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I've been HOOKED to Shogun since it's release, such a good series and it was always killer having to wait week to week, but jeez what a disappointment and flop of a finale!!

A few things: Where's the battle at and why doesn't Blackthorne ever get to use his artillery?? Toronoga said he keeps him around cuz he's a distraction for his enemies and cuz he's funny?? Huh? Toronaga sacrificing everyone and we don't get to see the war? CGI Shogun armor? Why do we have to see old Blackthorne on his ship? Him making it out of Japan was never really a concern to me. Also, a huge huge void is felt without Mariko. And what happened to the Catholics and poofy scarf guy? They were going after Anjin and his journal like it was Epsteins black book, but nah I guess we let him go back

All because of this episode, I don't have faith in the 2nd season. Toronaga sacrificed too much for too little of a payoff. Mariko was the best character, and okay sure Blackthorne lives, and also has a white family line.. but I really don't care. Rating a 1 because I would've gone Crimson Sky for this show, but not after that mess.

So I'll try and only talk about spoilers below so those just reading the first part don't see, but damn! This show does not pay off at all! It keeps building up and up, slowly, but quite well actually, and then does not deliver at all! The acting is really spot on, and the show is at its best early on and hits on a few moments in the middle of the series, but yeah idk if this one is worth the time, definitely doesn't hold to HBO quality.

Spoiler time now! Cuz I can't get over a few ridiculous decisions the show makes towards the end.. so alright, wasn't the plan to stay w/ the guy and just plainly be his alibi so they can do the "impossible to be at 2 places at once" argument? But then they decide to go hunt down El Cusco? Huh? So upset too that the final reveal of the "morphed" face is over an iPhone video. The show was at its best when this "outsider" is lurking in the background, the huge reveal shouldn't be via iPad. Dumb. I won't even get into that final shootout scene! So many unexplainable character decisions. The final fight w el cusco too was a huge let down. Acting is spot on sure, but the peak of the show is when Holly gets kidnapped by Jack. And is it odd that I missed Jason Bateman once he was gone? The highest I could ever give this show is a 7, there's good moments, slow moments, tense and freaky moments, but it all falls on it's face in the end!

What a waste of time!! Every typical sequel pitfall trope shows up in this movie. It's the exact plot as the 1st one and it's honestly incredibly boring. Visuals are great sure, but it has less effect the 2nd time around from avatar 1 15 years ago. I'm tired of seeing these poor animals get hunted, cities being blown to bits. The human cgi and background mixing is pretty awful. Human military actors are laughable, that Scottish guy is so unbearable. These lines are corny, all the children of the ppl from the last movie make no sense, Sigourney weaver jr. Goes Marvel MCU for a second on them, and i swear if they say "bro" one more time I'm gonna lose it!! Easiest 1 out of 10 I'll ever give.

Yes yes yes this review will contain spoilers because oh my god!!! Did they seriously just do a modern age cliffhanger?!? Movie starts off slow (sorry Gwen, but I'm not here to see your story. Myles is one of the dopest main characters we've seen in years and to not start the movie off with him is a crime, let alone a boring fight scene from a Renaissance vulture), first fight scene between Myles and Spot is lame, but then the movie finally gets going. And it was awesome!! I loved the spider society and everything about it, but then the movie just ENDS?! Literally right before the final boss fight? Like what's the 3rd movie going to be about? Youre telling me it's going to stretch out into another 2 hours?? No no no! This movie had its arch, and to break it off at the fight scene is nuts. If they wanted to do a cliffhanger, just do it the second Myles realizes he's in the wrong timeline!! Don't do it when our gang finally reunites and is about to help Myles.. they dropped the damn ball here and because of that they get a 5, and a possible boycott down the line. I mean seriously!! Such a dumb way to end an amazing movie.

