#episode 01x05

[carrimak]

my fave episode of the season

You are wise or perhaps unusually lucky to understand friendship to be the best possible foundation a marriage can have.

BRIDGERTON (2020 ─ ) 1.05 ► The Duke and I

[addictedtostorytelling]

ABBOTT ELEMENTARY Janine Teagues episode 01x05 “student transfer”

[levithestripper]

“If you wish to see him for yourself, Arseling, I say you leave the way you came. I’m serious. We are stuck on this hill, and here we will die.” THE LAST KINGDOM— 01x05 “Episode 5” for @errruvande

[funforahermit]

Murray in every episode: 01x05

[yellowjacketsfashion]

Jackie wears the Lacoste “Women Graduate Bl 1 Sfa Fashion Sneakers” in episode 01x05.

[mickeysclubhouse]

hey look the first five episode of clubhouse+ were revealed:

• 01x01: “Mickey’s New Helper”

Mickey and pals meet Little Helper, a handy helping friend. When it floats away in a balloon, they rescue it using their Mouseketools.

• 01x02: “Clarabelle’s New Coop”

When Clarabelle’s coop is wrecked, Mickey and friends rebuild it using Mouseketools.

• 01x03: “Goofy’s Sock Hunt”

Mickey and Goofy find Pluto gathering items to build a cozy bed for a mama cat and her kittens.

• 01x04: “Puppy Pluto”

Professor Von Drake’s Itty Bitty Baby Ray turns both him and Pluto into babies.

• 01x05: “Goofy Pizza”

Goofy’s hungry for pizza, so Mickey and pals use Mouseketools to make a delicious pizza to share.

[tobiasdrake]

Ironheart 01x05 - Karma's a Glitch

This is the beginning of the endgame. Everything comes to a head here.

This one, to be honest, is a little janky. Probably needed one or two more episodes; That's usually the problem.

This episode wastes no time in paying off the ominous promises made last episode. They pause just long enough for Zelma to confirm that the entity powering the cloak, heavily implied to be Dormammu, is Dormammu. It's so unceremonious that I don't know why they bothered being coy about it last episode.

Last episode, they were like, "There is an evil entity whose name we dare not speak, from the darkest plane of existence! I can tell you nothing more than that! Any association with this being of unfathomable wickedness will put us in danger!"

And then this episode's just like "Dormammu. The bad guy is Dormammu. Did you see Dr. Strange? The villain there, Kaecilius, he was working for Dormammu. Dormammu's powering the cloak. You're up against Dormammu."

Okay then. Glad to know you've still got our backs and were just stalling for runtime or something. But once that's over, we get the fight.

This fight is the major action sequence of the episode and it is fucking good.

Tony Stark was a billionaire who could pour his money into infinity bajillion gadgets and weapons and versions of the suit. We almost never saw him have to fight someone unarmored and when he did, his solution more often than not was to reveal a piece of Iron Man tech he can easily suit up into at the drop of a hat.

The second act of Iron Man 3 is the only time he was ever really caught without his resources. And he still had the time he needed to gadgeteer up some weapons he could bring to the table.

Riri doesn't have that privilege. When she's caught flatfooted, she is genuinely disarmed. As the entire gang converges on her, the only piece of tech she has on her person is that anti-bullet forcefield watch.

But this isn't the first time she's been in this situation, either. She was caught unarmored by John too, and what that fight established about her fighting style is put to great use in this bout.

Riri isn't a puncher. She's not a kicker. She's not a grappler. She is a thing-grabber. Riri is an environmental fighter. The only thing she has to bring to a fight like this is her creative intellect, her brilliant academic knowledge, and her quick-thinking. When she's backed into a corner like this, every object in her environment becomes an improvised weapon.

This results in a fun, creative fight where Riri thoroughly explores all the ways you can hit someone with a fast food restaurant, and even manages to break out a new utility of the watch's established mechanics to ensnare the Blood Siblings.

Which goes just well enough for her inevitably be fucked up by Zeke's debut.

Riri gets the suit she's been working on back just in time for Zeke to completely trash it. Well, sort of completely trash it?

He gets cold feet at the end and spares Riri's life. But the suit is junk, forcing Riri to salvage only the part that houses N.A.T.A.L.I.E. in it.

...but it kind of feels like she was supposed to take the rest of the destroyed suit with her because what happens to it is an open question. Zeke actually gets in trouble later in the episode when all he brings back to HQ is the helmet, and he can't produce either a body or the rest of the suit.

Collateral damage? What do you mean, collateral damage? It's lying in the street in front of White Castle. You give me five minutes, I'll go run and grab it.

