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- Episode aired Mar 21, 2024
- TV-MA
- 58m
A bold proposition for the Staircase Project puts the group at odds. Will weighs his options. Ye returns to a familiar place.A bold proposition for the Staircase Project puts the group at odds. Will weighs his options. Ye returns to a familiar place.A bold proposition for the Staircase Project puts the group at odds. Will weighs his options. Ye returns to a familiar place.
- Anwar Suleiman
- (as Stephen Rahman-Hughes)
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Same with old Samwell Tarley, it was pointless, there are so many higher targets to be bothered with. And if they've got these magic proton computers darting around the world why bother with the cloak and dagger stuff, why not crash the plane she flew over on.
It makes no sense and makes it seem like the show runners are in it for the titillation. They want to have a nutjob assassin in the show doing psycho things, so that's the only reason for titiana and her plot points.
After a lengthy, soppy goodbye scene the show is finally ethnically cleansed from the embarrassing presence of the remaining British white male.
Elsewhere, nano-girl boss Auggie decides to flaunt her moral standard by metaphorically mounting on her high horse and riding away in the sunset. Probably her ego wasn't pampered enough, as a mere member of the Staircase Project. Probably they should have kissed her B side more.
Finally, Tatiana the ruthless killer-girl boss is resurrected for a mission to eliminate the now useless Dr. Ye. Not that I am sad about Ye's demise, even if I share her point of view about humanity, but this makes one wonder why the omnipotent girl boss Sophone needs to move her agents around the world to eliminate a useless and powerless old woman. Would you bother so much to squash a bug that's crawling out of your garden?
I am (very) mildly curious to see how it turns out, I heard that the book was good, but these characters are just painful and pathetic. Even if we could accept the human drama aspects, which I find so annoying and artificial, they could surely get it over and done with in about a tenth of the time and move the plot forward and give us a bit of action- please?
The actors are mostly (except you know who I mean) so unattractive and have so little charisma, they are so unconvincing in attempting to portray scientists with such deadening earnest, I know plenty of real scientists who I would much rather spend tíme with.
The cynic in me is thinking there's no chance of a conclusion in the next episode, after this one, it somehow doesn't seem very likely, events are being expanded upon, nothing really looks like coming to a head, I almost done want it to.
You may be a little disappointed if you're wanting action, and those marvellous special effects, this is very much more an episode all about character development. I enjoyed it, interesting, revealing, just not very exciting.
Alex Sharp and Liam Cunningham were both excellent I thought, very different actors and characters, but the results are so good, Will's story has become so interesting.
I hope it's a big end to the series, it promises much.
7/10.
Did you know
- TriviaThe voice on the end of the phone, that Wade (Liam Cunningham) calls at 18:53 into the episode, is Brad Pitt's, who also serves as one of the producers of the series.
- Quotes
Ye Wenjie: Would you like to hear a joke?
[They sit on a bench]
Ye Wenjie: So Einstein dies. He finds himself in heaven, and he has his violin. He's overjoyed. He loves his violin, more than physics; Even more than women. He's excited to find out how well he can play in heaven. He imagines he'll be pretty damn good. So he starts tuning up, and the angels rush at him. 'What are you doing?' they say. 'I'm getting ready to play.' 'Don't do that. God won't like it. He's a saxophonist.' So Einstein stops. He doesn't play. But it's difficult. He loves music. And there's actually not much to do in heaven. And sure enough, from high above, he hears a saxophone. It's playing 'Take the 'A' Train', do you know that one?
Saul Durand: Yeah, I've heard it.
Ye Wenjie: Einstein knows it too. And he thinks, I'm going to do it. I'm going to play with him. We're going to sound great together. So he starts playing 'Take the 'A' Train'. The saxophone stops, and God appears. He marches over to Einstein and kicks him in the balls, which hurts, even in heaven. Then he smashes Einstein's beloved violin to bits. Eternity without music. Heaven has become hell for Einstein. And as he writhes on the ground, holding his smashed balls, an angel comes over and says: 'We warned you: Never play with God.'
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- Runtime58 minutes
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