Tuesday, June 17, 2014

Applies to domestic and international Round One way Balikpapan - BPN Denpasar, Bali - DPS Jakarta -


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Applies to domestic and international Round One way Balikpapan - BPN Denpasar, Bali - DPS Jakarta - CGK Field (Kuala norfolk broads Namu) - KNO Medan - MES Padang - PDG Palembang - Pekanbaru PLM - PKU Surabaya - SUB Makassar - UPG Yogyakarta - JOG Ambon - AMQ Banjarmasin - BDJ Bandung - BDO Banyuwangi - FKDQJHV Biak - BIK Bengkulu - BKS Balikpapan - BPN Batam - BTH Banda Aceh - BTJ Jakarta - CGK Jambi - DJB Bali - DPS Gunungsitoli - GNS Manado - MDC Field (Kuala Namu) - KNO Field - MES Padang - PDG Pekanbaru - PKU Palembang - PLM Solo - Sorong SOC - SOQ Semarang - SRG Surabaya - SUB Timika - TIM Dublin - TKG Tarakan - TRK Makassar - Ternate UPG - TTE Pontianak - PNK Yogyakarta - JOG Palu - PLW Lombok - LOP Kupang - KOE Jayapura norfolk broads - DJJ Bima - BMU Malang - MLG Kendari - KDI Baubau - BUW Cape Pendan norfolk broads - TJQ Tanjung Pinang - TNJ Johor Bahru - JHB Kuala Lumpur - Penang norfolk broads KUL - PEN Bangkok - BKK Chiang Mai - CNX Phuket - Krabi HKT - KBV Singapore - SIN Hong Kong - HKG Guangzhou - CAN Hangzhou - HGH Beijing norfolk broads - Shanghai PEK - PVG Suzhou - SZV Shenzhen - SZX Seoul - ICN Brisbane - BNE Canberra - CBR Darwin - DRW Melbourne - MEL Gold Coast - OOL Perth - PER Sydney - Dubai Dhaka - DAC Bandar Seri Begawan - BWN Phnom Penh - PNH Siem Reap - Angkor - REP Bangalore - BLR Mumbai - BOM Delhi - DEL Hyderabad - HYD Jaipur - JAI Fukuoka - FUK Tokyo - HND Osaka - KIX Nagoya - Tokyo NGO - NRT Macau - MFM Maldives - MLE Auckland - Christchurch AKL - CHC Manila - MNL Colombo - CMB Kaohsiung - KHH Taipei - TPE Hanoi - Ho Chi Minh HAN - SGN Balikpapan - BPN Denpasar, Bali - DPS Jakarta - CGK Field (Kuala Namu) - kno Medan - MES Padang - PDG Palembang - Pekanbaru PLM - PKU Surabaya - SUB Ujung Pandang, Makassar - UPG Yogyakarta - JOG Ambon - AMQ Banjarmasin - BDJ Band

BA - British Admiralty cruising BAF - Bunker Adjustment Factor BB - Below Bridge - Ballast Bonus - B


