TeeVee
How to Get Away With Murder 1.3: I'm getting more into this now that the characters are getting more developed.
-No, Annelise's scummy yet very attractive boyfriend, why are you lying like that?
-I really enjoyed this week's theme about questionable life-partner choices.
-I saw a lot of comments before watching about Michaela's reaction to learning her fiance and Connor used to be an item and...I don't know. For Michaela as a character, I think I'm actually OK with it. Connor spent the entire episode goading and taunting her about her fiance, both before and after confirming they'd been an item. and wasn't doing it for any reason but to be hurtful. Her fiance could have told her the truth up front, but didn't, and they'd also supposedly discussed all their previous relationships, so he was compounding one lie of omission with another. And this was with his seeing Connor goading Michaela. I think she was lashing out in the harshest way she could think of, and not actually voicing what she would normally think.
The show, OTOH...I dunno. I think the show actually was supporting the idea that you're straight or gay, and the only exception is childhood "experimenting" that doesn't count. I mean, really, dude is bi with an apparent preference for women (it's not exactly a 50/50 split every single time...), and apparently monogamous. I'm pretty sure the audience can handle the concept.
Madam Secretary 1/3: The things i like about this series, I like more each episode, and the political Problem of the Week was more interesting than the ones in the first two episodes. But I really just want more scenes of Tea Leoni and Bebe Neuwirth discussing White House office politics.
Sleepy Hollow 2.3:
-Henry has too much time on his hands. WAY too much. And either just torched a valuable antique, or madea very showy symbolic gesture that no one else ever gets to appreciate.
-Also, show, i'm really not down with "Henry is conflicted." dude jumpstarted the apocalypse, tried to kill his father, and turned his mother over to a guy who, for all he knew, was going to rape and murder her 5 minutes later. And...that's possibly still in her future, by their plans. Not to mention being responsible for at least 3 more deaths in this episode.
-No, Ichabod, "eyed my BFF/divinely ordained soulmate" is...not a good reason to kill someone. (Ichabod really was in full snit mode the whole episode, wasn't he?)
-I have no opinion of blondie, and find him "meh." Then again, I wasn't a fan of Morales at first, but he grew on me, and now i kinda miss him.
-At last, actual references to Ichabod's legal status.
-Kudos for "she's a grown up woman" being the first thing on Abbie's list in response to the idea of Ichabod "allowing" Katrina to do things. And no, I don't think Abbie is remotely romantically jealous of Katrina. The closest I can get to that reading is that Abbie has started to categorize Katrina as someone who hurts/could be a danger to someone she cares about. And yes, she switched places with Katrina in purgatory, but when they went to rescue Katrina a second time, Katrina didn't want rescuing. And now there's Henry in the mix. If Katrina hadn't been forced to abandon Henry (with people she thought would be able to keep him safe) then he might not have ended up on his current path and a lot of what's going on now wouldn't be happening. With that in mind, and keeping in mind the added perspective of Abbie's own abandonment of and reconciliation with the person she loves the most, I can believe she thinks there's a danger that Katrina will sacrifice them to save Henry and not abandon him a second time. And I think there's a 50/50 chance that she's right.
(For the record, I don't see Katrina as having abandoned Henry any more than Ichabod did. She left him where she thought he'd be safe, and had no choice in the matter. If her coven hadn't sold her to Moloch/Abraham and trapped her in purgatory, she would have gone back for him as soon as she was able to. The show, however, seems to want us to view it as her abandoning him.
-I know Reyes isn't exactly a fandom favorite right now, but I'm actually reading her primary purpose as being to form a bridge between Abbie, Jenny and their mother, and to give us answers about their mother. And I wouldn't label her interest as maternal, she seems to certainly have an interest in what happens to them. (If she ends up evil, or dies for getting in the way of things, I shall kick something.)
