Zoe: Uh huh. River, honey? He's putting the hair away now. River: It'll still be there... waiting.

'Jaynestown'


Boxed Set, Vol. V: Just a Hint of Denial and a Dash of Retcon  

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.


Vortex - Jun 27, 2011 10:23:29 am PDT #17466 of 30001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman

PS, Ringer was pretty bad.)

Not surprising. The previews look bad, and he premise doesn't make any sense to me. So there's X, who got into some trouble, so she decides to masquerade as her twin sister Y. Where is Y? Why wouldn't the bad guys go after Y to get to X? Just non sensical.


Jessica - Jun 27, 2011 10:34:10 am PDT #17467 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

I can answer that in Spoilers, if you want.


Frankenbuddha - Jun 27, 2011 10:46:23 am PDT #17468 of 30001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

I'd be curious. Sorry to hear neither Alphas (David Strathairn!) nor Ringer was very good. Psyched about Eureka (which I don't necessarily want spoilers about).


Jessica - Jun 27, 2011 10:47:31 am PDT #17469 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Alphas wasn't terrible, but none of the characters grabbed me out of the gate.

Ringer was BAD.


Vortex - Jun 27, 2011 11:00:50 am PDT #17470 of 30001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman

I can answer that in Spoilers, if you want.

Nah, it will be more fun to mock later.


zuisa - Jun 27, 2011 12:00:54 pm PDT #17471 of 30001
call me jacki; zuisa is an internet nick from ancient times =)

I watched the first couple episodes of Eureka a while back and quite liked them. It's on my seriously never ending list of shows I need to get around to watching at some point.


Theodosia - Jun 27, 2011 1:19:18 pm PDT #17472 of 30001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"

Not only is it one of my happy-making shows, it comes around at the time of year that I actually need a show to watch!


Typo Boy - Jun 28, 2011 2:45:47 pm PDT #17473 of 30001
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.

Given that I only have mental energy to sleep and watch TV, I watched "Falling Skies". Don't have energy for a full, probably TLDR post, but: Pope, worst choice for cook since Long John Silver? If they still consider themselves U.S. military he committed a bunch of death penalty crimes. Not worth the resource to keep prisoner. I'm thinking the effort of guarding him rather than the food he eats. Plus they may be professional military, but are strictly amateur hour when it comes to guarding prisoner. I suspect that Pope can escape any time he wants to, especially since he now has access to knives. He's just sticking around to grab Mass 2's best weapon plus a new gang he intends to recruit. He's charismatic, the commander sucks at civilian relations. Pope will be able to find a few people dumb or desperate enough to form his new gang. I suspect he does not particularly want a dozen. A lot easier to do things his way with just him and 3 or 4 other.


§ ita § - Jun 28, 2011 5:38:56 pm PDT #17474 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Will we like him when he's angry?


Kathy A - Jun 29, 2011 5:30:13 am PDT #17475 of 30001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

Looks like the US and the UK will be getting slightly different versions of Torchwood.

Miracle Day, the fourth season of the Doctor Who spinoff Torchwood, will be different depending on whether you watch it in the UK or the US. That's according to the editor of the official Doctor Who Magazine, Tom Spilsbury.

Posting on Twitter earlier in the week, Spilsbury said that some content would be removed from the US version because of episode timing, while other content would be excised from the UK version because it was unsuitable to be shown on the BBC. Spillsbury said that the BBC version wasn't being censored per se, but didn't expand on what was actually going on. He also baited the hardcore fans by posing the question of which version would be the "proper" version, and entreating them to "PANIC!"