NBC is calling it a special.

Unless it does really really well, which is unlikely.

Huh. Okay, then.

Oh, and I watched the trailer. Thankfully the t jillifonts were just on the edge of cartoony CGI so wasn't completely freaked out by them, but I did look away from the screen a lot.

The set design looks gorgeous, and I think I would really like Eddie Izzard as Grandpa Munster. But none of the other characters grabbed me.

I have faith that Portia de Rossi will be great in scenes wherein she actually has dialog. She was the brightest shining light among many on Better Off Ted.

I've been meaning to post since I saw it last night, but WOW, if that ends up being the series finale of Alphas, what a bummer. That would be right up there with Sarah Connor Chronicles and Twin Peaks for unsatisfyingly cut off endings.

Poor Gary indeed.

I feel okay with it, since the blast *may* kill normals, and is supposed to power up alphas. It feels like a "We haven't finished the paperwork for next season, but we sure love this Ryan kid!"

Rick Worthy cast in TVD.

I feel betrayed...

Let's hope that he isn't a witch and that he doesn't die.

Well...the dice are stacked against him...

Man, I thought hybrid guy was gonna die, and then I remembered, there's a strange combo of redshirt and immortality that *some* people call unpredictable plotting, and I call eyeroll-worthy.

It would have rocked, though, if he'd gone up and talked about sacrifice, and then died so that everyone else could get out.

Prowler is an ass, but...there is a cadre of the undead chilling in town, and they periodically rape and kill inhabitants, so...

I wish the show were ballsy enough to have a real good guy antagonist. Someone who says "Look, you can't keep doing this. If you were punished for your past acts alone you'd be locked up forever. And you keep slipping off the wagon or not getting on in the first place. You're a menace, and I need to protect the innocent people who live here."

I've read an oddly high number of arguments that say that Sam killing Madison was wrong, that he didn't give her enough time, that maybe she'd have learnt not to kill people, that they basically dumped this whole bunch of news on her and asked her to make a life or death decision, and she said "I've done bad things, and I'm likely to do bad things in the future, even though the person I am right now doesn't want to. The risk is too high, and I value those innocent lives more than I want to live with the monster I've become."

Yeah...even Lenore nutted up more than Stefan (can you believe that I still can't remember who is who, even though brother S is the one with the feelings and the relationships and brother D is the fast-living, casual sex, drinking and carousing brother who deep down inside believes he doesn't deserve anything good? (and, oh, thank god Supernatural had both brothers sleep with the same woman and NO love triangle--bless them forever for that)) and his rodent-drinking ass ever has. Only Caroline deserves her daylight ring (uh, way to go to cheapen a resource, guys) (and that's not Wesley-like character redemption--that's just changing her from a victim to a winner--it's like she just stopped being a bitch and a rape victim, and became in control and cool, and they hinged that on her turning, more than anyone else seems to have hinged anything--where was her heightening? Did I forget all that? Could happen--I did instant message through a large number of episodes...).