#monk season 6 ep 12

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Monk s06ep12: "Mr. Monk Goes to the Bank"

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I've been meaning to do a re-watch of Monk, what with the series getting added to Netflix Brazil late this month!

I remember it being very episodic, not having that much on an overarching plot...Which episodes would you recommend to get back in the flow of the show?

Love your blog BTW! 💜

hi dear :3 first off thank you hehe, i quite enjoy running this blog <3!!!

it's very exciting that monk is making a comeback isn't it!! and yeah, i totally get what you mean by episodic. it gets a bit repetitve sometimes - but i find that its easier to watch the show 1-2 episodes per week cause binging it won't turn out so well.

i definitely recommend s2 (episodes 05, 07, 09, 11, 16)

if youre looking for something a bit more 'dark' themed i recommend: season 6, most of the eps are pretty good but i particularly feel episodes 03, 04, 07, 11, 12 and especially 15 and 16 are great.

but overall, personally, season 3 and 6 are quite big favorites of mine, i tend to re-watch those episodes over and over ( ´ ꒳ ` ) so i would say most of season 3 as well!

season 4 has a beloved episode i think quite a lot of us love (and youve probably seen the art for): episode 05!!

season 7 is a bit iffy... i think the one i enjoyed most there was episodes 02 and 13.

season 8 is good too! better than what they gave us in season 7. but its the last season so :").

but i do promise the character writing does improve as the show goes on and that the plot does come together as you get closer to the ending seasons.

i hope i didn't ramble off gosh...

have a good day dear, thank you for the ask <33!!

(ps: i would definitely recommend the pilot episode too, but you can totally skip that. it just has a few favorite moments of mine lolol.)

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Misha Collins Movies/ TV Episodes - Masterpost

Here is a list of movies that Misha has been in that you can watch for free on youtube/dailymotion

MOVIES:

Finding Home: 2003

Moving Alan: 2003

Par 6: (2002)

SERIES:

Who’s Line Is It Anway (TW: Untill 30 Seconds you hear a LOUD noise be warned)

LEGACY: SE01 EP08

NYPD BLUE: Season 7 Episode 12 Welcome To New York

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5vjc1h

SEVEN DAYS SE03 E21 Born In The USSR 

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x81merd

MONK SE04 EP 12  Mr. Monk and the Captain's Marriage

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7zhljs

RINGER Season 1 EP 14 - Whores Don’t Make That Much

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x81c0l4

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I think watching early 60s doctor who in seasons doesn’t make sense

the show was barely off air in the middle, and the starts/ends of series don’t coincide with any big changes

I instead propose categorising them in chunks of 25ish episodes, at least until the daleks’ master plan:

Season 1a (26 eps) An Unearthly Child (1) 100,000 BC (3) The Daleks (7) Inside the Spaceship (2) Marco Polo (7) The Keys of Marinus (6)

The end of The Keys of Marinus is the second to end without a cliffhanger and ends with the departure of Altos and Sabetha, who are both sort of quasi-companions for the final story. I think we get a sort of consistent arc here of Ian and Barbara coming to terms with their situation and the Doctor growing to look past his prejudices when it comes to humans.

Season 1b (25 eps) The Aztecs (4) The Sensorites (6) The Reign of Terror (6) Planet of Giants (3) The Dalek Invasion of Earth (6)

The Dalek Invasion of Earth has such series finale vibes and The Aztecs feels like a much stronger opener than Planet of Giants was - I think it suits being in the middle of a series much better. Season 2a (26 eps) The Rescue (2) The Romans (4) The Web Planet (6) The Crusade (4) The Space Museum (4) The Chase (6)

Now the Ian, Barbara and Vicki dynamic gets its own series, starting with her rescue and ending with their departure. I don’t like The Chase much, but it’s such a classic series finale story, especially with Dalekmania. Season 2b (25 eps) The Time Meddler (4) Galaxy 4 (4) Mission to the Unknown (1) The Myth Makers (4) The Daleks' Master Plan (12)

And to round off the trio of Dalek finales, this is a whopper, but Vicki’s departure marks a good midpoint of the series here (maybe with a mid-series break, who knows) with a great cliffhanger of Steven’s injury and the mysterious goings-on from Mission the Unknown. Plus we get the lovely coincidence of the Monk appearing in the premiere and finale of this chunk.