AA - Always Afloat AAAA - Always Afloat, Always Accessible cruising AAOSA - Always Afloat Or Safe Aground AAR - Against All Risks AARA - Always Accessible or Reachable on Arrival AB - Able Seaman ABS - American Bureau of Shipping AC - Alternating Current (electricity) ACV - Air Cushion Vehicle AD - Area Differential ADF - Automatic Direction Finder AF - Anti-Fouling AFFF - Aqueous Film Forming Foam AFRA - Average Freight Rate Assessment AG - Arabian Gulf AGW - Actual Gross Weight - All Going Well AHTS - Anchor Handling Tug and Supply Vessel AIS - Automatic Identification System ALERT - Automatic Life-saving Emergency Radio Transmitter ALRS - Admiralty List of Radio Signals AMSL - Above Mean Sea Level AMVER - Automated Mutual Assistance Vessel Rescue System AMWELSH - Americanised Welsh Coal Charter party ANERA - Asia-North America Eastbound Rate Agreement ANOP - Articles Not Otherwise Provided for ANSI - American National Standard Institute AO - Awaiting Orders - And Other AOB - Any One Bottom AOH - After Office Hours AOLOC - Any One Location AOR - Atlantic Ocean Region AOS - Any One Steamer AOV - Any One Vessel AP - All Purposes - Additional Premium - Aft Perpendicular API - American Petroleum Institute APS - Arrival Pilot Station APT - Aft Peak Tank ARA - Antwerp – Rotterdam – Amsterdam ARPA - Automatic Radar Plotting Aid A/S - Alongside ASAP - As Soon As Possible ASBA - The Association of Shipbrokers and Agents (USA) Incorporated, New York ASCII - American Standard Code for Information Interchange ASPW - Any Safe Port in the World ASTM - American Society of Testing & Materials ATA - Actual Time of Arrival ATD - Actual Time of Departure ATDN - Any Time Day & Night ATDNSHINC - Anytime Day/Night Sundays & Holidays cruising Included ATK - Aviation Turbine Kerosene ATS - All Time Saved ATSBE - All Time Saved Both Ends ATSDO - All Time Saved Discharging Only ATUTC - Actual Times Used To Count AUV - Autonomous Underwater Vehicle AVGAS - Aviation Gasoline AVR - Automatic Voltage Regulator AVTAG - Aviation Turbine Gasoline AWIWL - Always Within Institute Warranty cruising Limits AWVNS - Always Within Vessel’s Natural Segregation AWRI - Additional War Risk Insurance
BA - British Admiralty cruising BAF - Bunker Adjustment Factor BB - Below Bridge - Ballast Bonus - Bare Boat - Break Bulk/ Breaking Bulk - Bulbous Bow BBB - Before Breaking Bulk BBC - Bare Boat Charter BC - Code of Safe Practice for Solid Bulk Cargoes BCH - Code for the Construction and Equipment of Ships Carrying Dangerous Chemicals in Bulk BCM - Bow to Centre of Manifold BCO - Beneficial cruising Cargo Owner BD - Bar Draught BDC - Bottom cruising Dead Centre BDI - Both Dates Inclusive B/E - Break-Even BENDS - Both Ends BFI - Baltic cruising Freight Index BHP - Brake Horse Power BI - Both Inclusive BIC - Bureau cruising International des Containers (International Container Bureau) BIFFEX - Baltic International Freight Futures cruising Index BIMCO - The Baltic and International Maritime Council BKR - Bulgarski Koraben Registar (Bulgarian Register of Shipping) B/L - Bill of Lading BLU - Code of Practice for the Safe Loading and Unloading of Bulk Carriers BN - Booking Note BOA - Berthing On Arrival BOB - Bunkers On Board - Balance On Board BOD - Bunkers cruising On Delivery BOFFERS - Best Offers BOL - Bill Of Lading BOP - Blow-out Preventer BOR - Bunkers On Redelivery B/P - Bills Payable B/R - Bills Receivable BROB - Bunkers Remaining On Board BS - Bunker Surcharge BSC - British Shippers’ Council BSI - British Standards Institution BST - British Standard Time - British Summer Time BT - Berth Terms BV - Bureau Veritas BW - Brackish Water - Ballast Water BWAD - Brackish Water Arrival Draught BWDD - Brackish Water Departure Draught BWT - Ballast Water Tank
CABAF cruising - Currency And Bunker Adjustment Factor CAF - Currency Adjustment Factor CBFT - Cubic Feet CBM - Cubic Metres - Conventional Buoy Mooring CBR - Commodity Box Rate CBS - Cyprus Bureau of Shipping CBT - Clean Ballast Tank CC - Cubic Capacity - Cubic Centimetres cruising - Continuation Clause cruising CCG - Canadian Coast Guard CCS - China Classification Society CD - Customary Despatch C/E - Chief Engineer CENSA - Council of European and Japanese National cruising Shipowners Association CES - Coast Earth Station CFM - Container Flow Management CFR - Cost and Freight CFS - Container Freight Station CFT - Cubic Feet CG - Centre cruising of Gravity CGA - Cargo’s proportion of General Average CHABE - Charterer’s Agents Both Ends CHOPT - Charterer’s cruising Option CIF - Cost, Insurance & Freight CIF&E - Cost, Insurance, Freight & Exchange CIF&I - Cost, Insurance, Freight & Interest CIFC - Cost, Insurance, Freight and Commission CIFC&I - Cost, Insurance, Freight, Commission & Interest CIM - Convention Internationale Concernant le Transport des Marchandises par Chemin de Fer CIP - Carriage and Insurance Paid to - Calling In Port CIQ - Customs Immigration Quarantine CIT - Chartered Institute of Transport CLP - Container Load Plan CMI - Comité Mar

Monday, June 16, 2014

It is said a large rock shaped like a ship around on the summit. In Britain the locals to this as


