Did you see the kangaroo?

[ozmissage]

Sci-Fi shows give me thoughts.

I’m not cutting my Eastwick thoughts because it’s not that kind of show. It was bad, clichéd, and almost offensive…but I will be watching every episode until it’s mercifully cancelled because Paul Gross is a god. He managed to be both wet and shirtless in the first episode. It was amazing. And he’s playing the devil! How am I supposed to resist that?

I just wish the ladies on the show didn’t bore me to tears. Why are they all so dull? And why is Sara Rue not a lead? She’s Sara Rue, she’s got more cool in her pinkie finger than those other three have all put together. I’m going to need her to make out with Paul Gross soon please.

Oh and it’s filmed on the old Gilmore Girls set which is deeply distracting. I keep wondering why there are witches in Stars Hollow now and why Lorelai hasn’t shown up to pawn the Faux Lorelai Rebecca Romijin is attempting to play.

Okay now on to shows that are you know...actually good.

- I’m a little bit in love with this show, the dialogue is a wee bit clunky but everything else is so good I’m willing to forgive them that…for now anyway.

- That opening shot was insanely reminiscent of Lost. I have to say though Jack pawns Mark in the hero department. Jack hit the ground running whereas Mark kind of wandered around looking for his partner. I’ll give him a pass though because as traumatic as a plane crash is I think spontaneous world-wide black-out trumps it in the shock department.

- Besides I can’t blame the guy because his partner is Demetri! Way back when I watched the Lost pilot I imprinted on Charlie like some sort of demented baby duck---that’s pretty much what happened with Demetri too. He’s so adorable and he has snark potential. I loved the car chase scene where he was like, “I’ve never done this before!” and then his little, “I didn’t see anything.” *sniffles* Oh, Demetri please don’t die…

-I’m actually already pretty invested in the Mark/Olivia storyline. The idea that you know your marriage is going to end and there’s probably not a whole hell of a lot you can do about it is pretty damn tragic. The bracelet scene at the end was well-played by Fiennes, you could see the fear all over his face. Poor guy.

- Is any one else amused by the fact that Sonya Walger’s kid is named Charlie on this show too?

- Alex Kingston!! I did not know she was going to be in this show. River Song FTW!

- I liked going-to-be-pregnant lady. I hope she gets more to do next week.

- Kangaroo!

- This show is rocking the visuals. It’s very cinematic; I hope that continues throughout the series. I think my favorite shot was of the balloons drifting off into the distance, it was both eerie and pretty to look at.

- Red Panda on the side of the bus ---> Red Panda on the clue board. Important, yes?

- I loved the Oceanic Airlines Billboard, it was a nice little hat tip to the masters. So someone’s going to write a crossover where this is all Jack and co.’s fault, right?

- When do we get Dom? I squeed so loudly when he showed up in the promo I scared my dog. Man I’ve missed having him on my television.

- Nice little kicker at the end there. Anyone else think not sleeping guy was Dom? I kind of think he might be the big bad.

 

- I don’t know how it happened but I went from thinking this show was lame to being obsessed with it. Yeah, I don’t know either…but it’s kind of like having The X-Files back only this time I’m not shipping anybody which really makes the whole viewing experience a lot more relaxing.

- It’s hard not to snort when someone utters the phrase “super baby” with a straight face. I love how science is code for “crazy and implausible” on this show.

- Walter! How is he so awesome all the time? And when is he going to stop breaking my heart. I love how excited he was about finding a mutant and then the end with Peter and the fishing trip… *squishes them* I love Olivia, but the Walter/Peter dynamic is my favorite part of this show.

- Poor Astrid. They should let her out of the lab occasionally.

- The typewriter/mirror thing makes for an awfully nice visual.

- Peter kicked in a door. And got shot at. And he loves fishing. And he killed the mutant baby. Yeah, he’s a bad ass.

- Olivia is awesome and I liked the trip to the bowling alley…but her new superpower is lame. Super hearing seems like it would just lead to super-headaches.

- I wish there had been more Abaddon this week.

- I loved the opening with the creepy cornfield and the not-so-scary music coupled with the dude getting dragged under ground. I like contrast.

- That being said this show is walking a very fine line between paying tribute to the X-Files and ripping them off. There was an episode almost exactly like this in the last season of the X-Files, but I’m so happy to have a MOTW type show again I’m not really all that bothered by the lack of originality…and besides I have to give them points for a baby that’s half scorpion/half mole. I’m glad I didn’t marry that guy.

 

- It is not possible for me to love Topher Brink more than I do right now. That scene between him and Claire made this episode and I kind of felt like it could be a turning point for the show. All last season I kept waiting for Joss to start asking the right questions instead of spinning his wheels and it feels like he’s finally getting on with it. Just because a person is constructed does it make them any less of a person? (I was really hoping he would explore this with Mellie last season but I guess that ship has sailed.)

I think the answer is no. As we saw with Claire, yes she was made by Topher but she thinks and feels and makes choices---she is a person unto herself. She defied her programming at the end and went out into the world. I also loved Topher’s acknowledgement that he didn’t program her to hate him, that was something she did on her own. (Although he did program her to dislike his smell---Oh, Topher.)

That whole scene was so wonderfully played by Fran Kranz and Amy Acker. My favorite bit though was Topher telling her that he doesn’t know her anymore than she knows him. I know a large portion of fandom can’t stand Topher but I don’t care because he’s awesome and snarky and deeply screwed up and self-absorbed and brilliant and I frakken love him.

-Paul Ballard on the other hand is dead to me. I’m sorry Joss, but between the Mellie stuff last season and the weird sex montage last night Ballard mostly just creeps me out.

-Adelle! She called Paul on his self-righteous crap and it was glorious. And of course everyone is working an angle unless they’re very special or dumb. Not loving the new hair, but seriously it doesn’t matter because Adelle is back on my television.

-Boyd asked Claire out to dinner. Guh. Why must Amy Acker leave to go be on Happy Town? We need her here to have an epic romance with Boyd, damnit.

-Jamie Bamber’s real accent is wonderful. Alexis Denisof’s is unsettling.

- I wasn’t particularly enthralled by the Echo stuff, but I am glad that she’s more conscious this season. I wish she was working with Boyd more though. I much prefer their dynamic to her and Paul’s.

-There needs to be a 100% more Ivy this season.