The Walking Dead – Season 5 “Carol Tyreese and Baby Judith” Teaser VIDEO
Carol, Tyreese and baby Judith seem to be pretty close to where we left off with them–on the train tracks, not yet in sight of Terminus. A large group of walkers appears and they take cover in the woods.
“If you were to rank the priorities, where would you rank humanity, group, Maggie and Glenn himself?” –Talking Dead
Talking Dead Interview season 5 – Glenn (Steven Yeun) ranks his priorities. CR: AMC
Talking Dead Interview season 5 – Glenn (Steven Yeun) ranks his priorities. CR: AMC
Viewers can satisfy their hunger for scoop on the new season with a quick interview The Talking Dead’s Chris Hardwick conducted with new series regular Andrew J. West – or as the Terminus folks know him, Gareth.
“What I can say about him is he’s definitely a complicated character,” West told Hardwick. “There’s more to him than initially meets the eye. He’s a pragmatist and he’s a survivor.”
For those unfamiliar with West’s character, Gareth made his first appearance on “The Walking Dead” during the Season 4 Finale. Rick, Daryl, Michonne and Carl sneeked into Terminus through a back entrance to get a look at “them” before they decided to make their presence known. It was when they came forward that Gareth introduced himself as the leader of Terminus.
As you probably know, The Walking Dead Season 5 filming has been going on for some time.
Norman Reedus and Melissa McBride in an upcoming THE WALKING DEAD Season 5 scene. CR: The Spoiling Dead Fans/AMC
Melissa McBride’s stuntwoman in an upcoming THE WALKING DEAD Season 5 scene. CR: The Spoiling Dead Fans/AMC
An upcoming THE WALKING DEAD Season 5 scene. CR: The Spoiling DeadFans/AMC
Some of the cast of The Walking dead season 5 on location. CR: The Spoiling Dead Fans/AMC.
Besides the new teaser video, I’ve added a couple of behind-the-scenes shots of The Walking Dead cast whose status you may be curious about. Specifically, we can see that Daryl and Carol are reunited, but at some point Carol (Melissa McBride) is hit by a van. She is not killed, rather she is taken away by strangers dressed as cops. It is speculated that she may be taken to wherever Beth (Emily Kinney) was taken.
Also, you can see that Abraham (Michael Cudlitz), Eugene (Josh McDermitt), Rosita (Christian Serratos), Maggie (Lauren Cohan) and Glenn (Steven Yeun) survive this far as well as Tara (Alanna Masterson), who is shown in another shot.
Finally, feast your eyes on TWD’s best buds: Rick and Daryl (Andrew Lincoln and Norman Reedus).
Rick and Daryl (Andrew Lincoln and Norman Reedus) THE WALKING DEAD Season 5 . CR: The Spoiling Dead Fans/AMC
True Blood Episode 7.03 Promo PHOTO “Fire in the Hole” Shown Sookie ( Anna Paquin) and Hungry, Hungry Hep-V Vampires (CR: HBO)Joe Manganiello as Alcide Herveaux in True Blood Episode 7.03 “Fire in the Hole” (CR: HBO)
“All the werewolves … are gone. That storyline never really went anywhere…it’s not like Robert Patrick [who played Alcide’s father, Jackson] and I did anything… You never really found out…why I hated him. Then, they built up this little romance with a female werewolf but had me beat the shit out of her!.. I … felt they weren’t really going to do anything with me… and….I was sad about that because I was so excited to play a werewolf on this show, and upset that it’s ending before we got to get into all of that.”…
“Storytelling-wise, you have to get Sookie with Bill (because) that’s the beginning of this whole story. That’s the A plot of the show,” Manganiello said. “The B plot is Eric. I’m not even the C plot — because that would have been Sam [Sam Trammell], or…some(one). I’m like indigo on the rainbow if Bill is the red.”
“I actually started writing an outline for an Alcide storyline in the True Blood comics, but they’ve also been canceled,” Manganiello said with a chuckle. “I thought… maybe I could make an Alcide spin-off movie through my production company. I don’t think Hollywood’s done that quintessential werewolf movie since American Werewolf in London… We’ll see!” – Joe Manganiello
Joe Manganiello as Alcide Herveaux in True Blood Episode 7.03 “Fire in the Hole” (CR: HBO)True Blood Episode 7.03 Promo PHOTO “Fire in the Hole” (CR: HBO) Shown: Kristin Bauer van Straten as Pam De Beaufort and Alexander Skarsgård as Eric Northman
OK. Maybe we should let Eric die because he already looks like he’s dying…of boredom.
