Arrow | Season 6 Episode 16 - "The Thanatos Guild"

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Hello!

So, like I said, here I am with a new Arrow rant!

Also, yes, I'm starting off with a pretty similar overall look on this episode as from the one I had on the Supernatural episode. I feel like this episode was also a filler. While the Supernatural episode was mainly done just for the crossover, I feel like this episode was just done to say goodbye to Willa, which it was actually.

Still, it pains me to say this but I feel like this episode was better than the Supernatural one, mainly because this one had some storyline development - the Dinah/Curtis part of the episode which, surprisingly, I really liked.

In the past episodes Dinah and all the NTA have been pissing me off but I'm really happy with them in this one. I'm just going to get this out of the way because, althought this one of my favourite things about this episode, there was so little of it. Basically Dinah, with Curtis' help, finally noticed that the Head of the Police is working for Diaz. Thank god because that way they are closer to 'distroy' Diaz, which is always good. From that storyline, that was basically it so, let's move to the main part of the episode.

Basically Nyssa comes to Star City for Thea, claiming that a splinter group from the League of Assassins, lead by a woman named Athena, are coming for her because of a map that only Malcolm knew about and where it was.

Thea decides to help her but just to find the map and then she leaves with Roy.

Obviously it doesn't end there. They do find the map, but it's inside some type of locked box and that's when Felicity comes in action.

Something else that I really enjoyed in this episode was all the girl power. Not only because of Thea and Nyssa, but also Felicity who helped a lot in this one (she always does, but still). And let's not forget about Dinah that was doing something else.

Anyway, soon enough Thea decides to go even further with this, which doesn't make Roy that happy.

At the same time, there's a really cute moment between Thea and Oliver that really cleared things up and which is going to cause some 'trouble' for the next episode, between Oliver and Diggle. Well, basically in this conversation, Oliver tells Thea that he likes to be the Green Arrow and he doesn't want to give up on that, and that's going to cause trouble with Diggle because Diggle really wantes to be the Green Arrow as well so... Yeah...

So, they open the box and discover a blank map. Luckily, after a fight with Athena and her group, they find how to reveal the ink in the map and discover that it is the way to find another Lazarus pit, to which Nyssa is pretty set to go after it and destroy it.

In the end, Thea, Roy and Nyssa depart to destroy the Lazarus Pits and Oliver says goodbye to them.

It was a pretty good ending though, with Roy and Thea still together and this leaves room for them to return if they ever want to. As well as for another storyline. Heck, even to create a spin-off, even thought I don't think they'll do that.

As you can see, this was all just to say goobye to Thea aka Willa because she wanted to leave the show. I liked it, but once again, a bit pointless. Unfortunatelly, I feel like the next episode is going to be a bit of a filler as well with all that fight between Diggle and Oliver but, let's see.

In the meantime, let me know what you thought of this episode and I'll see you next week with new rants!

Love,

Daniela.

Supernatural | Season 13 Episode 16 - "Scoobynatural"

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Hello everyone!

Here we are with the most anticipated Supernatural episode (and rant) - the Scooby-Doo crossover!

I'm starting off by saying that you are going to hear me (read) saying basically the same thing for this episode as for Arrow's (which the rant is coming up next) so I appologize in advance.

Overall, this episode was really great but I just can't agree with most people that were saying that this was their favourite episode ever from Supernatural.

Yes, it was super funny and something never seen! There's no other TV Show that did a crossover with an animated show and that's quite something by it's own. Also, this had everything a normal episode of supernatural has but, truth be told, this was basically a filler episode. You can clearly see that this episode was made just for the crossover, which I apreciate, don't get me wrong, but there wasn't any storyline development and that's what I look forward in the episodes.

Anyway, I can't say that I hated the episode because I didn't, I loved it, I just wish there was a little bit more of storyline development. Well, in the end, this episode was just for laughs really. It started off with a pretty 'dumb' thing, with the boys fighting a plushie. After helping a guy, he gives the boys a free TV and that's how they get stuck in the scooby-doo world as cartoons.

This was something that we found out pretty soon, just by the previews, but I still need to point out that it was a really clever way to turns the boys into cartoons.

So, that's what happened and, while looking for the boys, soon Castiel is stuck in the scooby world as well.

