I was told that I’d be seeing more of Owen in this episode… and I was definitely impressed. I’d even go as far as saying that this was my favorite episode of the season so far, even though it is very early to say something is your favorite. After these past 2 episodes, I’m most interested in Owen out of the entire cast.
Owen saving the day was great. He was constantly put down, but he fought through and eventually prevailed. He showed his co-workers who is boss. His relationship with Sara flourished in this episode and I think that they’re definitely a great couple. I’m interested in seeing them hook up later down the road, even though they already appear to be an item.
This is really the first standalone episode so far this season and I really enjoyed. Stephen was awesome and definitely crazy in the head. He got a little annoying by the end of the episode, but nonetheless, he was well-written and a mostly an enjoyable guest star.
I hate to point this out in my reviews, but something that really irked me in this episode were typos. There were more than usual, by far. I’m not used to seeing so many in a script, DSR especially, but I just had to point it out for me to stop thinking about it.
I liked our little break from Jai, Rayen, and Ethan in this episode. While all three are still enjoyable characters in The DSR, it’s always nice to get a little break, from anybody. I am interested to see what will come of Jai in jail and I’m also still wondering how Rayen and Ethan will factor into this season’s story now that they have been taken away from our team.
All in all, I enjoyed this episode and I was very happy to see the episode going a direction that was centered on the Pulse (which is what these past 3 episodes have been all about). I can’t wait to get to the rest of the season. I just wish I could be insanely fast and get things all read in a day, but alas, it can’t be done.
Jimbo’s Next Theory
Owen and Sara are going to have a relationship form in the next few episodes. After all, I can already see it brewing. I think that those two are absolutely great together.
Monday, July 5, 2010
Sunday, July 4, 2010
The DSR - Episode 4x03 - Pulse
After taking a little break from The DSR to read a few other series here at MZP, I came back to read the third episode of the season and thought… Why in the hell did I ever take a break from this amazing series? I was very impressed with this episode and I think that only ensures that I’ll be reading more frequently from here on out.
Jai getting arrested is absolutely insane. He obviously didn’t murder anybody, and it appears that the only reason he was ‘framed’ was to make it so that Kendall didn’t have anyone. Ethan is gone, so is Jai. While he doesn’t seem completely alone at this point, he has lost some of his more major counterparts. I hope that he’ll get them both back sometime soon.
I’ve never really liked Hobbes from the moment that he was introduced to us. It just seemed like he didn’t like Kendall and that might have been why he wanted to get rid of the DSR. Now it’s quite obvious that he is working on the inside and is up to no good. I hope that when and if he is caught, he gets put in his place.
Ethan seems to like his new position in the government. While Kendall is bitter, Ethan made the decision that would further develop his career. After all, in life, if a big decision like that came around out of left field, wouldn’t we take it too? I know I sure would. Just because he has a different line of work, though, doesn’t mean he can’t still keep in touch with his ‘friends’ over at the DSR… I mean Langley.
Owen is already growing on me. It was a great job casting Nathan Fillion as Owen. I love Nathan Fillion and I feel like he is perfect for the role. I know that he is a series regular this season, so it’ll be interesting to see what role that he’ll play in the rest of the season and possibly beyond.
All in all, I’m quite angry with myself that I ever took a break from reading this incredible series. Not only is there an amazing story in The DSR, but there is also a very high caliber of writing and that is always a huge plus. I can’t to read on and hopefully finish up the season, and even the series, soon.
Jimbo’s Next Theory
Kendall is going to be the one to discover that Jai is being framed and that Hobbes is secretly working with Kovas Memnon.
Jai getting arrested is absolutely insane. He obviously didn’t murder anybody, and it appears that the only reason he was ‘framed’ was to make it so that Kendall didn’t have anyone. Ethan is gone, so is Jai. While he doesn’t seem completely alone at this point, he has lost some of his more major counterparts. I hope that he’ll get them both back sometime soon.
I’ve never really liked Hobbes from the moment that he was introduced to us. It just seemed like he didn’t like Kendall and that might have been why he wanted to get rid of the DSR. Now it’s quite obvious that he is working on the inside and is up to no good. I hope that when and if he is caught, he gets put in his place.
Ethan seems to like his new position in the government. While Kendall is bitter, Ethan made the decision that would further develop his career. After all, in life, if a big decision like that came around out of left field, wouldn’t we take it too? I know I sure would. Just because he has a different line of work, though, doesn’t mean he can’t still keep in touch with his ‘friends’ over at the DSR… I mean Langley.
Owen is already growing on me. It was a great job casting Nathan Fillion as Owen. I love Nathan Fillion and I feel like he is perfect for the role. I know that he is a series regular this season, so it’ll be interesting to see what role that he’ll play in the rest of the season and possibly beyond.
All in all, I’m quite angry with myself that I ever took a break from reading this incredible series. Not only is there an amazing story in The DSR, but there is also a very high caliber of writing and that is always a huge plus. I can’t to read on and hopefully finish up the season, and even the series, soon.
