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Homeland gets progressively more preposterous as the series goes on. I kind of wish I'd given season four a chance but I just deleted it from my DVR last week after I put the first episode on and after about 20 minutes realised I'd not actually paid any attention to it.

 

edit: Also, I find Damian Lewis really annoying (I used the actor name as it's him not the character I dislike). He's always really breathy, and in this his accent is really off-putting.

 

Yeah, I decided to give S2 a go and it's weird. Three episodes in, the Carrie stuff is really good but the Brody stuff is already becoming more and more ridiculous.

 

 

The Brody stuff is feeling a little like Dexter with regards to how it's being played... Also feels like the taped confession discovery is too convenient and also introduced too soon, but I guess we'll see.

 

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Who here watches Steven Universe?

 

It's deja vu for me because I'm having the same reaction as I did with Avatar: The Last Airbender. The first dozen episodes didn't really grab my attention, it was just another "if it's on, sure" television show. We're not necessarily introduced to who these characters are and their relation to him and/or her (or whatever) for probably almost a dozen episodes. I forgot about it until it was probably 40 or so episodes in and I'm having a good time. It's probably because it's getting into the actual nitty-gritty of who the Crystal Gems are, who the antagonists are, and Steven having to have some true conflict. It plays on the emotional side, which I'm fine with and tend to enjoy.

 

Only downside is that it can play out, in my wording, like a soap opera. I swear there must be two love triangles at work for this show, so it's definitely a shipper's paradise. Too bad that after Korra, shipping for me has become this minor annoyance rather than passive observation. I can't be ass'd to worry about where who and they are going to end up. But hey, if you're into pseudo-lesbian (spoiler below) pairings, there's like at least a dozen pairings for you to choose.

 

 

 

Garnet is actually a Fusion of two Gems named Ruby and Sapphire. As every Gem we've come across is female in appearance, it's visually lesbian. The catch is that Gems can be classified as sentient "non-gender" inorganic alien minerals who display a female persona.

 

 

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Practically all of my shows are on hiatus right now except for Game of Thrones, so to fill in the gaps I started catching up on Bob's Burgers and The Amazing World of Gumball.  I was fairly indifferent to these shows in the past because I tend to hate family sitcoms and all their cliches, but I never flat-out disliked them so I figured they'd be an okay watch while I waited for other shows to return.  I've ended up with a newly discovered appreciation for both shows, and I think the reason is because they both try a different kind of family dynamic.  Bob Belcher isn't a bumbling dad and he frequently has to talk down his well-meaning but naive wife, Linda.  Richard Watterson is most definitely a bumbling dad, but because of that he's a stay-at-home parent while his much more intelligent and capable wife, Nicole, is the one who actually works and provides for the rest of the family.

 

More than that, however, I think what I like about both shows is that it's not always about the family members fighting and arguing with each other. In so many other shows (coughFamilyGuycough) the family members are so hostile toward each other that you start to wonder if they even care.  It's downright unpleasant to watch.  While I won't say the Belchers and Wattersons never fight, more often than not the comedy isn't about pitting the family members against each other but pitting them against the rest of the world, which I find a lot funnier than watching a group of dysfunctional people tear themselves apart. 

 

It's also worth mentioning that neither show has the "perfect mom" trope that I hate so much.  Linda Belcher isn't stupid or anything, but she tends to get carried away with half-baked ideas and jumps to wild conclusions with little evidence, so Bob often has to talk her back down to Earth.  Nicole Watterson, while undeniably the smartest and most sane member of her family with the possible exception of her daughter, is also obsessed with winning to truly insane degrees and has one hell a temper when something annoys her, so it's not like she's put on some pedestal above the rest of the family members.  She's just as crazy at the rest of them, but merely in different ways.

 

I'm not saying either one of these shows is a masterpiece or anything, just that they made me reconsider how I feel about sitcoms.  The genre isn't inherently terrible, but people have gotten lazy, complacent, and even downright cynical in how they write it.  I've already seen enough broken families in the real world.  I want more shows where the families are struggling together, not struggling to stay together.

