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RayMcBlue:
My Thoughts On "Revenge".

If it sounds like I'm being harsh, it's because I'm being harsh, but that's only because Revenge used to be a series that surprised me with its twists and turns and now it's a series of bad ideas strung together by familiar faces just going through the motions. It's like the writers bought a Soap Opera for Dummies book and all of the originality of the series has been sucked away and replaced with boring cliches. At this point, I'd trade any of those plots for Conrad's faked Huntington's Disease story because despite being mostly unbelievable, at least it didn't reek of desperation.

The entire foundation of "Revenge" is about not letting grudges go, whether we're talking Emily's revenge plan, or Victoria and Charlotte hating Emily for something she did and attempting to make her life miserable. I'm not saying that's healthy, because obviously those three women are all in need of some therapy, but this series was built on basically never letting sh*t go. If I thought this was the series purposefully attempting to show us another side to the human psyche in which people aren't manipulative and don't hold grudges for years upon years, I'd be the first person to stand up and congratulate it.

But it's not, it's just a plot device meant to make Emily flail a bit, so I'm calling shenanigans on Sarah, who has every right to hate Daniel and his family forever, for jumping back into bed with Daniel after two weeks.

Wow, that got a little ranty. But I can only take so many rushed storylines before I snap. This entire series is beginning to feel a lot like "Glee". And that's never a good thing. Faked pregnancies and storylines with absolutely zero build up are never a good thing. Faking a pregnancy will never turn out well, because there are only two ways for that story to end: Either Emily fakes nine months of pregnancy during which Daniel never touches her and then she finds a baby on the street to call their child, or she has to fake a miscarriage.

I don't hate "Revenge", but I am very disappointed in the direction it has taken. I like that Emily is flailing and grasping at straws because her plan is falling apart; it adds a bit of drama we've never seen before, and it means she's human and doesn't have superhero revenge powers in which everything goes pretty much to plan because she's Emily Thorne/Amanda Clarke. But the emotional stakes that are supposedly thwarting her relationship with Daniel aren't there to make me care about the outcome either way.

Give me some backstory, let me get to know Sarah and maybe I'll care about her relationship with Daniel. But right now, the series is lobbing unoriginal idea after unoriginal idea at us and expecting us to gasp in awe and shock. But I can't. And I won't.

Revenge S03E08: "Secrecy"


Revenge is taking a three-week break before Emily and Daniel's wedding, and I think it's for the best, because "Secrecy" felt too much like a struggling writers' room blindly throwing ideas up in the area and just hoping some of them stuck. Emily is now pretending to be pregnant in order to manipulate Daniel into staying in a relationship he no longer wants to be in, Lydia Davis is unsurprisingly not dead, and Victoria tried to ruin Emily at her bridal shower by inviting her first husband. Oh, and there was a subplot with Aiden and Charlotte and some nude photographs that I completely spaced during. Guys, I'm not kidding, that is a storyline that actually happened.

It's like the writers bought a Soap Opera for Dummies book and all of the originality of the series has been sucked away and replaced with boring cliches. At this point, I'd trade any of those plots for Conrad's faked Huntington's Disease story because despite being mostly unbelievable, at least it didn't reek of desperation.

If it sounds like I'm being harsh, it's because I'm being harsh, but that's only because Revenge used to be a series that surprised me with its twists and turns and now it's a series of bad ideas strung together by familiar faces just going through the motions. I applaud the writers for making Emily have to work for her plan to succeed, because for so long everything came so easily to her and it was wholly unbelievable. And I even like the idea that Daniel no longer wants to marry Emily (finally!). But the way that story has been executed has fallen short of my expectations.

For so long Daniel was the one fighting for Emily, fighting for their relationship, and a few episodes ago I wondered why he even bothered, why he cared when Emily so obviously didn't. I was practically begging him to wake up and smell the roses. I know that I'm in the minority here when it comes to liking Daniel's character, but the way his storyline has been written this season has been a let down. Yes, he's striking out on his own and attempting to be less Grayson, more Daniel, but as soon as his ex-girlfriend reappeared in his life, the strides he'd made to separate himself from his family's legacy by partnering with Margaux for Voulez have almost been erased.