Kristen Bauer van Straten as “Pam in True Blood Episode 7.02 “I Found You” (Credit: HBO)
If I see Pam cry bloody tears over Eric one more time, I’ll stake her myself. Also, not one more time can I stand to be reminded that he created her “100 years” ago. Shut it already. You used to be edgy and funny and now, now all you do it whine and cry red.
Joe Manganiello: Not hired for his acting chops.
This is the final season of True Blood…and after last night’s episode, I have but one wish for the series finale: I want everyone to die…now that it’s clear there’s only one real change that ever happens on True Blood — death — it’s time to let it fly. Last night we bid farewell to Alcide, who went out the way we’d all like to remember him: naked.
…my wish for everyone else to die too isn’t about piling on. I want them to die for a sense of completeness, because no one on this show ever seems to learn anything. No one will end the series any wiser than when he or she began, which means there are no real character arcs, no journeys, no big changes that have any lasting significance… Everything always seems to go back to its weird True Blood stasis….(that’s why…When True Blood ends, I want it to end end.
***Be sure to read the entire article above, not only because it is spot on in making a case for killing every last Bon Tempian for being so very goddamn stupid, but because if you have faithfully watched this show for almost seven years, it will send you into giggle fits.
“Nan Flanagan” (Jessica Tuck) True Blood Episode 7.03 “Fire in the Hole” (CR: HBO)
True Blood Episode 7.03 “Fire in the Hole” (CR: HBO) Shown: Kristin Bauer van Straten as Pam De Beaufort and Alexander Skarsgård as Eric Northman
True Blood Season 7: Episode #4 Preview VIDEO (HBO)
True Blood Episode #74: “Death Is Not the End” Synopsis Debut: SUNDAY, JULY 13 (9:00-10:00 p.m.)
In the aftermath of yet another bloodbath, Sam (Sam Trammell), Sookie (Anna Paquin) and Jason (Ryan Kwanten) find themselves the bearers of bad news in Bon Temps and beyond. Pam (Kristen Bauer van Straten) recalls the events that led her and Eric (Alexander Skarsgård) to Shreveport and Fangtasia. Bill (Stephen Moyer) and Jessica (Deborah Ann Woll) get nourishment from unexpected sources. Following a new lead, Sookie enlists a band of vampires and humans to track down the H-Vamps. Written by Daniel Kenneth; directed by Gregg Fienberg. (SOURCE: HBO)
Despite the great case made for killing EVERYONE on True Blood in the series’ finale, that just ain’t gonna happen because TB fans would lose their shit. Utterly and completely.
BTW, notice how many people actually follow the show? In a word, MANY. But it seems the most vocal of the audience say they are watching because they’ve invested 6-plus years and are gritting their teeth to the finish line.
But you can’t just kill everyone on True Blood. As they are doing, first you kill off the characters that mean very little to the over-arching story which was and continues to be about the life of Sookie Stackhouse (Anna Paquin). (Yes, Tara Thornton (Rutina Wesley) should have meant more to Sookie, being her best friend and all but even in the book series she was mostly an afterthought.)
As most of you know, HBO’s True Blood was invented after former showrunner-creator Alan Ball grabbed Sookie Stackhouse book #1, a/k/a The Southern Vampire Mysteries book series by Charlaine Harris before he boarded a plane. Ball later said that he read the first four books and thought they were a great template for a TV series. I’ve read the whole book series and I agree, the first four books were pretty good. The book series however, devolves into a major slog (13 books!) with a deeply unsatisfying ending.
So back to the show. We’ve only 7 more episodes to tie this sucker up. If there are plot threads hanging as Alcide was, they will be spiked, shot, stabbed, beheaded or, like Maxine Fortenberry (Dale Raoul), the other long-running character that was offed last night, you will die via getting your heart ripped out of your chest. You name it, True Blood has always had a way to brush aside characters that needed to be gone (again, except Tara, who has now died twice).
