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It's been good TV news week:
1. There is a kickstarter campaign for an Inspector Spacetime web series (it's over 40% there already), which, delightfully, was launched at a Doctor Who convention.
2. Community will be back! Wooooooo!!!!! Six seasons and a movie!
3. the trailer for Season two of The Almighty Johnsons was released, and she show seems have gotten even more delightfully weirder, and considering it's a sex-dramady about a bunch of (mostly)de-powered norse gods looking for love in contemporary New Zealand, it was delightfully weird to begin with.
I'm still head over heals in love with Once Upon A Time. I'm not feeling much love for it from my flist, so I'm not sure how many people are still watching it, but the last few episodes, between the cameo appearances by Nurse Ratchet, Chip from Beauty and the Beast getting the greatest shout-out ever, characters giving straight-faced prescriptions of 'true love's kiss' like it's aspirin, the implication that Regina's not above spray-painting 'tramp' on someone's car and is probably Ursula from the Little Mermaid in addition to being the Evil Queen, and just the way the writers actually care about the secondary characters, enough to make sure that Katherine/Abigail even though she is just introduced to get in the way of Mary/David has her own hopes and dreams and that we care about her enough about her that my flatmate and I were yelling 'don't tell Regina, she'll kill you!' at the screen during the last episode, with all that going on, I think I'm going to end up sticking with this show to the bitter end despite the flaws.
Although a few things are bugging me from my few visits into the fandom. With the Belle-Rumple romances happening, certain sectors of the fandom have started treating Rumple/Gold like he's Snape and saying that really Emma needs to team up with him because he's clearly on the side of the angels...and just...no. The woobification needs to stop. Rumple's just as bad as Regina (and Henry thinks he worse and I'm inclined to agree with whatever Henry says because the kid's usually right), he may not come with heart crushing action, but he murders callously by turning people into inanimate objects, and proved himself capable of murder before dark curse was placed on him.
The other thing is people hating on Henry as he doesn't love Regina. Now, Regina's my favourite character, but she is freaking dangerous. She's proven to be capable of murder, rape and has enslaved the whole damn town, not to mention, as much as she tries to love Henry, isn't above using him to get at others. Henry has every right to want to live with Emma instead. Hell, considering what he knows his mother is capable of, I'm shocked he's not clawing at doors and crying trying to get away from her all the time, particularly since it's the people she loves most that she appears to be in the most danger from her. Yeah, it sucks for Regina that her son doesn't love her, and that she was genuinely innocent of the book thing which he holds against her, but her actions in other respects don't exactly make her loveable. Someone needs to sit her down and tell her that if she wants love, she's going to have to stop being evil (although, it appears that Regina's evil because she doesn't believe she will ever be loved, so it's kind of chicken and egg, and Henry may well be the key to ending the cycle, but still that first requires a lot of give on Regina's part)
Finally, I don't trust the mysterious August guy. I think he's another villain. If he is adding to Henry's book, and that's changing events as they happened in the enchanted forest, manipulating the character's lives, how is that any better than Regina's curse? Plus, again with the criticism I have of Graham. The actor's pretty, but bland.
Also, in the past few weeks I've watched the whole of Parks and Recreation trying to fill the void in my life left by Community being off the air. It took a while to get into it as the first season is nothing special, but it gets increasingly good through the second series and really hits its stride in the third. It doesn't fill in for Community, but I love it for being incredibly funny while also being really optimistic and positive thanks to the genius of having Leslie Knope as the main character. It's so refreshing having a central character that is a genuinely good person who is good at her job and is succeeding in life due to being a good person who works hard. I think it would have been much easier for the writers to have Leslie and her ideals beaten down by reality or have her as some buffoon (which the first season admittedly did do, but they re-jigged things in the season season so she's not), but instead it's about Leslie and her ideals inspiring those around her. It's kind of like the West Wing, but with the joke being that it's ridiculous small scale (also, Bradley Whitford is due to guest star - Josh and Sam reunion!)
Also: I want my very own Ben.
The other thing I have been watching is Buffy, which I never watched back when it aired (although, I did catch one or two episodes of the later seasons). I'm not really into it in a fannish way (but then, I seem to have a fannish immunity to Joss Whedon creations, I like them a lot but - Serenity is one of my favourite movies of all time - I just don't like them to the point where I read fic or feel the need to write fic or meta or create vids), but it's an addictive series and I'm most way through the second series (I'm at the point where Buffy and Angel have just had sex, and bad things have happened). It is weird that Cordelia is my favourite character.?