Here he was this week, in the Grayson Family Sex Den in the City, hooking up with Sarah, because their love was apparently so epic it moved mountains and angels sang about it. Wait, no, sorry. Daniel drunkenly crashed his car and sent her to the hospital where she almost died and then his family screwed her out of a lot of money so she's going to be in debt for the rest of her life paying off monstrous medical bills. But yeah, I'm sure she totally still loves him and has forgiven him for all of that in the span of a few weeks. Revenge has never been all that believable in its complicated and convoluted schemes (or in how long they think dogs actually live), but this is a little too far fetched.

I'm willing to accept, and even believe, that Daniel still feels all those feels, or thinks he does because their relationship is unfinished to him, but for Sarah to just throw aside all of her anger (remember her introduction two episodes ago? Yes, it was only two episodes ago), feels a bit ridiculous. I'm still mad at people who didn't call me back three months ago. I've hated people for far less than what Daniel and the Graysons did to Sarah, so I'm sorry, but I'm never going to believe that she just threw her anger in the nearest trash can and skipped off into the night with Daniel.

The entire foundation of Revenge is about not letting grudges go, whether we're talking Emily's revenge plan, or Victoria and Charlotte hating Emily for something she did and attempting to make her life miserable. I'm not saying that's healthy, because obviously those three women are all in need of some therapy, but this series was built on basically never letting shit go. If I thought this was the series purposefully attempting to show us another side to the human psyche in which people aren't manipulative and don't hold grudges for years upon years, I'd be the first person to stand up and congratulate it. But it's not, it's just a plot device meant to make Emily flail a bit, so I'm calling shenanigans on Sarah, who has every right to hate Daniel and his family forever, for jumping back into bed with Daniel after two weeks.

Wow, that got a little ranty. But I can only take so many rushed storylines before I snap. Emily might be robotic and single-minded, but I will give her props for remaining unswayed in her convictions. She's been working this con for years and she hasn't let up. It would have been more believable if Sarah had teamed up with Emily than it is that Sarah would be so quick to dismiss everything that happened.

What's more upsetting about this particular storyline is that I don't dislike Sarah as a character. In fact, she seems perfectly nice and is the most down to earth character of anyone on Revenge, but it's frustrating that the writers want us to care about her when all we've seen is a 15 second glimpse at what Daniel and Sarah were like before the accident, and a few weeks of her wildly fluctuating between different ends of the emotional spectrum. We still don't know anything about her or about her relationship with Daniel, and we still don't have a reason to care about it either. This storyline could have worked if only the writers had taken the time to make us care, or if she'd been introduced in the beginning of Season 3 and had several months of build up, but instead, we're supposed to believe that their romance was rekindled in the span of a few weeks.

When you add in the fact that Emily is now stooping to fake baby-levels of desperation to ensure that Daniel doesn't leave her, this entire series is beginning to feel a lot like Glee. And that's never a good thing. Faked pregnancies and storylines with absolutely zero build up are never a good thing. Faking a pregnancy will never turn out well, because there are only two ways for that story to end: Either Emily fakes nine months of pregnancy during which Daniel never touches her and then she finds a baby on the street to call their child, or she has to fake a miscarriage. The only thing that can save this storyline is if we find out Emily really is pregnant. As cliched as that storyline might be, it would be a hell of a lot more interesting to see Emily pregnant with a child she doesn't want with a man she doesn't love, than whatever mess is sure to be born from faking a pregnancy.

And after all that, I don't even have the energy to deal with the fact Lydia Davis is back from the dead and willing to spill all of the Grayson family secrets to Margaux. Especially when Conrad name dropped her in an earlier scene, basically ruining any surprise that scene could have held. Though, to be fair, that was also shown in promos for the episode last week, so that reveal not packing the punch it should have was not entirely the writers fault. I was never a fan of Lydia, but I felt that her death in the plane crash was a good move for the series, but I could be open to where her storyline with Margaux takes us.

In case you couldn't tell, this episode, and most of Season 3, has been frustrating for me to watch. I don't hate Revenge, but I am very disappointed in the direction it has taken. I like that Emily is flailing and grasping at straws because her plan is falling apart; it adds a bit of drama we've never seen before, and it means she's human and doesn't have superhero revenge powers in which everything goes pretty much to plan because she's Emily Thorne/Amanda Clarke. But the emotional stakes that are supposedly thwarting her relationship with Daniel aren't there to make me care about the outcome either way. Give me some backstory, let me get to know Sarah and maybe I'll care about her relationship with Daniel. But right now, the series is lobbing unoriginal idea after unoriginal idea at us and expecting us to gasp in awe and shock. But I can't. And I won't.

oyb:
google any of raymcblues 'reviews' and you will find it was more or less lifted from some other site.
sad.