The mysterious disappearance of 18 students from University College students Isaniah Kuin, Alor Star, at the peak of Mount Jerai a mystery .. Losing them makes ita compelled to go there .. Wow! 've kind dektitif Konan ita pulak ni kan .. investigate and attempt to discover a mystery .. hihi
Gunung Jerai (also known as Kedah Peak) is a mountain in the state of Kedah Darul Aman, Malaysia, in the border district of Kuala Muda and Yan. As high as 2,107 meters high. Jerai mountain position that extends to Tanjung Jaga seafront, making the browser centuries past as a guide to stop trade in the state. Jerai mountain has been associated with the myth of King FANG alleged open settlements at the foot of this mountain.
It is said a large rock shaped like a ship around on the summit. In Britain the locals to this as "Stone viking cruises Ship". viking cruises According to legend, the ship belonged to Emperor Merong Mahawangsa was cursed by Kelembai when the Emperor viking cruises was trying to anchor viking cruises the ship in Himachal Serai, the original name of Gunung Jerai. Experience ita overnight on Ship Rock is pretty exciting. These are the experiences that can not forget .. ita pretty interesting. But itâ advise if you want to stay on top of Mount Jerai this, you should present with those who have skilled the intricacies of this mountain. Al's known places like this .. we must always keep great manners and speech trial ..
This is a road or track which we will go through to the stone ship. If the road-edge tu can compete for 2. The situation is very quiet indeed alarming, especially if the road alone ..
This is a ladder to climb to the top of Stone Vessel. These boulders form the front of the ship as if that makes it is called Ship Rock. But actually when you stay on it then you know why it is called the Stone Ship ..
This form of surface rock, checkered. Not know the root of the tree! ita'm puzzled how it can be shaped parcels that could be said of each of the same size. Subahanallah viking cruises .. this keajiban viking cruises and the power of God who created the universe, so wonderful to be explored .. This stone block was when we tap the wood, there are areas that we can hear sounds like rompong or empty and there is a dense sound.
Actually here are provided endowment to pray and shelter. But itâ next time this waqf inmates already there, viking cruises so we had to set up camp on Ship Rock. Over here there is no water, so it's hard just take my prayers. We have to carry water from the nearby rapids, rapids when dry .. be down to Tok Sheikh wells to get water. Here also no toilet facilities provided or the bathroom. It is a challenge .. pulak engrossed want aje isolated as the temperature on the mountain is very cold.
We set up camp and spend the night at the Stone Ships. An unforgettable experience. When the night anchored, we just accompany the sound of crickets and the occasional wind blows. The temperature at the time of 12C to 16C is very cold to feel into the bone marrow .. cool gilerrr .. especially when almost dawn .. grew cooler as the desolate environment .. Nights are without doubt itâ could not sleep. . Duration menyising just want to see the dawn of the night .. When getting stronger wind blows .. Sounds strong winds, trees and foliage shift feel as though ita ita was on a ship that was sailing on the high seas in the stomach waves .. and the storm was so great .. Subahanallah .. Your majesty .. Dalili old already asleep .. beautiful napping .. so excited virgin ni ita ita lasung .. do not be afraid viking cruises to see the ripple fate ..
From Batu we can ship to the Dragon viking cruises Cave and Pool dwellers. But we highly recommend that you do not get there due to fear of the unexpected happening. Dalili busy asking how the elves look so excited .. he .. Ita already know he's definitely imagine dwarfs or Smurf stories are always watched on TV. As he wanted to jump up there ..
This is the Cave of the Dragon, viking cruises which have ita record of Ship Rock. This part of it, I can not want to see the entrance to the cave. He said that this cave is a beautiful waterfall! The flora and fauna here are also beautiful and peaceful. Fun to see all dalili when leaf monkeys and pitcher plant that grows wild.
From stone vessel ita move down to Wells Tok Sheikh. Initially ita want to Padang Tok Sheikh, but had to cancel the desire for a car can not go up because the road is too narrow and steep. Vehicles are many in and out, and odds. Roads are narrow and steep slopes, makes us feel unsafe to ride there. To walk hand feels a

Sunday, June 15, 2014

CARNIVAL Cruise Line is a cruise company British-America, headquartered in Florida, USA, owned and


