A topic for the discussion of Doctor Who, Arrow, and The Flash. Beware possible invasions of iZombie, Sleepy Hollow, or pretty much any other "genre" (read: sci fi, superhero, or fantasy) show that captures our fancy. Expect adult content and discussion of the Big Gay Sex.
Marvel superheroes are discussed over at the MCU thread.
Whitefont all unaired in the U.S. ep discussion, identifying it as such, and including the show and ep title in blackfont.
Blackfont is allowed after the show has aired on the east coast.
This is NOT a general TV discussion thread.
We've known since Cyberwoman that Ianto leads with his heart. (Which I expect to create eventual complications in his relationship with Jack, but that's another story line.) Here, I think there was the added push that he spent happy childhood days in the Electro. So there was an added nostalgia factor for him, even if the films weren't what he saw back then.
Ringmaster was nicely creepy. Pearl wasn't so creepy. And I'd have liked to see more explanation of her obsession with water.
I called Owen's not-breathing as a plot point as he was going upstairs to the projection booth, which is pretty good for me. But now that it's established that he's dead and doesn't have the usual human bodily functions, it's time to stop highlighting it every episode and make it just an ordinary part of life around Torchwood.
All in all, acceptable filler. But not one of the great eps.
I was just sad that it wasn't creepier. Carnival freaks chasing after you should totally have been creepier.
That was exactly my reaction. It was a little creepy but mostly I thought it was stupid.
Jericho season 2 dvds are coming out on June 18th.
Hmmm, the beginning of the episode creeped me out so much that I haven't really watched the rest of it. (TW 2.10, that is.)
Maybe RTD's shows are just desensitizing us to creepiness? I already feel that a workable strategy for surviving a sequel to The Ring would be to run "Blink" on continuous loop so Samara is scared to go into the TV.
Maybe RTD's shows are just desensitizing us to creepiness?
No, I'm pretty sure this episode failed. I did think it was creepy at the beginning, but the plot (and the creepy) fell apart as it went along.
It wasn't creepy to me because the writing was just so bad. When the barker and the water girl were all "bwahaha our evil plan" at the old pool all the creepy was drained out of the ep for me. so to speak.
So, on top of teepees on the east coast, we have "they're from Brooklyn,
typical New England Stock".
Really?
I think that was meant to be a joke.
But in a show this bad, how can one tell?
