideas, plot devices, force powers, and story arcs that I cannot list them all. Way too fast paced for a 2.5 hour movie. Cutting from scene to scene I felt like I was spinning in a Lunar module for the first 30mins of the movie. It all felt disingenious. That these characters that I was supposed to know for 3 movies were fake and going all their arcs were pointless and stupid. Really only 2 character arcs. Rey and Kylo. everyone else are just there. Not to mention pointless characters that offer no extra feeling to the movie. Final act was incredibly annoying, convoluted, rushed, and ruined everything I liked about star wars. I said before I didn’t care too much about the story, but hoped the space battles would be amazing. They were terrible. Editing like a michael bay movie I had no idea what was happening throughout the battle. The huge Rebel space fleet at the end was a giant middle finger to Gandalf and the ending to the Two Towers, and gave me literally no feelings whatsoever. So what was good about the movie? C-3PO’s comic relief. One of the bright spots of the movie as he was actually pretty funny and gave positive elements to an otherwise boring movie. Rey and Kylo fight on the Deathstar. Had emotional impact when Leia dies and Rey stabs Kylo with his lightsaber. Emotionally gripping and I felt it. Chewbacca dying. Emotional stab in the heart that this movie was desperately needing, also accompanied by Rey’s use of lighting hands that foreshadows her lineage. Ultimately taken back as we find Chewie is still alive. Rey and Kylo’s force bond being expanded on more and used for both of them to continue having these great dialouges with each other, and used at the end when Rey gives Kylo her lightsaber. Very powerful. The kiss. It actually worked and cemented both their arcs for the trilogy. They were bonded throughout and needed to have that to finally embrace the bond they have. I liked that Kylo died so that we didn’t have a cheesy ending where they are together and have little jedi-sith babies. Cause that would never come back to bite them. Chewie gets a medal. What didn’t work in the movie Palpatine’s return. No explanation for how he is there, some throw away lines about him being cloned, but really the movie was too rushed to have any real explanation. Pacing. The movie jumped from scene to scene way too quickly. I felt I was watching a 30minute tv show with how quickly everything was moving. I was just waiting for the scene where everyone slowed down and we took a minute to enjoy being in a star wars film. Basically it felt rushed. Like how the end of Game of Thrones was in which you could tell the creators just wants to finish the project and didn’t really care about the quality of the product. The whole ending battle scene was just space vomit that broke my heart. Nothing really matters anymore. Oh you thought Palpatine died securing Anakin’s arc and fulfilling his prophecy to balance the force, undone. Wow they killed Chewbacca how emotionally impactful, showing us that this is the end and Rey and the Rebellion will have to sacrifice those they love to save the galaxy, oh wait no just kidding he was on another transport. Damn Leia just sacraficed herself and essentially Kylo to save Ren, and now Rey made her darkest choice by killing Kylo and putting her on the path to the dark side. Oh wait no she had super healing powers and can just fix her mistake. I guess th
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