I'm A Fookin' Rocket Scientist

[meddow]

Oh, Misfits. Not sure how I feel about Nathan being replaced by a suspiciously similar substitute, although, I really like the actor, and Alisha/Simon still bore me half to death, but do love the new powers. I'm hopeful though that the big problem of last season (the side-lining of Kelly and Curtis) will not occur this season.

Is it me, or has

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[airie_fairy]

I liked the "real world" stuff in Once Upon a Time better in the first place, but last week's fairyland stuff was especially campy. I let it slide because I guess they're just embracing that, but...eh. And I didn't like Maleficent being all heavy-handedly moralistic. Pfft. On the other hand, over in Maine, turns out the sheriff is endearingly hilarious.

I've noticed Britta get dumbed down too, and it does irk me, but I don't think that problem is new, and on the other hand I think Gillian makes up for it with a great performance and they are getting back on track, given that mispronunciation aside last episode, she was right and she was effective. Hopefully they continue to get back on track because she can't be all ineptitude all the time, it's just painful. Britta's persistent good intentions have never stopped making my heart swell with adoration.

[meddow]

I do like the sheriff. I want to know who he is. The huntsman maybe?

Britta being occasionally written as dumb goes all the way back to the first season. I really don't think we've had any more of it this season than past seasons. But from her pretty onto it observations on Jeff in Chaos Theory, and being, again, pretty onto it with her observations on both Jeff and Pierce in the latest episode, she's had quite a few opportunities to show she can on occasion be pretty smart.

[airie_fairy]

Major theories (at least in my personal circle) are either the huntsman, the woodsman, or the wolf.

I feel like it started moreso in s2. She could be inappropriate or confused in s1, but it wasn't exaggerated as much.

[chocolatepot]

I would love it if he were the wolf, but it would feel like stealing from Fables to me. :(

[madamedarque]

Downton Abbey is kind of a let-down this year. My favorite was the convenient amnesia AND THEN I BECAME CANADIAN lost heir plotline.

But I mostly commented because: yay, another Sybil/Branson shipper! Love them, love the chemistry, love the class differences. I'm choosing to believe that they have all sorts of fascinating conversations in the garage, but they're only showing us the couple of times Branson was sort of weird and pushy. There's been a little too much of him badgering her to leave with him. But every couple in this show seems to be stuck on repeat; Anna/Bates talk about how they'll be together soon, O'Brien and Thomas scheme, lather, rinse, repeat.

Honestly, I would ship it just for the pretty. I'm mesmerized by Sybil's beauty, and everyone loves a hot Irishman.

[meddow]

You know, I had completely forgotten about that plotine. It really does take the cake for compete randomness and implausibility, and just seemed to be the show yet again refusing to give poor Edith a moment of happiness.

I may take up your idea and choose to believe that they spend hours discussing politics, social reform and just how their days went in the garage together. That was what made it so wonderful in the first season, that they bonded and became friends over discussions of women's rights. I've really missed that this season.

[chocolatepot]

I don't know if I'd say that Britta's been dumbed down, but it does feel like there's this strong shift from "parody of well-intentioned white feminists" to "massive screw-up". It's kind of odd.

See, I knew Matthew wasn't really going to be disabled, so I wasn't surprised when he recovered. I actually thought having him talk about his legs tingling was more set-up than a lot of movies/shows would have had. Baby steps! Agree with you re: Sybil/Branson 100%.

I feel like a Nathan-type character is really needed for the Misfits cast, since the rest are pretty serious, but at the same time, it feels like they went OH NO SHEEHAN IS GOING, WE'D BETTER FIND SOMEONE TO BE JUST LIKE HIM. Although I like the new guy's better half.

[meddow]

I knew he wasn't going to stay disabled either as nobody stays disabled on television, but it was just so massively implausible that he was able to stand given his leg muscles would have been so weak which had me and my flatmate complaining.

I hope we see a lot of the new guy's better half. The scene in which he confessed how Alisha had broken his heart made me really love the actor, and was very different from anything we had from Nathan. His other half, I could pass on.

[chocolatepot]

Oh, I see, yes.

Yeah, the regular half is just kind of annoying. At least Nathan was kind of cute despite himself, this one I'm just ... meh. Better Half needs to be in the next episodes more, I think!