Royal Caribbean is the most innovative color magic cruise ship in the Broadcasting industry. They are bigger and brighter, with a lot more open spaces color magic and private balconies. Activities available onboard and adventure activities on land with a variety of unforgettable destination is very appealing to people of all ages. Friendliness and comfort of this ship will make you feel right at home. You will have the pleasure and thrill of adventure is very different from the usual holiday. Royal Caribbean ships provide some of the most spacious and luxurious accommodation available from anywhere, including a wide selection of memorable dining every onboard with this ship. A variety of entertainment venues worldwide with a neatly designed and very exclusive make this ship as a floating resort that is very good to enjoy your vacation color magic time to be the best and unforgettable you have ever had.
CARNIVAL Cruise Line is a cruise company British-America, headquartered in Florida, USA, owned and operated by Carnival Corporation color magic & PLC which has 23 luxury yacht. Cruise ships are known as the fun ships also gives credence to the PT. Ratu Oceania Raya Bali to provide Crew cruises, especially in Galley, like Galley Cook or steward and cook positions. Carnival first interview color magic in PT Ratu Oceania Raya Bali conducted in late 2011 and is in direct interview by Director of Culinary color magic Development Carnival Cruise Line, Mr. Sanjay Dhall.
According to the Director of PT. Ratu Oceania Raya Bali, I Nyoman Sudi Artawan, all candidates who have passed the final interview has been getting Job Letter and symbolically color magic handed over the office of PT. Ratu Oceania Raya Bali in Dalung last week. They will be leaving in April and May of 2012, According to Sudi Artawan, the bulk of the 18 candidates color magic to the Job Letter is the student Executive Class and the Basic Level of the entire Monarch Cook in Bali. They had previously trained in Arm and both skills and the English color magic language, so that they could pass the final interview with Carnival Cruise Agent located at Jln. Banyan 56 Br. Pegending, Dalung, North Kuta.
Sudi Artawan which is one of the former bartender at Celebrity Cruise also confirms that Carnival Cruise Lines will conduct recruitment in late April of this year it had prepared and qualified candidates who are already in practice and in the Monarch color magic students across campus, both in Dalung, Gianyar , Karangasem, color magic and Singaraja in the Monarch campus at the western end of the island of Bali Jembrana.
Meanwhile, according Made Sumitra, Recruiting Manager is in charge for Culinary add, at the request color magic of professionals cook very much in the year 2012 and it was grateful to have special training hall Monarch cruises that can provide qualified skilled labor and ready to compete in the world cruise ship job.
Made Sumitra who is a former color magic Sous Chef for Royal Caribbean Cruises and also a director of Culinary Operations Executive Monarch confirms that students and Basic Level Class Culinary Monarch mostly been working, either at the hotel or at the restaurant in Bali. They are trained and skilled students in the field again for as requested by cruise ship.
Monarch existing campuses in five districts in Bali are ready to assist color magic high school graduates and to realize the dream of equal work and career on cruise ships, because the campus is a partnership with PT. Ratu Oceania Raya Bali to distribute them so passed and qualified to work on a cruise ship. Types of ships
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Princes Cruise Line is a cruise color magic that already has a big name in the world shipping lanes. And now Princes have developed a new force with broad and accommodates guests on board and take them sailing around the ocean seas ....
With two or three main dining room, with a warm atmosphere and bersabat, and two to three spectacular theaters that could be an option for evening entertainment, you will always find your own freedom to enjoy your time on a yacht princes.
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Friday, June 13, 2014

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Unloading cattle at Tanjung Perak Still using slings. SURABAYA [SIGAP88.COM] Although the implementation of the rules related circulars demolition of farm animals has been issued by the Port Authority office (OP) Main Tanjung Perak Surabaya No. SE. 003/02/20/OP-TPR-13, there are still shipping companies and stevedoring company (PBM) that intentionally ignores and does not provide a means of unloading more hewanisasi katimbang with mengantung way by binding to the animal's neck and then picked it up with Crain more than one fish in a single generation. Barbarous act was done by the shipping company PT Namsurya Image Line (NCL) when the ship KM Multi Permai Jakarta diageninnya docked at the Port of South Jamrud next terminal Ro-Ro with pembongkarannya services by PT Pelita Dharma Ocean (PDS) as PBM. The ship that departed from Kupang NTT was also besides bringing containers filled with 315 live cattle are unloaded, Monday (03/17/2014). Pram close calls one of the administrators confirmed that the cruise ship KM Multi Permai Jakarta were unpacking livestock cattle types. When reporters fluvial confirmed fluvial the animal associated with the demolition way street mengantung with sling Crein, Pram said that it was known to its owner, "It's already on the boss when I remind pengantungan should not be, but the boss said no problem", he said. When it was confirmed at the head of the Port Authority Main Office fluvial Surabaya silver cape, H. Saputra, I Nyoman Gde via mobile is expressly said that the demolition of the form as it is not allowed, there edarannya Kan, "Wauh ..... from the first was not may, I will try to tell my men checked ", he said, surprised by the information obtained. fluvial Similarly, Lala Head office Key of Tanjung Perak Port Authority, said that it is not aware of any demolition activity cows by hanging, "Activity is beyond the knowledge of the OP, try asking what the PBM permission from us", he explained. fluvial Nyoman Further, when answering fluvial a reporter's question, Does the PBM was done secretly waiting lengahnya supervision of OP?, "Yes, like that fact," he said. From the field investigation, the reporter found a number of demolition method used the average of the long time span is not very neat and cleaned once completed either directly or bamboo bins barrier fence of the cow, so that it will avoid activities range control of the OP. The effectiveness of the circular issued by the OP it depends on the seriousness and firmness of a man who has been appointed holder of the power of both field and policy makers regarding demolition permits from the Port Authority Main Office Silver cape seriously fluvial according tupoksinya. fluvial The need for sanctions to the perpetrators of the OP and coordinate internally with stakeholders is needed as provide a deterrent effect fluvial for behavior that is not hewanisasi (Don)


