The Challenge: Final Reckoning | Season 32 Episode 15 - "Wheel of Fortune"

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Hello again people!

Yes, I was able to watch and post about the new The Challenge episode, like I said I was going to try! And what an episode!

I'm extremely happy with this episode and I'm so stoked for the next one! It's going to be huge so I can't wait!

But anyway, this episode was full of eliminations. Heck, it was just eliminations, and it was so good!

First of all, we saw the elimination of Cara Maria/Marie and Shane/Nelson that was extremely short. Well, now that I think about it, I understand why it was so short. In the end, Cara and Marie lost and we saw them, straight away getting to the Redemption House and that's when the focus of the episode also moved to the Redemption House.

We already knew this was going to happen. This was only about the Redemption House and we see what we saw in the preview last week - that there was going to be two eliminations aka four teams to battle it out. My only issue was how that was going to play out but we soon learn that the eliminations are correlated and that was cool.

Anyway, back to the double cross. The first team to get the double cross was Kam and Kayleigh, who I don't really like but I was happy just because they had said that they were going to pick Cara and Marie because both were teams of two girls, and now it was all about getting a team of two girls back to the game. The next team to get the double cross was Kyle and Brad who, again, I'm not the biggest fan of but I guess I was okay with it. Either way, it was going to benefit Bananas so, that's all that matters really. 

I'm not going to talk much about the whole politics that happened after the double cross because it's just a mess but I'm just going to say that Kam had a plan to get Natalie and Paulie back into the game as well as having Cara and Marie. Well, in the end, it kind of worked out.

In the Armageddon, Kam and Kayleigh ended up choosing Cara and Marie, like they said they would, and Kyle and Brad chose Natalie and Paulie, just because they thought it was easier to beat them. Also in that moment, we learned that Zach had his nose broken so he couldn't stay in the game anymore, which meant Amanda had to go home as well. I can't say I'm mad at it, because I hate Amanda and I just can't stand looking at her, but I felt sorry for Zach who is a good competitor and is also on Bananas side. Oh, this also meant that we had to say goodbye to Jozea and Da'Vonne, which is a bummer too because they were actually good and I had faith in them. Well, I can't wait to see them in the game again, just like they said.

So, after that, we moved to the actual elimination which was pretty hard, I must say. First were the girls and I was so happy with the results! Cara and Marie won! And then, the other team... What a slap in the face! Natalie and Paulie ended up winning, which I'm also happy about, to be honest, even more after what Natalie went through inside that ball. That looked awful so, congrats!

And, that was it for the actual episode. We then saw that the next challenge is going to be Trivia, which is one of my favorite challenges and there's going to be a whole lot of drama involving Bananas, and I actually paid really close attentions to the footage and I'm 90% sure that Hunter is the one that is going to 'knock out' Bananas which is huge and, no matte who actually does it, it's going to make an huge impact in this team's game so... We're in for a ride in the next episode.

Anyway, that's it guys. I doubt I'll be able to post any more rants today so, keep an eye tomorrow.

Until then...

Love,

Daniela.

Supernatural | Season 14 Episode 1 - "Stranger in a Strange Land"

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Hello guys!

I know, I know. I'm so late with all this rants. Hopefully, I'll be able to update you all on everything by the end of the week but, for now, you're going to have to bare with me. 

Anyway, today I'm here to talk to you about the season premiere of Supernatural. Unfortunately, I don't really have good things to say about this episode. Really, it pains me to say that I didn't like this episode and this might be the first time that I don't like a Supernatural episode. I don't know what it was but a lot of things felt off and I truly believe it's the director and the writer's fault because the actors were all pretty great.

So, we learn that three weeks have passed since Michael took over Dean's body and that Michael have been asking a lot of people the question "what do you want?" in a way to see who is 'worth' or something (which we kind of learn by the end of the episode). One of the people that he goes to talk to is the angel Anael aka Jo aka Danneel (Jensen's wife) and this must have been the only thing that I liked about the episode - seeing Jensen and Danneel act together. It was nice and funny at the same time. From that, it was just downhill.

