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When I saw this spoiler I looked the guy up because the name was unfamiliar. And according to Wikipedia there is some debate over whether he deliberately undermined the war effort because apparently inaction on his part in places led to some showy campaign failures for the British. Apparently there was a resignation & censure etc. etc. Nothing was conclusively proven but he still had a lot of doubters. So there is a little bit of rope there that SH can use.

Finally getting some photos of Ab & Ichabod for new season. I like the shorter hair on her. Not too keen on it for him because I like longer hair Ichabod. But it is kinda growing on me.... (no pun intended). http://thetorontokid.tumblr.com/post/128895023951/more-sleepy-hollow-filming-in-lawrenceville-ga also http://www.screenspy.com/articles/tv/photos/sleepy-hollow-3x01-gallery-i-witness/

A quote like this, I think, we need to remember the context. It is coming from Tvline and probably filtered through some Ausiello or Slezak questions/assumptions. They know that SH fans did not receive the news of Betsy Ross well. TVline's own comment boards are filled with a lot of the same complaints as here. It is probable this blurb is being filtered through some of that subtext. The whole "don't worry' thing, imo, is a direct reference to their knowledge of where the fandom is. They may have asked about Jenny & Abbie and this was the answer they chose to share. I don't think I would necessarily assuming things about Campbell based on this 1/2 of a sentence answer to a question we never even hear. re: DragonCon: I liked the one woman who simply live tweeted with no editorial comment. I think sometimes we can get too caught up in the messiness. I am not gonna lie, all the s2 backstage drama made me want to pull up a tub of popcorn and wallow in the crazy. But at this point I just want to watch a good show and maybe get some good Tom and Nicole face time.I do miss seeing good Miharie interviews, no matter what they are saying. They are just fun to watch.

Chicago Med has just cast Marlyne Barrett as a regular. In addition to S. Epatha Merkerson, YaYa Da Costa and Brain Tee, that would make her the 4th regular POC in the cast, three of whom are black women. Representation does matter and to some extent it factors into what I curate to watch, especially new shows that I might have ordinarily passed on.

Awww.... I loved this one. From the opening with the terrible outfits to the ending with that fantastic scene betweem Emma and Mark. Man, those two have such chemistry. Now I finally see what Maggie saw in Bruce. How can you not fall for a guy who completes you on the dance floor? And of course their song is 'I like to Move it' That party looked hella fun. And finally I love the set up to make you think that Maggie made up the Andie McDowell woman complete with a name that also sounds like she just made it up.

I didn't mind too Joan too much at first, but then when she rather viciously cooed to Paul's black girlfriend "maybe one day you'll be able to pull up in a station wagon and shop at the supermarket as well as work there" I was like, Bitch Please! It was rather poorly done of her and exposed her character as not the Righteous Woman-hero so many of her fans think of her but rather as a petty person who would use something as serious as racial in equality & dehumanizing Jim Crow laws to score points on a romantic rival who didn't even know she was a rival.

It is interesting, because there is another little video out there where someone asks the question and Nicole & Tom very much play dumb as if they had never heard of Ichabbie getting in on before. So that was odd. Maybe they make a conscious effort to treat each question like it is new? Even of they've heard it 1,000 time before. There was a second panel today -- Nicole couldn't make it and John Noble was there with Tom. He threw some more shade at S2. LOL. But more Ichabbie questions came up. Someone asked: Do you think Ichabod would go back to the 18th Century if he could? and Tom says last year he might have given a different answer but this year he thinks he'd choose to stay with Abbie. And then he said "hashtag Ichabbie" But then there was this gem: Tom: I don't think there are plans for them to fall into bed. Makeup guy on panel says: there's no place to go after that Tom: oh, there are *plenty* of places to go after that. So I still think there is that idea that they are gonna keep it all platonic and everyone is toeing the company line, but Tom isn't averse to it as he may sound sometime. At least that is my take on it. Anyway the same person live tweeted the second day and here's the link http://www.onwednesdays.net/con-geek-livetweeting-the-dragoncon-day-2-sleepy-hollow-panel/

