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The Umbrella Academy: Oblivion (2022)
Very bad last episode
The first and second season were very good in some ways, felt like a breath of fresh air. But the whole of the 3 season was very bad and not only that the ending was of an abysmal quality . . . But it is also left a very bitter taste when you realize that the supreme evil had won and the so called good guys have managed to put the equivalent of the Devil in God's seat and in doing that have transformed the entire universe in a kind of hell.
Season 3, and in the last episode no less, is explaining in a very short way how the universe is a simulation. The big AHA of the show is very mishandled and remains in the background as a silly documentary that the dead Klaus and Luther happen to watch when they wake up dead.
The whole moment feels unreal of how badly handled and forced is.
At the beginning of E10S1 we are shown not only how Reginald is a being that originated in a far away or so called a long ago place, of how he is about to leave a dying world and also how he is freeing in the wild from a glass jar no less the energy that is going to create the supernatural children in our world.
Strangely he seems to be a human. Is it a different time-line? Is another world or the far future?
The red herring suggested by the rocket launches in the background is absurd.
Then in S2E9 we are shown that no, Reginald is actually not a human being, he is an alien. But also, along the season 2 we are shown how Reginald is having no idea about any supernatural children who are yet to be born. On a sarcastic note: the autopsy of Reginald from the season 1 must have been outright spectacular.
Then along comes season 3 that is making a point that the Kugelblitz is destroying the entire universe. That the portal on Earth is leading to a place where is existing something that can save the entire universe.
In S3E09 Reginald is boasting to Number 5 that he had seen countless worlds being destroyed in ways that Number 5 could not even imagine. And by the way . . . The first time is the hardest.
A big boast to make when you literally watch from the edge of a rock floating in void, how all of the universe is being eaten away by a super magical blackhole. For all that we know that Kugelblitz is God itself throwing a rage tantrum.
And how, in all the immensity of the universe the being that name itself Reginald had found the one little blue ball where the portal to the key of the universe is located?
The whole thing can mean only that when Reginald is boasting about seeing other worlds destroyed, he is meaning other universes.
He had escaped from one iteration of the universe to the next so many times and went so far that now he is in a dimension/timeline so different from his that he seems to be an alien being. An alien masquerading as a human in the style of the ones from MIB.
And all those words of the original sin are particularly intriguing.
The greatest wonder is how Reginald with the frozen corpse of his wife, somehow, have crossed from one dying universe to the next. Interesting how this little rock floating in the void, formerly part of some town is having still atmosphere, how still exists given the proximity to the black hole.
The earlier episodes from the season 3 are giving clues how fundamentally, everything is the equivalent of not being real and any attempt to make a sense or remain sane is to focus only on the things that are outside of the time itself. Meaning the time-travelers.
At the end, the S3E10 is outrightly throwing in your face the little detail that whoever gets to push the buttons of the master console is the one that is deciding what is possible or not possible. Everything is controlled from there, the universe/simulation can be reshaped in whatever form the user wants.
In a previous episode the guardians were backhandedly explained and only at the end you get it: they are placed to prevent the wrong one to sit in the command chair.
And Reginald is exactly the wrong one. Over 3 seasons we are shown what a bad being he is. But he gets to sits in the command chair and does exactly what he should never have been allowed to do: he is rewriting the universe itself.
By the time Allison kills him in order to prevent him from killing her siblings. Daddy dearest had managed to enter all the parameters of the new simulation.
But his death is meaningless, because Allison is getting the absolute grandest pearl of wisdom. She is not even thinking that after she had seen the full scope of "Reginald's" treachery, even after she herself was forced to kill him. Even when she is having no idea what that creature had done at the console. She is not even contemplating that she and the rest of the family could have literally the eternity to figure it out.
Again and again across the series the watcher was told that after the world ends something new will come. Do not save the world.
If our grandest hero, would not have been hasty, if she would have taken the time to think it out. Once they would have understood the controls, our heroes could literally input in the computer whatever parameters for the simulated universe that they want. They could create whatever they would perceive as heaven.
Nope . . . We were lucky that Allison is wiser than that and saved us from seeing such atrocity. She pushes the red button.
This is on the level of those cartoons that I was watching as a child, where the absolute silliest character is pushing a red button to see what it does and in the next scene the nukes are taking off or the world blows up.
Allisson had in her monumental stupidity, activated the programing done by Reginald.
On a sidenote I wonder how Reginald knew how to operate the master console.
The simulation of the universe is not merely been reset, because it was never possible. The universe is being rewritten! In a new dark shape.
The heroes should have asked themselves and calculate the logic: if the universe is reset and made right once more . . . Then which version of it will be chosen to exist? And which version will be discarded?
If the one in which the Umbrella academy is existing then the Sparrows will have never existed. And the other way around. And what about the universe from which Reginald is originating?