The show ended with a surprise: We have another round of Sarah Newlin to endure:
True BloodEpisode 7.03 “Fire in the Hole” (CR: HBO)
I’m fervently hoping that her death is amusing. With both the Vampire Authority and Eric Northman (Alexander Skarsgård) after her, it really should be.
True Blood Episode 7.03 Promo PHOTO “Fire in the Hole” Shown: Lauren Bowles as Holly and Chris Bauer as Andy (CR: HBO)True Blood Episode 7.03 Promo PHOTO “Fire in the Hole” Shown: Lauren Bowles as Holly and Chris Bauer as Andy (CR: HBO)
Holly the witch-waitress (Lauren Bowles) and Andy (Chris Bauer), the sheriff of Renard Parrish, made a very unlikely couple at first but these two actors brought a grounded-ness to the show whenever they could manage to grasp a bit of screen time among the crowded cast. They ended up having quite a bit of chemistry, in no small part thanks to both Bowles and Bauer and the chops they brought.
True Blood Episode 7.03 Promo PHOTO “Fire in the Hole” Shown: Dale Raoul as Maxine Fortenberry (CR: HBO)
Maxine (Dale Raoul) was the female, southern-friend Archie Bunker, a bigot and a know-it-all. She was also a control freak manipulator and a smother-mother. In the end, she was part of Bons Temps’ lynching mob and she went out attempting to bestow upon Jessica the True Death. She was a bad aim and only clipped the “baby vamp”. Jason’s (Ryan Kwanten) vampire girlfriend Violet (Karolina Wydra), who was standing adjacent to Jessica (Deborah Ann Woll), immediately vamp-sped the 15 feet or so between them and ripped Maxine’s heart out.
True Blood Episode 7.03 Promo PHOTO “Fire in the Hole” Shown: Deborah Ann Woll as Jessica and Ryan Kwanten as Jason Stackhouse (CR: HBO)
Since Jason and Jessica’s previous love affair was doomed due to her prior involvement with his lifetime best friend, Hoyt Fortenberry, if both of them make it out alive (or un-dead) from Season 7, I’m assuming they will reunite.
Jason’s character has gone from a carousing, beer-soaked good ol’ boy-Parrish road-crew worker to a monogamous deputy who seems to be taking a cue from Andy about where to find the real meaning in life. That, according to Andy, means having a family and since Jason’s current girlfriend finds the notion laughable it is likely they will not be a long-term item. Additionally, since Violet is a fearless warrior, I’m guessing she meets the True Death before series’ end.
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The new, improved Bill and the very recently uncoupled-via-bullet-to-the-face Sookie, discuss strategy in Episode 7.04 ” Death Is Not The End”.
True Blood Episode 7.04 Promo VIDEO Screencaps “Death Is Not the End” (Cr: HBO)
In True Blood episode 7.03 while Alcide (Joe Manganiello) showered, Sookie (Anna Paquin) sneaked out of the house, then went straight to Bill’s (Stephen Moyer) and cooked up a plan in which Bill would watch over her while she exposed herself as “vampire bait.” When the bad guys, who include Hep-V infected vamps and Bon Temps’ more crazed Second Amendment (gun-toting) champions showed up, both Alcide and Sam (Sam Trammell)–in their respective animal forms did, too. Then a human killed Alcide. Just prior to the schizz going down, Sookie admitted to Bill that she loves Alcide but not as much as he did her. Will she have time to feel guilty or grieve? I’m guessing not much.
Episode 7.03 was a strangely disjointed episode. There was no fluidity to the installment which was rife with clunky, wasted space. Too much time was spent on a stoned Lafayette (Nelsan Ellis) and James (Nathan Parsons) as well as the Reverend Daniels (Gregg Daniel) who long-windedly explained to Willa Burrell (Amelia Rose Blaire) that on account of Lettie Mae’s addiction he was rescinding her invitation to be their houseguest-vamp. In a citizens with (stolen police) guns versus actual law enforcement stand-off, Maxine Fortenberry (Dale Raoul) shot Jessica (Deborah Ann Woll) who failed to heal because as the promo (below) lets us know (SPOILER), she is not feeding. In response, Jason’s 700-year-old vamp girlfriend Violet (Karolina Wydra) ripped Maxine’s heart out –and it wasn’t, contrary to popular suspicion–colored black! That makes two featured starting or co-starring actors dead in one episode–which should have been awesome–but was only “eh.”