I've never seen Scooby-Doo, so I don't know but, from what I've read online, this was a pretty dark version of scooby-do. The 'Supernatural' in the episode, and both the Scooby Gang and the Winchesters + Cas had to fight a real ghost.

Working together, the Winchesters and the Scooby Gang trap the ghost who reveals himself to be a young boy who a guy in the real world is using to scare away some people. 

In the end, the ghost helps the boys to fool the Scooby Gang to thing that this was some real person because, like Dean said, the Scooby Gang is too pure and there's no real 'supernatural' in their world so they had to make everything right again.

They then get back to the real world and the boys help free the young boy's ghost and just catch the bad guy in the end.

Well, I need to point out that through out this whole episode Dean was hitting on Daphne, not having much luck in the end, unlike Sam, who got a kiss from Velma, which was pretty funny in my opinion. Also, really enjoyed the Cas, Shaggy and Scooby trio. It was pretty funny to see Cas find out that Scooby is a talking dog.

Oh, also, before getting sucked into Scooby-Doo, Castiel is shown to have gotten the fruit from the Tree of Life, so that was a tiny bit of storyline development.

So, I guess that's pretty much it.

Like I said before, overall this was a great episode but still a bit of a filler.

Let me know what you thought about it and I'll see you next with a new Arrow rant!

Love,

Daniela.

Shadowhunters | Season 3 Episode 2 - "The Powers That Be"

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Hello guys and here it is the second rant of the day!

This time I have some good things for you.

That's right, this week's episode of Shadowhunters was way better than the previous one! Seriously, so much better! This episode focused a lot more on just a few storylines, which I pointed out that there were too many in the first episode, so this time the few stories made it better and overall the feel of this episode was pretty different than all the other seasons. I feel like this episode was a lot more light and funny. Shadowhunters should do this more often!

The episode focused mainly on Magnus and Alec, which I appreciated. Also, with that, I could see a lot of improvement from Matthew Daddario! Not that he was a bad actor, but in this episode he was really great and he deserves a round of applause for everything that he did in the episode. Magnus aka Harry was also amazing, but he always is so I thought I didn't need to point that out.

While there was this happening between Magnus and Alec, like all the things with Lorenzo, we also moved a little forward with the Lilith storyline. Not a lot, but this was nice, just a tiny bit, to keep us guessing. It's true that I wish we knew just a little bit more about her and her plans but that's fine, I'm ok with it.

We also saw some more of Clace, when they went out on a date that didn't go that well after they meet with Simon and Maia at the restaurant. This also brought up the fact that Jace and Maia slept with each other in the previous season, which was something that us fans have been wondering about for quite some time.

Truth be told, I don't know what else to say about this episode. I just know I really enjoyed it! That ending was quite something and it just made me love Malec even more! I hope we get to see them more often. Oh, and I was almost forgetting, Magnus also mention Asmodeus and the fact that he's his father, which was also something that I've seen some fans talk about.

Well, I guess that's pretty much it. I don't know what else to say so I'll leave it up to you.

Let me know all your thoughts on the episode and if there's more things you want me to talk about in the next rant just let me know.

I'll see you Friday with new Supernatural and Arrow rants!

Love,

Daniela.

The Challenge: Vendettas | Season 31 Episode 13 - "Czechmate"

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Hello guys!

Here we are with a brand new week of rants. Per usual, we're starting with The Challenge.

This week, we had my type of episode! Not only it had a beginning, middle and ending, but it was also pretty exciting, with really good challenges and just the right amount of drama. Seriously, loved this episode!

It started right away with finding who was straight home, not going to the Czech Republic. First, they let us know that Tony and Nicole were the ones to win so they earn some money and, the last two were Jemmye, which was predictable, to be honest, and, for the guys, it was pretty close, less them 5 seconds, and it was between Devin and Kyle. You know who I was rooting for right?! Luckily, I got my wish granted and Kyle stayed and Devin was the one to go home. Karma is a bitch, right?!

They didn't stay much on that and moved pretty quickly to them going to the Czech Republic and right away (in the next day, to be precise) to a new challenge, a pretty exciting one! Challenges that involves trucks are always pretty exciting. And this one was even more because some people had to do it twice because, not only they had to come up with a last place, but also with a first place because, the first guy and girl were already in the final (which is next week/episode).

