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shadowkat1. Sometimes I feel overwhelmed by the information age.
Me: Have you ever gotten fixated on things?
Mother: All the time, often it's something I said or didn't say...
Me: I get fixated on stupid things I've read on the internet.
Mother: That has not been my problem.
Honestly. I need to stop reading articles on the internet. I was better off not knowing some of this stuff.
2. I think I've burned out on British costume dramas. My mother found this amusing for some reason. I can't bring myself to watch Poldark. Have zero interest in the Downtown Abby movie. And deleted the third season of Victoria from my DVR. Yep, burned out on them.
Me: Do you think that the film industry or television industry caters to one genre or medium?
Mother (thinks for a moment): No.
3. So, television shows..
To date, I've seen all the new (non-CW) dramas. Interesting thing about the CW network for some reason or other, the CW has decided not to let it's shows be viewed "on demand" any longer. This is stupid. You're going to lose audience members...but okay.
Anywho...of the new dramas, I've more or less decided to stick with the following:
Prodigal Son, Almost Family, Bluff City Law, All Rise..and Emergence. But, due to the vast number of television shows in my queue, this may soon dwindle to just Prodigal Son and maybe All Rise. We shall see.
I've deleted Evil from the DVR recording gueue, because it really isn't my genre. I don't like shows about demon possessions. I find the whole topic unbelievable and somewhat grating. Another way for humans to shirk responsibility for their own actions. Oh, I was coerced into it by a demon.
I thought this one would be more like The X-files, and have more of a science bent. But it's not -- we have a creepy demonic figure invading the female protagonist's dreams and those of her daughters and claiming she has sexual thoughts about her new partner. Please. This is cliche horror crap, I expected better of you, show.
Prodigal Son -- episode 2, was better than expected. I'm enjoying this series a great deal. But will not be posting about it online, mainly because I don't feel the need to analyze it or critique it and don't want to. Also, the down-side of sharing television shows you enjoy online -- is your friends have a tendency to ruin them for you, without quite meaning too.
Almost Family -- I'm on the fence about. Timothy Hutton is getting old, by the way -- he's not as hot as he was in Leverage. Not that he was ever necessarily hot, but still. Brittany Snow -- got on my nerves in the first episode, actually all three of the female leads did, but not enough to put me off of the series. Also, I'm curious to see where it goes. There's a lot of potential here and it's an interesting concept.
The setup? The daughter of a prominent fertility clinic doctor, on the eve of his recognition ceremony, discovers that he implanted most of the women who visited his clinic with his own sperm.
Julia (Snow): So, how many people did you implant with your sperm? How many half-brothers and sisters are we talking about here? Dozens?
Father(Hutton): Eh...a lot more than that.
Hee Hee. Julia was understandably upset. She went from an only child with a widower father to someone with potentially a hundred half-brothers and sisters.
One of them is a childhood nemesis and lawyer who stole and married Julia's boyfriend, but may in fact be gay. The other is a former child gymnast and podcaster, whose parents have made their living selling their kid's name.
Unfortunately all three are on the annoying side...so, we'll see if I stick with it. I'm hate-watching it at the moment. Julia gets off with having sex with strangers in bathrooms, until she does it with a guy who turns out to be married and potentially her half-brother. The desire continue doing this went out the window after that.
Emergence --also on the fence about and sort of hate-watching. This is sort of predictable and boring. My attention keeps wandering during it. I like the actors in it, but I'm not getting enough to care about the characters. Most of it is focused on the mystery -- which unfortunately isn't all that compelling. We have a mysterious girl and a government conspiracy, and something to do with magnets, making me wonder if they captured Magneto and tried to create a bunch of kids from his DNA. Most likely not considering they don't have the rights to the character.
I'm sticking around to get more information on the Chief of Police, who I like. But right now, the characters feel fairly stock or boilerplate, as does the plot. And I'm bored. So it may disappear from my DVR soon.
Manifest was more interesting. This is admittedly simpler than Manifest, but not as interesting.
Me: Have you ever gotten fixated on things?
Mother: All the time, often it's something I said or didn't say...
Me: I get fixated on stupid things I've read on the internet.
Mother: That has not been my problem.
Honestly. I need to stop reading articles on the internet. I was better off not knowing some of this stuff.
2. I think I've burned out on British costume dramas. My mother found this amusing for some reason. I can't bring myself to watch Poldark. Have zero interest in the Downtown Abby movie. And deleted the third season of Victoria from my DVR. Yep, burned out on them.
