syfy upswing
Okay, so I've missed...some time here. But it's not as though I've been in a cave or something.
I think the first thing to catch up on was how awesome SyFy's summer programing (or whenever the shows aired): Killjoys, anyone? Holy shit do I love, like, everything about this show. Up to and including that someone has written a thing about how with the different planets and moons they visit and their relative lengths of days versus the time it takes to get from one place to another, like half the episodes can't happen on their apparent timetable. Mostly I love Dutch, though, lets be honest. And Johnny. And Lucy. And Dutch and Johnny. Dav, too, really, but like, not nearly so much as my totally platonically married Killjoys. It's like Nat and Clint got a show, it's fantastic! She even has the 'rasied to be a killer when she was taken from her family and put in an all-girls school where a creepy dude mentored her and made her into a weapon' backstory, complete with the "first guy to give her a chance and not leap to assume she was crazy or better off dead" best friend. Though she did get away from Khlyne (I'll look up the spelling later, okay, this show is weird)--sortof--on her own, and I'm a sucker for a self-rescuing princess. Though there's no shame in needing a hand every once in a while. Man, the world-building. And Pree! I just...July 1st, I guess, is when season 2 starts. I adore me some Aaron Ashmore (who the hell am I kidding? I love me some Shawn, too. He's just not on the show. But did you catch that ice slide/wall thing Iceman finally got to make in Days of Future Past?! BADASS. And so many years waiting for it, I can't even.)
Also, Dark Matter comes back on July 1st. I'm excited about that as well, it's just, it took a little longer for me to feel the traction with that show. Zoie Palmer totally helped. She's hilarious, though I don't think the show has really let her stretch that way yet. Hell, at the moment, I don't think she's even...alive? On? Booted up? What do you call an android with it's memory chip removed and it's systems turned off? That actually sounds like the beginning of a bad joke, but I'm actually curious. And on the android vein, can they turn Vision-who-I-still-think-of-as-Omnipitant!JARVIS off? Probably not, what with the mindstone and everything. huh. I've always loved Paul Bettany's voice. And him, but his voice is especially nice. Always thought it was a shame we didn't get to see him on screen. And now we do, but it's not *him*. sigh. I'll be chewing on this for a while. I mean, I still have issues with Clint's mindrape in the first Avengers, so.
I'm digressing. I also really like Two/Portia, I think she's a really cool character (and female! of color! IN CHARGE! be still, my heart), and I feel like there are a lot of places they have to go with her. And I like her interactions with Android, too. Also with Five. I think Five's pretty interesting in general, but especially with Two. That episode where Two flipped into react mode instead of thinking a thing through when they were at that space port? I loved how later, Five was like: dude, I brought a gun onboard, how up and up was I before I got wiped? And sort of, if I'm remembering correctly, made peace with that side of both of them. I like the protective older sister vibe they have going, it's interesting to me that people with no memories of these kinds of relationships still feel compelled to form them. Particiularly when it plays out that neither of them *had* those kinds of relationships to feel residual instincts for in the first place. I never really liked Six to begin with. I mean, really, who are they trying to kid? The only Six who will ever matter to me is the spitting image of Tricia Helfer.
Detour: I really want Katee Sackhoff to play Carol Danvers in Captian Marvel. Just sayin'. Barring her? Helfer. But for some reason I see Sackhoff pulling off the new hair better. Also the ex-pilot thing. Just sayin'.
Back to Dark Matter: I really adore Four, as well. Besides the props for doing his own pull-ups and actually knowing how to use the swords, I'm intrigued by the person he's choosing to become. And part of me will always love/hate Three, cause he was a pretty kickass loki in Lost Girl as Ryan.
Hey! The same time Aaron Ashmore was playing Nate on the show with Kenzi.
ugh, Kenzi. I can't even. I like to think that Nate found out about the fae via his band, who played with the No Shows, a fictional band from a book series of kickassery...the...Quantum Gravity series, that's it! So Nate gets to be firends with them, and then on some international tour that hits up Spain and which Kenzi attends, they reconnect, and it's awe-some.
So that was last...season, I suppose, though we're skipping right over the epic awesome of Blindspot.
