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Angel: Supersymmetry (2002)
Didn't Fred send herself to Pylea?
Don't get me wrong, I do like that they added a back-story episode for Fred. With the exception of the episode about her parents coming to visit, I felt that her character could have been explored a lot more than it was in the series. This episode, however, confuses the viewer. Back in the finale of Season 2, "There's No Place Like Plrtz Glrb", we learn that not only did Fred send HERSELF to Pylea by reading out of a book and opening a portal (we see this in Cordelia's earlier vision), but during the scene in the cave when Angel and Fred discuss the words she's written on the cave walls, she admits using the same words that she used to send herself to Pylea to try to get back.
ANGEL: I know these words. These are the words we used to open up the portals. FRED: They're not words. They're consonant representations of a mathematical transfiguration formula. I used to think that if you said them out loud and in the right order, the quaking and quivering would- ANGEL: You mean opening a portal. (Angel then suspects she's unknowingly been opening the portals in Pylea and sending things to the Earth dimension.) So you see, she sent herself to Pylea. I found it very difficult to simply accept that this professor had anything to do with Fred's disappearance, even after Fred's discovery of a hidden portal book in her professor's office. The second attempt on her life through her cell phone call just confirmed that there was someone trying to kill her, but nothing was ever explained about how he did it to Fred the first time or why. Had he planted the book that sent her to Pylea in the hopes that she would find it there and read that specific passage aloud? Had he told her to go to the library to look up mathematical transfiguration formulas as she states the words to be? Wouldn't she then already have had an idea that the professor was behind it from the beginning?! It all just seems rather disconnected and unbelievable storytelling that makes you question what you already know about the series.
Breaking Bad: Abiquiu (2010)
Chef's knife for garlic??
I thought this episode was interesting. The only thing I had a problem with and the reason I'm writing this review (and I never write reviews) was that during the scene when Walt was having dinner with Gus, Gus gave Walt a chef's knife to cut garlic with. The only reason the director had him do this was so Walt could see his reflection in the blade. Everyone that has even the slightest bit of cooking know-how knows that if you're cutting something as small as garlic, you don't use a chef's knife which is large and hard to handle with such a small object. You'd use a paring knife if anything. You can see Walt having some trouble with slicing it, especially since Gus wanted it sliced thin! LOL yeah, good luck with that!! Anyone who would even ignorantly start cutting garlic with a chef's knife (and Walt doesn't seem the type) would see it isn't working properly and try to get a smaller knife that does work. The scene made me lose my sense of believability for the episode. The director could have still gotten a shot of Walt holding a Chef's knife up by picking it out from a knife set then putting it back in the holder and picking up a paring knife and start cutting, but left as is it doesn't feel right.