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Maybe we'll get AHS: OUTER SPACE soon.

Yeah there's now way they'll keep Lange, not to mention Bates and Bassett, off for the last few episodes.

As everyone has said, the stakes are simply too low for me to even bother caring about how confusing everything is. I can't even remember half the characters names. Blind girl always had the sight inside her she just needed it bumped back with family baubbles? Why did she even go to psycho killer Axe Man with the news anyway? (And aside from him being corporeal making no sense, I know he was meant to be sorta an urban legend but did they even give a warped Murphy reason for why he kills people who dislike jazz?) I wanted to see nice girl and Franken-guy frolicking in EPCOT, dammit. But I could care less about them (when she entered the school did she cut all ties with her parents? Who cares.) However, I know he has violent impulses, but when did he become a super strong, efficient killer? And why did they even go all the way to Florida, and then gaining one new power (when these witches gain like 2 new random powers a week anyway) make them immediately go back? The explanation for LaLaurie's tears being that she is truly evil and was crying about black people gaining equality is just stupid (but I can see the writers thinking it was an insanely clever twist.) But I should have known -- Murphy has a habit of feeling NOBODY can truly redeem themselves -- except on Glee of course where it never makes sense anyway (not that LaLaurie should be redeemed, but then why have her palling around with Queenie?) Are LaLaurie's actual daughters really in Hell too then -- if so that seems pretty mean. And it also seems unnecessarily cruel then that Nan is in Hell too (I am just sorry we didn't get to see some clever scene of what her Hell would be like.) The silent movie annoyed me because it made no sense why it would be done as a silent movie except they that they wanted to make one, but as these things go on this show, I can go with that. Madison (that's Roberts, right?) seems to want to kill everyone but because she's part of the Coven nobody cares? WHat again is the point of even having this school for witches? Was the butler just upstairs dressing up Black Baby (tm) the whole episode while everything went on? I know Bassett was knocked out (ok are witches THAT easy to knock out?) but how one of the most powerful witches of all time not manage to escape torture by a powerless, not in the best shape, older woman, who carted her around town and to the attic?

So many more things to be said. And the fact that Murphy wants to have a fun campy season after how dark much of last year got is fair enough -- but then why use this season to explore race issues in such uncomfortable ways? That's fun I guess -- hey, black power showing black characters delighting in wanting to do nothing more than torture those who tortured them.

When they brought in the witch hunters, while hardly original, it felt like it was giving shape to the season--but that was a bust (is the whole company just gone then? And why didn't Fiona and crew kill them AGES ago if it was so easy to just use an axe?)I thought niceWitch was upset about Nan being killed, but I guess she forgot. Fiona's new best friend disappears--and is tortured and chopped up basically under her nose but I guess this weird cancer distracted her. And she has been shown to kill people with no issue, but couldn't do anything about an (expected) axe to the back?

Bla bla bla. I also agree with Namo that what momentum they were actually getting was killed by the break, regardless of my issues.

Luckily, we're all almost done with this season. One episode left and we can all try to move on. I feel like we deserve the gay version of a Purple Heart for this.

Mauve Hearts?

Ha!

And I thought we had two episodes left, but you're right--only one. Well there's little chance of these loose story threads that seemed just to be there to mark time (again, nothing new for a Murphy project) will all tie together, then.

I'm amazed that many critics seem to love this season.

As forthe Seven Wonders--yeah they were mentioned before, but we never were told what all seven were (I loved how in the stupid film they obviously knew which ones every audience member would recognize and which needed explaining--and then conveniently used these newly mentioned ones in the episode...)

Wow. I totally forgot about her killer sex power. Guess that was only needed for the beginning of the season and then forgotten forever.

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I thought that one girl was able to get away in the helicopter

Are you saying The Axe Man wasn't a ghost? He definitely was because there was some scene with Fiona as a teen and he pushed some sh!t over to save her from something. It happened like 3 months ago so I don't remember the exact details but the implication was that he had been protected her all her life.

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I'll do you one better. It blew up in the nuclear attack or whatever that ending was.

Ooh! The helicopter fell on the bridge that collapsed and got the other two!

You are right.

And thanks to the poster about the Axe Man history -- I knew some of the facts behind Lalaurie and the real voodoo witches (I have to wonder if any of the relatives of LaLaurie's victims, or even her family, if there are any known, were upset by this season? They probably didn't care...)

As usual this season, the AV Club's review is spot on. http://www.avclub.com/review/go-to-hell-107108 I particularly liked this note:

o illustrate the problems with the season, let’s take on LaLaurie’s character arc: Historical serial killer. Made immortal and buried beneath the Earth for centuries. Dug up by Fiona. Made a maid for some reason. Daughter resurrected as a zombie. (Actually, up until this point, it sort of works.) Becomes sympathetic to Queenie. Sold out by Queenie. Becomes an animated head. Goes back to being a serial killer after being reassembled. Takes over her former home. Made mortal again and killed. There’s nothing even approaching a coherent throughline there, and you can extend that to everybody else on the show.
At least Kathy Bates seems to be having fun, right? Lance Reddick, too. He’s having the time of his life, and who can blame him? And Lily Rabe is really good at stage combat, so that’s something!

(And I know, why I am I even still discussing this show... I felt as ridiculous complaining about the last few seasons of Nip/Tuck. I hate the term hate watching, but Murphy, more often than not, seems to bring that out in me.)

Wha??? you don't love how they open most of the scenes after each ad block with a sideways camera that spins????

This thread is hilarious! Murphy should check it out as a lesson in writing for an audience.

I loathe when too many liberties are taken with history and folklore, and Ryan seems to adore doing it in his story lines. This season has been a mess! I was so looking forward to the ride, but the roadmap has been lost completely and we are just wandering aimlessly at this point. It's sad when you go from "what happened" to "who cares, because it isnt going to make sense anyway". Still in for the delicous performances, especially from Bates and Lange.

I AM satisfied that Emma Roberts got the crap kicked out of her.

And PLEASE stop with the Papa Ge character! Ugh!

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