sâmbătă, 7 mai 2011
Supernatural 6x20 The Man Who Would Be King Review
Okay, it's not a secret that I dislike(d) season six but this one...well this episode was extraordinary, it felt like Supernatural for me once again.I followed the show when season four started and after watching it I checked out seasons 1-3 and I absolutely loved it especially season four and five but when season six premiered last september I felt like that something was missing, that something was gone from the show and it didn't felt like it was the show that once I loved.Maybe because Eric Kripke told that he originaly planned the show to last five seasons and they didn't had much time to develope proprely the sixth season and as they went on they came up with interesting ideas, because from where I am, that's what is happening.The start was more than disappointing to me but I didn't give up(although they were times when I asked myself why am I still watching it?!) and I'm glad I sticked because recently it started to feel fresh and new again and considering the fact that it was picked up for a seventh season, I believe the writers now know for sure and 100 % where to go forward with the story.
Talking about story, I'm glad Crowley is back and he wasn't dead.At first I highly disliked his character but now it is considered as a mastermind villain for the Winchester brothers and Castiel is also much more interesting than ever before.Being on his own, a "Superman gone darkside" as Dean stated, we get the whole story on him from the start til' the end.The episode was narrated by Castiel who is sitting in Heaven waiting for God to give him a sign of weather is he on the right path or not.Of course for whatever he is waiting for, it's simply not coming.God may be gone or refuses to respond on Cas' prays.In one word, Cas is lost.Alone. Flashes from season five and few from season four are also present.Ahh, good ol' times.The theme is rivalry and redemption.Rafael is still much more powerful than Castiel and wants him to join his crusade of angels who want to free Michael and Lucifer from the cage so the apocalypse can go on and happen what was written of course our dear old Cas has other visions of the future and plans on stoping Rafael's madness once and for all and this is where Crowley comes into the picture, he offers help Castiel's if he will help him find purgatory and geather souls for an army.Cas agrees and fakes Crowley's death so the Winchesters would be off his trail for good and they can work together again.After stoping the Mother of All, Eve , the Winchester go solo on fiding Crowley and they "outsmoke" Castiel and trap him to confess which he does but with this he looses the friendship of the Winchesters forever.Being again alone he understands that he really is a "superman gone darkside" and the "kryptonite" is in the Winchesters hand.Looooved the bunch of Superman references, this may be a reference for Smallville ending which is kinda cool from the writers.
So Heaven or Hell,Angels or Devils, Castiel is now a tragic hero who only wanted what he thought is best but failed and lost everything, so now it might be a good time for him to proove Sam,Dean and Bobby's that he really is their friend and set things right.
Of course question must be answered because there are a lot of them still and two weeks from now the 2-hour season finale airs.I personally would love to see a fight between Sam,Dean,Castiel and maybe even Balthazar going up against Crowley and an army of demons and even Sam's block on his soul would fade away could give us a suspense finale.The season might have been mostly down for me this past year but if they get the finale right than all is forgiven and we can go back to the way things were and wait season seven with great anticapation.
RAZOR rating: 9 (out of 10)
Fringe 3x22 The Day We Died Review
And so season three came to a conclusion which was a brilliant season with a bit slow ending.The third part of a three episode arc finale showed us a grim future,a man's suffering and a possible solution to save two worlds. The finale picks up where the last episode left, 15 years in the future, more precisely in May 20th, 2026.The world is heading toward the unstopable doomsday and there might be only a tiny hope to save the world after the parallel universe was destroyed.
Joshua Jackson did a brilliant job portraying a heartbroken and lost Peter who killed billions, lost the love of his life and besides the guilt the only thing - or better said man - he can rely on is Walter Bishop who was sentenced to life for starting all this back in 1985.John Noble does an extremely good impression playing two enterily different characters., the heart warming and kind Walter who was released from prison to crack a new technology and help Peter fix the past and the evil mastermind Walternate who before their universe was destroyed, crossed over to get revenge.He hired a terrorist group to rip holes in the fabric of the universe plus murders Olivia with cold blood.
Anna Torv didn't have that much screen time as she used to but that might be a good thing considering the theme of the episode as it revolved around Walternate-Peter-Walter.Broyles also had a wierdo eye -thing which was kinda reminescent to Nick Fury from the Ultimate Marvel Comics.(Talkin' about comic book references huh?This is a plus for the show :D).Of course the recurring theme for the episode was "revenge" and this was the exact thing that showed us viewers whats the real differences between the two Walters.
