My favourite episodes of Xena were the ones involving doppelgangers. Both for the screwball comedy that inevitably occurred from crazy mix-em-ups, and for seeing the opportunity for the actors to play completely different characters.

I liked Xena from the start, but completely missed the lesbian subtext until I watched The Quest. What can I say; I was dense in my younger days! That led me to the internet, which led me to the Wooosh! website, which had really interesting, involved discussions about aspects of the show (including the subtext) and it …

What is great is Lucy Lawless has turned out not to be a terrible human being so it doesn’t make the show hard to enjoy, unlike Hercules and Kevin Sorbo.

I’d heard about the show for a couple years but was never that interested in it. Finally I noticed an episode was on and randomly decided to give it a shot...and that episode was The Quest. After getting past the weirdness of Xena being dead (remember that TV shows back then were just starting to grow into their…

Err, yeah, I mean you can definitely draw new comparisons as AKIRA being about the future of the world but the film is absolutely not shy about its pretext being the bombing of Hiroshima/Nagasaki, the American Occupation (and the Japanese government’s collusion in keeping secret any wrongdoings), and the failure of…

didnt know this was directed by Prince-Bythewood, this went from a we will see to im def watching this friday. 

A lot of his superhero work suffers from weak endings with unresolved threads, usually as a result of being cut short by events out of his control, but I think most of it remains great.

Having read Powers as well, I disagree. The Old Guard is suffused with a melancholy you can miss if you buzz through it. My favorite bit is the flashback to how Booker ended things with his family. It’s not really an action story so much as a meditation on what it’s worth to live forever. Power, by comparison, has…

Lazarus is so, so good. I think in a fair world, it would be as popular and well known as Saga.

Lazarus rules. The introduction of the Zmey (and his subsequent backstory) is just phenomenal storytelling.

Queen and Country is amazing (even if it is a Sandbaggers pastiche/rip-off). Started off as comics and he wrote a couple of novels as well.

Right? At this point a 2020 space octopus would be a welcome presence.

I would hope Daisy’s torture trauma is at least handled with more class than the last time they went to that well.

This was a really good episode because it had real stakes, and consequences that I can’t imagine will be easy to ‘fix’ (ie. Daisy’s torture*, and Mack’s parents - I also just realised this was especially terrible as MAC HATES ROBOTS! Is this why?!).

I’d like to see them try with Daisy’s.

Well, if Eva Green played the Marvel Death we would all

Agent Mackelmore

Good reference, except for the fact there actually ARE flying cars.

Deke has evolved, at least. He’s no longer insufferable. The show dropped shipping Daisy and Deke (knock wood) and now ... I’d be ok, I guess, with a Daisy & Souza relationship ... I think, though, I’m more into just tight coworker & team respect. Daisy doesn’t need a love interest, esp after seeing what all the other…

This was a strong reminder that while AoS can do goofy with the best of them, its real strength is putting its characters through a chipper shredder. Yikes. That being said, the episode also kept up the pastiche theme of the season by have a definite 70's paranoid thriller vibe throughout.