In the end, Tony and Kailah were the ones to win and to go straight to the final. And, because there had to be a Troika, Tony and Kailah were part of it alongside with the third place, Cara Maria, who was then also going to the final. And, because this was a guys elimination, all the girls then were also going to the final. But, because not everything is good, there was a last place - Nelson - who went straight home. Then, out of the remaining boys - Kyle, Leeroy, Brad and Zach - the Troika had to choose three to go to the Inquisition, and they had to choose it right away. They decided pretty quickly that they wanted to save Zach and that was what they did.Then, that's when the drama started.
In the Inquisition the three guys had to make the Troika 'save them' and they all had good arguments to be honest but Tony thought Leeroy was being a little too agressive, which I disagree, and that's when things got a little heated. Not too much thought but then, in the elimination time, that's when things went really downhill.
This time the Troika didn't have to nominate someone. Instead, they had to save someone, because the other two guys were going against each other. Cara Maria was the one to say it first and it was kind of obvious she was going to save Kyle but Leeroy was really hoping she would save him, which she didn't. She did indeed save Kyle and, right away, Leeroy felt really betrayed. I can't blame him, thought, I would feel too. Leeroy is the nicest guy in the challenge and I don't know how someone could betray him like that. Then, for once, Kailah did the right thing and saved Leeroy, and she actually did say that it was just because she liked him. Then, it all came to Tony, and he's the biggest back stabber of all of them. Well, he didn't save Leeroy. He chose Kyle instead and he said that it was because he didn't like the way Leeroy talked in the Inquisition even thought we all know that wasn't the reason. He just chose Kyle because he's the easiest to beat and Leeroy knew it and he just got mad because he wasn't honest and not because he didn't save him.
Anyway, in the end, Leeroy went against Brad and, because of all the anger he had, he pulled it through and he won which I was really happy about. I just really hope he wins everything because he deserves it! I was really mad at Tony and, the 'liking' that I was starting to feel, just vanished and I really don't want him to win.
The episode ended right there but the thing that got me the most excited was the 'Next On' because Bananas is back! That's right! There's going to be another Mercenaries thing and Bananas is one of them! I really can't wait for that! And I hope he goes against Tony and send him home, I really do! I'm so excited about this, you have no idea!
Let me know what you thought of that preview and what you thought about the whole Leeroy thing.
I'll see you next with a new Shadowhunter rant!
Love,
Daniela.

Shadowhunters | Season 3 Episode 1 - "On Infernal Ground"

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Hello everyone!

Shadowhunters is finally back and, as always, I'm here to talk about it.

I'm always pretty critical when it comes to Shadowhunters so expect something a bit harsh because yes, this wasn't my favourite episode and I'm going to tell you why.

First of all, the episode started right away badly. Not only it started with Clary's 'lie' but also it started with that dreadful background. I don't know what it is about Shadowhunters but their background, when it's done with green screen, it's always bad. I'm sorry but it's true. You can clearly see that it's done with a green screen and that's never a good thing and, because I'm an audiovisual student, I always notice things like that so... Yeah, one thing that I didn't like.

I also didn't like the fact that they showed too many 'storylines'. I mean, I get it. They wanted to show every main character in this first episode but there was some storylines that weren't that relevant and that they didn't really show much and they could've used that time to show a bit more of the main storylines. Like for example, they showed a tiny bit of that Raphael storyline, that I didn't really understand and they could've use that time to show us a little bit more of Lilith and her intentions. I know the people that read the books know everything but me, being one of those that didn't, would like to know a little bit more about her. I also know that it's all part of the suspense and everything so, in a way, I get it. I'm just saying that they couldv'e cut out some of the others storylines.

But, because it wasn't all bad, I need to mention my favourite parts of the episode.

You all are probably expecting me to say that it was Will Tudor aka Sebastian and, althought I did like to see him back, because I thought we were only going to see him again in the second part of this season, it wasn't my favourite part (it was my second favourite). My favourite part was the whole Jace storyline. I loved his bad dreams and all that and I actually really liked Dominic's acting, which is something I think I've never mentioned before. Obviously I also like the Lilith storyline and, surprisingly, I also liked the whole thing with Clary and her weapons and everything. I also think that Kat McNamara improved her acting so, that's good!

