If I had to sum it up, I'd say that was a very tantalizing episode - lots of teasing of what great potential this show has, and yet it didn't quite deliver on all registers. My reply to laguera25 already hits on where I feel like they almost got there with Stahl but still sold her way short of being a proper character, so leaving that aside:
1. Pretty good procedural plot this week: twisty bio-futuristic, weaving in well with the way chromes have altered social expectations (and I love that all this body dysmorphic disorder was wrapped up in a man rather than a woman - admittedly, doing it otherwise would've been beyond trite). The ending was kinda sickly O. Henry ("I'm obsessed with my looks!" "I'm blind!" *irony!hammer*) but that heightened personal touch between him and John before he jumps redeemed it for me somehow.
2. John. Oh, my heart. What kind of awful dystopia is this where a man who looks like Karl Urban has to feel insecure about his looks? *cuddles him* Personal bias aside, very well played and it's horrible that now I think the whole point of Stahl is to feed the romantic ennui of our hero by being utterly unattainable but there it was and I totally fell for it in the moment.
3. The John/Dorian energy was back this week and so, so good. I WANT TO KNOW WHAT HAPPENED THAT TIME DORIAN WATCHED JOHN DRINK AND IT GOT AWKWARD OMG *grabby hands*
Spot on with the O. Henry reference. He just wanted to be loved...but he was a serial killer who murdered people to make himself pretty for his online date, so I did not have an "awww" moment at the end.
I know Dorian was just making a funny, but the implication that Karl's nose is anything less than perfect is absurd. It is one of the planet's great noses.
In a season that's been thin on worldbuilding or consistency, I do how like how they're coming back to the theme of technology isolating people. I wish they'd take it even further, because the happy!couples at the end looked pretty happy, perhaps just to provide a backdrop for Kennex's lonely, robotless angsting. But it's a reasonable idea that the more exciting the virtual world is (like that guy's room-sized golf course) and the more pressure people feel under to be "perfect," he harder it's going to be to make real, personal connections.
I know Dorian was just making a funny, but the implication that Karl's nose is anything less than perfect is absurd. It is one of the planet's great noses. LOL, right? Ridiculous, how this show wants to convince us of Karl Urban's imperfections, eheheh!
1. Pretty good procedural plot this week: twisty bio-futuristic, weaving in well with the way chromes have altered social expectations (and I love that all this body dysmorphic disorder was wrapped up in a man rather than a woman - admittedly, doing it otherwise would've been beyond trite). The ending was kinda sickly O. Henry ("I'm obsessed with my looks!" "I'm blind!" *irony!hammer*) but that heightened personal touch between him and John before he jumps redeemed it for me somehow.
2. John. Oh, my heart. What kind of awful dystopia is this where a man who looks like Karl Urban has to feel insecure about his looks? *cuddles him* Personal bias aside, very well played and it's horrible that now I think the whole point of Stahl is to feed the romantic ennui of our hero by being utterly unattainable but there it was and I totally fell for it in the moment.
3. The John/Dorian energy was back this week and so, so good. I WANT TO KNOW WHAT HAPPENED THAT TIME DORIAN WATCHED JOHN DRINK AND IT GOT AWKWARD OMG *grabby hands*
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I know Dorian was just making a funny, but the implication that Karl's nose is anything less than perfect is absurd. It is one of the planet's great noses.
In a season that's been thin on worldbuilding or consistency, I do how like how they're coming back to the theme of technology isolating people. I wish they'd take it even further, because the happy!couples at the end looked pretty happy, perhaps just to provide a backdrop for Kennex's lonely, robotless angsting. But it's a reasonable idea that the more exciting the virtual world is (like that guy's room-sized golf course) and the more pressure people feel under to be "perfect," he harder it's going to be to make real, personal connections.
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LOL, right? Ridiculous, how this show wants to convince us of Karl Urban's imperfections, eheheh!
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