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TV commentary:
Teen Wolf- A decent end to the series. Surprisingly, no deaths! At least of any good guys! So Derek and Stiles rescue Scott and Company from Monroe and the hunters. Deucalion succumbs to his wounds, and Gerard gives the gang a call. He's captured Scott's dad at the station, Parrish at Eichen House, has Jackson and Ethan at the Armory, and we know Liam, Mason, and Corey are trapped in the hospital. He thinks by giving so many targets, Scott will be spread thin.
But the Sheriff rescues Parrish by beating up the other deputies and cowing them back to his side, and they free Scott's dad. Melissa is actually at the hospital, and she convinces Nolan to change sides, and Theo breaks in as well, and they, Liam, Corey and Mason defeat the hunters at the hospital. One of the hunters shoots Gabe on Monroe's orders (he and Liam were struggling, so Monroe orders the guy to shoot them both), but Theo takes away his pain as he dies.
Stiles and Lydia rescue Jackson and Ethan, but Scott tells Stiles to pick up one more thing before they leave, as he's figured out how to defeat the Anuk-ite. So they go to the school, where Monroe shoots Scott with a yellow wolfsbane bullet, but Derek manages to quickly burn away the poison.
where the Anuk-ite manages to stone Peter, Jackson (Peter by pretending to be Malia, Jackson by pretending to be Ethan), we don't see how it gets Malia and Ethan, but it gets Derek to open his eyes by pretending to be Jennifer. Which, nice to see her again. Well, I guess I never actually watched the show when she was on, so nice to actually see her, as Haley Webb is pretty cute.
Anyways, Scott claws his own eyes out to prevent looking into the Anuk-ite's eyes, and basically stalls until Stiles gets there. As he tells the creature, it had taken a shapeshifter form so it would have a form powerful enough to take on all comers. Unfortunately, it got a shifter's strengths, but also its weaknesses. Like Mountain Ash! Stiles runs through the door at that point, dousing it with the ash and encasing it in the stuff. This causes everyone who was stoned to become unstoned. And with the fear gone, any hunter that the gang didn't knock out no longer had the fight in them.
Scott has trouble regrowing his eyes though, until Lydia tells Malia to kiss him, which distracts him from the pain long enough so his eyes can grow back.
Back at the armory, Kate is looking for the yellow wolfsbane, but her dad says it was used to make a bullet. Well, two. The one Monroe tried to kill Scott with, and the one he uses to shoot her. Chris shows up to make it a real family reunion, and after letting his dad know Scott defeated the Anuk-ite, he walks away as his mortally wounded sister jackals out and rips Gerard to shreds.
So all the good guys live, Monroe gets away to become the new Gerard, and we get a time jump where she's leading thousands of followers across the world, but Scott and friends are still fighting her.
Star Trek: Discovery- Kinda annoyed by this whole CBS all access business. Why can't it just be on TV like a normal show? The show itself is interesting. I mean, its certainly got high production values, though it does take some pretty bold takes on classic Trek stuff. Heh, aren't the Klingons supposed to be honorable? What's so honorable about firing on ships trying to parlay? And since ships can't fire when cloaked, they tell the Admiral who shows up, "We'll negotiate!", but then immediately rams his ship with a cloaked vessel when he lets his guard own?
But yeah, everything's all dark and gritty, like even the Vulcans are dark and gritty. So the first ep is called "Vulcan Hello", which the main character, Sasha from Walking Dead, explains. When the Vulcans first met the Klingons, I guess the Klingons used underhanded tactics and attacked? So somehow, to their logical minds, you can't trust a Klingon vessel you happen upon, so you must immediately attack it?
Heh, when Michelle Yeoh was shown as the captain, I figured, okay, she's too big a name for this, and figured she'd die, so Michael (why does Sasha have a boy's name?) could take over. I mean, she does die, but Michael is court martialed for attempting to mutiny to jump the Klingons, and sentenced to life, which is where the ep ends.
First, okay, the fact that they're unable to recover Georgiou's body before having to flee makes me think she might actually show up again. I mean, yeah, they detected no life signs, but surely not having her corpse to fully confirm she's truly dead makes me think she'll be revived and imprisoned to be used later against Michael.
Which is another weird thing about the show. So throughout the premiere, people keep on chastising Michael all, "You're so damn Vulcan!" which is bullshit, because she was the most emotional person on the show. She wanted to attack first, not only because it was the Vulcan way, but because she wanted to protect the crew.
And then she comes up with the plan to capture the Klingon guy instead of martyring him, but when the guy kills Georgiou, she immediately pops him because of that!
In any case, I'm at least interested enough to see where they go.
