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So it this means we are getting a big cliffhanger and the future children invasion. That's the replacement for the other Universe that they just sent away today. I suppose it will make it easier to film as no more doubles and scene repeating. They tied that up very neatly including removing Lincoln so all the traces connecting to that storyline can be gone after the big finale. And if you don't think about that all of them going to die it's like it never happened.

Since I really liked exploring the other side, I will miss the whole experience - the other team, the little differences, the other Olivia smile. The best part of episode was how they all became almost friends. I know it had to happen - happy cooperation doesn't make good TV. However, I'm pretty convinced that turning off The Machine was actually the plan all along and that's what David Robert Jones was trying to make Colonel Broyles do.

And isn't Jones still able to hop through?

They killed Holly :(


The only good thing about it was a dragon ♥ and Holly saying it derrezed :)

The rest was just painful.

Senator Wen was obvious mole (I suspected her even last season although she was pretty convincing with political expediency and I believed her until the start of this episode). However making her eviler Beverly was too much. I can see them making Beverley switch sides or something like that coming in near future. And Wen implied they are all working for even bigger bad guy (I'm sure). Meh. I suppose I feel like that because this was the tip of a giant iceberg. Or maybe a refrigerator.

It was bad enough they kept teasing us with death of one of 3 main female characters the whole episode. It was Grace, Allison and Holly who were shown to be in danger of finding out. Not Fargo. Not Zane who was barely there.

But Holly's death was just annoying until I read how Holly's death was written so it can be something that can finish Fargo's character development and give him chance to grow as a person. Seriously.

How many times you need to write "I will not kill female character so the male character storyline can progress" before the Women in Refrigerator list stops growing?

This is not the only thing. There is that extra sting of generally female and male storylines are constructed. Nathan's death was not there for Allison's character development. It was to remove relationship obstacle so Jack could have his romance with Allison. It was for Jack storyline benefit not Allison's.

Of course Eureka is not the first show to do that - these kind of things are abundant and often much worse then here. However, I just wanted to enjoy the last few episodes and now I'm just pissed off.

Bad show.

Fringe suddenly skipped to the future where the Observers took over the world (worlds?). On the bright side Nina looked cool in White hair. John Noble was wonderful both as lunatic and as genius in almost Doctor Who way. CGI Leonard Nimoy was almost almost realistic and the had thing was funny.

On the other side the future was almost a parody of Nazi occupied France. And the Observers are so horrible and they kill people and they all are men so they want our prostitutes for themselves. In even more creepy then usual as it has extra level of sleeping with your grandmother. Not to mention killing your ancestors seem like a quick way to extinction so where is their Paradox Machine?

It was pretty obvious why they hired pale, blond Australian that looks just like Anna Torv. I guest who were her parents almost instantly and the switching genders but keeping the name was almost overboard (that belongs to most convenient superpower). Only thing that makes it better was that she and her partner were kind of cool together.

I once again couldn't help but notice that Peter has a role that is usually reserved for female heroes - his destiny is to have a special kid. The fact that he's a guy makes it almost bearable. However, I thought that his kid was to bring about the Observer future. That the whole thing about child of two Universes was so important September almost killed him by screwing up the cure and had to fix his mistake. It's makes less and less sense as we go on.

The whole episode was made form clichés bound together by Walter glue.

In other weekend show all about lost parents we learned what happened to the Rumpelstiltskin's son and how that relates to the curse. He was last good thing in Rumpel's life but also the reason he became the monster. So he blamed himself as dark magic consumed his father. All the deaths and paranoia and the fear of everyone around him and he still tried to save his father. He tried to find a way out that didn't involve killing him. A way to another world where there is no magic so magic can has no power over his father. And Rumpel, the coward he always was, chickens out.

This is however where his backstory is more sympathetic then Regina's (and I'm a little pissed at that so I hope the final confrontation about Henry will humanise her again). His reason for creating the curse is to go after his son. He used Regina's need for revenge and manipulated her to kill her own father. So, no I don't think he is a better person, but his quest is not as petty as hating a kid for getting fooled by a skilled manipulator. Still, just like her obsession with revenge, his leads to destroying everything around him. Including his love.

So, as it seems, the Fairyland has plenty of lost sons and no wonder Mr. Gold mistook August W. Booth for his. I think we can now safely assume he is Geppeto's. I also think that this means Rumpelstiltskin's son is Henry's father (you just know it has to be).

