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  1. I think one of the team being in danger is just as mandatory as the main character with the angsty, mystery past of doom in these type of shows. Also wouldn't surprise me if Colter went missing at one point (possibly because of his past) and the team had to spring in to action to save him, though it probably wouldn't be this season.
  2. Not really surprised it's been renewed. Ratings are good even if CBS was probably hoping for a higher sampling post Superbowl. And probably does OK on Paramount+ The next episode looks interesting: https://www.spoilertv.com/2024/03/tracker-episode-105-st-louis.html Different type of missing once again and with a bit more complexity than someone that wants/needs to be found.
  3. I have mixed feelings about that since IRL so many of those types of schools do seem to be literal hell holes that torture their students whilst lying to their parents and saying anything that they hear is wrong/lying. Kids have allegedly died or run away and after being found had massive signs of trauma. And the kid would have died or been killed had it not been for the Mom knowing Reenie and Reenie knowing Colter and they probably would never have told her the truth or even realised what happened until he was found weeks later (if at all). That said it was a good twist for a TV show that they ended up not actually involved. One thing I would like to see is Colter being wrong or failing during a case. I know they won't do it this early when they are establishing his Action Main Main Awesome Main Character Skills but I think it would be interesting. Of course, as I said, I really want him to meet up with either Bobby or (checks IMDb) Velma and Teddi before the end of the season. Or at the very least have Reenie interact with them rather than just being called on the phone.
  4. I liked this one better than the 2nd one and this was originally supposed to be two right? They were quite similar in some ways with two characters "willingly" on or at least not kidnapped to a compound. I suppose they wanted to showcase a completely different style of case (one were the person involved didn't *want* to be rescued at all) asap. And had his mother in it I suppose. More Rennie than there was previously (and know I know her name!) but pretty minimal handlers and hacker. I'll say it again Colton running around places that look like Vancouver for 80% of an ep is going to get boring sooner rather than later. And whilst the guest characters have mostly been fine - good none of them are really developed in a way that makes up for the complete lack of supporting regulars beyond two scenes each and where they only interact with Colton on the phone. It continues to be hilarious that people always end up answering Colter's questions despite no official ID or even being part of a private company. Even the type of people who would shoot at Feds and local PDs are willing to back down eventually. They do try and have him reason with them but it's amusing it works 95% of the time. I guess Rennie actually had a reason to "be in the area" this week so that was good. Not really feeling the WT/WT between them yet but I suppose it's early days and it's not really a romance type of show beyond maybe hooking up with a few locals which hasn't happened since the pilot either. Glad there was very little Ongoing Mystery of Daddy Doom this week anyway. I loathe what I've heard of those wilderness schools. I guess parents do get desperate and the schools tell them a lot of lies to get the kids there but many of them are just outright abusive and incredibly unsafe. I guess this one did marginally care about Noah and they pulled back from the prison comment because hey, they taught Noah how to survive but I wonder how true that would be in the real world.
  5. I thought the dog storyline was a pretty good way of introducing their personalities and their relationship. I wonder how they got into the mercenary business in the first place?
  6. So I liked this okay. I find cult stories and how potentially harmless woo woo gets twisted into stealing, extortion, murder and burning people when put in the hands of one person. Ryan Robbins! Always nice to see him get work. Different kind of story this week with someone not being held against their will and Colter having to talk him out of it (until the end). We didn't really get to see if what the kid said about his parents being smothering had any basis in fact because they were reacting to him literally emptying his bank accounts and disappearing but he did change his mind pretty sharpish at the end and suddenly believed that Colter was telling the truth and Rebecca was lying. Guess being shown pictures of a hit and run will do that to you. No lawyer love interest this week and minimal scenes of his handlers and the hacker guy (sorry not remembering names yet). I like them but I do think this show would benefit from them all meeting up at some point, I think I'm going to get bored of watching JH interact with case of the week by himself. Then again I enjoy a good team/two person hander show. So I guess it was Russell that broke in to his mother's home? She definitely knows more than she's saying but it's clear that little clues are going to be dropped for potentially years to come with probable red herrings and misdirection as with so many shows.