Nan Flanagan (Jessica Tuck) and poofy hair fans were rewarded with a 1980′s flashback to Eric and Pam living in France but refusing to follow The Authority directives. They regretted it.(CONT.)
True Blood Episode 7.04 Promo VIDEO Screencaps “Death Is Not the End” (Cr: HBO)True Blood Episode 7.04 Promo VIDEO Screencaps “Death Is Not the End” (Cr: HBO)
In a last shot at convincing Eric to return to the United States, Pam revealed that Sarah Newlin (Anna Camp), who was responsible for Eric’s sister’s death and the Hep V outbreak, is still alive. Nothing can light Eric’s fire like some old fashioned blood-spilling so despite having been recently infected with Hep V, he agreed to return with Pam (See screencaps throughout this post for episode 7.04 for some insight into what he and Pam will be up to when they first return to Louisiana.)
True Blood Episode 7.03 Promo “Fire in the Hole” (CR: HBO)
Speaking of Sarah Newlin, she has taken refuge in yoga camp in California for the past 5 months. Sadly, her luck ran out when, after an enthusiastic tussle in the sack with her yoga instructor, the Authority burst in just as she was getting wine for her and her yogi from the cellar.
It has got to be assumed that there will be some madcap adventures before Newlin’s time comes to an end either at the Authority’s hand or Eric’s as her dysfunctional family will be guest-starting, because why not bring more new characters who we couldn’t care less about in the last last handful of True Blood episodes ever?
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True Blood 7.04 Season 7 Episode 4 Promo VIDEO “Death Is Not the End”
True Blood Episode #74: “Death Is Not the End” Synopsis Debut: SUNDAY, JULY 13 (9:00-10:00 p.m.)
In the aftermath of yet another bloodbath, Sam (Sam Trammell), Sookie (Anna Paquin) and Jason (Ryan Kwanten) find themselves the bearers of bad news in Bon Temps and beyond. Pam (Kristen Bauer van Straten) recalls the events that led her and Eric (Alexander Skarsgård) to Shreveport and Fangtasia. Bill (Stephen Moyer) and Jessica (Deborah Ann Woll) get nourishment from unexpected sources. Following a new lead, Sookie enlists a band of vampires and humans to track down the H-Vamps. Written by Daniel Kenneth; directed by Gregg Fienberg. (SOURCE: HBO)
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Season 1: Behind Penny Dreadful Episode 8: The Finale VIDEO Interview
Timothy Dalton as Sir Malcolm and Eva Green as Vanessa Ives in Penny Dreadful Episode 1.08 ‘Grand Guignol’ Season 1 Finale (CR: Showtime)
Penny Dreadful Season 1: Behind Episode 8: The Finale VIDEO Interview – Season Recap. Plus, a Preview of what is to come in Season 2!
Creator and Executive Producer John Logan discusses the season one finale of Penny Dreadful.
Please see this post for my review of the Penny Dreadful Season 1 Finale.
“I wanted to create cliffhangers–there are revelations and surprise(s)… At its heart, (the season finale) is really about Sir Malcolm and Vanessa coming together…in a very human way… …this season was leading toward a confrontation…where Sir Malcolm would be looking at essentially, two daughters…Mina and Vanessa.
The climax had to be two things… 1. putting all the characters together…and 2. finally, Sir Malcolm would have to make a choice…about life and death…about the undead…and the real living.
And he makes that choice.
Season One was about establishing the ground rules of the series…we created our own little dysfunctional family. In season 2 we get to send them on a new adventure…continuing the themes of the first season…which is endlessly:
What is it to be human?” – Penny Dreadful Creator and Executive Producer John Logan
INVITATION TO ETERNITY
By John Clare
Say, wilt thou go with me, sweet maid,
Say, maiden, wilt thou go with me
Through the valley-depths of shade,
Of bright and dark obscurity;
Where the path has lost its way,
Where the sun forgets the day,
Where there’s nor light nor life to see,
Sweet maiden, wilt thou go with me?
Where stones will turn to flooding streams,
Where plains will rise like ocean’s waves,
Where life will fade like visioned dreams
And darkness darken into caves,
Say, maiden, wilt thou go with me
Through this sad non-identity
Where parents live and are forgot,
And sisters live and know us not?