Bawss1:
There has to be a good reason for the 'lifting'. maybe he totally forgot to include the source.

Ray. Don't let judgement be passed in your absence, defend yourself.

I suggest you demand trial by combat!
I will be your champion.

RayMcBlue:
Can you be more explicit, please? What did you meant by "bad sex scenes filled"? A badly acted sex scenes perhaps??

You lost me again at "series movies".

Okay... lemme draw up my own interpretations. By "bad sex filled scenes", you were actually trying to paint a picture, a picture of núde men and women floricking with one another, right? By "Movie series", you actually meant TV series, right?

Okay... So by piecing 'em all together, you want a TV series with núde and sex filled scenes. Right.

Start by watching Spartacus, and if you had already done so, then watch the following;

-Masters Of Sex
-The Tudors
-Camelot
-Californification
-Orange Is The New Black
-Shameless
-True Blood
-Boardwalk Empire
-Strike Back
-Hunted
-Girls
-The White Queen
-Game Of Thrones

You're welcome.

Timothy3113:
please which one of them have action, thriller or fantasy as it genre
i av watchd tudor, trueblood, stike back. They are all action.
Pls recommend which one dat has action for me.
I thinkk camelot is cancelled.

Fourcade:
Action - Banshee,The Americans ,Ray Donovan

ctuagent007:
@ray blue
what you did is treason...read the piece & I never knew that was a copy & paste material until @proff caught thee.....that was very bad of you not to let us know that those materials didn't come from your brain

philfearon:
Carrie Mathison is the Best Female Character I have ever seen in my whole life in a movie/series!!!

SIRcumalot:
The crazy woman from homeland ?
Lwkmd!!
I abandon the series quickly, but that Saul dude was the only character I liked.

Anybody recommend a decent comedy series that isn't so popular

philfearon:
Lol...That Woman and Qinn are the reason am still watching that series!!
I even thought it ended with the death of Brody,only to realise it has a 4th Series!!

OohMpa:
[color=#808000]Imagine say your crush wey set for front and back come see you with bumshot, dey your room dey tease you, you look am up down, carry remote wan continue your film




That film has got to be the newsroom [/color]

donhils:
Finally I've watched season 1 of the newsroom and I didn't see all the rave reviews you gave it. This series is almost boring. But am continuing it to see the end of it. I also read that the series was abruptly brought to an end yesterday after only 6 episodes in season 3.
What a dry show.

Fourcade:
I'm through with the show and i absolutely loved it.

donhils:
Finally I've watched season 1 of the newsroom and I didn't see all the rave reviews you gave it. This series is almost boring. But am continuing it to see the end of it. I also read that the series was abruptly brought to an end yesterday after only 6 episodes in season 3.
What a dry show.

OohMpa:
[color=#808000]Ooh Mpa can't even phantom which planet you came from for you not to love (not like) The Newsroom

Easily ooh Mpa's top 5 all time

Or perhaps your type is centered on action, cops, vampires and super heroes....

Ooh Mpa's own problem is that Aaron Sorkin didn't take heed to his death threats about ending the show
Each episode leaves you yearning for more especially this last season. Why would he break ooh Mpa's heart, rebuild it and break it again after every episode?
Aaron, no near Naija or else Ooh Mpa will use your body parts at Okija to buy a container for Apapa Wharf [/color]

Fourcade:
He thought it was a pow pow pow ,pushow pushow ,boom Tv Series.

I believe if this Final Season wasn't cut to six episodes it would have been the best.They summed everything up in Episode 5 and i didn't like how everything went fast.

I will miss these guys. . .nothing to look forward to on Sundays now.

ctuagent007:
Xander Berkeley aka Percy of "Nikita" is a monster in when it comes to the series....
As for the other monsteress aka Amanda, what a Jezebellic acting she did.....

Nikita was a great series cos of not only their great acting but cos of the ingenuity that both pictured actors performed..

Fourcade:
He thought it was a pow pow pow ,pushow pushow ,boom Tv Series.

I believe if this Final Season wasn't cut to six episodes it would have been the best.They summed everything up in Episode 5 and i didn't like how everything went fast.

I will miss these guys. . .nothing to look forward to on Sundays now.

chidoo4luv:
someone shld pls suggest any interesting series for me to download, and watch ,currently bored.

philfearon:
Carrie Mathison is the Best Female Character I have ever seen in my whole life in a movie/series!!!