Into the Night Season 2
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iariaI found this season more difficult to get into at the start but ended up getting invested again in the latter half. I really hope there's a season 3.
+ This show quite likes to kill people, even the innocent (poor Gabrielle), but all the same Zara and Dominik's deaths surprised me. Zara's determined declaration that she would save them herself made me sure she would succeed, she fought as hard as she could as did Ayaz and most of the others, and then none of them managed to do it. Their deaths were so sad. Those final moments - ouch. Zara making the choice to turn on the generator, well, there really wasn't any other choice was there?
+ I was also sad about Rik's death. He's certainly a squirrelly little boot-licker of a man but he's also sad and well-intentioned. He never had ill-will. He thought he was doing what was best for everyone and certainly I get why he thought Sylvie's plan would only escalate the situation. I liked that he chose to die a 'hero' to give the others time to escape. Interesting that he did it by murdering like five people considering his pretty strict beliefs on murder.
+ I like how the show several times gave us a situation and then later on re-contextualized it. I was annoyed in the beginning because everyone was messing up in really dumb ways and it seemed like a team effort in making a bad situation worse so the reveals over the biggest moments were a relief at least as far as our group goes.
1. Ines setting the food pantry on fire accidentally was beyond dumb and I was a little 'wtf' over it. (while at the same time wondering at them keeping all their food stores in one location.) But getting to see what actually happened changed my mind. Heremans coming up and throwing a bunch of oil at the pan/stove was absolutely the cause of it. Sure, her instinct of throwing the burning pan away (into the pantry) rather than dropping it made the bad situation worse but she reacted in seconds and she did not deserve the blame she got.
2. The reveal that Colonel Lom had Markus purposefully lock them in the generator room to impress upon them the danger of their situation and try to get Zara 'under control' really changed a lot of things. It definitely gave Lom's death by stray bullet a heavy sense of schadenfreude. I can't believe that he tried to scare them into not messing around by - messing around and setting off the whole situation himself. Dumbass. Him getting so distracted by Terenzio's death instead of putting all his effort into saving them was subsequently made even worse with this reveal. What a hypocritical asshole.
+ I appreciate how much the plane group came together and stood up for each other, and offered each other their support. Laura sitting with Ayaz before and after Zara/Dominik's deaths. Everyone trying so hard to save Zara and Dominik. Jakub assuring Sylvie that he had her back/was on her side. Everyone siding with Sylvie over Terezio's death. (Mostly)
I really appreciate that Felipe's confident assertion that they sent all of Sylvie's (dangerous) allies away, and thus she'd be getting no help, was immediately proven wrong with the group coming together to escape their captivity, the bunker and then fly away together.
+ I like how each of the character's response to the Terezio tape tells you a lot about their character. Rik is truthful that Terezio did bad things but excuses that everyone sins, and that murder is wrong, and Sylvie was wrong to murder him (all true) but does it in a very placating and meek way, looking for the soldier's approval. Ines is unapologetic, verging on aggressive and defiant and declares that if Sylvie did it then maybe Terezio deserved it. Horst is immediately falling back on logic and science while trying to be diplomatic, pointing out that there is no audio and thus they're missing a lot of the context and nuance of the confrontation. Laura sadly doesn't get much only her insisting that none of them knew what Sylvie did though even in that we see her trying to protect people and lessen the anger.
+ I liked that Terezio's death did end up having massive consequences for Sylvie and the group.
+ Everything is taking place under such a compressed timeline that I had a hard time buying Ayaz's declaration of love to Zara or Horst and Laura's declarations of love to each other. You guys have known each other for like a month! Even with how stressful the whole situation is I'm not buying it! You don't have to bring love into it to have people care or come together.
Past that love declaration I actually did quite like Zara/Ayaz. I thought the show built them up really well. I absolutely got why they bonded and got close, and why they would cling to each other. They were exactly what the other needed at the end of the world and I'm sad how it ended for them.
Meanwhile Horst and Laura were honestly very 'wait, what???' confusion.
+ Thea was my favourite of the new additions. I really appreciated how she handled/attempted to handle the tense situation in episode two.
+ I really felt for Thea over having to abandon her beloved cat and her sadly desperate attempts to assure that his last hours would be happy. At the same time the juxtaposition of her saying this to a little girl who is going to die right with him was very stark and well done.
+ Laura's frustration over needing a blowtorch at the end and decreeing that from now on one of them would always be in charge of carrying one - LOL.
+ Ines telling Ayaz the truth about Zara and Dominik's deaths - just why???? That's terrible timing! She even says to Sylvie that she wanted to tell everyone together so why wouldn't she have waited? If Marcus was a danger to the others absolutely she should tell but I don't think she believed that. So instead she told a violent man who just lost two people he loved that the guy she likes accidentally caused their deaths because????? That was maybe the worst decision of the season.
+ One of Horst's experiments working at the end is great and all but all I could think was sticking a rat under a cover and leaving it out in the hot sun all day was of course going to kill it regardless of it being a death sun or the regular sun!
