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| Snowman | Mar 24 2013, 05:03 AM Post #211 |
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omgggg finished Buffy season 4. I still have three episodes until I finish the first season of Angel, but I'll make a separate post for that when I finish. Also, I'm following a guide to watching both of them that's supposed to make sure timelines/crossover eps match up well. [spoiler=Spoilers, of course.]Let's start with Tara. I do like her very much, but would like to see her become more useful. She's done some pretty important stuff, yeah, but not consistently. I assume she's considered to be a "main" cast member for season 5 and will have more stuff to do then. And I looooove seeing her with Willow. They're just so perfect together. I'm glad Oz wasn't too upset. Shocked at first, of course, but he understood after he had some time. I just don't know what he's going to do. Oh well. I still love Anya, but she isn't doing anything. Again, I hope she does stuff when she becomes a "main" cast member, which I assume will happen for season 5. Not sure what I think about Spike at the moment. After he first hit a demon and got all excited I thought "Oh. So this is how he becomes relatively good. Okay." But then the thing with Adam happened. But I guess his attitude after they killed Adam was him accepting that he'll never get the chip out, what with the Initiative dead and all. Still, I think it'll be difficult for everyone to accept him into the gang. Speaking of things happening that I haven't seen yet, Dawn. I don't know anything about her other than she's Buffy's sister that Buffy didn't know about. So in that dream with Faith when they were making that bed for Buffy's "little sis" I thought :o. And then in the end of the season finale, Tara said "Be back before dawn" as Buffy was leaving the room with the bed. Speaking of the last episode, I'm not sure I got the point of it. Yeah, it was a good episode, I think, but the previous one where they killed Adam seemed like the more traditional season finale type thing. Also, cheese guy. What? I mean it was funny and now I understand that t-shirt on Redbubble that says "I wear the cheese; it does not wear me," but I don't get why he was there but I'm gonna go with comic relief for now. Saving the best for last. Faith! I liked that stuff with Faith. Sure, I hated her when she woke up. But when she was in Buffy's body beating up Buffy in Faith's body and calling Faith's body/herself several hateful things, I just felt bad for her. It seemed like she finally realized that she didn't like who she was. So I thought, woo, she's gonna run away and think things out and get better. But no, she agrees to kill Angel for Wolfram & Hart. But only so she can get herself killed because she absolutely hates who she is? Well that made me feel pretty bad for her too. Didn't help that Buffy was ready to kill her. But I liked the ending. I'm glad Faith is willingly helping herself instead of some council rehabilitating her in England against her will. I'm excited to see how she's changed when she comes back later.[/spoiler] |
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| Snowman | Mar 24 2013, 07:27 PM Post #212 |
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Finished Angel season 1 earlier, but I don't have as much to say about it. 1.) Wolfram & Hart, you guys suck. 2.) Charles Gunn, you seem pretty cool. 3.) I like Wesley a lot more now than I did in Buffy. Other than that... I'm just looking forward to meeting some new characters next season. But first, I'll finally finish Arrested Development, like I said I was going to do a few weeks ago. :P |
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| DarkFlashlight | Mar 24 2013, 09:29 PM Post #213 |
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Wesley is so fucking awesome in Angel. Honestly, I think Alexis Denisof is the best actor in the Buffyverse, but that doesn't become more obvious unlike like season three. [spoiler=RE: "Restless"]Seriously, the dream episode is one of my favorites in the whole series. I agree that it doesn't make a ton of sense, because it's the season finale, yet the Big Bad is already dead, but I love how it's so atypical. It straddles the line between a comedy episode and one of the deepest and most revealing ones, but it's all really subtle. I especially like Xander's parts, because you never got much info on his backstory before that. Also, the whole Death of a Salesman thing was amazing. And as for The Cheese Man, apparently Joss Whedon said that he exists for the sole purpose of being confusing and making the dream sequences more surreal.[/spoiler] And also, you're now probably the only person that understands my user title. |
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| Snowman | Mar 24 2013, 11:32 PM Post #214 |
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Ah, yes. I do understand your title now. Also, I'm gonna go change my sig. |
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| DarkFlashlight | Mar 25 2013, 01:25 AM Post #215 |
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New sig is win. |
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| Snowman | Apr 1 2013, 04:30 AM Post #216 |
