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  1. I haven't read the book but I feel you on the deaths. I watch a lot of gritty stuff and am not easily bothered, but some of the deaths in this show were just gut-wrenching. I'm hard-pressed to cry, but this show managed to jerk a few tears out of me. Kid Sampson and Snowden got me the worst. Good God.
  2. I watched this not long ago. I haven’t read the book (I intend to at some point but I’m a little apprehensive about it because I often struggle to follow nonlinear stories) so I can’t compare the two, but I thoroughly loved the show—the acting, the cinematography, the soundtrack, the unapologetic brutality, and of course, the satire. It walked a delicate line between gritty realism and comedic absurdity, and in my opinion it did so very well.
  3. I found "City on the Edge of Forever" to be overrated. Not bad (I actually quite like it), just not as fantastic as most TOS fans claim it is. I also don't care for "Day of the Dove," one of the more popular episodes from Season 3. Conversely, I really enjoyed "The Gamesters of Triskelion" which a lot of people seem to not care for. To each their own indeed, haha.
  4. That explains a lot. I watched the show last year and remember being like "what the hell?" when I finished the last episode. It was axed way too soon. At the very least we could have gotten a short season three, if only to tie up a few loose ends and give the show a sense of closure.
  5. RIP D.C. Fontana, Robert Walker Jr., and Rene Auberjonois. This month has been rough for Star Trek fans.
  6. Agreed! I laughed so hard watching that scene. I especially liked the bit where Sarah gets aggravated, pulls down Peter's shirt and says, "Is this better?" And Peter's just like, "Whoa." I also loved Peter's awkwardness when it came to romance. I found it endearing--and oftentimes more attractive than Neal's effortless charm (I'm super awkward in real life and about as romantic as a sneeze right before a kiss, so I tend to gravitate towards awkward and unromantic characters; I feel for them, haha). Plus, I adore Tim Dekay. I think he's a wonderful actor, and a cutie. As a side note, it was actually because of Tim that I decided to watch White Collar. I had found Carnivale on Amazon Prime, and had fallen in love with him in that, so I wanted to see what else he'd done. Come to find out I'd seen him in other things beforehand--The 4400, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., and Get Smart to name a few--but didn't remember since it'd been so long since I'd watched them. When I saw that he was in White Collar--as a regular, no less--I was like, "Guess I'm hunting down White Collar. I don't think it'll be my thing, but I'm willing to give it a try." Well, I ended up loving the show, and the characters (they mean so much to me), but if it weren't for Tim, I would not be the White Collar fan I am today!
  7. I couldn't agree with you more. Never once did I buy the relationship between Neal and Kate--not on Kate's end, anyway. Maybe it was the way the actress played the character, but her behavior towards him always lacked a sense of sincerity. We were never told, for sure, whether she really loved him or was just conning him, but even so I was never able to believe in her affections for him--not fully. There were moments when I thought "eh, she probably cares about him somewhat," but those moments were fleeting, lol. And in any case, I'd definitely say his love for her far surpassed any she might have had for him. As for Neal's relationship with Sarah, personally I didn't put much stock in it either. I didn't dislike Sarah but I don't think she would have made Neal happy for very long, or vice versa. They were just too different, and I don't believe either would have changed for the other. Their relationship wasn't deep enough for that. It was the old "opposites attract" trope--fun and exciting, but not very logical. Alex's relationship with Neal felt the most natural, and seemed to be the only one grounded in understanding. They also had great chemistry, which is a plus. :)
  8. Exactly, they built it up only to tear it down at the last second. The reveal that James was a killer felt very spontaneous to me--as though the writers themselves were not sure whether to make him guilty or innocent, and finally just decided on a whim to make him guilty. I didn't necessarily have a problem with him being guilty, I just would have preferred it if they'd made his guilt/innocence more ambiguous rather than alluding so strongly to his innocence only to be like "gotcha!" later. The Burma episode really cemented my suspicion that Neal was neglected in some way as a child--those cutting remarks he made obviously came from a personal place--which led to my confusion when the details of Neal's early life were presented. My guess is that, after having idolized his father, once Neal learned the truth about what kind of man his father really was, he was devastated and ashamed. He wasn't the son of a hero after all but the son of a murderer, and how dare his idealization be shattered! He didn't lose his father by an act of heroism, he lost his father because his father had, by choice, committed a horrible crime--a crime that had turned his life upside down. I can picture little Neal thinking something along the lines of, "How could he do something that would take him away from me? I needed him! Didn't he even think of me when he did that?" It was revealed in the show that Neal blames who he is on his father; he tells Peter at one point, "If I'm not my father's son, who am I?" I take that to mean he feels that had his father been a better person--had his father "tried harder," been stronger, smarter, etc.--he may have chosen another path in life. That's what makes the most sense to me anyway. 🙂
