tessaray

Well, the SQ shippers are real but the rest is speculation, as far as I know. This episode could have just involved shooting schedules that didn't match up. If the actors didn't care for one another, I appreciate that it didn't affect the show like some others I've seen. (And by affect the show, I mean the performances we saw on-screen.)

The writing, acting (except Colin), editing, and pacing of this show is awful but there were some bright spots. First, I only barely remember the Wish Realm, so I was okay with the Falstaff-ian Hook being transformed by real Hook's blood and the fairy godmother's wand and then latching on to Emma and TL. That made as much sense as anything else ever has in Once. CS is intact (poor JMo and that wig though!) and Regina not having anything in SB to go back to fits fine. And I caught how they made an effort to match up young and older Henry with the posture, hair, etc. - just the fact that they made the effort won them some points... still don't much care for adult Henry in flashback or HH. Jacinda was less frantic/abrasive and that helped, though still no chemistry. I am confused by what they've done to Robert Carlyle. If he doesn't want to play Rumple anymore, that's fine but between the weird accent and the hideous wardrobe (if you can call it that) I just don't want him on my screen. The spark with Hook/Gold from seasons past wasn't there either. And without the EQ, Roni is just a bartender and Henry's mom. So, 2 episodes down and 2 to go for me and then I'll decide. If we don't know anything else about the curse, then I'm probably out. No way am I going to sit through months of them not knowing who they are, with the story dribbling out in bits and pieces. ETA: I forgot to comment on the whole recital thing. I'm going with only Jacinda being charged $550 to keep her out and Victoria waiving the ticket price for everyone else. The thing is, I have seen real world custody situations where a mom in trouble has been pressured to give up her parental rights, with the resulting chaos when she gets her life together and wants her kid back. If that's where they're going they need to say so. The other, more fictional motive is that Lucy is the heir to something that Victoria wants, so she needs to be her guardian. Again, we need to know this. This weird, not knowing makes it too obvious that I don't care about these people or their backstory.

Kim Matula used to get on my nerves because she basically was the show when I first started watching - who would have thought those would end up being the good old days? I'll probably come back to see what they're giving Ingo for a storyline - though I kind of wish he were playing a new character. Recasting Ridge didn't work out so well for them.

"Cured" is up on Britbox, so it looks like less than a day behind airing on Dave? I haven't had a chance to watch it yet but looking forward to it. http://www.reddwarf.co.uk/news/2017/10/06/american-dwarf/

The new series will be debuting this month on Britbox. I know the new episodes have started in the UK, so they should be landing soon, I hope. (They seem to be at least a week or so behind with Strictly Come Dancing.) Britbox has a one week free trial, so I imagine you could wait until the new series ends and just binge watch them.

Not to defend Lucy saying that Henry's apartment was a dump but I was thinking that she was probably raised more or less in Victoria's home (or else why would VB want them back so desperately?) and compared to that, it likely is. I did like Lucy in some scenes but there's a really fine line between sassy/spunky and flat out obnoxious.

Thinking about it, I really missed Emma (or an Emma substitute). This show needs a semi-normal, grounded character for contrast with the EF/SB/HH, magical fairy tale aspect. Without that, it feels so disjointed, with no center or heart. Maybe Hook will end up filling that spot because Henry, Cinderella and Lucy weren't doing it for me. I'll keep watching for a few more weeks to see how it goes.

I loved her in Burn Notice but not so sure about this show...

I accidentally caught about 10 minutes of this and spent most of it wondering what was going on with Gabrielle Anwar.

Does CBS post new episodes at midnight Saturday or at prime time on Sundays?

I like IR very much from his GH days but - and no offense to KKL, who is still gorgeous - I don't really see the show putting those 2 together. 10 years age difference is a lot in HD. (Maybe a fling for old times sake?) I imagine DD is having fun playing $Bill but what a waste of a good couple. It would have been nice to see Brooke playing the Spencer matriarch over the holidays - or at least planning for them. They couldn't drag it out another 8 - 10 weeks?

I would have liked to have seen something out of the ordinary, given the premise they sold us. (I tried The 100 but it was much too CW. Love the comic book shows, the rest not so much.) It's too bad they couldn't have hired some folks from Person of Interest to fix this show. They knew how to do just over the horizon scifi mixed with the procedural. Or The Last Ship - which did the post-Apocalypse fairly well in the first season. Honestly though, in an episode full of misses, the out of nowhere genetic disease as a leadership test was one of the dumbest things I've seen on television and I'm old. And then Liam flunks completely when he leaves the bunker to get back to Darius with the magnet thing. (That's not how leadership works, Liam.) Grace shooting Claire was mildly cathartic. Maybe if the show comes back, Dad will have turned her into a crack CIA assassin.

That was the worst weirdest season/series finale I've seen in ages. (I include series because the odds of renewal seem very slim - though I hope I'm wrong.) I wonder if a bunch of stuff was cut? It felt very jumbled. A second season with Mark Moses saving the world after a nuclear holocaust works for me.

Here I was, multiple weeks free of this show and they are maybe going to Still? I could be tempted back for that...

Agreed re: Lucifer's Hammer. And RIP, Jerry Pournelle.

The Region 2 dvd is supposedly available from third parties on Amazon, no American release from the looks of it. (When I clicked on the dvd button, it doesn't do anything.) You can get the whole season digitally for $20. I imagine iTunes and Google would have it if Amazon does.

I wish the last episode had been split into 2, because while the show isn't camp, when things are hurtling by so fast, the camp seems to dominate. Killjoys is very "small l" libertarian in the way relationships are shown. Gay warlords are just a tiny part of the diversity. I personally wouldn't want more than one husband but hey, if you want 3 - go for it.

This is why I always feel slightly queasy cheering on DSK/Aneela. Alone each one is loathsome but together they are weirdly watchable. I think there are a lot of us but for different reasons. In my case, I'm waiting until the series hits basic cable, with lots of editing. I did read the first book a long time ago when it first came out (don't care for multiple pov) and tried watching the first series. While you can skim past the sex/violence in a book, it's harder with gruesome violence or brutal sexuality onscreen. It's why I prefer basic cable. Some things are better hinted at than seen.

Why is Zoe mad at Grace again? I admit I watch this show and then forget almost everything by the time I get around to the next episode. While Darius getting bounced from Tanz was done very badly, I guess I got the feeling they were trying to go for Steve Jobs getting ousted from Apple tone, so I shrugged that one off. But the political parts are so badly done I can't even wrap my head around it. (Especially after last summer and Brain Dead - which I loved. You can get away with a lot of science-y technobabble (or brain eating space alien ants) but there's way too much political stuff on cable news to skimp on getting that part right.)

I can't believe how much show they crammed into one tiny episode. The opening montage was perfect and there was just enough cliffhanger to go into next season - though if they hadn't gotten picked up, it would have served as an acceptable series finale. Even knowing beforehand some of what happened, I was still tense during the battle scenes and just about jumped out of my skin when those creepy spidery things came out of the green after Dutch and Aneela went in. So many great quippy moments but I think my favorite was the Aneela/Kendry farewell. "Be safe/Be brutal" - I laughed and was a little touched at the same time.