Land of the mildly insane

It's that time of year where all my TV staples are on a break, and there are more than a few new shows that are starting to catch my eye.

Two in particular: Killjoys and Dark Matter.

In your opinion, are either/both of these any fun/worth watching? Any others I've not mentioned but I would be a fool to miss?

Guess who got to see Avengers: Age of Ultron on Thursday. Oh yes, hello smugness my old friend... Thumbs up from me, and of course I'm now already looking forward to the next one :)

Agents of SHIELD also continues to be highly, highly satisfying. ( SPOILERS for this week's ep... )

As for Supernatural - hah! One of their 'teaser' posters had the supposedly intriguing tagline 'What is Sam prepared to do to save his brother...' My reaction was of course "We literally don't care because there is actually nothing he can do we haven't seen before." All main 3 players have taken turns dying/resurrection, going evil/good, going solo/rejoining the team. Whatever. But I'm still really enjoying this season as good ol' HMS Destiel continues to sail strong and true into the sunset. Regardless of how it all plays out, no-one can convince me that Cas isn't Dean's Collette. Huzzah.

Next on the watch list, Jupiter Ascending...

I'm currently enjoying working my way through Daredevil, nothing like extreme well choreographed violence to help you unwind at the end of a tiring day :)

A question for the FL: is anyone watching iZombie? Is it worth giving a shot? (My 'To Watch' list is frankly epic already, but I will admit that for Mssr James, if the show's decent, I'm willing to add another one.)

Ah, it's been a pleasant couple of weeks in terms of watching/reading material:

Woman in White - a case of me continuing to finally reading the classics I was meant to have read umpteen years ago. Certainly less traumatic than 'Les Mis', though my favourite so far remains 'Call of the Wild'. Still, this was fun and twisty with some Grade A villains and a very satisfactory wrap-up at the end.

Galavant - utter utter musical crack that I know I shouldn't enjoy as much as I do, but I have enjoyed Season 1 immensely, it has hands down my favourite jousting scene and best reason given by the hero as to why his team rocks ("We're gorgeous! And incredibly diverse!").

Agent Carter - ah, Peggy, you wonderful woman you :) Plus of course the thrill of finally meeting Jarvis in the flesh. And a nice plot to help keep the tensions high. I believe this is meant to be a one-off 8-ep mini series (same as for 'Galavant'), but I hope I'm wrong and we get an S2.

Supernatural - this is basically now EastEnders with less a less imaginative wardrobe, but I'm still thoroughly enjoying this. We're actually getting to keep some of our guest stars which is brilliant. And of course Castiel and Crowley and their mountain of personal baggage make for an entertaining, Good Omens-ish vibe.

How do you solve a problem like Loki - I don't read the comics, but then again I don't watch 'Game of Thrones' either, yet oddly enough if you browse Tumblr it's amazing how up-to-date you find yourself when they're brought up in conversation. So, I was gutted at what happened to Kid!Loki, and I wibbled when new Teen!Loki told Thor so many many things when he was compelled to only speak the truth, and yes, my heart was shredded when finally, inevitably, Thor found out and we got that scene. That said, if you need a pick-me-up, just read the comments that followed, in particular the long thread of confusion as someone attempts to summarise and simplify just why we have all the various Lokis currently floating around.

In short, t'is a good time to be a nerd, the pickings are good. Even the sporting world briefly blipped across my radar when I saw the Novak won his final, aww, good for you, old sport :)

Somehow, during Season 9, one of my old uni friends had her eye caught by Misha/Castiel. The result was her watching the Cas eps from the end of S8, all his eps (plus a few I deemed plot-essential) in S9, and me promising I wouldn't watch S10 without her.

This weekend, we finally settled down for said promised catch-up. Admittedly eps 1-2 passed in a haze of wine, but the remaining 3 we saw in the cold light of sobriety.

Non-spoiler-y: general thumbs up.

Spoiler-y: ( Read more... )

Well, I care not! I will still briefly flail and mibble about what is frankly Hollyoaks drama with some fabulous outfits and Maggie Smith :)

( SPOILERS for this week's ep... )

So, as far as shows go so far: I've yet to watch an ep of SPN. I suspect I'll wind up watching these in batches so I can skim over the filler eps. Sleepy Hollow is so-so - I love the individual characters, but frankly when I get back from work I am absolutely shattered and each ep is just that tiny bit too long for easy watching. Which leaves, steaming ahead of the pack, SHIELD. Ah my daft, colourful, wonderful show. I properly love all of your characters, and I just hope this pace keeps up for the rest of the season :)

I am currently at that happy pivot in time where all my favourite shows have just returned or are about to. Yes, I am once more preparing to fill up my evenings with new Agents of SHIELD, Sleep Hollow, Supernatural, and of course the ever epic Downton Abbey.

However, some other shows are potentially catching my eye. So dear FL, in your wise opinion, are any/all of these shows worth a gander?

x. Forever - because honestly I haven't seen this guy since Hornblower and 102 Dalmatians.
x. Intruders - not gonna lie, it's James Frain who's caught my eye since I've still not forgiven him for his Thomas Cromwell stealing my heart in The Tudors.
x. Legends - aka let's see how long Sharpe can last this time before dying in some memorable fashion.

Any 'Aye!s' for these, any 'NAY!!'s?

Oh to have been a fly on the wall of HMV as the parents argued in the aisle. The mother wanted to buy Lincoln and the father fought her tooth and nail. As he later explained it to me:

Dad: I was saying 'NO!! Absolutely not! I saw this on the plane and it's rubbish! it's terrible. HOW DID IT WIN AN OSCAR. It's full of vampires and werewolves-

LB: Right. So all this time and you hadn't realised until this point that Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter and Lincoln aren't actually the same movie?

Dad: *looks sheepish*

I do love my parents :)

Managed to extricate myself from work in time to watch the end of the Wimbledon rerun on the Beeb. Even knowing the ending didn't particularly help - crikey that was a tense match. Two very deserving champs, was lovely to see the respect they showed each other over the final result. By the time it came to them giving their final speeches, Roger was in tears, Novak was in tears, I was in tears. This is why I couldn't ever follow sports all year round, it would just destroy me.

Anyway, well played, gents, and thank you, it's been emotional.

So, unspoilery reaction to the finale: it was fun and solid.

The big question, though, was were the writers being realistic when they said it would be a situation we've never been in before?

Answer: ( SPOILERS, obviously :) )