What Are You Watching (Television Edition)?
 

Seriously, we haven't we thought of this? Now this can be anything. Any show that comes on the Television, on a Network.

And right now I'm enjoying Top Gear (UK), watching Jeremy in a Merc SLR race James and Richard on Boats to Oslo.

A friend linked me to a show called "Todd And The Book of Pure Evil" and I'm gonna give it a watch soon.

DUUUUUUUUUUDE. That is like my favourite show of all time, minus Teen Wolf. You're in for a TREAT. I'm so jealous, I wish I could be starting the show from fresh again.

I'm slowly going through Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, in my obsession with all things Trek recently. It is a great show.

I adored DS9. It had an amazing cast, great storylines, and then it turned into the preachiest thing on television I've ever seen. And.. yea.

Watching River Monsters.. and I don't think I'm swimming ever again. I know Aligator Gar's don't live in PA, buuuuut I'd rather just not take the chance. Thanks though.

Well, I'm pretty excited now. :lol The season 1 download finally finished, too.

I hope you enjoy it man!

Does anyone else miss Viper? If you don't know what that is, what the hell is wrong with you first off, and secondly...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfBmqLSRzWU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvEpEGWw-5k

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTt2G4BJgG4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsHHjxdlXh8

Behold The Defender!

Ive been catching up on Under the Dome. really enjoyable thus far

I watched the premiere of Sleepy Hollow this morning. Despite being overly dramatic at times and looking like another Orci/Kurtzman mythology-heavy show, it wasn't really that bad. I'll likely stick with it for a bit and see how it goes. I'll be surprised if it lasts more than a season though. It seems a little grim and odd for it to live long on Fox. It might have done better paired up with Supernatural on the CW.

I don't own a TV, or really have any free time, so I can honestly say I'd never heard of this. Looking into it, however, you can colour me interested.

I also need to watch the third season of Teen Wolf, which for its first two seasons was definitely my favourite show.

I watch all my TV online at work. I haven't had cable since '04 or internet at home since '09 so I'm usually a bit behind on shows as they air myself.

Edit: I've heard lots of good about Teen Wolf but I grew up with the original film so I haven't had the heart to check it out yet.

My main issue is I'm not American, so if we get the American shows at all, it's so long after their relevancy in the US it's unlikely to ever come down the grapevine, unless you caught the hype in the US originally and held onto it.

Teen Wolf really isn't anything to do with the films, it's more your sort of typical Urban Fantasy crossed with Spider-Man. And if you're into all that high school melodrama mixed with the supernatural/super power stuff, I reckon you'll dig it, if you can look past the shows modest budget.

Watching alot, actually.

Rehab Addict where she goes around buying old houses and rehabing them to their former glory, Rennovation Rescue where he goes about fixing people's bad renovations where the contractor screwed them over, Diner's Drive-Ins, and Dives, Cuthroat Kitchen, NCIS (Mom has an NCIS obsession), Wipeout, Olbermann, Eat St, Castle, Top Gear UK... I think that's about all.

That show is gloriously addictive.

There used to be a site that posted links to watch every new show within a day or so of it airing. I used it to watch pretty much everything (once I figured out how to clean it up when using AdBlock Plus) until it was blocked in the office earlier this year. If I can remember what it is, I'll let you know.


I'm a little concerned the ABC is putting Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. directly up against NCIS. That seems like a death sentence. I mean, sure, NCIS has gotten into a bit of a rut over the years but it's still a ratings powerhouse and pretty much owns Tuesday nights over here. I just don't see AoS surviving up against it. I'm wondering how Supernatural will fare against NCIS: LA. It isn't the same crowd, I'd think, but networks only seem to care about numbers. Hopefully DVR numbers will help S.H.I.E.L.D. and Supernatural stay afloat. Also, it seems Hawaii 5-0 has been moved to the Friday timeslot of death.

After hearing how Guy Fieri treats people behind the scenes on the show I couldn't really watch it anymore. He tends to rub me the wrong way now.

Verily! Mom and I watch it religiously.

Agents of SHIELD should do alright. It's Joss Whedon and Agent Coulston, there's big fanbases for both of them. Supernatural.. Honestly? I stopped watching after they beat down Satan in Swan Song. The other seasons just felt like a moneygrab somehow.

I've been compelled to visit local places that were showcased on diners , drive in's and dives . Some worked out. Others not so much... My favorite was a pit beef stand in front of a strip club. They neglected to tell you that part in the episode.

I honestly wouldn't know. I just went through a period of not having the internet when I moved into my flat and ended up watching the food network for several hours a day. That was my favourite out of the bunch.

:lol

That'd make me want to try it more :lol

I definitely hope it makes it. But Whedon fans tend to talk big and not deliver. Serenity was supposed to be huge, reading the internet, but the support failed to materialize. Hopefully the extra Avengers lure will draw people in. That, of course, could backfire though when Coulson is the only character from the MCU to show up. I'm really just worried ABC will flub the whole thing.