Say, maiden, wilt thou go with me
In this strange death of life to be,
To live in death and be the same,
Without this life or home or name,
At once to be and not to be —
That was and is not — yet to see
Things pass like shadows, and the sky
Above, below, around us lie?
The land of shadows wilt thou trace,
Nor look nor know each other’s face;
The present marred with reason gone,
And past and present both as one?
Say, maiden, can thy life be led
To join the living and the dead?
Then trace thy footsteps on with me:
We are wed to one eternity.
The Cast of Penny Dreadful Season 1 (CR: Showtime)
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PENNY DREADFUL – 108 – “Grand Guignol”
Premiere Date: 6/29/2014
After having a vision of the Grand Guignol theater, Vanessa (EVA GREEN), Sir Malcolm (TIMOTHY DALTON), Ethan (JOSH HARTNETT), Dr. Frankenstein (HARRY TREADAWAY) and Sembene (DANNY SAPANI) explore the empty theater and are confronted by their worst nightmares.
Written by: John Logan Directed by: James Hawes Guest Stars: Alun Armstrong, Henry Goodman, Olivia Llewellyn, Hannah Tointon, Stephen Lord, and Helen McCrory
CREDIT: SHOWTIME
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After the thrill-fest that was Penny Dreadful episodes 2-7, episode 8, Grand Guignol felt its pulse slow. Maybe too much time was spent on the brooding Caliban (Rory Kinnear), Frankenstein’s monstrous creation and his interactions with the naive, ingenue actress, Maud Gunneson (Hannah Tointon). Even she characterized his life as “sad.”
Rory Kinnear as the Monster, Calaban, in Penny Dreadful Episode 1.08 ‘Grand Guignol’ Season Finale (Cr: Showtime)
The momentum that the series had built to this point slowed markedly in service to an (arguably) secondary character. The tender scene in which Maud pecked him on the cheek to cheer him up had the unwanted and nearly deadly result of him completely misunderstanding her pity for romantic interest and later visiting her dressing room uninvited. When spurned, he nearly throttled her, and so, lost his small part in the shadows of the theatre.
Desperate, having nowhere else to go, he returns to his makerVictor Frankenstein (Harry Treadaway), who at first verbally flays him about what a monster Caliban is to have killed Frankenstein’s friend, Prof. Van Helsing, in a murderous rage. Soon though, Calaban’s mournful monologue about how his monstrous visage is a reflection of what he is within breaks through through to Frankenstein’s tender heart. Instead of putting a bullet in his brain, Frankenstein gently reaches out to his creation. In that moment, there comes a frantic knocking at the door.
Harry Treadaway as Victor Frankenstein in Penny Dreadful Episode 1.08 ‘Grand Guignol’ Season Finale (Cr: Showtime)
Ethan (Josh Hartnett) needs help urgently, not for himself, but for his consumption-riddled lover, Brona Croft (Billie Piper). In her, Victor not only sees a a woman lying at the brink of death but his next creation–an immortal mate for Caliban, who has threatened to kill everyone Victor loves until Frankenstein creates a “beautiful” female monster. Sending Ethan away to fetch water, Frankenstein smothers Brona, who pitifully offers almost no resistance. Hers, as Frankenstein had earlier murmured, was an “easy passage.”
Josh Hartnett as “Ethan” in Penny Dreadful -Season 1 – Promo Photos Episode 1.08 – Grand Guignol (CR: Showtime)
Ethan is having one hell of a day: two American bounty hunters bearing manacles approach him at the Mariner’s Inn. The sharpshooter is in no mood for their lame, albeit undoubtedly true, accusations. Knocking both men to the floor, he storms away.
Later, Ethan meets up with Sir Malcom (Timothy Dalton), Vanessa (Eva Green), who offers him sympathy and a toke, Frankenstein and Sembene (Danny Sapani). They are on their way to the Grand Guignol theatre as Vanessa has had a vision in which she believes the focal point of this entire season, Sir Malcom’s lost daughter Mina Harker (Olivia Llewellyn), has beckoned her. They search the darkened theatre and are very nearly overwhelmed by the Creature’s nest of vampires. With no time to spare, Sir Malcolm spears the once human-now vampire Creature until it dies and its nest-mate vampires die as well, freeing the men. But one figure remains–Mina–who calls out to Vanessa. They embrace and once she’s done so, Vanessa is captive yet again–to the evil darkness which articulates to the whole group its plans for her and them. Sir Malcolm pleads with Mina but “Mina” is long gone so he kills her, saying it is not she, but Vanessa who is his daughter.
