Some good supernatural/evil stuff in this one to increase my interest a little, but still the show is just not working as I had hoped.
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Stuff Happens - Finally!
Gislef7 November 2020
Warning: Spoilers
Finally something happens. I don't expect every episode of a season to be jam-packed, even with a binge "drop all at once" show like 'Helstrom'. But it's been a bit of a slow burn. So slow that I've forgotten some of the plot threads. Didn't Daimon know that something other than Father was possessing Victoria? I've forgotten if he knew that or not, they've gone back and forth so much.
Ditto for the siblings' powers. Now Daimon can set people (or at least demon-possessed people) on fire. Is it hellfire, or regular fire, or what? I get why he doesn't use it on just anyone, for fear of burning up the host body. But it doesn't bother him burning up Spivey. But did Spivey burn up because of Damion, or because Ana jammed the skull into Father's mouth, or what?
And why do the siblings just sit there and watch the truck drive off at the end? Can't they use their telekinetic mojo on it to stop it? Maybe they're too tired from the battle with Spivey, but can't they at least say it?
There are some good parts. All of the scenes between Ana and Victoria are good acting. The siege of St. Theresa's is well done, although I'm not sure if Spivey & Co. locked the doors from the inside or the outside. How did they get in, if they locked the doors from the outside as we see when Daimon uses his telekinetic mojo to break the chains?
And I guess Spivey is gone as a threat. Not that it was ever clear what was going on with him, or what his power levels were, or how he busted the two patients out in episode 1. So Father is gone as well, since he was possessing Spivey. But he was never the big threat, but Kthara was. I think. Shouldn't they be telling us before episode 6?
So overall "Leviathan" (what does the title signify relevant to the episode?) had a lot of good scenes. They didn't seem to add up together into anything major, but they were all okay in and of themselves. As of this episode, the show just seems to be pulling itself together into a cohesive whole. I wish that episode 6 had been episode 3. Maybe it will all make sense in the last three episodes. But it seems like the shoe has finally dropped a bit too late in the series.
If the revelation that Victoria is possessed by Kthara rather than Father is a big revelation... it doesn't feel that way. Why would Father launch an attack on St. Theresa's to get Victoria and kill her, if he were possessing Victoria all along? The fact that Daimon hadn't figured it out makes him out to be a bit of a doofus. Who did he think was possessing Victoria in the years since he had his motyer locked up? Maybe he's not a doofus: the production staff seem to know all the rules of demonic possession, which means the characters know them. I wish they'd tell us, the viewers.
But that's just my opinion, I could be wrong. What do you think?
Ditto for the siblings' powers. Now Daimon can set people (or at least demon-possessed people) on fire. Is it hellfire, or regular fire, or what? I get why he doesn't use it on just anyone, for fear of burning up the host body. But it doesn't bother him burning up Spivey. But did Spivey burn up because of Damion, or because Ana jammed the skull into Father's mouth, or what?
And why do the siblings just sit there and watch the truck drive off at the end? Can't they use their telekinetic mojo on it to stop it? Maybe they're too tired from the battle with Spivey, but can't they at least say it?
There are some good parts. All of the scenes between Ana and Victoria are good acting. The siege of St. Theresa's is well done, although I'm not sure if Spivey & Co. locked the doors from the inside or the outside. How did they get in, if they locked the doors from the outside as we see when Daimon uses his telekinetic mojo to break the chains?
And I guess Spivey is gone as a threat. Not that it was ever clear what was going on with him, or what his power levels were, or how he busted the two patients out in episode 1. So Father is gone as well, since he was possessing Spivey. But he was never the big threat, but Kthara was. I think. Shouldn't they be telling us before episode 6?
So overall "Leviathan" (what does the title signify relevant to the episode?) had a lot of good scenes. They didn't seem to add up together into anything major, but they were all okay in and of themselves. As of this episode, the show just seems to be pulling itself together into a cohesive whole. I wish that episode 6 had been episode 3. Maybe it will all make sense in the last three episodes. But it seems like the shoe has finally dropped a bit too late in the series.
If the revelation that Victoria is possessed by Kthara rather than Father is a big revelation... it doesn't feel that way. Why would Father launch an attack on St. Theresa's to get Victoria and kill her, if he were possessing Victoria all along? The fact that Daimon hadn't figured it out makes him out to be a bit of a doofus. Who did he think was possessing Victoria in the years since he had his motyer locked up? Maybe he's not a doofus: the production staff seem to know all the rules of demonic possession, which means the characters know them. I wish they'd tell us, the viewers.
But that's just my opinion, I could be wrong. What do you think?
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