I haven’t seen beyond the master plan yet, but I don’t think this works quite as neatly moving further forward. But it’s great how each one is 25/26 episodes long, 1b, 2a and 2b get big Dalek finales and most cast changes happen at the end of a series or in the middle.

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Babylon 5 Rewatch ep 2.20 The Long, Twilight Struggle

Sheridan and Delenn receive an invitation to Epsilon III where Draal pledges the Great Machine to the campaign against the Shadows. Meanwhile Londo commits his Shadow allies to one more attack against the Narn, allowing the Centauri to commit war crimes and end the Narn conflict.

Things I like about The Long Twilight Struggle

1, An energy fluctuation happens on the planet and Corwin turns to his coworkers like “There’s something happening. Contact Commander Ivanova” then the camera drifts to a private quarters. A shower is running. We see the steam as we coast slowly toward the bathroom for a tasteful near nude shot of Claudia Chris—NOPE Bruce Boxleitner. I CACKLED.

2, Draal is great and I love him. It worked out that Sheridan is new here to get a refresher on who Draal is and what’s going on with the Great Machine. Also the Great Machine making him younger is a good way to explain why he’s Herman Munster now. I’m guessing he’ll stay young and vibrant until he disintegrates like the last guy.

3, I appreciate seeing Londo’s true colors in his conversation with Refa. He’s tired, both from the trip to Centauri Prime and of all the war and darkness he’s involved himself in. He’s also still mourning Ursa Jaddo from Knives which was a nice callback considering he had a significant moment of doubt and regret in that episode, and it’s good to be reminded that he’s not totally sold on what’s going on right now. It’s also nice that he’s against the mass drivers at the outset but is convinced to go with Refa’s plan because he considers the glorification of his people more important than himself or anything else. He talks himself into doing something truly horrendous, but it’s wrong and his face knows its wrong. And then Refa makes him watch, when he fully intended to hide from what he’s done. Gguhh the pain is wonderful.

4, Watching this in a rewatch hurts so bad. Like Franklin gives G’Kar a warning about the Centauri’s interest in homeworld. There’s the possibility he can stop it.

5, Delenn and Sheridan go down to Epsilon III she is acting super cocky and in control because she wants to impress her crush, even using clever colorful English phrases. Everyone remembers Abasfrigginlutely Damnit. Oh Delenn….

6, Sheridan looks at the inside of the Great Machine and is like  “Lord, I may not go home” and I laughed b/c it looks like Tron in there.

7. The jump-kicking Centauri.

8, The mass drivers really are the most disgusting move. To devastate a civilian population from space is the ultimate ranged weapon. What could they possibly do? Watching Londo watch it happen is peak drama because as disgusted as he is watching, you know he’s as disgusted with himself in facilitating it. The drama is there but also horror on a level few shows can communicate, that of self-horror. The moment earlier where it was established and Londo still had a concept of right and wrong even as he was dealing with the Shadows is pulling full weight here. At the beginning of this season he was a buffoon struggling to stay afloat, in the middle of the season he finds the power and respect he wanted but loses the trust and friendship of the station in the process, and here at the culmination of his choices he sees what he was really willing to sell his soul for. He could have remained powerless and kept his sense of self, but instead he chose advancement and learned to hate what he’s become. It’s just staggering.

9, G’Kar is also pulling full weight in this episode. He’s prepared to go back to Narn, be with his family, and die among his people but he is the only member of the Kha’Ri not on homeworld and being so, he is an in credibly valuable asset for the race now that surrender is unavoidable. The tears in his eyes when asking for sanctuary are soul crushing, and the horror and shame he’s feeling is an inversion of Londo’s… powerlessness and being suppressed despite knowing he could do more verses being powerful and regretting it.

