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Fall TV is somehow starting up really soon, so I guess it's time to post my fall TV schedule!
* = New show, meaning I am planning on checking it out for at least a few eps, but based on other people's reactions, how much time I have, and what kind of mood I'm in, I may not even get around to watching the show's pilot, so these are definitely up in the air.
MONDAY
8:00 - 9:00 - The Voice
10:00 - 11:00 - Castle
10:00 - 11:00 - Revolution*
I will probably watch The Voice since I enjoy the blind auditions and can multitask during them because I don't need to really fully pay attention to keep up with what's happening and can picspam or reply to comments or type up entries during episodes, but if there isn't anyone I really love after the blind auditions, I doubt I'll stick with it. Also, it's weird to me how few shows I have on Mondays this year! I guess this is what happens after finally cutting the cord with Gossip Girl and HIMYM.
TUESDAY
8:00 - 8:30 - Raising Hope
8:00 - 9:00 - The Voice
8:30 - 9:00 - Ben & Kate*
9:00 - 9:30 - Happy Endings
9:00 - 9:30 - New Girl
9:00 - 9:30 - Go On*
9:30 - 10:00 - The Mindy Project*
9:30 - 10:00 - Don't Trust the B---- in Apartment 23
9:30 - 10:00 - The New Normal*
WHY ARE ALL THE COMEDIES EVER ON TUESDAY???? I DO NOT REMEMBER TUESDAYS BEING THIS CRAZY LAST SEASON. Anyways, Go On I haven't even checked out the pilot et so who I'm not sure yet, and I can see me quitting The New Normal if it starts heading the way of Glee (there are already some things I'm remembering from the pilot that didn't really hit me the first time, but the more I think about them, they leave a bad taste in my mouth). And I'm not completely sold on Ben & Kate yet, either. But even without those 3 shows, that's still a crazy amount of comedies for one night.
WEDNESDAY
9:00 - 9:30 - Modern Family
10:00 - 11:00 - Nashville*
Man, Wednesdays got empty with all the comedies I had been watching moving to Tuesdays and Revenge moving to Sundays. I wouldn't even still be watching Modern Family if it weren't for the fact that I got my mom into the show during season 1 and we watch the episodes together and she still wants to watch it, so I feel like I should watch it with her.
THURSDAY
8:00 - 8:30 - 30 Rock
8:00 - 9:00 - Last Resort*
8:30 - 9:00 - Up All Night
9:00 - 10:00 - Glee
9:00 - 10:00 - The Vampire Diaries
9:30 - 10:00 - Parks & Recreation
10:00 - 11:00 - Scandal
10:00 - 11:00 - Elementary*
There is a very good chance I will not be able to stick through this season of Glee, but I'll probably check out a few episodes at least, as there are still quite a few characters I care about for whatever reason. Plus, they do still do songs and performances I enjoy.
FRIDAY
8:30 - 9:00 - Community
9:00 - 10:00 - Made in Jersey*
10:00 - 11:00 - Haven
Made in Jersey is very, very tentative. I'm not even sure I'm going to check out the pilot. But I enjoy lawyer shows, and I think there's part of me hoping it'll turn out to be Good Wife-esque. I am probably hoping for too much there, but oh well.
SUNDAY
9:00 - 10:00 - Revenge
9:00 - 10:00 - The Good Wife
10:00 - 11:00 - Homeland
And I'll be watching Doctor Who and Downton Abbey, but they don't fit into the schedule as well. Oh, and The Hour! I don't know when that'll be on or when it'll be premiering, but definitely watching it. And same with Cougar Town. I'm also like a season behind on Parenthood, Sons of Anarchy, Psych, and Dexter, and I do plan on catching up on all 3 of those shows at some point, but it hasn't happened yet, so obviously I won't be watching their coming seasons as they air.
I wasn't able to watch the Doctor Who premiere when it aired because of WorldCon, but I did finally get to it last night, so here are some thoughts even though everyone's probably already discussed it at this point:
Doctor Who
I should probably bring up the fact that I really disliked last season overall for a variety of reasons that I have gone into way too many times at this point (the only episode I really whole-heartedly ended up loving was The Doctor's Wife), so I definitely had low expectations coming into this episode, but that being said… it wasn't too bad? I didn't love it, but compared to most of the episodes last season, it probably would've been one of my favorites of the season?