  7. I liked it well enough to give it a 2nd try next week. JH was OK but he doesn't scream "I can carry 80% of this show by myself" IMHO but we'll see. There was also some very clunky dialogue but I've heard worse from a pilot. I think they *tried* to make it natural in some places, which highlighted that it wasn't. I laughed when he said "rewardist" yeah that makes everything so palatable. Hey, if you're that good a hunter/mercenary that you put most PDs to shame then just own it. You don't have a problem collecting the money 2 seconds after rescue. I liked his handlers, although I hope they meet up face to face sometimes, them being on a screen will get boring after a while. Lawyer was OK but I called that they'd slept together the second one of the women was "noooo". And she can't get enough of his cases even though/because he does really, really dumb stuff like get arrested in a fast food restaurant. Even though she's a high end Harvard educated lawyer. Right. I didn't think that the scene where he spills his backstory to the cop was at all earned. Not even a little. That was one of the unnatural parts. I know they were apparently mutually lusting but as a reveal or an intimate moment, even for a one ep hook up, it fell flat. I suppose it's a little different that such a pivotal pilot moment was given to a one ep character and that there was no angst between them at the end though. But obviously they also set up his love interest. I knew he was going to jump in with the kid the second I saw water there, because what's the most maverick/"badass" thing he can do in the situation. But I will give it another week at least because it wasn't terrible.
  8. Yeah I know that the "documentary" hasn't been filming for 5 months so it's 5 months later in the present day but when Janine and Gregory had their talk and he said that he had moved on it was much earlier (Ava was showing them via her spy cameras and it was the day after the camera crew got robbed) so it must have been fairly soon after right? Or since it was development week August/September? That's only 2-3 months between Gregory asking her out to Janine asking him out. From then to Feb is 5 months so that works. I'm way, way over thinking this because the scene's only purpose was to stall/pause them but it kind of bugged that they showed him carrying this torch for years whilst he was dating two other people and she was dating two other people and then he claims he's moved on fairly quickly after she said she needed to work on herself first. Not that anyone has to wait or always be open but, eh. This was the first time that obvious stalling on this show has really bugged me.
  9. Yay, they're back! I loved that they explained the missing months by the camera crew getting robbed in West Philly (an area synonymous with the Fresh Prince of Bel Air theme song for me) and having to save up for new equipment. Janine's new job is interesting...I can definitely see why she took it and I'm glad she did. I enjoyed Jacob being alternately supportive and jealous, pretty realistic. In no way do I trust that everything is going to go great with the other three district admins though, they were way too nice and this show never gives Janine so many wins in a row or any kind of easy ride. JS has played a couple of very convincing serial killers and other bad guys so that's not helping either. I did like Manny talking to Barbara and saying he knows how he comes across but he can't help it though. The charter school guy also seemed nice and earnest for a while (at least to Barbara) before becoming something of a moustache twirler, so we'll see. I really don't think they have to be evil but *something* is going to go pear shaped. Ava! That was alternately funny and gross. I did feel sorry for Gregory after that scene. It makes sense that the staff has come up with coping strategies for Ava after so long and that they like the "freedom" to teach how they want and that nu!Ava was freaking everyone out. The Janine/Gregory conversation did leave me slightly confused. It seems as though it would only have been at most a couple of months after their talk at the Franklin Museum right? Is that enough time to have emotionally moved on so much that you don't feel the same way and don't want to revisit it, even though it's been a slow burn for a couple of years when you were dating other people? Obviously I don't expect anyone to wait around but Janine never shut the door. It may have made more sense if she'd tried to start something up in the present day because May to February is a long time. I realise this is a way of stalling them for a while or potentially even putting it on a backburner for a season or two but it did frustrate me. I guess it depends on how they handle it going forward. If there's nothing then fine but if they keep playing up the awkwardness and the looks and the longing (ie stalling for stalling's sake rather than a complete pause to focus on other things/pairings for them) then I will probably get annoyed. I wish more shows (especially workplace sitcoms) would follow the B99 pattern of getting them together S3 ish and then integrating that into the story or not as the plot demands. Speaking of...I liked Gary and Melissa but I'm glad she stood her ground and turned down the proposal. She flat out told Gary several times that she did not want to get married again and he thought he could manufacture "the perfect sign" or whatever and didn't just flat out tell her before that he wasn't joking. Which Melissa must have known deep down but was ignoring it. OTOH Melissa is also right that if Gary really wants to get married then he should find someone who really wants to get married to him and therefore it is better if they go their separate ways. Sad but realistic, especially with baggage from a shitty marriage and divorce. All in all so incredibly glad this show is back!
