"I didn't see it coming when Donnelly confronted both Reese and Carter."
Sean, you're probably one of the few people on the entire planet who didn't see this coming when Carter and John met up after John's release. It was obvious that Donnelly was going at least going to have them monitored, if not follow them, and it was RIDICULOUSLY stupid of John and Carter to meet after the whole ordeal because of that, the two of them might as well paint a sign on their backs that says "WE WERE WORKING TOGETHER!!!" It was also incredibly out of character for John, he at least if not Carter would have been a lot more careful than that if the writers hadn't decided to turn John into an idiot in order to advance the plot.
After that, we all knew Kara was going show up in the episode eventually and having her kill Donnelly was even more predictable, even how she ended up doing it wasn't difficult to guess. I was greatly enjoying this episode up until the end, I'm disappointed with how this episode ended. POI usually avoids being predictable, and until this episode avoided making the main characters act like complete morons when it's out of character for them to be just to allow the plot to work. I hope this isn't setting a trend.
@Fatin Exactly, the whole thing was completely out of character for Stewie, not only because he didn't know how to pilot the shuttle, but how stupid they had to make him in order to get them into space. I mean, I could understand if Stewie doesn't know how to work space shuttles despite his ability to build things like time machines, even a genius doesn't know how to do everything. However, Stewie wouldn't be stupid enough to launch the space shuttle, that's something I'd expect from Peter.
@Lou No, Elena is still sired to Damon, it's just that instead of being mind controlled to stay WITH him, she's being mind controlled to stay AWAY from him. It doesn't matter what she feels in either case, she's still acting with no real will of her own. The sire bond is still there, but it's not as though the sire bond makes sense anyway, not only because all Damon would have to do is say "make your own choices Elena" and solve it, but before it was brought up Elena has gone against what Damon has wanted her to do plenty of times since turning.
I also hope this cure storyline doesn't pan out, it would suck to have Elena back to being the weak little woman the guys have to protect all the time again.
This whole sire bond thing makes no sense, all Damon would have to do is say something to the effect of "I don't like this sire bond, make your own decisions Elena" and BOOM! Just like that, the sire bond is dealt with, the Elena-Stefan-Damon love triangle is back on even footing, problem solved, though even then we'd still have this ridiculous love triangle thing to deal with.
The fact that TWELVE hybrids vs Klaus couldn't kill him even if he's some super hybrid is ridiculous, and I have yet to hear any reason whatsoever why ripping out Klaus' (or the other originals for that matter) heart or chopping off his head wouldn't work besides the fact that the writers just don't have the balls to get rid of him and try and replace him with a better villain.
I also hope this cure storyline doesn't pan out, it would suck to have Elena back to being the weak little woman the guys have to protect all the time again.
them so long to do it. The worst part is that they could have done things like usual and the episode would have still had the same emotional impact. Not to mention that annoying psychic poking her head in ever once in a while had absolutely TERRIBLE scenes, and still would have if the perspective was normal. This probably would have been a perfectly fine Bones episode if they hadn't done this skull perspective, but as it is it completely ruins the mood.
Just when I was starting to think Bones could do no wrong, that it would never have a bad episode, this one comes along. This is probably one of the most boring episodes of ANY show I have ever seen. The forced perspective of the kid's skull meant that they made the entire Bones cast act completely out of character, and they constantly made up ridiculous excuses to have it in every relevant scene. They almost NEVER talk to remains or discuss the victim in other episodes, nor do they carry the skull or any part of the remains anywhere outside the Jeffersonian, they stay right on the examination table where they belong. Not to mention that having the perspective of the skull means that the camera angles for the scenes (which greatly help the mood) are gone, and that there's quite a few lines of dialog between the characters that the viewer is missing out on. Once they went back to the old perspective in the last few minutes of the episode I noticed a marked improvement, too bad it took them so long to do it. The worst part is that they could have done things like usual and the episode would have still had the same emotional impact. I hope they never do this again, EVER.
