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There’s a good deal going on at FOX Shop this weekend. They’re offering free shipping. That would be great if you haven’t gotten yourself or a friend a copy of any of the DVD sets for Dollhouse, Buffy, Angel, or any other sets they might be interested in watching.
Here’s the link: Get Free Shipping on all orders with code FREESHIP from 12/4 – 12/6
Don’t forget to use the code!
Not that the show fits, but the Glee music is on there too, and I have to admit I’ve become a fan. :)
Click here to watch Sanctuary episodes online.
My attempt at a joke might have backfired on me, but if you got it, thank you veritas much for getting it! ;)
When I started watching this episode tonight (I am always behind it seems—only one more reason to be forever grateful to the inventor of the DVR), I had high hopes something was up. Big Guy dead? So soon after Ashley’s apparent demise? My first reaction was that someone was interested in shaking things up on Sanctuary a little too much for my liking, but then of course, the episode started moving quite quickly and I couldn’t relax enough to worry about what the hell the writers of Sanctuary were thinking by killing off Big Guy.
Good thing the writer’s know better than I how to craft a crafty story. I enjoyed the mystery of this one, and for a while, I admit to being confused and most definitely off the trail. I figured things out just a hair before Will, and I enjoyed every tricky moment of it.
This is probably a surprise, since I run the Dollhouse Fantasies Dollhouse fan site with a friend of mine. But the problem is, we’ve both been feeling the lack of love for this show for a while now.
Although I really enjoyed the new episodes of this season, they’re still not compelling me to feel sad about the demise of Dollhouse. The truth is, I’m sad that the show was never that good, but I’m not sad that the show I’ve been watching is going to be gone.
Although Renee and I won’t be taking that site down (yet), we aren’t actively updating the blog. Unfortunately, I think the show never quite had what it needed to be a really great TV show.
I was interested in how the season was going to unfold, but this is one of those instances where with the cancellation of the show, I won’t be bothering to watch future episodes. Dollhouse is done for. And I don’t care.
Do you?
I watched the latest episode of V yesterday and I have to say I’m more excited about this series than I expected to be. Erica and Jack are compelling characters I enjoy watching. And Anna is delightfully enigmatic and dangerous.
This show deserves a good long run and I sincerely hope the show isn’t hurt by the short 4 episode introduction we’re being given now and the long break between the resumption of the season after the new year.
My DVR is already set to record any new episodes of this show and I doubt I’ll hesitate to watch once the series returns. V had been V-ery good!
Are you watching?
This isn’t going to be a long drawn out post about what I don’t like about the new Stargate series, Stargate Universe. There’s more than I had hoped, but I love the concept of the show and I have high hopes that it will continue to improve with every episode.
I admit I wasn’t thrilled by the first few SGU episodes after Air. Air was a good introduction to the characters and series, but the thing that’s getting me about this series is the slowness of it all. I don’t mind waiting for a payoff, but I’ve never been a fan of dramatic series like Lost, Heroes, ER, Grey’s Anatomy, later seasons of Smallville, or any of a number of other TV series. I like the relationship aspects, but I want to see a lot more action and adventure in this show. Why can’t a more character/relationship driven series still have plenty of action?
I like action, humor, and even Battlestar Galactica. ;) However, with the later, I found I could only handle so much drama before I was ready for it to be over with.
The good thing about Stargate Universe is that with “Time“, I saw what could be. That glimpse into the future of SGU has given me great hopes for the show. With “Time,” I know there’s action and adventure to be had and some of the stuff I’ve always loved about Stargate seems to be surfacing at last—the travel, the excitement, the danger…
I saw something special in “Time” and for the first time, I saw myself as a true fan of the show.
I’m not a wimp (most of the time) but I do prefer TV shows that don’t encourage me to be overly emotional or that work me up into a tizzy. However, it seems more and more of my favorites and turning to drama as a way to intensify their episodes.
Sanctuary has never been a drama free show, for sure, but the beginning of season two has added in all kinds of new drama to the first few episodes.
I got a late start watching, for several reasons, the most disruptive being a dead DVR and hours of unwatched TV episodes. That was a good day from drama, for sure, but it left me without a taste for more.
When I finally got to catch up with my faves, I find out Ashley just might be dead. Talk about a mood killer. Sanctuary seemed so promising and then… that.
Ugh.
I’m sure I’m not alone in my disappointment. I won’t say I’m abandoning the show, because I’m really hoping for a great payoff at a later date. I’m also hoping that by the time I realize it isn’t going to happen, I will have finally gotten over her death so that I can still enjoy the show. :) I know, I don’t always make a lot of sense. But there you go. What do you think?
I really wasn’t expecting to find Sanctuary in the list of Emmy nominees this year, so as you can imagine, I was quite excited to see that they weren’t ignored. Sanctuary received 1 nomination in the Outstanding Special Visual Effects For A Series category.
Outstanding Special Visual Effects For A Series
Although I loved Battlestar Galactica, and I think the show deserved more awards than it got, I have to say, the ending of the series kind of left me feeling weird about the series. So… when BSG only ended up with 5 nominations in not-so-great categories, I haven’t found myself as disappointed as I might have been and that’s very sad.
Still, the show got 5 nominations—and that’s 5 more nominations than Stargate Atlantis, Eureka, or Dollhouse received! Read on for details.
What a lovely surprise I discovered today when I was looking over yesterday’s news. I ended up on the Emmy Awards website (Emmys.com) and started typing in the names of my favorite shows in their search box (because they don’t have an easy to read list of Nominees—it’s a dropdown menu mess, but I digress).
If you read much of this blog, you know I’m a huge Chuck fan. I found Chuck in the nominees list in the Outstanding Stunt Coordination category.
Outstanding Stunt Coordination
Over on the Warehouse 13 Fan blog, I wrote about Warehouse 13’s pilot episode.
I enjoyed it just as much as I thought I would, and that’s a compliment to the show because I had very high expectations.
What did I most like about Warehouse 13 tonight?
- Pete‘s humor
- The sparks: literal and romantic
- Myka‘s uniquely appealing character: she’s something different and I really like that
- The pace of the show, fast enough to keep me interested, slow enough that I never lost track of what was happening
- Hints of history for the characters so I know these guys and gals have depth (and lots of future episode fodder)
I wrote more. :) If you want to read it, here’s a link:Â Warehouse 13 off to a bang-up start!