People seemed to throw a fit last week that there were a few small points of annoyance for me, and that somehow for some people that translated into me not liking the show. Not quite sure how people came to that assumption
So here's the other side of the coin, touches that I really liked this week:
Distant Past b-plot:
So here's the other side of the coin, touches that I really liked this week:
- the elevator muzak near the beginning
- that beautiful shot going up the under-lit spiral stairs in the bunker
- how the older guy was uncomfortable with Brody doing anything with their computers because he was the founding father of Futura
- that Varro was part of the mission down to the bunker and it just was without anyone having to say anything about it
- just moments later after realizing past-Eli hooked up with Cpl. Barnes, as current-Eli and -Chloe discuss it: "something worth pursuing?"
- Varro's nice grab of TJ falling
- the high shot of the fault line cracking down one of the city's main streets was BEAUTIFUL
- Varro lived! I thought for sure that they'd killed him off!
Distant Past b-plot:
- the choice to play out the other Destiny as the episode's b-plot--and how wonderfully it was executed
- Chloe's old lady spots
- that they actually addressed the Scott/James angle before the Scott/Chloe wedding, great callback to the premiere
- shots cycling through the main women of the show screaming during labour--oh god did I ever laugh hard at that
- Camille was dating--so she isn't the ship's token homosexual!
- Greer: "I'm tired"
- grumpy old mustache'd 'get off my lawn!' Brody
- Ming-na's makeup as ancient Wray near the end
- the unspoken resolution of how Chinese (Mandarin?) phrasing survived 2000 years--being spoken at a major event in their civilization's history
- old old Camille's speech about the mission being the journey itself. Beautiful
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