My laptop's dead

Of course, on the very same day when Agent Maria Hill appeared on Agents of Shield, my laptop decided to be play dead :( 

I really have no idea when my review for Agents of Shield 1x20 Nothing Personal will be posted since I CAN'T EVEN WATCH IT. I'm pissed off I wanna see Agent Hill on my screen!!!! 

I think I need a new laptop. Someone buy me a new laptop please, I'll make you some pancakes in return thanks. 

Game of Thrones 4x04 Oathkeeper review

Oathkeeper is the fourth episode of GoT season 4. Last week, viewers were left with Daenerys reaching the city Meereen and throwing some barrel catapults filled with broken chains, as a message to the slaves that she would bring them freedom. This episode picked up right after that event.

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Oathkeeper opened with Daenerys' story. Most of the time, Dany's part is always put at the end of an episode, right? Which is reasonable since her scenes always ended in some sort of a bombastic epic stuff but yeah we got her as an opening this time, so maybe the ending of this episode will be even more epic? Maybe.

Apparently, Dany's message and speech last week was not enough to create a revolution for the slaves inside Meereen. But enough to get them talking about it. So the next step was to secretly send in some of the Unsullied, disguised to look just like Meereen's slaves, through a sewer. Inside, the Unsullied gave the slaves a little pep talk about freedom and also some weapons to kill the masters. 

So the next morning, the slaves started the rebellion against the masters, killing them and capturing them. 

One thing I found a bit funny was that the writing was in common tongue (a.k.a English). The only Unsullied who learned the common tongue was Grey Worm, as far as viewers know, and in the beginning he said "Kill the Masters", so perhaps he was the one who wrote the message. But come on, Meereen people, both slaves and masters, spoke Valyrian, not English. Wouldn't it be more logical is the message was in Valyrian, so everyone in Meereen could understand the threat? Maybe to make it easier to understand for viewers at home? Understandable, but come on. 

Moving on, once the masters were captured, Daenerys decided to punish them the same way they killed little girls on the road to Meereen. Ser Barristan actually gave a good advice against it but she was being firm. I actually agreed with Ser Barristan because idk, I have a feeling this act will have a backlash on Dany, but oh well, a queen does what she wants.

Closing frame of Dany's part in this episode was this:

Guess what my laptop wallpaper is now.

Next, we see brotherly moment between Jaime and Tyrion. Bros!

Cersei still insisted on having Tyrion and Sansa killed for murdering Joffrey. Even worse, she actually sent Jaime to find and kill Sansa. Jaime refused to do so since he knew they were both innocent, so he found a way to prevent it, by sending Brienne to find and protect Sansa with his sword, the one made by Tywin from Ned Starks' Valyrian steel sword. Brienne then named that sword Oathkeeper, hence the title of this episode. 

Speaking of Joffrey's murder, in this episode WE FINALLY FOUND OUT ABOUT THE PEOPLE BEHIND THE STAGE!

Littlefinger and Sansa were still in a ship on a journey to keep Sansa safe. There, Lord Baelish explained everything. 

 

See, I told you the necklace was important. 

Also when Baelish mentioned the word "friendship", the scene directly moved to this two:

Now it's all clear. It was Petyr Baelish and Olenna Tyrell all along. Sneaky, but it worked. Kudos you two sneaky schemer, you both have succeeded in fooling the whole King's Landing!

One more big part of this episode, that also lead to the end of the episode, was the story from the north. Tbh the north arc has never been interesting for me, so I'll just go over it quickly. 

Previously, the Night's Watch had been informed that there were mutineers at the Craster's Keep. So this time, Jon Snow was sent there by the leaders but actually all they wanted was for Snow to get killed there. Guess nobody likes you Snow, haha. Bran Stark also happened to be at Craster's Keep after being captured by the mutineers there. So apparently Jon Snow will be reunited with Bran sometime soon.

One thing though, Jon traveled to Craster accompanied by a man called Locke. He was actually Roose Bolton's guy. Locke was also the one who cut off Jaime's hand last season. Is this some sort of plan so Bolton could kill both Jon Snow and Bran? We shall see.

For those who can't remember who the hell this Craster guy was, he was the man who lived with his wives/daughters. He had a tradition, that if one of his wives/daughters gave birth to a boy, that baby boy would be given to the White Walkers a.k.a the zombie of Game of Thrones. 

