Boxed Set, Vol. VI: I am not a number, I am a free thread!
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.
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Blackfont is allowed after the show has aired on the east coast.
This is NOT a general TV discussion thread.
(I own the BSG soundtrack CD)
I think it's interesting how much BSG relied on Firefly's innovations--there are numerous visual tributes, in fact, in one of the early episodes when Roslin is waiting in her doctor's office, Serenity passes over the skylight. But Bear McCreary picked up on Greg Edmondson's multi-national music intercutting and improved on it. And of course, there were a few, early-on instances of silent explosions in space. It used to bug me that everybody was using new tech from Firefly...but now I see it as tribute.
Um--sorry for the OT
I got some good laughs from What We Do In The Shadows, particularly Nadja befriending her ghost and the energy vampire guy.
From the trailer I got a Killjoys meets Cleopatra 2525 vibe
My thought exactly. And, I'm dedicated to Vagrant Queen because of the Tim Rozon aspect. It's salving my missing of Wynona Earp.
I am super shallow like that.
I enjoyed the Magicians finale much more than the beginning of the series.
And, I loved the beginning of BSG much more than the finale.
It's a funny 'ol life.
Like Michael Giacchino's contribution to Lost, it's hard to overstate Bear McCreary's contribution to Battlestar Galactica.
It used to bug me that everybody was using new tech from Firefly...but now I see it as tribute.
I think if it had lived out something more of a natural life, it would have been easier to see the tributes as tributes.
I've been watching
Motherland: Fort Salem
and while I'm not prepared to say it's
good
yet, I do think it's committed. Committed to centering the sory around women, including having the major romance of the first season be f/f, and committed to the idea that this is a world that took a major left turn 350 years ago and has major cultural and political differences that need to come up on screen.
It's also not big on hand-holding: If you hear a character describe her family as "High Atlantic" you're just going to have to figure out what that means from context.
I keep seeing the ads for it and trying to figure out if I want to watch it. I also kept thinking maybe it was a second season because of how little the trailer did to explain a lot of things. But I think I'll check it out
I just heard about Fort Salem today... Between the witches and the f/f it's getting intriguing.
Askye, no it's still the first season. This post has a good overview, although there's a little fangirling:
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Okay, I got the ebook of The Magicians from the library because I forgot so damn much of it and wanted to compare it to the show, and holy crap, right from the first page Quentin is a total shit* AND I forgot they were high-school seniors (WTF). Syfy definitely made the right choice in aging them up.
*(I'm not saying that show!Quentin *isn't* a shit, but he's infinitely more endearing.)
Yeah, I noped out of LG's "The Magicians" no less than six times before I finally, begrudgingly, read it -- and that was only because I had watched enough of the show that I was morbidly curious about the differences. Hated the book. Hated Book!Quentin. Still haven't been able to read the subsequent two novels.
And I noped out of season 5 of the Magicians because of the end of S4; I was very in love with the show and it broke my heart nearly irreparably.