As far as Supernatural, I thought series 6 was completely awful. It got a bit better in 7 and the 8th one was really well done, more like the first five series when Kripke was still hands on. It ended interestingly enough to bring me back for 9. We'll see how this one pans out.

I've watched some of six, and whatever season had the Leviathans, but nothing since. I just completely lost interest. Especially once Bobby died. He was one of the reasons I watched the damned show.

Supernatural hasn't been good since the third season. Season four was passable. All the Angels, Gods and Demons stuff sounds excellent on paper but with Supernatural's non existent budget, it was just pathetic. Then because they'd blown up the scale so huge, they couldn't go anywhere else but up, to the point now where the show is so pathetic, I think I pity it a little.

Just sitting here, eating a burrito, watching Fresh Prince.

The Leviathans were 7. But: Bobby is back this season. No one has explained exactly how yet though. It's especially odd after his appearance last season.

It can be pretty awful sometimes but I've stuck with it this far because when it does get things right the episodes are amazing. Unfortunately those have been few and far between for a while. Still, it makes for a nice distraction.

:eyebrow Just Boom there he is?

Didn't Bobby go to Heaven in Season 8? I cared so little for the season I barely remember it. Or do you mean he's back for season nine?

My greatest irritation with the series is how it completely disregards its own rules and mythology. With the way some episodes play out, I'm pretty sure the casual audience pays more attention to what is going on than the actual writers do.

I'm sure there will be an in series reason with an explanation that is drawn out for a while. I'm not sure if he's back in 9x01 or comes in later. They've just said that the character is returning.

He did in S8 but he's back as a regular character according the series staff in S9. The reasoning hasn't been given yet. I'm guessing it was more behind-the-scenes driven than story driven though.

So I just finished the Sleepy Hollow Pilot.

Pilots in their very nature exist to convince networks to pick up the series. And so although not always the case, it's difficult to judge things like the acting or the action or whatever on the pilot alone, as they may not bother to fire on all cylinders or throw as much money at their episodes, when they've confirmed they have x episodes to play with.

As such, I took the pilot's impressive action sequences and visuals with a grain of salt, as to not end up as disappointed with the show as I was with shows like Arrow. It's hard as well, because everything about this pilot makes me excited, establishing a world and a series of narrative hooks which doesn't promise, but at least hints, that what is to come is going to be exciting and epic. Wrapped in stylish visuals, stunningly directed action and balanced with a wicked sense of humour. I just have to keep reminding myself that Arrow promised the same, and look how that turned out, just gotta keep myself grounded, can't let the pilot suck me in....

Tom Mison is no Johnny Depp, for sure, but his version of Ichabod Crane is still fun enough, as he is depicted as a sort of urban fantasy Captain America, minus the shield (they even make this reference themselves at the end) and Mison adds a lot of charisma to some excellently crafted dialogue.

Sadly, the woman alongside him, Abbie Mills as played by Nicole Beharie is far less interesting. She may be a black, female police officer, which is certainly fascinating to Crane but her performance and her characterisation leaves a lot to be desired. Especially when sharing a scene with Crane, who steals every scene he is in, through copious amounts of scenery chewing and apparently loving every second he's in character. I guess she is there to balance, and ground Crane, but she just sucks the fun out of every scene, as she has to constantly amass a wall of sass at everything, like being alive is a nuisance for her to click her fingers at.

Perhaps the only disappointment is that Clancy Brown dies about five minutes after he is introduced, barely doing anything at all. Why would they hire such a great actor for such a tiny part, in the pilot? At least his death brings John Cho into the show, so you sorta balance it out.

Are we allowed to post links on this site? Because if so, here are my thoughts on the first episode of season three of Teen Wolf. If not, just remove this line from my post.

Anyway, episode two, Chaos Rising. Even after taking a break from this show for a while, I'm immediately reminded why I love this show so much. The characters, the dialogue, the chemistry. The show switches between water cooler moments and laugh out loud quotable moments almost effortlessly.

What I also love about the show, is the mythology, namely that they picked one and stuck with it. The idea of only being about werewolves probably seems boring, when all the other shows like Buffy, Supernatural, Grimm etc all focused on well...everything. But because they have only picked just one here, it allows them to go into way more depth and do loads of crazy things. From our werewolves we've birthed Alpha packs, Lizardmen and twins who can combine into the Hulk with a whole host of crazy ass powers thrown in between.

There are some confusing things though, like the whole scattered moonlight thing. Werewolves can shift at will in this show, and as far as I can gather as it's never really been made clear, all the moon does is make them more animal like so they lose control and become more dangerous for it. So how starving them of moonlight makes any difference to them is lost on me.