I mean, there were definitely things I did not like. I should mention that I do not care for Rory or Rory/Amy at all at this point (which I have also gone into in the past, and I can link to where I've discussed them before in the past if you're curious or if you've forgotten or whatever), so it was cruel to tease me with them being split up at the beginning of the episode and then reconciling by the end (although I was spoiled for that before watching the episode, at least, so I was able to manage my expectations. Not that I'd think they'd really stay split up, but still). And Rory's line about waiting for Amy for 2000 years meaning he loved her more was awful because he does not deserve Amy just for waiting for her, she did not ask him to do that, that was his choice, and it's gross to throw that out there as this piece of emotional manipulation and blackmail, ugh. That really irritated me. And I'm just so TIRED of the stuff with Rory being insecure about their relationship and thinking she loves him less. HAVE WE NOT ESTABLISHED BY THIS POINT THAT SHE LOVES HIM TOO? MUST WE RETREAD THE SAME ISSUES OVER AND OVER AGAIN? And there was something that really bothered me about the reason they split up being because Amy can't have kids so she decided to give Rory up because she knows he wants kids, and I can't exactly put my finger on it, but it just… really rubbed me the wrong way. I guess a large part of it was that this is kind of a big thing for Amy, but it's made all about Rory? We don't really get to see her feelings on it in terms of her own life and what she wants, it's entirely about what Rory wants, and that bugs me.
And apart from Rory/Amy, I also didn't care for the return to the Daleks. And the reveal that Oswin was actually a Dalek was not as shocking or mindblowing as I think Steven Moffat intended it to be. And I'm a little confused as to why the Daleks thought the Doctor would want to help save them??? Maybe I missed something there.
But there were things I liked!!! The Amy/Eleven interaction was so great!!! One of the things I routinely complained about last season was how I felt Amy was often getting pushed into storylines with Rory or on her own and that the season was missing the wonderful Eleven/Amy interaction that I had loved in season 5 so much. And I don't even mean in a shippy way necessarily (…not that I don't ship them), but just that I love their interaction, and a large part of my love for the show in general is the Doctor/companion relationship, and… that felt like it was largely missing in season 6. But we actually got a lot of great stuff between them, so I was pleased.
Also, Jenna-Louise Coleman!!! I like her!!! At first I thought this meant we would be getting a future companion for once rather than a present-day, Earth companion, which would be totally awesome, but with the reveal that she was actually a Dalek, I'm not sure now (which was actually the only reason I wasn't 100% sure from the start if she was a Dalek, since I knew she would be the companion, and I wasn't sure how that would work). It could be that she's a descendant and we'll still be getting a present-day companion, which would be boring and kind of pointless, imo. She could also be a descendant and we could get a past-companion, which would be more fun. Or it could be a River Song type situation, which… no thank you, i don't want to start off seeing her end. And of course there are probably loads of other possibilities that I haven't thought of, but we'll see. In any case, though, I did really like her here, and I think she could be a great companion. (Although I will miss Amy/Karen quite a bit.)
The premiere didn't actually feel like much of a premiere, it felt more like a mid-season episode, which was actually kind of both a plus and a minus? I mean, of course it's nice if the premieres and finales and stuff are bigger episodes, but after all the episodes and the arcs last season where I felt like Moffat was trying to constantly show off how clever he is and how much smarter than everyone else he is and then pull some stupid resolution out of his ass that makes no sense, it was kind of refreshing to have a more normal episode.
Anyways, I haven't watched the 2nd ep that aired last night yet, and since I watch the episodes with my mom, I'm not sure if we'll be able to get to it tonight or if I'll have to wait until next weekend to catch it, so until then I am going to do my best to avoid being spoiled for it!
I also watched the pilot of Elementary, which I really enjoyed!