Right now, I'm consumed by Wynonna Earp ('cause I was trying to watch Orphan Black with my viewing buddies, but schedules aren't working out and we finally called it quits. Just in time for season 4's finale, I think. But, no waiting now, so there's that. But I still don't know if Delphine is dead or not or just wishes she was, and I still have a somewhat airy view of Krystal, which is SOOO disapointing because if your favorite show is gonna have a character with your name, the least they can do is not make her well-meaning-yet-vapid. Oh, Holy Shit! What's going to happen to her now that Delphine's not around to keep an eye on things?! Also, I officially want Shay back, I don't care what Ksenia Solo's off working on, people! And Jesse, because Heleana deserves some happiness.)
OKAY, BUT WYNONNA EARP! It's awesome, it's hilarious, it's sexy, it's horrific, there's all kinds of tension and morality being batted around...such a fanfuckingtastic show. Way to hit it out of the park, Andras. (and if you're wondering why that name looks familliar, it's because you pay attention to credits for Lost Girl and Killjoys, and also to D'avin's fake name in the Killjoys pilot: Kobee Andras is his fake name--which is a bastardization of his last name and John's middle name) I have one major bone to pick with this show, and it's one I can't just be straight up pissed about because it took me FOUR episodes to realize that Tim Rozon, who plays Doc, ALSO PLAYED MASSIMO ON LOST GIRL!!! The betrayal I felt when this charming, weird, attractive dude turned out to be the guy who put life to a character that *still* creeps me the fuck out and makes me oh-so-pissed...I'm at a loss for words. Have been for six weeks now.
Speaking of, and Spoiler Alert for 1x10, btw:
Holy shit, WILLA! I guessed, and then assumed I was wishfulthinking, and then dreaded and was proven correct. Melanie Scrofano's face, people. The misery. Ugh. Her and Doc's conversation about ther hookin' up? epic. Actually, Wynonna's general reaction to BoBo's announcement was pretty damn priceless. And she was worried about Dolls! That he was scary-sick! so sweet, esp after last week when he refused to even say he gave a shit about her. (I know, I know, he showed her later by passing her psych eval for her, but still...Wynonna's face when he stayed so silent!)
And yes, I'm so all over Waverly and Nicole getting together. My god, the adorableness!
whew! glad to get all that off my chest!
I think the first thing to catch up on was how awesome SyFy's summer programing (or whenever the shows aired): Killjoys, anyone? Holy shit do I love, like, everything about this show. Up to and including that someone has written a thing about how with the different planets and moons they visit and their relative lengths of days versus the time it takes to get from one place to another, like half the episodes can't happen on their apparent timetable. Mostly I love Dutch, though, lets be honest. And Johnny. And Lucy. And Dutch and Johnny. Dav, too, really, but like, not nearly so much as my totally platonically married Killjoys. It's like Nat and Clint got a show, it's fantastic! She even has the 'rasied to be a killer when she was taken from her family and put in an all-girls school where a creepy dude mentored her and made her into a weapon' backstory, complete with the "first guy to give her a chance and not leap to assume she was crazy or better off dead" best friend. Though she did get away from Khlyne (I'll look up the spelling later, okay, this show is weird)--sortof--on her own, and I'm a sucker for a self-rescuing princess. Though there's no shame in needing a hand every once in a while. Man, the world-building. And Pree! I just...July 1st, I guess, is when season 2 starts. I adore me some Aaron Ashmore (who the hell am I kidding? I love me some Shawn, too. He's just not on the show. But did you catch that ice slide/wall thing Iceman finally got to make in Days of Future Past?! BADASS. And so many years waiting for it, I can't even.)
Also, Dark Matter comes back on July 1st. I'm excited about that as well, it's just, it took a little longer for me to feel the traction with that show. Zoie Palmer totally helped. She's hilarious, though I don't think the show has really let her stretch that way yet. Hell, at the moment, I don't think she's even...alive? On? Booted up? What do you call an android with it's memory chip removed and it's systems turned off? That actually sounds like the beginning of a bad joke, but I'm actually curious. And on the android vein, can they turn Vision-who-I-still-think-of-as-Omnipitant!JARVIS off? Probably not, what with the mindstone and everything. huh. I've always loved Paul Bettany's voice. And him, but his voice is especially nice. Always thought it was a shame we didn't get to see him on screen. And now we do, but it's not *him*. sigh. I'll be chewing on this for a while. I mean, I still have issues with Clint's mindrape in the first Avengers, so.