I agree that this Elena is sired thing is just a cheap trick (despite the fact that it has been mentioned before) to keep dragging the love triangle out because they can't think of anything else to do with these 3 when they're interacting with each other. It's the exact same reason Elena just can't love both of them, because then what else would these terrible writers (at love stories anyway) have Damon, Stefan and Elena do on this show? [Sarcasm] After all, Damon, Stefan, and Elena exist purely for the triangle and they can't possibly ever resolve it like mature people.[Sarcasm off]
I've always hated love triangles because they make no sense whatsoever, especially in this day and age when things like open marriage, while uncommon, happen all over the world all the time.
Everything else with the show is fine really, but this love triangle nonsense has always dragged TVP down, and unless they fix it TVP will never reach true greatness
I laughed a lot more often with this one than I usually do on these Family Guy episodes. The Conway Bieber cutaway is destined to be a classic, and it's even funnier since in that other episode where they cutaway to Conway all the time it was pretty bad, they actually got it right this time. For once it seems like they put equal effort into into both the A and B plots, usually one would be great while the other one would be terrible, but this time both were pretty good.
That's if the show doesn't end right then of course.
As for Delena shippers, don't get your hopes up. I give it an episode, maybe 2 before Elena runs back into Stefan's arms again and they're back to the pointless (and especially in this day and age intolerant and really stupid) Stefan-or-Damon love triangle.
Even though I know that she will, I REALLY hope this cure storyline doesn't end with Elena going back to being human. Ever since she became a vampire, Elena has been much less of a burden to everyone, occasionally kicks some ass, and finally gets some character development, but she still acts like a spoiled 5 year old brat who can't deal with change. Elena needs 1 thing above all else in this show, she needs to GROW UP! However, we all know Elena is going to be a human again soon enough, she'll go back to being Elena "designated hostage" Gilbert and Elena will once again no longer contribute to anything that happens except as a bargining chip for the bad guy.
@Lovesrtuck And just why CAN'T Elena have both Stefan and Damon? I've never understood this either/or crap that love triangles always devolve into. As long as Elena truly loves them both and they return that, then there's nothing wrong with having them both.
As for this episode, I liked the fact that they had a lot more action than they usually do, VD has always filled up the time with a bunch of irrelevant crap that never ends up actually going anywhere and I'm glad to see they kept that to a minimum.
NCIS is best when it's case and it's character development go hand and that wasn't the case this episode. The Abby storyline was mindnumbingly boring, like all Abby centered storyline are, because they always give her some emotional problem the entire episode out of nowhere (worse, she solved this recurring nightmare crap I don't know how many episodes ago) that Abby spends the whole episode whining about that makes you want to scream "GET OVER IT ALREADY!!!" rather than as the caffeine fueled, incredibly happy squirrel that everybody loves her as.
The rest of the story was good enough, but I felt like they could have stretched the crisis conselor's part to at least a couple of episodes and used him to get deeper insight into the psyche of the team members we otherwise couldn't have got instead of him just being there to set up a few jokes but ultimately mean nothing, I'm surprised there's no mention of him talking to Ducky though, considering he almost died.
I felt like this episode's plot was kinda rushed due to their need to get things back to the status quo, but otherwise it was excellent. Having Pelant get out of everything at the last minute was expected though, I'd never even seen any of the trailers or anything and I still expected it, he's too good of an antagonist to just be thrown in jail and that's it.
As for the old FBI agent, I thought from the beginning that he was probably Pelant's mole, the sheer amount of obsession that guy had with getting Bones arrested throughout the episode on top of everything else the man did (I can't remember that guy's name either) to imped the team's efforts beyond all reason clued me in on that, the flower in the trash can just made it all but a certainty.
The A-plot was Joe's affair and marriage, which was pretty flat as Family Guy episodes go. Especially the mirrored fuzzy clam scenes. I mean really? Bonnie as a stripper? Who could possibly think that was a good idea?
