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.
these are the worst bunch of monster fighters on TV.
The only thing they're worse at is being cops.
Her habit of demanding help/information and then shrieking at them and storming away 30 seconds after they start trying may have something to do with that.
Although when she really should have been shrieking at them, when the house fills with weird stuff right after they do a strange ritual with her, does she call them?
Remember back when Giles proposed scanning magic books and Willow said, "Doesn't winter seem more like archiving season?" Why don't any of these people who depend on handwritten, unindexed books and journals ever get around to archiving season?
My fingers are crossed for Sam re: archiving season, especially since the might have a helper elf in the offing.
I've never seen The Vampire Diaries or Supernatural.
The text of TVD has no particular moral compass, which was a big issue for me, since I kept forcing do-gooding onto it, and it is about relationships with people who are witches and vampires and werewolves, and they only fight people who present a short term threat to their relationships.
Once you get grounded in Buffy's morality and even Angel's greyness...well, once
I
was grounded in that, I surprised myself with how hard it was to let go. Supernatural has much more greyness, but it also acknowledges greyness and hypocrisy. TVD plain old doesn't care.
I have gotten into a few arguments with people who cite TVD as being strong in the ramifications department, but I disagree quite vehemently--there's no moral requirement from the show's mythos nor an enforcement structure that punishes people that go astray.
Anyone can die, it's true, but that's also remarkably repercussion-free, IMO. And I'll go script to script with anyone who says the same of SPN.
When I think of any of the above mentioned shows, though, there definitely is charisma--some sort of strong character/persona evoked in just about any episode to have a reaction to even if canon means nothing to you. Grimm had very little of that, and the mythos came across as confusing, not enticing.
But every show has that sort of episode. So I don't know what I was looking at.
Oh, hey! Brady on Orphan Black. And he's called Chad, which is even more Brady than Brady.
Aw, man, why don't my favourite favourite shows have more plastic hot pants??? I have a plastic hot pant-shaped hole in my life.
GodDAMN, Orphan Black was good tonight. For a show this serious and tense, they do farce really really well.
"Horse! You have failed in your mission!"
Orphan Black continues to be wonderful. I agree about the farce. And never do I think of those characters as the same woman. Never mix them up even for a second. It's really marvelous.
Did Tom Tom pay off in any further way? That seemed to be a lot of work for a pretty obscured punchline.
Uh, Doctor Who, for context's sake.
Oh, ha, I thought it was a Thomas Guide reference.
If they have Thomas Guides in the UK, they're new. The standard in the 80s was called "the ay to zed'. Not sure what it was
named,
though. But him speaking snapped my attention round, since I processed "GPS unit directions" before I worked out what it had to do with Doctor Who. So Thomas Thomas fell into my lap with that context, but so much dialogue for a chuckle alone...
Oh, jeez, I just got it. Yeah, that was way to much work.