On most networks, that wouldn


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In which we learn the secret origins of the world and a long journey begins
Carnivàle is the ultimate hangout drama . It occasionally feels like it has basically no real desire to do much of anything other than hang out in a cool setting (especially in its first season), but, man, is that setting cool. The show’s mythology has some interesting ideas buried deep within it, but at the same time, it often seems like the show is all mythology, that all it is is unraveling a long series of portentous threads in the middle of nowhere in the 1930s. There are so many characters that most of them can’t help but be poorly developed, the plot momentum is often virtually non-existent, and the show is often convinced of its own profundity in a way that only an HBO drama can be, even though it’s not particularly profound.
Yet I still really like this show. There are episodes—particularly in the first season—I really love, and there are moments here that have hung with me as long as other moments on much better shows. Carnivàle , in some ways, represents a turning point show for HBO, from when it was making vacation at sea shows that were basically TV shows—even if they were much better than regular TV shows—to a point where it was making what I like to describe as novels for TV, shows where every episode is a singular chapter that’s adding up to something else. Though this approach doesn’t always vacation at sea work for Carnivàle , it’s gotten too little respect within the HBO canon for being the series that showed the network vacation at sea that a certain amount of the audience would stick with something that moved super slowly vacation at sea if the setting was rich and detailed enough. (Watch this pilot and see the seeds being planted for the likes of Rome , Game Of Thrones , and Boardwalk Empire .)
It sounds like I’m damning with faint praise above, and I guess I kind of am. But I don’t want to give that impression all the same. I haven’t seen this series in a few years, and I’m hopeful that on this journey through, I’ll find reason to love it as much as so many others do, that after years of watching HBO shows inspired by the pacing of this one—even if they’d never admit it—I’ll be ready to sink into the weird luxuriousness of this show’s world. And yet the show never quite coheres for me the way that the big three HBO dramas— The Sopranos , The Wire , and Deadwood —do, or even in the way that some of the dramas on the next tier down, like Rome and the early years of Big Love , do.
Part of that may stem from—and we might as well get this out of the way now—how the show is frustratingly incomplete. Ideas launched by creator Daniel Knauf in this episode and the 23 to follow didn’t have their ideal resolution because, well, HBO decided it didn’t need this show on its airwaves anymore after season two. Considering the process of building a mystery show like this often involves building a world slowly and letting detail pile on top of detail at a snail’s pace, there’s nothing saying that if Knauf hadn’t gotten the six seasons (and a movie) he wanted, this show wouldn’t have sat shoulder to shoulder vacation at sea with the three greats. As it is, we have to wonder what might have been, but it’s not like what’s here isn’t without merit. vacation at sea
I’m dodging the events of “Milfay” because on some level, there isn’t much going on here, in terms of plot or even character. We get a few key signifiers here. Samson tells us the story of how the world has one creature of light and one creature of dark in it. We meet Ben Hawkins and Brother Justin, the two men who will be our “protagonists” (if this series can be said to have such a thing). We learn about how Ben came to join the traveling carnival that is the series’ setting and how he lost the family farm to the bank in the depths of the Depression. We learn a little about his gift—especially in that magnificent image that closes the episode of a young girl (Jenna Boyd, who would go on to have something of a solid career as “the kid” in movies before disappearing) loping along through vacation at sea fields that die all around her, Ben’s gift to her having brought death to the plants surrounding her. And we see a host of weird images and symbols. But in terms of plot it, boils down to “A vacation at sea boy who’s lost everything joins a carnival, and his secret is revealed.”
On most networks, that wouldn’t be much of a pilot. On HBO, it’s almost too much for a pilot. Remember how the Game Of Thrones pilot was pretty much just exposition, with a few small plot moments tossed in? This is a lot like that, though I guess there’s the little throughline of whether Ben will stay with the carnival, a throughline that doesn’t really take of