However, the B-plot, the giant chicken fight was amazing, it's been something I've been looking forward to for a long time. It was delightfully over the top like always, though I wondering how they could possibly top themselves next time (and there damn well BETTER be a next time). My favorite part was the army of cloned Peters vs the army of cloned chickens. The giant chicken fight alone justified the existence of this episode.
First, I've said it before and I'll say it again, Elena doesn't have to choose one brother or another, she could easily have both, there's no reason she couldn't.
Second, I called it last episode. Klaus is back once again, just like I knew would happen. God, will we ever be rid of the villain that's long LONG overstayed his welcome?
Third, it's FINALLY happened. Elena is now going to turn into a vampire. All I can say about this is it's about damn time. Maybe she'll actually be useful for something on this show besides the damsel in distress for once. I am going to be royally pissed off if they overturn this and either call Bonnie and prevent her turning or turn her back to human later, I doubt they'll pull that though.
" I think Bones has started to revert to that pattern of making the killer the first-person-you-saw-and-first-you-forgot-about tactic. I've seen that before. While I know it can get hard to write new episodes, especially eight seasons in, but please don't make it a habit."
Make it a habit? Are you kidding me? Bones has been using that tactic almost every episode since the series began. The killer is either someone that's introduced in the first 5 minutes of the episode or, in the rare cases when they don't do the above, the killer is someone that comes out of complete nowhere in the last 5 minutes of the episode. Either way I still have yet to really guess the killer until it's just about to be revealed anyway, so I guess it works.
As I was saying, as for this "Last, Evilaric is shaping up to be a good villain, but I fear that they are going to do what they did with Klaus and keep him around too long, considering that the only way" to kill him is to kill Elena, which they obviously can't do, so the writers have written themselves into a corner and they'll probably have to use a certain walking deus ex machina witch to get themselves out of it.
@Lizzie "Julie Plec and Co have attachment issues. They don't know how to let go of characters. And nearly every single character has now become a plot device., it's not just Bonnie anymore."
The ironic part is, before they brought Klaus into the picture and even a little bit after, TVD was a world where everybody can die. Pretty much everybody in the cast was dispensable except for Elena, Stefan, and later Damon, which was enjoyable to watch because people that you'd never expect to die actually do. Now they hardly ever kill anybody important, and even if they do they come back somehow anyway.
The reason Klaus is such as problem is that his predictability kills interest. In most every story with a hero vs a villain you already know that the the hero is going to win, people don't watch/read entertainment for that, they watch to see HOW the hero will win, and if the villain, hero, or both is predictable, the story loses any entertainment value it could have.
Oh, and as for this "Last, Evilaric is shaping up to be a good villain, but I fear that they are going to do what they did with Klaus and keep him around too long, considering that the only wa" I meant to write next, the only way they can kill him is to kill Elena, which they obviously can't do, so the writers have written themselves into a corner.
First, I'm glad Klaus is dead, though I give 2 episodes before he's walking around screwing with everybody again. I've always hated Klaus for his painfully predictable villainy since his introduction, he's not done one thing I haven't expected long before he did it since the first time he walked on screen, he's done nothing but drag the show down. I preferred when the show had more of a villain of the week/month format since it kept things fresh, and the lack of restrictions as a result in both characterization and abiliy of the villains meant they could keep upping the ante.
Second, I don't understand this love triangle. Why does Elena have to choose between Stefan and Damon? If she truly loves them both, then why not choose both? There would be nothing wrong with that, it would be a lot like a open marriage.
Last, Evilaric is shaping up to be a good villain, but I fear that they are going to do what they did with Klaus and keep him around too long, considering that they only way to kill him would be the end of the show. Either have him killed or redeemed in the next few episodes, then bring in a new villain, or else, like with Klaus he'll be stale and predictable, and we don't want that. It's no coincidence that this being one of the best episodes of VD ever also was one NOT being about killing Klaus for once.
