Thank you to Bernadette for commissioning this episode!
REUNITED AND IT FEELS SO GOOD! The gang's all here again, and I'm so glad that we're back to having the crew as a team once again.
We find out something really interesting here, and that's the fact that the piece of Jaya that disappeared (and lost poor Noland his reputation and his life) wound up getting caught in the knock-up stream and swept into the sky. That means that this land may potentially be as full of gold as Noland promised.
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Thank you very much to Ashleigh for commissioning this episode!
Y'all, the next episode of Sex Education is the last one of the series so far, and I'm devastated. This episode was so good, this season has been so good, and I'm just really impressed with how much this show has evolved. We have the saddest and happiest things going on, from Maureen reconnecting with her ex to Jean
WARNING: I cry a LOT this episode while talking about the issue of abortion. Be ready.
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Thank you to Max for commissioning this episode!
First of all, it turns out that Dr. Marcoh is still alive, and he's been taken into custody by Scar for reasons that I do not think are clear to us yet. I expect that Scar thinks Marcoh can do something for him regarding alchemy...bu Scar isn't hungry for power, he's hungry for vengeance against someone that he now knows is a Homunculi. Does he think Marcoh can help him fight Wrath????
Meanwhile, Ed is leaving Hawkeye's place and reporting to Al about what he's learned about the genocide of the Ishvalan people, and we're learning more about Kimblee specifically and his connection to the Homunculi as it currently stands. Which is to say, they spring him from prison and send him after Scar.
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Thank you to Joanna for commissioning this episode!
This shit is really starting to get nuts. I keep thinking Nina has been found out or is in danger of being found out, and it keeps being like...borderline true? True in a way? And I'm really impressed at the way in which Leigh Bardugo is able to sustain the tension for so long and make me genuinely worry for her despite knowing that she's a main character and very unlikely to just be executed or anything. I am simply ALWAYS nervous for her!
Meanwhile, Nikolai is recovering and decides to open up to Zoya a little more and show her what he's been dealing with, and the way that things are progressing has got me very, very worried.
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Thank you very much to Florian for commissioning this episode!
These episodes of the show are all centered around our friends dealing with the separate trials and tribulations, some of them with the priests and some with the guerilla warriors who are about to start a fight with God. They're on their way to reuniting but it's going to be an arduous path to get there, and in the meantime there's a lot of sharks as well as villains to deal with, and an ex-God who is determined to help poor Chopper who is on his own against that bonkers aviator priest.
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Thank you very much to Max for commissioning this episode!
So this is a really heavy episode, in which we learn a lot more about the genocide of the Ishvalan people and the ways in which the folks we have gotten to know reacted to the orders they were given at the time. There's something reassuring about the fact that some of them had a major issue with what they were being asked to do, but it's upsetting to know how few of them actively resisted. The soldier's drive to obery runs very deep.
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Thank you to Heather for commissioning this episode!
This is the point at which we discovered what happened to Brian, and I'm very excited over the fact that he's going to wind up being a superhuman after all. I wasn't sure what direction we were going with him and it seems like he's going to be okay...in terms of actually continuing to be alive, at least. But he's definitely sort of a freak now.
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Thank you very much to Ashleigh for commissioning this episode!
I'm so relieved that things in Nigeria don't go the way that I was fearing they would, and interestingly we've got Michael showing up at Jean's house for an impromptu therapy session. There's a lot going on at the school in the meantime, which I think might be one of the more disturbing but accurate portrayals of the kind of "discipline" a lot of schools inflict upon their students.
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Thank you to Max for commissioning this episode!
This episode is wild in that we're getting Wrath basically telling Ed and Al everything and saying, "So glad to get that off my chest, as you were, gentlemen." He's so cavalier about it that even Roy is like "WTF" and when he shares this info with Armstrong we find out that our sweet cinnamon roll protested what he was asked to do in Ishval and was sent home. I knew I liked this guy! Meanwhile, Ed and Al are harboring Mei Chang inside Al's armor, and turns out that she and Lan Fan have some beef. Greed, it turns out, is dealing with Ling just popping up and taking control here and there. Weird.
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Thank you very much to Heather for commissioning this episode!
This episode starts with the final escape of Scorp and Viper from Dr. Spears' facility, which surprisingly is pulled off essentially without incident, and without a discovery of Brian because it turns out he's in a totally different place, namely at Dr. Spears' private home. Meanwhile, Ryan is grieving the damage that she's done to Jenna, and Elgin finds out what happened and absolutely panics and bails. Which is, to say it mildly, delightfully satisfying.
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