Unequivocally, the fourth and final season of The Strain has been the shows best. Theres been an urgency to the narrative that genuinely built anticipation from one episode to the next, and for the first time since the virus started to ravage humanity, it felt like the main characters were being challenged in interesting, complicated ways.
Wimper of a finale.
Quinlan went out like a bitch.
Plan is stupid as shit, why does the Master even come down himself and not just send every single strigoi he controls down considering it's like 7 people guarding the nuke, oh it's the finale that's why. They even tried this on him a last episode and he said he wasn't stupid enough for it to work.
No one got in any badass last words like when Sertrakian offed Eichorst.
They tried to redeem shitlord Zack.
One of the worst reviews I've read on that site.AV Club what are you doing
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AV Club what are you doing
Quinlan being curbstomped to death really was the worst (next to Zack redemption), as well as a metaphor for the season.
and as for humanity just getting back on it's feet after... Nope - It would be an all out mess as people jockeyed for power. No way would it all be happy within 5 years.
They also didn't explain what they did with the humans who sided with the master.
No, I don't think he was redeemed, but I think the writers tried to redeem him with that BS.Was Zack really redeemed though? He's still the asshole that killed Nora, not to mention the millions he killed with the first nuke, it didn't even make sense why he chose now to turn on the Master as opposed to say when he was last with Eph.
I don't really understand why Eph tried to sacrifice himself for Zach at the end. The plan would have killled all of them anyways, why does it matter if the Master took over Zach?
Did quinlan get punked like that in the book? Too bad we never got to the masters origin.
Yea sucks was looking forward to thatYeah. Wiki'd the book, apparently the Lumen supposed to reveal The Master's origin and actually did end up relevant in defeating him. But I guess the budget wouldn't allow it.
The Occido Lumen is eventually translated by the combined efforts of Setrakian, Ephraim Goodweather, Vasiliy Fet, and Quinlan, who learn that the Master's point of origin, The Black Site*, is one of the Thousand Islands in Lake Ontario, allowing Eph to destroy the Master and eradicate his strain by detonating a nuclear weapon there.
The book also contains instructions for assembling the remains of the other Ancients, which, when followed by Quinlan, result in the reconstitution and resurrection of the Archangel Ozryel**, who is taken by Heaven at the moment of the Master's death.
* The Black Site is the "grave"/point of origin of The Master. He, himself, doesn't know where it is that's why he wants the Occido Lumen because in its pages the Black Site coordinates are known.
** Ozryel was one of the three archangels sent down to Earth by God, to punish Sadum and Amurah (Sodom and Gomorrah). All three angels - Ozryel, Gabriel, and Michael - began their work by taking shelter in a nearby city, to observe their target cities before striking. While being sheltered and washed by the family that had welcomed them, Ozryel became fascinated by their blood, the substance that carried life through their bodies, and thus was a little piece of God's divine power.
Entering Sadum in disguise as a human, Ozryel was called to by a brothel madam, who he attacked and bit on the throat, drinking her blood from her jugular vein.
After Sadum and Amurah were destroyed, Ozryel was overcome with bloodlust and attacked his brother, Michael, drinking his silvery blood as he had drunk the human's. As punishment, God ordered the other Archangels, Gabriel and Raphael, to impale Ozryel to the ground with a beam of divine light, and then cut his body into seven pieces and scatter them across the Earth. Over time, Ozryel's accursed parts seeped into the dirt of the burial sites and spawned the Ancients.
The Master was spawned last, and is thus regarded as the "youngest" of the Ancients. He came from Ozryel's throat, and so personifies the Angel's "thirst" and insatiable ambition more than any of the others.
The manner of Ozryel's death is directly linked to the weaknesses of the Strigoi:
1. Ozryel was pinned to the earth by divine light between the two rivers that flowed from Sadum and Amurah, and so his descendants cannot cross running water unless invited by a human;
2. Sunlight is the closest manifestation of God's "face" on Earth, which is why it is lethal to vampires;
3. Silver is the color of angelic blood, which Ozryel drank from Michael and thus earned God's wrath.
Yeah. Wiki'd the book, apparently the Lumen supposed to reveal The Master's origin and actually did end up relevant in defeating him. But I guess the budget wouldn't allow it.
I wanted to see this visually. I find it interesting.I'm reading through the wiki for the book right now, and, ummm...WHAT
the fuck
I wanted to see this visually. I find it interesting.
I'm reading through the wiki for the book right now, and, ummm...WHAT
the fuck
Well shit, that sounds pretty awesome. Would have loved to see that on screen.I'm reading through the wiki for the book right now, and, ummm...WHAT
the fuck
Lol a nuke sure, tv producers need to educate themselves about what a 18kT nuke can do, or they are purposefully downplaying it for whatever reason?
I'm reading through the wiki for the book right now, and, ummm...WHAT
the fuck
I'm reading through the wiki for the book right now, and, ummm...WHAT
the fuck
I don't really understand why Eph tried to sacrifice himself for Zach at the end. The plan would have killled all of them anyways, why does it matter if the Master took over Zach?
lol the tv producers and writers must have been like, fuck this really cool story from the books, let's go with something more mundane and basic and create a world where nothing ties together.I'm reading through the wiki for the book right now, and, ummm...WHAT
the fuck
I don't think I've ever watched a show that's made me scratch my head so much. Just a few of my thoughts, I'm sure there have been many more
- what was the point in the Lumen?
- The Master making a point of not going near the nuke then doing it anyway
- they made a point of taking all of the silver from the bank then nothing
- Zack, having seen all the shit going down since season 1, now decides that this particular cull of humans may not be cool
- Fet seemingly forgetting about his girlfriend
- Fet reconnecting with Dutch, to then not speak to her for 5 years?
- I'm no nuclear expert, but wouldn't 2 lift shafts directly above a nuke explosion kind of negate a lot of the fact it's underground
- Zack straight up shooting the Master, then when the Master takes Eph as a host, he is still cool about it and hugs Zack next to the armed nuke
- why did it even need to be a nuke, watching the show as far as I am aware what made the Master special was the red worm thing. Just chuck him in an incinerator or step on the damn thing. Book spoilers:- not finale related, but I lost count of the amount of times there was a showdown with the Strigoi, a bunch of people get killed and only then do the protagonists decide to act on their plan. Biggest culprit when Eph was hanging out with his new fling, Strigoi attack, there's a final showdown feel, a bunch of people die and only then they retreat. Like, if that was an option maybe you should have done that to begin with rather than waste your time with cannon foddersince watching the show I've read up on the book and am now aware of the whole face of god angle thing,
but this wasn't explained in the show. Maybe they should have done that rather than doing Eph's adventures into the obvious fact Strigs were farming humans
lol the tv producers and writers must have been like, fuck this really cool story from the books, let's go with something more mundane and basic and create a world where nothing ties together.