Zeke only told Riri to run and pretend she's dead. He didn't help her load the suit up in a pickup and drive it back to her garage. But it feels like she was supposed to leave with what's left of it given how he's pointlessly lying here.

It would also make more sense of the later scene where Riri builds a brand new and improved Iron Man suit out of a car with a box of scraps in like an afternoon, if she had the smashed up old suit in her possession to use as a foundation.

At least, more literal sense. Thematically, it's pretty much perfect.

This is Riri's moment of self-actualization. This is how she comes into her power. Finally letting it all out and connecting with the people she loves, she's able to create the armor that will protect her out of the car that Gary poured so much time and love into.

This car is to Gary what those banged-up headphones Xavier was talking about were to Natalie. It's where his memory lives. His and Natalie's; The memories of them both are inextricably tied to this garage and this car.

Much of this episode is spent unpacking those memories that Riri's been running from, that Riri's been using the phantom that is N.A.T.A.L.I.E. to cope with without confronting, and forcing her to come to grips with her love and her loss.

Mysterio isn't the only one who smuggled a copy of B.A.R.F. home with them. And this episode puts the holographic therapy tech to brilliant use for its actual intended purpose from the start of Civil War, turning it from a funny one-time gag into the episode's emotional climax.

Riri finally faces the love and the pain that she's been running from. The memories that have been haunting her, that drove her from Chicago. And now Riri takes those memories and the item that anchors them and she makes it into her power.

That's not to say that the episode agrees with Xavier, though. It unsurprisingly takes a centrist position and agrees to meet in the middle. Riri sees the value of Xavier's way of memorializing Natalie and makes her new suit in the same way, and in turn Xavier comes around on Riri's weird Natalie Chatbot.

He still thinks this is weird and gross but he's willing to accept that Riri needs it. Which is probably as much of a condemnation for generative AI as we can expect from a Disney product.

Also Ronnie's here.

Gonna be honest, this is a weird scene. Riri comes home and finally comes clean. She tells Ronnie everything about the demon-possessed gang leader who wants to kill them invisibly with magic bullets from the grassy knoll.

And Ronnie's response is basically, "You go right up to the homicidal Avatar of a Dark God and you stand your ground!"

This is supposed to be the big heroic pep talk but Riri isn't any kind of established superhero or anything. This isn't like Spider-Man ten years into his career chatting with Aunt May about whether he can defeat Venom. In context, it just feels very weird that she wants to cast her daughter at the Hood like a Pikachu.

It gets us to the emotional climax in the garage, but I feel like this needed another draft. Even without the magic and demons and shit, "Have you considered duking it out with the murderous gang leader?" said no parent ever.

This just doesn't feel like Riri's mom talking. It feels like a writer possessing Ronnie to tell Riri what she needs to hear to move the plot forward. It's a weird little blip to bridge the gap between the awesome fight in the White Castle and the awesome garage scene stuff.

And that brings us to the other side of the equation: Parker.

While Riri's power is coming together, Parker's is coming apart. Riri has a brief opportunity during the White Castle fight to reveal Stuart's murder to Clown, which Clown follows up on. The consequence is that everybody knows Parker killed Stuart and the whole gang self-destructs.

This is a hefty loss. This team didn't quite have what it took to bring Riri down but they came within a hair's breadth multiple times. And they did successfully carry out the TNNL and Heirlum jobs; The only thing that screwed them at Heirlum was the unpredictable consequence of Riri's poorly-executed subterfuge.

Without them, Parker's forced to tip his hand, play that trump card from last episode, and rope Zeke back in.

(It's 2025, show. Does anyone even know what those are anymore? We gonna product place Polly Pocket next? How about Bop It? XD)

Parker has gone from him and his bro to him and his found family crew of underworld experts... to having one unwilling pawn remotely controlled to work for him, who will likely be looking for any opportunity to stab him in the back. As Riri comes into her power, Parker is now weaker than he's ever been despite the illusion of strength that controlling Zeke presents.

Still, it's enough to get him in the door and finally deliver the blow that reveals what all of this was about.

Parker's the son of a wealthy billionaire. The companies he's been hitting were his dad's investment portfolio. Parker's been taking control of his dad's assets with the ultimate goal of seizing his dad's company and home, which he finally carries out by using Zeke to do it.

Like Riri, Parker comes from a place of grief and loss regarding family trauma. Parker lost his mother and Riri lost her father. But Riri's family tried to keep her grounded, to help her cope and process her grief, only for Riri to run away from it all. Parker needed that, he wanted that support, and his family cast him out.

