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.
Graphic T&A and swearing doesn't automatically make a show edgy or mature. It just makes it a show with graphic T&A and swearing. See True Blood and American Horror Story for example. There plot lines are full of holes, most of the characters are flat and dialog can be cartoonish from time to time. But, hey, sex and swearing for everyone so that makes it edgy and adult, right?
It was done on purpose, if you are wondering.
We are only three episodes in and if you can get Hulu, you can watch them online.
"This really is why I keep coming back to this drama. For the cute kids' chemistry."
That's a huge reason why I love this show. You know the three main actors are using a script but the way they bounce off each other it really does feel like three friends goofing off each other and not three actors ACTING! (It reminds me of one of my favorite shows, Rescue Me and how my favorite scenes were not the overly dramatic, heart breaking ones or the edge of my seat firefighting scenes but just all the guys sitting in the firehouse kitchen shooting the breeze.) Chemistry like that is hard to find. And when you have the right writer giving the actors the right lines, well, I can just watch a whole episode of that. Especially of Sally "squeeing." That's adorable.
Though not to say I don't love the supernatural elements to this show because I do.
Like I really love how they are taking the sexiness out of vampirism this season. Yes, the vampires are still incredibly good looking people. But being a vampire and the whole blood drinking bit? Yeah, not so much. Come on, you know that modern cliche scene of the vampire biting the victim and the victim gasps in orgasmic ecstasy. Buffy's done it. Angel's done it. True Blood's done it. Vampire Diaries has done it. Like I said, cliche. But that scene with the bloodstitute? Yeah. Not sexy. No one enjoyed that. Aidan drank because he is an addict who couldn't take the withdrawal. (Love that he was sweating the entire episode. Serious junkie sweats.) The woman only did it because it was her job. She did not enjoy it one bit either. The pain read clear on her face. It was messy, disgusting and blunt. And the result? A psychopathic Aidan collapsing on the floor like he had taken a heroin hit. Trainspotting: undead style.
Love, love, love with what they are doing with the werewolf mythology. Seriously, werewolves never get enough love on TV. They are always thrown in the background as some vampire's thug.
The question I want to be answered is how will Josh and Nora explain the big dents in their storage doors to the owner? Yeah, they are not going to get their deposits back.
No. No. No. Jesus, just because you can do something doesn't mean you should. The fact that science is even thinking about it says they are willing to turn anything into a test subject. And I don't care how nicely cared for the Neanderthal will be treated, in the end she/he is still a test subject. She/He won't be free like you or me. If she/he wanted to quit the experiment, she/he would not be allowed to. There has to be another way to study Neanderthals.
They have embraced the domesticated pig which is kept under lock and key. The feral pig, on the other hand, has been called a major threat to the Hawaiian environment. And, yes, the veiled chameleon. When you have no known predators in the wild, any non-native species, no matter how timid, can become a threat to the natives. Look at the rabbit in Australia for proof.
It really is two different shows with similar settings and occasionally similar plot points. Think Babylon 5 and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. But the characters are different enough from each other that they can't really be called copies of each other. Also, because the characters are so different, this leads to different storylines from each other.
Should you watch it? If you like the premise, then, yes. You are not going to get the same show, mind you.
Personally, I love it. Like I said before, this version really takes the supernatural baton and runs with it.
As people have already said, feral cats, feral dogs as well as feral pigs, rats and wild horses. Then there is the coqui frog from Puerto Rico which has been declared a menace because the sound it makes disturbs wild life. (It's croak can be louder than a chainsaw.) Also, it has been eating up the native insect population. The Veiled Chameleon, which likes to munch on native birds and plants and has no predators on the islands. The Brown Tree Snake, see above for the same reason. The mongoose was brought in to help with the rat problem. That didn't work. The mongoose just turned to eating the native population of birds and insects. So, there's that. And I am not even going to include the invasive plant and insect problem.
You do realize that whites are a minority in Hawaii. And that Asians make more of the population than any other group, even native Hawaiians. You are more likely to meet a person of Japanese heritage than of Irish heritage in Hawaii. And that they have played just as big of a role in shaping Hawaii as it is today as the whites. Who knows. There is a good chance that the person who shot the Snow Owl was not even white. Better odds, at least.
