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.

So I watched Helix. Did anyone else see this show?

I watched it because of Javi. The pilot and second episode didn't really draw me in, but I'll give it a couple more to see if it hooks me. At the very least, I know this story will be wrapped up at the end of the season. But, like you said, I can't really tell what the hell the threat is supposed to be. And I do like contagion plots.

Dracula: I watched half of two episodes and never got back to it. Helix, I have not started and probably won't. In terms of Dracula, I wonder if someone might not be able to make a really good mini-series out of the original, sticking for the most part of Bram Stoker's plot. They could also include the journey where Harker is almost killed by um I don't remember a werewolf, before he got to the castle. It never made it into the book, but was published seperately in a collection.

do you have any idea why Lady Jane is spending so much time playing mind games with Lucy

No idea. Honestly, pick a character, I don't understand his or her motivation.

Finally caught up on Almost Human. I still don't care much about the plot and wish Stahl would be fleshed out into more than just the generic love interest, but the show is frequently hilarious. I could watch Dorian and Kennex bust each other's balls all day long.

The show also doesn't seem to know what it wants to be tonally, when, for example, you have this plot involving people being extorted via black market organs, which plays up the victims' dread and loss, but then you also have this (admittedly very funny) Looney Tunes chain-reaction sight gag in the middle of the episode.

Dracula: I'm still watching. It's nice to look at and, once I stopped expecting any adherence to the book, enjoyable.

New Sleepy Hollow tonight!

New Lost Girl tonight too!

Oh, yeah?

Thank you, remote DVR programming technology.