In this episode, a baby boy was born at the Craster's Keep. The mutineers decided to do the same as Craster did, giving the boy to the White Walkers. At the end of the episode, the same walker we saw at the finale of season 2 seemingly took the baby to a place. Some sort of a ritual table??? Idk but it looked like Superman's Ice Fortress. Then another walker took the baby and changed him into a walker as well. 

What the ????? A cool yet confusing way to end an episode, I suppose.

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I give Oathkeeper 3/5 noise. Nothing big really happened, no surprise besides the truth behind Joffrey's death, all in all, nothing really wowed me. It's to be expected though, since in my opinion it's typical GoT season trend, high tension on the first episodes, goes down during midseason, and goes back on climax for the last 2 episodes of the season.

On another note, the stories are getting more complex, and each character is getting deeper. There are controversies about book vs TV especially about the rape scene last week, but personally I hope the show will stick to the book, since the books are awesome.

Grey's Anatomy 10x21 Change of Heart review

Change of Heart is the 21st episode of GA season 10. Last week we were left with Cristina not winning the Harper Avery Award. I'm still pissed. I get it, it's for the plot, it's to accommodate Sandra Oh's leaving this show, BUT STILL. Come on, it's CRISTINA YANG. If anybody deserves the Harper Avery Award, it's HER. She needs some justice, okay.

Oh heads up, this episode explained everything, and gave a big big BIG change of opinion for me. Shonda Rhimes is an absolute genius. 

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Richard Webber and Meredith Grey did a nice summary of how I felt.

Spot on, Mer!

Cristina was a wreck in this episode. First of all, she left Owen and Mer the morning after the ceremony without any words. Then out of nowhere she barged into the OR where she then performed a surgery on the heart-problem-siblings, and it went horribly. 

Long story short, sister #1 donor heart turned out to be a damaged organ, so she needed another new heart, which was to be available soon. Meanwhile, sister #2 also went through a heart failure so she needed that new heart as well. The parents couldn't make the decision on who should get that heart, so Cristina had to make the impossible decision. 

Cristina decided to give the heart to sister #2 since she had the better chance to be stable. Sister #1 was supposed to use an artificial heart for a while, but it didn't work out, and later on she died. Cristina seemed to hit the rock bottom after this. 

You see, in Grey's Anatomy universe, Harper Avery award is the biggest achievement a surgeon can have, the ultimate dream, especially for someone like Cristina, who has always been so determined to be the best, far beyond everyone else. So yeah, her losing, no matter how easily she seemed to take it, still broke her. 

But then, we found out about this.

Politics? What politics?

Damn politics, am I right? 

Once Owen told Cristina about this, she's changed. It's like a button was pushed and Cristina just changed. 

But actually this made everything clear. It's now clear how we are going to see Sandra Oh leaving the show. I can already see how the writers are going to send Cristina off.

It's obvious now that no one from Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital will win a Harper Avery, ever. So, the way I see it, in Cristina's mind there's no more point of being there. I'm guessing that this will be the ultimate reason for her leaving the hospital. She will have a chance of winning the award if she works at other hospital, one that isn't owned by the Avery Foundation. So why should she stay in Seattle, right?

I've been a fan of Sandra Oh/Cristina Yang ever since I first watched this show years ago. And I'm really sad that she's not coming back next season. BUT, this plot, this story line, it actually makes me want Cristina to leave. Because she deserves it. Because it's just right.

Shonda Rhimes, you are damn brilliant. I never thought there will be a day when I will be glad to see my most favourite character ever leaving a show. But here I am now.

My guess is, after this Cristina will move to another hospital, perhaps with some persuasion from Preston Burke, maybe they will become a team of cardio Gods or something. But yeah, I'm almost 100% sure that this is how we'll see Cristina off.

A quick review about other surgeons' story line:

• Alex Karev seemed sure to take the private practice job. He even told the board about it. Is it final? Idk. I still stand by my opinion last week, that he'll go away for a while but he'll come back.

• Bailey's HIV-immuno research got stopped since the boy's mom decided to no longer give consent for her son's treatment. But at the very last scene, we saw Bailey holding her virus while looking at the boy. Maybe she'll keep doing the treatment behind the mom's back? It's dangerous, but Bailey's story line has always been kinda extreme, so we shall see

• Dr Webber was planning a marriage proposal to Catherine Avery, but due to all the things about the award, it seemed that the plan was off.

• Jackson and April were still fighting. But now things got more complicated because oops

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I give Change of Heart 4.5/5 noise. At first look, yeah it seemed like a regular episode, but I'm still amazed by how Shonda did her magic for Cristina's story line. Very well done.