-So, Jenny started out with the coin making her turn on Abbie, but it switched to Reyes by the time she was doing anything about it. I choose to interpret this as Jenny's love for Abbie being stronger than resentment magically amplified 10000%
-We've had Mills Sisters hugging in 2 out of 3 eps this season
Star Wars: Rebels 1.1-1.2: I probably would have passed this by, except that I liked Clone Wars. Set 14 years after Revenge of the Sith and 5 years before A New Hope, SWR is about a ragtag group of rebels. The leader is Kanan, a Jedi who survived Order 66 and went into hiding (I question how he managed to stay under the radar for 15 years, given these episodes, but moving on...) and the captain is his apparent lover, Hera, who appears to be the only member whose head is completely screwed up straight. The rest of the crew are Sabine (next in line for "head screwed on striaghtest") a teenaged girl who appears to be the group's explosive expert, and likes to graffiti things before blowing them up, and Zeb, whose characterization so far is largely 'grouchy muscleguy who is secretly soft." They also acquire Ezra, a teenaged thief and conartist, and probable future Jedi. Ezra's character seems to be directly lifted form Disney's Aladdin, and a couple scenes, based on my memories, almost look like the same storyboards from the "Street Rat" song, but altered for SciFi. (I'm not complaining, just observing.) They also have a droid, "Chopper," who seems to find them all very annoying.
I'm not sure what the target audience is-some of it seems skewed to younger audiences, and some of it less so, and the Storm Troopers are incompetent even for Storm Troopers, but I liked it. Would recommend if you like space rebels, found families, explosions, competent women (who may or may not get sidelined...we'll see), and Star Wars in general.
So, Sabine is a Mandelorian, comments that the empire killed her family, and appears to be about 16-17. Which makes me wonder if maybe Obi-Wan and Satine's relationship in Clone Wars was quite as chaste as we were led to believe. I'm not sure the timing quite works, as I'm not sure how long before Revenge of the Sith Satine's death is set-Clone Wars wasn't always chronological and we didn't hear much about Mandelore after that, so they could actually swing it that that arc happened after some of the rest if they wanted. I'm betting on fandom running with that, though. There's also Satine's surprise!sister. They may not create a connection between Sabine and Satine at all,, but the naming seems to be begging us to expect one.
Strange Empire 1.1: New Canadian western series about a group of women on a wagon train who have to survive after all their men are killed.The first episode was good, but also very focused on being dark and gritty. The main characters are a markswoman who was probably an outlaw pre-series, a female doctor who appears to be high functioning autistic, and the wife of the man who killed them groups men, and who doesn't appear to like or approve of her husband at all. Warning for the death of an infant in the opening scene, and the rather gruesome murder of a young child later. (The murder is offscreen, but we see the corpse.)
PS-Unrelated to TV, I am giving a free dragon to any of my friends who join Flight Rising on Monday.
-No, Annelise's scummy yet very attractive boyfriend, why are you lying like that?
-I really enjoyed this week's theme about questionable life-partner choices.
-I saw a lot of comments before watching about Michaela's reaction to learning her fiance and Connor used to be an item and...I don't know. For Michaela as a character, I think I'm actually OK with it. Connor spent the entire episode goading and taunting her about her fiance, both before and after confirming they'd been an item. and wasn't doing it for any reason but to be hurtful. Her fiance could have told her the truth up front, but didn't, and they'd also supposedly discussed all their previous relationships, so he was compounding one lie of omission with another. And this was with his seeing Connor goading Michaela. I think she was lashing out in the harshest way she could think of, and not actually voicing what she would normally think.
The show, OTOH...I dunno. I think the show actually was supporting the idea that you're straight or gay, and the only exception is childhood "experimenting" that doesn't count. I mean, really, dude is bi with an apparent preference for women (it's not exactly a 50/50 split every single time...), and apparently monogamous. I'm pretty sure the audience can handle the concept.
Madam Secretary 1/3: The things i like about this series, I like more each episode, and the political Problem of the Week was more interesting than the ones in the first two episodes. But I really just want more scenes of Tea Leoni and Bebe Neuwirth discussing White House office politics.
Sleepy Hollow 2.3:
-Henry has too much time on his hands. WAY too much. And either just torched a valuable antique, or madea very showy symbolic gesture that no one else ever gets to appreciate.
-Also, show, i'm really not down with "Henry is conflicted." dude jumpstarted the apocalypse, tried to kill his father, and turned his mother over to a guy who, for all he knew, was going to rape and murder her 5 minutes later. And...that's possibly still in her future, by their plans. Not to mention being responsible for at least 3 more deaths in this episode.
-No, Ichabod, "eyed my BFF/divinely ordained soulmate" is...not a good reason to kill someone. (Ichabod really was in full snit mode the whole episode, wasn't he?)
-I have no opinion of blondie, and find him "meh." Then again, I wasn't a fan of Morales at first, but he grew on me, and now i kinda miss him.
-At last, actual references to Ichabod's legal status.
