Random TV Junk

[shipperx]

* I'm just not feeling the new Doctor. I don't have any actual complaints, just... eh.

* On Outlander, I'm going to have to say that I think Claire was stupid. Seriously, you're hiding from the Brits so... the first thing she does is run off from the guy protecting her screaming "Fraaaaaaaaank!" at the top of her lungs while climbing an exposed hill... Is there any shock that she was then captured by British soldiers? What exactly did she think was going to happen?

Other than that? Jaime Fraser is still a very pretty man (and what else is really important on this show?)

* On Once Upon A Time - liked the Frozen stuff okay. The CGI is as campy as always (but this is not a show to be watched in seriousness. Reading forums, that's half people's problem. People, it's a campy show twisting Disney fluff, do not with the extreme seriousness. It'll never compute). That said, Belle is a poorly dressed idiot (what in the hell did she have on? And I'm not talking the ballgown. I'm talking about the mini and stripper heels she could barely walk in) and as per usual, Rumps is lying to her all over the place. Um, guys, I know you dress them like Beauty and the Beast, but um... not feelign that either. (I did enjoy that Frozen's Kristoff was so confident in his Princess Anna that he was not only a-okay with her going off on a quest on her own, he was cool with her delaying the wedding on short notice to do so. Elsa and Anna's parents did continue to be noticeably IQ challenged.)

* On Sleepy Hollow - Katrina... *sigh* I suppose she's fated to be a hostage. Can't they just jettison her character? She truly brings nothing useful to the show and I really don't see chemistry between her and Ichabod. Irving was back though, woohoo! (Although, dude, you're fighting demons. I would think it should arouse deep suspicion if you're handed a pen that makes you bleed and thus you find yourself signing a contract IN YOUR OWN BLOOD! You don't need to be genre savvy to wig the hell out over that!)

* I tried downloading Downton Abbey, but honestly, that's a lot of trouble so as it stands while I'll be spoiling myself rotten, I most probably won't see any of it until it airs on PBS this winter.

* Watched the premiere of How to Get Away with Murder. Seems right up the Shonda Rimes/Scandal alley. But, hey, I'm not a tv snob. Trashy night soapy fun? I can handle it. (Though I also saw the Scandal season opening too and, not as bad as Nashville's {which was terrible. Ugh!} but I find that I'm still only there to be Team Melly. Everyone else deserves to DIAF. Melly deserves to laugh uproariously and bitchily as they do so.)


And... that's about it. Haven't done much that's been productive lately.

Comments

[kikimay]

You could eventually watch Downton in streaming. I do that, otherwise I won't see anything.

[usedtobeljs]

I'm hoping Katrina turns to evil, personally. But I liked Genevieve Valentine's recap of the ep at io9, as I always do.

I am feeling the new Doctor enough for everyone, I suspect. ;)

[cindergal.livejournal.com]

I'm with you on the new Doctor, at least so far (I'm a couple of episodes behind). I like the first one, but since then...eh.

[nutmeg3.livejournal.com]

I haven't seen last Saturday's ep yet, but I'm not feeling the new Doctor, either. I don't quite know why, but there's a distance I can't cross.

[shadowkat67.livejournal.com]

The CGI is as campy as always (but this is not a show to be watched in seriousness. Reading forums, that's half people's problem. People, it's a campy show twisting Disney fluff, do not with the extreme seriousness. It'll never compute).

Yep. It's like Sleepy Hollow, you really can't take it too seriously. Although, Sleepy Hollow is admittedly better written and executed, not to mention cast.

Do wish they'd refrained from doing Frozen - it's too obvious a marketing ploy. But, it did play better than I expected. (My poor mother who hadn't seen Frozen was hopelessly lost, I had to explain a lot of the Frozen back story to her - so no, I don't think it works for the 5% of the population that has not seen that film.)

That said, Belle is a poorly dressed idiot (what in the hell did she have on? And I'm not talking the ballgown. I'm talking about the mini and stripper heels she could barely walk in) and as per usual, Rumps is lying to her all over the place. Um, guys, I know you dress them like Beauty and the Beast, but um... not feelign that either.

Ghod, yes. Thank you. I had more problems with her wedding outfit and whatever she was wearing before the ball gown. The ball gown...well, that was an improvement, which granted...is saying something.

And nope, not feeling the whole Beauty and the Beast from the animated film either. It felt like a cheap marketing ploy and well possibly worked, because it made me wish I could re-watch the animated cartoon instead.

Hee, saw Murder too, thought more or less the same thing. It's a trashy soap, and I'm not a tv snob or for that matter, a book, music, theater snob. Geek yes. Snob no. What's that Garth Brooks song? I've got friends in low places? I got cultural loves in low places. Also, the trashy soaps are a whole lot more fun and require less concentration - except for Murder, which does have a convoluted plot.

Haven't seen Scandal yet.

She truly brings nothing useful to the show and I really don't see chemistry between her and Ichabod.

Haven't seen this week's Sleepy yet. But I agree on Katrina. However, I do think she has chemistry with headless, which is odd and admittedly disturbing. Or rather Abraham. Also, Katrina and Icabode should not be together - look what their pairing created? War.

