Weekend TV

Fringe
Fringe was back to the dystopian future. 

*  Enjoyed that they surprised us with Peter and Olivia having been estranged before they each (separately) were frozen in amber.
*  Too bad Walter had his marbles back for so short of time before having the scrambled all over again.




Doctor Who 
Don't have a lot to say about it.  I enjoyed it and yet. . . wanted more. And, I have to confess, the timey-wimeyness of the Rory/Amy thing gave me a headache.  And I have a question...

are they simply stuck in that area of New York... or are they stuck in that building? And who is going to tell Rory's Dad... or those parents of Amy's that appeared from the ether at the wedding (and were never seen or heard of again.)


Once Upon A Time
Of the Sunday shows, I think I enjoyed it most. . . which isn't to say that it was brilliant or anything.  But it was enjoyable and nicely set up several plots. 

*  I enjoyed Mulan's entrance,.  And I kind of hope Mulan and Sleeping Beauty have a female bromance (womance?) rather than it becoming a triangle over their version of Prince Charming (Phillip... who seemed nice enough, but whatevs.)  In the original tale wasn't Aurora sacrificing herself for her people?  (because wasn't it her mother who was the one shown spinning. So that version of Sleeping Beauty was her mom). If so, is Mulan making false assumptions about Aurora? (I think I'm predisposed to like Aurora because she's the actress who played Princess Mary Tudor on The Tudors.)

Also, it seems that Mulan is envisioned to be sort of like Game of Thrones Brienne... except this being Disneyfied, of course Mulan is slim, small, and quite beautiful, whereas Brienne is to look like the warrior that she is.  (It was certainly fortuitous that this show was picked up by Disney-owned ABC and that Disney has allowed Once to rearrange not just fairy tales, but Disney's particular version of the fairytales, often keeping Disney's name choices intact.  (Although Once's Cinderella's name being "Ashley" totally amuses me. ).


Belle makes little sense to me at this point because there's seeing the good in the Beast... and there's being a pushover, and she's leaning towards pushover.  She actually does need to reject him, and stick to it, until he ears her forgiveness.

I did like the way that Snow White and Emma were sent into the remnants of Fairyland leaving Prince Charming with his...er... grandson to raise.


Re: the mystery New Yorker in the opening scene.  It's unexplained who he might be. Easiest speculation would be that he's Rumplestilskin's missing son, but, given the stuff in his apartment (the sign saying "Hatter" in particular), I'm thinking he's a Wonderlander not a Fairytale citizen.   

I'm sort of wondering if perhaps he's the White Rabbit, someone who could have made it to the 'real world' in a way other than the curse.  The White Rabbit was a friend of the Mad Hatter (the Hatter could have sent the message then), and the White Rabbit always could pass between Wonderland and the real world.  Perhaps he was trapped on the 'real' side when the curse happened.  

It's a theory, anyway. 

(Another theory, could Mr. Whale be Peter Pan...? Last season I had thought he was Pinocchio (because of the name Whale) but... nope.  And now we know Fairytale characters don't recognize him, maybe he's a Never Neverlander.) 


Revenge

Well, of course Victoria is alive.  Anyone ever doubt that?  Though they could have given an explanation for how she pulled off that hat trick.

It was something of a weird time jump from last season to this.  They said "year" at some point, but I"m thinking it's more like six months as it was winter in the finale and summer is just kicking off.  

It was a little scattered at times.  Hope they tighten it up.



666 Park Avenue
Okay, here's the thing.  A few minutes into the show I suddenly had very strong flashbacks of 14 (the book I read a few weeks ago).  It had the same sort of set-up of someone serendipidously (but not really) falling into a 'great' apartment in a huge, strange historic building. The thing is I suspect that 666 is going the far more traditional "Deal with the Devil" route that feels sort of Stephen King-esque when, to be frank, I think the novel 14 had a far more fun and less cliched approach. 

In 14 I kept waiting for the creepy 'haunted mansion' stuff to happen, but it wasn't about that.  And I kept waiting for the suspicious neighbors and/or landlord and... that also didn't happen.  In fact,

for all the horrible things that happened (such as the apartment where if anyone lived their they commited suicide... and so they stopped renting the place), in the end the building was not evil. . . it was good.  In 14 the inhabitants of the building were endearing to heroic.  They became a team that investigated the building.  And it turned out that in the end the building was built as a 'key' to protect the world from the parallel dimension of Cthulhu (though they didn't call it that), which

was unexpected enough as a result that I didn't guess the entire plot at every turn.

666 looks like it's less mysterious because thus far it's looking like it's sticking with the cliches.



Boardwalk Empire
I don't know what it is, but I never really warm to this show. I find I don't actually care for any of the characters.