Back in the bunker, everything is different! And, I guess that's the reason why I didn't like this episode. Everything felt so off and weird. Me, as a person, I hate change. I like to stick to a routine and know what I'm supposed to do and to go and what to expect and, seeing everything in this show so different from what it used to be... I guess it just upset me. First, Sam and Dean not being 'together' was so weird. Not that this hasn't happened before, but this time I fee like it's different. Plus, there's all other things that changed in this episode (and this season) - Sam is now the leader of a hunter group or something, which also means the bunker is full of people and that is also weird. Then there's Jack who doesn't have powers anymore which is extremely weird and, there's something going on between Mary and the Bobby from the other world which... weird!

Well, I guess there was another thing that surprised me and that I quite liked about this episode - Nick still being alive. And, if you don't know who Nick is, he's the vessel that Lucifer possessed (aka Mark Pellegrino) who survived after Lucifer being killed. I don't know what this means... Maybe there's a way for Lucifer to be back? To be honest, I'm really torn about that. In one hand I king of want him back because I just like Mark playing Lucifer but, on the other hand, it's getting tired of Lucifer always getting back so... Maybe they'll stick with him dead but still have Mark around as Nick. By the way, someone else that I really want to be back is Gabriel. And, there might be a chance that he's alive because I saw some set photos of Richard Speight Jr. with Jared and Jensen so... Maybe Gabriel is alive?! It can also just be the fact that Richard directed some episodes (one of them being the next one) but I'm going to keep on believe that Gabriel is still alive because I just love him too much.

Anyway, back to the story...

In a way to try to find Dean, Castiel goes to meet with the Demon Kipling who then ambushes him in hopes of making a deal with Sam and becoming the new King of Hell. Of course, Sam goes to rescue Castiel, not alone, of course and, in the end, he's able to kill Kipling and letting all the other demons know that there won't be no more Kings of Hell, something that he will enforce and the demons accept out of fear of Sam.

So, I guess that's pretty much it for this rant.

Like I said, I didn't like it, it was too weird for my liking but, hopefully, the next one will be better, mainly because it's Richard who directed the next episode and I always like his episodes so, I have faith.

Let me know what you thought of Season 14 premiere of Supernatural and I'll see you in my next rant (which might be still today - The Challenge - but I can't promise you anything).

Love,

Daniela.

American Horror Story: Apocalypse | Season 8 Episode 5 - "Boy Wonder"

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Hello everyone and here it (finally) is the new AHS rant!

So... What can I say about this episode? It was good. It wasn't like episode 3, but it was better than last episode. I don't know what else to say. For some odd reason I never like 'flashback' episodes as much as the episodes in the present day, but that didn't mean that I didn't like this episode. Actually, it had a lot of nice development of the story-line and it set things up nicely for the next one (which I'm so excited about).

Anyway, let's get into specifics and then I'll talk about predictions and what not.

The episode starts basically where the last one ended. We see some type of vision of a destroyed world and then we see Cordelia waking up. She tells the other witches the vision that she had and then decides that Michael does need to do the Seven Wonders test. Some of the witches don't agree with her decision, one of them being Myrtle.

Then, back in the Coven house, Cordelia let's Myrtle know that she is dying and slowly starting to loose her Supremacy.

Back in the warlocks house, John Henry Moore discovers Langdon's true self and decides that he needs to talk to Cordelia and so leaves. Unfortunately, Mead interferes and ends up killing him.

After that, we move on to the Seven Wonder test, which got me surprised for two different reasons. First, I thought that he wasn't going to do it because she said that it was in two weeks time or something and we saw in the present day in the last episodes that Cordelia was still the Supreme so I thought that he wasn't even going to get that far. And second, I was surprised with how they edited the sequence. It was actually pretty clever and interesting. Quite different actually, and I liked it so, good job on that.

Well, in the very end of the test, that's when things get really interesting. Cordelia asks Langdon to bring Misty from her personal hell and, besides already knowing that Lily Rabe was going to be back, you also know that Michael can, indeed, do that so, you know things are going to work out 'fine'. Which they do.

Misty then tells Cordelia that she senses something evil about Michael and that's when Cordelia let the witches know that she never planned to make Michael the Supreme and that she is actually planning an army against him and that she used him to resurrect her students.

And then, the set up for the next episode. Cordelia asks Madison to investigate Langdon's origins and sends her to the Murder House. And that's how the episode ends. 

I'm so stoked for the next episode! Not only it is going to feature all of my favorite characters (which are all from the Murder House) but it will also be a longer episode with almost an hour, which is great!

