Episode Reviews

[donutsweeper]

Wow, I suck at getting these out.

Almost Human and Teen Wolf have ended. Almost Human never morphed into the show it could be and I don't know if it'll be renewed, I find that I don't care. Teen Wolf was great up until the last five second random event/cliffhanger which is something I dread, but oh well. I find myself at odds with the Teen Wolf fandom though because I just can't whip myself into a frothing rage over the main character death like everyone else is. Every time someone dies, it is just not a misogynistic horrible fridging event in my opinion.

Intelligence ends next week, technically the season finale, but I doubt it'll be renewed, so yet another show that could have/should have been more than it was. Still, strong heroic female characters in charge and bechdel test passing show was nice while it lasted.

The Blacklist needs help with how it writes its main female character. We're supposed to be engaged by her and care and whatnot but I do not in the slightest. Whoever is doing the lighting and makeup though deserves awards; the framing on Ressler combined with Diego Klattenhoff's acting has been amazing.

TPTB behind SHIELD are really pissing me off because they claim that this coming week's ep leads into Captain America 2 and then the week after's will have spoilers for the movie which... really? I don't see movies opening weekend, I don't like feeling manipulated into doing it either. I just feel that they have no idea what it takes to make a good show or why their show is failing to be a hit in the ratings (I assume it has something to do with the unengaging characters, pathetic plots, sloppy writing and mediocre acting but that's just me.) Their supposed Thor:TDW tie in episode didn't really tie in at all and I watched it and the Sif one without having seen the movie, but I didn't care about Thor as much as I do about Cap2 so mostly I'm just left annoyed by this recent announcement and it's encouraging me to quit watching the show.

There are other shows I watch and would be happy to blither about with people, but they're all kind of just... there and I can't come up with much to comment about them.

Comments

[moriann.livejournal.com]

Actually, having seen Cap 2, I don't think there's any other way to go re: the spoilers. Unless they just skipped that week and didn't air an episode at all, or moved the action somewhere completely cut off from everything. The repercussions of what happens in the movie would be impossible to ignore.

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

I assume SHIELD goes kerbloowy/evil or something since that's what the commercials seem to show and that Nick gets hurt badly (please don't let me know specifics). Which, yes, they could certainly deal with on the show, but many episodes have the team in their own little bubble, and there's very little (if any) interaction between them and SHIELD command shown. I just think it's not the best tactic to have an episode tying into a movie that may not be available where folks who are watching the show are due to whatever reason (small town not showing it, people unable to go, etc) especially if it's for something major in the movie that'll have less of an impact if spoiled by however the show choses to do it.

[moriann.livejournal.com]

I don't want to spoil you, so I won't go into specifics, but sadly, that bubble of theirs is probably not sustainable in the aftermath. I'd probably schedule 2-3 weeks for it to be off air rather than do a tie-in immediately, because as long as the show and the movie happen in the same universe, the first post-movie episode would *have to* spoil parts of the movie.

Unless they went to Asgard. For reasons. That would be a cool way to air the episode the opening week and not spoil anything.

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

Yeah, a break in April wouldn't be unusual, a lot of shows do that pre-May sweeps, at least on week anyway would seem reasonable. Oh well.