First day of Spring
I still haven't even been able to go through the first episode of Star-Crossed. The romance is plot horribly cliché, the actors look even more too old for high school then usual and frankly the whole premise is so heavy handed and ridiculous and I just can't take it. I usually try to watch at least a pilot episode of sf&f shows but I couldn't get through this one (and I managed to get through 3 episodes of Helix).
I liked The 100 more then I expected too. [Spoiler (click to open)]I liked the kids or at least most of the ones that have speaking roles (including the dead one). They are still mostly bunch of stereotypes (especially the one that the actor who plays Julian on Continuum is too much like Julian) but there is potential there. The really interesting part is back in space and they got a lot of recognisable faces to play the adults and I want to see more of that (also this is the most sf part). It had adventure and science fiction and beginnings of story arc that seems interesting enough that I want to see what happens next. I like it so far and I think it has potential.
I think Resurrection is OK but I saw The Returned and it's just not it. It just doesn't have the same emotional weight and isn't as engaging. I know that the origin of both series is different but the premise is so similar it's hard to avoid comparisons. And, although I had some problems with some pretty stupid behaviours of people in The Returned, the Resurrection just makes the same things simply boring. It might because they are planning to stretch this into more episodes or it might be because it's American network show and therefore it has to be more family friendly but I just don't feel it. I mean it's OK but it just feels forgettable - [Spoiler (click to open)]I can only barely recall what happened in last episode except that the mom of the doctor character is unsurprisingly alive. I hope they'll do something more interesting than the cgi dust next.
It surprised me how much better I like Once Upon a Time in Wonderland now [Spoiler (click to open)]that the tragic love part become about Will and Anastasia. Knave was my (and everyone's) favourite from the beginning but now I've fallen for the Red Queen too. Because she is selfish and gave up on her true love for the easy life and because she is weak and she couldn't resist Jabberwocky's torture because not everyone have to be always true and unbeatable and all of this just makes her more sincere. Because she is determined, brave and doesn't give up even when odds are overwhelming and she is terrified and everyone hates her. I don't want her to be dead. I love Ana and Will's backstory and the longing and regret and sadness is resonating so much more than with the Alice/Cyrus love story they tried to sell to us for the first half of the season. Maybe it's because I got to know them first before I was told about that great love story. Maybe because I was sold slowly on it. I'm not sure but it just works for me. And now that the focus shifted to Ana/Will relationship I actually started to like Cyrus and Alice/Cyrus. He started to have a personality that's actually kind of charming and their relationship is finally fun to watch.
Person of Interest is right now the best part of my week. [Spoiler (click to open)]Especially when the episode includes the return of Root. And she's a cyborg now (it's not a full DNI but it's getting there) - a true analog interface - and it looks like Machine manage to teach her the value of human life (at least just a little bit). I love the puzzle cons she does with Machine (the whole thing with prison transport break just to get a note and the dinosaur tip were pure awesome). But the best part, of course, was when she was flirting with Shaw again - "I couldn't make you look bad even if I tried", "I love it when you play doctor" - she calls John Harold's monkey but Shaw is always Shaw. And Shaw ate that bar. And to think it started with an iron. I rarely ship people so hard but I'm also happy with innuendo, violence and saving the world together. I always knew that Samaritan will come online - none of the threats like this in TV series ever gets stopped - we have to see what happens or it doesn't count. So I'm most interested about confrontation between the human network Root builds and Machine with Decima and Samaritan. Will they free Samaritan, too?
I liked The 100 more then I expected too. [Spoiler (click to open)]I liked the kids or at least most of the ones that have speaking roles (including the dead one). They are still mostly bunch of stereotypes (especially the one that the actor who plays Julian on Continuum is too much like Julian) but there is potential there. The really interesting part is back in space and they got a lot of recognisable faces to play the adults and I want to see more of that (also this is the most sf part). It had adventure and science fiction and beginnings of story arc that seems interesting enough that I want to see what happens next. I like it so far and I think it has potential.
I think Resurrection is OK but I saw The Returned and it's just not it. It just doesn't have the same emotional weight and isn't as engaging. I know that the origin of both series is different but the premise is so similar it's hard to avoid comparisons. And, although I had some problems with some pretty stupid behaviours of people in The Returned, the Resurrection just makes the same things simply boring. It might because they are planning to stretch this into more episodes or it might be because it's American network show and therefore it has to be more family friendly but I just don't feel it. I mean it's OK but it just feels forgettable - [Spoiler (click to open)]I can only barely recall what happened in last episode except that the mom of the doctor character is unsurprisingly alive. I hope they'll do something more interesting than the cgi dust next.
It surprised me how much better I like Once Upon a Time in Wonderland now [Spoiler (click to open)]that the tragic love part become about Will and Anastasia. Knave was my (and everyone's) favourite from the beginning but now I've fallen for the Red Queen too. Because she is selfish and gave up on her true love for the easy life and because she is weak and she couldn't resist Jabberwocky's torture because not everyone have to be always true and unbeatable and all of this just makes her more sincere. Because she is determined, brave and doesn't give up even when odds are overwhelming and she is terrified and everyone hates her. I don't want her to be dead. I love Ana and Will's backstory and the longing and regret and sadness is resonating so much more than with the Alice/Cyrus love story they tried to sell to us for the first half of the season. Maybe it's because I got to know them first before I was told about that great love story. Maybe because I was sold slowly on it. I'm not sure but it just works for me. And now that the focus shifted to Ana/Will relationship I actually started to like Cyrus and Alice/Cyrus. He started to have a personality that's actually kind of charming and their relationship is finally fun to watch.
Person of Interest is right now the best part of my week. [Spoiler (click to open)]Especially when the episode includes the return of Root. And she's a cyborg now (it's not a full DNI but it's getting there) - a true analog interface - and it looks like Machine manage to teach her the value of human life (at least just a little bit). I love the puzzle cons she does with Machine (the whole thing with prison transport break just to get a note and the dinosaur tip were pure awesome). But the best part, of course, was when she was flirting with Shaw again - "I couldn't make you look bad even if I tried", "I love it when you play doctor" - she calls John Harold's monkey but Shaw is always Shaw. And Shaw ate that bar. And to think it started with an iron. I rarely ship people so hard but I'm also happy with innuendo, violence and saving the world together. I always knew that Samaritan will come online - none of the threats like this in TV series ever gets stopped - we have to see what happens or it doesn't count. So I'm most interested about confrontation between the human network Root builds and Machine with Decima and Samaritan. Will they free Samaritan, too?