I appear to have accidentally broken up with The Vampire Diaries.  I fully intended to watch this season but have only watched the pilot and appear to have deleted all my caps of the second half of season 2.  Onhe one hand, there's a lot less reactionary RAGE towards TV on my part when i'm not subjecting myself to Damon Salvatore and the show's ( Read more... )

Pan Am:

The second episode aired today, but I've been catching up with almost-everything airing US tv for the last week and need a switch. Probably to Warrior Baek Dong Soo and Strange Hero Yi Zhi Mei, as I'm behind on both.

Anyway:

Downside: To all appearances, by the people who think Mad Men is about the aesthetics and nostalgia.

Upside: To all ( Read more... )

TVD: This show watches pretty fast when anything involving Damon, Klaus, women being abused, or men bonding over dead women was watched in a fastforward mode that was just slow enough to be followed. Though, this week, that basically left Caroline's scenes, which is quite a change from the beginning of the series. What I did watch at regular ( Read more... )

75 x The Borgias
75 x Paladins in Troubled Times
75 x Strange Hero Yi Zhi Mei/Vigilantes in Masks
75 x The Vampire Diaries


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My reaction to the dreaded parts of the finale was about the same as my reaction to the end of ep 2.8: torn between being grossed out both at what was going on and the idea that it was supposed to be romantic, and laughing at the absurdity of the dialogue and emo. (Look, there are certain kinds of emo that I devour, and the rest either bores or ( Read more... )

1. JENNA HAD A CROSSBOW. I cannot believe no one thought to mention that.
2. There was no Bonnie. The combined might of Tyler, Jules, Liz, Carol and Elijah doesn't quite make up for that.
3. But there was Caroline, and Tyler made me happy by shooting many looks of Pining her way. Rock on, starcrossed emo gothic supernatural teens.
4. Elena ( Read more... )

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So, I'm still shunning Vampire Diaries until after the season finale so I can be properly judgmental all at once (Atually, while I am geerally a spoilerphobe, there are certain thinks people are advised to warn me of, and so between that and recent episodes of most, I'm kind of annoyed with all the US shows I'm following-including Mad Men, as ( Read more... )

More through Things Going On than design, I've managed to fall two episodes behind on The Vampire Diaries (this is also true of Nikita, but I have a habit of holding off on it so that it can serve as therapy when something else inevitably really annoys me, and I can watch Nikita imagining Nikita shooting things. And with only two episodes left to ( Read more... )

29 x The Borgias
60 x Damages
62 x Paladins in Troubled Times
62 x South Riding
68 x Upstairs Downstairs 2010
63 x The Vampire Diaries


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