I'm digressing. I also really like Two/Portia, I think she's a really cool character (and female! of color! IN CHARGE! be still, my heart), and I feel like there are a lot of places they have to go with her. And I like her interactions with Android, too. Also with Five. I think Five's pretty interesting in general, but especially with Two. That episode where Two flipped into react mode instead of thinking a thing through when they were at that space port? I loved how later, Five was like: dude, I brought a gun onboard, how up and up was I before I got wiped? And sort of, if I'm remembering correctly, made peace with that side of both of them. I like the protective older sister vibe they have going, it's interesting to me that people with no memories of these kinds of relationships still feel compelled to form them. Particiularly when it plays out that neither of them *had* those kinds of relationships to feel residual instincts for in the first place. I never really liked Six to begin with. I mean, really, who are they trying to kid? The only Six who will ever matter to me is the spitting image of Tricia Helfer.
Detour: I really want Katee Sackhoff to play Carol Danvers in Captian Marvel. Just sayin'. Barring her? Helfer. But for some reason I see Sackhoff pulling off the new hair better. Also the ex-pilot thing. Just sayin'.
Back to Dark Matter: I really adore Four, as well. Besides the props for doing his own pull-ups and actually knowing how to use the swords, I'm intrigued by the person he's choosing to become. And part of me will always love/hate Three, cause he was a pretty kickass loki in Lost Girl as Ryan.
Hey! The same time Aaron Ashmore was playing Nate on the show with Kenzi.
ugh, Kenzi. I can't even. I like to think that Nate found out about the fae via his band, who played with the No Shows, a fictional band from a book series of kickassery...the...Quantum Gravity series, that's it! So Nate gets to be firends with them, and then on some international tour that hits up Spain and which Kenzi attends, they reconnect, and it's awe-some.
So that was last...season, I suppose, though we're skipping right over the epic awesome of Blindspot.
Right now, I'm consumed by Wynonna Earp ('cause I was trying to watch Orphan Black with my viewing buddies, but schedules aren't working out and we finally called it quits. Just in time for season 4's finale, I think. But, no waiting now, so there's that. But I still don't know if Delphine is dead or not or just wishes she was, and I still have a somewhat airy view of Krystal, which is SOOO disapointing because if your favorite show is gonna have a character with your name, the least they can do is not make her well-meaning-yet-vapid. Oh, Holy Shit! What's going to happen to her now that Delphine's not around to keep an eye on things?! Also, I officially want Shay back, I don't care what Ksenia Solo's off working on, people! And Jesse, because Heleana deserves some happiness.)
OKAY, BUT WYNONNA EARP! It's awesome, it's hilarious, it's sexy, it's horrific, there's all kinds of tension and morality being batted around...such a fanfuckingtastic show. Way to hit it out of the park, Andras. (and if you're wondering why that name looks familliar, it's because you pay attention to credits for Lost Girl and Killjoys, and also to D'avin's fake name in the Killjoys pilot: Kobee Andras is his fake name--which is a bastardization of his last name and John's middle name) I have one major bone to pick with this show, and it's one I can't just be straight up pissed about because it took me FOUR episodes to realize that Tim Rozon, who plays Doc, ALSO PLAYED MASSIMO ON LOST GIRL!!! The betrayal I felt when this charming, weird, attractive dude turned out to be the guy who put life to a character that *still* creeps me the fuck out and makes me oh-so-pissed...I'm at a loss for words. Have been for six weeks now.
Speaking of, and Spoiler Alert for 1x10, btw:
Holy shit, WILLA! I guessed, and then assumed I was wishfulthinking, and then dreaded and was proven correct. Melanie Scrofano's face, people. The misery. Ugh. Her and Doc's conversation about ther hookin' up? epic. Actually, Wynonna's general reaction to BoBo's announcement was pretty damn priceless. And she was worried about Dolls! That he was scary-sick! so sweet, esp after last week when he refused to even say he gave a shit about her. (I know, I know, he showed her later by passing her psych eval for her, but still...Wynonna's face when he stayed so silent!)
And yes, I'm so all over Waverly and Nicole getting together. My god, the adorableness!
whew! glad to get all that off my chest!