And the streak continues! Such a good episode! Returned to each character having their own angle and plotting for their own self gain. Great early performance from Roman and chaotic firing scenes. But from there Kendall carries the episode and I love when doom is about to fall on Kendall but then he really comes out on top. Those are honestly the better episodes of the series. Kendall is turning into a dog and he's always been good at thinking on his feet in a public moment of pressure. Roman is going to break down and not last, his dad only really used him because he was still young and impressionable. He has his moments, but he's best when under the radar and when expectations are low. Now as for Shiv, she seems to be switching sides and losing whichever way she goes. She's probably going to be #2 for Menkken, and go after Kendall that way. But all in all, Kendall shines in this episode!

Wow! What a finale. Mixed emotions for sure, but after giving it some thought I think the episode was a perfect mix of writer's guilt and Jimmy going out on his own terms, same w/ Walt's ending, in a sense. A big theme of this episode is the time travel question, and it's revealed later that presumably, he got that question from Chuck. I agree that it is out of Sauls character to show remorse for everything and do it for Kim, but this way Jimmy gets to a) be a known badass around the prison b) do the right thing. Saul never chose to do that, and it seems like everything that Lalo did to him that an everlasting effect. This whole time he was running from his issues and pretending to be Saul Goodman. It's almost like the writers knew SOMEONE had to answer for all these crimes, so they found an ending that was equally conflicting and satisfying. Does it fit with Saul? No. Does it fit with Jimmy? I think it does. He didn't want to have any regrets and I think made Chuck proud. I think his actions would finally earn chucks respect.

Gonna start off by saying that i adored Joaquin Phoenix's performance here. His acting is fantastic and the way he controls his body in such a specific and creepy fashion is just unbelievable. He CARRIES this movie, and gives Ledger a legitimate run for his money. I wish I took more specific notes during the film, so I'll keep this short and sweet. The plot is pretty solid, the acting is Oscar worthy and the directing is pretty damn good. The way Phillips directs makes us feel like we are in a Gotham city where crime goes mainly unnoticed. So he does a good job there and in a lot of other aspects as well, but it just borrowed a bit too much from Dark Knight. If Phillips didn't have Nolan's trilogy to work off of, he would've been completely screwed. While Joaquin's performance was absolutely amazing and worth the ticket price alone, he's not the same smart joker that we are used to seeing. A lot of his plan just seems to come to him last moment, he is very short sighted and almost lucky, where as the DK's Joker is always one step ahead. There were no schemes and no tactical genius. Ledger benefited significantly from having Nolan as his writer and director; Phoenix clearly didn't have the same circumstance. While his performance is amazing, Joker just doesn't have the same intelligence that the Dark Knight's Joker has. All of it just seems to kind of fall into his lap and Phillips gives us this weird anti hero dichotomy. Great movie, but without Joaquin it could have been much, much worse..

OK, so I am going to start this review by saying I've been sitting out on the walking dead this season, even though I was a huge fan of the early seasons, it just seemed to lose its stride. So I know this was Negan's first episode, and I know what happens in the comics, also I heard the actors hyping this episode up, so I thought I would check it out, and god was I disappointed. First off, the pacing of the episode was awful, jumping around between Morgan and "oop another roadblock" was just lame, I never felt any anxiety for any of the characters during any of those moments. Now let's talk about that last scene, the entire reason I tuned into this finale. So in the first couple seconds of the opening shot after commercial breaks we saw a dark room, only lit by cracks in the door, and after it was revealed who was in there and why, it was no shock whatsoever, I feel like they did this throughout the whole episode to build up to that last moment, but since it fell so flat I just found this pretty pointless. But to my main point of wanting to write this review, why did they have to end it with a cliffhanger? They led the whole episode up to this "who's going to die" problem, we all knew it was coming, but then they cut to a black screen and don't even reveal it?? Screw you walking dead! AMC sell outs, just wanting us to tune back in the fall to see who died! You guys had a chance at your "Red Wedding", a true shocking moment that would maybe bring back old fans like myself, but no!! Dumb how there was all this build up for absolutely nothing. The episode itself doesn't deserve a 1/10, maybe a 6 or 7, but because of that AWFUL unnecessary ending, in good conscious, I can not give this episode anything hire then a 1.

