FINISHED The Witcher Season 1
So I know I'm like a month late to the party but better late than never right?? I had been wanting to check this show out for a while mostly cause of Henry Cavill and how smoking hot he looked in all the promo material but I was hesitant cause I kept hearing negative things about this show so when I finally bit the bullet I was surprised to find that pretty much from the second scene of episode 1, I was 100% on board! Having watched this first season, I don't know what people could possibly complain about cause this show is incredible from it's world to it's characters! I loved that we were thrown straight into the world without any exposition so we could slowly figure out everything and that we spent all season with our three main characters separated so we could know them as people before we brought them together. It was so creative to have all three living in different timelines before merging to one cause we got to see the characters (especially Geralt and Yennefer) at different points in their lives. Speaking of, I absolutely adored Geralt and Yennefer together and I will be utterly heartbroken if they don't end up together by the end! I love that while they have people around them that can see through these thick walls they've built around themselves, it's only when they're together that those walls actually come down. I don't have too many feelings about Ciri yet but I'm really hoping that the whole destiny thing is leading her to becoming a daughter for Geralt and Yennefer and not a future love interest for Geralt! I also understand that the Nilfgaardians want to rule the whole continent but I'm not entirely sure what that has to do with Ciri or why Fringilla was more powerful than all of the mages combined cause it was ridiculous seeing that final fight.
I'm high key heartbroken that we'll have to wait a year before the next season but rest assured that whenever it comes I will be back here to watch it!
Welcome To Demon School Iruma-Kun Episode 16
I was so annoyed with Iruma for being as naive as he was this week cause like on one hand I get wanting to trust in the upperclassman you like but it feels closer to Iruma projecting himself onto Kiriwo than anything else and it was low key ridiculous that he completely forgot about Kiriwo's secret room when they were searching for him. I suppose with the invisible walls going up, the Battler Party fireworks show isn't all that important anymore but still! It's interesting that this all feels like Kiriwo's plan more than Baal's or at the least Baal is just amused by chaos so he's like do whatever you want kid but he really should learn to act better cause the dude was practically shouting out I made up Sullivan's charges to keep him away from his school in that interrogation room. I also wonder if the worse part of Sullivan's arrest is the secretly going to the human world or the kidnapping a human child cause Ameri's dad seemed to emphasize holding a human against his will so I feel like as soon as he realizes that Iruma likes Sullivan, will the charges no longer matter? I do have a feeling that cause this show is a lighthearted one, Iruma will suddenly remember Kiriwo's secret room and then talk him out of his craziness but I really want a huge fight like the opening shows!
ID: Invaded Episode 4
This show is just so fascinating! I'm always in this fun place of confusion and awe after each episode cause the techno-lingo is just so intense but I think as the show goes on I'm starting to understand a little more each time. Beyond the world I'm just fascinated with our male lead. I had said last week that I didn't understand why he was in this prison with all these serial killers when I thought he had only killed one person but this week we learn that he's been driving other serial killers to suicide and that it's been 5 so far. Sakaido is just so relatable cause I mean who else hasn't wanted to kill serial killers with how smug and arrogant they are but at the same time he's not physically doing anything to harm another person so how much of a killer would you count him to be? Yes he knows how to poke at their softest parts but like the saying goes you can lead a horse to water but you can't force him to drink. The case this week had such a sad ending with the police figuring out where the victim was only to find out later that the live video feed was actually a recording and that was straight heartbreaking especially once we saw Sakaido's face. He clearly is superimposing his daughter onto every victim that they lose and if that doesn't make you tear up, I don't know what will. I keep watching Hondoumachi carefully cause in the back of my mind I keep feeling as though she's supposed to be a young Sakaido and we're watching her descent into madness but she did run into one of Fukuda's missing victims at the end who I'm pretty sure is the Gravedigger we're looking for.
Batwoman Season 1 Episode 10
I was really curious to see if anything would really change this week after returning from Crisis but at the same time I was fairly certain that no big changes would occur cause like Black Lightning, Batwoman didn't seem to bring any storylines into Crisis and while at first I seemed to be right with a throwaway line about Oliver dying (that made my blood boil all over again), the episode ended and suddenly there was another Beth! The Arrowverse hasn't actually told us what happened when the Earths merged especially in terms of the same people across Earths but I had been going off of the assumption that they basically became one person so the fact that Beth stayed separate from Alice makes me wonder what's going on. Part of me wants to go back to the theory that Alice is actually someone who was locked up with Beth and that Beth told her everything so then Alice took over her identity but with Beth looking like Alice I'm not sure anymore. I also really loved that so much of this episode was about Kate struggling to figure out how much of herself she should expose to the world especially after the whole city was shipping her with a cop and like part of me thinks that she should have just listened to Luke cause the less people know anything about her the safer her secret but another part of me thinks that it's so uplifting that she came out in public so she could be a better role model. I loved that Kara was the one to do the interview cause of course who else would Kate trust to write this interview and not change things to lie?? I felt really bad for Mary all episode though and I was really glad that she and Kate eventually reconciled at the end though I still feel like this show treats her like an afterthought and you would think that being a girl power show the writers would write the sister dynamic a little better!
