Shadowhunters | Season 2 Episode 17 - "A Dark Reflection"

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I got to watch the latest episode today, yay! Which means, new rant for you guys!

Once again, this episode was a lot Sebastian/Jonathan centered, which got me even more excited than what I already was. I mean, I should be expecting this really. The season is ending and Sebastian (plus Valentine) is the main villain in this part B. Still, I got really excited about the whole storyline although, as usual, the Clary scenes are a little bit cringrey but Will Tudor makes up for Kat's lack of acting skills. I'm sorry if I keep pointing that out but sometimes (most of the time) it bothers me and I just need to talk about it. After all, this is my blog and my opinions about the episodes so, I guess I should mention that.

Anyway so, like I said, Sebastian centered episode with a lot of unexpected moments (which is new for Shadowhunters).

Valentine and Sebastian start with their plan. With two of the mortal instruments, it was obvious they would go and try to find the last one - The Mortal Mirror. The only thing that I didn't know was what this three objects together could do, but the episode answered my question and we find out that they want to raise the Angel Raziel so he can grant them a wish, which is obviously a world without Downworlders (at least, we know that's what Valentine wants).

We see both of them (Valentine and Sebastian) interact a lot. We also see the Sebastian/Jonathan's strugle between being 'good' or 'evil', since he both wants his dad and his sister to love him, and let's just say that Valentine wants him to be evil and Clary wants to save him.

Talking about Clary... Now knowing about Jonathan, of course her and Jace start a 'hunt' for him. They then learn that Jonathan and Valentine are probably working together, since the warlock that had the location for The Mortal Mirror was tortured and then killed himself, passing on the 'mark' to another warlock (which we later see that it's Dot). Finding about that, Jace obviously says that Jonathan is evil and he's working with Valentine. On the other hand, Clary knows that he's evil, but she still thinks that Valentine might be manipulating him and making him do stuff so she wants to save him.

While all of this is happening, Sebastian keeps pretending to be a good guy and pretends to help them with stuff in order to find The Mortal Mirror's location. That's also in that moment that Clary tells him about wanting to save her brother (without know that she's actually talking to him) and later, the most unexpected thing happens - Sebastian/Jonathan kisses Clary.

It was seriously messed up! I mean, I know about the books and I knew that he was kind of obsessed with her but it was really creepy! But, at the same time, all his internal struggle just makes my hear go weak. I really like some psychos that have a good side and, overall, are just confused and really messed up so, it was pretty obvioust that I was going to love Sebastian!

Anyway, back to The Mortal Mirror...

So, with Dot's help, Clary and Jace find out not only where it is, but also that it was Jocelyn who had it and who hide it.

After know it's location, they go after it but, of course, Sebastian isn't dumb and he tracked Clary and found them with The Mortal Mirror in their hands.

Since we're in this topic, can I just mention the disappointment that that Mortal Mirror was? I mean, I don't know how it should look in the books or how you guys imagined it but, first, I imagined it a full lenght mirror but, since they showed that it was hidden in a statue, I figured that it had to be a small mirror, but that?! That is so small and so not appealing! I mean, have you seen the other Mortal Instruments?! Both the sword and the cup are a lot more appealing and look like they have something special about it, but that mirror? It was probably the biggest downside of the episode.

Well, back to the episode so, they are able to get away with the mirror and they hide it somewhere else (I guess). I can't really remember if we see them hiding it because then happens that Clary vision and I don't know. Also, I still don't get those visions so, let's see what happens in terms of that.

Meanwhile all of this is happening, some other stuff also happens with the Downworlders, like Magnus and Luke finding out about the Clave not having the Mortal Sword and Magnus being really sad/mad at Alec, which left me really sad.

Also, some stuff is going on between Simon and Maia, which I'm not really cool with. I mean, I don't hate it but I just want Sizzy to happen. We got a little bit of Sizzy in this episode though, with Simon helping Izzy with Max's training.

Oh, and talking about Max, I bet you all already heard this by now but everyone is suspecting that Max is the one to die in the season finale because, yes there's going to be a main character death in the finale and I guess that's what happens in the books so everyone thinks that Max is going to die. That, and because he is really sneaky and he basically found out in the end of this episode that Sebastian is really Jonathan so, I don't really know what Sebastian could do to him.