It starts with a bang or at least a crash and then gets even more shocking. we all knew they are not going to Titan anymore but the land back in Eureka. Only it's 4 years later and everything is wrong. Town is run by AIs gone wrong - all the friends _SARAH, Andy, Martha all became creepy in a Stepford Wives way and try to do this to all the humans too. Henry is crazy outcast (but not paranoid because he is right). And the worst part is all the horrible things it does to Alison. The kids growing up without her for whole 4 years, especially Jenna who doesn't even remember her and then Jack and Jo. It was just so wrong (I know I shouldn't since there is now real reason why not but that is just ewwww).

I disliked when they tortured Jo last season and the thought that they are going to do it to Alison now was just too much. I wanted them to take back this future. I liked the timeline reset more then this. Actually I kept thinking I would rather have the season one alternate future. So I was all happy when it turned out to be another evil plot by Beverly. YAY.

There was a tiny bit of foreshadowing when Zane was electrocuted and saw the blue highlighted silhouettes. I like it for now but I hope we are not spending the whole last season in Matrix.

There were moments that were explained in books but here were kind of coming out of nowhere. Katniss - Rue friendship seemed too sudden and involve much too much trust for people who could not trust anyone. The sudden falling in love with Peeta after not being interested and then not really seeing each other at all. Or what was the finger thing about? They are just not good at explaining mythology. In general the connections between Katniss and all the people who've been helping her seemed too sudden. there just isn't enough time in the movie to let the develop.I was at first going to go in completely blind without reading the books first but I was glad to have spoiled myself. This way I understood both the friendships and the relationships that were done just for the public watching the contest.

Of course, the really interesting thing comes that mix of Tezeus myth, Roman bread and games ideology and reality TV rolled into one (and I noticed it before reading wikipedia so the inspirations are pretty obvious). It's fascinating how president Snow seems to be the only person actually knowing/caring what the whole thing is about. Everyone else just enjoys the emotional ride of young people killing each other. Everyone kept in line by the threat of losing their child to the show and relief when it's not theirs. The guilt of watching and hope of reward (because they might just make it and never be hungry again). Thinking just about the recent game and never about the reasons and purpose they serve. Even the guy who designed the Arena didn't get it and that's why he had to die. Rules cannot be changed or broken because then everyone would like to change the rules. All of them. And one of the main tenants of any totalitarian regime is hate of change. Change leads to loosing power.

Of course this, unlike the previous one, was not even trying to be a serious movie. It's so obviously a fairytale. The seasons, space and time do not follow realistic logic. Everything is under the snow all the time but they still have something to eat and it's not cold or Prince would have his feet fall off from frostbite. The beast is in the woods that are at the edge of Kingdom and on the way from the Palace to the Village (the only village in the whole Land). The prince storms out of the palace to fight the bandits and Snow gets days of training while his on his way to the same wood by the palace. If you mind this kind of dream?Alice in Wonderland logic you will hate the movie. I enjoyed it as a part of convention.

However I enjoyed the most the satire part. The Kingdom is ruled by self-centred, vain Queen and her moods affect the weather. You can see how much Julia Roberts had enjoyed saying all those horrible things. Playing someone who is so narcissistic and unable to care about anything but her own needs must be fun. She is as over the top as her clothes but in a way she is as much a critique of our times as the Capitol of Panem. I also like the contrast between her and the Prince, who also thinks he is better then everyone else and is self-centred jerk, but, unlike the Queen, he is able to learn. The way he treats the dwarves at the beginning you want something bad to happen to him (and it does, repeatedly). But there is a decent person somewhere inside and he apologises in the end. Queen just gets more mean and hateful. However, I might be totally won over by the way Armie Hammer took to being bitten and stripped repeatedly, not to mention licking Julia Roberts (it makes sense when you see it and is not as dirty as it sounds).

The best thing about this movie was that what it lacked in realism of the word it made up by the characters. They are still over the top but, if you thin about it, wouldn't all the fairytale princes be jerks since they are born to the life of privileged and noone dares to deny them anything? I liked how his companion was shown first to be the cowardly one but then turns out to be just the one with common sense. Even the fact that, although she got pretty good for a beginner, Snow lost the sword fight to Prince, who's been doing this his whole life and not just a horse ride from palace, made it more realistic then many serious stories.

The Dwarves are not some merry miners but highly capable robbers who only do this because Queen banned all the undesirables. This was probably the most serious and meaningful part of the film. They are the most wronged characters in the story and also the biggest heroes. And you could tell that all the insults were not something unknown to the cast. This was the part I found most interesting as the ending was totally predictable but made me laugh when I saw who played that part. From my point of view it was going against the trope twice in one week (making a new one? :P).