[queenofattolia.livejournal.com]

Seconded. Just make sure to close all ad pop-ups and run a virus cleaner after watching.

It really is good so far this season, although I REALLY want to pop Lady Mary in the nose, something I've never wanted to do, even when she was at her worst.

[queenofattolia.livejournal.com]

I always think everyone has followed Capaldi's career and adored him beyond all reason as I have, but of course that can't be true. As someone who didn't like Matt Smith's 11 much (and absolutely LOATHED Karen Gillan's Amy Pond), Capaldi's presence and Jenna Coleman's increasing delightfulness is like reclaiming something I used to love [Eccleston, Tennant, Piper, Tate] but which was unfairly taken away. And to me 12 is becoming more wonderful by the episode.

[queenofattolia.livejournal.com]

Oh, agree with you totally about Katrina on Cracky Hollow - the episodes absolutely grind to a halt when she shows up. It's partly the actress. She sucks. Totally generic, totally without personality, and totally par for the course for US TV (she has similar counterparts everywhere on network shows). But the character is also bad, one-dimensional and shoe-horned in, and let's face it: no one gives a rat's ass about her, and yet everyone is running around trying to save her OH NOES. Bleh.

[wildrider.livejournal.com]

Thank goodness, I thought I was the only one. I was desperate not to be so crazy about "my" Doctor & over-the-top fangirl that I couldn't or wouldn't accept a new Doctor, but apart from a few select scenes, I'm just not warming up to him. (And I have been, in the past, serious when I quote my icon!)

I think really the main problem OUAT has is the uneven casting. They have Spectacular Choices like Carlyle & Parrilla, then counter it with complete "HUH?" ones, like de Ravin (and frankly, I'm not pleased with the gal they got to play Elsa). But it's always such fun I find myself loving it. (I might have been happier if Grumpy hadn't immediately started shouting "we're under attack!!" Didn't it occur to him that whoever hit them with freeze magic had been about to be hit by their out-of-control van?)

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

I might, but I'm lazy. It's easy to just wait.

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

I usually want to pop Lady Mary, so this might have me wanting to punch her.

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

Yes. Katrina should go evil.

And I cannot place what it is that leads to a disconnect with this doctor. I have no real complaints... I just don't feel it.

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

I've actually gone along pretty easily from 9 - 10 - 11.

I think it's a bit like a Venn diagram. The essential 'doctor'-ness is the overlap, and, while Capaldi's overlap is still there... I don't think he's overlapping at the same point that was "my" overlap as a viewer.

It basically has to do with the whimsical parts of the character. It's just feeling forced right now and while I can see how that's valid, it places him outside my Doctor Venn.

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

I can't precisely place what isn't working for me, it's just that I'm feeling rather uninvolved.

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

This!

I don't know what it is, just that there's... something.

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

Sleepy is more gleefully and ironically self-aware than Once. Sleepy embraced the crack. Once... it doesn't quite have the same sense of irony. It's why Sleepy is somewhat more fun.

How to Get Away with Murder seems very like Scandal. It'll be fun until it careens off the rails (which Scandal did last year).

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

Oh, agree with you totally about Katrina on Cracky Hollow - the episodes absolutely grind to a halt when she shows up

Doesn't it, though?

But I did laugh at the horseman pointing out to her (accurately) that Ichabod was all about Abbie and not allowing her to stay more than five minutes in purgatory, Katrina languished there for an entire season. Abbie > Katrina... so say we all!

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

I take OUAT pretty lightly overall (but boy were Elsa and Anna's parents terrible actors!)

And I cannot place what it is about the new Doctor that isn't quite working for me, I just feel... space.

[shadowkat67.livejournal.com]

Agreed on both points.

Scandal definitely careened off the rails last season. It's almost as if the writers felt the need to top what they did the previous season, but in the process made most of the characters difficult to emotionally invest in or care all that much about. That's the problem with trashy soap operas - they like to go for insane melodramatic plot twists - but often lose their characters in the process.

[queenofattolia.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I can foresee that she'll be the new Lori from Walking Dead: useless, annoying, reviled by everyone, totally superfluous to the story, and the cause of great celebration when she finally DIES ALREADY.

Sheesh.

[queenofattolia.livejournal.com]

I don't see any forced whimsy (but then again I was predisposed/primed to love anything Capaldi might do as 12), but if it is indeed there to be perceived, I blame Smith (whose 11 defined manic whimsy)) and Moffat (whom I don't like generally).

Actually, I think it was a bad idea to follow 11 the Teenybopper Doctor with such a mature one. The median age of Smith's fanbase is probably around 15, and of course they don't want some "space dad" in place of their young, mercurial heartthrob. Moffat should have chosen someone closer to Tennant's age for 12 (not as much of a jolt) and THEN introduced someone like Capaldi down the road.

I love 12's sarcasm and general Malcolm Tuckerishness, but I can see how people used to Smith zooming around and mugging as 11 might not warm to Capaldi and Moffat's re-imagining of the character. Different strokes, etc.

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

Talking about careening off the rails. Revenge is a horrible trainwreck these days.

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

I just see no point to her! I can see where they had the idea for her in the pilot, but... we're all over it now. She needs to go evil and/or die (maybe both).