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Number 5 backs to 1955. Dream like surrounding. He has a plan to find who is responsible for the apocalypse? He is very reputative on other side. He has a typical office room with the typical office workers whom sit in front of the typewriter. He has a poker face. Although The Lady have a suspicion to him but does not have any clue yet. They have interesting conversation about timeline, briefcases.. but still not certain info about what happened and who did.

Hazel and Cha Cha get angry. The hunt for Number 5 turns to Who kills who firsth competition between Hazel and Cha Cha.

Vanya goes to home and see all her siblings together at a family meeting. She gets angry and sad. Luther still keeps his mystery but take a little souvenir from the Hargreeves House.

Klauss' heart is still broken about Dave and he wants to see Dave again. So he decided to get rid of his addiction. Diego helps him. By the way we see Ben betweentimes even we don't know much about him.

Luther dissopointed when he learn about the story behind 4 years of moonliving. He is devastated. Allison remembers past when she sees hearth like neclace which has initials of A&L. At the end we see last dance sequence with Dancing in the Moonlight by Toploader. Vanya is still sorry. Her mood effects objects even the weather. She does not believe that she has powers. If she whay her father blocks her... She accidently finds Leonards' secret or she finds diary of Reginald Hardgreeves? But everything is erased like never lived. It was amazing episode. I like the way the story goes. Vanya and Ben keep their mystery. It is nice to watch Mary J. I like the pipeline that carries messages. So whats is next:)

The final twist is amazing, and the whole chapter too, but one thing I really loved was the dance!!!

Interesting way of showing the facts, Vanya's powers are evidenced and the importance of her medicines and the fact that Leonard is using her, it is seen that number five is determined to stop the apocalypse at any cost, interesting scenes in which we see a kind of happiness in all the brothers, generates much expectation to see the true power of Vanya and how this is related to the apocalypse.

This one's really standing out. It's like the creators took all the filler episodes, the fan-fic-fluff, the pointless revelations and the drawn out flashbacks to explain their characters' motivations you normally get over a whole season and put it in one episode.

That several minute long corny dance scene for our chemistry-free beauty and beast that some may have rooted for? It's here. Why? Who cares, it didn't happen.

Having Sheehan doing his Frank-n-furter routine in the vietnam war, experiencing the love and the loss of his life in far less time than that dance (since statistically a lot less people rooted for that)? It's here.Why? Who cares, it didn't happen.

Listening to the evil lady monologueing evil things while ocassionally filling in the huge gaps in our knowledge about the evil organisation while getting uncomfortabyl close to coming onto a 13 year old? It's here. But it also didn't happen, that's probably a good thing.

And I warned you of spoilers: They are evil because they have to because they can because that happened even though it didn't.

The problem here is that it's not like the pacing so far was too fast and there's too much happening and we really needed a break. The cinematography and the cast are overall above average, but not that good - they can't pull it off on their own if everything else comes to a screeching halt.

The revelations have been pointed at, hinted at, openly talked about and shown in at least three heavily symbolic scenes before: If you didn't need the fan service, don't wait for any surprises to save this long, useless day.

Totally pointless. A bunch of fairly average things happen alongside a few things we have already been waiting too long for, then it's all taken back when Five travels back in time...erasing the episode from continuity. There are only 10 episodes, how much time do you need to waste before getting the plot to move?

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Clearly the script writers are trying to take us for MUGS!.

So out of about 2,700,000 troops the USA committed to the Vietnam War, (not all being ground troops), out of around a dozen men pictured in a photo pinned on a Vet social club wall that the Clairvoyant guy & knife thrower just 'happened' to be passing by on their short car route, the Clairvoyant guy & his war chum just happened to be in that photo. AS IF!. AS IF!!. AS IF!!!.

You could plaster that entire Vet joint walls out with group shot photo's (of a dozen vets), covering every inch of the walls in there and STILL the chances are the Clairvoyant guy & his chum would NOT be in a pic on the walls.

So that is TOTALLY BOGUS. Of the few pics on the walls seen, maybe around a 1 in 20,000 chance. Script writers treating us as mugs, dumbing down our intelligence. Taking the Mick at us.

Then we have the violin woman's creepy boy friend. Of all the people in that City, he just happened to obtain the Monocled guys book that the Clairvoyant guy stole & discarded into a dumper. So the creepy boyfriend guy either found it himself or someone picked it up and brought it to him, selling it to him. Having a woodwork furniture shop & small amount of bric-à-brac, not a Pawn shop, (a more likely buyer of such an item).

So out of all the people who could end up with that important book, who the creepy boyfriend guy just happened to leave it around his gaff to be easily enough found by violin girl, not put well out of the way. That book just happened to end up with someone who cold-bloodedly would kill a first chair violinist woman so that his new violin 3rd chair girl friend can possibly replace her.

NOT very likely is it. Maybe a 1 in 1000 chance, if that. So 20,000 chance for the Clairvoyant guys photo, times by this new 1,000 chance, (improbability!) = a 20 MILLION to one chance, so far. Just for one episode. Times that by the improbabilities of other episodes makes it all very improbable.

