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shadowkat1. Eh...pretty much this: John Scalzi shares his thoughts on A Wrinkle in Time.
Take away quote? "So why are you crying through the entire film?"
Yep. Except I don't have a daughter...do have a niece though that I wish I could have taken to it. (Can't -- she's five hours away in Kinderhook, NY and in the custody of her parents who for some reason insist on doing it themselves.)
2. Apparently the Church of Scientology had decided to start their own television channel?
Well, everybody else is, why shouldn't they try it too? Although you'd think these groups would figure out by now that a)too many tv channels with over 2000 and counting in the US alone, and b) too much content on all of them...and c) they all want money...that how anyone is going to find yours or care...
Anybody else remember the good old days when there were just five television channels? NBC, CBS, ABC, UHN, and PBS? And you turned a knob on the television set to get to them? Good times! No? Just me then?
3. Hmmm, definitely watching RISE on Tuesday nights, it appeals to the high school theater geek that still resides inside me.
Well that, and I love Jason Katims work. (Parenthood and Friday Night Lights).
4. Hmmm...Timeless is back. Will start watching it again. It was fun. The plot didn't work most of the time, and it has the same problems most of Eric Kripke's shows have -- convoluted plotting and conspiracy theories...but other than that, it's fun.
How Timeless was canceled and saved in just three days
Take away quote? "So why are you crying through the entire film?"
I cried because the film has empathy not only for bright but difficult children but for all children, and because it wants so much for Meg to see herself, just as I would want to be seen and would want my own child to see her value. I cried because I remembered being lost like Meg was lost, and remembered everyone who helped me find myself, as everyone in this film does so for Meg, and as I hope I have helped my own daughter become who she is meant to be.
Yep. Except I don't have a daughter...do have a niece though that I wish I could have taken to it. (Can't -- she's five hours away in Kinderhook, NY and in the custody of her parents who for some reason insist on doing it themselves.)
2. Apparently the Church of Scientology had decided to start their own television channel?
Well, everybody else is, why shouldn't they try it too? Although you'd think these groups would figure out by now that a)too many tv channels with over 2000 and counting in the US alone, and b) too much content on all of them...and c) they all want money...that how anyone is going to find yours or care...
Anybody else remember the good old days when there were just five television channels? NBC, CBS, ABC, UHN, and PBS? And you turned a knob on the television set to get to them? Good times! No? Just me then?
3. Hmmm, definitely watching RISE on Tuesday nights, it appeals to the high school theater geek that still resides inside me.
Well that, and I love Jason Katims work. (Parenthood and Friday Night Lights).
4. Hmmm...Timeless is back. Will start watching it again. It was fun. The plot didn't work most of the time, and it has the same problems most of Eric Kripke's shows have -- convoluted plotting and conspiracy theories...but other than that, it's fun.
How Timeless was canceled and saved in just three days
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Date: 2018-03-13 12:58 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-03-13 02:20 am (UTC)I'm worried we'll end up with the circular effect -- the heroes chase after the villains hoping to stop them and never succeed. They race, they get caught, the villains win, they race, they get caught...
We're going to need the heroes to win some of the time. Two plot arcs that do not work -- the heroes always win, or the villains always win...the audience begins to get frustrated and wanders off to safer climes.
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Date: 2018-03-13 03:20 am (UTC)Sure. And at the end of season one, they did get some big wins--they recruited a double agent, Agent Christopher arrested Garcia Flynn, and they took 150 members of Rittenhouse into custody. Briefly they took back control of the lifeboat. Rittenhouse funded the time machines. Thinking back, it makes sense that they would have put in place a way to neutralize Connor Mason and his company. Rittenhouse has infiltrated DHS, too.
Lucy is a historian by training, not a soldier. I agree that shooting Emma was a more logical choice but people don't always do the logical thing, especially people who are inexperienced. I don't think Lucy is capable of looking her mother in the face and killing her. Not yet, anyway. I was shocked that she was able to kill the soldier.
I have nits of my own to pick with the plot but I'm okay with how that scene played out.
Oh, and I'm watching Rise tomorrow night, too. I hope it's not too depressing. I can't handle that at all right now. Last year, Timeless was my happy place show and last night's episode felt too heavy to me. I want my silly time-travel show back.
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Date: 2018-03-13 12:56 pm (UTC)Last year, Timeless was my happy place show and last night's episode felt too heavy to me. I want my silly time-travel show back.
I think that was my issue with it as well...it was a little too heavy and depressing. Also, they need to develop Emma more -- she's right now too one-dimensional, as is the mother.
I couldn't remember most of the plot from last season, so thanks. (One of the problems of all these television shows, is I'll lose the plots of a lot of them season to season. If there's too long a lag time in between. I haven't seen Timeless since January or Feb 2017.)
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Date: 2018-03-13 02:56 pm (UTC)I didn't watch Timeless S1 but am recording S2 to try it out. Haven't seen it yet but will likely be watching it tomorrow.