Oh. Two more things, 1.Elena needs to GROW A SPINE and quit being such a naive "anyone can be saved" idiot. I don't care at all as to who she ends up with, (in fact, why does she even have to choose?) but Elena's been through countless atrocities throughout the series, she needs to grow up!
2. Elena either needs to turn into a vampire or at least learn how to fight. She has been a completely useless load on everybody else, never able to actually contribute to anyone's plans at all and in fact usually hinders them by getting kidnapped or whatever and being used as leveage, which has happened countless times throughout the series. At least Bonnie actually is useful to the plot, even if she is used as a Deus Ex machina far too often. Elena just whines woe is me endlessly every episode and doesn't actually do anything.
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Person of Interest Review: Prison Break
Sean, you're probably one of the few people on the entire planet who didn't see this coming when Carter and John met up after John's release. It was obvious that Donnelly was going at least going to have them monitored, if not follow them, and it was RIDICULOUSLY stupid of John and Carter to meet after the whole ordeal because of that, the two of them might as well paint a sign on their backs that says "WE WERE WORKING TOGETHER!!!" It was also incredibly out of character for John, he at least if not Carter would have been a lot more careful than that if the writers hadn't decided to turn John into an idiot in order to advance the plot.
After that, we all knew Kara was going show up in the episode eventually and having her kill Donnelly was even more predictable, even how she ended up doing it wasn't difficult to guess. I was greatly enjoying this episode up until the end, I'm disappointed with how this episode ended. POI usually avoids being predictable, and until this episode avoided making the main characters act like complete morons when it's out of character for them to be just to allow the plot to work. I hope this isn't setting a trend.
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The Vampire Diaries Review: O Holy Fright
The Vampire Diaries Review: O Holy Fright
The Vampire Diaries Review: O Holy Fright
The fact that TWELVE hybrids vs Klaus couldn't kill him even if he's some super hybrid is ridiculous, and I have yet to hear any reason whatsoever why ripping out Klaus' (or the other originals for that matter) heart or chopping off his head wouldn't work besides the fact that the writers just don't have the balls to get rid of him and try and replace him with a better villain.
I also hope this cure storyline doesn't pan out, it would suck to have Elena back to being the weak little woman the guys have to protect all the time again.
Bones Review: The Soul Transcends
Bones Review: The Soul Transcends
The Vampire Diaries Review: Yes, Sire
I've always hated love triangles because they make no sense whatsoever, especially in this day and age when things like open marriage, while uncommon, happen all over the world all the time.
Everything else with the show is fine really, but this love triangle nonsense has always dragged TVP down, and unless they fix it TVP will never reach true greatness
Family Guy Review: Conway Bieber & The Old Pack Mule
The Vampire Diaries Review: Killer Consequences
As for Delena shippers, don't get your hopes up. I give it an episode, maybe 2 before Elena runs back into Stefan's arms again and they're back to the pointless (and especially in this day and age intolerant and really stupid) Stefan-or-Damon love triangle.
The Vampire Diaries Review: Killer Consequences
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As for this episode, I liked the fact that they had a lot more action than they usually do, VD has always filled up the time with a bunch of irrelevant crap that never ends up actually going anywhere and I'm glad to see they kept that to a minimum.
NCIS Review: Sea of Lies
However THIS was priceless:
Ziva:"You never went to the bar, you stayed home playing with yourselves!"
"I mean, with each other."
I love it when Ziva says stuff like that. You'd have to be clinically insane to NOT like her.
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bloodbag-fu!
NCIS Review: Reclaiming the Good
The rest of the story was good enough, but I felt like they could have stretched the crisis conselor's part to at least a couple of episodes and used him to get deeper insight into the psyche of the team members we otherwise couldn't have got instead of him just being there to set up a few jokes but ultimately mean nothing, I'm surprised there's no mention of him talking to Ducky though, considering he almost died.