-Kudos for "she's a grown up woman" being the first thing on Abbie's list in response to the idea of Ichabod "allowing" Katrina to do things. And no, I don't think Abbie is remotely romantically jealous of Katrina. The closest I can get to that reading is that Abbie has started to categorize Katrina as someone who hurts/could be a danger to someone she cares about. And yes, she switched places with Katrina in purgatory, but when they went to rescue Katrina a second time, Katrina didn't want rescuing. And now there's Henry in the mix. If Katrina hadn't been forced to abandon Henry (with people she thought would be able to keep him safe) then he might not have ended up on his current path and a lot of what's going on now wouldn't be happening. With that in mind, and keeping in mind the added perspective of Abbie's own abandonment of and reconciliation with the person she loves the most, I can believe she thinks there's a danger that Katrina will sacrifice them to save Henry and not abandon him a second time. And I think there's a 50/50 chance that she's right.
(For the record, I don't see Katrina as having abandoned Henry any more than Ichabod did. She left him where she thought he'd be safe, and had no choice in the matter. If her coven hadn't sold her to Moloch/Abraham and trapped her in purgatory, she would have gone back for him as soon as she was able to. The show, however, seems to want us to view it as her abandoning him.
-I know Reyes isn't exactly a fandom favorite right now, but I'm actually reading her primary purpose as being to form a bridge between Abbie, Jenny and their mother, and to give us answers about their mother. And I wouldn't label her interest as maternal, she seems to certainly have an interest in what happens to them. (If she ends up evil, or dies for getting in the way of things, I shall kick something.)
-So, Jenny started out with the coin making her turn on Abbie, but it switched to Reyes by the time she was doing anything about it. I choose to interpret this as Jenny's love for Abbie being stronger than resentment magically amplified 10000%
-We've had Mills Sisters hugging in 2 out of 3 eps this season
Star Wars: Rebels 1.1-1.2: I probably would have passed this by, except that I liked Clone Wars. Set 14 years after Revenge of the Sith and 5 years before A New Hope, SWR is about a ragtag group of rebels. The leader is Kanan, a Jedi who survived Order 66 and went into hiding (I question how he managed to stay under the radar for 15 years, given these episodes, but moving on...) and the captain is his apparent lover, Hera, who appears to be the only member whose head is completely screwed up straight. The rest of the crew are Sabine (next in line for "head screwed on striaghtest") a teenaged girl who appears to be the group's explosive expert, and likes to graffiti things before blowing them up, and Zeb, whose characterization so far is largely 'grouchy muscleguy who is secretly soft." They also acquire Ezra, a teenaged thief and conartist, and probable future Jedi. Ezra's character seems to be directly lifted form Disney's Aladdin, and a couple scenes, based on my memories, almost look like the same storyboards from the "Street Rat" song, but altered for SciFi. (I'm not complaining, just observing.) They also have a droid, "Chopper," who seems to find them all very annoying.
I'm not sure what the target audience is-some of it seems skewed to younger audiences, and some of it less so, and the Storm Troopers are incompetent even for Storm Troopers, but I liked it. Would recommend if you like space rebels, found families, explosions, competent women (who may or may not get sidelined...we'll see), and Star Wars in general.
So, Sabine is a Mandelorian, comments that the empire killed her family, and appears to be about 16-17. Which makes me wonder if maybe Obi-Wan and Satine's relationship in Clone Wars was quite as chaste as we were led to believe. I'm not sure the timing quite works, as I'm not sure how long before Revenge of the Sith Satine's death is set-Clone Wars wasn't always chronological and we didn't hear much about Mandelore after that, so they could actually swing it that that arc happened after some of the rest if they wanted. I'm betting on fandom running with that, though. There's also Satine's surprise!sister. They may not create a connection between Sabine and Satine at all,, but the naming seems to be begging us to expect one.
Strange Empire 1.1: New Canadian western series about a group of women on a wagon train who have to survive after all their men are killed.The first episode was good, but also very focused on being dark and gritty. The main characters are a markswoman who was probably an outlaw pre-series, a female doctor who appears to be high functioning autistic, and the wife of the man who killed them groups men, and who doesn't appear to like or approve of her husband at all. Warning for the death of an infant in the opening scene, and the rather gruesome murder of a young child later. (The murder is offscreen, but we see the corpse.)
PS-Unrelated to TV, I am giving a free dragon to any of my friends who join Flight Rising on Monday.