To be honest, I don't think they're going to kill Max's character. To me, the one to die is going to be Maia. She has become a 'kind of' main character in this season, she has a lot of storylines lately, they're setting her up with Simon now and, because I really want this to happen, if she dies, Simon can finally be with Izzy because, let's be real, Simon has been with almost every girl in that cast apart from Izzy so, it's time we get some Sizzy! Also, Alisha wasn't in the San Diego Comic Con so, that might mean something.

Anyway, I guess that's pretty much it for me!

I'm really liking this part B from this season! It might be because of Sebastian/Will Tudor but what can I do? He brings something to the show so... Congrats to him!

Well, let me know your thoughts about this episode and predictions for the next episodes as well as for the season finale. Who do you think is going to die? Let me know everything!

Until next week with a new Shadowhunters rant!

Love,

Daniela.

Shadowhunters | Season 2 Episode 16 - "Day of Atonement"

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Hello everyone!

So, just like promised, here I am with a new Shadowhunters rant. I know I'm a little bit late and for that I'm sorry. Also, I won't be able to post the rant of the new episode but, hopefully, I'll be able to watch the episode tomorrow and then I'll post the rant so, expect a new Shadowhunters rant in the next days.

As you could tell from my previous rant (my The Challenge rant), I've been really eager to watch this new Shadowhunters episodes, mainly this one. Not only because it is a Sebastian centered episode, and I've been crushing on Will Tudor like really hard, but also because this episode was directed by Paul Wesley (who was actually in Portugal when this episode aired, just a side note).

You know I love Paul Wesley mainly because of The Vampire Diaries and he already directed some episodes on TVD, so I was expecting some great things, also because let's just say that Shadowhunters' episodes aren't the best so this was going to be really good for the series. Well, let's just say that I wasn't disappointed!

In terms of the directing, I could really see some similarities from TVD and, in general, I really liked it. Storywise, I really enjoyed it too! There wasn't that many cringey moments and, just like Paul Wesley said in the Behind the Scenes for this episode, Alan and Will's work in this episode was seriously so good and I can't wait to see more of those too. (I'm sorry I ever said that I wanted the Valentine storyline to be over.).

So, like I said, this episode was really centered on Sebastian and we finally got to know who he really his (even though basically everyone already knew) and what really happened to him. From what I've read on the internet, they changed his storyline a little bit from what it was in the books but, since I don't know what his really story was, I can't coment on that. All I can say is that I liked what he said and I was already kind of expecting it, to be honest. He was basically in hell and that's why he's all burned and everything.

The thing that I didn't know was all the stuff that Valentine did to him, like keeping him in that basement and teaching him about physics and all that. I must say, even though this might sound a little creepy, I really liked that line where he said that killing was the only thing that he was good at. That really set the tone for his character!

Anyway, while all this is happening in Valentine's cabin, in the institute they are looking for Valentine. That's when Jace thinks that he might find something in Valentine's old cabin and asks the Clave to open a portal to go there. The Clave refuses but that's when Clary sees a rune and is able to create a portal. I kind of already new this too but it was fine. I gotta say that Clary's scenes are the most cringey to me but I can deal with that now, I think I'm getting used to it. 

So, with that portal, they go there but, of course, something has to go wrong and Clary drinks some of the water from the Lake and starts hallucinating. That's when she sees angel Ithuriel and he tells her that Jonathan is still alive. Of course Clary thinks he's talking about Jace when, in fact, he's talking about 'Sebastian'.

Meanwhile, in the institute, Alec senses that Jace is in trouble and needs his help. He finds out about Jace and Clary sneeking out and, with the help of his father he sends Izzy to help them.

Izzy finds him and that's when she tells him about the water and that they need to find Clary to help her.

They find her but, of course, she's already hallucinating and start fighting against them. That's when Jace uses his angel powers and uses the healing rune on Clary without her stele. That was a pretty cool visual effect, I might say. I know that in the books Jace's eyes are golden but they couldn't use it in the show so it was nice to see a glimpse of it now.

Anyway so, after healing Clary, Jace, Izzy and Clary go looking for the cabin. They eventually find it but it is already empty.