Oh, and before I end this rant, I just need to mention two other things. One, we finally saw how Coco came into place of being a witch and everything and, of course, she had to have the dumbest power of all. Two, where was Evan Peters in this episode?! That must have been my only issue with this episode, to be honest. Luckily, we are going to have a lot of Evan Peters in the next one (or at least I hope so).

In terms of predictions, I have to say that I'm starting to doubt my prediction that Murder House is the Sanctuary. I'm starting to believe that there's no Sanctuary and, instead, I believe that Murder House might be the place where the witches are right now. Having Cordelia's vision in mind, if that really happened and Michael destroyed the Coven's house, they had to move somewhere else so I believe that might be the Murder House. Also, I don't know if Mallory has, in fact, someone inside her. I still think Dinah is Queenie and Coco is Zoe but Mallory... I don't know. I also don't like the prediction that everyone is saying - that Mallory is an angel or something. I guess that's too cliche for AHS, in my opinion, so I hope they don't go with that.

Anyway, this are my thoughts and predictions for AHS. Let me know yours and I'll see you soon with a new SPN rant!

Love,

Daniela.

The Challenge: Final Reckoning | Season 32 Episode 14 - "Lavender Is the New Black"

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Hello everyone!

First of all, I'm so sorry I took way too long with this rant (this and all the others). You know, life happens. I really thought I was going to be able to post this sooner but turns out I didn't have any time so I'm posting this now. Hope you don't mind and forgive me for being late.

Anyway, past that, I have to say that I'm actually pretty happy with this episode of The Challenge. After the huge twist that was the last episode, I was really curious to see this one and, at the same time, kind of worried because Bananas was really low on alliances and I don't like that.

Surprisingly, we didn't see much drama in this episode. We saw Zach/Amanda and Jozea/Da'Vonne getting to the Redemption House, talking to everyone else that was there and that's it.

Then, we moved to the main house where the main topic was, obviously, the two alliances that are against Bananas, the Lavender Ladies and the TYB (Nelson, Hunter and Cory). They kept all being so annoying and seriously, I applaud Bananas for keeping up with that sh*t and not saying anything really, because they were all so annoying. But enough about that, let's just jump right into the week's challenge.

It was a pretty interesting one and, actually, they dragged it a lot, and leaving Bananas and Tony for last just to build up the tension because right now, they would either win and be safe, or not win and know that they were going to elimination. Thank god they actually won! I was really worried because, in the end, it was between Bananas/Tony and Nelson/Shane and I really didn't want Shane and Nelson to win so yeah, thank got Bananas and Tony won!

After that, all the drama was about Marie and her fake friends. Since she's teamed up with Cara and Cara, obviously is the only person right now on Bananas' side, they both knew (Cara and Marie) and they where going to be the ones to go to elimination. Still, Marie was part of the Lavender Ladies (kind of) and she was really good friends with Shane but everyone tells her that they are voting for her and Cara and all hell breaks loose! Marie starts fighting with everyone and Sylvia even pushes her with her head like, it was a little 'tap', it wasn't a big fight but it was nasty the way Sylvia was talking to her 'friend'. This is how you see who your real friends are.

When it came to the actual elimination, Cara and Marie already knew they were going in, with everyone but Bananas and Tony voting for them. This was actually 'funny' because now they could choose anyone else to go against them and Marie was really pissed off at everyone so, I was curious to see which team they were going to pick. I was actually surprised (or not, I don't know) when they chose to go against Shane and Nelson. I mean, I don't know if I would pick them because it's two guys against two girls but at the same time, Shane is the shadiest and he's, like Marie said, they head of all this alliances so, you gotta start with cutting off the snake's head.

And well, the episode ended like that.

I have faith that Cara and Marie are going to pull it off and win. Well, at least, I hope so, because I would love to see Shane and Nelson go to the Redemption House and basically have no chances into getting back to the main game because no one likes them in there. 

I don't know what's going to happen with those teams, but we do know, from the preview, that in the next double cross, four teams are going to elimination and two are getting back to the game so, I'm excited for that.

Ok, so that's it. Let me know all your thoughts and predictions and I'll see you soon with a new rant.

Love,

Daniela.

The Flash | Season 5 Episode 1 - "Nora"

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Hello everyone and welcome to the new season of The Flash!

First of all, I thought I should tell you that I had to watch this episode twice because I did watch some parts live but my stream was crappy and I missed the last 10 minutes (plus some other parts) so I had to re-watch everything today.

Anyway, past that, I loved this episode! Right from the beginning!