Weekend TV

Fringe
Fringe was back to the dystopian future. 

*  Enjoyed that they surprised us with Peter and Olivia having been estranged before they each (separately) were frozen in amber.
*  Too bad Walter had his marbles back for so short of time before having the scrambled all over again.




Doctor Who 
Don't have a lot to say about it.  I enjoyed it and yet. . . wanted more. And, I have to confess, the timey-wimeyness of the Rory/Amy thing gave me a headache.  And I have a question...

are they simply stuck in that area of New York... or are they stuck in that building? And who is going to tell Rory's Dad... or those parents of Amy's that appeared from the ether at the wedding (and were never seen or heard of again.)


Once Upon A Time
Of the Sunday shows, I think I enjoyed it most. . . which isn't to say that it was brilliant or anything.  But it was enjoyable and nicely set up several plots. 

*  I enjoyed Mulan's entrance,.  And I kind of hope Mulan and Sleeping Beauty have a female bromance (womance?) rather than it becoming a triangle over their version of Prince Charming (Phillip... who seemed nice enough, but whatevs.)  In the original tale wasn't Aurora sacrificing herself for her people?  (because wasn't it her mother who was the one shown spinning. So that version of Sleeping Beauty was her mom). If so, is Mulan making false assumptions about Aurora? (I think I'm predisposed to like Aurora because she's the actress who played Princess Mary Tudor on The Tudors.)

Also, it seems that Mulan is envisioned to be sort of like Game of Thrones Brienne... except this being Disneyfied, of course Mulan is slim, small, and quite beautiful, whereas Brienne is to look like the warrior that she is.  (It was certainly fortuitous that this show was picked up by Disney-owned ABC and that Disney has allowed Once to rearrange not just fairy tales, but Disney's particular version of the fairytales, often keeping Disney's name choices intact.  (Although Once's Cinderella's name being "Ashley" totally amuses me. ).


Belle makes little sense to me at this point because there's seeing the good in the Beast... and there's being a pushover, and she's leaning towards pushover.  She actually does need to reject him, and stick to it, until he ears her forgiveness.

I did like the way that Snow White and Emma were sent into the remnants of Fairyland leaving Prince Charming with his...er... grandson to raise.


Re: the mystery New Yorker in the opening scene.  It's unexplained who he might be. Easiest speculation would be that he's Rumplestilskin's missing son, but, given the stuff in his apartment (the sign saying "Hatter" in particular), I'm thinking he's a Wonderlander not a Fairytale citizen.   

I'm sort of wondering if perhaps he's the White Rabbit, someone who could have made it to the 'real world' in a way other than the curse.  The White Rabbit was a friend of the Mad Hatter (the Hatter could have sent the message then), and the White Rabbit always could pass between Wonderland and the real world.  Perhaps he was trapped on the 'real' side when the curse happened.  

It's a theory, anyway. 

(Another theory, could Mr. Whale be Peter Pan...? Last season I had thought he was Pinocchio (because of the name Whale) but... nope.  And now we know Fairytale characters don't recognize him, maybe he's a Never Neverlander.) 


Revenge

Well, of course Victoria is alive.  Anyone ever doubt that?  Though they could have given an explanation for how she pulled off that hat trick.

It was something of a weird time jump from last season to this.  They said "year" at some point, but I"m thinking it's more like six months as it was winter in the finale and summer is just kicking off.  

It was a little scattered at times.  Hope they tighten it up.



666 Park Avenue
Okay, here's the thing.  A few minutes into the show I suddenly had very strong flashbacks of 14 (the book I read a few weeks ago).  It had the same sort of set-up of someone serendipidously (but not really) falling into a 'great' apartment in a huge, strange historic building. The thing is I suspect that 666 is going the far more traditional "Deal with the Devil" route that feels sort of Stephen King-esque when, to be frank, I think the novel 14 had a far more fun and less cliched approach. 

In 14 I kept waiting for the creepy 'haunted mansion' stuff to happen, but it wasn't about that.  And I kept waiting for the suspicious neighbors and/or landlord and... that also didn't happen.  In fact,

for all the horrible things that happened (such as the apartment where if anyone lived their they commited suicide... and so they stopped renting the place), in the end the building was not evil. . . it was good.  In 14 the inhabitants of the building were endearing to heroic.  They became a team that investigated the building.  And it turned out that in the end the building was built as a 'key' to protect the world from the parallel dimension of Cthulhu (though they didn't call it that), which

was unexpected enough as a result that I didn't guess the entire plot at every turn.

666 looks like it's less mysterious because thus far it's looking like it's sticking with the cliches.



Boardwalk Empire
I don't know what it is, but I never really warm to this show. I find I don't actually care for any of the characters.