Walter realises what he has to do to right the wrongs and through a wormhole, sends the doomsday device parts back to the past a few thousand years(indicating that HE was the one from the future who sent the parts to the PAST which they've found in the PRESENT. Looooove when things get this complicated xD ). Peter than also returns to the PRESENT but with the memories from the FUTURE so he can tell them that he's seen doomsday and in order to prevent it the two sides must work together to save both worlds but before he could finish his sentence,he disappears and Walter and Walternate and Olivia and Bolivia form a wierd kind of partnership to prevent the destruction of either worlds.
Outside the Liberty Statue in our universe, the Observer are standing and we learn that Peter "served his purposse" and he never existed from now on, in one world he might have been wiped from history indicating that he may have died as our Peter too, thanks to his illnes.
Now sure many people began speculating that if Peter never existed than Walter wouldn't have crossed over and this whole things would've began in the first place, but I assure them they're wrong, even if Peter still have died in both universes, Walter and Bell would've found a way to cross over because they're scientest, curiosity is THEIR thing.So overall it was an exciting and interesting episode but not as mind blowing at action scene department as I've expected.
RAZOR rating : 7 (out of 10)
Joshua Jackson did a brilliant job portraying a heartbroken and lost Peter who killed billions, lost the love of his life and besides the guilt the only thing - or better said man - he can rely on is Walter Bishop who was sentenced to life for starting all this back in 1985.John Noble does an extremely good impression playing two enterily different characters., the heart warming and kind Walter who was released from prison to crack a new technology and help Peter fix the past and the evil mastermind Walternate who before their universe was destroyed, crossed over to get revenge.He hired a terrorist group to rip holes in the fabric of the universe plus murders Olivia with cold blood.
Anna Torv didn't have that much screen time as she used to but that might be a good thing considering the theme of the episode as it revolved around Walternate-Peter-Walter.Broyles also had a wierdo eye -thing which was kinda reminescent to Nick Fury from the Ultimate Marvel Comics.(Talkin' about comic book references huh?This is a plus for the show :D).Of course the recurring theme for the episode was "revenge" and this was the exact thing that showed us viewers whats the real differences between the two Walters.
Walter realises what he has to do to right the wrongs and through a wormhole, sends the doomsday device parts back to the past a few thousand years(indicating that HE was the one from the future who sent the parts to the PAST which they've found in the PRESENT. Looooove when things get this complicated xD ). Peter than also returns to the PRESENT but with the memories from the FUTURE so he can tell them that he's seen doomsday and in order to prevent it the two sides must work together to save both worlds but before he could finish his sentence,he disappears and Walter and Walternate and Olivia and Bolivia form a wierd kind of partnership to prevent the destruction of either worlds.
Outside the Liberty Statue in our universe, the Observer are standing and we learn that Peter "served his purposse" and he never existed from now on, in one world he might have been wiped from history indicating that he may have died as our Peter too, thanks to his illnes.
Now sure many people began speculating that if Peter never existed than Walter wouldn't have crossed over and this whole things would've began in the first place, but I assure them they're wrong, even if Peter still have died in both universes, Walter and Bell would've found a way to cross over because they're scientest, curiosity is THEIR thing.So overall it was an exciting and interesting episode but not as mind blowing at action scene department as I've expected.
RAZOR rating : 7 (out of 10)
Smallville 10x20 Prophecy Review
The pen-ultimate episode of Smallville delivered everything that the series needs before takes flight off from the screen for good.The episode saw the return of Winslow Schott aka Toyman,Granny Goodness and many other who were just featured as cameo but still made the episode interesting like Metallo,Roulette,Dark Archer and even new ones like Grundy,Black Manta and Captain Gold and of course let's not forget Kara Kent portrayed by the beautiful Laura Vandervoort who returned for one last time to the show for a mission to stop Darkseid and she teams up with Oliver Queen for the first time.
The two heroes were undeniable more than just awesome.They worked together to retire the Bow of Orion which is the only weakness Darkseid has but this could be acomplished only if the Light and Dark were in balance and Kara was pure so she had the light in her and due the un-balance she was trapped although Oliver arrived for the Bow too on his own and helped Kara out.Due the corruption, Oliver was infected by the darkness so the balance was maintined and the two opened the portal which led them to the ultimate weapon.Kara in the last minute was summoned by Jor-El so she had to leave, leaving Oliver on his own to get the item, of course this is Smallville, nothing goes smooth and Granny Goodness followed him and finally desrtoyed the weapon than made Oliver Darkseid's minion and ordered him to find Gold Kryptonite which would take away Clark's powers leaving him weakened and open to the darkness' corruption.
