The TV is back! Reports on the TV!
I am slow to watch things because I am slow on everything, but here's my first thoughts on some of the TV! (Please to be reccing me things to watch!)
Okay, so my reactions to these two were basically the opposite of what I'd expected, which was that I thought I'd be charmed by Sleepy Hollow and bored by SHIELD (I was very bored by SHIELD last season) and it was the other way around: I was bored and made sort of giggly by Sleepy Hollow (I was moaning NO DANNY CONCANNON NO! NO WALTER! NO! I just--I spent the whole time feeling bad for the actors. The actors are all of them SO GREAT but the whole feels like a video game written by sixth graders, and I'm just embarrassed for them somehow. I don't know, I can't deal with people asking each other if they've seen Benjamin Franklin's key. It's just--whatever suspension of disbelief that requires, I haven't got it. It's not you, Sleepy Hollow--I don't know, maybe it IS you.
On the other hand, 201 was the first episode of SHIELD that really held me more or less throughout. I bless the spirit of Peggy Carter hanging over the thing--AND THE COMMANDOS, I was so happy to see all the Howling Commandos, and so delighted to see that she sort of replaced Steve there! -- and I actually was really interested in the whole cast for once--not just Melinda May, who was always awesome, and J. August Richards, which ditto! - but the characters I was meh about (I know, I'm out of step here, but I was much more interested in Fitz and Simmons with him nuts and her a ghost--it was very dramatic! - and I wasn't upset from the shipping because, IDK, they always seemed like siblings to me) - and even the ones I sort of loathed: is it me, or was Skye not at all annoying? She was actually kind of great! And even Ward wasn't annoying! And he had a Star Trek beard of evil! IDK, I was interested--and then, you know, plus Bonus Lucy Lawless and suddenly it really did seem like an incredibly cool show where a bunch of amazing women, black people, and Brits (though nobody got the hat trick - fuck, SHIELD, please cast somebody like Marianne Jean-Baptiste? Please? I'd love you FOREVER.) -- did cool shit--and I was good with it! So I'll be sticking with that for the foreseeable, which seems remarkable because last season even the mention of Bucky Barnes couldn't keep my eyes from fluttering closed at the screen.
Next up, Downton (hush) and POI.
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Okay, so my reactions to these two were basically the opposite of what I'd expected, which was that I thought I'd be charmed by Sleepy Hollow and bored by SHIELD (I was very bored by SHIELD last season) and it was the other way around: I was bored and made sort of giggly by Sleepy Hollow (I was moaning NO DANNY CONCANNON NO! NO WALTER! NO! I just--I spent the whole time feeling bad for the actors. The actors are all of them SO GREAT but the whole feels like a video game written by sixth graders, and I'm just embarrassed for them somehow. I don't know, I can't deal with people asking each other if they've seen Benjamin Franklin's key. It's just--whatever suspension of disbelief that requires, I haven't got it. It's not you, Sleepy Hollow--I don't know, maybe it IS you.
On the other hand, 201 was the first episode of SHIELD that really held me more or less throughout. I bless the spirit of Peggy Carter hanging over the thing--AND THE COMMANDOS, I was so happy to see all the Howling Commandos, and so delighted to see that she sort of replaced Steve there! -- and I actually was really interested in the whole cast for once--not just Melinda May, who was always awesome, and J. August Richards, which ditto! - but the characters I was meh about (I know, I'm out of step here, but I was much more interested in Fitz and Simmons with him nuts and her a ghost--it was very dramatic! - and I wasn't upset from the shipping because, IDK, they always seemed like siblings to me) - and even the ones I sort of loathed: is it me, or was Skye not at all annoying? She was actually kind of great! And even Ward wasn't annoying! And he had a Star Trek beard of evil! IDK, I was interested--and then, you know, plus Bonus Lucy Lawless and suddenly it really did seem like an incredibly cool show where a bunch of amazing women, black people, and Brits (though nobody got the hat trick - fuck, SHIELD, please cast somebody like Marianne Jean-Baptiste? Please? I'd love you FOREVER.) -- did cool shit--and I was good with it! So I'll be sticking with that for the foreseeable, which seems remarkable because last season even the mention of Bucky Barnes couldn't keep my eyes from fluttering closed at the screen.
Next up, Downton (hush) and POI.
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