Kaylee ,'Shindig'
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.
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Tonight's Grimm:
Andi and I will watch it together tomorrow. I skimmed it because I am weak.
Andi will love it.
As for the guest room? A house that large form the outside would definitely have more than one bedroom. Funny it didn't occur at the time.
OTOH? Sleeping on the couch placed him symbolically in a public place in the home, and would have been better for putting her somewhat at ease.
Yep, Tom Mison and Nicole Beharie are still adorable. [link]
We're around ep 18 of the first season, and it's like the greatest hits of Canada, plus Manu Bennett.
Slade Wilson is THE BEST.
Typo, you want Minearverse.
oops.
Someone (I think it was the Onion AV Club) pointed out that in the comics, time flows differently in Nanda Parbat, so it's possible Malcolm Merlyn didn't age at all during his training. Still doesn't quite make the age difference make sense, though.
I can easily imagine that Nick would rather sleep on the couch than in the guest room.
I think I might be watching Dracula to try to figure out why I am still watching Dracula at this point. There is not actually much I like about it, and so much that is stupid and/or annoying.
Oh good, someone else is still watching Dracula. I'm not the only one. Tell me -- do you have any idea why Lady Jane is spending so much time playing mind games with Lucy, first encouraging Lucy to express her love to Mina and then coming on to her and then teaching her how to seduce Jonathan? I get that Jane doesn't like Mina, because she would see her as a rival for Dracula. But you'd think she'd want Mina absolutely engaged/tied to Jonathan and out of the reaches of Dracula, and instead she's engineering their break up and that only makes Mina more available for Dracula.
So I watched Helix. Did anyone else see this show?
My initial impressions were quite negative. So much so that I have no interest in watching this show ever again. Here are my problems:
1) I realized in the middle of watching the pilot (2-hrs I think), that I don't like contagion plots at all. My one exception is zombies, but I kind of feel like such plots don't really have a lot of places to go in a tv show almost by definition.
2) Setting the above aside, I think they started the tv show wrong. They jumped in thinking we cared about the characters, but we don't care about any of them. So when the threat came, I didn't care what happened to them. Further, I don't know what IS happening to them. So there was too much dancing around the what and the why.
3) Scientists were acting really stupidly throughout - which is my least favorite trope of all. It is unclear to me why the whole place wasn't locked the fuck down immediately at the first sign of escalation. Why wasn't every person accompanied by another person. Too many people were by themselves. Stupid.
4) I am also tired of the "evil scientist" trope who never ever considers that something terrible might go wrong. Add to this a negative cultural stereotype, and that's it.
5) The acting was not very good, along with the plot and the dialogue.
I'll check back to see if the show improves, but for now I'm out.