Like I said previously, I did miss some parts and one of those were the very beginning where it's actually Nora who makes the introduction of the episode, which I thought was really cute! Also, it totally got the mood started for the rest of the episode which, like the title says, was all about Nora.

There was a lot of questions about what she was doing in the present timeline, what was the big mistake that she did and what is going on between her and Iris and a bit with Barry as well, and we get answers to basically all this questions in this first episode. (Or at least, we think we get them).

Right in the very beginning we get the answer to the biggest question for the end of last season, which was 'what big mistake did Nora do?' and, turns out, she says that it was getting to this timeline. I don't know if I buy that, to be honest, but let's roll with that for now.

She also says that she can't go back to her timeline because she can't run fast enough so, from that point, the main focus of the episode is to find a way to get Nora to her timeline.

We see that Iris is pretty excited to meet her daughter but, on the other hand, Barry is really concerned about the timeline and that she might create another Flashpoint or something.

And if getting Nora back to her timeline wasn't enough, of course a new 'meta of the week' appears - Gridlock, who uses kinetic energy to get stronger and stronger. Well, turns out that Nora knows this meta because of The Flash museum from her timeline. This raises a lot of little things that were pretty funny. Well, the whole episode was kind of funny and cute, but pretty sad by the end, to be honest, but I'll get into that.

So, Flash keeps fighting this meta with some old versions of his suits, courtesy of Nora, and even that is pretty funny. Also, of course they can't defeat the bad guy in the first attempt so they try to get their other problem fixed - getting Nora home. That's when they try to do that that they find out that Nora's blood has some negative tachyons that are making her slower so that's why she can't time travel.

After that failed attempt, Iris and Barry have a conversation about Nora and that's when Barry realizes that something is wrong. He goes to talk to Nora and that's when she reveals that, in the future, Barry disappears and he never returns, so she ended up living with just Iris her whole life. That was actually why she came to this timeline and that actually she is using some type of device to 'create' the negative tachyons, because she just wanted to spend a day with her dad, who she barely met.

Back to the 'meta of the week', the later now decides to cause a plane crash and, of course, Team Flash has to stop it, to which all three - Barry, Wally and Nora - go and make the place phase, making this the first time that Nora was actually able to phase. That was a beautiful scene!

Well, and in the end, Barry decides to let Nora stay, saying that she should improve her powers before she goes back to her timeline which, we know, deep down, is just Barry sorry that she didn't spend any time with him when she was growing up.

Oh, and before I end, I should also talk about some other things that I really enjoyed about this episode which were Ralph, obviously, and him not knowing about the multiverse - that was so cute! Also, the Killer Frost story-line is already in progress, with Ralph helping Caitlin and finding out that her dad might not be dead after all! This was huge! Oh, and of course, Cicada in the very end of the episode was nice too. Although I don't know if we're getting to him already in the next episode... Let's see.

I guess that's pretty much it for this rant. I still have some doubts about Nora's big mistake, I believe there's more to it, also, I think something happened between her and Iris, besides being her only parent. I don't know, there must be something more about Nora so, let's see. But I really liked her anyway! I'm happy to have her in the cast!

So, let me know your thoughts and predictions and, just a side note, The Challenge's review is only going to go up probably tomorrow because I have an event this evening so I can't post it today. So, I'll see you tomorrow with new rants!

Love,

Daniela.

 

American Horror Story: Apocalypse | Season 8 Episode 4 - "Could It Be... Satan?"

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Hello everyone!

First of all, I'm sorry for being a little late with this rant. It's been hard to manage both my blog and my youtube channel at the same time with new content basically almost every day so, I hope you forgive me.

Second, I wasn't that pleased with the episode. I mean, I get that this episode was important to understand a lot of things, but after last week's episode, which was mind blowing, I have to say, I was disappointed.

So, basically the whole episode is flashbacks from three years ago. We see that Outpost 3 was a warlock school (only boys with power) just like the coven was a school just for girl witches. I saw some people predicting this so, it wasn't a surprise. We then see this school seek out for Michael Langdon because of his powers. They believe Michael is the Alpha, which is superior to the Supreme (which is always a women). We see this thing about witches and, now that I'm realizing, maybe that's the reason why I didn't enjoy this episode that much. This was heavily about witches and the coven and, as you know, Coven is my least favorite season so...

