I think some character development for Christine wouldn’t have been amiss either.

Yeah, Hippolyta intro felt really rushed. She goes from 0 to 100 with “I’m back, oh and I was also with aliens and in Earth XXXX” with none of the characters having much of a reaction to it and just along. I get that they’re used to magic at this point but that’s different from “I was all over the multiverse for…

I think the episode started poorly, Hyps intro back felt really weird and rushed. She should have just popped back at the end of last episode. But once they are in Tulsa I think Montroses scenes worked really well. I also was bothered by Leti’s slow walk however.

Agreed

Couldn’t agree with you more.

Yeah, I think you’re right. That’s the moment most of the family was lost, and the book was as well (though not destroyed). They knew that was a moment where the book would 100% be there. It’s a terrible and necessary point of reference.

In-story reasoning: I assume they have to get as close the point the book is to have burned up as possible. As far as our team knew, every minute it’s gone is a minute that someone could have discovered it was missing and kicked off a new decision tree.

Reality: Yeah, they wanted to show the riots. But damn, Dreamland…

Leti has the invulnerability spell, Tic got a protection spell....not the same thing. the protection spell is what stopped the racist cops from coming through the door because they had the magic. and also jives with the monster (as a protector) appearing at the end and wiping out the cops.

I think Christina gave him a spell for protection, and gave invulnerability to Leti (via the mark of Cain).

I peeped the Hippolyta/Diana connection (guessing you mean the Wonder Woman homage) from Day 1 being a huge comicbook nerd. I don’t know who would have been a better blood match, but Montrose was worried about it and flat out said “My Blood might not work.”

Whether Montrose’s brother George is Tic’s father is irrelevant, as he would still be Dee’s blood uncle. Sure, a (possible) half-brother might be better, but so would her mother popping home earlier to help out.

Hasn’t the invulnerability spell already been revealed as “somewhat off”? When the police fired at him, the woods monster/creature erupted from the street. killing almost all of them, when we thought that Tic would be invulnerable, Superman style.

I don’t know. This review seems sort of off to me, kind of like were we even watching the same episode.

They had to go back to the place of the photo that Montrose had, which put them at the hotel that Montrose’s father saved up for them to stay at once a year. I’m tempted to say that it’s also the time of the photo, but that wouldn’t make sense, because how would they have time get it developed with the massacre? 

I’m guessing the show runner/writer wanted to show the horror of the massacre. At least 300 died and 8,000 were left homeless. Not messing with the timeline had something to do with it, but no direct reason why it had to be the day it started. 

This episode was powerful and moving. Much like the entire show. Montrose in 1921 was equally moving and fucking traumatic. Is it perfect? No. But what the hell is? I am grateful we get to see something like this on TV.  

I’m still waiting for the spell Montrose put on Tic to backfire in some way. His mention of having dyslexia right before reading the incantation has to pay off, right?

And I thought Hippolyta’s blue hair was a nod to the blue-haired heroine of her daughter’s comic.

While, yes, it’s also pretty closely following the book (with some very liberal changes at some point), and the book does the exact thing and then tries to neatly tie it all together. If they go the keep-it-going-forever route, I’m guessing that they’re going to finish up with Christina next and do a lodge-by-lodge a…

I’m not particularly expecting a “dramatic final chapter”, but more of a caesura. The show has pretty doggedly switch genres with every episode, which to me reads as a show that intends to stick it out for the long haul: each week something different. An anthology series that is allowed to reuse sets, basically.

I read that a newly cartoonized “lost” Troughton serial is going to be broadcast soon, anyone know when that is going to be?