The first couple minutes of this episode already start off purely terrifying and genius, we finally get a glimpse of the horror that Zoom can bring to Earth 2. With Wells on the run at the beginning, we get to experience the anxiety right with him and Cisco. It makes the episode a much better experience when a villain can captivate the screen like Zoom can, from the first few minutes we realized this episode was going to be a crazy one and it was great, but not quite perfect.

When Barry is trapped in Zoom's lair, even though he is the flash is it tough to imagine him being able to get out on his own. That says something in itself, and whenever Zoom returns the feeling of escape slips right away again. That guy with the mask who was trying to help them out gave me a really ominous vibe, an almost concerning amount, but it was an extremely nice touch to add to the frightening essence of Zoom. (Btw, I think it's gotta be Diggle's brother from Earth 2 under that mask, well maybe not, but I don't have time to go into that now) All hope seemed lost at a certain point, which is what made this episode shine. It was an intense race against time, and rarely fell flat for me in the episode.

OK, so let me just start by saying I didn't grow up on Star Wars like my parents did, actually the first one I saw was revenge of the sith, and I really enjoyed that one. The force awakens was an OK movie, and it was just that, average. I have seen a ton of reviews on here rating it one star and "worse then the prequels" and yes, while this can be up for debate, I disagree and want to set the record straight.

First off, let's talk about what I liked about this movie. I think they perfectly captured the nostalgic feel from the originals all while starting a new adventure for our generation to enjoy. Daisy Ridley perfectly plays Rey, who was easily the best character and almost single handily carries the film herself. While a lot of people gripe about her easy pick up of the force, I bought it because she seemed like a character who from the beginning had it all figured out. Sure some parts were a stretch, (like when she uses the force to free her from being held by the first order) but I could easily see her obtaining the force early on, so I won't complain about that. The action scenes were sweet and I definitely was never bored in the film, so thats good.

Now time to talk about the things I didn't like, and this list is longer then I would like it to be. Fin and Poe acted like best friends when they saw each other for the 2nd time, when in reality they barely know each other at all. This was a forced relationship in my opinion, I would've liked it better if Finn had to prove himself for the rest of the trilogy seeming that he was a storm trooper, but oh well. From the second Han Solo came on screen, I just got the feeling he was going to die, maybe the force warned me, but I just think they made that one way too obvious, and when it finally happened, it wasn't shocking at all really, I felt bad for Chewie more then I did Han dying. Kylo Ren, one of my biggest concerns of this movie. Listen I get it, following up a villain like Darth Vader is near impossible, but at first glance you think their trying to do just that, but then we realize that this sith is just a scared boy, which I am OK with I guess, but have it one way or the other Abrams. I was hoping he was going to die so we could usher in a more terrifying sith but I guess I'll give this dude a chance. I didn't think the sith was nearly as threatening as they were in the last movies and I hope they bring that fear back in the next two installments.

Also, this movie felt just like a new hope, which I'm sure comparisons are flooding the internet, but this is honestly my main problem with this movie. It was safe and took no risks, and while that's not a bad move per say, it left me wanting more from the movie. All the elements in this movie weren't thought of on their own, I just wanted to see the writers come up with something new to blow us all away, even if it utterly fails(like the prequels) then at least we can give you some props for trying. The plot stretched too far one too many times, and the force is starting to be used as a way out of tight corners, and I wasn't a fan of that.

While I was never bored in the movie, there was never one distinct moment where this movie sets itself apart from the original trilogy. My main disappointment is they have a whole galaxy to work with, and they barely visit other planets and can't think of any new material for the movie. I liked that the death star was the entire planet this time, but it would've been nice for it have to survived instead of being destroyed the exact same way. Hopefully the 8th movie will have a totally original storyline, more lightsaber battles, less illogical inconsistencies, and believable character attachments so that everyone can love this series again.

+Rey, that actress is my new crush, in my opinion she saved the movie.

+Han solo and Chewie, those two were just awesome

+Space scenes, i was always bored by space scenes in the originals, but not this time.

+I like how the light side has a pull too, we've never seen that up to this point.

+Poe in that one scene, he took out so many of them, that was sick.

-Kylo, I hated him, he wasn't scary, and his character was confusing and made little to no sense.