Teen Wolf- A decent end to the series. Surprisingly, no deaths! At least of any good guys! So Derek and Stiles rescue Scott and Company from Monroe and the hunters. Deucalion succumbs to his wounds, and Gerard gives the gang a call. He's captured Scott's dad at the station, Parrish at Eichen House, has Jackson and Ethan at the Armory, and we know Liam, Mason, and Corey are trapped in the hospital. He thinks by giving so many targets, Scott will be spread thin.
But the Sheriff rescues Parrish by beating up the other deputies and cowing them back to his side, and they free Scott's dad. Melissa is actually at the hospital, and she convinces Nolan to change sides, and Theo breaks in as well, and they, Liam, Corey and Mason defeat the hunters at the hospital. One of the hunters shoots Gabe on Monroe's orders (he and Liam were struggling, so Monroe orders the guy to shoot them both), but Theo takes away his pain as he dies.
Stiles and Lydia rescue Jackson and Ethan, but Scott tells Stiles to pick up one more thing before they leave, as he's figured out how to defeat the Anuk-ite. So they go to the school, where Monroe shoots Scott with a yellow wolfsbane bullet, but Derek manages to quickly burn away the poison.
where the Anuk-ite manages to stone Peter, Jackson (Peter by pretending to be Malia, Jackson by pretending to be Ethan), we don't see how it gets Malia and Ethan, but it gets Derek to open his eyes by pretending to be Jennifer. Which, nice to see her again. Well, I guess I never actually watched the show when she was on, so nice to actually see her, as Haley Webb is pretty cute.
Anyways, Scott claws his own eyes out to prevent looking into the Anuk-ite's eyes, and basically stalls until Stiles gets there. As he tells the creature, it had taken a shapeshifter form so it would have a form powerful enough to take on all comers. Unfortunately, it got a shifter's strengths, but also its weaknesses. Like Mountain Ash! Stiles runs through the door at that point, dousing it with the ash and encasing it in the stuff. This causes everyone who was stoned to become unstoned. And with the fear gone, any hunter that the gang didn't knock out no longer had the fight in them.
Scott has trouble regrowing his eyes though, until Lydia tells Malia to kiss him, which distracts him from the pain long enough so his eyes can grow back.
Back at the armory, Kate is looking for the yellow wolfsbane, but her dad says it was used to make a bullet. Well, two. The one Monroe tried to kill Scott with, and the one he uses to shoot her. Chris shows up to make it a real family reunion, and after letting his dad know Scott defeated the Anuk-ite, he walks away as his mortally wounded sister jackals out and rips Gerard to shreds.
So all the good guys live, Monroe gets away to become the new Gerard, and we get a time jump where she's leading thousands of followers across the world, but Scott and friends are still fighting her.
Star Trek: Discovery- Kinda annoyed by this whole CBS all access business. Why can't it just be on TV like a normal show? The show itself is interesting. I mean, its certainly got high production values, though it does take some pretty bold takes on classic Trek stuff. Heh, aren't the Klingons supposed to be honorable? What's so honorable about firing on ships trying to parlay? And since ships can't fire when cloaked, they tell the Admiral who shows up, "We'll negotiate!", but then immediately rams his ship with a cloaked vessel when he lets his guard own?
But yeah, everything's all dark and gritty, like even the Vulcans are dark and gritty. So the first ep is called "Vulcan Hello", which the main character, Sasha from Walking Dead, explains. When the Vulcans first met the Klingons, I guess the Klingons used underhanded tactics and attacked? So somehow, to their logical minds, you can't trust a Klingon vessel you happen upon, so you must immediately attack it?
Heh, when Michelle Yeoh was shown as the captain, I figured, okay, she's too big a name for this, and figured she'd die, so Michael (why does Sasha have a boy's name?) could take over. I mean, she does die, but Michael is court martialed for attempting to mutiny to jump the Klingons, and sentenced to life, which is where the ep ends.
First, okay, the fact that they're unable to recover Georgiou's body before having to flee makes me think she might actually show up again. I mean, yeah, they detected no life signs, but surely not having her corpse to fully confirm she's truly dead makes me think she'll be revived and imprisoned to be used later against Michael.
Which is another weird thing about the show. So throughout the premiere, people keep on chastising Michael all, "You're so damn Vulcan!" which is bullshit, because she was the most emotional person on the show. She wanted to attack first, not only because it was the Vulcan way, but because she wanted to protect the crew.
And then she comes up with the plan to capture the Klingon guy instead of martyring him, but when the guy kills Georgiou, she immediately pops him because of that!
In any case, I'm at least interested enough to see where they go.