CletusMusashi

There is a lot of fun to be had from this show, but there are three big problems it has to overcome. 1. The writers seem more interested in Superman than Supergirl. I know he's an important part of this universe's background, but just acknowledge his existence quickly and explain why he's busy elsewhere. In the pilot, for example, when Ally Kat was going on about what a big deal Superman was to the Daily Planet, she could have rattled off a huge city-saving thing that he'd done a few days ago, another that he did the week before that, and another that he did right before that, and we would be happily filling in the blanks that he's too busy to look for anything else on his workload. Instead, after two episodes of nobody shutting up about him, he's already appeared in the third episode. If you don't want to write a Supergirl show, then get out of the way and let somebody else try. Okay? 2. The writers seem way, way, way more interested in James Olsen. Not in a "Hey, that guy and the lead make a cool duo" sense, but more like "those fools told me nobody wanted to watch a show about Jimmy Olsen, but I'll show them! I'll show them all! Mwa ha ha ha!" I think that what they are being paid to write is a Supergirl show, but what they are actually writing is a Superman fanfic in which Jimmy Olsen is no longer a geeky white guy who everybody laughs at. And, hey, maybe there's a market for The Jimmy Awesome Show, but I think it's dishonest to accept a paycheck for writing something else entirely. Folks were skeptical about an hour of Commissioner Gordon fighting crime in the Mustachemobile or whatever the hell he does on Gotham, but at least the show was honest about who they'd be writing as the star. James is not only not the character anybody tunes in to see (hint to writers: check the title of your show if you forget,) but he is also so damn-near perfect that he bores the living crap out of me. 3. The villains are awful. Auntie El has potential. Get the writers to stop drooling over James Olsen for ten minutes and they might actually write her some decent scenes. But the other bad guys we've seen were completely and utterly forgettable. And there's no excuse for that. They don't need to be super powerful. They don't need to be brilliant.They just need to be interesting. Throw in some easy comedy-relief gangs, and then later on maybe give us the reveal that they were paid to distract her from a real crime. Anything's better than Axe That Blows Up Easily Man, or Mopey Nuclear Dude Who Also Has a Flying Suit That Nobody Asks About Because Superman Already Knows. The best way to salvage a flawed superhero show is to have a field day throwing zany well-acted villains at them. But instead, I think the season's Big Bad is going to an evil shirtless James Olsen clone, who will eventually be stopped by, you guessed it! Superman! With a lot of help, of course from the real James Olsen. Who will then have a very special wedding episode in which he and the entire writing staff get married.

God damn these titles. Now I'm probably going to watch the whole episode counting everything in a muppet voice. "One! One wonderful zombie! Ha ha ha ha ha! Two! Two wondeful zombies! Ha ha ha ha ha!" Although maybe I can get it out of my system watching Z Nation tonight. 10K does that schtick anyhow. I might as well join him.

You know, I'm not sure which one it was in any more. But I did just find a link discussing it: http://dr-archeville.tumblr.com/post/118779282107/more-science-of-izombie-so-after-his-initial Like I said, I won't miss it. I'll take the predictable Z-virus cliche over worrying about them turning Ravi into Suresh.

And it was one of Gareth's favorite appetizers. I'll show myself out.

I'm happy that the zombie thing has been retconned into a virus, instead of that nonsense last season about how the chemical activates dormant ancestral genes. Pretty sure that neither humans nor rats had a albino ancestor with super-healing powers that survived by eating the brains of... a species that hadn't even evolved from it yet for them to eat, so I guess it was also a time traveler or something... I hate retcons, but this one was desperately needed. Because the other crap was seriously making my skull hurt.

My guess is that Blaine thought that Grampabrain would allow him to guilt-trip his father into signing over the family business.

Or maybe he just ate the baby food himself. Getting something besides worms and acorns into his body had sort of a Popeye effect.

The fact that you don't still remember her is one of the character similarities.

I want that episode.

If Judith grows as rapidly as Carl, she might not have been recognizable. Were there any four year olds in the background? (Another tried and true soap opera trope!)

He changed his mind far too late to change the outcome. Maybe he should have loaned his teleporter to Daryl.