It's just a shame that behind the scenes drama has caused problems for the show. I mean good on the show for using these behind the scenes problems for their plot and stuff, but Erica and Boyd were so pointless overall it doesn't seem worth centring so much of the last season on them.

My other disappointment is that even though toku has tiny budgets, they make such great fight scenes. So the action here, although not bad, is much less flashy, much rougher and much more localised. And so it's always somewhat disappointing, to see two monsters clash so clunkily and for their bouts to be over so briefly. I wish they'd utilise some toku wirework, to really show off the raw power of these beasts like the plot claims they have.

Remember the smoking hot babe from RPM? Tenaya? Yeah, she's in this. And a werewolf.

Episode Three of Teen Wolf, Chaos Rising.

Shame that after all the flappin' last episode, Erica being dead was quickly brushed over, but then I don't blame them for doing it considering that they could only depict her corpse with a stand in, in a terrible wig.

Still, everything else was great, I forgot what a great character Isaac turned into at the end of the second season. He really did have the funniest moments of the episode, a lot of those moments were really subtle, which made them even funnier.

Alison, my favourite character of the show and a woman I have a MASSIVE crush on, finally picked up her bow again. And man was she badass. Still, the general cheapness of the series, does still let it down at times. Like this episode, which kept telling us (see: screaming at us) the intensity of the situation, we have two super powerful feral werewolves on the loose guys! And yet this was depicted almost entirely by the two characters running at the camera and growling, pretty much doing nothing else, for the whole episode. When the werewolves finally clashed, most of it happened either out of frame or off screen entirely and we only got the whole picture, when the fighting was done.

Oh and there is someone sacrificing virgins. Yeah.

Adventure time.

Teen Wolf Season Three Episode Four.

Seeing Tenaya all sweaty in her sports bra was very pleasing to me indeed.

Although this was a fairly slow, unremarkable episode, acting more as a bridge than anything else, there were some interesting new developments. For the longest time I've wondered how an Alpha Pack works, although I still don't really know how, we do have some clue. They have to murder their own pack, to be 'liberated', to assimilate the power of their packs individual parts. I love the little touches as well, like Isaac's claustrophobia after the mental damage his father did to him and it's nice that the behind the scenes stuff is still playing into the show itself as well, like the hints of a romance between Alison and Isaac.

There were some missteps though, the whole speech Deucalion was immensely corny and I'll be interested to see what they do with their serial killer druid, because right now it sounds amazingly stupid.

The cyborg girl from RPM that creepily whistles "The Farmer and the Dell" while hunting the Rangers?

Well, that's definitely something...

Yeah her entrance into the series was erm...interesting.

"Oh yeah by the way Derek, about your dead sister?"
"Yeah?"
"She's alive."
"Okay."

That is pretty much the extent of her character arc so far. There is hints that more is going on than it seems, but time will tell.

Teen Wolf S03E05.

I love the way Allison's and Scott's relationship is depicted. About as real as can be, for a teenage romance involving a werewolf and a chick who hunts them. Their chemistry is just so strong as well.

Everything else though? What the fuck is with the pacing of this episode? Why'd they choose to smash it up and play it all out of order? It was just confusing, hard to follow and pointless.

The fighting was a bit better this episode at least, the battle royale still didn't feel as big as it perhaps should have, but I do like that each Alpha has been given a unique style of fighting and really stand apart from one another.

Isn't Kit from Dragon Knight a regular in Teen Wolf too? My friend went to a Teen Wolf con last month and met him.

He was in the last season, and his character was terribly handled. When everything came together, his character was actually pretty much entirely pointless and only seemed to exist as the main villain for most of the season just to create a water cooler moment when the real villain stepped up. I guess a good idea on paper, but in reality it was stupid and I felt like I was cheated and had my time wasted.

Teen Wolf S03E06.

I dunno really how to feel about this episode. It suggests two paths for the series. One is the suggestion that a new paranormal force is on the loose, the other suggests we're basically doing season two again.

On the one hand, as much as widening the lore sounds exciting, a big part of what sets Teen Wolf apart and makes it work so well is picking one monster and building off of them, so if they are gonna add new things into the mix, I hope that doesn't leave Teen Wolf swimming in a sea of mediocrity like so many other urban fantasy shows.

The other possibility, although providing a nice sense of continuity, would suggest Lydia is about to have exactly the same character arc as season two, which just feels like bad writing by writers I know haven't ran out of steam. So what the hell is this shit?

Still, the greatest charm of the show is the characters, portrayed by fantastic actors and held up by brilliant dialogue. Whenever I feel like I'm disappointed with the show, because of the weak action or whatever else, two characters have a conversation that is more epic than any werewolf clash and the show redeems itself.

So, it's like a live action version of Death Note?