+ This show quite likes to kill people, even the innocent (poor Gabrielle), but all the same Zara and Dominik's deaths surprised me. Zara's determined declaration that she would save them herself made me sure she would succeed, she fought as hard as she could as did Ayaz and most of the others, and then none of them managed to do it. Their deaths were so sad. Those final moments - ouch. Zara making the choice to turn on the generator, well, there really wasn't any other choice was there?
+ I was also sad about Rik's death. He's certainly a squirrelly little boot-licker of a man but he's also sad and well-intentioned. He never had ill-will. He thought he was doing what was best for everyone and certainly I get why he thought Sylvie's plan would only escalate the situation. I liked that he chose to die a 'hero' to give the others time to escape. Interesting that he did it by murdering like five people considering his pretty strict beliefs on murder.
+ I like how the show several times gave us a situation and then later on re-contextualized it. I was annoyed in the beginning because everyone was messing up in really dumb ways and it seemed like a team effort in making a bad situation worse so the reveals over the biggest moments were a relief at least as far as our group goes.
1. Ines setting the food pantry on fire accidentally was beyond dumb and I was a little 'wtf' over it. (while at the same time wondering at them keeping all their food stores in one location.) But getting to see what actually happened changed my mind. Heremans coming up and throwing a bunch of oil at the pan/stove was absolutely the cause of it. Sure, her instinct of throwing the burning pan away (into the pantry) rather than dropping it made the bad situation worse but she reacted in seconds and she did not deserve the blame she got.
2. The reveal that Colonel Lom had Markus purposefully lock them in the generator room to impress upon them the danger of their situation and try to get Zara 'under control' really changed a lot of things. It definitely gave Lom's death by stray bullet a heavy sense of schadenfreude. I can't believe that he tried to scare them into not messing around by - messing around and setting off the whole situation himself. Dumbass. Him getting so distracted by Terenzio's death instead of putting all his effort into saving them was subsequently made even worse with this reveal. What a hypocritical asshole.
+ I appreciate how much the plane group came together and stood up for each other, and offered each other their support. Laura sitting with Ayaz before and after Zara/Dominik's deaths. Everyone trying so hard to save Zara and Dominik. Jakub assuring Sylvie that he had her back/was on her side. Everyone siding with Sylvie over Terezio's death. (Mostly)
I really appreciate that Felipe's confident assertion that they sent all of Sylvie's (dangerous) allies away, and thus she'd be getting no help, was immediately proven wrong with the group coming together to escape their captivity, the bunker and then fly away together.
+ I like how each of the character's response to the Terezio tape tells you a lot about their character. Rik is truthful that Terezio did bad things but excuses that everyone sins, and that murder is wrong, and Sylvie was wrong to murder him (all true) but does it in a very placating and meek way, looking for the soldier's approval. Ines is unapologetic, verging on aggressive and defiant and declares that if Sylvie did it then maybe Terezio deserved it. Horst is immediately falling back on logic and science while trying to be diplomatic, pointing out that there is no audio and thus they're missing a lot of the context and nuance of the confrontation. Laura sadly doesn't get much only her insisting that none of them knew what Sylvie did though even in that we see her trying to protect people and lessen the anger.
+ I liked that Terezio's death did end up having massive consequences for Sylvie and the group.
+ Everything is taking place under such a compressed timeline that I had a hard time buying Ayaz's declaration of love to Zara or Horst and Laura's declarations of love to each other. You guys have known each other for like a month! Even with how stressful the whole situation is I'm not buying it! You don't have to bring love into it to have people care or come together.
Past that love declaration I actually did quite like Zara/Ayaz. I thought the show built them up really well. I absolutely got why they bonded and got close, and why they would cling to each other. They were exactly what the other needed at the end of the world and I'm sad how it ended for them.
Meanwhile Horst and Laura were honestly very 'wait, what???' confusion.
+ Thea was my favourite of the new additions. I really appreciated how she handled/attempted to handle the tense situation in episode two.
+ I really felt for Thea over having to abandon her beloved cat and her sadly desperate attempts to assure that his last hours would be happy. At the same time the juxtaposition of her saying this to a little girl who is going to die right with him was very stark and well done.
+ Laura's frustration over needing a blowtorch at the end and decreeing that from now on one of them would always be in charge of carrying one - LOL.
+ Ines telling Ayaz the truth about Zara and Dominik's deaths - just why???? That's terrible timing! She even says to Sylvie that she wanted to tell everyone together so why wouldn't she have waited? If Marcus was a danger to the others absolutely she should tell but I don't think she believed that. So instead she told a violent man who just lost two people he loved that the guy she likes accidentally caused their deaths because????? That was maybe the worst decision of the season.
+ One of Horst's experiments working at the end is great and all but all I could think was sticking a rat under a cover and leaving it out in the hot sun all day was of course going to kill it regardless of it being a death sun or the regular sun!