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I don't usually post about current shows, but I do usually like to make a post when I finish a season of the show, so... TWD season 3 spoilers ahead. Please keep all spoilery replies in spoiler tags too, 'cause of how recent this is. [spoiler=TWD Season 3]Sooo. Prison. I probably won't have too much detailed stuff to say, since I'll watch a season of any other show in 1-3 weeks and this one lasted from October to March, so it's not all that fresh in my mind. But I like splitting stuff up by character, so I'll do that. Lori -- Guess I'll get her out of the way first. I was really starting to not mind her presence, but then she died. That's too bad. As for "ghost" Lori... I guess it's good that she was there. I mean, not good for the characters, but it makes sense that Rick would be affected somehow. He took charge to protect his family, now his wife's dead. I also liked that Rick looked for her on the bridge at the end of the season finale, and she was gone. I assume that means he's ready to lead this new group of people. T-Dog -- Yeah there's not really much to say. Thanks for saving Carol, though! Axel -- Only prisoner worth talking about, really. I started to like you a few minutes before you got shot. Carol -- Not sure why, but I really like Carol. I also like that she's able to defend herself, even though she's not really one of the main fighters. Anyways, she and Daryl need to get together already. Daryl -- Favorite character during the episodes between Dale's death and the episode where he and Merle go live in the woods. That just kinda annoyed me because I always saw him as a level-headed kind of guy, so he'd see that he's with a nice group of people, and his brother is a terrible person. Yeah, I understand that he doesn't want to give up on his brother, but taking your chances out in the woods between two groups who hate each other just doesn't sound all that smart. I do still like him a lot, though. Merle -- Just a brief bit to add to the above. I thought Merle's death was done perfectly. In my opinion, he redeemed himself, and Daryl got to see it. Couldn't have asked for more, other than the Governor getting killed in the middle of that. Andrea -- Everyone else seems to have hated her, but overall, I liked her, just wished she would have done more. It seemed like the show was trying to imply that the fate of Woodbury depended on her, though, and I don't think it would have. If she killed the Governor, Martinez would've taken over and killed her. Michonne -- <3 <3 <3 Michonne. But even more than that, I loved her relationship with Andrea. Before "Clear", the only personality Michonne had was her relationship with Andrea. You could just really tell that they cared so much for each other, especially during Andrea's death scene. I don't know if I would've been as sad if Michonne wasn't there to see Andrea die. Anyway, I expect she'll use her personality more in the next season. Yay! Tyreese -- Poor guy. No one's telling him anything :(. I'm glad everything turned out alright for him in the end, though. Milton -- THIS GUY. I'm so glad he did something (burned the walkers in the pit). The Governor just treated him so terribly that if he didn't get some kind of revenge, his inevitable death would've seemed meaningless to me. Carl -- Urgh. I finally thought you were starting to become a useful, productive member of the group. But then you kill that one Woodbury kid, and then you said Andrew killed Lori, so clearly you are NOT okay and possibly a future Governor. Seriously though, I thought after Michonne told him she would handle the picture thing in "Clear", that Carl had accepted his place as being helpful, but not some invincible kid. I guess he still thinks he needs to prove himself, though. Bleh. Beth -- Yeah not much really I like her though. Hershel -- I like that he tries to help Rick think straight. Great sense of humor too. Liked his conversation with Milton in that fake peace negotiation episode. Other than that... He doesn't really do anything, but I think him talking with Rick is pretty important sometimes so I hope he's around for at least half of season 4. Also, needz moar peg leg. Maggie -- I don't know. I felt like she wasn't very important this season except for when she was captured, and when Glenn proposed and she said yes. Glad she didn't die because I wouldn't have really cared at this point. I don't like deaths in shows unless I feel sad or happy because of them. Glenn -- Well this guy's changed a lot. I like that he showed some leadership when Rick was busy not being a leader. I also understand that he wanted to get back at the Governor for almost raping Maggie, but I'm sure she could have gotten her revenge just fine without him if she had the chance. Still, he had good intentions, which is probably what matters. Rick -- I liked most of the stuff up to Lori's death. After that... was pretty ugly. Glad he's over it now, and I'm glad he's ending the "Ricktatorship". I never really saw it that way, though. I got the impression that everyone else just agreed with his ideas, and when they didn't, they spoke up, they argued, Rick was right, the end. Until the second half of the season, when he started talking to people (especially Hershel) a lot more. I'm also glad he's past his "don't trust anyone" phase. The Woodbury people would've fallen apart without the Governor. The Governor -- WHY AREN'T YOU DEAD? YOU DESERVE TO BE EATEN BY THOSE ZOMBIE HEADS YOU KEPT. WHILE HANDCUFFED TO A CHAIR. Seriously, why did they not kill him? I know he's not a threat now that he's killed his army except for two people, but still... What was accomplished in the season finale? Governor killed Milton (and through him, Andrea) and his army. So what? Yeah, no more war, yay. But I want to know what happened to him. Is he still going to try to kill Rick and Michonne somehow? Is he going to get killed by zombies because he has no shelter or food? Will Martinez kill him? Will he realize that he's a terrible person and kill himself? I think they could've cut out a lot of the Andrea/Milton stuff to include time to show what happened to him... Oh well.[/spoiler] |
