TV catch-up

[frelling_tralk]

I'm finding that the characterisation on From Dusk Till Dawn isn't really the same for me in season 2 :( Tbh I was most into the show in the first half of season 1 when Richie came across as a little bit sociopathic/there was just something off about him, and Seth was constantly having to keep him in check and worry about him. I read quite a bit of

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[wheatear]

Yes, I loved the Doctor's solution to defeating the enemy! I think he was so desperate to save Ashildr, he went for the first and most extreme solution available even though he knows it will probably come back to haunt him. In the next episode, presumably.

[frelling_tralk]

I can appreciate the Doctor saying to hell with the rules if he thinks that there's a greater good in there somewhere, I suppose my sticking-point is that DW has always put so much emphasis on immortality being seen as more of a curse than a blessing, so it just seems really bizarre to me that he thought that he thought that he was doing the right thing by Ashildr. In the past he's given more than one speech about how living for a really long time basically just means that you live long enough to see the people around you die, he even says that again to Clara in this episode when he's admitting making Ashildr immortal, so how exactly did he think that he was helping Ashildr is what I'm getting stuck on

And the episode focuses on how much the people in her village mean to Ashildr, and that she doesn't know if she would find any kind of acceptance elsewhere, so I'm really curious to see how next week is going to pick up that thread when she meets the Doctor again after he caused her to outlive everyone in her village. In her position

[gillo]

I suspect that a pissed-off Viking woman out of her own time and place is exactly what we are going to see. I did like the way they tied The Fires of Pompeii into the episode, though.

[frelling_tralk]

That did seem to be what the ending was pointing too, she looked pretty dark at the end of it!

And that was very cool, I loved all of the flashbacks there :)

[liliaeth]

I love how Izombie first lured you in with the funny bro stuff, and then pulled up the curtain and showed just how harmful those 'funny' jokes of theirs really were.

And I agree, if the killer had come across the actual drunk driver, he probably would have felt at least relieved that his father's death actually mattered to the guy that had killed him. He would have seen the guy's remorse, they could have talked, and they both might have felt better over it.

But instead Chad was such an asshole drunk fratboy, that he couldn't take the kid and his grief serious. And ended up paying for it with his life.

[frelling_tralk]

Yeah it's interesting that both the first and second episode of this season have pushed sympathy for the killer accidentally killing their victim on the spur of the moment/later having reason to regret it (the dog wasn't actually dead, the first guy was a case of mistaken identity). I found it hard to completely sympathise with the killer not even confirming the guys identity before killing him mind you, but it did all make a horrible kind of sense with him not going there with the intention of killing him, but just losing it when he found a drunken frat guy who seemed to live down to all of his worst expectations about the drunk-driver who had killed his father

[liliaeth]

I think it combines with making us feel sympathy for the zombies. Showing us the zombie Major killed as a family man and father, showing us the loss the man's children felt.

Especially when you keep in mind that like Lowell he probably was a client/victim of Blaine's, and at best, he did every effort not to look into where the brains he ate came from.
(just imagine, the man had children the age of those streetkids that Blaine served to his customers, so how likely is it, that he didn't have at least a few flashbacks to give him a hint of the age of his meals.)

[bm_shipper]

And I'm going to need Clive to find out what is going on with Liv soon!

You know, they've actually filmed SEVERAL scenes where Clive at least calls Liv out on her behaviour but kinda deleted them all because they think it's funnier that way... oh well...

I have to admit I liked that episode of Doctor Who (unlike the rest of the season so far), and I literally squealed with joy when they followed up the fact that Peter actually has been on Doctor Who before. They usually DON'T do that and now they even gave him a reason for looking the way he did... that moment made me REALLY, really happy. That's what I call continuation :)

[frelling_tralk]

I remember hearing that the show was planning to tie in Peter Capaldi's previous appearance, and I thought that was a nice way of doing it, it was great to get those flashbacks with David Tennent and Catherine Tate :)

And hmm interesting, that does seem to point to them wanting to keep Clive in the dark for a while yet. But eh I don't see why they can't still have the funny wtf responses from Clive, at the same time as him asking Liv what her deal is. It doesn't make sense for him not to address it at all, so for character reasons they really should consider leaving some of those scenes in!

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[tellshannon815]

Yes, it's kind of driving me crazy right now that Clive still doesn't know and doesn't seem to question anything! Although it did with Peyton as well considering she supposedly knew Liv a lot better.

[frelling_tralk]

Cute icon :) And yeah it's a little bit of a stretch, especially considering that Clive is a detective and is otherwise presented as a smart guy who is quick at putting things together, so there's no reason for him to be this oblivious. I can actually understand it more with her friends and family having to accept that Liv is going through some kind of crisis after her ~near-death~ experience at the party, but you'd think that Clive would have picked up on Liv starting to act exactly like traits of the victims that they are looking into each episode. Heck they could have her explain it away to him as part of her psychic deal easily enough!