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@ashvsevildead123 - Don't mean you any harm, dude, it's just that the subject's a little OT! Feel free to build the thread if you'd like. Anyway, I wouldn't really be in this fandom if I was overtly offended by everything - I just want the show to Do Better.
Re Eligos
It's review time!
PROS:
* Those cheesy, cheesy jumpscares. My favorite was Eligos basically 'booing' at and then throwing Amanda into a wall.
* Almost everything about Ruby's scene. The way she handles the dagger is great/interesting. And Kelly's Deadite dad was funny.
* I did get a laugh out of Ash's viking helmet story.
* The sense that they're trying to build a sense of family between the characters is good. For Ash to finally admit he needs somebody to watch out for him should have had a deeper impact on the story though.
* Ash's line about the demon updating its picture, like he was stuck on a bad Tinder date.
* The bit with the specimen jars was a good scare.
MIDDLES:
* The dialogue kept alternating between funny and clunky.
* Wow, this is the first time the show's gotten close to passing the Bechtel Test. Which is...something.
* Ugh, I'm not looking forward to the notion of Pablo having to "work his way out of the friendzone" with Kelly. I hate having to scarequote that but yeah.
* Ash's vulnerable spots poking out now and again. the script should be using these moments to much greater effect tho.
* Jill Marie Jones' was up and down on the scale, some lines just didn't land. I like her when they let her kick a little butt and I thought her scene with Dana was interesting but she didn't match Dana's strength in it.
NEGATIVES:
* The CGI. It continues to scream 'we're not trying hard enough/this is all we could afford'. They should just let the creature effects speak for themselves, and Bruce shouldn't have lied about the mix being even during the press tour. It is totally not even. The CGI on the Eligos demon was really egregious and I know what they were shooting for but it was terrible. The glass shard scene could've been so much cooler and then it dead-ends.
* I know this is Evil Dead, where a guy chopped off his own hand and was perfectly fine afterwards, but they made such a big deal about Ash and Pablo's neurons being disconnected by the Eligos demon that I thought it was going to lead somewhere.
* The churro joke is even less useful/funny in the script than before. Insert my evergreen complaint about the unnecessary nature of the show's racial humor, etc. Then ten minutes later we have "Nice Shooting, Tex Mex". Again, it's not about being "pc", it's about feeling real and true to the canon.
* Dana's acting was pretty uniformly awful. She was the best part about that scene with JMJ, but that kill line when she got rid of the demon should've been overdubbed.
* If only an "evil or stupid" person would release the evil, how is it that Knowby, who's a chaotic neutral at best, released them first?
* Brujos are not the same as witch doctors, canon.
* WHY would Ash leave a perfectly innocent woman alone and tied up in a room with an undismembered body? I know he "hates cops", is typically vengeful and is pissed at Amanda but he's basically throwing another human life into the line of fire.
* Amanda's not been allowed to have a single moment of awesomeness since the pilot. She basically existed in this one to establish a flirtation with Ash, endear herself to Kelly as a trick, and then get tied up and/or knocked down. In fact, it's pretty much her fault the summoning circle is disturbed. Her character just keeps feeling weirdly unnecessary to me, which is so damn unfortunate because when she works, she works. Inconsistency remains the show's biggest foe for me.
OBSERVATIONS
* That meet-cute with Ash and Amanda is super obvious and Leading Somewhere
* If the power is inside of Ash, what does he have to do to release it?
* The demons all call Ash Ashley. Hmm...
* I'm surprised people aren't chewing them out over the 'cops don't help' line.
* Pablo talking about manning up. I honestly hope that the two of them get together though Pablo being the opposite of Ash, honestly, I don't know how anyone else feels.
It's interesting that the reaction to this episode seems a little more mixed receptionwise. I keep having mixed feelings about the show myself, I know how it goes.
Also
Another thumb-in-the-middle one for me, though I feel like I liked it slightly more than everyone else, which is odd.
