HP_Wuvcraft
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Sounds like a 100% departure from the books at this point.
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The Strain S3 |OT| Zack's Latest Victim: Your Sanity
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Lactose_Intolerant
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I can't even hate watch it anymore
lazybones18
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That reporter was pretty hot
lazybones18
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we were so close to Kelly snapping that little fucker's neck
lazybones18
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oh man, I think tonight is THAT episode
lazybones18
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now I remember the reporter. She was one of the Saviors on Walking Dead last season
What a boring and awful episode. that it even took them an entire hour of the show to figure out the master wasn't gone is idiotic. The entire plot about the conscription army is dumb as rock and I love (detest) that Feraldo's epiphany was "this is the press's fault".
Okay, and the entire bombing thing: how did two strigoi get into the fucking command center for anti-strigoi efforts? You're telling me there were no UV lights or anything between them and the goddamn nucleus of the war efforts? Not a single spot where they had to converse with a security guard? Two people who had supposedly been missing for some time and were well-known in the operation walked through a number of security measures right into th emiddle of the room. Bullshit.
Okay, and the entire bombing thing: how did two strigoi get into the fucking command center for anti-strigoi efforts? You're telling me there were no UV lights or anything between them and the goddamn nucleus of the war efforts? Not a single spot where they had to converse with a security guard? Two people who had supposedly been missing for some time and were well-known in the operation walked through a number of security measures right into th emiddle of the room. Bullshit.
Do you mean it's better or worse? Cuz it's never been very good by my estimation.
Agreed. Then again it was better than par compared to it's fellow horror stinker Fear the Walking Dead. Why the hell is good horror seemingly so hard on TV? I mean the most well regarded popular one is the regular Walking Dead and it's mediocre. Evil Dead is better, but lacking and doesn't really count as horror. So strange in an era where most genres on TV have handfuls of solid to amazing choices.
Worse than how they got through the blockade was how they suddenly learned to walk and act normal when in literally the previous scene they were doing the whole weird stragoi thing. It's not like they had the master give them back their whatever like Zack's mom.
Speaking of Zack, he has a serious case of resting doucheface. If anybody cared about or watched this show I could see resting Zackface becoming the commonly used male version of bitchface.
Insane Metal
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Well, I always thought it had potential. But in this third season they absolutely dropped the ball :|
RatskyWatsky
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Show is dull as all hell, especially for a show set in the fucking vampire leech apocalypse.
And them not knowing the Master was still alive was unbelievable. Setrakian saw an unusually large worm rapidly slither away after they cut the Master's head off, so why did he not discuss that with Eph and Fet as soon as it happened?
Oh yeah, that's where I've seen her!
3-5 seasons is what they've always planned for - 3 if it wasn't too popular, 5 if it was. The show is doing decently-ish, so if they're not already planning to end it this season, it'll probably get at least one more.
And them not knowing the Master was still alive was unbelievable. Setrakian saw an unusually large worm rapidly slither away after they cut the Master's head off, so why did he not discuss that with Eph and Fet as soon as it happened?
Oh yeah, that's where I've seen her!
3-5 seasons is what they've always planned for - 3 if it wasn't too popular, 5 if it was. The show is doing decently-ish, so if they're not already planning to end it this season, it'll probably get at least one more.
bitbydeath
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Why did they only check Feraldo's head and hand?
I can understand if she didn't want to strip for the scene but could at least exam her properly behind a sheet or something.
I can understand if she didn't want to strip for the scene but could at least exam her properly behind a sheet or something.
Funky Papa
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I'm continuously shocked by how "small scale" everything looks and feels. I know that shit is also going down elsewhere, but you'd think the army would come stomping if something like that happened in NYC from all places. But nah, some SEALs will do it.
Also, those checkpoints look like something you'd find in some decrepit Latrinestan instead of a legitimate war zone against a supernatural enemy. What the fuck.
I was screaming at the TV and Setrakian for not throwing a silver grenade down the hole. The idiocy is staggering.
At this point I'm only watching this show for the moment Zack gets torn to pieces by his mom. I hope.
Crimson_Gold
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Gonna have to wait 2.5 hours to see what nonsense this is
Not a strong suit of this show (but what is?). It's almost as bad as Eff's rug from before.
Napoleonthechimp
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They've proven they can retain their entire personalities as long as the master wishes it. So knowing how to pick a lock deems feasible within the rules they've established.
Yeah, I suppose that is true. But I thought that was supposed to be a select few, like Eichorst. Now we have Strigoi MTA workers and cops and locksmiths.
dead souls
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Zack is the head writer now.
Napoleonthechimp
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I didn't get the impression they had their complete personalities, just what was needed to do the job.
MagnaderAlpha
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The Strain is losing me. There is a whole lot of nothing going on. Eph and Dutch get an idea that goes nowhere. Fett takes forever to find the lair(well, the episode makes him take forever). We get a pointless flashback that has little to do with anything but flesh out the backstory of Setrakian, just one of his many adventures prior to the events of this series(which I can assume might make an interesting story, but the time spent on those flashbacks could've been used more productively elsewhere). I was right when I posted on an IMDb thread, moreso this season than the ones before, this is going the way of The Walking Dead. Whole lotta nothing, stretching the plot as thin as they can with no real vision of where they want to take the story. They are watering it down to shit!
bitbydeath
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Whatever happened to using the fluorescent light bombs that they had way back in season 1 or whenever? A couple of those would clear the entire nest in seconds and nobody would get hurt.
Funky Papa
FUNK-Y-PPA-4
I nearly lost my shit when the strigoi construction crew showed up.
This show doesn't give a fuck anymore.
This show doesn't give a fuck anymore.
Even after death they still gotta work.
Mighty Chin
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Still better than Fear the Walking Dead
RatskyWatsky
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Good, I'm glad they're not going to try and drag it out to a fifth season.
Funky Papa
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Well, there's a big difference: The Strain is a good hatewatch on account of every single character being laughable and corny, whereas FTWD gets on your nerves with Madison's malodorous idiocy fucking up everything for everyone.
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