-Not enough light saber battling, like at all.

-Finn and Poe, even though Poe was sick when he was in it, I didn't like how forced their relationship was.

-Plasma was in like 2 scenes. Lame. Especially when that dumb teenager took all the sith scenes.

-Plot holes, the force seemed like a cop out, too much in common with the originals, and not enough originality to separate itself.

OK so fist off the creators of this show originally intended Arrow to end after the third season, I really enjoy the wrap up to be honest. It left us(semi) happy of where Oliver is off too. The whole season I was scratching my head on how he was going to get out of being the Heir and avoid the revenge of Ra's, but they found a great twist with Malcolm at the end and actually gave his character relevance. As far as the whole season went it was weaker then previous ones because of two reasons: Lack of a good villain and weak backstory. In season 2 slade was perfect for too many reasons, Ra's never really matched that intensity. But back to this episode, which in whole wasn't all that bad. It just seemed rushed is all, and in a season finale that is the last thing you want. I found myself making too many acceptances of plot just because I am a fan of a show, ironically something I am not a fan of doing. I am curious to see how they bring Oliver back to Starling since obviously his friends believe he is becoming Ra's and have no idea that he and Felicity rode off together. It was a bit of a happy ending, but it is good to see it all work out for them.

Overall this season had its ups and downs, but is still a show that I will be looking forward to watching. For next season, come up with a better villain then Damian Dahrk, I already don't like the feeling of this villain, maybe a nice backstory from the island would be nice. My personal request would be Oliver is gone for a while and they have to deal with HIVE for a bit then BOOM, the joker and harley quinn make an appearance. I mean c'mon, how crazy would that be. Maybe some more island backstory on the two of them, but they need a villain with more presence in the show, Ra's intentions seemed far fetched and slightly forced.

Either way sadly it was the worst season yet, but hopefully the writers can learn from their mistakes and make season 4 a perfect combination of what they did right from all 3 seasons. If they ditch the backstory as a whole I will be disappointed because it is what puts arrow in its own category from the flash. And oh yea Ray at the end... I mean I know he's gonna survive but Jesus... Good luck Ray.

This weeks episode brought a lot to the table, mainly because I was curious to how exactly they were going to pull this off. I've got to say they did a pretty great job at it, at the beginning the only complaint I have is that they could've shown Oliver training with Ra's a bit more so we as the audience could really feel the effects that Oliver is gone and Al Sah-him was born. I'm not fully convinced that 3 weeks was enough time for a complete loss of his soul. Either way it was cool to see the fight, even though those fake "gotcha" deaths in arrow can get a bit stale and seems what they seem to be balancing on a lot this season.

This episode also takes a huge risk by it transforms the whole series, even though I think it will go back by the end of the season. I can't even imagine how they are going to come back from this, but it is a gutsy call that i can respect, and until they honestly screw it up I will give them the benefit of the doubt.

I enjoy how the stakes feel extremely high in this episode, a theme that was extremely prevalent for the last part of season 2. This season has had a tough time recovering that exact theme and it is good to see that they finally stepped this season up in terms of excitement. And those fight scenes were really well done, easily the best all season it all just flowed so naturally. I'm excited to see how this season is going to play out and have high hopes for these last few episodes.

Overall, one of the more intense episodes of the season. Fights were intense and actually believable, good to see the city is doing OK without Oliver and Roy(how actually?) but it seems like they have a handle on the city and adding Ray to the whole mix can only make it more exciting.I hope they continue to correctly transform Oliver, just a few more scenes here and there with him seemingly becoming a villain, because that is something the audience will take a bit to be convinced on.

So I have been a fan of arrow for a while now, and we can all agree that it has fantastic, and it didn't quite start that way. It has easily set itself apart from any other show out there for now. Anyways, when you combine an already perfected show(with developed team and they seem like they got it all down) with a total new team like the Flash offers, it turns out to be the perfect combination. This episode really takes a look at if Barry has what it takes to be a hero, he is still learning a good amount on a daily basis and Oliver begins to train him on the side and whip him into shape. Like i mentioned earlier with Arrow building up to what it is at now, slowly taking its time to amplify the storyline at any means and doing it with flying colors, and you combine that with the "new kids on the block" ordeal the Flash has, and the entire episode just molded together to be the strongest episode of the Flash so far. It is good that they still have mysteries behind the flash team and that it all isn't solved yet, it makes it eerie as the viewer to know everything isn't always perfect at home, which gladly in its own way Arrow doesn't need but it makes this show a bit more interesting.