My UO is that I can't stand Mellie. Never could. Never will. No she's not funny. No she can't "get it girl!' No I don't feel bad that her husband is cheating on her. None of that. The retcon does not stick with me. I remember S1 Mellie very clearly. I actually would have appreciated her more if she had been allowed say something like 'Yeah you can sleep with her all you want, Enjoy. But I am not divorcing you. I like being married. I liked the power. I like being first lady. Move her into the Lincoln bedroom and frolic all night if you want for all I care. Just shut it with the divorce talk." Mellie started out kinda like a baby Claire Underwood from House of Cards. I wish SR had doubled down on that. I would have liked that Mellie.

Someone live tweeted the dragoncon panel. here: http://www.onwednesdays.net/sleepy-hollow-at-dragoncon-panel-livetweet/ Also on twitter there is a lovely little ten second video at the end of the panel of Tom complimenting Nicole and she has this kinda embarrassed look on her face and then she holds out her fist and he bumps. Cute as hell.

Oh yay! For a hot second I thought it was you but wasn't sure. I can't even think S2 & Katrina without using that phrase.

I loved watching LA Complex on the CW. It was surprisingly good and had one of the best, most lovely tortured romances between deeply closeted hard core rap guy Kal King and the lovey Tariq. But my favorite music moment was the recording of the song Hard Times, with Cassie Steel providing backing vocals. It made me want to go out and get the actual song! First part Second part

Lol. I too love "Handwavium" Cynic. I still use "Vortex of Stupidity" which I first heard in this group, not sure who to credit with that one.

Although I like last years poster better, I do admit that the tagline is very clever. Who knew they still had it in them? And Tom and Nicole are ridiculously pretty! I've also seen a cropped version of the poster where each on of their faces are halved (i know, sacrilege!) But it emphasizes the arched eyebrows a lot more.

Yeah, not my favorite of the series. I thought both Dan & Emma were so blind and deaf to all nuance. Cringeworthy and made me mad on behalf of Maggie. That said, the lemonade twins --- and their sticky hot tub (ew!) were a fun touch. And Emma's family must have money because a gorgeous lake house with water frontage is boo-coo bucks!

Playing House on USA. Probably doesn't technically fit this thread because I literally had no idea this show even existed before a week ago. And even if I did the premise just is so not my thing and I have never heard of the lead actresses before. But it came across my radar because Tvline did a little blurb on Keegan Michael-Key (whom j'adore) and a great scene he was in. And I was like what...? So I looked it up and binged all of Season 1 and am now up to speed on Season 2. Funny, charming, well written, well acted. Really Good show.

Truthfully? I think a lot of my satisfaction with the runaway success of Empire and Cookie is because of how pissed I was that POI killed off Carter. True or not, rational or not, I will always feel they jettisoned TPH to make room for Sarah Shahi & Amy Acker. So I watch and enjoy.

So.. what is the time jump between S2 and S3? The four-year thing is puzzling. Earlier spoilers suggest she headed off to Quantico after all the evens of S2. So did she meet him then, come back to SH and now it is four years post S2? Or are they now really retconning? If they are retconning one semi-plausible explanation could be that her trip to the past didn't 100% reset things to exactly the way they were and some very small changes did occur. And honestly, Abbie was changed through that travel because she met Grace and had that experience so things couldn't be 100% the same in any case. Information about anything S3 except new casting had been so stingy that it is hard not to latch in the tiniest thing and bug it to death.

I love that that actually looked like a Digiornio's pizza with that super puffy crust. Personally, I am a thin cruster all the way.

