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Episode 8 (spoilers)

posted 7 years ago by Motoko_Kusanagi (60)
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This episode had me feeling like I had missed an episode (I had not). Suddenly we see another side to Adrian which kind of works but feels forced. Not the first instance of this kind of forced writing, however, but still jarring. Last episode felt much better, like it was heading somewhere, but not here.

I feel like it could have been more interesting to have the guy who beat him up in the hospital have more than just conflicting emotions about his sexuality; maybe he was a witness at the party when Adrian raped the girl, and maybe the hospital sex was not the first time they had been intimate. Essentially something that gives more weight to Adrian's character than just this pathetic delusional rapist?

With the church arson, I can see how the cop father could be manipulated into killing his son Jay (as he believes he did it) but the murder of innocent unbelievers doesn't feel fitting, especially in such a cowardly way.

As for the mall turning rent-a-lynch, it just doesn't work for me. There was no palpable sense of hunger, claustrophobia or hysteria that would drive this mob to get behind burning the witch Alex. I could see the two groups turning against each other, but not this.

Where does it leave me? I find myself wondering if the mist will do something interesting to Nathalie, as I am not really into this mother nature's wrath interpretation, but that's about it. I'm really not as invested as I would like to be.

[–] PrimeMinisterX (8720) 7 years ago

That's interesting, since I thought that episode 8 was the best episode of the series so far. It's been over a week since I watched it so the details have already faded from memory, but the two things that really stuck out to me were Adrian's true colors coming out and the mall official's villain turn.

I thought both were pretty organic.

The revelation that Adrian is the real rapist was set up all the way back in the first episode, when he's in the police station and has an ambiguously guilty look on his face. And there were other indications that he was emotionally disturbed as well, so I didn't reveal like it was forced at all.

The mall official always came off as someone who does his best to be authoritative, but who is actually a weak-willed person. He covers this up but trying to really exert his authority. It didn't surprise me that he was hoarding food, but that could be forgiven. When he actually kills a person and then blames someone else though, he becomes a true villain.

I've never thought this was a GREAT show, but I have been pretty consistently entertained. I hope it gets renewed so we can learn more about Arrowhead.

[–] Motoko_Kusanagi (60) 7 years ago

I didn't see it all with Adrian. At most I suspected he might have been a witness at the party and knew who did it, but that it wasn't Jay.

I hope it gets renewed too. It is strange, the last two episodes (9&10) I really enjoyed.

I kind of hope we haven't seen the last of Jay. Can the mist learn from the suffering of those siblings?