FINISHED Charming Adventures Of Sabrina Part 3
I went into this season excited to see how Sabrina would save Nick and where this world would take us only to come out of it low key meh. This season was a mixed bag cause there was stuff I enjoyed and stuff I disliked so in the end it landed somewhere around boring and over it. This might not be entirely fair of me to say cause this is obviously just one season out of many and I'm sure at some point the problems I had with this one will be resolved but as of now writing this review mere minutes after I finished this season I'm not happy with it. Part of this is cause I'm shipper trash and it always breaks my heart to watch the breakup season. It's why Arrow season 4 didn't work for me and why this one didn't. I loved Nick and Sabrina last season and their chemistry was so intense that they became my endgame ship despite going into this show for Ross Lynch which is why I was heartbroken to see that this whole season basically had Nick and Sabrina together for like 30 minutes out of the 8 hours! I did love what the show did with Nick and his PTSD no matter how much my heart hated it and I loved that he called out Sabrina for her shortcomings alongside her aunts. Sabrina 100% has this martyr complex and goes around doing everything as if she's right all the time damn the consequences until it blows up in her face and this was the part of the season that I wanted to explore more of but unfortunately with the whole time paradox it looks like we're going to take the easy route and not even see Sabrina struggle cause why would she go through any sort of pain? I like the idea of seeing different myths though and that we met Pan this season and I wonder if we'll see more in the future.
Welcome To Demon School Iruma-Kun Episode 17
This episode was another setup one cause we spent the entire time having our characters catch up to what we the audience already knew rather than move the plot forward. It low key sucks cause I remember how much fun I had when this show started and now it's starting to feel more like this anime had too many episodes to fill so half the time we're watching nothing happen. As it turns out Kiriwo's invisible barriers weren't just there to trap the entire school in one place but to sort of corral them into the plaza where I'm assuming he was going to try to hurt them all or something cause he definitely stole Iruma's firework thing and was powering up his magic weapon. The only reason I'm like nah he can't want to kill everyone is cause not only is this show much too lighthearted for something like that but I can't imagine Iruma's kindness speech (which I'm sure is coming next week) could change someone who wants to murder a school full of people. Having said that I'm sure Iruma will be able to talk Kiriwo down and then they'll set off the fireworks making the whole thing feel like their Battler surprise for the school but it leaves some questions yet to be answered like what's Baal's role in all this. As we're getting closer to the end I still don't see how Iruma can be Demon King unless the show is planning multiple seasons.
ID: Invaded Episode 5
This episode was full of twists and turns and it was awesome to watch though I picked up on what was going on pretty early on! I was actually right in guessing that the victim at the end of last week's episode who kissed Hondoumachi was actually the Gravedigger but it was super interesting to find out that the brain damage he suffered from Fukada caused him to mix up his love and urge to kill which is why he became the Gravedigger in the first place and why the police couldn't pick up his cognitive particles. Because he was feeling the urge to showcase his love to his girl, he wasn't emitting a killing vibe and it wasn't until he had the urge to kill Hondoumachi at the copycat crime scene in order to protect not only himself but the woman that he loved that his crossed wires caused him to kiss her and emit cognitive particles. I do wonder how much blame the police can assign the girlfriend cause it's like though the murders were for her and she obviously encouraged them, technically she didn't do anything illegal so could she go down as an accomplice or maybe for conspiracy to commit a murder? Once again I'm brought back to the thought that the holes in Fukada and this victim's heads clearly did something to their brains so I'm still curious to find out what Hondoumachi's change is. Sakaido wasn't in this episode much cause it was more focused on Hondoumachi and her story but it's interesting to note that she's just as good as Sakaido is at solving murders leading to my theory that maybe she'll be a well-jumper by the end of this anime too.
