Ash vs Evil Dead (new tv series)

[JanewayRulz!]

Okay, then Ruby could "come back" to her body since she actually "took" her body to hell with her when she "left". In other words, no "burned to a crisp" body left behind for anyone to inhabit.

Dagnabit.

Sorry, Amanda.

 

[RJDiogenes]

Ruby may know things that nobody else does.

Or maybe the season will end on a time-travel cliffhanger like Evil Dead II and Amanda will be alive in the past.

Or... or... or...

 

[JanewayRulz!]

HOLY CRAP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

The ep is up!

I did NOT see that coming!

Fav line?

Spoiler

"Chopping up my evil clone. Maybe someday that will feel weird."

 

[Kemaiku]

Okay, then Ruby could "come back" to her body since she actually "took" her body to hell with her when she "left". In other words, no "burned to a crisp" body left behind for anyone to inhabit.

Dagnabit.

Sorry, Amanda.

We never saw a flesh and blood Kandrian come to the human world until now, so the same method could take a human bodily to their realm, how she got back is another matter. Ruby could go there and back and like Termintor, only organic matter can do it.

But Fisher? is gone yeah.

 

[Sparkle Fabulosa]

Well. That was intense.

It's too bad about those hikers but at least one of them was saved. Kind of hoping Heather stops screaming and joins their merry little band of Deadite hunters. She seems nice, and after losing Fisher, Kelly could use some female bonding time.

The second Ruby asked for the book, I knew things were about to turn sour.

 

[JanewayRulz!]

The second Ruby asked for the book, I knew things were about to turn sour.

I suspected it when she started being nice to Ash as she cajoled it from his grasp.

 

[RJDiogenes]

Whoa. Okay, it's getting more and more grotesque as we get closer to the end. The hiker puppet show was horrifying. And Ruby is not a frenemy after all. And poor Pablo-- that was no laughing matter!

My favorite quote: "Our time has not yet come!" I'm holding out hope that this hints at a loophole for Fisher to be saved. So stop telling me she's gone!

 

[JanewayRulz!]

Whoa. Okay, it's getting more and more grotesque as we get closer to the end. The hiker puppet show was horrifying. And Ruby is not a frenemy after all. And poor Pablo-- that was no laughing matter!

My favorite quote: "Our time has not yet come!" I'm holding out hope that this hints at a loophole for Fisher to be saved. So stop telling me she's gone!

I thought it meant they'd be "together" in hell.

Although... isn't it interesting that demon Amanda couldn't recognize Ruby, when demon Brujo did recognize her,

 

[Kemaiku]

Wow, it can talk now, that's not disturbing at all.

From Ruby's last line, it implies she's the Old One that wrote it 10,000 years ago. But the promo for next week shows a ton of stuff lifted from the reboot and references to the Abomination.

Or worse, both.

Well, that would explain why we had to have the Hikers, 5 people need to die to free it. 3 down, 2 to go (I don't think Evil Ash counts as it needs to be five souls).

 

[Beagleman]

By the way, is the reboot worth a shot?

 

[Sparkle Fabulosa]

The whole episode was pretty horrifying. I'm amazed at how much they get away with but then again, it is a subscription channel.

That was the most intense cliffhanger yet!

Btw, the actress who plays Heather, is Samara Weaving. Hugo Weaving's niece.

 

[Kemaiku]

By the way, is the reboot worth a shot?

If you like not being able to sleep for a week and have a bathtub of brain bleach nearby, give it a go.

Anyway, next week looks like it's going to be pretty intense/crazy. It's amazing what they've done with only 10 episodes.

 

[JanewayRulz!]

By the way, is the reboot worth a shot?

If you like not being able to sleep for a week and have a bathtub of brain bleach nearby, give it a go.

Anyway, next week looks like it's going to be pretty intense/crazy. It's amazing what they've done with only 10 episodes.

Make that only 10 twenty-five minute eps.

Then again, as Bruce said in an interview, these 10 eps add up to more story time than the three movies.

 

[RJDiogenes]

Whoa. Okay, it's getting more and more grotesque as we get closer to the end. The hiker puppet show was horrifying. And Ruby is not a frenemy after all. And poor Pablo-- that was no laughing matter!

My favorite quote: "Our time has not yet come!" I'm holding out hope that this hints at a loophole for Fisher to be saved. So stop telling me she's gone!

I thought it meant they'd be "together" in hell.

Sigh.

 

[Cyke101]

This episode had a really great way of bringing the theme of midlife crisis to a critical point, especially with Ash -- jokingly or not -- giving that insightful line about being stuck in the past. Some great parallels and signs here: the hikers are more or less the same age as Ash and his friends when they first encountered the cabin 30 years ago. The Necronomicon brought up some existential questions for Ash. Ruby's modern style outclassed Ash. Even Pablo and Kelly deducing Evil Ash meant saying a couple blunt truths about our hero.

Overall, to me the show is getting to the point where it seems to be about Raimi's, Tapert's, and Campbell's own aging. Despite each one of them accomplishing great professional heights, their fame always goes back to Evil Dead. And so they ask, what if things turned out differently, in that what if the only thing they did was the three movies and didn't grow up beyond them? Using Ash and the mythology as a new way to frame aging is such a great concept, and more original than if it was simply the ongoing adventures of ever-dependable Ash.

I love the depth and layers of this show, and it seems to be thicker and more complex than the original trilogy. Not a lot of revivals can ever say that about their franchises.

And, I'm going to cheer at the fact that we now have a 3-way battle going on: The Ghost Beaters vs. the Deadites vs. Ruby. I don't know if one episode is going to be enough to wrap it up, but I'd be pleased/frustrated if this is fuel for Season 2.

 

[JanewayRulz!]

Realizing I never saw the movies, in the preview for this week's finale, do we see a drawing of Ash in the past with his chainsaw held high and his boom stick in his left hand? If so, has that always been in the necronomicon or just in the TV's version?

 

[Sparkle Fabulosa]

^ You've never seen the movies!?

Go. Watch.

 

[Kemaiku]

Realizing I never saw the movies, in the preview for this week's finale, do we see a drawing of Ash in the past with his chainsaw held high and his boom stick in his left hand? If so, has that always been in the necronomicon or just in the TV's version?

It's from Evil Dead 2, the chosen one who would fall from the sky and rid the world of the Deadites.

It's also the main promotional poster for the series.

It's why Ash strikes the pose he does in Army of Darkness for his Boomstick speech.

 

[Mr. Adventure]

I liked some of Kelly and Pablo's lines.

"Maybe we're veterinarians, really bad ones."
"Or hunters."

"It was just a raccoon. What the hell?
"You know it - it makes for real good eatin'."
"I never heard that before."
"Oh yeah it makes a real robust and savory stew."

"Yeah, he's the only one standing in their way (to pretty hiker) and me too I stand in their way all the time."

"So your entire plan to save the world came from a bong hit?"
"No I didn't smoke the drug, lady, I drank it."

"Just let her take your load, jefe."

Plus Pablo's face when Deadite Fisher has the puppet Pablo profess his love to Kelly.

And just how nasty is it to tell hiker girl there's no heaven as she attacks her?

 

[Kemaiku]

And just how nasty is it to tell hiker girl there's no heaven as she attacks her?

Wouldn't be the first time, the idea is that the domains or realms the Old Ones traveled to is what we call Hell. There is no afterlife in this universe, just oblivion, eternal torment or like the poor old Professor, stuck in the inbetween forever.

This is Ash's entire point, there is no happy ending in Evil Dead, not really.