And the very end, the episode is showing a very changed universe, Reginald is shown to be like some overlord of it all. Owner of everything, emperor and God. Of course he had brought back to life his wife or whatever she is. Maybe she is the true mastermind?
Can you even imagine how an universe ruled by something like Reginald would look? The guy treated everyone like garbage and sacrificed everyone he felt like. He was incapable to take care in a proper way of 7 children. Him ruling the universe . . . That would make Dante's Inferno to seem like paradise.
The heroes are striped of their power and Allison in a very impossible situation that could be explained only if she is dead or if the devil chose to honor his part of the deal and created for her alone her the ideal heaven in some corner of the world. Right . . . After she had stabbed him in the back.
I think that the highest probability is that Allison is dead, how else she is getting out of a taxi when everyone else is leaving the hotel through a door? What is too god to be true it is usually not.
Sloane is not existing anymore, because she was a Sparrow and the version of a universe with Umbrellas is chosen. Sloane never existed in the first place.
Ben keeps on existing because he was once an Umbrella in an alternate timeline.
Of course, Luther is so crazed with pain that he is leaving on a impossible quest.
Interesting is that through the door of the hotel are exiting 7 individuals, like the amount of children that Reginald had bought initially. Allison is no more and her place was taken by Lilla.
The story of the entire show is very confusing because in the mix are thrown things that are absolutely impossible, even when respecting the rules of the world of the show. The rules are never defined clearly, are changed on the fly to enable the plot. And a few mechanisms of deus ex machina are placed in the story to make up for impossible situations created by bad writing
Nobody in the show even get's it that the fundamental quilt for the end of the world is belonging to Reginald Hargreeves. He is not only the villain but also extraordinary stupid. A smart being would have realized his communication and approach problem. And following logic he would have hired somebody to teach him how to communicate, interact with and manipulate people.
When you think about it, in his long life on Earth he is managing to mess up and traumatize 7 children, he manage to mold them in extremely badly developed adults. Because of his management every one of the 6 surviving children is becoming a bomb, and each of the 6 adults is busy trying to lit the other's fuse and make the others one detonate.
It was never any question if one of them was going to destroy the world, the single question was which one of them and in which particular way.
Vanya is unfortunately the tragic figure of the show. She was simply the bomb that had detonated first.
How brilliant would have been if instead, at the end of it all Vanya would have told the others to shove it and watch themselves in the mirror. That because they have been bad to her, to the people she cared about and the world itself proved to be unworthy . . . She will do nothing to save it.
How beautifully poetical would have been if the show's last image would have been of Vanya eating popcorn and watching the last of the universe burning away.
But no use to lie to ourselves, this series is not having any of the genius of the movie "In the Mouth of Madness" and is not inspired by H. P. Lovecraft.
The absolute problem of the series is that the plot is driven forward entirely because of stupidity. The protagonists do very stupid things, fall in every trap and are acting in a very wrong way to eachother.
The Umbrella Academy (2019)
Extremely badly written ending
The first and second season were very good in some ways, felt like a breath of fresh air. But the whole of the 3 season was very bad and not only that the ending was of an abysmal quality . . . But it is also left a very bitter taste when you realize that the supreme evil had won and the so called good guys have managed to put the equivalent of the Devil in God's seat and in doing that have transformed the entire universe in a kind of hell.
Season 3, and in the last episode no less, is explaining in a very short way how the universe is a simulation. The big AHA of the show is very mishandled and remains in the background as a silly documentary that the dead Klaus and Luther happen to watch when they wake up dead.
The whole moment feels unreal of how badly handled and forced is.
At the beginning of E10S1 we are shown not only how Reginald is a being that originated in a far away or so called a long ago place, of how he is about to leave a dying world and also how he is freeing in the wild from a glass jar no less the energy that is going to create the supernatural children in our world.
Strangely he seems to be a human. Is it a different time-line? Is another world or the far future?
The red herring suggested by the rocket launches in the background is absurd.
Then in S2E9 we are shown that no, Reginald is actually not a human being, he is an alien. But also, along the season 2 we are shown how Reginald is having no idea about any supernatural children who are yet to be born. On a sarcastic note: the autopsy of Reginald from the season 1 must have been outright spectacular.
Then along comes season 3 that is making a point that the Kugelblitz is destroying the entire universe. That the portal on Earth is leading to a place where is existing something that can save the entire universe.
In S3E09 Reginald is boasting to Number 5 that he had seen countless worlds being destroyed in ways that Number 5 could not even imagine. And by the way . . . The first time is the hardest.
A big boast to make when you literally watch from the edge of a rock floating in void, how all of the universe is being eaten away by a super magical blackhole. For all that we know that Kugelblitz is God itself throwing a rage tantrum.
