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The Terminal List: The Engram (2022)
highly unlikely
So the 2 thugs need to place protagonist James Reece in a particular position where they'll set the scene as suicide. Ok. And they know he's skilled and duly trained to react using any means necessary. So WHY do they take that long to point and shoot?!?
ALSO according to MRIquestions . Com "it may take 30-60 minutes for their magnetic fields to stabilize after being off". So bringing guns inside an MRI suite is also highly unlikely.
All of this seem to me a bit like lazy writing.
Vikings: All at Sea (2020)
Show keeps disappointing...
No battle for Kiev (just a penitent crazed Oleg in a time that Christianity had no saying in that part of the world). Again with this Ivar fatherhood?!? (is he now fit for it?). BUT the settlers leaving Greenland with empty hands all of a sudden just like the family of Kjetill had a missile launcher, grenade or machine gun was just too much, TOO desperate (just so the showrunners add some more drama to the boat/drakkar scenes).
The boring plot, its holes and never-ending nonsense would deserve minimum rate for wasting my time. BUT the cinematography was sometimes really interesting here. So a 3 is deserved.
Vikings: The Best Laid Plans (2020)
Untouchable Ivar/How many Vestfolds are there in Norway?
I know a LOT of things don't make sense in "Vikings"... So I tend not to cling here to historical accuracy, early day craziness/beliefs, miraculous recoveries (like Bjorn's on ep 8 s3 "To the Gates"), accurate visions/dreams, people injured (e.g. Lagertha) OR with no fighting skills facing a bigger threat with bare hands (like Freydis acknowledging she has betrayed Ivar, the crazy, to his face) or characters not protecting their loves ones from "telegraphed" attacks (like Hvitserk not taking Thora with him to meet King Olaf when Ivar has already threatened them with burning her alive... yup, so that the showrunners have an excuse to make him an addict, a dangerous delusional sad man that exits his hideaway at the exact SAME time that Lagertha falls from her horse, alone, and crawls to the hall where everyone else is paying attention to musicians).
Okay.
So here we have the annoying Rus characters protecting one Ivar (that does what he pleases) JUST because he is famous(?), merciless(?), a good strategist(?), that has a good memory to appoint them the better tactics or offer them a carved landscape of Vestfold that has NO resemblance to the actual place (nowadays geography)?
How is it possible to attack a place that is nothing like it "on paper" (I mean "on wood) and be successful? No archer was capable to set fire to the Rus ships while they were making their way through the obstacles? Etc etc etc
I decided to watch the first few minutes of episode 11 before writing this review and...
...Oleg states that people were saying that Ivar himself stabbed Bjorn, although Ivar can't say Bjorn was deadly injured.
So, it WASN'T a "metaphorical pierce through"? A cripple ACTUALLY climbed the precipice and made his way through the battle, to the shore, without being hit just a little bit?
Why is Ivar so strong and steady during battles (while most of the time his limping with all that gear) and no one is ever capable of even slapping his wicked ass?
Oh, by Odin, I'm tired! [these last 3 seasons drag on too much.. can't wait for the "too much talking" (EVEN during battles!!!), change of hearts (King Olaf's, for instance), betrayals, plot twists, and the nonsensical/badly written stuff to FINALLY end (I won't let myself miss the last 10 episodes, because I've come this far, but man... I've abandoned so many shows just because the executives never know how to say "enough! Let's wrap things up while they are still tasty enough." But they usually tend to bend everything out of shape...