Ian J. Ball <
ijball@mac.invalid> wrote:
On 2/27/25 1:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:
What did you watch?
Yesterday was effectively a half-workday, and I was smarter about it - I
knew if I tried to wait until the evening, I'd be too tired to watch
anything (and it turns out I would have been!), so this time I watched
stuff in the afternoon after I got home!
This allowed me to get thru a couple more "Paradise" ep's, watch soaps,
and even watch a movie I recorded off Lifetime a few months ago:
Paradise (Hulu) - Ep's #1.5 & 1.6.
Some
SPOILERS
here
I guess...
These episodes were better, as they focused more on the mysteries of
the case.
I didn't read too closely, not wanting to be spoiled, but I think
BTR objected to something in episode #5: they show the Washington
Monument almost completely submerged under water - the monument is over 550-ft tall! So the oceans rose (or the continents sunk?) by 500-ft?!
This seems wildly insane.
Later, the daughter also claims that Atlanta was nuked on the same
day. None of this "apocalypse" stuff is making any sense - have the
writers worked all this through at all?!!
No
Ep. #5 gives us background Pres. Bradford's last day - this seems to
be where he found out that the exploration mission outside was
assassinated on "Sinatra's" orders (and also that that mission had found
an actual live human being), after figuring out obscure clues from his dementia-ridden father (Gerald McRaney). He tries to pass this info off
to his son, but his crummy son rebuffs any overtures. (I don't feel
sorry for the son about his guilt on this at all.) Also in this ep.,
Collins (Sterling K. Brown) and Robinson (Krys Marshall) finally start working together, as both now suspect Sinatra had Bradford and Agent
Billy Pace killed. In the end, Collins and Robinson decide to do
something radical. However, in what I found to be a really dumb plot
twist, it's revealed that Collins' daughter is the one who stole
Bradford's tablet o' secrets.
Sidenote: Enuka Okuma (Rookie Bleu!) appears in this episode as
Collins' wife, and apparently she was uncredited which I find kind of inexplicable.
Episode #6 was better still (mostly), generally dispensing with flashbacks, and focusing on Collins' and Robinson's plot to basically
launch a revolution in Paradise. This episode is disappointing in
showing that Sarah Shahi's Dr. Gabriela is basically nothing more than Sinatra's lackey and stooge (is she really so dumb that she can't see
what is really going on here?!). Anyway, while Collins distracts Sinatra
(and Gabriela), Robinson steals all of the weapons out of the armory in Paradise, and then she and Collins assemble a "crew" of the security
types (luckily for them sans the young and cute but EVOL! bitchface,
Jane (Nicole Brydon Bloom)) to stage an armed revolt. Meanwhile, Sinatra orders Jane to eliminate Collins, but when Jane can't find Collins, she targets the daughter instead. During the armed insurrection, Sinatra
orders the "sky" shutdown, reminding everyone they're hiding in a cave,
and breaking the social cohesion that Dr. Gabriela has worked to hard to build. The ending of this one was disappointing - rather than put a
bullet in Sinatra, Collins lets her talk, and she claims that Collins
wife is still alive somewhere (which I am assuming is an outright lie) -
I would have shot her in the face on the spot!
You and obvious are in agreement on that last point and about pretty much everything else which I guess makes both of you wrong?
Doesn’t Sinatra have his daughter which is what’s keeping him from shooting her?
Obvious likes this because it explained the natural disasters except it didn’t plus we’ve known about this since episode one or two when the Daniel Jackson character told the soon to be Sinatra that there were all these
weird inexplicable natural disasters that were going to all happen at once
for no discernible reason which is why she built the big bunker in the
first place. Did everybody forget that but me?
And of course, since they announced season two, they aren’t possibly going
to wrap anything up next week.
What did you watch?
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