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26 Reply by xrnzaaas 2014-08-04 14:48:12 (edited by xrnzaaas 2014-08-04 14:49:32)
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Episode 4 was the weakest one yet. Orlando's predictions are coming true because except for the ending the autopsy scene was the only one I truly enjoyed. The story is sloooowing down, the CDC folks are going full retard, other characters are also behaving inconsistently (last scene with the religious lady) and there's even more filler moments (what's the point of Gus's scenes?).
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Also, I facepalmed so hard when ▼Spoiler the CDC lady started crying over killing the girl and her father, what the fuck woman, were you raised in a washing machine you dumbfuck
30 Reply by xrnzaaas 2014-08-09 10:49:02 (edited by xrnzaaas 2014-08-09 11:32:44)
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Bought the first book and waiting for delivery. Maybe it'll be better. ;p PS. Renewed
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So xarny, what's the verdict? Are we dropping this?
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Heh, a pattern is building. Interesting things happen in the last 5-10 minutes and all the cliffhangers leave you thinking that more exciting things will happen next week. I'm curious if the is working with the bad guys or is he actually so stupid. Anyway talk about the good guys not being able to catch a break. The fifth episode was a little better, but it's still going a lot too slow. Plus they didn't give up on the filler segments. The WWII stuff was pretty much explained during the conversation between Eichorst and Setrakian so I don't know why they've added it. And two more things... ▼Spoiler So the religious lady first sends a neighbor for sure death and then she hangs herself? Isn't that like committing two major sins? And Joan went running in broad daylight?
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About your last question: ▼Spoiler I think that there are two types of vampires, the first kind is a lowlife, ghoul version (they changed very quickly), and the second kind a highborn, master vampire type (they change gradually). Or she's just not at the stage where sunlight affects them. So, I actually enjoyed this episode for whatever reason. It looks like the disease is finally spreading outside, which is good. Yes, there are still fillers, but at least they weren't THAT boring like Gus in the last few eps. Lets hope this will all pay off.
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Guillermo del Toro: It goes even further. I mean it goes back to Polidori. Polidori when he invented basically in the English language when he created the vampire as we know it, which was Lord Ruthven and the story of "The Vampyre," he was in love, basically a platonic love perhaps but he was basically in love with Lord Byron to whom he was a friend and a physician. At the same time he hated Lord Byron because he was subservient to him. And that love-hate relationship with the vampire, which is a Byronian figure, is at the inception of that. In terms of the story of Polidori, the vampire is presented as an unholy beast or an incredibly magnetic attractive gentleman. So that duality exists in the myth of a vampire. Dracula in Stoker is a crawling horror literally, that crawls the walls of the castle and is basically a reanimated corpse, or he's an incredibly attractive man arriving to England. It is that dichotomy that feeds the myth. Me, I've never been attracted to tell stories about romantic vampires. I haven't. I like the sort of addiction aspect of vampirism, as I did in "Cronos" or on "Blade." And I love the idea of the parasitic vampire that is more close to the traditional Eastern European myth of the reanimated – a corpse that is reanimated by a different will then his own. And there are two types of vampires on "The Strain" -- The ones that the master allowed to have a little bit of their will like Eichhorst and the ones that he completely controls like the rest of the savage strigoi.
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36 Reply by xrnzaaas 2014-08-18 09:55:09 (edited by xrnzaaas 2014-08-18 09:57:39)
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The Ultimate Challenge - keep watching the show because of a great premise despite the fact that week and week it doesn't deliver what you expected. Sixth episode was the weakest one yet. Not much has happened even with the eclipse, plenty of boring filler scenes and characters acting irrational again...
▼Spoiler So the pest control guy instead of informing his bosses and/or the authorities draws pictures in a bar? It's not like he's only seen a shadow for a split second. Same with Nora... doesn't do ANYTHING even though she didn't have to hide like Ephraim at the time. And Kent first apologies blablabla I didn't want to do it blablabla and then does it again? Plus obvious "leave town - no we won't" and "we're the FBI, we're morons" cliches.
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-_-" Fuck it, I'm leaving it for the rest of the season. If it gets better (doubtfully), I'll binge it.
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Yeah it's a huge disappointment and I'm really mad about this show, because the story seemed great and pilot was great. I also didn't mention that this episode had one thing I hate about tv shows and that's coincidences... ▼Spoiler what are the chances that F ang Gus encounter the same infected person during the same event (eclipse) and that out of all the infected it's Dr. Bennett?
39 Reply by xrnzaaas 2014-08-25 17:59:02 (edited by xrnzaaas 2014-08-25 19:28:32)
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So the ending was the only surprising* thing in the new episode. The rest was again a bunch of sloooow progress and fillers, even though we've learned that ▼Spoiler Eichorst was still a human in the WWII flashbacks * by surprising I didn't mean super eventful and/or groundbreaking... just something I would NEVER thought could happen
40 Reply by xrnzaaas 2014-09-01 17:51:15 (edited by xrnzaaas 2014-09-01 17:51:44)
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The eighth episode had plenty of action, but I'm still not sold. It's all happening on a small scale, not on a city-wide scale. And there was a bunch of lazy writing again... ▼Spoiler how the hell did they manage to come across the hacker girl (aka the only person responsible for the "blackout"?
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Must be spreading like wildfire now, hopefully next few episodes will give us the scale of it - but last one was a decent episode!
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This cap pretty much sums up the new episode (no major spoilers):
It's still slow and with many fillers. On the plus side the flashback scenes were the best ones yet, especially since was revealed.
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Soooo still not worth it?
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Yep. Usually I would drop the show by now but since I like the premise so much I'll wait until the season finale and then decide.
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The tenth episode was only slightly better. I liked how they showed transformation and how the Master can communicate with his "flock". Back in present times basically nothing happened... they're still thinking and planning instead of doing something.
46 Reply by Keisu 2014-09-15 18:48:01 (edited by Keisu 2014-09-15 18:49:00)
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I think The Strain has a cool take on vampires, but it suffers from stupidity in characters. Also, it is ridiculous information spread would be this slow just because modern means of communications is down.
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I agree with xrnzaaas about thinking and planning. I feel like each episode the old guy wants to do something and then someone has to deal with their personal issues and the episode is about those. Also what happened to those cool
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the books were kinda slow paced too. i do like that they seem to be keeping the story the same. The 'commandos' will be back. i assume to tell who the master really is
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best show on...
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50 Reply by xrnzaaas 2014-09-18 17:06:09 (edited by xrnzaaas 2014-09-18 17:15:16)
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Just finished reading the first book of the trilogy... the most disappointing thing about it was the lack of and the constant 9/11 references were also quite annoying. The rest was much better than what I've seen on the show so far. I didn't really notice that the book wasn't as fast paced as I hoped it would be. Maybe the beginning was a little slow (before they entered the plane), but the rest was fine. I enjoyed the semi-filler chapters, like the one about the symbolic meaning of the occultation (eclipse). AND I also liked that there wasn't so much of Eph's family drama, Nora's whining and that characters weren't constantly going full retard. Can't wait for the delivery of two other books.
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