Jace takes some journals from Valentine that were in the Cabin and start reading them. They are all about Jonathan. He tells Clary and both think that the journals are about Jace. That's when Clary realizes that Jonathan died when he was younger and that's when she remembers what the angel told her and realizes that Jonathan is alive.

The ending scene is Sebastian/Jonathan and Valentine eating.

It was a really creepy scene, I might say, but that I loved!

It wasn't like a wow ending, but it was pretty cool and I seriously can't wait to see those two working together. Both of them already have a Mortal Instrument, which means they only need one more so, It's going to be interesting from now on!

Like I said, the new rant will only be up, hopefully, tomorrow! I don't promise anything, but I'm going to try my best, after all, I also really want to watch the new episode so...

Anyway, let me know your thoughts on the episode, what you think about Sebastian/Jonathan (what should I call him now?) and what are your predictions for the rest of the season (I haven't seen the Comic Con trailer yet so, no spoilers please).

I'll see you hopefully tomorrow.

Love,

Daniela.

The Challenge: Dirty 30 | XXX Episode 2 - "Shots Fired!"

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Just like promised, here I am with the latest The Challenge rant.

Here we start the 'proper' Challenge - with some drama, a challenge and nominations. This time, there's only the eliminations left, which got me pretty curious at the end of this episode, but I'll talk more about that later.

Let's start with The Redemption House.

I still have some 'questions' about what they are there for. I know they are going to get into the game later but are they all going to get back? Will they have to battel each other? When are they going to get back? Anyway, apart from all this questions of course there had to be drama, even in that little house with six people. This time the drama was between Simone and Shane, but it wasn't only drama, because they actually 'attacked' each other and they had to leave the show so, once again, Shane is out not because he lost a challenge or elimination, but because of his bad behaviour. Seriously, I don't know why he was in the Dirty 30 but ok, he's out now.

That was pretty much it in the Redemption House.

On the main house there wasn't that much drama, to be honest, but the first actual challenge gave us a lot to talk about.

First, CT was back alongside Brianna, who came to be in Ashley's place (who I forgot to mention in my last rant that she decided to leave the show, such a dumbass). Then, the actual challenge is a little bit difficult to explain but they basically had to be sit, against a wall, without basically grabbing anything, above the water, like pretty high and then, the two girls and two guys from each round to stay sit were safe and were going to choose a guy and a girl up for elimination. Also, there was the two guys and two girls from each round to fall first up for something (which we still don't know about).

I basically can't really remember in each round they 'won' but the guys that were safe were CT, Derrick K, Nelson and, obviously, Bananas. For the girls, it was Tori, Cara Maria, Nicole and then something happened. It was between Aneesa and Camila. Camila fell first but Aneesa grabbed the rope, which was against the rules and, because of that, my girl Camila was also safe so, everything worked out fine for me!

In terms of the people that fell first, I can't really remember everyone but I know Jenna, Cory, Leroy, Derrick H and Jemmye were in that group.

When it came to nominations, basically everyone agreed on who to vote - Cory and Brianna. In terms of the girls, everyone voted for Brianna, but for the guys someone voted for Ammo and Camila voted for Hunter, which the rest of the 'winning group' didn't really like but, to be honest, she was right when she said it's an individual game and they don't need to agree on who to vote so, you go Camila!

Well, in the end, Cory and Brianna went up for elimination but here's when things get tricky. TJ said for the 'loosing team' to also pack their bags and that was it. The episode ended and we don't know what that means.
My predictions are that, either Cory and Brianna choose who they want to go against from that loosing team, or they have to against each person for that team (for example, Cory had to go against Leroy, and then against Derrick H and so on and so on). I don't know... Let me know your predictions and I'll see you with a new The Challenge rant next week!
Love,
Daniela.

The Challenge: Dirty 30 | XXX Episode 1 - "Thirty Rotten Scoundrels"

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Hello guys!

So, we're back with a new The Challenge season and with a pretty exciting one!

I know I'm a little late with this updates (as well as the Shadowhunters ones, but those are coming tomorrow) but, like I told, I was going on holidays and I couldn't watch nor rant about the new episodes so, I'm here now for that.

First of all, I got to say that the beginning of the episode was something! 

Then, I must say I'm pretty happy with the players this season! Besides my favourites, Bananas and Camila, we also have CT, Darrell, Jenna and Derrick, who is back after awhile.