  10. So Morena Baccarin has been tapped to play the Sheriff in the potential spin off which "is not backdoor pilot because he had another stage of development before being greenlit". I enjoyed this show at the beginning but it became such a trainwreck that I lost interest. Not sure that it can sustain TWO spin offs right now. It seems networks are planning spin offs earlier than ever. https://www.spoilertv.com/2024/01/morena-baccarin-to-headline-fire.html
  11. Hmm, it looks like the post I made was lost in the update. It was basically about the amount of period movies that Hallmark are premiering this February and the piggy backing off of very successful series that they are surely hoping to accomplish with that. Also I'm interested in seeing True Justice: Family Ties for Kat McNamara next week.
  12. Interesting. Has Hallmark ever done this before? One of them sounds a bit like the UK TV series "Lost in Austen" where a character literally fell into Pride and Prejudice. Will also be interesting to see how a Hallmark version of S&S turns out.
  13. I didn't even know that this movie was a thing until a few days ago and it comes out in February. I'm sort of intrigued by it because whilst some of the dialogue in the trailer seems a bit hokey, this does have a really good cast. It doesn't really seem that they're playing up the Spider-Man connection per se in what marketing there is right now though,. Although considering that CBMs aren't necessarily doing great right now, that perhaps not a bad thing.
  14. If they did have a thing on set (I have no idea) then it would be less of a case of him "getting" Teri to cheat and more her choosing to. No one can make anyone have an affair unless assault or coercion is involved. Plenty of on screen couples who have great on screen chemistry have been indifferent to each other or actively disliked each other and the tension comes across as attraction on screen and you'd think an actor's SO would know that. I do love this show, they are my definitive L&C. I still say "at least it wasn't as bad as the wedding/frog eating clone/amnesia/New Krypton arc on L&C" about frustrating storylines. Good times! I think if DJL hadn't left then Lois wouldn't have found out he's Superman, because I remember watching the DVD extras a long time ago and her saying she had been planning to keep her in the dark. I do like the drama and comedy of her not knowing in the first two seasons but her finding out lead to some great eps as well and opened up new storylines and more for TH to do. Plus "who's asking Clark or Superman?" is one of my favourite scenes/cliffhangers on TV.
  15. You know, I have been a proponent of "well maybe you could all just date?" as at least a possible option to end TV love triangles for a long time now. It doesn't necessarily have to happen but at least have the discussion or even the idea before dismissing it, guys. However it didn't work for me here. 1) There was absolutely no set up, it was just thrown in for a shocking twist and so they didn't have to bother picking a pairing. 2) Poly or ethical non monogamy takes a huge amount of good communication skills from all parties and a lot of work to be successful for all parties and despite these teens "really" being in their 20s I don't think they have this. 3) The people in it where wrong, where's Reggie if you're going to go that route 4) Very vague on whether Archie and Bughead considered themselves to be together or if it was really Betty and Veronica both dating both guys. If you're going there, go all the way, especially if you aren't going to actually explore it through the season. I mean, I know this is Riverdale of all things and I was never, ever going to get this and it doesn't matter because it wasn't about the Quad but without that context for me it just was "whatever". But even the new Gossip Girl explored teen poly better than that - I mean not well but they actually made a storyline out of it. It's the equivalent of "is it because I'm a lesbian?" as Elisabeth Rohm's last line on L&O. Whatever I've probably put more thought that they did into it. And it doesn't really matter since they broke up after high school, which makes sense.
  16. Thanks, I hadn't actually seen any of that. SA has a habit of sometimes putting his foot in it and I get why he might be frustrated because of S2 of Heels coming out (but a lot of people are in exactly the same boat and haven't complained) it seems extremely unwise to make those comments - not to mention long term interests of actors and writers are with the strikes and will hopefully be fairer for all, including him. I doubt anyone would have come to blows but it may have come back in the press more if anyone saw tension or words being had. Can't say I think much of Carina McKenzie or KA and their public behaviour either sometimes, but I don't blame anyone in WGA or SAG for scathing responses.