And how, in all the immensity of the universe the being that name itself Reginald had found the one little blue ball where the portal to the key of the universe is located?
The whole thing can mean only that when Reginald is boasting about seeing other worlds destroyed, he is meaning other universes.
He had escaped from one iteration of the universe to the next so many times and went so far that now he is in a dimension/timeline so different from his that he seems to be an alien being. An alien masquerading as a human in the style of the ones from MIB.
And all those words of the original sin are particularly intriguing.
The greatest wonder is how Reginald with the frozen corpse of his wife, somehow, have crossed from one dying universe to the next. Interesting how this little rock floating in the void, formerly part of some town is having still atmosphere, how still exists given the proximity to the black hole.
The earlier episodes from the season 3 are giving clues how fundamentally, everything is the equivalent of not being real and any attempt to make a sense or remain sane is to focus only on the things that are outside of the time itself. Meaning the time-travelers.
At the end, the S3E10 is outrightly throwing in your face the little detail that whoever gets to push the buttons of the master console is the one that is deciding what is possible or not possible. Everything is controlled from there, the universe/simulation can be reshaped in whatever form the user wants.
In a previous episode the guardians were backhandedly explained and only at the end you get it: they are placed to prevent the wrong one to sit in the command chair.
And Reginald is exactly the wrong one. Over 3 seasons we are shown what a bad being he is. But he gets to sits in the command chair and does exactly what he should never have been allowed to do: he is rewriting the universe itself.
By the time Allison kills him in order to prevent him from killing her siblings. Daddy dearest had managed to enter all the parameters of the new simulation.
But his death is meaningless, because Allison is getting the absolute grandest pearl of wisdom. She is not even thinking that after she had seen the full scope of "Reginald's" treachery, even after she herself was forced to kill him. Even when she is having no idea what that creature had done at the console. She is not even contemplating that she and the rest of the family could have literally the eternity to figure it out.
Again and again across the series the watcher was told that after the world ends something new will come. Do not save the world.
If our grandest hero, would not have been hasty, if she would have taken the time to think it out. Once they would have understood the controls, our heroes could literally input in the computer whatever parameters for the simulated universe that they want. They could create whatever they would perceive as heaven.
Nope . . . We were lucky that Allison is wiser than that and saved us from seeing such atrocity. She pushes the red button.
This is on the level of those cartoons that I was watching as a child, where the absolute silliest character is pushing a red button to see what it does and in the next scene the nukes are taking off or the world blows up.
Allisson had in her monumental stupidity, activated the programing done by Reginald.
On a sidenote I wonder how Reginald knew how to operate the master console.
The simulation of the universe is not merely been reset, because it was never possible. The universe is being rewritten! In a new dark shape.
The heroes should have asked themselves and calculate the logic: if the universe is reset and made right once more . . . Then which version of it will be chosen to exist? And which version will be discarded?
If the one in which the Umbrella academy is existing then the Sparrows will have never existed. And the other way around. And what about the universe from which Reginald is originating?
And the very end, the episode is showing a very changed universe, Reginald is shown to be like some overlord of it all. Owner of everything, emperor and God. Of course he had brought back to life his wife or whatever she is. Maybe she is the true mastermind?
Can you even imagine how an universe ruled by something like Reginald would look? The guy treated everyone like garbage and sacrificed everyone he felt like. He was incapable to take care in a proper way of 7 children. Him ruling the universe . . . That would make Dante's Inferno to seem like paradise.
The heroes are striped of their power and Allison in a very impossible situation that could be explained only if she is dead or if the devil chose to honor his part of the deal and created for her alone her the ideal heaven in some corner of the world. Right . . . After she had stabbed him in the back.
I think that the highest probability is that Allison is dead, how else she is getting out of a taxi when everyone else is leaving the hotel through a door? What is too god to be true it is usually not.
Sloane is not existing anymore, because she was a Sparrow and the version of a universe with Umbrellas is chosen. Sloane never existed in the first place.
Ben keeps on existing because he was once an Umbrella in an alternate timeline.
Of course, Luther is so crazed with pain that he is leaving on a impossible quest.
Interesting is that through the door of the hotel are exiting 7 individuals, like the amount of children that Reginald had bought initially. Allison is no more and her place was taken by Lilla.
The story of the entire show is very confusing because in the mix are thrown things that are absolutely impossible, even when respecting the rules of the world of the show. The rules are never defined clearly, are changed on the fly to enable the plot. And a few mechanisms of deus ex machina are placed in the story to make up for impossible situations created by bad writing
Nobody in the show even get's it that the fundamental quilt for the end of the world is belonging to Reginald Hargreeves. He is not only the villain but also extraordinary stupid. A smart being would have realized his communication and approach problem. And following logic he would have hired somebody to teach him how to communicate, interact with and manipulate people.