Jimbo’s Next Theory
Kendall is going to be the one to discover that Jai is being framed and that Hobbes is secretly working with Kovas Memnon.
Afterlife - Episode 1x10 - Sunset
After reading the penultimate episode of the season… I can’t wait to read the finale! After the previous episode disappointed me, this one made up for it and more. I’ll even go so far as to say that this was my favorite episode so far this season!
I enjoyed our little peak into Rachel’s past in this episode. Not only did we just get to see how twisted her life was, we also got to see the Shadow Man. I never saw the Shadow Man killing Rachel coming. It was completely unexpected. By then, I had completely forgotten that she would have had to die to be in the Afterlife in the first place. I hope that we’ll see the Shadow Man again though, as his motives are definitely mysterious.
The black rain seems insanely freaky. I don’t know what I’d do if I were to experience something like that. It looks like Jonathan and Aurora need to come up with a plan, and fast. It was interesting that Aurora didn’t experience much trouble with the darkness in this episode. I wonder what will come of it in the finale, assuming that this mystery doesn’t carry over to next season.
Meanwhile, Kate and Lianna are back in town having to see this black rain. I could see chaos ensuing in the town amongst the people that are there. I also wonder if there will be any form of attack now that it seems like it will always be dark. These two could play a large role in the finale, but more on that in my next theory.
All in all, I am very excited to get to read this finale. This has been one hell of a season. It hasn’t had many faults and the bear has been set pretty high throughout. Let me just say that after this episode, the bar has been raised even higher. This finale has a lot to live up to, so hopefully it’ll be just as good as I hope it will be.
Jimbo’s Next Theory
Jonathan and Aurora will have to come up with a crazy plan to stop all of the creatures. I think that Kate and Lianna may play a fairly large role in keeping other people safe and surviving. Things have hit its climax, so it’s time to see who stands out and who crumbles under the pressure and fear.
I enjoyed our little peak into Rachel’s past in this episode. Not only did we just get to see how twisted her life was, we also got to see the Shadow Man. I never saw the Shadow Man killing Rachel coming. It was completely unexpected. By then, I had completely forgotten that she would have had to die to be in the Afterlife in the first place. I hope that we’ll see the Shadow Man again though, as his motives are definitely mysterious.
The black rain seems insanely freaky. I don’t know what I’d do if I were to experience something like that. It looks like Jonathan and Aurora need to come up with a plan, and fast. It was interesting that Aurora didn’t experience much trouble with the darkness in this episode. I wonder what will come of it in the finale, assuming that this mystery doesn’t carry over to next season.
Meanwhile, Kate and Lianna are back in town having to see this black rain. I could see chaos ensuing in the town amongst the people that are there. I also wonder if there will be any form of attack now that it seems like it will always be dark. These two could play a large role in the finale, but more on that in my next theory.
All in all, I am very excited to get to read this finale. This has been one hell of a season. It hasn’t had many faults and the bear has been set pretty high throughout. Let me just say that after this episode, the bar has been raised even higher. This finale has a lot to live up to, so hopefully it’ll be just as good as I hope it will be.
Jimbo’s Next Theory
Jonathan and Aurora will have to come up with a crazy plan to stop all of the creatures. I think that Kate and Lianna may play a fairly large role in keeping other people safe and surviving. Things have hit its climax, so it’s time to see who stands out and who crumbles under the pressure and fear.
Afterlife - Episode 1x09 - The Cure
I will get my slight disappointment out of the way now. This is not my favorite episode of the season, by far. I personally feel that it was one of the weakest. Don’t get me wrong, the episode and story were still good and we still had a few mysteries, but I just feel it didn’t have that extra little something that makes me feel like it was one of those amazing and kick-ass episodes.
I felt like the episode dragged at times. The beginning was a great, a few scenes in the middle were good, and the ending was good. We had a few mysteries (such as, who was Jonathan speaking with). Trias being killed by Aurora was another highlight. We didn’t get nearly the amount of action throughout that we had gotten in the past few episodes, so maybe that is was I feel was lacking.
The darkness within Aurora is developing more and more and it keeps getting more intriguing as time goes on. It appears that she can’t be hurt anymore, as her wound healed during her fight with Trias. Apparently she’ll eventually give in to the darkness, but even though she seems to not be troubled quite as much by the visions, she still doesn’t seem to have given in. I’m interested to see what will happen if she gives in, although I’m still thinking that it’ll be stopped somehow.
And we also got to see Lianna and her family again in this episode. I really liked seeing her about to kill Aurora, but then ultimately being stopped by Nera. I get the feeling that this won’t be the last that we see of the family. I definitely wanting to know what role they’ll play if we ever see them again (and since they don’t appear to have left, maybe we’ll see them again soon, rather than later).
Despite this, in my opinion, being weaker than other episodes this season, it was still very well written and is still much better than other scripts that I’ve read. I hope that the bar that has been set will be met by the last two episodes. That way, I’ll be even more pumped to read on into Season 2.