  17. I'm not up on Sa or Arrow gossip, why would there be confrontations between SA and others? Or is it a general thing?
  18. It's far from certain but since Brad Wright has been talking about this for years it seems likely that they'd at least consider his proposal and BW mentioned Malozzi in is script writing a while back means he might be at least also involved it seems like they'd at least hear previous producer proposals out of interest and courtesy. Because they did deliver 17 years of a show that was often on a mediocre down fall post SG1-s5 and Atlantis-s2 IMO, into one of the longest running sci-fi franchises in history. Which is actually a credit to everyone involved. Even if I have never been able to get into SGU despite numerable attempts at rewatch. Even their "best" episodes were done better before on their own franchise. Sorry the cast got blasted. I think if one or more of the actors from the shows is willing to come back then they will attempt some sort of revival, if only as a send off. Because going "full Dune" for lack of a better metaphor is very risky for a 30 yo film and a TV franchise that ended in 2011. Most people thought Patrick Stewart and many of his Enterprise and Voyager Co Stars were done a lone time ago but that was not the case. Stargate does have it's own entrenched fanbase that I'm not surprised Amazon is hoping on despite my many misgivings.
  19. Yeah, I was pretty active on the old TWOP for a while and the rumour that they couldn't stand each other started even when they were still doing amicable interview together. But I still don't see it on screen either. They had "it" for a long time, even if things were rocky BTS, which often happens on popular long running shows. I'm in the process of moving and semi working from home and Castle on Disney+ in the UK is ideal background noise for right now.
  20. I've hoped for other shows I loved to be cancelled or "final seasoned" really before and since because I wanted them to finish with a plan/whilst they were still good rather than descend into what so often happens for a show's last couple of seasons but I definitely was with Castle. Fandom chaos was not helped by alleged insiders popping up here and everywhere else with contradicting versions of events either. Funny thing is until then I'd always thought of Castle as a rather vocal but mild fandom, although I wasn't 100% involved after S3. There was only one real relationship and whilst people took sides between Castle vs Beckett and NF vs SK (which happens in most fandoms) and it sometimes got heated, it wasn't as bad as other versions of that I've experienced in which there was utter hatred of the "other" character/actor in the ship and if you liked both you were an outlier. There were no real tin hat theories about secret lives or babies - only what might have happened to make the leads fall out etc. And only a few people seemed to take that to insane extremes, at least here and other places I visited. Most people liked most of the supporting cast and wanted more screentime for them, there was no obsessive fans counting minutes every regular got and bragging when "their" actor got more than actors B and C this week. But S8 and the potential S9 changed all that. Now the final drama is all that I tend to remember about the Castle fandom. Kinda sad.
  21. Patricia Wetting (Holly the mistress) is married to one of the director/producers. After I found that out I knew she was always going to have a large and totally forced role on the show. Hun, if he really loved you he would have left his wife for you or at least not kept you a dirty little secret for 20 years. And as it turns out he had another side piece as well. Though it should have just turned out that the R really was Rebecca and he thought that she was his. Ryan was double stupid. The Rebecca plot and the reason for it was the worst thing this show did. It made everything retroactively more stupid than it already was. Why didn't they ask for a paternity test at the beginning, just to be sure? Why did Holly lie? Why was she so obsessed with the Walkers if she had a kid with someone else and wasn't faithful to Papa Walker? And it wasn't even worth it for the "romance". IMHO.
  22. I remember watching S1 and 2 because of the awesome cast and potential for grown up sibling drama and I enjoyed it at the time. I remember pretty much loosing interest because it got too outright soapy and I already had enough of that going on with GA at the time. ;) And the Rebecca and Ryan stuff just really, really bugged me.
