Oh yeah. Needs more Katie Finneran (as do most things).
Mercy is the mark of a great man. Guess I'm just a good man. Well, I'm all right.
Mal ,'Shindig'
Boxed Set, Vol. V: Just a Hint of Denial and a Dash of Retcon
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.
Matt the Bruins fan - May 26, 2015 5:47:33 pm PDT #28013 of 30001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Zenkitty - May 26, 2015 5:55:43 pm PDT #28014 of 30001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
I thought Wonderfalls too, SJ.
That's the only part I caught, as I was on the phone, but yeah, I immediately thought of Wonderfalls.
JenP - May 26, 2015 6:14:44 pm PDT #28015 of 30001
Same as Zen -- except work computer, not phone -- but whenever the devils started, my attention was caught.
I watched the pilot of The Flash tonight, and realized that I must have missed the first half the first time around, so yay. Then halfway through, work reared it's fairly standard looking head. I think I want to do the full rewatch as they air again, just for fun and to catch a bunch of stuff I know I missed.
DCJensen - May 26, 2015 9:36:02 pm PDT #28016 of 30001
All is well that ends in pizza.
There is a place online called couchtuner dot EU. I'm not sure of the legality, so I'm only mentioning it in passing.
sj - May 27, 2015 3:20:30 am PDT #28017 of 30001
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
I thought Wonderfalls too, SJ.
Even the voice sounds like it could have been one of the voices on Wonderfalls.
The end of the episode was sad but not unexpected.
-t - May 27, 2015 3:56:45 pm PDT #28018 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Oh my god, well fucking played with the hallucinations, iZombie. Way to play the plot twist for emotional bang.
Oh, right, Wonderfalls must be why I kept expecting the talking devils to be helpful give directions
Consuela - May 28, 2015 5:59:49 am PDT #28019 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
So I kind of fell down the rabbit hole into The 100 over the past week. Watched all of Season 1 in 3 days, and now I'm 4 eps into Season 2.
Anyone else watching this?
It starts as a deeply stupid show about stupid but pretty teenagers abandoned on Earth after a nuclear holocaust (they grew up on a space station and this is the first test to see if the radiation levels have gone down enough to survive). But within about six episodes it gets a lot more morally complex, the characters accidentally start a war they don't know how to stop, and I realized I need to pay much closer attention.
I won't say the cast is amazing, but they're pretty good, reasonably diverse (most of the leads are white, but not all, and many of them are female), and I have the feeling that the showrunners did a bait-and-switch on the CW.
It is, I have to admit, super violent, and occasionally icky, but not explicit. Thankfully by now the teen-romance factor has gone way down and the adult questions of "what do we do to survive?" and "does torture actually work?" and "how do we manage prisoners?" are coming to the fore.
Tom Scola - May 28, 2015 6:03:33 am PDT #28020 of 30001
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Consuela, you'll be happy to know that Javier Grillo-Marxuach is on the writing staff for The 100 next season.
Consuela - May 28, 2015 6:11:39 am PDT #28021 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
I heard that, Tom! In fact, that's one reason I decided to give it a try. That and my narrative kink for post-apocalyptic stories.
I was somewhat unprepared for how violent it is, though. Like, that is the single primary conflict in the storyline. I'm hoping that at some point they'll branch out a bit. You can make drama out of other things, after all.
Toddson - May 28, 2015 6:55:33 am PDT #28022 of 30001
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
I watched it but kind of lost track towards the end of the season. I appreciated that the love triangle and teen angst faded away in the face of trying to survive.