2015. június 18., csütörtök

Reign 2x20 Fugitive


After weeks of having to watch Mary flip-flop between „I love you and we should elope together” and „I love you but we can’t be be together” and then Conde basically saying screw all that, I’m just gonna marry your mortal enemy instead, this week’s episode of Reign was delightfully light on the Mary-Conde-Francis love triangle/relationship drama, so much so that I could probably sum up that part of the episode in only a couple of sentences. In fact, that is exactly what I’m planning to do, and then devote the rest of this review to Mary’s ladies and their respective love lives, because let’s face it, every single one of those is a million times more interesting than what Mary’s storyline has been reduced to in the second half of the season.

Supernatural 10x20 Angel Heart


It’s been awhile since we last saw Claire Novak, the daughter of Castiel’s vessel Jimmy, and to be honest during that time I almost completely forgot about her. She was one of those characters that I really wanted to care about because I sympathized with their situation a lot, but there was something about her that just never clicked for me. Nevertheless, I was happy when she and Cas ended the episode she last appeared in in what I thought was a good place, with Claire taking off on her own but asking Cas if it was okay if she called him sometimes. I can only guess that she never actually called because in this episode she acted as if they never made up, so initially I wasn’t looking forward to yet another episode of Castiel trying to get closer to a grumpy Claire. Oh how things can change in only 40 minutes!

Arrow 3x21 Al Sah-Him


It’s been three weeks since Oliver gave up everything he loved to save Thea’s life by joining the League of Assassins. We don’t know much about how he spent those three weeks other than sleeping in a small room, being trained in combat by Ra’s al Ghul, and apparently being mind-controlled into forgetting who he used to be. His first true test of loyalty came in the form of a captured Diggle who supposedly snuck back in to rescue Oliver but who also insists that he was captured while trying to escape in the first place and has been held at Nanda Parbat all along. Whatever the truth is, it is up to Oliver to deal with him, and he orders the other men to give Dig a sword because he won’t kill an unarmed man. In the end he stabs and kills him only for it to turn out not to be Dig after all – Ra’s explains to Oliver that he was given a herb that made his conscious take over his mind. Now, I only have two small questions about all of this.