Batwoman Season 1 Episode 11
This was actually a fun episode cause it gave us all the Beth and Kate interactions we've been missing for so long while also giving us another look at how horrible Alice's past was. I had mentioned last week that this Beth was probs a Beth from another world that got trapped on our Earth after the multiple Earths combined but somehow was left separate from Alice and that's exactly what happened. This new Beth was saved by Kate after the car crash so she grew up with her father and Kate and was a good person but it was heartbreaking for Kate who realized that she could have saved her Beth too if she had tried and I high key wish the show would have spent more time on this cause it would have been such juicy trauma. I suppose it's still possible so I'm not going to give up hope yet. As the episode went on I wondered if maybe this new Beth was brought here so that in the future she would take the fall for Alice who would run and hide while Kate tried to get Beth out kind of like Barry who tried so hard to get his father out of prison. By the end of the episode however it looks more like Beth and Alice can't both be on this Earth cause they're getting splitting headaches so I have a feeling that Beth will die in the end cause if the show has to pick between another ally for Kate or an enemy, Alice has more interesting things to do. This sucks cause I was worried enough when it looked like Beth might die this week and I was so excited when she was okay. In other news we saw more of Alice's backstory and it's just as horrible as it was before but I'm surprised that Kate didn't tell Sophie or her dad about Beth.
There's no Batwoman next week cause it looks like the show will be taking 2 weeks off but the promo shows us that Alice finds out about Beth's existence which is kinda surprising cause it feels too soon! With the whole only one of us can survive thing like I said earlier I think it will end up being Alice but now I think that Sophie will end up shooting Beth thinking it's Alice cause of Jacob's order of shoot to kill which will further add to Jacob's horrible guilt and may be the thing that separates Kate from Sophie for good.
FINISHED Arrow Season 8 Episode 10
After 8 seasons and 168 episodes we've finally reached the end of this juggernaut of a show and I cannot describe to you the pain I felt watching this final hour of TV. Unless this is the first time you've ever checked out a review of mine you know that Arrow was the show that reminded me of my love for superhero content cause I used to watch a lot of the superhero cartoons (like X-Men Evolution and Static Shock to name a few) when I was younger but I stopped enjoying it as much somewhere around middle school but Arrow not only sucked me back into the Arrowverse and all the shows that would spin off from this but also superhero content in general which is why the end of Arrow feels like the end of an era. I don't know if I'll fall in love with another superhero show the way I did Arrow. I laughed, I cried, I cheered. Having said that I will never not be bitter that the Arrowverse decided that Oliver Queen had to die and that he had to be the one hero that doesn't get a happily ever after cause he was the one who deserved it more than anyone else! I hate that Felicity and William and Mia lose him but I suppose that for a series finale this episode did hit all the notes I wanted to. I loved that because of Crisis and the resetting of the universe that Moira and Quentin and Tommy and Emiko came back to life along with the Queen Mansion and it was so lovely seeing all of our previous Arrow characters come back for the funeral like Thea and Roy (who are going to get married!!) and Anatoli and Nyssa and Talia and even Ragman. The only thing I disliked was how Felicity didn't interact with William or Thea or Moira but I like to imagine that Felicity moves to the Queen Mansion with William and baby Mia alongside Moira. Both the private funeral and the public statue unveiling were absolutely lovely and I also love that despite Oliver dying Felicity still found her way to him. It does take a bit of the bitterness away that we saw a bit of the future and we know that Star City and the Queen Family make it out okay. Let's all pour one out for Arrow and it's incredible impact on tv. We'll never see another show like you but you'll be in our memories forever.