Me: Do you think that the film industry or television industry caters to one genre or medium?
Mother (thinks for a moment): No.
3. So, television shows..
To date, I've seen all the new (non-CW) dramas. Interesting thing about the CW network for some reason or other, the CW has decided not to let it's shows be viewed "on demand" any longer. This is stupid. You're going to lose audience members...but okay.
Anywho...of the new dramas, I've more or less decided to stick with the following:
Prodigal Son, Almost Family, Bluff City Law, All Rise..and Emergence. But, due to the vast number of television shows in my queue, this may soon dwindle to just Prodigal Son and maybe All Rise. We shall see.
I've deleted Evil from the DVR recording gueue, because it really isn't my genre. I don't like shows about demon possessions. I find the whole topic unbelievable and somewhat grating. Another way for humans to shirk responsibility for their own actions. Oh, I was coerced into it by a demon.
I thought this one would be more like The X-files, and have more of a science bent. But it's not -- we have a creepy demonic figure invading the female protagonist's dreams and those of her daughters and claiming she has sexual thoughts about her new partner. Please. This is cliche horror crap, I expected better of you, show.
Prodigal Son -- episode 2, was better than expected. I'm enjoying this series a great deal. But will not be posting about it online, mainly because I don't feel the need to analyze it or critique it and don't want to. Also, the down-side of sharing television shows you enjoy online -- is your friends have a tendency to ruin them for you, without quite meaning too.
Almost Family -- I'm on the fence about. Timothy Hutton is getting old, by the way -- he's not as hot as he was in Leverage. Not that he was ever necessarily hot, but still. Brittany Snow -- got on my nerves in the first episode, actually all three of the female leads did, but not enough to put me off of the series. Also, I'm curious to see where it goes. There's a lot of potential here and it's an interesting concept.
The setup? The daughter of a prominent fertility clinic doctor, on the eve of his recognition ceremony, discovers that he implanted most of the women who visited his clinic with his own sperm.
Julia (Snow): So, how many people did you implant with your sperm? How many half-brothers and sisters are we talking about here? Dozens?
Father(Hutton): Eh...a lot more than that.
Hee Hee. Julia was understandably upset. She went from an only child with a widower father to someone with potentially a hundred half-brothers and sisters.
One of them is a childhood nemesis and lawyer who stole and married Julia's boyfriend, but may in fact be gay. The other is a former child gymnast and podcaster, whose parents have made their living selling their kid's name.
Unfortunately all three are on the annoying side...so, we'll see if I stick with it. I'm hate-watching it at the moment. Julia gets off with having sex with strangers in bathrooms, until she does it with a guy who turns out to be married and potentially her half-brother. The desire continue doing this went out the window after that.
Emergence --also on the fence about and sort of hate-watching. This is sort of predictable and boring. My attention keeps wandering during it. I like the actors in it, but I'm not getting enough to care about the characters. Most of it is focused on the mystery -- which unfortunately isn't all that compelling. We have a mysterious girl and a government conspiracy, and something to do with magnets, making me wonder if they captured Magneto and tried to create a bunch of kids from his DNA. Most likely not considering they don't have the rights to the character.
I'm sticking around to get more information on the Chief of Police, who I like. But right now, the characters feel fairly stock or boilerplate, as does the plot. And I'm bored. So it may disappear from my DVR soon.
Manifest was more interesting. This is admittedly simpler than Manifest, but not as interesting.
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Date: 2019-10-06 11:22 pm (UTC)A friend told me she was enjoying Emergence but it doesn't sound like it would grab me.
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Date: 2019-10-07 01:04 am (UTC)I was looking for the premiere episode of Pandora, but alas could not find it, so deleted the episodes I'd taped. From what I read? It was no great loss.
A friend told me she was enjoying Emergence but it doesn't sound like it would grab me.
It's a specific television trope that for some reason or other they keep repeating, even though it keeps failing miserably. Outside of LOST and the 4400, I haven't seen one series with it really take off or last more than two seasons. Manifest took off, but then dropped rapidly in the ratings. It did get renewed -- but as a mid-season replacement series.
It's the mysterious science project that someone or something conducted, we don't know who, with dire consequences...and the clues are strung out throughout the season.
It fails miserably because it takes too long to get the answers, and plot is creaky. For this trope to work -- you have to have a much tighter plot, much more interesting characters, and answers quickly. Honestly I think they'd be better off adapting a book that did it then coming up with it themselves.