What I have been watching
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I just saw the first episode of Once Upon A Time, which was very much a first episode. I’ve already gushed about the first scene with Oded Fehr’s Jafar, so I won’t say more about that now. I read an interview which said he is supposed to be the same Jafar as in Wonderland and what happened there has happened. So, now we have learned that Emma is rapidly getting some kind of Savior’s PTSD and that it is something all Saviors gets- and, indeed, that there are more than one Savior. However, I think the girl Emma encountered who told her she was going to die, wasn’t telling the truth. Especially if you consider she carried something that closely resemböe’d Jafar’s snake cane, that Jafar has a red parrot as a pet in the movie and that Emma was sent there by Hyde. If this wasn’t Jafar in disguise, then I think it was a minion. It was also stressed in another scene that villains lie. So that fate Emma daw is probably not as set in stone as it was said to be.
I liked that Belle still don’t want anything to do with Rumple. Their relationship is terribly dysfunctional and I hope she stick to it this time. I liked Regina and Snow talking and I thought is rather realistic that Regina would put blame on her sister. But it felt it was just put in there because the writer has changed their minds about Zelena being good. Also, I’m already so over Regina having split the Evil Queen from herself and we now have two versions of her. I found it much more interesting when she had to wrestle with her past. All in all not a bad beginning, but not much happened apart from establishing a few things, clearly setting them up for things to come.
I liked the first episode of Lucifer too, with Lucy actually coming to a little self-insight. About time!
I hadn’t thought I would watch American Horror Story this year. I’ve liked the premises of the last two seasons, started watching and then losing interest after about four episodes, so I thought I wouldn’t even try. But I’ve been fascinated by Roanoke since I was a kid and even if I’m sure there won’t be and real history in the show, the premise draw me in. I’ve actually liked the two first episodes a lot. So far there have been very few characters introduced, which have given them more focus, making them more interesting. We’ll see what I think a few episodes in.
Husband and I have begun season 6 of Charmed. I think the shady Chris is actually Wyatt’s baby brother. (Don’t spoil me on that!) I also think Page boring witch-boyfriend will turn evil.
I like Firefly more and more. Most of the character’s appeal to me, and none repulse me. And the costume and set design are wonderful. I’ve always liked SF design the most when it’s clearly drawing on history and not trying to be something “from the future”. Somewhere along the road, it’s those which looks most dated.
I just saw the first episode of Once Upon A Time, which was very much a first episode. I’ve already gushed about the first scene with Oded Fehr’s Jafar, so I won’t say more about that now. I read an interview which said he is supposed to be the same Jafar as in Wonderland and what happened there has happened. So, now we have learned that Emma is rapidly getting some kind of Savior’s PTSD and that it is something all Saviors gets- and, indeed, that there are more than one Savior. However, I think the girl Emma encountered who told her she was going to die, wasn’t telling the truth. Especially if you consider she carried something that closely resemböe’d Jafar’s snake cane, that Jafar has a red parrot as a pet in the movie and that Emma was sent there by Hyde. If this wasn’t Jafar in disguise, then I think it was a minion. It was also stressed in another scene that villains lie. So that fate Emma daw is probably not as set in stone as it was said to be.
I liked that Belle still don’t want anything to do with Rumple. Their relationship is terribly dysfunctional and I hope she stick to it this time. I liked Regina and Snow talking and I thought is rather realistic that Regina would put blame on her sister. But it felt it was just put in there because the writer has changed their minds about Zelena being good. Also, I’m already so over Regina having split the Evil Queen from herself and we now have two versions of her. I found it much more interesting when she had to wrestle with her past. All in all not a bad beginning, but not much happened apart from establishing a few things, clearly setting them up for things to come.
I liked the first episode of Lucifer too, with Lucy actually coming to a little self-insight. About time!
I hadn’t thought I would watch American Horror Story this year. I’ve liked the premises of the last two seasons, started watching and then losing interest after about four episodes, so I thought I wouldn’t even try. But I’ve been fascinated by Roanoke since I was a kid and even if I’m sure there won’t be and real history in the show, the premise draw me in. I’ve actually liked the two first episodes a lot. So far there have been very few characters introduced, which have given them more focus, making them more interesting. We’ll see what I think a few episodes in.
Husband and I have begun season 6 of Charmed. I think the shady Chris is actually Wyatt’s baby brother. (Don’t spoil me on that!) I also think Page boring witch-boyfriend will turn evil.
I like Firefly more and more. Most of the character’s appeal to me, and none repulse me. And the costume and set design are wonderful. I’ve always liked SF design the most when it’s clearly drawing on history and not trying to be something “from the future”. Somewhere along the road, it’s those which looks most dated.
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Date: 2016-09-27 10:14 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2016-09-29 12:49 pm (UTC)Heh! I love this show way more than I ought to. I'm getting quite fannish about it.
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Date: 2016-10-03 12:39 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-09-27 11:28 pm (UTC)Glad to hear you're enjoying Charmed as well.
I haven't gotten around to watching OUAT yet, but I'm sure I will.
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Date: 2016-09-29 10:43 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-09-28 01:02 am (UTC)Firefly is wonderful. And I'm glad they did Serenity movie to wrap things up.
Have you ever watched Farscape?