  9. The storyline of Neal's dad threw me for a loop, honestly. I thought he was innocent of the cop-killing charge, not because I trusted him but because I trusted Ellen. I remember her saying something like, "Your father was many things, Neal, but he wasn't a killer." I took him as a deeply flawed person with a lot of regrets (he was a dirty cop, after all) who, underneath it all, wanted to do the right thing. How wrong I was, haha! I didn't have any specific thoughts about what happened with Neal's parents, but I did kind of wonder if his dad was some sort of authority figure (like a judge or a town mayor) who either physically or emotionally neglected Neal. I felt it'd make sense given Neal's attachment issues and resentment towards people in charge. :)
  10. Howdy everyone! I just finished watching White Collar on Hulu (I'm way tardy to the party, I know, haha) and loved it! I didn't think it would be my cup of tea since I'm not a police procedural fan and white collar crime doesn't particularly interest me, but this show is so much more than your run-of-the-mill crime drama. The characters and their relationships were the focus, and they were brilliant. (Matt and Tim have excellent chemistry and are both great actors. They so need to do something else together!) The story arcs were engaging and, unlike a lot of other cop-centered shows, it never "jumped the shark" or got tiresome. It was intelligent, fun, humorous, and even moving. I'm so glad I checked it out! 🙂
  11. My favorite episodes from each season. Season 8 I pretty much entirely hated, but I managed to like the two episodes I listed. Season 1: "Dead Man Dating" (This was the first Charmed episode to make me cry.) "When Bad Warlocks Go Good" Season 2: "She's a Man, Baby, a Man!" (Prue having a supernatural sex change was fun!) "Awakened" "Chick Flick" (As a lover of classic movies, this episode was really enjoyable for me.) "Apocalypse Not" Season 3: "Coyote Piper" "The Good, the Bad and the Cursed" "All Hell Breaks Loose" Season 4: "A Paige from the Past" "Saving Private Leo" (This was the second Charmed episode to make me cry.) Season 5: "Witches in Tights" (Witches and superheroes? Yes please!) "Sense and Sense Ability" Season 6: "Sword and the City" "Witchstock" Season 7: "Styx Feet Under" "Charmed Noir" "Carpe Demon" "The Seven Year Witch" Season 8: "Run, Piper, Run" "The Lost Picture Show"
  12. Agreed, they do. But honestly, I'm not sure the show can be fixed at this point. I know that probably sounds like a defeatist viewpoint, but in my opinion, quality is more important than quantity. I'd much rather have a high-quality show that lasts just a few seasons than one that drags on until it becomes stagnant, which is what's happened with TWD. Many of the episodes now are simply there for filler, the "story"--I put that word in quotes because I don't think there is much story anymore--has been destroyed due to TPTB's bad decisions, the characters' personalities have gone back and forth so much (Jesus is a prime example) without any logical reason that they aren't really characters anymore, just faces and names.... The show is limping around with no direction in sight, which I think is a clear sign that it's run out of gas and needs to come to an end. As they say, though, money talks. So long as it can be milked, it will be.
  13. It really makes no sense for the garbage people to speak that way. There's nothing logical about it. I read an article once where the executive producer of TWD, David Alpert, explained that having been removed from any sense of "community" outside the group, and being cut off from things like TV, radio, etc., Jadis and her bunch developed their own dialect. But that makes no sense. The apocalypse didn't start that long ago--the FANDOM Wiki gives the time range of 20 months--and you don't develop all new speaking patterns until after years and years of isolation. The only viable explanation I can give for Jadis and her group's dialect is that they all decided among themselves to speak that way, for whatever reason.
  14. I don't have favorite seasons so much as favorite episodes. That said, though, I really like Seasons 3 and 7.
  15. Alyssa I have no feelings about, since I know practically nothing about her. The character Phoebe, on the other hand, went from being my favorite Halliwell sister to the one who infuriated me the most.
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