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| DarkFlashlight | Apr 1 2013, 09:50 PM Post #217 |
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We own this thread, bro. [spoiler=Reply spoilers]I KNOW, RIGHT? I never understood why everyone hated Andrea. She had the most difficult role by far. The whole death scene I was just thinking, "There are probably people celebrating right now. What the hell?" At first, when Carl shot that kid, I was all like, "GODDAMMIT, CARL," (although I did agree with him because that guy was taking an awfully long time to put his gun down), BUT THEN he was all like, "EVERY TIME WE TRUST SOMEBODY THEY KILL EVERYBODY," and I was like, "GODDAMMIT, CARL, YOU'RE RIGHT. BUT PROBABLY ALSO A SOCIOPATH." Yeah, I don't know what was up with Glenn and Maggie this season. They're probably my favorite characters (at least Glenn was through season 2), but they just weren't very important. It was just Glenn being angry and Maggie being sad, and it took forever for that to go anywhere. The ghost of Lori thing annoyed me. It's cliché and led to moments where you hate Rick. Like randomly wandering outside the prison. I get that they wanted to show him mentally wrecked from Lori's death, but there had to be better ways. AS FOR THE GOVERNOR, I just read something about why they didn't do anything with him. They didn't close up that plotline, because they don't want it to be Buffy-style, where each season has a new main villain, and the final episode will always be the confrontation. That's too predictable for TWD. So they let him ride off into the sunset to come back in season 4. What annoyed me about that was that they didn't clearly explain that. It showed his massacre scene end, and then he was just absent. It felt like they forgot to tell you, "Oh, and he'll probably be back."[/spoiler] |
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| Snowman | Apr 2 2013, 03:15 AM Post #218 |
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We certainly do own this thread. [spoiler=More replies, yay.]Yeah, they should've made it more clear that he's gonna live if that's what they're doing with him. Still, he obviously won't be such a powerful threat next season... I think I can see where they might take him (I think he and his companions could replace the antagonists in the "Fear the Hunters" arc of the comics, won't spoil it), but that whole story just doesn't feel like something that could take up even half of a season. I don't care if they decide not to end things in season finales, but I still think there should be some kind of human antagonist(s) in season 4, whether it's him or not. But unless the prison gets destroyed/overrun, I don't see where they could take the show next. Minor comic spoilers: After the last battle with the Governor, the prison is ruined and the Governor is dead. Rick's group meets a new group, and join them in their quest to reach DC. But at the end of season 3, the prison still seems like a pretty safe place. Yeah, that's great for a couple reasons: That's a huge location that they can keep using for the next season (saves money), and it'll allow for the possibility that some of the prison stories in the comics that were skipped in the show could show up. I just don't want it to last too long, though... They should probably be on the road for DC at the beginning of season 5.[/spoiler] I also finished season 1 of The Killing. I heard people were unsatisfied with the season finale, and I can see why. I kinda expected that kind of thing to happen, just by knowing that there would be another season. Anyway, I just hope that with season 3 they decide to do one case per season. |
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| Romanticide | Apr 4 2013, 04:52 AM Post #219 |
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I almost forgot all about the Hannibal series. Debuts tomorrow night on NBC at 10 EST. *gulp* I'm scared. I don't think they can possibly do the books (not that I expect a re-telling of the books, but still) or the character justice. I guess I'll watch to see how terrible it is and then bitch. We'll see how long this lasts. |
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| Snowman | Apr 7 2013, 04:29 PM Post #220 |
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Finished season 2 of The Killing. [spoiler=Spoilers for The Killing]I thought season 2 was better than season 1 because I thought season 1 had too many red herrings. However, Jamie seemed pretty crazy when he was explaining to Darren what happened. Anyway, I wanted it to be someone from the mayor's campaign who killed Rosie, but I figured it wouldn't be for a few reasons: They implied it was, the mayor himself probably wouldn't be able to chase a girl for a couple miles, and the black guy didn't have a huge part in the show so no one watching would really care if he did it. That thing with Terry, though... I don't get why she did it. I know she didn't know Rosie was in the car, but she knew someone was. I know she was angry at Michael Ames because he said he wasn't leaving his wife for her, but I don't see why she'd use that as an excuse to kill someone she thought she didn't know. Other thoughts... Glad Benko died, I didn't really like any scene with him in it. Darren was easily my favorite character. He seemed like the only person who genuinely cared about other people, and he did almost everything legally, unlike many of the other characters. Until the end, I guess? I thought he was meeting with Jackson and Ames to clear up everything or something, but apparently it was because he decided to be corrupt now. Second-favorite character is a tie between Linden and Holder. Linden was smarter and always got things done, but I kinda feel like she needed Holder a lot to keep her from doing too many stupid things. Also, he could be pretty funny, IMO. I read some reviews of the show, and it looks like most people ended up not liking it. Sure, I disagreed with some things that were done in the show, but overall I thought it was pretty good... Anyway yeah looking forward to season 3 woo. Hopefully if the case only lasts one season, there won't be as many weird plot twists.[/spoiler] |