This ugly truth, finally revealed, is the way Parker serves as a foil to Riri. And here in this episode, they both ascend; Riri by finally embracing the love she's been running from and Parker by finally taking back what his father denied him.

The pieces are all in place as we move into the final conflict.

Also they connect the suit to the Dark Dimension for a power boost and that is wild.

Too bad about that "magic has a price" thing.

Yeah, so far as costs go, forcing Riri to re-experience Natalie's death with her new chatbot is pretty wicked. To be honest, I was expecting N.A.T.A.L.I.E. to die and briefly re-traumatize Riri but I figured she was going to, like, blow herself up in a heroic sacrifice or something.

Did not anticipate her being taken as Equivalent Exchange or whatever by the Dark Dimension.

There were some bits of this episode that needed patchwork done. It's not the best of the series. But there's nonetheless a lot of great stuff in here and I'm looking forward to the finale.

[rayllurn]

What was the sandwiches ref again? I can't remember off the top of my head lol

In episode 01x05, Callum is having a dream about Claudia ("I've been waiting for this moment....your breath still smells like peanut butter"), and Ezran wakes him up and later asks what he was dreaming about. Too lazy to look at the exact dialogue but it goes something like:

Ezran: "You were kinda sleep talking before. What were you dreaming about?"

Callum: "Why? I didn't like...say anyone's name out loud right?"

Ezran: "There was something about peanut butter-"

Callum: "Sandwiches! I remember now. I was dreaming about sandwiches."

Ezran: "You seemed weirdly excited about sandwiches."

Callum: *laughs* "In a few years, when you're older buddy, we'll sit down and have a heart-to-heart talk about sandwiches." (aka, The Talk).

And then in 02x03, when Callum asks Ezran to go for a walk because he plans to tell him about what happened to Harrow:

Callum: "So, Ezran, I wanted to talk to you about life, and growing up, and how sometimes there are...changes you don't expect."

Ezran: "Is this the talk about sandwiches?"

Callum: *very flustered* "No no no no...not that. Definitely not that."

Hope this helps!

[erulasse23]

TROP 01x05: Partings

I am almost two weeks behind on these bc my life has been insane but hello 👋

1. HOW COOL that “this wandering day”, a song credited to Poppy’s mother, has the famous line that Bilbo uses to describe Aragorn in LOTR 🥹 “not all who wander are lost” it just makes me so happy!!

2. this episode did a great job at throwing me off of the Sauron question. Halbrand is taking his place as king, meanwhile the mystics are coming for the Stranger and Adar is able to stand in the sun…

3. one of my favorite scenes in the whole show is Durin at dinner in Lindon. he’s fucking hilarious, Gil-Galad and his raised eyebrow had me MELTING (“recount it, Elrond Peredhel” in that VOICE?!), the table, all of it is just so good!!!

[gay-spock]

EVERY EPISODE OF STAR TREK: THE ORIGINAL SERIES (1966-1969) -> 01x05 "The Man Trap"

"I loved her very much. She lives in my dreams. She walks and sings in them."

[independent-fics]

The Leverage OT3 in Every Episode

Leverage: 01x05 The Mile High Job

[addictedtostorytelling]

csi: crime scene investigation episode 02x05 “scuba doobie-doo” vs. csi: vegas episode 01x05 “let the chips fall”

[cbrownjc]

Hi. I’m a recent follower and I really enjoy your commentary and predictions on iwtv.

I was curious, cause since the play was scripted, are any of the revelations that lestat made (the turning of Claudia, their fight in 01x05, that it was actually Louis who was hunting lestat) true or a little bit true?

Hi! Thanks for following and I'm glad you like my commentary and such. 🙂

So I think, when all is said and done, the only things we can trust about anything wrt the things Lestat said during the trial are the things he said when he was clearly off script. Those things, and those things alone, I think are safe to trust 100%.

Anything else he talked about, however, is highly suspect IMO, and if Louis called something out as being false then I -- personally -- am 100% taking it as such, and looking at it as clearly part of the narrative the coven wanted Lestat to present to the audience.

Anything Louis didn't call out as false I'm giving more credence to. However, I also think there is probably more context to those events that we are still missing because Lestat was still being scripted when talking about those things.

Because even with Armand's interference with Louis' memories, I still feel there is more credibility to Louis' POV for now than Lestat's when it comes to the trial since we have still yet to hear or get Lestat's POV fully uncoerced or manipulated -- which he very much was during this trial -- about all of this and of past events.

I mean, for starters. Lestat says he went to sleep underground right after Nicki died and slept for 100 years, waking in 1908. So that would mean that Lestat went to sleep sometime around 1808.

