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'Life of the Party'


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.

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erin_obscure - May 28, 2015 10:45:57 pm PDT #28034 of 30001
Occasionally I’m callous and strange

I sit with Typo Boy on Blaine's motivation. He cornered a very lucrative market and could be highly motivated to keep it.

I cried when I realized that the whole revelation with Major scene was a hallucination. Brutally brilliant twist there.


Wolfram - May 29, 2015 10:53:53 am PDT #28035 of 30001
Visilurking

He cornered a very lucrative market and could be highly motivated to keep it.

I find the whole thing with Blaine infecting people and then keeping them as his captive market very imaginative, but also a bit straining credulously. For one thing, I would think anyone who had any way of getting the "product" elsewhere would jump at the chance, rather then be stuck paying gobs of money to the asshat who infected them in the first place. Yet the older woman Blaine picked up in the bar stayed loyal. Also Lowell never intimated to Liv that he'd like to find an alternative source for brains, or that he even resented Blaine for what he did. And how hard would it be for the Captain to go into the morgue and pick out a few tasty brains, rather than be in Blaine's pocket?

I hope we find out there's more to the scam than just the scratch and churn that we've seen so far.

I did love all the fake-outs this week.

When Ravi had his Eureka moment looking at the cured zombie rat, I had this terrible feeling that Ravi is going to die soon.


Steph L. - May 29, 2015 10:55:10 am PDT #28036 of 30001
I look more rad than Lutheranism

And how hard would it be for the Captain to go into the morgue and pick out a few tasty brains

Pretty hard, unless he wants to out himself. And it seems like he doesn't want to right now, even though he knows Liv is a zombie too.


Wolfram - May 29, 2015 12:42:03 pm PDT #28037 of 30001
Visilurking

I don't know. If you're the Big Boss in a building that generally stores dead bodies that regularly have their heads cut open, finding a time to go into the morgue (like when it's closed for the night) and grabbing some pieces of brain doesn't seem like that difficult a task.

Granted that after Liv started working there, it would be much more difficult. But it seemed like the captain had been a zombie for some time before that, no?


-t - May 29, 2015 1:02:07 pm PDT #28038 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

I have the impression that he was recently zombified. Don't know what I'm basing that on, though.


sj - May 29, 2015 3:57:46 pm PDT #28039 of 30001
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

Does Wayward Pines count as Boxed Set? We just watched the first episode and can't decide whether or not it is worth continuing?


-t - May 29, 2015 4:25:12 pm PDT #28040 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

I think it's Boxed Set. Maybe not definitively, yet, but surely that's where it's heading.

I watched the first two episodes, I guess, and can't decide if it's worth continuing. I have last night's installment recorded, if it's boring I'm going to cut it loose.


sj - May 29, 2015 4:37:12 pm PDT #28041 of 30001
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

We're watching the 2nd episode now and I'm definitely bored. Which is too bad because the cast is great. ETA: I think the time wonkiness is enough to make it boxed set.


-t - May 29, 2015 5:04:35 pm PDT #28042 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Yeah, I'd agree with that. The time business is the most interesting thing so far.


-t - May 30, 2015 5:33:15 pm PDT #28043 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Orphan Black: Alison! Damn, girl. I t heart Scott making Rachel play Agricola.

I still don't know about Wayward Pines, but I guess I'm in for the next one.