All in all it was a great episode in the season and will be tough to be beat, I think we are all going to stick around for a bit more. Some comments I had about the episode: It was cool that Oliver was training Barry, I think they should at least mention that he is still keeping that up on the side. Barry needs to learn and even though he has a lot of strong figures surrounding him(kind of), Oliver can teach him the most valuable things that he needs to learn in this life before it hits him off guard and he is unprepared for it all to unfold. I also thought it was cool how we originally thought that Barry wasn't going to be effected by the brain clearing rage, then when it started to creep up on him it truly blew up in his face and will definitely have a ton of backlash in the later episodes of the season. The crossover was some great timing since Barry needed some bigtime help, and now he has even more on his plate so Oliver's intervening couldn't have gone any better.

Either way it was always nice to know the Arrow is watching over Barry and had his back the whole episode, I would've just liked to see them work as a team a bit more, but who doesn't like a good hero fight especially when they explain themselves well.That fight was the highlight of the episode, I honestly was guessing in my seat during the whole fight who was going to get that last strike in, and when Oliver triumphed with technique at the end I was satisfied with the fight and ready for it to end. like i stated before in my opinion Oliver had it handled, Joe and the lying DR just showed up at a nice timing. So, no, I don't think that fight was a tie, Oliver had the advantage there at the end, the Arrow just inched it out and I wish Diggle would've spoken up to Cisco, I like the new group but they need to understand they are not as safe and stable as they think they are and who better to tell them then Diggle? Ah well, next time, but for now it was an extremely entertaining episode with just the right amount of emotional tugs to leave you wanting more. I think the writers know damn well what they are doing here.

OK so going into this the episode it focused a lot on Felicity, which I didn't really agree with because as much as I liked the character(and actress) I didn't think there would be enough storyline to fill, but god was I wrong. This episode proved that even if it is not Oliver's back story it can still be proved to be an interesting plot and actually add to the story. Great writing definitely towards the last part, and that last scene. Man in my opinion Arrow is doing everything consistently right so far, they have just the right amount of twists. And for anyone who didn't enjoy this episode as much, have some fun it was a different side to our story that can add so much more to the overall plot.

Just wow.. what a finale. This season was a bit slow at times yes, but closes out basically perfect. I promise you a tear jerking finale throughout the whole episode and not just at the end, thats when you know it is a great finale. There's not any specific moments since I must keep this spoiler free, but everything wraps up together too nicely and leaves a perfect start for season 2. The season definitely had its yawning moments but boy was this finale worth it. How this show separates itself is that it brings you to the core of each character so by this time when it all kicks in you really feel each moment of pain and grief. There will multiple times when I had to almost pause the episode because the emotion and what just happened was too much. Fair warning if you're extremely stressed do not watch this episode, it will just want to make you explode and the last finale to do that to me was Dexter season 2, actually no matter what you must watch this, so buckle up its one hell of a ride.

So I saw a good amount of commercials from this show and right from the get go it grabbed my attention. I don't know what it was about it but I just wanted to check the show out, so when I saw some early reviews of the show and people didn't seem like they were enjoying it that much and after watching The Pilot I'm finding myself asking why and was curious to why others didn't enjoy it as much as i did. I thought the multiple perspectives storytelling was very interesting and kept me glued to my seat to see how they all connect. I'm sure what the writers were trying to get across was the suspense on what happened that day, hell I want to know just as bad as the characters in the show. I found myself more interested in the struggles of what happened to everyone on Oct.14 and the weird visions that they are getting intrigues me even more. Overall I thought it was a good start to a TV show that I feel like has a lot of potential, and I can't wait to see what they do next.. Lets just hope they don't screw it up.