Meanwhile, Clark took Lois to the Fortress and showed his father, Jor-El, his desire to start a new life alongside Lois to which daddy responded and gave Lois Clark's ability for a day so she can see what is like to be Clark but this also had an unexpected side effect.Clark was powerless. Being the hero of the day, Lois quickly adjusted and stopped a robbery which was proven to be staged because the burglar was actually a mind controled Courtney Whitmore who was the marionette of Winslow Schott also knows as The Toyman. Lois tracked down the madman only to be controled too and she was sent to kill the Blur although unsuccesful because after sunset, Clark's powers returned and went to face Toyman and finally told him that he is not afraid of him because he knows he(toyman) won't tell the world his secret because than there wouldn't be any other games to play and before leaving he added that no matter what they'll do with his team of villains, he'll always be there to stop them.
After all the madness, Clark went to the Fortress one last time and told Jor-El that he is ready to become the hero he was meant to be and his trials are finally over than said goodbye to Jor-El and shut down the whole Fortress leaving it darkened whith the super suit still frozen.
Kara put on the Legion ring and went to the future so Clark could fight the ultimate villain on his own and embrace his true destiny as Superman,but things went extremely wrong as Lois canceled the wedding and told Clark she won't marry him because she might be his greatness weakness and being with her while he could be saving people would be just selfish which leaves Clark heartbroken.
The episode was overall very well pened ,sure there weren't a lot of fight sequences because it was an emotional episode, just what we need before the 2-hour series finale.
RAZOR rating: 8 (out of 10)
The two heroes were undeniable more than just awesome.They worked together to retire the Bow of Orion which is the only weakness Darkseid has but this could be acomplished only if the Light and Dark were in balance and Kara was pure so she had the light in her and due the un-balance she was trapped although Oliver arrived for the Bow too on his own and helped Kara out.Due the corruption, Oliver was infected by the darkness so the balance was maintined and the two opened the portal which led them to the ultimate weapon.Kara in the last minute was summoned by Jor-El so she had to leave, leaving Oliver on his own to get the item, of course this is Smallville, nothing goes smooth and Granny Goodness followed him and finally desrtoyed the weapon than made Oliver Darkseid's minion and ordered him to find Gold Kryptonite which would take away Clark's powers leaving him weakened and open to the darkness' corruption.
Meanwhile, Clark took Lois to the Fortress and showed his father, Jor-El, his desire to start a new life alongside Lois to which daddy responded and gave Lois Clark's ability for a day so she can see what is like to be Clark but this also had an unexpected side effect.Clark was powerless. Being the hero of the day, Lois quickly adjusted and stopped a robbery which was proven to be staged because the burglar was actually a mind controled Courtney Whitmore who was the marionette of Winslow Schott also knows as The Toyman. Lois tracked down the madman only to be controled too and she was sent to kill the Blur although unsuccesful because after sunset, Clark's powers returned and went to face Toyman and finally told him that he is not afraid of him because he knows he(toyman) won't tell the world his secret because than there wouldn't be any other games to play and before leaving he added that no matter what they'll do with his team of villains, he'll always be there to stop them.
After all the madness, Clark went to the Fortress one last time and told Jor-El that he is ready to become the hero he was meant to be and his trials are finally over than said goodbye to Jor-El and shut down the whole Fortress leaving it darkened whith the super suit still frozen.
Kara put on the Legion ring and went to the future so Clark could fight the ultimate villain on his own and embrace his true destiny as Superman,but things went extremely wrong as Lois canceled the wedding and told Clark she won't marry him because she might be his greatness weakness and being with her while he could be saving people would be just selfish which leaves Clark heartbroken.
The episode was overall very well pened ,sure there weren't a lot of fight sequences because it was an emotional episode, just what we need before the 2-hour series finale.
RAZOR rating: 8 (out of 10)
vineri, 6 mai 2011
The Vampire Diaries 2x21 The Sun Also Rises Review
The Sacrifice ritual comes to a heartbraking but also horrifying conclusion and more than one character dies. Last week's episode ended on a high note and this week's does the same as well and I can easely say that this episode could've been season finale as well because it lived up to the overall expectations and was packed with everything a casual or hardcore fan of TVD would wait and the season finale is one week away so if this episode was just a set up for next week's ep than the writers are having a very nice ace up in their sleeves.