Then after the Clairvoyant guy & knife thrower crashes into a later disarmed Hazel & Cha-Cha & their vehicle, we have the PREPOSTEROUS script of all of a sudden the 4 Umbrella Academy bunch & the dead guy just 'have' to clear off away from a disarmed Hazel & Cha-Cha. They all had to run away instead of overpowering their two foes. AS IF.

Like knife thrower can only throw with one arm, never quite practised with the other, didn't have the sense to wear a seat belt either, lacking in ability & mentality isn't he.

No one even PHONED for a Police SWAT TEAM to come along and arrest the murderer of a police officer & countless known others. No no don't phone for the Police to have them locked up, just rush & RUN AWAY from those disarmed foes so the main WEAK & tiresome lumbering protagonists are still out there in play.

Not even knife thrower or the rest of the bunch giving the Police a description of those 2 killers, before or after that roadside scene, to get them off the streets. Clairvoyant guy has seen them, as has knife thrower. Not very well trained were they in coordination & cooperation with law enforcement.

SLOPPY script writing. Even if it is a sci-fi fantasy series there still has to be the PREPONDERANCE of a scene that takes place to be probable & likely. (excluding the extreme fantasy parts), otherwise it all becomes fanciful, weak & daft.

WOULD a certain thing happen, what are the chances of that certain thing & the next thing after it happening. When it is one unlikely event followed by another the whole thing gets very silly.

Very 1960's Batman & Robin. Very pantomimist. Sloppy script writing wanting us to swallow any old garbage that spring to their minds that they come out with & think they can get away with. Taking us for mugs.

Lets not forget the coordinator woman having a pair of live HAND GRENADES left around in her office for schoolboy to pick up & conveniently use. Not very likely was it.

So far the series started off ok, but then petered out for the last 4 episodes (including this one), hardly going anywhere, going round & round, I won't say where, getting quite a bit stagnant.

The indulgence of frizzy hair woman & Ape man having a long long dance, totally indulgent, with one improbable event after another, insulting our intelligence. Had to fast forward some of the scenes in this episode, first time so far this series.

Like Monocle Guy can afford to send Ape man to the Moon, some sort of private philanthropic enterprise event costing hundreds of $millions if not in the $billions, but he can't have decent HQ door security to keep out the many foes & enemies they have created. Not safe to go back there knife thrower or Ape man says. Maybe beef up the door security & having CCTV camera's monitoring the street & perimeter surroundings might be a start. Easily done.

So at the end of episode 6, with the five of them & no doubt the dead guy, teaming up, with the surprise reveal in this episode of violin girl finding her powers, Which I knew she would find & would eventually be quite formidable, if not the more powerful (X-Men Jean Grey-ish), of the lot. It all may start to warm up, having had filler after filler scenes in many episodes, padding it all out to 10 episodes.

Netflix wanted 10 episodes and looks like the TV script writers PADDED it out. It needed consolidating to 8 episodes or better still, tightened up & better THOUGHT OUT content added to each episode.

Would sooner give this episode 2 stars, as per last review for ep 3. But the acting itself is up to par and it is an intriguing series, even if in some parts the script writing is poor. Sci-fi fantasy is fine but not sci-fi fancifulness. With the constant improbabilities in between the sheer fantasy parts there is a lessening of credibility. It gets & looks silly and the hip, trendy, edgy & cool factor so much sought after by the production team, goes out of the window. People will only stick so many AS IF's.

So this episode gets a 3 star rating. The photo on the Vet wall was PATHETIC in its improbability as was running away from the two murderous disarmed protagonists & not even contacting the POLICE about them. Silly SLOPPY script writing is spoiling this series. It is for me anyway, others may just wolf it all down, hungry for any such material & award 10 stars or so. Series can be appreciated and criticised at the same time, not just accepted.

Yes, there are many creative & entertaining aspects to it all, but in some places it is very bad. Cringeworthy. Unless it is word for word & scene by scene taken 'directly' from the comic book, as per almost exactly as written by the comic book writer. Then whoever adapted it to TV screen from the literature has responsibility for the failings, above mentioned.

Comic books themselves can get away with far far more than something put out on the TV. The producers should know that!, tweaking the original source material to suit, leaving some out or even adding to it. Maybe they have.

I'll check out the comic books online if there are digital freebies available, after viewing TV series 1 & 2, to see where the fault lies. Maybe it could be both the comic book writing & the TV script writers, somewhere between the two, leaning more on the TV script writers I suspect.

We'll have to see. It all could have been better is what I'm saying, not that it isn't entertaining, interesting & compelling to start with. Worth a viewing if folks are into this sort of stuff, there are far worse series than this that are not even worth a full episodes outing. Not one of Netflix's usual duds that is for sure. For me it is looking towards a 7 star rating for the entire season 1 to be fair, if things pick up it may be higher.