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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mel O&#039;Drama" data-source="post: 319097" data-attributes="member: 23">RunawaysDevil’s Torture Chamber / The Broken Circle / Cheat The GallowsNovel as it was seeing Cloak and Dagger in live action, it was also disappointing. But probably to be expected from a guest appearance in another show with multiple characters. They’re also away from the New York setting with which I associate them so it’s all very out of context. They fitted in fine with the cast, but perhaps a little too well as they just seemed to get lost in the mix and there was little about them that stood out as particularly interesting. Not helping the case was that both actors had really poor enunciation (he mumbled, she creaked and they both spoke too quickly) that made it difficult to understand what they were saying. But as mentioned, it was novel, and they were well-used. I’m just glad they weren’t the entire reason for me watching the series as it may have been anticlimactic. The final few episodes managed to excite and create a sense of event and importance. The battle to rescue Alex from the Dark Dimension with Cloak and Dagger’s help was decent enough. The battle with Morgan le Fay in the penultimate episode felt like the series proper’s last hoorah, and it was especially pleasing to see all remaining PRIDE members and the Runaways together one last time. The series still manages to move me from time to time. Once again, it was Gert’s goodbye to Old Lace that did it, so this is one MCU project where the CGI works for me. The text for the penultimate episode mentioned the team defeating Morgan “at an unthinkable cost”, so I was geared for there to be another death. As Tina got involved and started using all her energy (and blood) to help, I became convinced she’d be the person to die, so the sudden reveal that Gert had been bleeding out since being thrown into a chandelier by Morgan took me by surprise. It was effective because it had happened some minutes earlier and Gert had continued doing her thing. In a genre where people getting thrown into walls and objects is a minor and prosaic thing, it’s incredibly refreshing for it to have consequences like this. The final episode did a nice job of bringing things full circle with the time travel back to the day of the first episode, reminding us - and them - how far they’ve come, and giving us a bit of a nostalgia trip that had added meaning because of what we now know. The entire premise seems heavily based on Avengers: Endgame from earlier in 2019, but when it’s this fun and effective I can forgive the lack of originality. It helps that the storyline began three years into the future after Gert’s death and gave the grieving and estranged friends the chance to revisit the battle of the previous episode and change the outcome of the battle - and most of their lives - for the better. While Future Chase and Future Evil Alex running round at the same time as the Near Future and Past iterations of both characters was easy to digest, Future Chase sacrificing himself to save Present Day Gert blew my mind a little bit because Present Day Chase still existed afterwards, but with history changed he wouldn’t become Future Chase (or at least not this Future Chase). Likewise, Present Day Alex’s choices means he wouldn’t become Future Evil Alex. Then there was the Near Future girls happily fading away now that the Present Day* versions of themselves are saved. There so many timelines going on which leaves many, many questions about what will change and what will lead where and what will happen to the various version. Plus, because we’ve time-travelled and seen the near future as the present, it’s difficult to make peace with the near future’s not too distant past becoming the present again when we return to Morgan’s defeat and the proper timeline. So many questions. I’d make a terrible Timelord. At three weeks and thirty three episodes this is my longest-running MCU visit yet, and certainly one of the most immersive. I’ve loved spending time with these characters and it’s left me wanting more. Not bad considering I gave serious thought to skipping this series altogether. * “Present Day” being three years into the future from most of the series’ run, making the Present versions possibly further away from us than the “Past” versions from a year or two earlier. It’s confusing. </blockquote>

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