I too am a new convert to this show. Thank goodness for On Demand. I binged all of season one over the weekend. And have just caught up to date with S2. Things I loved about this episode: - Emma's Steve Harvey voice & Mark's reaction to it - Charlotte's expression as Mark was talking about their 'Third World water pressure' (actually I love all the little cut-aways to Charlotte's face. That child actor is ridiculously charming) - Mark: "That's my jam right there." when the Murder She Wrote theme song starts to play - Bird Bones prancercizing. Of course she'd have ankle weights. Things I Didn't love: - The unnecessary reminder that Emma & Mark are kinda maybe gonna hook up eventually. We know it will most likely happen, but the show has been so smart so far in how it has been handling everybody's relationships that this felt clumsy for the show. Which to too bad because Keegan-Michael Key and Jessica St. Clair have such great natural chemistry. They really feel like they've known each other forever so they sell it. I just don't want it to happen right now. I actually want Emma and Rabbi Dan to run a natural course like they let Mark & Tina did. I bet she does. I have a friend who works for a company that contracts with high end hotels to provide the soaps/shampoos etc. that you get in hotel rooms. She's single and has no kids. And she travels all over the world on the company's dime so she she has very little personal overhead. She bought a small house (for cash) as a home base only because she thought it was stupid to continue to rent an apartment and owning property was smarter tax wise. Her mom & dad keep an eye on her place when she is out of town. But for the most part she just socks her ridiculously high paycheck away in savings and investments. I don't know her exact net worth or anything, but she's worked for the company since we graduated college some 20 years ago and I'll bet she could quit right now and live comfortably for the rest of her life without having to work again.

Ooooh extra points to you for your Vorkosigan reference!

Oh, I loved that line, especially coming after her 'So pretty. So Smart.' line to Dutch and then handing Johnny her wine glass like he was a servant. His delivery was perfect. I got to thinking about Pawter's mother. She's keeping her supplied with Jaxx. If she really had written her off, then they wouldn't even be doing that. I wonder if her response to Johnny wasn't so much that she had completely disowned her daughter, but admitting any sort of connection to her & taking communication from her, from a complete stranger no less, would not have been politically smart. Especially since the Nine families are a vipers' nest and any weakness you show could potentially be used against you. And finally, I loved that last scene at the royal. Hills taking his drink, that old couple dancing and the sex worker sitting there with a resigned look on her face that clearly said 'Same shit, different day.'

Do you think they were just being experimented on? I thought maybe they were being turned into Level 6. Obviously the guy that was fighting Dutch at the Qresh party was augmented. As is Khlyen. And when Bellus said there were rumors of Killjoys disappearing. My feeling is that the Level 6 are all some sort of super soldiers all answerable only to Khlyen. And Dutch is supposed to become Level 6 too and somehow Red 17 is part of it. But yeah, this was a kick ass finale. All the little pieces from earlier came together to create more questions. But everything had a place. I was watching and ticking off all the players of the season so far who has made an appearance in the finale and was giving of hope of seeing Fancy and when I did, I was like.....Fuck. But I loved the reveal about Arkyn. And I like how so many characters had very interesting arcs that were allowed to play out some in this finale -- Pawter, Alvis (and his religion), that company guy, even Kendry who is the worst! I hope it gets renewed and I hope Khlyen stays around. He's a good bad guy. Or a Good maybe anti-hero with a murky agenda-guy. I also have to give Johnny big props this episode he delivered really big in key places and had a couple of great one-liners to boot.

OMG! That tvline interview with the Kings is unintentionally hysterical. It is like...like... incomprehensible word salad that boils down to the startling revelation that 'TV is just make believe!" LOL.

Exactly! The thing with the fingers with the 'captured!' lyric in the Tina Turner song slays me. Just slays me. Every. Single. Time! And yes, The Roots cracking up in the background is always fun to see.

I don't have much more to add than was laready said about this ep, but I did want to say I really liked a couple of scenes: 1- With Molly and Kinsey (I don't know his name on this show, only his name on Mad men) in the diner. I think Halle brought off cool, unemotional, get-shit-done very well. She is always required to be so highly emoitonal in her scenes that it is nice to see her be resolute and and hard. 2- The series of scenes with Melina Kanakaredes. I thought the whole thing played out really well. When JD was trying to explain to her why it isn't right to just turn over Adu just because he is an Alien we could see it was really just futile. She had to experience his humanity to really get was JD was trying to explain. And then in the end she just gave Molly the hug because the woman had just watched her son die.