So the town is kind of fucked right now for two reasons. One is that half of the zombie parade are outside the walls, instead of in the big hole that they were deliberately led out of, as quickly and loudly as possible. And the other is that while most of the big guns were out of town, advertising the fact that they were out of town by having a noisy-ass parade, the Wolves attacked. If I didn't know better, I would say that both of those problems had a common source. But, good news: Rick has a backup plan. "Zombie parade!" The other one failed because they heard a loud noise. A loud noise that was deliberately made by the Wolves, in order to ruin the parade. But I guess maybe the Wolves promised not to interfere this time? Kill the damn zombies where they are, and until they're thinned down a bit, at least you know that the Wolves probably won't be visiting. Unless they found a can of Brillip's Zombie Repellent Bat Spray.

Carol's a little tired right now. Who do you think had to kill all those zombies that Rick was trapped by? Or Carol. "Hi, I heard you're giving free flu shots." "Do you have any flu symptoms?" "Well, yeah, maybe..." BANG!

Speaking of zombie shows to watch, did anybody else think that the sewer zombie effects were more "Z Nation" than TWD? Except there is no way Doc would just stand there silently waiting for a five minute speech to end.

Right now, Glenn is alive, carrying a huge machine gun, and riding back to town in the sidecar of a motorcycle, driven by Eugene's nephew, Little Fat Tobias.

Don't worry. I'm sure soon we'll see an entire episode devoted to Mikey, Father Pee Pants, and Third Startled Townsperson From The Left.

They have construction equipment. Just hoist them over the walls and let the zombies munch them.

I don't like to quote entire long posts, but I just have to say that it is terrifying how accurate every word of that was. Me, I've just been bitching about how long and phony all the speeches were. But you're right. The character focus this week was just... bizarre.

So, why were almost no townspeople armed with... anything? I mean, the houses have fireplaces. Shouldn't we have seen a couple of people near the wall with axes? Or whatever else they have? Picks? Shovels? Pipes? Come on! Frieda Baggins just beat one down to head-stabbing level by repeatedly jabbing it with a broken bottle! And the bottle didn't even re-break. I honestly hope that the passivity of the townfolk is meant to be satire. But even if it is, it is extremely lazy half-assed satire with no particular whatsamaschitz to it. Seconded! I think a little mariachi music would have cheered the episode up tremendously.

Well, we know they aren't eating a lot of pasta...

Thank you very much, iRarelyWatchTV36. Now I have visions of Yosemite Sideboob being shaved dolphin smooth with a katana! And I can't STOP seeing it! In fact, I need to see more of it! Preferably anime style. And I am going to be on a long hiatus from this place in order to write Micholphin fanfic. And her hair will be tentacles. Don't judge me! A man has needs, damn it.

And the award for Worst Speech goes to... Spencer! Deanna: Damn it, Spencer... Spencer: Now THAT'S some bullshit! blah blah blah blah blah nobody's listening anyway because they're still wondering how the fuck 'damn it spencer' is on any planet meant to be an objective statement that can decisively be called bullshit. blah blah blah spoiled brat blah blah blah yadda whaaaaaaahhhhhhhhh! Most of this week's dialogue was weirdly stilted. Like, at the beginning of the ep, when Rick and Aaron were yelling and over-enunciating and explaining everything in baby-steps, I actually started to wonder if maybe English was not the first language of those they were speaking to. But Spencer? it was like his writer and Deanna's knew what the scene was going to be about, but then proceeded to write their lines completely independently. And honestly didn't see any problem with that.

Right now I'm wondering how he will screw up next. Will he be in charge taking Morgan's pet wolf for walksies, and fall for the old "I can't poop unless I'm outside city walls with no one within fifty feet of me" schtick? Will he discover the new sewer route, wander through it unscathed somehow, and then stand there at the gate screaming for help until the Wolf pack hears him? Or will he loan his guns to Rapey Raymond, the town sex offender who everybody just puts up with because he's a great shoe repairmen?

About Maggie's speech: I agree that LC is a great actress, and that any particular few seconds of it were, in and of themselves, very well delivered. But as whole: it was still way too speechy. That's not Maggie. Her completely awesome speech to Glenn after Wellgate was Maggie, because she was fired about talking somebody she loved out of letting himself be the groups crash test dummy. But her speech to Aaron? Should mostly have been delivered either in bits and pieces on their way back, or as one sad ramble sitting on the (hopefully, plastic-covered) couch after they got back to town. Great acting, good lines, but... just not the right entire huge pile of lines right in that place at that time.

These people are idiots. They may very well have been planning to milk tortoises.