I agree with ita - there is plenty of good acting on Arrow. Even Katie Cassidy has improved amazingly since her stint on SPN.

I'm having trouble with Cpt Jack Harkness being the dad of a grown up son. It was just jarring! And when was his character introduced?

Was it in the episode where he had Moira in his office? My CW feed has been crappy for weeks so I miss a lot. I've been catching up on Hulu, but I'm wondering if I missed an episode.

He was a mysterious person in a limo meeting with Ollie's mom for a number of weeks before we saw who he was.

TVD: Okay, so my thoughts about Jeremy and the hunters are that it totally makes sense that there should be a population of mystical hunters that go after the creatures whose primary prey is human. But, I also think that Jeremy is just starting out and part of his training ought to be learning to control the impulses that have him dreaming scenarios where he kills his sister, her boyfriend, etc.

It's interesting that in TVD-verse werewolves are marked as murderers (in the most basic meaning) by the simple fact that they are werewolves. In theory, you could have the possibility of being a werewolve but never murder anyone and therefore never turning.

I doubt that the show will do anything interesting with this but they could.

I think the show forgets that most people go through pretty long lives without taking anyone else's. Whereas in Mystic Falls they do that instead of bake sales.

While watching Arrow, I see all the commercials for the other CW shows (which are still Pretty White People With Problems [or, in the case of TVD, Pretty White Vampires With Problems]), and the commercials for this week's SPN made it look like Wacky Hijinx With Cas. Is that true? Because the commercial made Tim ask "Why don't we watch this show?"

This week their "monster" was a good guy, but an aging psychokinetic that was tetreating into his happy place, which is 24x7 cartoons. Net effect, a 50 foot (is that the right size?) bubble of weird where cartoon rules work.

I wish they'd gone further with it, but amongst the effects of his bubble, they did have a cartoon rules fight (gun fires bang flag, grab a frying pan from nowhere and bean your opponent and his face imprints on it and we hear squeaky noises, but then again, he's lured you to where he's drawn an X with a giant marker, so better run before the anvil falls! Oh--and a freeze frame with "scientific" names of the antagonists). Okay, wait--that was pretty damned cool...never mind the big holes drawn in walls, exploding hearts and cakes, and the guy who tried to jump off a building but didn't fall until he looked down.

The whole show is a mix of wacky hijinx, immeasurable man pain, and everybody killing everything. I'd say it's definitely the wackiest show the CW has, and it's a good shot at the most painful (for the characters--audience effect is subjective). Tailor made for me and my...interests.

(Random irrelevant fandom watching: Now Sterek shippers have sent hundreds of cookies to the cast, and some people think it's creepy pressure, and others think they're repairing their bad rep or just doing something nice (Yeah, pics of the showrunner with your ship name across him--you've got loads of passive in your aggressive). They even, like, have a name. It's like the Kittens all over again, but with a less misleading moniker--SterekCampaign front loads the cray))

(I can't help looking...)

Another threefer:

I sent my sister an article about Danai Gurira, so she dove into the series with abandon. Not much of a zombie fan (she scared way easily as a kidlet), she was still getting involved, and gushed at me about the racial diversity of the show.

That was a long time ago. She's just finishing up S2, and homeslice is PISSED. On the one hand--Michonne. On the other--oops, T-Dog, we knew you...wait, what was your surname again?

She sent me this from the AV Club, which is her go to as a time machine for viewer/fandom zeitgeist, a T-Dog drinking game:

If T-Dog manages to even show up in the episode: Pour your drink
If T-Dog is seen in the background or periphery of a shot: Take a sip
If T-Dog is foregrounded in a shot: Take 2 sips
If T-Dog reacts to something said by another character: Take 3 sips
If T-Dog is spoken to by another character: Take a drink
If T-Dog has a line that includes a black person cliche like "Aw, HELL no!": Take a drink, then spit it back out
If T-Dog has a line that does not include a black person cliche: Toast to T-Dog, then take a drink
If T-Dog has more than two consecutive lines that do not occur in a scene in which he is talking to himself but, in fact, actually occur in a manner that might make the viewer believe that T-Dog is, believe it or not, being engaged in conversation with a character whose name you actually know: Take 2 drinks
If T-Dog engages in behavior that will have significant consequences down the line (e.g., he kills a zombie; he shoots someone; he discovers that Randall has escaped the barn): Do a shot
If T-Dog prevents someone else from doing something that will have significant consequences down the line (e.g. I can't think of an example because when has this actually happened?): Do 2 shots
If T-Dog has a B or C storyline dedicated entirely to him: Chug your drink
If T-Dog has an A storyline dedicated entirely to him: You might as well shoot up and OD with your drug of choice because, let's face it, the likelihood of this actually happening is on par with the likelihood of the actual zombie apocalypse being started by a rabid monkey

Poor boo. At least she's nearly at Michonne, and I told her about impending Tyrese, so I think she'll buck up a bit.

On the other--oops, T-Dog, we knew you...wait, what was your surname again?

Er...Tyrone Dogson? I don't even know.

My reply to her email included:

Jeff Winger: This decision has to be yours, T-Bone. And this decision has to be yes.
Troy: How did you know my nickname was T-Bone?
Jeff Winger: Because you're a football player and your name begins with "T." Your name... begins... with "T."