Elementary
I feel like I should start off by saying that there is room for both Sherlock and Elementary in this world (I mean, there are a billion Sherlock adaptations, i think we can handle both of these airing at roughly the same time), and it's totally cool if Sherlock is more your thing, but… Elementary is far more interesting to me based on just this pilot than Sherlock for about a million different reasons. I mean, I was never that into Sherlock, like… I admired parts of its cleverness in the 1st season, and there was some stuff that season I didn't enjoy as much, and then in season 2 I felt even more detached from it (although that was partially residual anger at Moffat for Doctor Who season 6), but, I mean, I did enjoy it, and I will watch season 3 whenever it airs. But Elementary I can see myself actually getting invested in, in a way that I've never been invested in Sherlock. And a large part of that is the change of John to Joan, because… I just find that I am increasingly growing frustrated with shows that are male-dominated, and the female characters on Sherlock are significantly more minor characters compared to Sherlock and John. But starting off Elementary with a lead female and a lead male in comparison to 2 lead males is just awesome to me. And Johnny Lee Miller was great in the pilot, too, and, idk, there's just a lot of potential overall, so I'm very excited for the show.
I also just love that like… Sherlock's an asshole, and it's not supposed to be cute, he's just an asshole a lot of the time. And he admits he's wrong and apologizes to Joan! THAT IS JUST SO REFRESHING. And it sadly shouldn't be refreshing, but it is. I just loved Joan calling Sherlock on being full of it. I can feel that I'm really going to love this friendship and how it develops. And I will probably also ship them a lot because that is what I do (especially because they already hit several tropes I enjoy in my ships), and the show creators (or maybe just producers, I can't remember) have said I think that they don't want to go there, and that's fine, I mean, they might change their minds, but even if they don't, I feel like I'll love them just as a friendship as well.
So yeah, basically, this reaction is kind of all over the place (and if I discuss the show in the future, I'll discuss it more on its own merits rather than comparisons to Sherlock, but I couldn't help comparing them for the pilot), but I really enjoyed the pilot and I feel like the show has a lot of potential, so I'm really excited for the episodes to start airing!
WorldCon definitely got me out of my movie-watching mood and into a book-reading mood, but I'm going to hopefully see Moonrise Kingdom today! And then probably spend the rest of the day just reading some more.
* = New show, meaning I am planning on checking it out for at least a few eps, but based on other people's reactions, how much time I have, and what kind of mood I'm in, I may not even get around to watching the show's pilot, so these are definitely up in the air.
MONDAY
8:00 - 9:00 - The Voice
10:00 - 11:00 - Castle
10:00 - 11:00 - Revolution*
I will probably watch The Voice since I enjoy the blind auditions and can multitask during them because I don't need to really fully pay attention to keep up with what's happening and can picspam or reply to comments or type up entries during episodes, but if there isn't anyone I really love after the blind auditions, I doubt I'll stick with it. Also, it's weird to me how few shows I have on Mondays this year! I guess this is what happens after finally cutting the cord with Gossip Girl and HIMYM.
TUESDAY
8:00 - 8:30 - Raising Hope
8:00 - 9:00 - The Voice
8:30 - 9:00 - Ben & Kate*
9:00 - 9:30 - Happy Endings
9:00 - 9:30 - New Girl
9:00 - 9:30 - Go On*
9:30 - 10:00 - The Mindy Project*
9:30 - 10:00 - Don't Trust the B---- in Apartment 23
9:30 - 10:00 - The New Normal*
WHY ARE ALL THE COMEDIES EVER ON TUESDAY???? I DO NOT REMEMBER TUESDAYS BEING THIS CRAZY LAST SEASON. Anyways, Go On I haven't even checked out the pilot et so who I'm not sure yet, and I can see me quitting The New Normal if it starts heading the way of Glee (there are already some things I'm remembering from the pilot that didn't really hit me the first time, but the more I think about them, they leave a bad taste in my mouth). And I'm not completely sold on Ben & Kate yet, either. But even without those 3 shows, that's still a crazy amount of comedies for one night.
WEDNESDAY
9:00 - 9:30 - Modern Family
10:00 - 11:00 - Nashville*
Man, Wednesdays got empty with all the comedies I had been watching moving to Tuesdays and Revenge moving to Sundays. I wouldn't even still be watching Modern Family if it weren't for the fact that I got my mom into the show during season 1 and we watch the episodes together and she still wants to watch it, so I feel like I should watch it with her.