10, The Centauri terms of surrender are so cruel. It’s the turn of a knife that’s already been plunged to the hilt and Sheridan coming in to yank the dagger back an inch like a badass is extremely galvanizing and give Delenn grounds to commit the Rangers to him later in the episode. Also something I want to note about this scene that I think is even more important than Sheridan being a hero, it’s G’Kar sitting in his normal spot in complete despair, enduring Londo’s terms. Londo is dressed in every decoration and medal he’s ever owned, screaming at the top of his lungs like being the loudest makes him the rightest, yet G’Kar is silent. Londo demands G’Kar be removed from the council chambers like an invader. Sheridan replies by recounting the request for sanctuary, resulting on the two fighting over G’Kar’s head, but no one calls the bailiff to come get him. No one except Londo tells him he needs to go. They give G’Kar the chance to move. Even Kosh waits to see what he’s going to do. Will he attack? Will he scream and cry? No. He stands and with every ounce of self control he contains, delivers one of the greatest axefalls in television history.

“No dictator, no invader can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever. There is no greater power in the universe than the need for freedom. Against that power, governments and tyrants and armies cannot stand. The Centauri learned this lesson once, we will teach it to them again. Though it take a thousand years, we will be free.”

11, AND THATS NOT EVEN THE END OF THE EPISODE! I can’t believe this wasn’t a two-parter with everything that’s happened in this one half an hour of screentime. Sheridan essentially tells G’Kar he’s on his side in this war. He offers G’Kar his hand as an ally, and G’Kar considers it saying; “The last time I offered someone my hand, we were at war 24 hrs later” He pauses to make you wonder if he’s lost the ability to trust, then shakes with Sheridan and the look on his face tells something completely different. He still believes he’ll be at war very shortly, but he’s hoping for it. He’s counting on it.

12, Finally we get the introduction of the Rangers and the only thing that can kind of fit on my “Liked less” list. I like this just fine, but there’s something about Delenn who is in charge of a secret sect of warrior monks pledged to side with the Vorlons against the Shadows, turning the control of those monks over to Sheridan without fully introducing him to their existence. To be fair, she gives him partial control and doesn’t hand it over to him, removing herself from the field and I know having watched the rest of the show that she still is the sole figure in charge of the Rangers and is more accurately pledging herself and those in her service to Sheridan’s cause… but the way they read in this episode it looks like she’s giving Sheridan the reins. The next episode is KIND OF dealing with this with the inquisitor, but in general I think we could have avoided a lot of nonsense if she just phrased her pledge more accurately.

13, And this leads me to a theory… that Babylon5 was labeled their best hope for piece, but really it was built specifically as a neutral ground for the staging of the Shadow war. It really is Babylon 5, as in a replacement for Babylon 4 which was used as a warbase. This is why the Minbari co-founded the station, this is why it ends in fire at the end of everything. It’s existence is specifically tied to the the return of the shadows and the drama and diplomacy of the Narns, Centauri, Telepaths, Earthdome, etc etc are events of the universe that happen to occur there. Wihtout the Shadow War, there’d be no Babylon 5, and without Babylon 5 the universe would not continue.

14.

Finally.

The ARMY OF LIGHT

I got teary-eyed

Things I liked Less about The Long Twilight Struggle

The Delenn thing. But we’ll get back to that next episode. And that’s it.

This episode is truly one of the greatest and most emotionally wrenching pieces of television ever created. It’s a silly scifi show with rubber masks that dares to delve deeper beneath the skin than anything else I’ve seen. We see the horror and depravity of war, but we also see the people turned inside out by it and what colors they are within. Ten out of ten. Thanks for breaking my heart. This is why I had to take pause on my rewatch to prepare.

oh by the way @gin-007 and I are resuming our rewatch from 2019.

and I’m putting all these eps up on @b5picanep as well if you want to go back to see previous episodes. 