However, there are little anecdotes Lestat dropped in Season 1 that contradict that he was asleep underground for 100 years. Such as in episode 1x02 when he tells Louis about having seen the comic opera Don Pasquale. That show first premiered in 1843, and Lestat told Louis he was there for it (as well as that he was acquainted with the composer of it). Which would have been impossible if Lestat had gone underground to sleep after Nicki ended his life and didn't wake up again until 1908, 100 years later.

Also, in the trial, Lestat said once he did awaken he immediately chose to go to New Orleans. Yet, in episode 1x01 he tells Louis that he was actually headed for St. Louis, Missouri, and only stopped and then stayed in New Orleans first because of the music and then because of Louis himself.

These two things were clearly scripted in this way to establish a narrative that Lestat was just a lonely, brokenhearted vampire still mourning the loss of his first love when he first encountered Louis, who supposedly preyed upon Lestat. And used Lestat's brokenheartedness and loneliness to his advantage. All of which Louis loudly rejected and said wasn't true.

So when it comes to those two events, as well as the narrative they were being used to lead to -- that Louis pursued Lestat and took advantage of him -- that was all false and part of the script IMO.

However, when it comes to something like Claudia's turning, Louis says that Lestat's version of that event was correct. So, just for now, I take those events as having more credence than what we saw in Season 1. However, I still think parts are still missing with regard to this event that we won't know in full until Season 3 when we can get Lestat's full, and clear, POV about it.

So that is something I think we should also wait to hear from Lestat's full, and unscripted self before any final judgments are made about it.

And I think the same should be true of any other events that fall under this same mode, such as the fight in 1x05. Louis didn't contradict or call false anything Lestat said about the part of it we didn't see in Season 1. So I'm taking it as true, though I still feel there is even more context to it all that we still don't have and will only, once again, get when we finally get Lestat's full, unscripted, POV.

Also, I think it's important to note that the times when Lestat would fully go off script was when it came to emotional things, not simple narrative ones -- such as when he confronted that homophobic audience member who was ridiculing the love he and Louis held for each other, or when he was apologizing to Louis for the drop in 1x05.

It was deeply emotional things about and for Louis that would break Lestat fully off-script, even right at the start when Lestat corrected that this was a story of love after Santiago tried to call it a story of betrayal. And when he was recalling and talking about the actual events themselves he would also only do so if they were deeply emotionally connected with Louis, such as him talking about the fight in 1x05.

So I would say anything Louis didn't directly call out as being false are things that should be dismissed as false, for now. And the things Louis didn't do so with should be given more weight wrt their truth. But, even then, there might still be -- and very likely is -- context missing to those events that we won't get a true and full picture of until we can hear Lestat talk about them via his own, fully unscripted and unmanipulated, POV next season.

[funforahermit]

Bret & Jemaine in every episode: 01x05

[yellowjacketsfashion]

Callie wears a Polo by Ralph Lauren “Men’s Pink Blue Purple Tie Dye Button Up Long Sleeve Shirt” in episode 01x05.

[rotating-hyperfixations]

Yellowjackets Rewatch Thoughts - 01x05

Rewatch thoughts live from work

Remember when the Yellowjackets felt joy

We moved on too quickly from Shauna calling Jackie hot during her failed pep talk

Also, I forgot how many inciting incidents for like the rest of the show kick off this episode

Nat and Travis flirting is kind of cute, even though I prefer them as friends

TaiVan confirmation (the closet was glass)

Jane Widdop straight face saying “the occult is no laughing matter” is one of the greatest line reads of the show

Not Shauna doing the whole Dad lore bit, where she drops traumatizing pieces of information seemingly out of nowhere to Callie

Callie and Shauna’s scene in the bar is devastating

Tai allowing Sammy to dress up as a sandwich while she’s in the middle of a campaign where she’s basically being accused of cannibalism is terrible optics lol

What do you think Jackie said to convince Shauna to be the spirit guide or whatever she’s doing

Shauna calling Lottie sweetie, feeding my LottieShauna delusions

Laura Lee throwing the Bible at Lottie saying the “the power of Christ compels you” and it working - cinema

Also, lowkey Jane Widdop and Liv Hewson carried the humor bits this episode

I will admit, Tai’s speech would probably get me to vote for her

I forgot that Ben went along with Misty’s crush thing, probably not his best move. But, given everything else going on, I kinda get it

Taishauna friendship crumbs, also not Shauna and Jackie sleeping like an old married couple when not even Tai and Van were doing that. They could not be gayer

Not Callie thinking she could blackmail her mom who was in a cannibalistic cult as a teenager.

You have to respect Misty’s commitment to being absolutely insane