Jimbo’s Next Theory
Nera is going to also have something to do with getting rid of the darkness in Aurora, or at least stopping Aurora from giving into it.
I felt like the episode dragged at times. The beginning was a great, a few scenes in the middle were good, and the ending was good. We had a few mysteries (such as, who was Jonathan speaking with). Trias being killed by Aurora was another highlight. We didn’t get nearly the amount of action throughout that we had gotten in the past few episodes, so maybe that is was I feel was lacking.
The darkness within Aurora is developing more and more and it keeps getting more intriguing as time goes on. It appears that she can’t be hurt anymore, as her wound healed during her fight with Trias. Apparently she’ll eventually give in to the darkness, but even though she seems to not be troubled quite as much by the visions, she still doesn’t seem to have given in. I’m interested to see what will happen if she gives in, although I’m still thinking that it’ll be stopped somehow.
And we also got to see Lianna and her family again in this episode. I really liked seeing her about to kill Aurora, but then ultimately being stopped by Nera. I get the feeling that this won’t be the last that we see of the family. I definitely wanting to know what role they’ll play if we ever see them again (and since they don’t appear to have left, maybe we’ll see them again soon, rather than later).
Despite this, in my opinion, being weaker than other episodes this season, it was still very well written and is still much better than other scripts that I’ve read. I hope that the bar that has been set will be met by the last two episodes. That way, I’ll be even more pumped to read on into Season 2.
Jimbo’s Next Theory
Nera is going to also have something to do with getting rid of the darkness in Aurora, or at least stopping Aurora from giving into it.
Afterlife - Episode 1x08 - Murder (Part 2)
What a kick-ass episode! While I wasn’t as into this episode as others, it was still a very well written episode that featured a heavy amount of action. I figured that we would see a lot of action this episode; after all, there isn’t much of a way to outsmart people in this world.
One of the coolest things that I’ll remember for quite a while was Jonathan putting the oil on his sword and using that to win a fight with Rachel, but also to rescue Aurora. It was a very cool idea (definitely better than the boot, which was also good) and as I said, I’ll remember those scenes for quite a while.
Jonathan also gets another enemy in this episode. I swear, there can’t be an episode of Afterlife without having at least one enemy featured. First it was Marcus the Cutter, then we had Trias, and now we have the Lord of Murder. As interesting of a character that Trias was, I am happy that we got a break for a new villain. The Lord of Murder is definitely someone that should be feared and it’ll be cool to see how Jonathan (and possibly Aurora) will deal with him later on down the road.
I am again disappointed by a death in this episode. Marius was another good guest star and seemed to be a great father figure for Kate. I can now see another reason why this two-part episode was titled ‘Murder’.
Kate seems to have become more central to the show over the past few episodes. As I’ve already said, I really like her, so I hope that we’ll continue to see more of her as the show continues. (Unless she’s going to be killed off too, just like my other favorite guest stars!!!!!)
The darkness in Aurora has the potential to turn into something very crazy. Aurora is obviously fighting whatever is inside of her, but the question is whether Aurora will prevail or not. More on that in my next theory though.
Only 3 episodes left to read and then I’ll be finished with Season 1! I can’t wait to get to reading them!
Jimbo’s Next Theory
I believe that Jonathan will play a key role in getting rid of whatever that darkness is that’s inside of Aurora. If he doesn’t, I get the feeling that things may turn out very, very bad.
One of the coolest things that I’ll remember for quite a while was Jonathan putting the oil on his sword and using that to win a fight with Rachel, but also to rescue Aurora. It was a very cool idea (definitely better than the boot, which was also good) and as I said, I’ll remember those scenes for quite a while.
Jonathan also gets another enemy in this episode. I swear, there can’t be an episode of Afterlife without having at least one enemy featured. First it was Marcus the Cutter, then we had Trias, and now we have the Lord of Murder. As interesting of a character that Trias was, I am happy that we got a break for a new villain. The Lord of Murder is definitely someone that should be feared and it’ll be cool to see how Jonathan (and possibly Aurora) will deal with him later on down the road.
I am again disappointed by a death in this episode. Marius was another good guest star and seemed to be a great father figure for Kate. I can now see another reason why this two-part episode was titled ‘Murder’.
Kate seems to have become more central to the show over the past few episodes. As I’ve already said, I really like her, so I hope that we’ll continue to see more of her as the show continues. (Unless she’s going to be killed off too, just like my other favorite guest stars!!!!!)
The darkness in Aurora has the potential to turn into something very crazy. Aurora is obviously fighting whatever is inside of her, but the question is whether Aurora will prevail or not. More on that in my next theory though.
Only 3 episodes left to read and then I’ll be finished with Season 1! I can’t wait to get to reading them!
Jimbo’s Next Theory
I believe that Jonathan will play a key role in getting rid of whatever that darkness is that’s inside of Aurora. If he doesn’t, I get the feeling that things may turn out very, very bad.
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