1. There is a kickstarter campaign for an Inspector Spacetime web series (it's over 40% there already), which, delightfully, was launched at a Doctor Who convention.
2. Community will be back! Wooooooo!!!!! Six seasons and a movie!
3. the trailer for Season two of The Almighty Johnsons was released, and she show seems have gotten even more delightfully weirder, and considering it's a sex-dramady about a bunch of (mostly)de-powered norse gods looking for love in contemporary New Zealand, it was delightfully weird to begin with.
I'm still head over heals in love with Once Upon A Time. I'm not feeling much love for it from my flist, so I'm not sure how many people are still watching it, but the last few episodes, between the cameo appearances by Nurse Ratchet, Chip from Beauty and the Beast getting the greatest shout-out ever, characters giving straight-faced prescriptions of 'true love's kiss' like it's aspirin, the implication that Regina's not above spray-painting 'tramp' on someone's car and is probably Ursula from the Little Mermaid in addition to being the Evil Queen, and just the way the writers actually care about the secondary characters, enough to make sure that Katherine/Abigail even though she is just introduced to get in the way of Mary/David has her own hopes and dreams and that we care about her enough about her that my flatmate and I were yelling 'don't tell Regina, she'll kill you!' at the screen during the last episode, with all that going on, I think I'm going to end up sticking with this show to the bitter end despite the flaws.
Although a few things are bugging me from my few visits into the fandom. With the Belle-Rumple romances happening, certain sectors of the fandom have started treating Rumple/Gold like he's Snape and saying that really Emma needs to team up with him because he's clearly on the side of the angels...and just...no. The woobification needs to stop. Rumple's just as bad as Regina (and Henry thinks he worse and I'm inclined to agree with whatever Henry says because the kid's usually right), he may not come with heart crushing action, but he murders callously by turning people into inanimate objects, and proved himself capable of murder before dark curse was placed on him.
The other thing is people hating on Henry as he doesn't love Regina. Now, Regina's my favourite character, but she is freaking dangerous. She's proven to be capable of murder, rape and has enslaved the whole damn town, not to mention, as much as she tries to love Henry, isn't above using him to get at others. Henry has every right to want to live with Emma instead. Hell, considering what he knows his mother is capable of, I'm shocked he's not clawing at doors and crying trying to get away from her all the time, particularly since it's the people she loves most that she appears to be in the most danger from her. Yeah, it sucks for Regina that her son doesn't love her, and that she was genuinely innocent of the book thing which he holds against her, but her actions in other respects don't exactly make her loveable. Someone needs to sit her down and tell her that if she wants love, she's going to have to stop being evil (although, it appears that Regina's evil because she doesn't believe she will ever be loved, so it's kind of chicken and egg, and Henry may well be the key to ending the cycle, but still that first requires a lot of give on Regina's part)
Finally, I don't trust the mysterious August guy. I think he's another villain. If he is adding to Henry's book, and that's changing events as they happened in the enchanted forest, manipulating the character's lives, how is that any better than Regina's curse? Plus, again with the criticism I have of Graham. The actor's pretty, but bland.
Also, in the past few weeks I've watched the whole of Parks and Recreation trying to fill the void in my life left by Community being off the air. It took a while to get into it as the first season is nothing special, but it gets increasingly good through the second series and really hits its stride in the third. It doesn't fill in for Community, but I love it for being incredibly funny while also being really optimistic and positive thanks to the genius of having Leslie Knope as the main character. It's so refreshing having a central character that is a genuinely good person who is good at her job and is succeeding in life due to being a good person who works hard. I think it would have been much easier for the writers to have Leslie and her ideals beaten down by reality or have her as some buffoon (which the first season admittedly did do, but they re-jigged things in the season season so she's not), but instead it's about Leslie and her ideals inspiring those around her. It's kind of like the West Wing, but with the joke being that it's ridiculous small scale (also, Bradley Whitford is due to guest star - Josh and Sam reunion!)
Also: I want my very own Ben.
The other thing I have been watching is Buffy, which I never watched back when it aired (although, I did catch one or two episodes of the later seasons). I'm not really into it in a fannish way (but then, I seem to have a fannish immunity to Joss Whedon creations, I like them a lot but - Serenity is one of my favourite movies of all time - I just don't like them to the point where I read fic or feel the need to write fic or meta or create vids), but it's an addictive series and I'm most way through the second series (I'm at the point where Buffy and Angel have just had sex, and bad things have happened). It is weird that Cordelia is my favourite character.?