Re Eligos
I'm pretty sure that Pablo's first big test is going to be exorcising Kelly of him/them/it
It's review time!
PROS:
* Those cheesy, cheesy jumpscares. My favorite was Eligos basically 'booing' at and then throwing Amanda into a wall.
* Almost everything about Ruby's scene. The way she handles the dagger is great/interesting. And Kelly's Deadite dad was funny.
* I did get a laugh out of Ash's viking helmet story.
* The sense that they're trying to build a sense of family between the characters is good. For Ash to finally admit he needs somebody to watch out for him should have had a deeper impact on the story though.
* Ash's line about the demon updating its picture, like he was stuck on a bad Tinder date.
* The bit with the specimen jars was a good scare.
MIDDLES:
* The dialogue kept alternating between funny and clunky.
* Wow, this is the first time the show's gotten close to passing the Bechtel Test. Which is...something.
* Ugh, I'm not looking forward to the notion of Pablo having to "work his way out of the friendzone" with Kelly. I hate having to scarequote that but yeah.
* Ash's vulnerable spots poking out now and again. the script should be using these moments to much greater effect tho.
* Jill Marie Jones' was up and down on the scale, some lines just didn't land. I like her when they let her kick a little butt and I thought her scene with Dana was interesting but she didn't match Dana's strength in it.
NEGATIVES:
* The CGI. It continues to scream 'we're not trying hard enough/this is all we could afford'. They should just let the creature effects speak for themselves, and Bruce shouldn't have lied about the mix being even during the press tour. It is totally not even. The CGI on the Eligos demon was really egregious and I know what they were shooting for but it was terrible. The glass shard scene could've been so much cooler and then it dead-ends.
* I know this is Evil Dead, where a guy chopped off his own hand and was perfectly fine afterwards, but they made such a big deal about Ash and Pablo's neurons being disconnected by the Eligos demon that I thought it was going to lead somewhere.
Maybe Ash's Silent Hill dream next week will lead into something.
* The churro joke is even less useful/funny in the script than before. Insert my evergreen complaint about the unnecessary nature of the show's racial humor, etc. Then ten minutes later we have "Nice Shooting, Tex Mex". Again, it's not about being "pc", it's about feeling real and true to the canon.
* Dana's acting was pretty uniformly awful. She was the best part about that scene with JMJ, but that kill line when she got rid of the demon should've been overdubbed.
* If only an "evil or stupid" person would release the evil, how is it that Knowby, who's a chaotic neutral at best, released them first?
* Brujos are not the same as witch doctors, canon.
* WHY would Ash leave a perfectly innocent woman alone and tied up in a room with an undismembered body? I know he "hates cops", is typically vengeful and is pissed at Amanda but he's basically throwing another human life into the line of fire.
* Amanda's not been allowed to have a single moment of awesomeness since the pilot. She basically existed in this one to establish a flirtation with Ash, endear herself to Kelly as a trick, and then get tied up and/or knocked down. In fact, it's pretty much her fault the summoning circle is disturbed. Her character just keeps feeling weirdly unnecessary to me, which is so damn unfortunate because when she works, she works. Inconsistency remains the show's biggest foe for me.
OBSERVATIONS
* That meet-cute with Ash and Amanda is super obvious and Leading Somewhere
* If the power is inside of Ash, what does he have to do to release it?
* The demons all call Ash Ashley. Hmm...
* I'm surprised people aren't chewing them out over the 'cops don't help' line.
* Pablo talking about manning up. I honestly hope that the two of them get together though Pablo being the opposite of Ash, honestly, I don't know how anyone else feels.
It's interesting that the reaction to this episode seems a little more mixed receptionwise. I keep having mixed feelings about the show myself, I know how it goes.
Also
Please tell me at least one of you yelled 'Silent Hill' at that preview.
Another thumb-in-the-middle one for me, though I feel like I liked it slightly more than everyone else, which is odd.
