Harris goes further with the enigmatic creation of the last season and made for a very compelling figure to follow through the first half of the season in his quest to 'burn it all', standing out particularly well in the scenes where he encounters obstacles posed by Ford, the breathtaking sequence where he goes against the expected norm to save Lawrence's village, and his confrontation with Maeve. Which is a shame, since he started this season brilliantly, as sort of the one individual in the park with an agenda beyond preservation and survival, or simple extermination. Unfortunately for The Man in Black, the later parts of the season just didn't seem to know what to do with him, as contrived machinations led to the character both being put in a bit of a standstill in terms of development, while also being all over the place in terms of his motivations. Both are pretty good at portraying the fear and intensity of their situation, completely out of sync with everything going on around them, and individually, Nam showing the continuing care and growing courage that keeps him going, and Slocum the slightly toned down yet still abrasive nature of an asshole forced to shut up for once, and both have some pretty funny comedic asides. They have less to do then last season, but actually I think this helped their characters and performances become more consistent. Leonardo Nam as Felix Lutz and Ptolemy Slocum as Sylvester And it's a shame that they couldn't pair him up with Elsie one last time, it could have been interesting to see him witnessing the latter's murder at the hands of Charlotte.ΔΆ5. My problem is that there really doesn't seem to be a point to his character besides being some muscle or used to have another character deliver lines to. I think my issue with his character is not so much the performance, which is pretty decent on the whole aside from maybe his last scene, which I still need to think about. I loved the final switcheroo, which also allowed for Tess Thompson to really impress me, the deaths of some beloved characters hit the mark even if some were a bit rushed, and there were some genuinely heartwarming moments among all the chaos, The highlight is of course all the Bernard, and for that matter Dolores, interactions and sequences, which Jeffrey Wright and Evan Rachel Wood handled so brilliantly, and supplmented by some fantastic editing in those particular scenes, even if it was a bit lacking in others. I still need to think about this episode, there are flaws for sure in terms of the pacing - they probably should have moved some of the 'Maeve's group' plot developments to the previous episode just to let the crucial moments breathe a bit more, though the scenes themselves are great -, whatever the hell they're doing with William, and though I quite loved the ending sequence I do think it might cause problems for the third season.
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