Next week's promo showed us that Kate will be going to Mary and Luke about Beth appearing out of nowhere and I'm so glad cause I want Mary to have a bigger role in this show and I'm excited to find out what Beth is!
Arrow Season 8 Episode 9
I do have to admit that I was biased against this episode at first cause I wanted to see the impact of Crisis on Arrow and what happened to Oliver more than a backdoor pilot to the Green Arrow & The Canaries show that was going to replace Arrow especially with how little I cared about the flash forwards last season but honestly this backdoor pilot was a lot better than I expected it to be! We're no longer in that terrible future we had seen before and I love the idea of giving some people alternative memories alongside their current memories cause it gives us so much delicious angst to play with cause I mean can you imagine gaining memories of a world that never happened?? Would you believe in the people you know now or who they were before? Are you who you are now or who you were? I don't entirely know where Felicity is supposed to be in this future but William and Mia grew up as Queens in the Queen Mansion with William currently running Smoak Tech while Mia and JJ were engaged and Connor is a bit of a mess (though Sara Diggle is MIA.) Zoey is also alive and Mia's best friend and Rene is mayor and I'm so fascinated with everything cause it's the future I wanted from Arrow originally! After everything Oliver sacrificed, he deserved more than his city going to shit after he was gone. I loved that giving Mia her memories back didn't bring her back to the angsty stubborn girl from before cause I'm really into this new calmer version of her who had a happy childhood and I hope that JJ struggles more with who he is than just automatically becoming the old evil JJ. The reason that Dinah is in this future is a little sketch but I can let it slide cause it's all very Birds Of Prey and I'm so so down. It's interesting cause before this episode I was almost entirely sure that I wouldn't check Green Arrow & The Canaries but now I might actually be into what this show will be.
Next week is the series finale for Arrow and I already know that I'm going to cry and cry and cry. Emily Bett Rickards is back for one final appearance as Felicity and I'm really curious to see all the changes Crisis brought about beyond the small ones we saw in this future. Based on this backdoor pilot it does look like Oliver might be dead dead after all but a girl can hope anyway right??
Legends Of Tomorrow Season 5 Episode 2
We're finally back and man oh man have I been missing this show! I cannot explain to you the excitement and joy I get from watching the craziness that occurs on this show and we returned this season with an awesome premiere! The balance that this episode struck between wanting to be totally off the walls insane and Crisis aftermath was almost perfect and it's only cause I personally love Oliver and Arrow more than anything in the Arrowverse that I found the jokes about Oliver's death a little bitter but if I'm more objective I can say that it makes sense for everyone to be super chill about Oliver dying except for Sara since she was the only one who knew and loved him. I loved that she spent all episode processing her emotions and her pain cause it would have felt like a total copout if she went from Crisis straight back to comedy. I was also super thankful that the reason the whole cast felt like caricatures of themselves was actually cause of the documentary and not a new writing style for the show cause though the humor in this show is the best part, if the characters don't feel real it pulls you right out! The whole Legends being famous thing being rewritten at the end was awesome as well cause once again it felt too meta for my taste. I do want to give a shoutout to Behrad who's appeared for the first time this week and I love him already. He's such a hippie and seems to be baked all the time but he seems oddly competent too alongside the fact that he was the only one to reach out to Sara and ask her how she was doing. I expected to be low key upset with the show for Zari being replaced by him cause I loved Zari but instead now I just want Zari to join up alongside him. I also really liked that Nate almost immediately felt like something was missing from his life after they reset the timeline last season and I'm really curious to see how different Zari will be now that she and Behrad didn't live through that horrible future. I loved the ending where he was the only one to see Zari and that searching for her will be his mission this season!
Next week looks interesting but I was most intrigued by the fact that Constantine was still around cause I thought the whole going to hell at the end of the episode thing might mean that like Nora and Mona the show was trying to shrink it's main cast a little.