Olivia Llewellyn as Mina in Penny Dreadful (Cr: Showtime)
The search for Mina is over but another chapter begins.
Ethan has returned to the Mariner's Inn. Like the theatre, it is shuttered for the night. He sits alone and the two bounty hunters gleefully approach him from behind, one with manacles and the other with gun in hand. Ethan makes no move to resist–though his hand twitches oddly as he braces himself. The men continue to goad him, threatening to drag him across the Atlantic chained “like a monkey.” With a clenched jaw, Ethan replies, “Not a monkey.” He whirls around, we see a glimpse of the wolf-man he has morphed into, then he rips both men to pieces. As the camera pulls away to outside the inn, we see blood splashing the windows of the building, then the clouded sky with a bright, full moon.
Josh Hartnett in Penny Dreadful Episode 1.08 ‘Grand Guignol’ Season Finale (Cr: Showtime)
Back at the Murray mansion, Sir Malcolm is removing his vast collection of maps of Africa. Vanessa enters this mancave and Malcolm admits that he never really intended to return to Africa. He tearfully embraces her and suggests they invite “the boys” over and put a Christmas tree up.
Frankenstein returns to his laboratory and unveils Brona, Caliban’s future mate. He begins cutting into her chest.
Penny Dreadful Episode 1.08 ‘Grand Guignol’ Season Finale (Cr: Showtime)
At his request, Vanessa agrees to meet Dorian Gray (Reeve Carney) at the solarium gardens. She is quick to make clear that she came to break up as she cannot risk the sexual involvement with him (which resulted the first time in a month of her being possessed).
Penny Dreadful Episode 1.08 ‘Grand Guignol’ Season Finale Shown: Eva Green and Reeve Carney (Cr: Showtime)
Vanessa enters a Catholic church as a choir practices for the holidays. She seeks out the priest who listens to her concerns that she is possessed and asks if it is exorcism she is considering. Cautioning that it could takes months “or a lifetime” to get the church to allow the exorcism, he recounts the one time he was tangentially involved in one for a “sick” young boy. When she inquires of the result, the priest says the boy died as did everyone involved in the exorcism. Before they converse any further, the priest says he has just one question for Vanessa: Does she wish to be normal?
Penny Dreadful Episode 1.08 ‘Grand Guignol’ Season Finale Shown: Eva Green (Cr: Showtime)
As a series, I found Penny Dreadful delightfully, decadently entertaining. But both episode one and the season finale fell short of the other six episodes.
Penny Dreadful Episode 1.08 ‘Grand Guignol’ Season Finale Shown: Sir Malcom (Timothy Dalton) Credit: Showtime
It had been very heavily foreshadowed that Ethan was a werewolf so it was no surprise whatsoever when he revealed himself. Brona’s dying was spelled out for us even if we were unfamiliar with consumption, which in modern times is called tuberculosis. Knowing Brona was dying as well as Frankenstein’s need for a pretty female corpse, it was a forgone conclusion that Brona would be the unfortunate one. And the Mina saga too, had been foreshadowed, especially by manservant Sembene, who directly addressed to Sir Malcolm that it was likely that Mina no longer existed as he knew her.
Penny Dreadful Episode 1.08 ‘Grand Guignol’ Season Finale Shown: Sir Malcom (Timothy Dalton) and Vanessa (Eva Green) (Cr: Showtime)
The only surprise in the season finale was an eye-roller. Sir Malcolm, whose dickishness towards Vanessa seemed to have no bounds, did a massive one-eighty when confronted with what Mina had become. His hugging it out with Vanessa back at the mansion and suggestion of Christmas with their posse was so out of character, it was jarring. I would call it a small quibble but these two character’s relationship was one of the series’ central ones. The resolution of it this way felt slapped-together and insincere. And maybe Sir Malcolm is still using Vanessa. But to what end?
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