Very faith based handling of reality, the streets and fiction and the rare and wonderful. Perfect for the Christmas season. The acceptance of one that some may say is unlikely and the learning of protection and return of acceptance, at the same time. Quite a matter of the heart. The rating is for the sentiment, and the sentiment, alone. Consider these writers lucky. There is no way they should have been able to navigate this episode. But they were inspired and surely didn't see it coming. And they were never able to do it again. And that goes for all episodes up to 14 in season 2. After that, back to writer reality.
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Heartwarming (NOT "disturbing") episode!
connordad15 December 2022
A quick reading of the review that called this a "most disturbing episode!" makes it quite clear that the reviewer is unfamiliar with the show and does not understand it at all.
The father of the newborn child of this episode's title is NOT present in the story at all. And to say it's "amazing" that "the male beast" (that would be 'Vincent", the romantic male lead character of the series) didn't "rip the baby to shreds...and eat it" is the most ridiculous comment I've ever read in my life and again, demonstrates the reviewer's total lack of understanding of anything about this series at all...
The father of the newborn child of this episode's title is NOT present in the story at all. And to say it's "amazing" that "the male beast" (that would be 'Vincent", the romantic male lead character of the series) didn't "rip the baby to shreds...and eat it" is the most ridiculous comment I've ever read in my life and again, demonstrates the reviewer's total lack of understanding of anything about this series at all...
Most disturbing episode!
imdb-2528810 July 2022
Very disturbing having 2 males present while a(n alleged) teen is giving birth, with the (alleged) father staring the whole time straight into her birth canal. And the male beast there present holding her hand? Ech! What were they thinking?! It's amazing the beast didn't rip the baby to shreds (it's within his pearl-mutations directives, after all!) and eat it. (? ...naaah!)
The cinematography is still great, though, and so are the clothes and the set decor. For the rest...? Really wishing it would have been better cast. But OMG! The banging on pipes HAS to stop! Ok, we get it! Geez! Don't those people ever sleep?! I find both leads very inept in their roles. I know this is a cult type show, and I'm not in this club. Pearlguy is way too hideous for the part, they couldn't make him a handsome beast with his makeup, so he's not believable at all as the romantic lead.
And Sarah Connor only has one expression here: pained. Her haircut is so bad, I just want to mess up her hair and start all over, wherever the tresses fall, let them. Certainly not parted on the side, though! She is just not credible as the caring, fragile female. Maybe if she had thinned down like in T2? I keep wondering why is her face this shape, when the face isn't fat but it was lean and chiseled in T2.
Well anyway. Most disturbing episode. (Or is that disturbed?) The teen looks like she's 42 and I am as disinterested in this show as I was in 1987. And why does the beast dude have to whisper all of his lines!? Bad, bad, bad acting crutch. 1, 2, 3 stars all go to the cinematogaphy/lighting crew, the costumer and the set decor artist. Skip this one, it's just... gross!
The cinematography is still great, though, and so are the clothes and the set decor. For the rest...? Really wishing it would have been better cast. But OMG! The banging on pipes HAS to stop! Ok, we get it! Geez! Don't those people ever sleep?! I find both leads very inept in their roles. I know this is a cult type show, and I'm not in this club. Pearlguy is way too hideous for the part, they couldn't make him a handsome beast with his makeup, so he's not believable at all as the romantic lead.
And Sarah Connor only has one expression here: pained. Her haircut is so bad, I just want to mess up her hair and start all over, wherever the tresses fall, let them. Certainly not parted on the side, though! She is just not credible as the caring, fragile female. Maybe if she had thinned down like in T2? I keep wondering why is her face this shape, when the face isn't fat but it was lean and chiseled in T2.
Well anyway. Most disturbing episode. (Or is that disturbed?) The teen looks like she's 42 and I am as disinterested in this show as I was in 1987. And why does the beast dude have to whisper all of his lines!? Bad, bad, bad acting crutch. 1, 2, 3 stars all go to the cinematogaphy/lighting crew, the costumer and the set decor artist. Skip this one, it's just... gross!
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