TV update
I'm in love with my new Doctor Who/Community icon so I'm using it as an opportunity to make a quick TV post. Here's where we are with pretty much everything:
Doctor Who: We watched all of season 6. I was not exactly in love with River's newly revealed backstory, but at least it was interesting, and it seemed to be pretty carefully plotted. At some point I'm looking forward to watching the last 2-3 seasons over again to see if it all really adds up. I liked the last episode and knew that some sort of trick was coming up (F was predicting a Doctor made of Flesh, but what they actually did made perfect sense). I love this show and I'm totally missing it right now.
The Walking Dead: We watched all of the first season and the first two episodes of the second season. My god is this show tense. And intense. I'm glad there are only six episodes per season. I can only watch this show during full daylight, preferably on Saturday morning.
Community: The current season is so far not as good as the last two seasons. It just seems like our heroes are even more cliqueish, self-absorbed, and annoying than they've ever been before. I'm wondering what happened to poor Todd and when we'll see him again--the episode with Todd was my least favorite one. However, there have been some standout episodes (so far everything that's happened in Troy & Abed's apartment has been fantastic, including the alternate universe episode and the one where Annie moves in). I also like the Troy-Fixes-Things ongoing subplot and the potential for conflict with the AC Repair school. Predictably, I loved it when Britta introduced Abed to Inspector Spacetime, and I loved it that Inspector Spacetime came up again in later episodes.
Big Bang Theory: We're working our way through season 4 (halfway through disk 2). New Year's Eve was pretty funny.
Star Trek: TNG: I made F watch the first episode of the third season even though we're in the middle of all this other stuff. We were between Netflix disks and I didn't want to watch something dark, so Next Gen it was. Oh Wesley.
Dollhouse: I'm about halfway through the second season and I don't know if I'll go back to it. F has already decided he's done. I was just starting to get really engaged with it, and then Adele turned into Super Cold Bitch when she gave the dollpocalypse plans to the evil overlords, and that turned me off big time. The show is so violent and I don't know if I want that in my head anymore. And it's not like I don't know what happens at the end. Although based on the description on Netflix, I'm pretty sure that Echo gets sent to The Attic in the next episode, and that I'd kind of like to see.
We also accidentally caught an episode of Work of Art, a Bravo reality series where a group of artists are forced to make artwork on a weekly theme and get eliminated if their work isn't profound enough. I'm completely hooked and now I'm trying to see all the previous episodes. I hate most of the female artists, especially Michelle, but I love Dusty and the Sucklord. The Sucklord makes the whole damn show, which I think is the real reason why they haven't eliminated him yet even though he's been in the bottom three a few times.
In video game news, I preordered the new Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword, and it should be arriving today or tomorrow. With the special gold controller. So once I start playing I doubt I'll have a ton of time for shows that don't make me happy (Dollhouse especially).
Doctor Who: We watched all of season 6. I was not exactly in love with River's newly revealed backstory, but at least it was interesting, and it seemed to be pretty carefully plotted. At some point I'm looking forward to watching the last 2-3 seasons over again to see if it all really adds up. I liked the last episode and knew that some sort of trick was coming up (F was predicting a Doctor made of Flesh, but what they actually did made perfect sense). I love this show and I'm totally missing it right now.
The Walking Dead: We watched all of the first season and the first two episodes of the second season. My god is this show tense. And intense. I'm glad there are only six episodes per season. I can only watch this show during full daylight, preferably on Saturday morning.
Community: The current season is so far not as good as the last two seasons. It just seems like our heroes are even more cliqueish, self-absorbed, and annoying than they've ever been before. I'm wondering what happened to poor Todd and when we'll see him again--the episode with Todd was my least favorite one. However, there have been some standout episodes (so far everything that's happened in Troy & Abed's apartment has been fantastic, including the alternate universe episode and the one where Annie moves in). I also like the Troy-Fixes-Things ongoing subplot and the potential for conflict with the AC Repair school. Predictably, I loved it when Britta introduced Abed to Inspector Spacetime, and I loved it that Inspector Spacetime came up again in later episodes.
Big Bang Theory: We're working our way through season 4 (halfway through disk 2). New Year's Eve was pretty funny.
Star Trek: TNG: I made F watch the first episode of the third season even though we're in the middle of all this other stuff. We were between Netflix disks and I didn't want to watch something dark, so Next Gen it was. Oh Wesley.
Dollhouse: I'm about halfway through the second season and I don't know if I'll go back to it. F has already decided he's done. I was just starting to get really engaged with it, and then Adele turned into Super Cold Bitch when she gave the dollpocalypse plans to the evil overlords, and that turned me off big time. The show is so violent and I don't know if I want that in my head anymore. And it's not like I don't know what happens at the end. Although based on the description on Netflix, I'm pretty sure that Echo gets sent to The Attic in the next episode, and that I'd kind of like to see.
We also accidentally caught an episode of Work of Art, a Bravo reality series where a group of artists are forced to make artwork on a weekly theme and get eliminated if their work isn't profound enough. I'm completely hooked and now I'm trying to see all the previous episodes. I hate most of the female artists, especially Michelle, but I love Dusty and the Sucklord. The Sucklord makes the whole damn show, which I think is the real reason why they haven't eliminated him yet even though he's been in the bottom three a few times.
In video game news, I preordered the new Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword, and it should be arriving today or tomorrow. With the special gold controller. So once I start playing I doubt I'll have a ton of time for shows that don't make me happy (Dollhouse especially).