I used to watch Charmed a long time ago but not the later seasons. Now I'm getting nostalgic
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Date: 2016-09-29 10:32 am (UTC)I only saw up until saeason 4 of Charmed before and was surprise there were 8 seasons! But I Think it's holding up pretty well. :)
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Date: 2016-09-28 02:27 am (UTC)I'm so over Belle and Rumple. I wish he wasn't obsessing over her because I find it so out of character in a way (HE'D CHANGE IF HE WAS THAT OBSESSED...oh wait. He DID. And that wasn't good enough for her so he reverted to some old tricks and let go of shit that doesn't matter anyway to...obsess about Belle? To tell the truth, I'm done with her, though. She will listen to maybecreepyembryo (well, we have no way of knowing) and conflicting!Feelings!Much!Castle moments. DONE.) I don't mind her brushing him off. I just hate that she gets all righteous and high-horsey (when she was 'this close' to adultery during their marriage) and yet does stupid shit and she gets a pass and gets to flog him over things that she used to not care about - then totally turn around and gush all over him, only to puch him away again. And both getting obsessy over the baby is just...distasteful. Bae covered that just fine. There is such a thing as divorce and parental priviledge. But I'm guessing that by the time he resigns himself to that, she will find another way to keep him close, then push him away. Baby!embryo disguised as Morpheus is rather...Rumplish, yes? And how can an unborn kid be making judgement calls - and is Belle really going to listen to a kid that hasn't been born yet? SERIOUSLY GIRL. GROW YOUR OW BRAINS BACK THAT'S WHY I LOVED YOU. UGH. I love Emilie. I love Robert. I wish they were doing better with their characters.
And as for Regina? Yeah. I've always hated that. Villians have to prove themselves (again and again), good guys do AWFUL shit and always get a pass and...I just love the way Rumple washed his hands of the whole thing. Have a feeling (if the writers do it well) that this will bite them in the ass in ways they haven't even thought of yet.
*HUGS*
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Date: 2016-09-29 09:53 am (UTC)I feel the only way to go for Rumple and Belle is to break up. She has came to the conclusion that she can’t be with him if he doesn’t change. He has come to the conclusion he doesn’t want to change. I think both have valid points and now a happily ever after is impossible. Because if they are to stay together, one must change so much one must question it’s possible to be happy with someone you have had to change your whole personality to fit with. As you say, there are such things as divorce and parental privilege, but I doubt the story will go there- it’s a fairytale, after all. I really hate the way they use a baby as a plot move to keep them together, and I fear it will all end up with Rumple sacrificing himself for Belle and the baby. WHich I would hate too. Belle was always my favourite Disney heroine and I hate what the show has done to her. She is at this point only defined with what she is to Rumple, not any merits of her own. Rumple gets a better deal there.
The show can’t really decide what to do with their villains. Rumple was never very evil- he wants to have power and he likes manipulating people, but even if people got killed or were made unhappy by his actions, he isn’t really a killer. I found it quite realistic that he wouldn’t really want to change (and I hate the whole “change for love”- trope. You change for your own sake, not anyone else, period.) as he largely enjoyed being the Dark One. And he wasn’t a beacon of moral light before either- he was very human with good and bad sides.
Regina is quite different, she was a very sweet young girl whose mother abused her, but when she became evil, she was evil with no qualms killing people. She even killed her father whom she loved so much. So I get why she doesn’t want to go back to be the Evil Queen again- it doesn’t have the pull on her the way the Dark One has on Rumple. But I think it’s a lazy way out to separate the Evil Queen from Regina to make Regina blameless of all her bad actions. (I don’t Jekyll and Hyde as that is actually their real storyline.) If you want to redeem your villains, you need to do a very good motivation analysis, which I think the writers in OUAT often fail at. One of the reasons I enjoyed Wonderland is because even if you get a psychologically sound explanation to what drove Jafar evil, it is also made clear he made his own choices to go the wrong way too. And he doesn’t turn good just because he was originally blameless. I hope they won’t spoil that now when they have brought him back to OUAT.
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Date: 2016-09-29 08:49 pm (UTC)OMG, I agree so much!! They created such likeable villians - and I think that threw them off. They wanted us to like the GOOD guys. And in trying to motivate the audience in that direction, they have made the likable good guys UNLIKEABLE, the unlikeable even more miserable and the villians waffley and unmotivated. I just...don't get it. UGH.
*HUGS*
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Date: 2016-09-30 08:00 am (UTC)They have utterly destroyed her. Even when they tried to move away from the Belle-Rumple relationship, all they did was make her look bad. Her waffling doesn't help. I get that Emilie was pregnant, but there are ways to get around that.
Oh yes! Like, for example, having her go inte an enchanted sleep much earlier and for much longer. Also, I love Will Scarlet, he was the best about the Wonderland. Most of the heroes in this show are so bland, but he was anything but. And then they brought him back to OUAT without explaining why his Happily Ever After is suddenly gone. And to just be some kind of a rebound for Belle, which was just plain odd because they have nothing in common whatsoever.
They wanted us to like the GOOD guys. And in trying to motivate the audience in that direction, they have made the likable good guys UNLIKEABLE, the unlikeable even more miserable and the villains waffley and unmotivated. I just...don't get it. UGH.<7I>
Yeah. As I said, the heroes are almost all so terribly bland. Even Hook is getting more and more boring. Now I’m always inclined to like the villains, IMO Cruella was among the best we had last season when she gleefully tries to take over the Underworld. (Hades was pretty boring, though.)
Also, the show excel in pairing of people which just doesn’t seem to suit each other. Like Belle and WIll, but also Regina and Robin. I actually thought, when Hook turned up, that he and Regina would be a good fit, both of them being rather snarly and sarcastic. Or Regina and Emma, raising Henry together. And though I loved the f/f True Love last season, it was still pretty weird to build up a nice chemistry between Mulan and Red, only to have Red fall in love with Dorothy who we had had no time to get to know.
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Date: 2016-09-30 11:39 pm (UTC)*HUGS*
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Date: 2016-09-28 10:47 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-09-29 09:25 am (UTC)I have only seen the first season of Being Human. I have been thinking of re-watching it.