  23. Recasts are more common for secondary and minor characters, especially if the character hasn't been seen for a while. Ghost Whisperer sort of recast Jim by "killing" the character and having his soul in another man's body and using both actors. Crazy Ex Girlfriend got away with recasting Greg because SF was busy and used Skyler Astin "to show how people's perceptions of others change" or something like that and it worked. Of course Rosanne did it in the 90s as well. But it is rare. In this case I think fans would have rioted and rightly so that SK was fired and replaced with a younger, less expensive person playing Kate Beckett for budget reasons. Plus I think the chemistry between NK/SK was one of the reasons the show was popular in the first place and there's no guarantee that Kate 2.0 would have the same chem, even if they tested the shit out of it. It's bad enough when they do that when a character leaves and hello, in comes a suspiciously similar character. Orville did that with Alara and Telaya, albeit they had different personalities. That said I'm not opposed to it for main characters in certain circumstances and I do think it should be more of an option as opposed to killing a character off if an actor wants to leave sometimes.
  24. I certainly think both can (and obviously did) co exist and be very popular and there are differences but I get why there are comparisons. ABC's then President Stephen McPherson even said that one of the reasons they were so excited about Castle was the Bones was such a "warrior" for FOX, though I don't think they were trying to copy Bones exactly but it shows they were thinking about the similarities in some ways. It's worth noting that both shows had crew and writers who had worked on X-Files (and I think so did Lucifer but I can't remember) and the cultural phenomenon that was X-Files in its heyday is one reason that so, so many shows in the late 90s until very recently tried the "two hander lead with a strict, professional female and goofy/wacky/eccentric male". The exact make up, intentions and tone changes but the template is recognisable to audiences and more importantly studio execs when pitching a show, which is what McPherson was talking about. Which is why Lucifer ended up the way it did when the comic books are nothing like it. It doesn't mean any show is "ripping off each other though, they're basically their own genre even though they're made up of many genres including procedural, supernatural, horror, rom com, action, spy, cop show etc. Re season 9. Nothing would have induced me to watch a season of "Castle PI" whether they renamed it or not. With Beckett dead or faking her death and most of the cast gone. IIRC at the time one of the writers said that Beckett would be dead for real if they'd been renewed so Castle could presumably grieve and move on to someone else. And the kids would have been her dying dream if they'd been included. Who knows. It was a pretty wild time in the Castle fandom with so many conspiracy theories floating about. I don't think it ever really works when one of two main leads leaves for whatever reason or the eponymous main character leaves and the ensemble carries on even if the show makes it a couple more seasons (The Office etc) even though there are exceptions like Roseanne 2.0 turning into The Connors. One of the more infamous for me is OUAT when half the cast left after S6 and that flopped hard. To carrying on the X Files comparison above it only really lasted one season after DD left "for good" and ratings were really in the toilet (for them and the time). Trying to work it out when the female lead wanted to stay was really, really stupid.
  25. Farscape is one of my favourite shows of all time and John/Aeryn is one of my favourite pairings of all time but due to the nature of the S3/4 storyline there was a lot of (melo)drama/trauma and even WT/WT with them after they got together and the usual complaints that they were "taking over the show" which didn't make any sense but oh well. Of course trauma was basically a given on that show and they did it so well (along with humour and everything else). For this show's purpose I think Jake/Amy from B99 are a good comparison of how not to draw out a WT/WT as it's also a work place comedy. They both dated others in the 2nd season and "they like each other even though they're dating other people" was a big plot point. But it didn't overwhelm the show. They got them together at the beginning of the 3rd season and they stayed together with fairly minimal interpersonal drama. Some eps they barely interacted or didn't reference their relationship at all. And they were one of the most popular couples on TV. Ben/Leslie were similar. I think romance is a part of life and a part of most work places. It has a place in Abbott because it's realistic that two young teachers who have a lot in common would be interested in each other and it's not completely unrealistic that with both of their personalities that they are bad about actually communicating that. This show is contriving reasons to keep them apart - whilst the break up scene was bad not sure why Maurice was so angry weeks after considering it was a few dates "situationship". It sucked and I get that he was hurt but eh. It's not a bad idea that Janine focus on herself and this time acknowledge that she's not necessarily ok but I didn't like how she got there. And with romance plots more than any other fans are used to the tired tropes. So much so that when a show subverts them and has a potential TW/TW couple actually get together whilst anyone still cares, it's considered a miracle. I think they should get them together no later than the end of S3. That said I also think romance plots sometimes become the scapegoats of a show. Ava's cliche heart of gold annoys me no end because I work with an Ava and she has yet to help anyone, even for her own benefit. ;) That's just as cliche even though JJ is making it work. Though I like Ava best in small doses.
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