I hope Meredith doesn't turn out to be playing the role of a Native American who is set the task to kill all the original with the Oak tree. Sort of like how the gypsies were set the task to makes sure Angel suffered having a soul. It's sort of cliche.
Because science and politics aren't something that can be easily swapped. Just because you know how to build a rocket and launch it into space doesn't mean you know how to lead the public, balance a budget and make nice with other world leaders. If you think about it, science and politics are the opposite of each other. In science, one will always equal one no matter what. That is just a fact. In politics, the right politician in the right situation in the right time can argue that one equals koala. And if he can convince enough people to believe in this, one does indeed become koala outside the realm of science. (Or to put it another way, science tells you that pizza is not a vegetable. Politics can.) Most scientists would lose their mind in politics and go running and screaming back to the safety of their labs.
Messy vampire eating always bother me too. Basically, they are drinking. How can you screw that up? Your mouth is over the wound you created sealing it, so there shouldn't be any spillage and yet... It doesn't make sense.
Do you mean Aidan and Henry? Because there was some one sided tension/subtext between Bishop and Aidan last year. (Still say that Bishop loved Aidan just a tad too much.) And now I saw it in that last scene with Aidan and Henry. Honestly, what is with sires and their offsprings? On other shows the offspring are usually Kool-aid loyal to their masters and obsessed with them. On this show, it seems the opposite is true. Aidan really wasn't all that hung up on Bishop but Bishop couldn't let go of Aidan. Now Aidan seems to be touched in the same way when it comes to Henry.
"I think I miss the Dutch." Me too, ma'am, me too. Ironically, for a show that is a remake they were able to do some original things with vampires last season. However, this season? ...haven't we've seen this sort of vampire love triangle before? Of course we have. In just about every vampire themed show.
The only interesting part with Aidan's story was how his face lit up and he looked like was about cry when he found out that Henry was still alive. All the time Aidan has been spending with Suren, it's like a dull film has come over him. He is not really feeling anything. But, again, turns out Henry is alive and Aidan snaps back to life. Interesting.
I was so afraid that they were going down of the cliche route with Josh and Nora's story. Where the boyfriend, in this case, Josh, gets mixed up with monsters who show him what he missing. The boyfriend turns to the dark side big time. He is then brought back from the brink by the girlfriend through the power of love and righteousness.
But this isn't the case with Josh and Nora. Nora likes her dark side. And it makes perfect sense if you think about it. Nora was an abuse victim. She knows what it feels like to be utterly helpless. Now that she has the wolf inside her, she has the power never to be vulnerable to anyone. Why would she be so quick to give it up?
Sally...can't really feel bad for her. Can't hate her because she is adorable. But can't feel bad for her either. She reaped what she sowed. Though I loved that she convinced Josh that she was who she was by knowing that he preferred The Search for Spock over The Wrath of Khan. That's such a friend thing to know.
Okay, that was cool. At least with Bekmambetov being at the helm, you are in for a manic visual feast.
The dude is on the penny AND the five dollar bill. He's pretty big. As far as the disrespectful part, that's just an American thing. We love having a go at our historical figures and Lincoln is usually at the top of the list. We don't really do sacred cows in this country.
No. Try James Buchanan: Bi-sexual, Space Traveling, Zombie Hunter and then we can talk.
What is it about Lincoln that makes him so ripe for AU and parodies? Need a historical American figure to fight vampires? Lincoln. Need a historical American figure to time travel in a telephone booth? Lincoln. Need a historical American figure to mime the words about a gay bar in your music video? Lincoln. And then there are all the Conan O'Brien parodies of him. ("Lincoln: Money Shot." Yes, it's exactly what you think it is.) I, honestly, don't get it. Why Lincoln?
What is it with this show's vampires and their inability to fall in love with anyone above the age of 19? Yes, Katherine did turn Damon but she was in love with Stephan, who is supposed to be a teenager. When you become a vampire does some immaturity gene turn on that makes you impossible to get turned on by anyone who can legally drink a beer?
Why am I imagining a Golden Retriever writing the above comment? A Golden Retriever wearing thick rimmed glasses.
EVERY? Considering the number of remakes, you pretty much said there have only been a handful of good British shows in the history of British programming. Come on. Also, you don't even watch this show. How do you even know it is a "shitfest?"
I am not feeling Princess Suren (Yes, Josh, I love saying that too) or Henry. Probably in a cast where everyone has so much chemistry with each other it feels like a family, those two do not. The flashback scenes screeched the show to a halt with me because of that. That and also while Witwer had the 1930's thing down cold, the other two actors played it current. So, here's Witwer's Gary Cooper with a Clark Gable mustache playing against two 2012 actors acting like they in 2012. Like I said, that pulled me out of the show.
Not that the show was entirely bad. There were so many gold nuggets of dialog, usually coming out of Josh's mouth, that I swear, some of them deserved to be cross stitched on a throw pillow. And Sally is adorable as always.
That would make sense. This map seems to be forgetting that the majority of the American population live in coastal state cities like L.A., NYC. If those cities are wiped out so is huge chunk of the population. I wouldn't be surprise if the Panem population was only 10% or less of the current US population. So, the Districts would have to be smaller than that with gaps between them. You can't have the people spread out or else it would be harder to control them.
Montreal has a whole underground city with hotels, condos, a mall and a metro station. Perfect for keeping a civilization afloat.
Nope. Nope. Not just you. At least not now.
Country bumpkins who have never been in contact with blue eyed people before.
I'm always thought that District 12 was the border areas of Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, North Carolina and West Virginia. Like it had a Bluegrass feel to it. And District 13 was Canada as almost a political comment by the writer to all those people who say, "The US sucks. I'm moving to Canada" only for Canada to be just as bad as the place they left.
So, in the world of POI-Batman crossovers, where Reese and Finch are swapped version of Bruce and Alfred, Zoe is Catwoman and Elias is Falconi, who is RooT supposed to be? The Joker or The Riddler?
By the way, turns out RooT was played by the same actress who does the latest version of Meg on Supernatural. She is a whole lotta of fun on SPN and I hope she comes back on POI and not switched out for another actress.
I hope Kripke rubs off on Abrams and not the other way around. Abrams is great at coming up with interesting scenarios but seems to have no idea what to do with them once the horse is out of the gate. Kripke, on the other hand, is pretty good at taking outrageous themes and putting a relatable spin on them. (Such as The Apocalypse is just one huge sibling fight.) That's what this show could use.