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So around a little over 2 weeks ago I started Classic Who. I’m halfway through The Aztecs and I have Thoughts.

I am bored out of my mind. Not necessarily because the stories are bad (they’re simplistic, sure, but not bad), but because I think they are executed poorly. That being said, that has more to do with the developments of the TV industry and the limitations of the 60s TV making.

Like, I am halfway through The Aztecs, right, and I am just not motivated at all to continue it. Honestly, a part of me was already ready to call it quits during The Daleks, which is supposedly one of the best episodes of the Hartnell era. But right now, the main thing that pushes me to keep going is the fact that I watched some videos of Peter Capaldi absolutely fanboying over Classic Who.

Things I do not like about Classic Who:

It is still very simple. I know Moffat got a lot of shit for being too complicated and experimental, but I like to be challenged by stuff like Heaven Sent, the Monks Triology, the Library two-parter etc. Moffat isn’t the only person who writes interesting thought-provoking experimental stuff. The Doctor’s Wife? Turn Left? That’s all good shit and so much better than a linear story like The Keys of Marinus.

As a tie in to that: they give a lot of plot points away. Like, Susan getting a close up to wink to the camera when she gets captured by the Daleks, or that Aztec leader spelling out that he is going to unmask Barbara. I did (jokingly) ask my grandmother if people in the 60s were dumber. 

To continue that trend: the acting is extremely over the top, especially that from Carole Ford’s. I also asked (jokingly) my grandmother if people were just too stupid to otherwise realise that it was fiction.

(It was a joke, but my grandmother did give a very insightful answer which touched on the history of theatre and storytelling in general.)

Susan, in general. She’s only there to scream and be the damsel in distress and it’s very annoying. I knew of Susan from her mentions in New Who and I read about her, so I expected a better character. Also, I know that this is why Carole Ford left the show, because she also didn’t like the lack of character development and I definitely get why.

The women in general are kind of screaming and helpless. Barbara does have the brains, but every time she does something it ends with her screaming for Ian to save her. Or the women are used as leverage for their love interests. Yeah, it’s the 60s. I’m not digging it. I know it’ll get way better with people like Sarah Jane and Leela and the Romanas and of course Ace, but those characters are ages away! I’m only on season one!

The episodes are so long. Like, some stories have 12 episodes? That’s almost 6 hours of one story. Right now, it’s all wrapped up in 50 minutes and sure, it has its limitations as well (we need more two parters), but the lenght of Classic Who stories contribute to my boredom. 

A lot of scenes are just.... talking. And this has more to do with the limitations of TV. Nowadays, when we have scenes that purely exist for conversation, it’s dynamic through camera usage and editing. Heaven Sent is basically one big one-sided conversation and it is thrilling because of the gorgeous camera work, directing and editing. Characters move, they interact with their environment, there are different shots etc., but in Classic Who it’s just two characters standing/sitting together and talking.

(I actually prefer character driven stuff over action packed stuff. That’s why I love series 11 of New Who.) 

Classic Who also shows me how impactful music is for any kind of video. Murray Gold did an amazing job scoring New Who for all those years and his successor is also great, but in Classic Who there’s not much sound. I think I liked Marco Polo a lot more than the others, because it has actual music to support the story.

(Can you believe that the first Classic Who ep that I enjoy is also one of the extremely missing ones?)

Okay, enough complaining. What did I like?

Ian and Barbara! It’s probably because they do get some development. Also, they are a nice couple. I love The Sarah Jane Adventures, so I know they end up married. It’s nice. 

Barbara verbally smacking down the Doctor in The Edge of Destruction.

Barbara. Period.

I do like this morally grey Doctor. One is kind of an asshole who only cares about Susan, which is interesting to see. 

Besides the negative sides of the limitations of TV in the 60s, I absolutely love the sets and props and the wacky effect etc. I mean, the animal in An Unearthy Child was literally a lioncloth. It amuses me.

Uh, that’s it.

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Monk s06ep12: "Mr. Monk Goes to the Bank"