Of course there's some people that I hate *cough* Amanda *cough* but I can deal with that.

In this first episode we basically went straight to the 'challenge', which was both a challenge and an elimination because, in the end of this challenge, three players were going home.

The challenge was played in three rounds. In the first round four guys and four girls were automatically saved and, of course, Bananas was the first one to finish and obviously he was safe! From the girls, Kailah (who I hate) was the first one, but Camila was second so she was also safe, which got me pretty happy already!

In the second round they were split into two teams. At first, was rooting for the Pink Team, which was the one where Jenna was in, but Amanda was also in that same Team, so I switched to the Blue Team, and that was the Team to win, which meant, they were all safe too.

Third round was only for the Pink Team, but I had a lot of faith in Jenna and, guess what?! She ended up winning! And, in a plot twist, the guy and the girl to win this last round, were the ones to pick the three girls and the three guys to be eliminated!

First, Jenna chose Simone, which was fine by me. I don't dislike her but I don't like her either. Then, Cory chose Devin, because he's really sneaky and he couldn't be trusted. After that Jenna chose Amanda, which got me pretty happy and that was actually the highlight of the episode for me! Cory then chose Shane and, for last, between Tony and Darrell, he chose to send Darrell home, which I kind of understand. Jenna, between Jemmye and LaToya chose LaToya.

And that was it. Or so we thought.

Because I've been watching The Challenge for a while now, I was expecting something to happen and it did happen.

Turns out, those six people that were 'eliminated', went in fact to a seperated house, just like in the Battle of the Exes II, when Bananas went to that same house and then got back to the game. 

This really is the dirtiest season so far and I'm pretty excited about it!

I'm going to get going and watch the new episode so I can have an update for you as quickly as possible.

So, I'll see you in a few hours.

Love,

Daniela.

Shadowhunters | Season 2 Episode 15 - "A Problem of Memory"

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Hello again!

It looked like I took a little longer with a new post. Turns out there was no episode last week because of the 4th of July so I only had a new episode to talk about this week, so here I am!

I have to be honest, I couldn't wait for this episode. Not that it was about the episode, but I just wanted a new episode (mostly because of Sebastian) and, to be fair, this episode didn't disappoint me one bit!

The episode started of with the two main storylines this episode, also my two favourites. Simon going to a Bleeder's Den and Sebastian ironing and placing the hot iron on his hand.

Then, we move on to Alec, who wakes up to an empty bed, and sees that Magnus is troubled but he doesn't explain why. By the end of the episode he does and we learn a little bit more about his past and everything. It was cute, but it wasn't the main thing in the episode. Still, it was nice to have a little bit of Malec in it.

We move on to the Institute, where Izzy sees Clary who's trying to reach Simon, to which Izzy tells her that she can love two people at the same time, which reminded me a lot of The Vampire Diaries.

On the note of Simon, he wakes up with a hungover and in a bloody shirt. Clary then arrives at the boat house to try and explain everything but Simon breaks up with her because she doesn't love him the way he loves her, which is true.

After that, a girl is found dead, drained of blood, and Simon's prints were found on her, so obviously everyone thinks he's the one that killed her. Because of that, he runs and goes for Raphael for help, but he tells him that he will only help him if he tells how she became a Daylighter, to which Simon says that he doesn't know and just goes somewhere else because Raphael didn't believe him.

He goes to the place where she was with that girl and then that Lady Cop that is working with Luke finds him and Simon is arrested. In the car, on the way to the police, that lady keeps talking about the murder and everything and that's when she says that she was drained from her feet, so that's when Simon realizes that he didn't kill her because he never liked feet. So then, he just gets out of the car and goes back to that Bleeder's Den.

Back to my favourite part, the Sebastian's storyline... Aline, Sebastian's cousin, arrives at the Institute and, as soon as Sebastian sees her, he looks uncomfortable. That's when we move to the next scene and we see that the man in Sebastian's closet is the real Sebastian, just like everyone predicted.

Moving to Simon's storyline once again so, he goes back to the Bleeder's Den and finds Quinn (the guy he was the past night) and sees him drinking from a girls feet, so he knows right away that it was Quinn who killed that girl. Quinn doesn't even try to deny it and so both start fighting. In the end, Simon stakes him through the heart and kills him.