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| kmr95 | Apr 7 2013, 05:55 PM Post #221 |
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GAME OF THRONES |
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| DarkFlashlight | Apr 7 2013, 08:27 PM Post #222 |
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Blah. I still have three episodes left in The Killing. I'll respond to your spoiler soon. I'm still impressed that I've gone like a year without anyone ruining the ending. Of course, it helps that nobody watches The Killing. |
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| DarkFlashlight | Apr 8 2013, 04:31 AM Post #223 |
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Double post gogogo [spoiler=Reply [i]The Killing[/i] spoilers]Okay, before I get into the plot, let me just say that I never liked the campaign subplot. Part of it is that the inner workings of politics just don't interest me, and the other part is that politics are such a robotic and unemotionally thing compared to the Larsen family drama. They just didn't complement each other. I was meh on Darren. Holder was always my favorite. I'm actually really glad there was that last second plot twist with Terry, because every since he was randomly an option on the Suspect Tracker, I'd figured it was probably Jaime, just because that's what crime shows always do. It's the not-very-important main character with little plot relevance and a lot of lines. I actually liked all the red herrings. They do that a lot in Veronica Mars too, albeit it doesn't usually take a whole episode in that. I think why is because it's more realistic. In real life, every lead isn't conclusive. You're wrong sometimes. As for the real murder, well, it was confusing as hell. I'm still not entirely sure what the burying Indian bones/the entire character of Ames things were about. I thought Terry though that killing whoever was in the car would seal Ames's divorce. I can't be sure why that would happen though, because it involves the Indian bones/waterfront plot, that I'm not sure how he fit in to. Also, the whole Jack thing was annoying me, but I also thought it was kind of cheap when they just sent him away. Ehh, whatever.[/spoiler] |
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| Snowman | Apr 8 2013, 09:58 PM Post #224 |
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[spoiler=More reply spoilers.]Re: Terry, I forgot to mention it in my previous post, but when she showed the Larsen boys her fancy glass, I noticed later that it was the same as the one that the Ames were using at their party or whatever it was. I thought that had to be important somehow, but after they got Jamie, I wasn't sure. Anyway, I wasn't very clear on the Indian bones either, but I thought maybe if they buried the bones, the Indians would think the land was a burial ground and claim it for themselves. Not sure how that would have helped Adams -- wouldn't it stop his construction? -- but eh. But overall I think I just liked the Darren/Jamie/Gwen side of the politics stuff. I hated Adams just because he always acted like a terrible person -- especially when he faked evidence just to win an election he might have won anyway -- so that might be part of why I liked seeing Darren/Jamie/Gwen. As for the more emotional Larsen stuff, I liked most of it. Everything except Tommy, I guess. He kinda ruined everything. Stan kinda reminded me of crazy Rick. Both of them were trying to keep a group together after their wives were gone, but things just kept getting worse. I'm just glad Stan kept working and let the police do their jobs and stopped beating up suspects. Oh, and I liked that he fixed that light that was swinging outside of Bennett's house. I know it was a small thing, but they wouldn't let him apologize, so I'm glad he did something. Aaand re: Jack, I didn't mind. Yeah, it distracted from the case, but since they were trying to show how everyone was affected by the killing, it made sense to show how the lead detective's son was affected. And I thought it was fine that they sent him away, 'cause if he stayed, they probably would have had to spend more time running away from Child Protective Services. According to IMDb, Jack's supposed to be back for next season. I just hope Linden has a husband now, whether it's her original one or not.[/spoiler] Also, I decided to add The Wire to my DVD queue. I did have The Prisoner there instead, but I guess I'll do that after The Wire. |
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| Snowman | Apr 13 2013, 09:22 PM Post #225 |
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I just finished Arrested Development. Perfect ending. But what makes it even better is knowing I get to watch more in a month :P. |
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