Anyway, they go look for Michael and put him through tests where he displays tremendous abilities. After seeing those, they decide to call the Witches School for a meeting in order to Cordelia see his powers and put him through the Seven Wonders Test (I think that's what it is called).

Cordelia refuses, afraid that he might be killed because there has never been an Alpha. So, in order to prove his power, Michael saves Queenie from eternal damnation at the Hotel Cortez, which was a big surprise, probably the best thing in this episode because I had no idea that this season was gonna feature Hotel as well as some character from that season, such as Mr. March, who was in this episode and which I loved! 

As well as saving Queenie, Michael also fetches Madison from her personal hell. I didn't remember her dying though, so this was a surprise.

And the episode basically ends like that.

However, it did make me change my mind about who Coco and Dinah are in fact. Mainly because Madison mentioned something about voodoo so she's clearly Queenie. Now, I wonder if Coco is in fact Zoe because in the flashback Zoe was the one to go with Cordelia and Myrtle to the warlocks' school. Now, it was Madison instead of Zoe so I wonder if Coco is Zoe. That would also make sense why Mallory was her assistance because we also saw in the flashback that Mallory really is a witch and she was in the witches school and Zoe believed she was really powerful so, I wonder all of that.

I hope it made some sense. This things get pretty confusing.

Well, I don't have anything else to say so, tell me your thoughts and predictions and I'll see you next week with new rants!

Love,

Daniela.

The Challenge: Final Reckoning | Season 32 Episode 13 - "The People vs. Johnny Bananas"

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Hello everyone and welcome to the review of the craziest The Challenge episode!

Seriously, wow! I don't have words for this episode! It was everything that I want out a The Challenge episode and this showed why I love this series so much! For real, I couldn't be happier with the episode! Yes, my prediction was all wrong but you know what?! I liked this outcome better, to be honest.

In case you didn't watch the episode (which, by the way, you should) everything came down when Zach and Amanda couldn't make a decision. I mean, we already knew this was going to happen, but that outcome, wow!

So, the first part of the episode was just 'drama'... Like, everyone was coming up with a plan and, this part, actually, I got right. The lavender ladies all wanted to vote for Bananas and then, there was Jozea/Da'Vonne, Cara Maria/Marie and Zach/Amanda. Zach and Amanda actually had a pretty big argument and, in the end, they voted for Jozea and Da'Vonne, like I predicted. But then, there's what I didn't get right - Bananas and Cara Maria decided that they should vote for Ashley and Hunter because Marie didn't want to vote for Shane so, they went with Ashley which, right away, was something I wasn't expecting. But one of the biggest surprised were that actually, this time, Jozea and Da'Vonne picked a side and, since we knew this was going to go to a tie, we knew they were on Bananas' side! 

Then, comes the biggest surprise of the episode (and maybe even the season)!

It gets to a tie between Bananas/Tony and Ashley/Hunter, as expected. Also, as expected, Amanda and Zach can't be on the same page so... They are the ones to go to elimination! That was some big twist! I mean, they didn't have to, but TJ said that either they would come to a decision or they would be the ones to go to elimination and Zach, also in a way to king of 'punish' Amanda, decides that they go in and that's it. Then, obviously, because no one voted for them, they could pick out of anyone else so they went with the safe choice - Jozea and Da'Vonne. But they weren't going to go against each other - both teams would go against Devin and Cory, the mercenaries. 

That's when TJ explains that, because Cory and Devin are getting into the game pretty close to the end that, in order to really get a place in the game, they had to beat both teams and, if not, they would go to the redemption house. Zach and Amanda went first against them and... Cory and Devin won, unfortunately. After that, it was all up to Jozea and Da'Vonne to stop Cory and Devin from getting into the main game but... They also failed at that, unfortunately. I was really rooting for them, not only because they were on Bananas' side, but also because I hate Devin, he's like the male version of Amanda so we did get rid of Amanda, but now there's Devin to replace her... Ugh!

Anyway, these were the events in this episode.

I have no idea what's going to happen in the next episode but a Redemption House episode must be pretty close and, after that, I guess there won't be more Redemption House. Also, I do believe Joze and Da'Vonne are going to get the double cross and they are going to get back into the game again. They are just that lucky and, to be honest, I kind of want them back. I don't like any of the other people that is there so... They are the better ones and, since the beginning, I've been liking their game so, I want them back.

So, let me know your thoughts on this crazy episode and I'll see  you tomorrow with a new AHS rant!

Love,

Daniela.