The Peripheral [Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller] (Chloë Grace Moretz) (Page 2 of 2)

...I thought Connor and Burton's fight choreography was quite weak; they both looked like out of shape actors flailing around, and it took me out of it unfortunately.  Re-watch the scene of them in the future in the black outfits.

The scenes back in the USA were all great. 5/5 stars.  You wouldn't want to kill Corbell (unpopular opinion coming) because at least you can track where all the evil is coming from if you keep him alive, if you kill him, they'll find someone less congenial and more evil, and you'll never know how to stop them.

The chat between Ash and Ossian was revealing of their distrust of Zubov (in fact, everyone's distrust of everyone in the future), but the chat between Zubov and Ash, and then Cherise and Inspector Ainsley, while being well portrayed and somewhat intriguing, were boring repetitive storytelling in that "Oh, I'm going to threaten you to get information out of you, and oh I'm going to leverage my power and authority to get what I want." Yawn.  You've written the hell out of this worn out plot device, move on writers.  Wake me up when it's over.

Overall, I thought it was one of the weaker episodes.

The episode names definitely stick with you though, really funny.

At 14:50, water can be seen at the retaining wall. At 15:00, the sun is visible at their right side, throwing shadows to the left.

At 21:00 (and only minutes later in the 1x8 story), long shadows can be seen in the opposite direction, and the retaining wall is dry.

With all this one tiny issue, let's assume they branched off 2032, she already connected to her peripheral in the future - so how long it will take Cherise Nuland to figure out that Inspector Lowbeer is not her friend and the cringe sniper shot was a complete bs? A minute? Plus in another cringe scene with the destruction of the clock, she herself told Nuland that there will be a new stub, just Nuland won't be able to control it, since Nuland will not be aware where/when it is. So, the premise really changed just in that aspect, Nuland won't be able to send more assassins (for a while).

And then there is a logic issue - ok, she is dead and gone, but the rest are not. For example, even the sniper boy still wants to run around in the future, now just from two stubs instead of one We should assume that they all there will forget about that tech, will go back to drinking a beer on a porch? Also these "hacker" guys etc. etc. It would make a lot more sense to jackpot that original stub, it would solve this.

...this is the very thing I love about playing Civilization and video games in general, is restarting, and trying another approach while knowing how things play out it might go better than the last play through.

My problem is technical, like, how the hell does the time dial work, and how does Connor killing Flynne still allow another Flynne to reappear in 2032? She would had to have created the new stubb sometime before Connor kills her, right?  Someone may have to break this down for me step by step, detail by detail, point by point, to get me to understand the mechanics of how that works.  I think it's just the word stubb that throws me that I don't like, I'll just call it a "Save As", as that makes way more sense.  So she created a Save As somewhere before she died, and then destroyed the clock that allows you to make more Save As' so Cherise can't find her....essentially.

You know how in TENET there's the scene where she explains to the protagonist all the inverted materials flowing backwards through time?  I needed one of those scenes in this, or maybe a couple episodes of it. lolz.

The fact that Flynne's headaches/seizures were from Alita uploading the Research Institutes data into her head, I didn't realize or see coming which was cool, but as an early established plot point it just felt like a lengthy setup time to a rather flippant explanation that wasn't unpacked, like, there was no build up to it, and there were needless fight scenes that didn't seem to make any sense as a form of protection for the most powerful weapon that controls the flow of time!  Also, it's just 20 feet down a set of stairs off the side of a street!!??

It's not in a bunker somewhere!?  How convenient.

This finale just felt like a mess to me.