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Considering she was at least partially responsible for the deaths of a number of people, including Elise, and the wounding of BB, I thought he was remarkably charitable in stopping her from committing suicide and bringing her the pictures. I believe he empathized with her despair in believing her son dead, and years of torture not knowing what had happened to him. On the plus side, she could possibly provide family medical history information down the line that could prove useful, or even be an organ donor if needed. I thought the scenes of her at the end were full of pathos, especially when she was looking at the pictures. Although her actions did not help her son in any way, as he was fine and happy, they did at least lead to uncovering the pedophile ring, and the corrupt cop who let them operate, plus getting Charlie's dad out of prison.
They knew it would be the last series, so they were free to kill important characters. I didn't really get why the killers felt the need to torture the detectives.
As Saban's mother had been told he was dead, she went along with her psycho boyfriend in killing a nice old lady she had worked for as an in-home helper so they would have a place to stay. Then they abducted a bunch of people to gas to death in a meat truck if Karl wouldn't blow up his best friend and fellow detective, Elise. (Not sure why they thought that was appropriate.) Their end game was to commit suicide together. However, in the meantime Karl had discovered that Saban was not dead, but had been adopted by a nice couple (unofficially), and was happy and engaged to be married. The French chef was his adoptive dad, his adoptive mother had apparently died of cancer. Karl was trying to tell Saban's mother this information, but the psycho boyfriend knew she wouldn't go along with the rest of his mayhem if she knew her son was alive, so he didn't let Karl talk to her on the phone. After Karl made their car crash, he told her about Saban. She realized she had been used by the psycho and shot him. She was going to commit suicide herself, but Karl stopped her. He then talked to Elise's re-instated previous good boss and decided not to tell Saban about his murderous mother. Rather than ruin Saban's life, Karl gave his dad a birth certificate showing he was his biological son -- not sure how he got that. Then he visited Saban's mom in prison and gave her some photos showing Saban as a kid and older, looking healthy and happy. Then Karl got back with his wife and kids that he had been separated from at the beginning of this series.
As the detectives were investigating, they discovered some kids that were being trafficked for sex, including the Charlie kid, who had been thought to have been killed by his alcoholic father. The female detective (Elise) had been instrumental in getting the dad convicted of murder, so he had been in prison for the intervening 8 years. She felt very guilty about that, so she tried to help the dad as well as solve the case of who had abducted Charlie. As it turned out, Charlie had been abducted by a pedophile ring that used the nearby hotel as a base. That hotel was not investigated when Charlie went missing, on the orders of a previous French cop who had been the boss at the time; he was the now-retired dad of the current new boss (a bit of an A-hole who treated Elise badly -- Elise had autistic traits that tended to make her unpopular and misunderstood, but like Sherlock Holmes she had amazing perceptions and instincts that helped her solve difficult cases). As it turned out, the retired dad knew about the pedo ring and was on the take, so he turned a blind eye. He had been taunting his son about his being too soft to kill the bugs that he had been collecting when he was young; however, the son was not too soft to arrest his own dad for his part in the sex trafficking of kids -- the actual pedophile had developed a health problem that made him helpless, so he had burned to death in his house fire. That was the justice for Charlie that Elise was asking for near the end.
Yes, they are convoluted plots, kind of like real life. Apparently the kidnapping of kids was to draw attention to the fact that children of refugees weren't sought for nearly as well as children of citizens, especially those who were well off. As I recall, the male detective (Karl) said something to the effect that if the kidnappers killed 3 blond English kids, they would have the whole country looking for them, which kind of underscored the difference. The refugee mother who had lost her son and didn't know whether he was alive or dead wanted a proper investigation into what had happened to her son. She had teamed up with a psychotic young man who wanted revenge on a guy who was an internet troll and had somehow lead him on to think that his missing mother was still alive. They used scopolamine on the kids so they could manipulate them, and then on some other people, including the boyfriend of the psycho boy's twin sister, and branded the boyfriend while making him and others watch the internet troll being chopped up. The detectives tried to find out what happened to the missing refugee son, Saban, but were told he was dead.
Yeah, who knew?
I think it showed his insecurity. When Ava said it was a lie, he had to change his answer and try to seem more adult, but maybe just to please her, as he would have done with a girlfriend.
I had the impression that Ava drew the picture of Caleb and then provoked Nathan so he would rip the drawing. Then, as Nathan said, she could show the ripped picture of himself to Caleb to make it seem like she liked Caleb and Nathan was a jealous brute who was mean to her, so Caleb would feel sorry for her. Caleb watched the action, but didn't hear the audio, so he didn't know that Ava had provoked Nathan by saying that she hated him.
Judging by the fact that the main complaint about this movie is that the breasts aren't large enough, the fan boys are the ones conflating "iconic" with "necessary."
Unfortunately, a lot of women enable this predilection by undergoing the butchery of breast enlargement surgery, in which the nipples are sliced off and re-positioned to look "normal." Of course, the nipples then no longer have sensitivity.
By the way, Angelina Jolie had both her "iconic" breasts removed due to breast cancer risk concerns ;).
Hulk is obviously defined as being huge and having big muscles. You need a better analogy.
Apparently "Relic Hunter" with Tia Carrere is also included in the big breasts necessary category. Is there another "tomb raider" type character that I'm not aware of that doesn't require "iconic" big breasts? If so, I'd love to check it out. I seriously doubt all the other "well endowed women" who supposedly would have fit the part better could have DONE THEIR OWN STUNTS, which suggests that a realistic choice is exactly a very fit, athletic woman. By the way, training and being fit tend to cause women to have smaller breasts, as breasts are largely fat. You may notice this in ballerinas, ice skaters and dancers, marathon runners, etc. Smaller breasts work just fine for feeding babies, incidentally.
Don't know about Anglo-Saxon, but how about "necrophiliac?"
So, apparently it is not possible to have any female version of an Indian Jones type character that doesn't have a big rack. Sorry, I thought it was actually about "raiding tombs," or making important archeological finds.
Since everything but the breasts doesn't count for anything, maybe you guys should settle for watching re-runs of Three's Company. Loni Anderson's role, in one critic's words, was to "stand there with her breasts sticking out."
Because, of course, big breasts are ESSENTIAL for raiding tombs...
"Fragile" beauty? For an action heroine? Seriously? And big boobs get in the way of being really fit enough to pull off all the stunts she did.
It would be even less realistic that she could do all those stunts with a busty figure.
I had the impression that maybe she was hoping to galvanize Lucifer into telling her how he felt. He got her to come to his place on a pretext, but prepared a romantic dinner to show how he could treat her better than Pierce, but he held back saying what he really felt. She said something to the effect: "if not Pierce, then who?" When he didn't offer himself for a relationship, she said, "You can't have it both ways, Lucifer."
In other words, he didn't want her to be with Pierce, but he wasn't stepping up either.
Fortunately, we can all watch and enjoy fictional shows without having to buy into the supposed mythology or version of reality being displayed. It's called suspension of disbelief ;)
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