And, just to finish of this rant, I'd like to mention that I just think they should've ended the Ollie storyline. I think that's another problem that they (the characters) don't need and, overall, it's just a bit boring. Unless she's hiding something else (maybe she's the reason why Jordan, Maia's ex.boyfriend, comes back) I don't see why she's still around. Luke should've just let the demon kill her.

Anyway, this are my thoughts on the first episode of season 3. Let me know yours and I'll see you, probably just next week, with a new rant!

Love,

Daniela.

The Challenge: Vendettas | Season 31 Episode 12 - "Help Me, Rhonda"

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Hello guys! Here we are with a brand new week of rants!

As per usual, we're starting of with The Challenge but, unfortunatelly, with a pretty underwhelming episode.

This one was basically split in two and, as you can imagine, it ended with the most exicting part. The first half of the episode I feel like it was really rushed and they didn't pay much attention into anything. The good part is that we had like the 'beginning, middle and end' that I liked, the bad part is that it wasn't that exciting and the second half, with a new challenge, ended with no conclusion so... Yeah, it was a good cliffhanger but... I don't know, I feel like this episode let me down a little bit. Still, let's talk about it.

It all started with that scene that they've already shown, with Natalie and Nelson talking about her betraying him and, I don't really know how I didn't really how it all was going to end because they focused a lot on Natalie in this episode so... Yeah, you can already tell how this ended but yeah...

They moved on pretty quickly to the week's challenge and I was pretty excited about this one because it was a swimming challenge and those are the hardest ones, I think. That challenge was also really underwhelming in the end because, first, the grenades that Brad and Kam 'threw' were pretty bad and, once again, Kam shot herlsef in the foot and, while throwing the Time grenade at Cara, the Troika messed everything and put Kam in the same Team as Cara Maria so, she f*cked again. Then, Brad did a better job, but still... He used the Tied Up grenade on Kyle and it was really bad for his Team because his Team was the worst and he couldn't even participate on the challenge.

Anyway, in the end, Brad, Tony, Devin, Zach, Natalie, Nicole and Jemmye's Team won. Because of that, as usual, they had to choose the Troika and, already knowing that this was a girls elimination, they chose Brad, Zach and Tony to be in the Troika. I got really mad about that! If it was me, they wouldn't have done that! At least one girl should be in the troika, if not all girls! Seriously, until now, they still don't know that they are all competing with each other so, why mess up with the girls?! I mean, the girls would be safe and they weren't going in anyway so...

Moving forward (because if I get more into that I'll be really really mad) the losing team also had to choose a girl to into elimination... This was the first time that there was a tie between Cara Maria and Kailah and, because they didn't come to a decision, the troike chose, out of all the girls, so Cara Maria, Kailah and Kam, and yeah, the troika chose Kam. I would too, to be honest.

Oh, after that, something else that really got my blood boiling was that they won like a royalty treatment with massages and stuff like that, but only the troika! I mean, seriously?! The whole team won! Why didn't the whole team got that treatment and all the good stuff?! Seriously, this whole episode was so unfair! I would be mad, really!

At least, they didn't focus much on that and got on with the nominations and inquisition. Hell, they didn't even spend that much time with the nominations or inquistion. They chose Kailah, Cara Maria and Natalie and, in the end, they chose Natalie to go against Kam, which was just messed up really, I hate when they betray their own team players!

Well, needless to say that Natalie lost and yeah, they got going with the episode after that, actually pretty quickly and moved to the exciting part of the episode. That part where they have a challenge and two people are going home right away based on that.

This is those types of challenge that are really similar to the finals and, actually, they find out that, won doesn't go home, is going to Czech Republic which means, they are pretty close to the final!

And, once again, as you can imagine, we don't see how this whole thing ends. I mean, we see everyone complete the challenge but we will just find out who's going home in the next episode. And the worst part is that I have no clue who it is! I mean, Kyle was the only one that seemed to stuggle with the challenge a little bit but we don't know, he might have done better than the others so... Seriously, I have no idea.

I know that the ones that I would like to see go home are Devin and Kailah. Devin because I just don't like him and Kailah because she's a bigger threat to Cara Maria than Kam (because I don't like either of them). But, to be honest, I just hope Leroy and Cara Maria stay in the game because I don't like any of the other players so... If they stay, I'm happy.

So, let me know who would you like to see go home and I'll see you soon with the first rant of Shadowhunters Season 3!