Riverdale Season 4 Episode 11
I don't entirely know how I feel about this episode cause while Archie and Veronica were up to their normal dumb antics, the show managed to pit Betty and Jughead against each other and that was heartbreaking cause you know I only watch this show for the two of them! Jughead's first draft for the Baxter book was turned down and for some reason they really wanted him to write about serial killers so his first thought was the Black Hood. Betty meanwhile was still struggling with the fact that she didn't get into Yale so her pride in Jughead was tangled up with that and it didn't help her emotional down-spiral when she found out that Jughead might want to write about her father. I don't entirely know who's side I was on cause though I think that Jughead was wrong in even thinking about writing about the Black Hood, Betty was also wrong for claiming that Jughead could only get into Yale cause of Stonewall. I mean he goes to a top academy, got perfect grades and has stellar writing but he's also struggled with homeliness and a drunk father and gang violence. Colleges eat that shit up! It was also high key ridiculous to find out that Betty only couldn't get in cause of her father but that's Riverdale for you and though at first it looked like Betty might just get into Yale through the Quiz Bowl, Bret ruined that and now Betty probably lost her last chance. Meanwhile Veronica was dumb enough to try to sell her new maple rum at her speakeasy where she doesn't have a liquor license and in the end she and Cheryl decided to reopen Penelope's brothel only now it'll be more of a high class bar and I'm just sitting here wondering why she can't sell her rum at stores or restaurants like normal people instead of doing all sorts of illegal things. Archie ended up taking Frank's side over Keller's despite Frank stealing money in order to gamble. He was also not very smart in turning down jobs based on who they were for as if he can pick and choose when the company is so far in the red.
Next week's promo showed us that Jughead and Bret will be dueling and I wonder if this will be how Jughead "dies" cause it'd totally make more sense than the idea that Betty, Veronica and Archie doing it when this season our Core 4 have barely ever spent any time together!
The Magicians Season 5 Episode 3
Well it's episode 3 and I'm slowly coming around to the fact that Quentin is gone (but never forgotten!) and part of it is probs how much the characters on this show are mourning which is everything to me. At first I thought maybe the show kept trying to downplay Quentin and Eliot's relationship and I was about to be truly pissed this week but then I realized that in fact like Eliot wasn't around to see Josh and Margo fall in love, no one was around to see Quentin and Eliot fall in love either so of course they're all saying things like he was your close friend! I had said before that we're definitely going to see Eliot mourn and this was it. Alice was so sweet about the whole thing and it's why I loved that they went on this final journey together despite barely liking each other (it's one of those they have the same friend group but they're not friends themself things) cause they're the only ones who loved Quentin as more than a friend. I still don't understand what the Takers are but I wonder if they're somehow being controlled by the Dark King as a way to get Fillorians on his side? Either way we finally met him and he's being played by Sean Maguire who I adore and it's really making it hard for me to hate him!!! In other news Margo and Fen and Josh tried to get Margo's banishment marks removed through applying to be the Dark King's Centurian Guard and though Margo won in the end, the real twist was in the revelation that while Margo was gone Josh and Fen hooked up and dude I was shocked. This might actually be the end of their relationship and Fen was plenty pissed to find out that it was Eliot not Margo who saved them in the end. Meanwhile Penny and Julia went to find someone who could predict when the Apocalypse would happen and at first they were turned down cause the sisters had already saved the world once and lost a sister during it so they were afraid to try again but in the end they helped and we found out the Apocalypse is happening in two weeks which feels really fast tbh.
The promo for next week shows that The Dark King might want Eliot to join his Centurian Guard and we know that Margo is already there but I wonder if Alice will stick around or if she'll go back to Earth cause Eliot and Margo could use all the help they can get but at the same time so could Julia.
Harley Quinn Season 1 Episode 10
This was actually a really sad episode if you think about it cause it was all about Harley and how she hit rock bottom last week which made her struggle to find someone to be with. Even though she's part of the Legion of Doom, they don't entirely like her yet as evidenced by her not getting invites to parties and after she picked Joker over them, her Crew bounced and she didn't know that Ivy was kidnapped so she thought Ivy left her too. As a last resort she returned home hoping to find love there but instead found out that her parents hated her so much that they wanted to kill her and collect a million dollar bounty that was on her head and it was so sad to watch. I did like that in the end she realized that her true family wasn't them and that sometimes blood doesn't mean as much as it should. Ivy is her family and I can't wait until next week when she gets the crew back together to get them. What's also really interesting is the reveal that the person who kidnapped Ivy was Scarecrow and I'm really totally confused by this cause what does Scarecrow have against Ivy??
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