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Been a fan of Bob's Burgers for the last three or so years. It's primarily because of the better family dynamic that I much prefer it over any other animated sitcom on Fox. The Belcher kids are a better cast as a trio than your typical "screw you sis/bro" you get from Family Guy or whatever. It's like they're actually acting like kids than a shell for outdated references.

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Superman is around. At least that seems to be the case. Though chatting with housemate it'd make sense to have him go at some point if jsut to get past the "why doesn't superman rescue that plane/train/woman/moon/etc". Hank Henshaw is cast for the show, and his big role in the comics is as Cyborg Superman when real superman dies so that might happen here.

 

edit: Oh Henshaw is in the trailer, he's the head of the alien investigation group...which'd give him access to kryptonian alloys for a cyborg body.....

 

 

edit: Okay this is pretty cool:

http://youtu.be/4MubNoWQiSc

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Watched the Supergirl pilot episode (thx internet). Some parts were pretty good, other parts were laughable, especially the last 30 seconds, the final sentence is suppose to be a big reveal and is said all dramatically... but they had already revealed the twist right before that.... sooo...?? Pacing felt weird and the whole thing with the military seemed really half baked and came out of nowhere. 

On the whole, I kept just thinking about how I've seen this chick naked before on Homeland.

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Have also watcher Supergirl. I thought it was pretty good for a first episode. We appreciated the fact it pretty much ditched any kind of origin story, accepting that the viewer would be expected to know "yeah, krypton, superman relation, flies, super strength, bulletproof, laser vision, super breath. You know the drill".

 

Bit of a complain is about "him" "her cousin", the other one, you know. The one they'll mention but not name. Kinda gonna cause a few issues I'm thinking. The "girl-power" ness of it was a bit less subdued than in the trailer, more in that what's in the trailer is pretty much it. Oh also her laser vision is blue, which is weird and unexplained. But maybe it'll be covered later on (there's an implication she's not as strong as superman, though honestly not sure why that'd be the case except less of her maturity over here? I'm not fully clued in on her origins, though I'm pretty sure "pulls a prison out of the phantom zone like a tugboat" isn't one of them).

 

I'm up for watching some more in future, though I'm aware it'll be many moons until it's up in full.

 

Oh yeah, effects were pretty good for a tv show, even more so in it being early days, most hold off until the end (as with, well GoT, Flash, Doctor Who, the usual)

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Since I know it's a fairly global show at this point but out TV news is not always your TV news:

Chris Evans is new head host of Top Gear.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-33158464

 

Not Captain America. He's a pretty good presenter, currently hosts BBC Radio 2, used to have a chat show called "TFI Friday" back in the day too (which had a one-off return last week, though I've not given it a watch).

 

Personally I'm pro-Sue Perkins being on. She's pretty cool. Also a history of chat shows n currently one of the main hosts of Great British Bake Off.

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Top Gear is practically a parody of itself at this point - I hope they have a general rethink about its direction.

 

Mel and Sue are the best thing on TV. Glad she's not sullied her good name by associating it with that show. If they wanted a woman that one who used to rally race and presents the channel five car shows would be a better fit.

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I think I'm realising tumblr gifsets are seriously misleading when it comes to representing TV shows. I've just watched the first two episodes of American Horror Story, and it is not the surreal, kitschy extravaganza I was expecting. It is pretty much just straight up horror. I did enjoy them, so will keep watching,  just it's not what I was expecting.

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The new season of Bojack Horseman premiered on Netflix today.  I've binged through about half of it and it's way better than the first season so far, and I'm saying this as someone who liked the first season.  Since the show is already established and the writers are no longer trying to trick you into thinking it's an average sitcom with the first few episodes, they can bring their A-game right from the start.  It's funny, clever, and even profound at times. 

 

Edit: Finished season 2.  I really loved the ending.

 

 

That monkey who jogged by Bojack's house in nearly every episode seemed like a throwaway gag for a while, but then he just comes up to Bojack while he's exhausted on the ground from his own attempt at jogging and says the following:

"It gets easier. Everyday it gets a little easier. But you gotta do it every day. That's the hard part; but it does get easier."

 

 

Man, this show gets deep.

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