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rose_griffes) wrote2011-10-02 09:49 am
rose_griffes) wrote2011-10-02 09:49 am
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one last tv post this week (or a first tv post for next week, whatever)
The season finale of Doctor Who was last night. I QUITE LIKED IT! It doesn't quite reach the levels of season five's finale for me, but it was generally awesome. The Doctor instructing his father- and mother-in-law what to say so he can marry River! Wee Doctor inside the Doctor-shaped ship! The Doctor being absolute rubbish at trying to set up Amy and Rory! "Texting and... scones." Heh.
Amy and Madame Kovarian: that was the scene I wanted. I needed. Because it is absolutely unfair and horrifying that Amy and Rory don't get to raise their firstborn child, and I'm so glad to have that acknowledged.
Of course, the ending is what really got to me. River visiting her parents after her adventures with younger Amy and the Weeping Angels. AWWWWW! And the Doctor lies, of course.
I watched the pilot episode of Revenge. Then I watched episode two straightaway, because this is the one show that managed to fall into the irrational love category so far. The Count of Monte Cristo set in modern times with a female lead?! Sign me up. And the acting was fantastic and the dialogue not irritating and the time-jumping was just right rather than constantly confusing... So we get to see the why of Amanda/Emily's revenge: father arrested and framed for a crime he didn't commit. Wee Amanda is adorable and works well to remind us that older and colder Emily is human.
Only complaint: the teenaged love triangle. Hopefully it won't be a huge part of the show; guess we'll see. Because I will be watching, yup.
And I watched the pilot of Terra Nova. (I graded a LOT of papers this week, which is how I managed to 'watch' so much TV.) The more I think about it, the more I'm interested in the world that was left behind rather than the new world. New World has dinosaurs and ambiguous/bad guys. Old world had interesting technology and a mid-apocaplyptic atmosphere, so I thought it was fascinating, naturally.
My opinion: you can tell that this is the work of a person who produces movies for a living. The painting has too many broad brushstrokes. With TV you can present a slow, finely detailed painting, but that's not Spielberg's forte. So I'll probably watch again (and look away as the dinosaurs chomp on people), but it may fall by the wayside soon enough.
General conclusions: watch Revenge for plot, long story arc, good acting and compelling characters. Watch Terra Nova for dinosaurs.
I haven't watched any of the new comedies. Also haven't watched Ringer, but apparently even Sarah Michelle Gellar can't save it from mediocrity. Don't care about Pan Am or that one with the Playboy bunnies.
my must-watch list of new shows:
Revenge
Prime Suspect
shows I'll probably keep watching:
Person of Interest
Terra Nova
returning shows that I like:
Parks and Recreation
Community (probably... I wasn't enamored of the latter half of season two, but in the premiere there was Inspector Spacetime and I was delighted)
And now there's no more Doctor Who for ages and ages and I'm sad. *sniffles*
Amy and Madame Kovarian: that was the scene I wanted. I needed. Because it is absolutely unfair and horrifying that Amy and Rory don't get to raise their firstborn child, and I'm so glad to have that acknowledged.
Of course, the ending is what really got to me. River visiting her parents after her adventures with younger Amy and the Weeping Angels. AWWWWW! And the Doctor lies, of course.
I watched the pilot episode of Revenge. Then I watched episode two straightaway, because this is the one show that managed to fall into the irrational love category so far. The Count of Monte Cristo set in modern times with a female lead?! Sign me up. And the acting was fantastic and the dialogue not irritating and the time-jumping was just right rather than constantly confusing... So we get to see the why of Amanda/Emily's revenge: father arrested and framed for a crime he didn't commit. Wee Amanda is adorable and works well to remind us that older and colder Emily is human.
Only complaint: the teenaged love triangle. Hopefully it won't be a huge part of the show; guess we'll see. Because I will be watching, yup.
And I watched the pilot of Terra Nova. (I graded a LOT of papers this week, which is how I managed to 'watch' so much TV.) The more I think about it, the more I'm interested in the world that was left behind rather than the new world. New World has dinosaurs and ambiguous/bad guys. Old world had interesting technology and a mid-apocaplyptic atmosphere, so I thought it was fascinating, naturally.
My opinion: you can tell that this is the work of a person who produces movies for a living. The painting has too many broad brushstrokes. With TV you can present a slow, finely detailed painting, but that's not Spielberg's forte. So I'll probably watch again (and look away as the dinosaurs chomp on people), but it may fall by the wayside soon enough.
General conclusions: watch Revenge for plot, long story arc, good acting and compelling characters. Watch Terra Nova for dinosaurs.
I haven't watched any of the new comedies. Also haven't watched Ringer, but apparently even Sarah Michelle Gellar can't save it from mediocrity. Don't care about Pan Am or that one with the Playboy bunnies.
my must-watch list of new shows:
Revenge
Prime Suspect
shows I'll probably keep watching:
Person of Interest
Terra Nova
returning shows that I like:
Parks and Recreation
Community (probably... I wasn't enamored of the latter half of season two, but in the premiere there was Inspector Spacetime and I was delighted)
And now there's no more Doctor Who for ages and ages and I'm sad. *sniffles*