THURSDAY
8:00 - 8:30 - 30 Rock
8:00 - 9:00 - Last Resort*
8:30 - 9:00 - Up All Night
9:00 - 10:00 - Glee
9:00 - 10:00 - The Vampire Diaries
9:30 - 10:00 - Parks & Recreation
10:00 - 11:00 - Scandal
10:00 - 11:00 - Elementary*
There is a very good chance I will not be able to stick through this season of Glee, but I'll probably check out a few episodes at least, as there are still quite a few characters I care about for whatever reason. Plus, they do still do songs and performances I enjoy.
FRIDAY
8:30 - 9:00 - Community
9:00 - 10:00 - Made in Jersey*
10:00 - 11:00 - Haven
Made in Jersey is very, very tentative. I'm not even sure I'm going to check out the pilot. But I enjoy lawyer shows, and I think there's part of me hoping it'll turn out to be Good Wife-esque. I am probably hoping for too much there, but oh well.
SUNDAY
9:00 - 10:00 - Revenge
9:00 - 10:00 - The Good Wife
10:00 - 11:00 - Homeland
And I'll be watching Doctor Who and Downton Abbey, but they don't fit into the schedule as well. Oh, and The Hour! I don't know when that'll be on or when it'll be premiering, but definitely watching it. And same with Cougar Town. I'm also like a season behind on Parenthood, Sons of Anarchy, Psych, and Dexter, and I do plan on catching up on all 3 of those shows at some point, but it hasn't happened yet, so obviously I won't be watching their coming seasons as they air.
I wasn't able to watch the Doctor Who premiere when it aired because of WorldCon, but I did finally get to it last night, so here are some thoughts even though everyone's probably already discussed it at this point:
Doctor Who
I should probably bring up the fact that I really disliked last season overall for a variety of reasons that I have gone into way too many times at this point (the only episode I really whole-heartedly ended up loving was The Doctor's Wife), so I definitely had low expectations coming into this episode, but that being said… it wasn't too bad? I didn't love it, but compared to most of the episodes last season, it probably would've been one of my favorites of the season?
I mean, there were definitely things I did not like. I should mention that I do not care for Rory or Rory/Amy at all at this point (which I have also gone into in the past, and I can link to where I've discussed them before in the past if you're curious or if you've forgotten or whatever), so it was cruel to tease me with them being split up at the beginning of the episode and then reconciling by the end (although I was spoiled for that before watching the episode, at least, so I was able to manage my expectations. Not that I'd think they'd really stay split up, but still). And Rory's line about waiting for Amy for 2000 years meaning he loved her more was awful because he does not deserve Amy just for waiting for her, she did not ask him to do that, that was his choice, and it's gross to throw that out there as this piece of emotional manipulation and blackmail, ugh. That really irritated me. And I'm just so TIRED of the stuff with Rory being insecure about their relationship and thinking she loves him less. HAVE WE NOT ESTABLISHED BY THIS POINT THAT SHE LOVES HIM TOO? MUST WE RETREAD THE SAME ISSUES OVER AND OVER AGAIN? And there was something that really bothered me about the reason they split up being because Amy can't have kids so she decided to give Rory up because she knows he wants kids, and I can't exactly put my finger on it, but it just… really rubbed me the wrong way. I guess a large part of it was that this is kind of a big thing for Amy, but it's made all about Rory? We don't really get to see her feelings on it in terms of her own life and what she wants, it's entirely about what Rory wants, and that bugs me.
And apart from Rory/Amy, I also didn't care for the return to the Daleks. And the reveal that Oswin was actually a Dalek was not as shocking or mindblowing as I think Steven Moffat intended it to be. And I'm a little confused as to why the Daleks thought the Doctor would want to help save them??? Maybe I missed something there.