And, again, back to the Sebastian storyline.

We see that the real Sebastian is able to get out of the closet and out of the apartment. He's about to get to Aline and Izzy but that's when the fake Sebastian gets to him and ends up really killing him.

In the very end, it was time to transfer Valentine to Idris. They get Magnus to help with the portal and that's when they're getting into it that I notice something is about to happen. Obviously Valentine gets to escape, this time, to a twist that I didn't see coming. Because of Sebastian.

Then, the episode ends with a grotesque being with no skin (fake Sebastian's true form) calling Valentine "father".

I can't say that this was a surprise for me because it wasn't. I always knew that 'Sebastian' was in fact Jonathan, Valetine's son and Clary's brother, but it was still pretty cool to see all of this happening.

To wrap everything up, I think this was a pretty decent episode. In fact, I think it was one of the best! It didn't have much action but it had two of my favourite storylines - Simon and Sebastian - and they didn't focus too much on Clary which was nice.

Also something that I noticed was a lot of The Vampire Diaries similarities, like when Izzy said to Clary that it was ok to love two people at the same time, and then when Raphael compelled that Lady Cop and the last scene when Sebastian says 'Hello, Father' just like Damon said to Stefan 'Hello, Brother' so, there's that.

Oh, and next week the episode is going to be the one Directed by Paul Wesley so, I'm pretty excited for that!

Ok, I think that's it.

I'm sorry if this is a little bit of a mess but it's been a few days without posting anything.

Anyway, let me know your thoughts on the episode and I'll see you in two weeks (because next week I'm on holidays) with new Shadowhunters and The Challenge rants!

Love,

Daniela.

Shadowhunters | Season 2 Episode 14 - "The Fair Folk"

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Hello everyone!

I'm sorry for being a little late with this post but the next episode only airs next monday which means I'm still on time. And since there's no more series on air right now, I think I'm fine.

So, this was a slow episode in my opinion. A lot happened, don't get me wrong, but there wasn't much action, although I must say that the photography and editing in this episode was really good so congrats on that.

But yeah, in terms of actual stuff that I happened, I need to talk about, first of all, the thing that everyone was really excited and curious about - the Seelie Queen.

I keep up with some channels on youtube that make reviews and talk about the series so I already knew that this was coming and I also knew that the Seelie Queen was going to be a 'child', I was just curious to see if she was going to be any good. Well, for me, she wasnt. I don't know, I think she needed more carisma, although by the end of the episode I was already pissed at her so, I guess she did a good job?! Maybe, but comparing her to Hope from The Originals, who is probably a lot younger than this girl, Hope aka Summer Fontana is so much better so, in my opinion, she wasn't good.

In terms of what happened in that place, it wasn't much, once again, in my opinion. Yes, Clary kissed Jace and Simon got really heartbroken but that was the only thing that mattered in this storyline and that was exactly what I felt, that they only did this for 1) show us the Seelie Queen and 2) to make Climon end and Clace come back.

Anyway, let's talk about something actually good. You know what's coming. Yes, Sebastian!

He wasn't like major in this episode, but he was back and that ending was quite something! Besides, there was that whole thing in the beginning with Jace playing the piano and both of them, Jace and Sebastian, talking about how Jace learned it and all and then, in the end, Sebastian playing piano as well because, you know, Valentine also taught him. Oh, and I can't forget about the 'triangle' between Sebastian, Izzy and Raphael. I should include Meliorn in this too, thought, but yeah, it was also something interesting, but not my favourite. I liked the fact that Raphael didn't 'want to' be with her because this leaves room for Sizzy, mostly because now Simon is sad/angry with Clary so, this is all going towards that, which leaves me happy.

And then, there's only left the 'main storyline' which was all that reunion with all the Downworlders and Alec to 'make piece' which was nice, mostly too see Alec in charge, but I feel like this just happened so all the other storylines could happen. I don't know, I feel really torn about this episode.

Let me know what you thought about this episode.

Well, and I guess that's it! I hope you liked and besides telling me your thoughts on the episode, also tell me your predictions for who is that person that Sebastian has locked up, because I have no clue (for once).

I'll see you next week with a new Shadowhunters rant!

Love,

Daniela.