I checked and nobody seems to have posted a thread yet - wow, for once I’m not the last person to check in! So if anybody is interested, here’s a thread for the new episode.
The following has spoilers, so I’m putting a bit of filler in here (preventing mouseover accidents since the early 1970s)
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While I enjoyed it, I thought this episode was a bit disjointed, especially since people were acting strangely at times, e.g. Harry leaving the door open so that Expendable I (I forgot his name) could touch the darkness. Expendable II’s acting skills IMHO were close to those of a wooden log, which might have impacted my enjoyment of her scenes.
And I was a bit disappointed that Murphy turned out to be fake - I quite enjoyed having Murphy clued in as to Harry’s wizarding prowess. Read the door, Murph! That, and I think there should be more Murphy/Morgan/Harry interaction, I liked how they played off of each other. I certainly hope that’s included in further plot arcs.
Also: The scenes with Bob were excellent, and the special effects were not as crap as they could have been (I recently saw an episode of *Buffy *with Hellhounds in it, oy vey).
Rather adds to my thought that Mai and Morgan should have a magic accident, they’re being evil, and, well, really, really rude.
My Maternal grandmother was named Mai, and Dad always called her, “The old dra…”
But I digress.
So how did the drake know to enter before Mai and company? And why did Mai seem not to know what was going on, was she wounded or was she shaming to draw out the drake? Did she know who the drake was, or only that it had taken on someone else’s form? Thus endeth the spoiler.
[spoiler]The Dragon seemed to know a lot about Murphy, to do such a good job of impersonating her.
What I understood was that Mai was really wounded, and was willing to die (taking them all with her) in order to lure the Dragon in and kill him. She didn’t tell everyone what was going on because they might try to save themselves and release the Dragon in the process.[/spoiler]
I thought Harry tossed Bob out into the black pretty casually.
[spoiler]The Dragon seemed to know a lot about Murphy, to do such a good job of impersonating her.
What I understood was that Mai was really wounded, and was willing to die (taking them all with her) in order to lure the Dragon in and kill him. She didn’t tell everyone what was going on because they might try to save themselves and release the Dragon in the process.[/spoiler]
I think too the “meeting” being only four blocks away from Harry, was a setup!!
I guessed Murphy wasn’t Murphy about 40 minutes in. It would have been nice if she knew about Harry, but at least this way they didn’t have to come up with a convoluted explanation about why she didn’t.
It just dawned on me that Murphy (or rather the actress playing Murphy) bears a striking resemblance to porn star Sydnee Steele. I won’t provide any links for fear of being NSFW, but Google her from home if you don’t know who she is.
Now it’s gonna be hard to keep my thoughts from wandering whenever Murphy’s onscreen.
Yeah, yeah, April, January, it’s all the same to me. Thank you, C K Dexter Haven.
That’s what you imply / infer (heh)
Throughout the whole episode I was wondering: Did the real Murphy say at one point in the series she had a son? Because this episode Murphy said she had a daughter and I kept wondering if I misremembered - but then she turned out to be fake, and it might have been a misstep of the dragon (just like the still-alive Dad in Florida).
I’ve been finding the basic premise of magic being real, common, powerful, and easily demonstrated, yet kept a secret from nearly the entire population, a very difficult thing to believe. Harder than believing in magic itself is believing that it could exist as shown in the series yet have had no apparent effect on the world.