Love,

Daniela.

The Flash | Season 4 Episode 16 - "Run, Iris, Run"

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Hello everyone!

Here I am, like I said, with the brand new The Flash rant.

So, this episode was one that a lot of people were excited about because of the whole Iris being a speedster but, I gotta say - it disappointed me a bit...

Don't get me wrong, there were a lot of things that I liked about this episode but, the main focus of it, which was Iris, I think was pretty disappointing and, to be quite honest, it made me dislike her character even more. I'm sorry but that's my true opinion... Anyway, let's get into specifics and I'll talk through it.

The episode actually begins with them trying to find a way to stop DeVoe but soon it moves to the 'bad guy of the episode'. It all started with a metahuman with fire powers that was trying to rob Central City bank. That's when another metahuman (that we don't really know he's a meta but, because we knew what this episode was all about, we suspected) named Matthew Kim tries to stop the fire meta, touches him and he basically takes his powers and transfers them to someone else.

Obviously Team Flash go after Matthew to ask him a few questions and that's when Barry and Iris come into contact with him which results in Barry loosing his powers and Iris getting superspeed.

Right away there was something that bothered me - the way Barry looked. I mean, in the end (and I know I'm jumping a little ahead) Barry says that he wouldn't ever ask Iris to give up her powers but you just could see in his face that he was sad about it, and that just broke my heart. I know that's not exactly something bad about the episode but I just hate seeing Barry sad and I needed to point that out.

Anyway... In the meantime, Harry is planning to build is own thinking cap, just like DeVoe's, in order to outwit DeVoe. This also creates a lot of drama, mostly between Harry and Cisco, because the later doesn't like this plan. But, the truth is, the thinking cap is actually a pretty good idea and I really liked to see Harry come up with it. Harry have never been one of my favourite characters but I liked this and I can't wait to see where this goes.

Back to Barry and Iris... So, with their roles reversed, Iris becomes Central City's hero speedster, while Barry becomes the 'team leader', the one behing the computers. Well, this was another thing that bothered me... Since when Iris is the leader?! I mean, I know she became the leader when Barry went to the Speed Force but he's back now so... He should be the leader?! I don't know about you but I've never seen Iris as the leader to be honest... The show it's called 'The Flash' for a reason. Not hating on Iris or anything, I'm just saying, Barry is the leader because he's the Flash, and it's the Team Flash so... I don't know. I would like to know your opinions on that. Also, not something that I didn't like, more like something that we finally learn was that Iris is no longer a reporter. This was something that a lot of fans have been asking about and it was nice to have an answer. But this also raised some questions in my mind... So, Iris doesn't have a job, Barry doesn't have a job either so... Where do they get money from to pay their bills and stuff?! Just a thought...

Back to the storyline.

The new meta with the fire powers shows up demanding the same thing as the other guy - money. Once again, it had to be Iris to the rescue but she can't do a lot of things so, using Harry's thinking cap, they come up with an idea - create a tidal wave. And so, Iris manages to defeat the meta.

Back at STAR Labs, Matthew touches Iris and Barry again, restoring Flash's speed. They also let him know about DeVoe and his plans and kind of ask him for help, which he agrees to and, actually, seems happy about it. Let's just hope this is not some of DeVoe's plan.

I also wanted to point out another part of the episode that I quite enjoyed. Yes, Ralph. Ok, he was a little bit mean in the beginning, but in the end he basically appologized and he was cute. Besides, I don't know if it was just me or he looked pretty fine in this episode?! I don't know, I just think he looked better than in the previous episodes (not that he looked bad in the other ones, there was just something about him in this one). Once again, hope he doesn't turn on Team Flash because if he did, I would be devastaded! I love his character!

And yeah, to finish it of, back at home, Iris admits that while she did enjoy having superspeed, Central City needs the light Barry is, which was super cute! Then, in the very end, we see Harry using the thinking cap and finding the last two bus metas' names - Janet Petty and Edwin Gauss.

Unfortunately we will have to wait about a month for the new episode, which sucks...

In the mean time, let me know your predictions and don't forget to let me know your thoughts on Iris being the leader. I would love to know what you think.

Well, I'll see you proabably next week because there's no new Arrow or Supernatural episodes this week so... See ya!

Love,

Daniela.