Bones Season Premiere Review: Hope, Pain and Grief
As for the old FBI agent, I thought from the beginning that he was probably Pelant's mole, the sheer amount of obsession that guy had with getting Bones arrested throughout the episode on top of everything else the man did (I can't remember that guy's name either) to imped the team's efforts beyond all reason clued me in on that, the flower in the trash can just made it all but a certainty.
Family Guy Season Finale Review: A Horrid Affair
However, the B-plot, the giant chicken fight was amazing, it's been something I've been looking forward to for a long time. It was delightfully over the top like always, though I wondering how they could possibly top themselves next time (and there damn well BETTER be a next time). My favorite part was the army of cloned Peters vs the army of cloned chickens. The giant chicken fight alone justified the existence of this episode.
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The Vampire Diaries Review: One Wrong Turn
Second, I called it last episode. Klaus is back once again, just like I knew would happen. God, will we ever be rid of the villain that's long LONG overstayed his welcome?
Third, it's FINALLY happened. Elena is now going to turn into a vampire. All I can say about this is it's about damn time. Maybe she'll actually be useful for something on this show besides the damsel in distress for once. I am going to be royally pissed off if they overturn this and either call Bonnie and prevent her turning or turn her back to human later, I doubt they'll pull that though.
Bones Review: Bones of Contention
Make it a habit? Are you kidding me? Bones has been using that tactic almost every episode since the series began. The killer is either someone that's introduced in the first 5 minutes of the episode or, in the rare cases when they don't do the above, the killer is someone that comes out of complete nowhere in the last 5 minutes of the episode. Either way I still have yet to really guess the killer until it's just about to be revealed anyway, so I guess it works.
The Vampire Diaries Review: A Case of Klaustrophobia
As I was saying, as for this "Last, Evilaric is shaping up to be a good villain, but I fear that they are going to do what they did with Klaus and keep him around too long, considering that the only way" to kill him is to kill Elena, which they obviously can't do, so the writers have written themselves into a corner and they'll probably have to use a certain walking deus ex machina witch to get themselves out of it.
The Vampire Diaries Review: A Case of Klaustrophobia
The ironic part is, before they brought Klaus into the picture and even a little bit after, TVD was a world where everybody can die. Pretty much everybody in the cast was dispensable except for Elena, Stefan, and later Damon, which was enjoyable to watch because people that you'd never expect to die actually do. Now they hardly ever kill anybody important, and even if they do they come back somehow anyway.
The reason Klaus is such as problem is that his predictability kills interest. In most every story with a hero vs a villain you already know that the the hero is going to win, people don't watch/read entertainment for that, they watch to see HOW the hero will win, and if the villain, hero, or both is predictable, the story loses any entertainment value it could have.
Oh, and as for this "Last, Evilaric is shaping up to be a good villain, but I fear that they are going to do what they did with Klaus and keep him around too long, considering that the only wa" I meant to write next, the only way they can kill him is to kill Elena, which they obviously can't do, so the writers have written themselves into a corner.
The Vampire Diaries Review: A Case of Klaustrophobia
Second, I don't understand this love triangle. Why does Elena have to choose between Stefan and Damon? If she truly loves them both, then why not choose both? There would be nothing wrong with that, it would be a lot like a open marriage.
Last, Evilaric is shaping up to be a good villain, but I fear that they are going to do what they did with Klaus and keep him around too long, considering that they only way to kill him would be the end of the show. Either have him killed or redeemed in the next few episodes, then bring in a new villain, or else, like with Klaus he'll be stale and predictable, and we don't want that. It's no coincidence that this being one of the best episodes of VD ever also was one NOT being about killing Klaus for once.
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2. Elena either needs to turn into a vampire or at least learn how to fight. She has been a completely useless load on everybody else, never able to actually contribute to anyone's plans at all and in fact usually hinders them by getting kidnapped or whatever and being used as leveage, which has happened countless times throughout the series. At least Bonnie actually is useful to the plot, even if she is used as a Deus Ex machina far too often. Elena just whines woe is me endlessly every episode and doesn't actually do anything.