There were many recurring themes throughout the episode among which is death.Death is a natural part of life but not in TVD.Aunt Jenna, Uncle John, Jules and in some form even Elena dies.Klaus set everything in motion and begins killing first the werewolf Jules than even Elena's aunt, Jenna for the ritual.Stefan offers himself in exchange for Jenna but Klaus has other plans for him and ultimately kills even Elena as he drinks from her until she dies.Of course Boonie,John,Alaric and Jeremy had a back up plan to prevent Elena to come back from the death as a vampire and John "sacrifices" himself to give Elena back her soul.This was a bit of lame from my opinion but the way John died was sad, even for him, while the rest of the group was mourning Elena, he walked out from the mansion and waited his death as he fell to the ground dead.
The other theme was redemption. Damon realised that no matter what, the werewolf bite is fatal and he is hoping for Elena's forgivness before he dies so the season finale will be Damon centered than which is good, because people love Damon.Who doesnt?And even though writers can do some really extreme WTF moments, I really doubt they will kill Damon off, I mean c'mon he is a core character but really looking forward to see how will they cure him.Maybe some whitch magic mambo jumbo which will save him but turn him human?C'mon how cool would THAT be?
Elijah's betrayal was a bit disappointing, we were given an explanation why would he kill his own brother, Klaus but switching sides this fast, turning back on his honor and saving the mad sonofabitch was really wierd but at the same time really cool.Another major WTF moment and sets up the next season, season three which is promised to be a season of The Originals.
Matt-Caroline-Tyler triangle is still interesting.Everytime I'm watching these three I can't help it but think that one day a sparkle will blow and the two alpha male will just jump to each other's throat and beat up themselves. Caroline finally realised that Matt knew all the time about her true nature and that her mother is trying to kill her because she hates vampires so Matt leaves too saying that he can't come to the terms that she's a vampire and he wants a normals life while Tyler on the other hand understands her perfectly and would happily be with her.
Overall it was an outstanding episode.An episode I *really* waited from such a mindblowing show that TVD is.
RAZOR rating: 9.5 ( out of 10)
sâmbătă, 30 aprilie 2011
Fringe 3x21 The Last Sam Weiss review
The second part of the three episode arc season finale continues.Last week we got a peek of what's coming and now things are set in motion.The doomsday device was activated from over there and the fringe team must race against time to stop the upcoming destruction or everything they knew will be forever lost as both universes may be gone.Peter wakes up from the coma and goes to Liberty Island to find his father, the secretary, Walternate but realises that he's confused.Meanwhile Olivia and Sam Weiss are searching for a key while "natural" diseasters happen which are causing a rift between the two parallel worlds so in order to stop the doomsday scenario, Walter and Astrid with the help of Broyles plan to move their device to liberty island where on the other side they keep their machine so the damage would be only collateral.
Sam Weiss and Olivia find the "key" which opens a box what was kept hidden by Sam Weiss and his ancestors, the other Sam Weiss' and find a drawing similar to the one which depicted Peter in the doomsday device only this time it's Olivia on it.Walter imideately realises that Peter and Olivia must "synchronize" their brainwaves in order to deactivate the machine in both sides and let Peter enter.Things go according to plan and Peter enters the machine wich goes online and Peter passes out.When he wakes up he's in New York City where the war torn apart everything and stands in front of the completed One World Trade Center and looks at a stone where it writes "We Will Never Forget September 11, 2011, Dedicated to Their Memory September 11, 2021" and realises that he is 10 years in the future.
The last scene was kinda reminescent to the comic "X-Men Days of Future Past" but it didn't matter because if last week's episode was awesome than this was something else...It was mind-blowingly awesome with an epic cliffhanger in the end.Next week the season finale airs.Can't wait and luckily for us fans, the show is coming back for a 4th season this fall.
RAZOR rating: 9.5 (out of 10)
The last scene was kinda reminescent to the comic "X-Men Days of Future Past" but it didn't matter because if last week's episode was awesome than this was something else...It was mind-blowingly awesome with an epic cliffhanger in the end.Next week the season finale airs.Can't wait and luckily for us fans, the show is coming back for a 4th season this fall.