But there were things I liked!!! The Amy/Eleven interaction was so great!!! One of the things I routinely complained about last season was how I felt Amy was often getting pushed into storylines with Rory or on her own and that the season was missing the wonderful Eleven/Amy interaction that I had loved in season 5 so much. And I don't even mean in a shippy way necessarily (…not that I don't ship them), but just that I love their interaction, and a large part of my love for the show in general is the Doctor/companion relationship, and… that felt like it was largely missing in season 6. But we actually got a lot of great stuff between them, so I was pleased.
Also, Jenna-Louise Coleman!!! I like her!!! At first I thought this meant we would be getting a future companion for once rather than a present-day, Earth companion, which would be totally awesome, but with the reveal that she was actually a Dalek, I'm not sure now (which was actually the only reason I wasn't 100% sure from the start if she was a Dalek, since I knew she would be the companion, and I wasn't sure how that would work). It could be that she's a descendant and we'll still be getting a present-day companion, which would be boring and kind of pointless, imo. She could also be a descendant and we could get a past-companion, which would be more fun. Or it could be a River Song type situation, which… no thank you, i don't want to start off seeing her end. And of course there are probably loads of other possibilities that I haven't thought of, but we'll see. In any case, though, I did really like her here, and I think she could be a great companion. (Although I will miss Amy/Karen quite a bit.)
The premiere didn't actually feel like much of a premiere, it felt more like a mid-season episode, which was actually kind of both a plus and a minus? I mean, of course it's nice if the premieres and finales and stuff are bigger episodes, but after all the episodes and the arcs last season where I felt like Moffat was trying to constantly show off how clever he is and how much smarter than everyone else he is and then pull some stupid resolution out of his ass that makes no sense, it was kind of refreshing to have a more normal episode.
Anyways, I haven't watched the 2nd ep that aired last night yet, and since I watch the episodes with my mom, I'm not sure if we'll be able to get to it tonight or if I'll have to wait until next weekend to catch it, so until then I am going to do my best to avoid being spoiled for it!
I also watched the pilot of Elementary, which I really enjoyed!
Elementary
I feel like I should start off by saying that there is room for both Sherlock and Elementary in this world (I mean, there are a billion Sherlock adaptations, i think we can handle both of these airing at roughly the same time), and it's totally cool if Sherlock is more your thing, but… Elementary is far more interesting to me based on just this pilot than Sherlock for about a million different reasons. I mean, I was never that into Sherlock, like… I admired parts of its cleverness in the 1st season, and there was some stuff that season I didn't enjoy as much, and then in season 2 I felt even more detached from it (although that was partially residual anger at Moffat for Doctor Who season 6), but, I mean, I did enjoy it, and I will watch season 3 whenever it airs. But Elementary I can see myself actually getting invested in, in a way that I've never been invested in Sherlock. And a large part of that is the change of John to Joan, because… I just find that I am increasingly growing frustrated with shows that are male-dominated, and the female characters on Sherlock are significantly more minor characters compared to Sherlock and John. But starting off Elementary with a lead female and a lead male in comparison to 2 lead males is just awesome to me. And Johnny Lee Miller was great in the pilot, too, and, idk, there's just a lot of potential overall, so I'm very excited for the show.
I also just love that like… Sherlock's an asshole, and it's not supposed to be cute, he's just an asshole a lot of the time. And he admits he's wrong and apologizes to Joan! THAT IS JUST SO REFRESHING. And it sadly shouldn't be refreshing, but it is. I just loved Joan calling Sherlock on being full of it. I can feel that I'm really going to love this friendship and how it develops. And I will probably also ship them a lot because that is what I do (especially because they already hit several tropes I enjoy in my ships), and the show creators (or maybe just producers, I can't remember) have said I think that they don't want to go there, and that's fine, I mean, they might change their minds, but even if they don't, I feel like I'll love them just as a friendship as well.
So yeah, basically, this reaction is kind of all over the place (and if I discuss the show in the future, I'll discuss it more on its own merits rather than comparisons to Sherlock, but I couldn't help comparing them for the pilot), but I really enjoyed the pilot and I feel like the show has a lot of potential, so I'm really excited for the episodes to start airing!
WorldCon definitely got me out of my movie-watching mood and into a book-reading mood, but I'm going to hopefully see Moonrise Kingdom today! And then probably spend the rest of the day just reading some more.