Riverdale Season 4 Episode 10
Riverdale has returned for the second half of season 4 and though the episode was interesting, as a midseason premiere it was a bit of a let down. I do have to admit that I will never for the life of me understand what in the hell is happening with Jughead and his supposed death but as time goes on I'm more and more worried that Jughead might be dead for real cause I keep seeing how Cole Sprouse is booking other things but part of me keeps thinking that he must want to stay on the show so he can be with his real life girlfriend Lili right?? What really stings is how Jughead is living his best life right now so I hate the thought that he might lose it! I mean not only is he writing for his favorite children's mystery series but he just got into Yale undergrad and he and Betty seem to be going strong despite my worry that she is not okay with Jughead getting into Yale. Speaking of, Betty seems to have this thing for taking down Bret all of a sudden so she spends the episode trying to find proof of his misdeeds and fails only to gain a second chance through a quiz bowl which will be taking place next week. I'm still casually over here waiting to hear what her backup college plan is which might be silly cause this is Riverdale after all but it's not my fault that the show keeps bringing up college! Veronica and Cheryl decide to team up to make a new rum recipe that's one part Veronica's family rum and one part Cheryl's family maple syrup and that has to be one of the best ideas this show has come up with tbh. It's much better than the mess Cheryl went through in which she spent the episode fighting for control of the cheerleading squad from the new captain in the most ridiculous of storylines. Archie got to know his uncle who I can already tell is going to be trouble but poor dumb Archie's going to need half a season to figure out what I could tell in five minutes.
The promo for next week is showing us the quiz bowl that Stonewall will be having against Riverdale and it feels ridiculous but what can I say? I wonder if we won't get any more Jughead stuff cause supposedly his death happens in like a month so does that mean that we'll finally get to see the whole kit and kaboodle in four weeks?
The Magicians Season 5 Episode 2
I still don't understand what losing Quentin added to this show but here I am so I guess I'm still on board with where this show is going. Alice spent the episode with a golem of Quentin that she thought she made to decipher a letter that she found in Quentin's stuff but she actually brought a 12-year old Quentin back cause what she really wanted was to say goodbye to him and dudes I cried and cried all over again. Julia when she found out was furious but I was actually surprised she was surprised cause she should have known that like Quentin, Alice wouldn't stay still in the face of death. Margo and Eliot tried to bring Fen and Josh back to life through a series of hilarious hijinks while Eliot tried to ignore his feelings once again and was high key really mean to Margo about Josh but eventually they solved the problem by instead of going back 300 years, bringing all our main Fillory cast forward 300 years which is super creative cause I would have missed everyone! I'm also super looking forward to the episode where Eliot finally breaks and has the meltdown he needs to have in order to move on cause he's not dealing with Quentin's death in a healthy way. Also I low key need the show to stop calling Quentin and Eliot best friends cause though I preferred Quentin with Alice, Quentin and Eliot were clearly more than friends and it feels too close to queer baiting for the show. I did like that despite everything Eliot told Margo about moving on that he ended up trying to send a letter to Quentin despite it all though he hasn't sent it yet. Kady got her memories of the library depository she was interested in erased and with Penny's help she found out how but I'm curious to know who she pissed off now that the Library isn't a thing anymore. I'm also still waiting to find out what this supposed big world ending apocalypse is cause I thought it would have to do with turning the clock of Fillory back but since that didn't happen what will cause the apocalypse?
Next week we see Fen and Margo having to fight over what I'm assuming is a Fillorian way of determining who will become High King though it's possible that they also fight the Dark King whoever that is. Eliot will go to Alice with the possible letter and I really hope they send it but with how far the writers have dug their heels in about Quentin's death, I doubt it'll do anything.
Harley Quinn Season 1 Episode 9
This was a really fun episode and though it didn't actually follow what I thought had been Joker's evil plan to get Harley back last week it still led to the same outcome of separating her from her crew and Ivy. The second Joker had the chance, he dropped Harley and it was only cause the people in her life cared about her that they were furious about her life choices and it's interesting cause I get why they were upset but at the same time it feels like a terrible idea to give up on a friend in an abusive situation cause if they don't even have you to come to then they'll only stay in that terrible situation. Having said that Harley's not exactly a damsel and I definitely think this was the last straw for her cause it's only human nature to want to return to an ex after you think they've changed only to realize that no they are actually the same person they were before. I mean even Batman was disappointed! I still find the Bane is the worst villain in the DC universe the most hilarious thing ever but I am really worried for Ivy who probs should not have attacked that factory alone. I low key assumed that Harley might follow her anyway but now I think she'll end up saving her next week or maybe the week after when she realizes that Ivy is missing.
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