When you think about it, in his long life on Earth he is managing to mess up and traumatize 7 children, he manage to mold them in extremely badly developed adults. Because of his management every one of the 6 surviving children is becoming a bomb, and each of the 6 adults is busy trying to lit the other's fuse and make the others one detonate.
It was never any question if one of them was going to destroy the world, the single question was which one of them and in which particular way.
Vanya is unfortunately the tragic figure of the show. She was simply the bomb that had detonated first.
How brilliant would have been if instead, at the end of it all Vanya would have told the others to shove it and watch themselves in the mirror. That because they have been bad to her, to the people she cared about and the world itself proved to be unworthy . . . She will do nothing to save it.
How beautifully poetical would have been if the show's last image would have been of Vanya eating popcorn and watching the last of the universe burning away.
But no use to lie to ourselves, this series is not having any of the genius of the movie "In the Mouth of Madness" and is not inspired by H. P. Lovecraft.
The absolute problem of the series is that the plot is driven forward entirely because of stupidity. The protagonists do very stupid things, fall in every trap and are acting like very wrong way to eachother.
The Witcher: Redanian Intelligence (2021)
Atrocious
The show is departing more and more from the books and from the games alike. The story in itself, the events, the actions, personality and motivations of the characters not only that are different from the books but are outright absurd.
Vikings: The Best Laid Plans (2020)
Absurd episode.
Everything in this episode is outright absurd. The Rus invading Skandinavia is mind boggling to the least, having a giant army that would have made the mongolians in deep trouble and a navy to make the english even centuries later invidious.
As we the show had already throwed the history out of the window the Rus beside a huge army they have also technology that is on the verge of Sci Fi. If the padling ships did existed in China in some form at the time the sea going landing ships like that did not exist until the second world war.
Every credibility this show ever had is going out of the window when Ivar not only beeing a genious is suddenly also becoming a Superman of criples.
The tragedy is that if the original sagas are much more interesting and dramatic than this caricature of a TV show. If adapted accurately and well it could have been an amazing series.
Battlestar Galactica (2004)
Bad
This is a religious story with some unrealistic SciFi elements. Started interesting in the first episodes of the first season but very fast degenerated in 100% religious/philosophical garbage. In fact the show is even competing with the bible for the number of divine interventions and miracles. But you can be at peace from the start till the end: it is all GOD'S plan and Moses with the help of few Angel's and prophets is bringing the chosen to the promised land.
The 100: Spacewalker (2014)
Absurd episode.
The whole premise is absurd, you can't even suspend your disbelief.
Why you would ever defend a war criminal if the cost would be to loose more of your own people. Especialy this individual is not even having any special strategic or tactical importance.
Even if you would be victorious in the fight you would lose some of your men. Save 1 and spend 10 if you are victorious, or if you loose you get everybody killed some 200-300.
By the way: what kind of siege is this when you can sneak at will in and out of the besieged camp? That could be possible only if the grounders do not have enought numbers to mantain a proper siege at withch poin you have to ask: how could they ever defeat people armed with fire arms?
Star Trek: Discovery: New Eden (2019)
Deeply insulting episode
The situation of the episode is trully a horrible one. To make a parallel it is like in real life a ship is finding a bunch of people kidnapped and abandoned on an island. These people had devolved in a cult that rejects all science and downright are fanatical. As such the ship crew decides that they are not going to rescue the stranded people but they need to let them "develop" on their own. Instead they make a miracle in order to cause religious fanatism and set up the only guy who is still reasonable to become another Galileo.
Nightflyers (2018)
Exceptional from human point of view, but the science falls hard
From the point of view of how the human mind works the series is pure genius. If you are familiar with psychically sick people then you understand that the series is not exaggerating. Few can understand how badly anybody of us can get if the mind starts to malfunction.
Also the idea behind the series is a pure spark of genius in the way that alien trully means alien. How would any of us actually relate, understand and communicate with a fish. Actually we would be closer related to a fish than to an alien. The Dysney idea of even horses human like (or Star Trek) is not having any connection to reality. But where this series is brilliant is that it stays in the realm of possibility, it is not sliding to an abstract being like annihilation.
Now for the bad part: the science is bad and the pure logic also lacking.
I mean that the expedition is starting for the pure reasons to obtain superior technology to save mankind, but the ship has physics defying technologies that would have mind boggling implications and would make the expedition unnecessary.
The premise of the series is also like God himself could do anything whatsoever . . . but could not contact humankind, so humankind needs to contact God.
Also again . . . the science about how space actually is, how things work . . . it is absurd. If you want a more scientific realistic series you should trully try The Expanse. You know . . . the acceleration force is enough to kill a human being, nothing in space stops just because the thrusting force stops (actually it does not even slows down without another force to influence the mass) Etc. Etc. Etc.