Scarecrow's Blog From the Darkside

  “The Octopus” is full of great scenes and moments. This is my favorite episode of the second season. It has been difficult to recover without the presence of Kilgrave because he was such a charismatic villain, made all the more memorable and special thanks to Tennant. The mystery IGH superhuman that is more powerful than Jessica Jones finally gets a bit more revelation in this episode when her home is shown at great length. A neighbor passes by with her teething baby, hoping the mystery woman will continue to play her piano in order to keep the child happy and quiet for a bit. The mystery woman is anti-social and clearly hesitant to let anyone in her home. But the mystery woman looks down at the child, even holding her, until brief piano play is interrupted by anxious hands that seem to fail her. The baby’s eventual cry gradually unnerves the mystery woman until she destroys her piano with relative ease in a rage. Jessica in a cell, handcuffed to an interrogation table, s...

  Pryce is a major adversary JJ won't just beat up and get rid of. Even if Jeri will not help him go after her legally, Pryce refuses to remain her victim. Even if he must try and hire Malcolm or send a thief on his payroll in to burgle Jessica's office, costing the unfortunate employee his life when the superhuman JJ is after surprises him in the back of a van, slaughtering him. While Jeri is looking for alternative treatments or medicinal methods to inevitably end her life before ALS can take her brain from her, Jessica is looking for dirt on her firm partners as leverage. Trish must persuade the media that Malcolm is not some secret lover, that her and Griffin are still an item. Malcolm, meanwhile, confronts Jessica about what he deserves in their PI partnership, for which she shockingly agrees. Jessica, in this episode like others, battles her inner demons and grouses about with brooding hostility and guilt, unable to recover from what happened to her family and the who...

  That Roslin and Admiral Arama debate Gaius Baltar as a disastrous President and contemplate with great stress the prospects of Cylon attack once a miscalculated space jump locates a world that can sustain human life, it was a foregone, predictable conclusion that it would happen...kind of took some of the potency away from the second season conclusion of a two-part episode. It was heavy on political intrigue--Roslin initiates a coup to swing votes her way with Tigh and Roslin's new aid culpable, the planet Zarek and Baltar dub New Caprica their golden ticket to the presidency--and included a successful trip back to Caprica to save Anders and further tensions between Apollo and Starbuck continue. Apollo and Dualla actually marry and serve on Pegasus, while Starbuck and Anders move with most of the Colonial fleet to New Caprica. As expected, once Gina detonates her nuclear weapon, provided by Baltar, in a suicide meant to take out as many as possible; Baltar has ...

I thought it would be cool to wrap up the second season of G.L.O.W. with the inaugural episode of AXS Television’s W.O.W—Women of Wrestling, sort of a two-episodes-in-one package deal. Every Potato Has a Receipt concludes the television deal for the GLOW ladies, director Sam, and cameramen. Because they signed contracts, their characters are not licensed to be used with anyone else. So the Network fucked them all over. But Glen Klitnick, for the network, makes sure to infiltrate the last show in order to drop this news as other interested parties showed up to offer bids to acquire G.L.O.W. Glen does tell them they can continue to do live shows, and fortunate for Sam, strip-club owner, Ray (Horatio Sanz) throws them all a lifeline. He mentions how Vegas is the place for a live show and their product would appeal to that kind of public. Sam chuckles when he tells Ruth she’ll hate Vegas when asked.    While television is a medium quite appealing to Sam, who cares about c...