The evacuation of Dunkirk eh? My grandfather was one of those evacuated in 1941. He spent most of his wartime career after that in the Middle East and North Africa. I hope they do the period justice.
Finished watching The Killing season 2. Can't say I'm impressed like I was in the first season.
The plot pretty much picked up where the first season ended. The slow pacing stayed which I was grateful for, good character development remained too for the characters that actually remained relevant to the plot. To some of them, at least. Case in point: Richmond and Jamie line about bad luck.
The writers jolted and bounced quite a bit this season. So much in fact some questions remain unanswered. Like Richmond email address from last season - what? He just happened to have the same email as an escort service? Drexler just happens to have a drowning fetish or something, Richmond motives for committing suicide were contrived as fuck, and the prostitute confession from Season 1 about the killer, "He didn't look like a killer, but looked kinda sad." Seems to be ignored completely.
Linden character remained non-existent, and self-entitled as ever. No, you can't arrest people without evidence or based on your hunches. Stop. Trying.
The only depth her character had flew out of the window in the psych ward where she sat in front of the psychiatrist and talked about her mother leaving her and then it just disappeared, "Hey doc, linden is free to go."
What the fuck? Who allowed this jackass to enter the room?
It would've explained why her character is so fucking obsessed. It's been over 20 episodes and she still doesn't have a motive. And If you're going to be obssesed about something, at least be good about it. Geez louise, Holder got all his leads right this season.
Speaking of Holder's character, he was kinda dragged to the sidelines. We didn't see too much of his character this season.
Stan was pretty much useless to the plot at the early episodes, turned fascinating mid season, downhill, and up again when Mitch returned home.
Mitch's character... To sum up her character: "I don't care about anything. I just want to feel sad."
So I called it about Jamie and Terry. This show does like to invert every plot point it got. Especially true this season. The camera was never very interested in these two, compared to others.
Jamie motives I understand perfectly well, Terry on the other hand had very weak motives.
"I didn't know..." Seriously? What was the point of this scene? To show women can do things men don't? Either way, her intervention was comically stupid.
Jamie plan was cheesy but I guess it worked. I don't understand why Jamie had to pick up the gun. He didn't kill anyone - with his mouth, and his connections he could've probably gotten away with it.
I understand next Season we'll have a new killer. Hopefully he will be more fleshed out. And Linden will have some character, by then.
To sum it all up: Inconsistent quality. Writing definitely took a dive.
The writers jolted and bounced quite a bit this season. So much in fact some questions remain unanswered. Like Richmond email address from last season - what? He just happened to have the same email as an escort service? Drexler just happens to have a drowning fetish or something, Richmond motives for committing suicide were contrived as fuck, and the prostitute confession from Season 1 about the killer, "He didn't look like a killer, but looked kinda sad." Seems to be ignored completely.
Linden character remained non-existent, and self-entitled as ever. No, you can't arrest people without evidence or based on your hunches. Stop. Trying.
The only depth her character had flew out of the window in the psych ward where she sat in front of the psychiatrist and talked about her mother leaving her and then it just disappeared, "Hey doc, linden is free to go."
What the fuck? Who allowed this jackass to enter the room?
It would've explained why her character is so fucking obsessed. It's been over 20 episodes and she still doesn't have a motive. And If you're going to be obssesed about something, at least be good about it. Geez louise, Holder got all his leads right this season.
Speaking of Holder's character, he was kinda dragged to the sidelines. We didn't see too much of his character this season.
Stan was pretty much useless to the plot at the early episodes, turned fascinating mid season, downhill, and up again when Mitch returned home.
Mitch's character... To sum up her character: "I don't care about anything. I just want to feel sad."
So I called it about Jamie and Terry. This show does like to invert every plot point it got. Especially true this season. The camera was never very interested in these two, compared to others.
Jamie motives I understand perfectly well, Terry on the other hand had very weak motives.
"I didn't know..." Seriously? What was the point of this scene? To show women can do things men don't? Either way, her intervention was comically stupid.
Jamie plan was cheesy but I guess it worked. I don't understand why Jamie had to pick up the gun. He didn't kill anyone - with his mouth, and his connections he could've probably gotten away with it.
I understand next Season we'll have a new killer. Hopefully he will be more fleshed out. And Linden will have some character, by then.
To sum it all up: Inconsistent quality. Writing definitely took a dive.
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"It was much too big to be called a sword."
Would be interesting to see a real actor swinging this thing in a film adaptation (if there will be any). Also this:
Hieronymus Bosch is strong with this one.
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"It was much too big to be called a sword."
Would be interesting to see a real actor swinging this thing in a film adaptation (if there will be any). Also this:
Hieronymus Bosch is strong with this one.
Was the illustrator on LSD at the time? :lol:
Too deep in dark fantasy. Kentaro Miura loves being there. :hurt:
P.S. This was his version of "Conjunction of the Spheres" above.
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So I started watching Brooklyn 99. It's hilarious and a really cute comedy. Reminds me a bit of Parks and Rec but it's definitely its own show, and although I've only seen s1 i'm looking forward to seeing 2 and 3.
Have anybody seen the movie "The forest" yet?! I'm interested if it's good value... Thanks in advance... 
Oh man the 9th, 10th and 11th doctors are all great. I haven't been able to get into the newest one as much ... but that could be because of the 11 month old that runs around my house now.
Unrelated - just finished watching the Night of on HBO. It was a really solid miniseries. I'd recommend it.
Still watching the seasons with the 10th doctor - he's adorable
I think I'll be very sad to see him go and regenerate into the 11th doctor. We'll see