Apparently 'Basewood' is spelt 'Basswood'
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Humans 3.7
We started off with ‘Oh, Leo, no, don’t bolt like that – man up.’
I loved that it was Mattie who mothered Laura and put her back together again, and it was all reciprocated. (Isn’t Laura a riposte to Leo’s fears about being a bad dad?)
Audrey revealed herself. I liked that it was partly ego and not wanting Leo to have the credit for her coding that spurred Mattie into admitting culpability. It feels as if that’s a smaller thing than Basswood, but it’s not.
I thought they missed a trick by not having Mattie offer to do some hacking to find out about Basswood. Obviously, it would have been less dramatic than the encounter with Neil, but it seemed obvious to me. Then again, I have spy drama instincts the show doesn’t.
Dryden was lucky he had Mia, not Niska, in custody.
Max finally started trying to dismantle Anatole’s erroneous convictions about Elster. That’s Anatole who really doesn’t like Stanley thinking for himself, but he did do a good thing by asking Stanley to take particular charge of Sam, I think. Although ‘when the time comes’ was gnomic. I liked that Stanley was learning from Sam, and it had its pay off in him brining Max back (shoulda killed him, Anatole). Leo’s strength was puzzling (but of a piece with his amazing recovery from being in a coma, and I don’t know if they’ll ever come up with a pseudo-scientific reason for that). But obviously I am glad that neither Max or Leo are dead – although Niska’s reaction might have been epic.
Still, the Anatole-Max fight!!!!! So cool – the compact but strong moves, the way they matched each other until Max found a little more to prevail, the way they chose to depict the awfulness of Anatole’s violent end.
As a consequence, I guess Max is in charge (if it weren’t such an extreme situation, I’d be grumbling about the choice of the people and the way he keeps order). The public will never see the real terrorist face justice. And Basswood, which is very nasty, has begun. Don’t know how they’ll come up with a solution, although we do know that there are conscious synths in hiding rather than in their ghettos.
Niska was the main other storyline. I think someone on Humans was a fan of Y Gwyll/Hinterland, although The Black Mountain is a slightly different location. I liked Niska’s mix of cynicism and faith, despite herself. The broken synth was eerie. I thought the conversation with Astrid was far too loose-lipped for their own safety, and as you’ll know, I thought it should be Fred, but Odi – especially what looks like a radically different iteration of him – seems like a fascinating choice as the Synth who Sleeps. We’ll see what he has to offer – I hope he has a way of charging Niska, at least, after dragging her all the way there, not to mention all the other synths destroyed on the way there.
Humans 3.7
We started off with ‘Oh, Leo, no, don’t bolt like that – man up.’
I loved that it was Mattie who mothered Laura and put her back together again, and it was all reciprocated. (Isn’t Laura a riposte to Leo’s fears about being a bad dad?)
Audrey revealed herself. I liked that it was partly ego and not wanting Leo to have the credit for her coding that spurred Mattie into admitting culpability. It feels as if that’s a smaller thing than Basswood, but it’s not.
I thought they missed a trick by not having Mattie offer to do some hacking to find out about Basswood. Obviously, it would have been less dramatic than the encounter with Neil, but it seemed obvious to me. Then again, I have spy drama instincts the show doesn’t.
Dryden was lucky he had Mia, not Niska, in custody.
Max finally started trying to dismantle Anatole’s erroneous convictions about Elster. That’s Anatole who really doesn’t like Stanley thinking for himself, but he did do a good thing by asking Stanley to take particular charge of Sam, I think. Although ‘when the time comes’ was gnomic. I liked that Stanley was learning from Sam, and it had its pay off in him brining Max back (shoulda killed him, Anatole). Leo’s strength was puzzling (but of a piece with his amazing recovery from being in a coma, and I don’t know if they’ll ever come up with a pseudo-scientific reason for that). But obviously I am glad that neither Max or Leo are dead – although Niska’s reaction might have been epic.
Still, the Anatole-Max fight!!!!! So cool – the compact but strong moves, the way they matched each other until Max found a little more to prevail, the way they chose to depict the awfulness of Anatole’s violent end.
As a consequence, I guess Max is in charge (if it weren’t such an extreme situation, I’d be grumbling about the choice of the people and the way he keeps order). The public will never see the real terrorist face justice. And Basswood, which is very nasty, has begun. Don’t know how they’ll come up with a solution, although we do know that there are conscious synths in hiding rather than in their ghettos.
Niska was the main other storyline. I think someone on Humans was a fan of Y Gwyll/Hinterland, although The Black Mountain is a slightly different location. I liked Niska’s mix of cynicism and faith, despite herself. The broken synth was eerie. I thought the conversation with Astrid was far too loose-lipped for their own safety, and as you’ll know, I thought it should be Fred, but Odi – especially what looks like a radically different iteration of him – seems like a fascinating choice as the Synth who Sleeps. We’ll see what he has to offer – I hope he has a way of charging Niska, at least, after dragging her all the way there, not to mention all the other synths destroyed on the way there.