Thursday, June 12, 2014

When HBO canceled Carniv


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In which Ben and Justin finally have it out…
When HBO canceled Carnivàle back in 2005, it was reported that Chris Albrecht—who ultimately carnival legend made the call—felt that the show had run its course, that the second carnival legend season finale functioned well as a series finale. Now, obviously, the fan outcry that followed the cancellation, and all of the cliffhangers the episode ends with, would give the lie to this notion, but at the same time, as I watch “New Canaan, CA” again, I can’t help but feel that I see where Albrecht was coming from. This finale is terrific, but it’s also filled with the kinds of moments more common to series finales than season finales. It doesn’t just feel like an ending; it feels like the ending. I almost wonder if this show would have gotten its full run if this finale didn’t feel so, well, final.
What I’m talking about here isn’t just the showdown between Ben and Justin. Yes, that contributes to this feeling like it’s the end of the story, but it’s not the sole reason for that sense. The episode is filled with tons of little moments and grace notes that might only pop up in a series finale, carnival legend like Sofie looking out over the carnival she once called home (in what I think is the best overview the show ever gave of the whole enterprise), or Jonesy telling Libby he loves her now and is no longer interested in Sofie, or even poor Norman getting to stand from his chair for a few moments and pick up his exorcism right where he left off, only to get a sickle in his side. These are the sorts of things that might pop up in an episode meant to tie up far more of the story than just one or two seasons, and the episode almost works as an unintentional series finale.
Now, I don’t entirely buy Sofie’s transition in this episode. Justin has her locked up in the out-of-the-way shack where he kept Scudder, carnival legend and while inside, her mind gets to roving and realizes that she’s his daughter and that she’s a next generation Avatar. (In the parlance of the series, she’s the “Omega,” which would imply the final Avatar.) This is a huge revelation to drop on one of the characters in this show, and if it had come a few episodes ago, I might have bought her turn to the dark side more readily. Instead, she just gets all of this information—from a version of herself dressed as Apollonia—and then she decides, hey, might as well try being evil for a while. When she shoots Jonesy, carnival legend leaving him for dead, and when she resurrects Brother Justin by taking his life force out of the surrounding corn, those are legitimately awesome moments, but they’re also a touch baffling. That’s not to say the show couldn’t have answered those questions later, but, well, that’s what makes the whole thing just a touch unsatisfying. She’s not evil until she is, and then she gives in with gusto.
But even if I don’t buy that transition, I still sort of like where the show leaves the character. Sofie now feels like a completely free agent, like someone who’s capable of playing both sides of this current battle and very likely will. Yeah, shooting Jonesy indicates she’s on Justin’s side for now, but it’s also clear there’s no love lost between the two, particularly once he goes all black-eyed carnival legend on her. Sofie is the master of her own fate in the way lots of characters on this show never are, and she seems uniquely suited to being the one person on the series that seizes control of her destiny with both hands. Where Ben and Justin came to their positions with some degree of reluctance, Sofie is a woman who seems ready to bring about the end of the Age of Magic or end the world or whatever it is she’s meant to do. (Actually, I know the answer to this question, and you don’t, so there.)
Outside of Sofie, though, this is a finale that works as almost a perfect capper to the first two seasons. Yes, there are cliffhangers, but they’re primarily of the “what will happen to this series regular” variety, which would indicate that nearly all of the characters will survive. (I remember the first time I saw this episode, and I was pretty sure only Norman carnival legend was actually dead. I’d stand by that today.) The real meat of the story—the battle between Justin and Ben—is mostly contained within carnival legend this episode and ended here. The episode does a lot of work to tie in everything we see to stuff that’s happened before, including several rapid flashes of old images, and I’m not sure all of this is strictly necessary, but it reinforces even more that this is the end of the story, what everything has been building carnival legend toward, even as that’s carnival legend far from the image the show wants to convey.
One thing I will say for Carnivàle is that when it wants to build , it’s great at doing so. The bac