RAZOR rating: 9.5 (out of 10)
Smallville 10x19 Dominion Review
The Spartacus styled episode did not disappoint and it was good to see Callum Blue as Zod again.He was one of the best villains on the show and he was really missed.This Zod is really a bit different from his earlier incarnations.As we find out, General Zod (who was last seen in season 6 when he took over Lex's body) made a deal with Darkseid who helped him gain dominion over the Phantom Zone and gave him a little extra by letting him merge with Major Zod (season 9 villain) into one entity who was his younger self/clone, whatever in exchange to lure Clark into the kryptonian prison and kill him.
Tess informs Clark that General Slade escaped from the Phantom Zone and that someone is releasing the phantoms, so Clark rushes to Watchtower in order to enter the kryptonian prison and stop the madness plus Oliver returns after being absent for a few weeks(last seen in 10x15) so the two bff enter the zone but things dont go as planned and they're captured by zoners who take them to their new leader, the tyran Zod!(KNEEL) ;))
It is actually quite interesting to move forward with the Oliver-being-infected-by -the-darkness storyline and in one major moment of the episode the two friends face off. Of course this is 'smallville' so things end well (sometimes) and Clark and Oliver escape the hell prison and Zod and his two followers are blocked and the two heroes return to Earth.It's a bit shame because they've been in the zone for a few hours but 'outside'
it was three weeks.
So Oliver now has his own demons to face because he's been marked as a minion of Darkseid starting with the loss of his parents and the murder of ex Luthor.There may be no escape even for him from this one. The next week's episode is the last ep until the 2-hour series finale.
RAZOR rating: 9 (out of 10)
Tess informs Clark that General Slade escaped from the Phantom Zone and that someone is releasing the phantoms, so Clark rushes to Watchtower in order to enter the kryptonian prison and stop the madness plus Oliver returns after being absent for a few weeks(last seen in 10x15) so the two bff enter the zone but things dont go as planned and they're captured by zoners who take them to their new leader, the tyran Zod!(KNEEL) ;))
It is actually quite interesting to move forward with the Oliver-being-infected-by -the-darkness storyline and in one major moment of the episode the two friends face off. Of course this is 'smallville' so things end well (sometimes) and Clark and Oliver escape the hell prison and Zod and his two followers are blocked and the two heroes return to Earth.It's a bit shame because they've been in the zone for a few hours but 'outside'
it was three weeks.
So Oliver now has his own demons to face because he's been marked as a minion of Darkseid starting with the loss of his parents and the murder of ex Luthor.There may be no escape even for him from this one. The next week's episode is the last ep until the 2-hour series finale.
RAZOR rating: 9 (out of 10)
duminică, 17 aprilie 2011
Five things "Smallville" Finale needs
01 Suit & Flight
...and by this I mean not have only 30 seconds in the end where Clark puts on the suit and flies away, but at least in the second part of the finale have him wear it, ultimately it is the last episode of the show at least they can pay off fans that much who followed it for 10 years.
02 Superman Vs Lex Vs Darkseid
...and by any means an epic fight between Superman and Lex and/or Darksied 'Smallville' has a pretty good habbit of not having massive and epic showdowns(except for last season's finale).Before the show leaves the big screens forever fans need to see the long awaited showdown between Clark and Lex.I'm not mentioning Darkseid because I'm not eniterly sure he will go fist-to-fist with Clark.
03 Old characters to share a scene together at least for one last time.
...we know Martha,Chloe and Jonathan returns for the finale.We also know that Jonathan died so besides him it would be nice to see a great scene between Clark,Lois,Tess,Oliver,Chloe and Martha,maybe have Jonathan's spirit present, so we could see them in a scene together.
04 Clark's and Lois' Wedding
...Clark prupossed to Lois back in the episode 'Icarus' but we didn't actually seen the wedding.It would be awesome to have them have their wedding at the begninnig of the finale which would be interrupted by Lex or Darkseid and after defeating them have the wedding "finished" at the very end.Me personally would love the last scene to be between Clark and Lois than have Clark put on the suit only at the very end and fly away.
05 Have Lex kill someone close to Clark
...ultimately he is Clark's ultimate opponent so it would be just right to have him kill someone close to Clark (maybe Chloe or Tess) which would have an impact on Clark's life and fans could really agree that the "real" Lex is back.Maybe have him even kill his own father, Lionel again.Twice...whatever. xD
This is how would I picture the two part series finale of the show.
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