TV!

[krickets]

Lemme just jump right into this!

Paley fests were... umm.. interesting? I feel like the moderator for TVD and Revenge was just terrible. On the Revenge panel she didn't really talk about anything other than plot speculation/psuedo spoilers. Boring! Plus, the guy who kept saying "I'm talking too much" but everybody kept kissing his ass and telling him he wasn't? HE WAS. Absolutely, he was. The cast barely got to speak. (What? They're pretty! Let them talk!)

The best moment of that panel was the adorable Nick Wechsler mishearing a question and playing with his tie and just being cute. Also there was Joshua Bowman being gorgeous and English. And Gabriel shipping the hell out of Emily/Nolan! Oh. Em. Gee. You guys! Just... love. Ashley is so lovely. Emily is adorable. This whole cast. *stars in my eyes*

The TVD panel was a little bit random. Were they all on drugs? I could have done without mention of "Ernesto Riley" and his twitter-capades. Dude gives me the heebs. Truth. But but but! This reminded me how much I truly dig Ian as a person. I mean, okay, so he's kind of into himself a lot, but genuinely I like the dude. (And I approve of his new haircut. I was praying to the barbershop gods for forever that he would cut it.) Candice was adorable. And Paul and Ian were bromancing the hell out of that stage. It was pretty much glorious.

Shows I am currently behind on: Lost Girl, Shameless, Happy Endings, Awake (don't know if I'm going to watch the 2nd ep, convince me?), Modern Family
Shows I am current with/caught up on during vacation: Jane by Design, Switched at Birth, Parks and Rec, Suburgatory, Revenge, Grey's Anatomy, Hart of Dixie

To be perfectly honest with you? That list feels short. I'm looking at that going "Something's not right here. There's gotta be at least 20 more shows I'm forgetting."

Also, Jon Bernthal cast in L.A. Noir Pilot!! This makes me weirdly and stupidly happy. Not only for Bernthal, who I've taken quite a liking to, but because 1940s/50s noir! Now that is something I can see myself watching. Interested to hear more about who else is being cast and what it's all about. Hope it's not too heavily "mobster" and more "mystery" but we'll see.

Comments

[daybreak777.livejournal.com]

What did you think of Switched at Birth? When I labeled it The Emmett Show I had no idea!

I miss Hart of Dixie. It's weird, but true. :-)

[hypertwink.livejournal.com]

Me too. Is it finished or just in hiatus?

[crickets.livejournal.com]

It's just on hiatus!

[hypertwink.livejournal.com]

I miss Wilson Bethel's surprisingly massive chest.

[daybreak777.livejournal.com]

Yup. There is a wedding (at least a planned one) in April!

I miss Wade's shirtlessness, I have to admit. :-)

[crickets.livejournal.com]

Well I actually missed tonight's episode. I kind of spoke too soon on claiming to be caught up with that show, haha. As far as Emmett's storyline leading up to that, I'm not too surprised. I feel like he doesn't really give Bay a chance and that he's way too hard on her. Part of it could have to do with the communication barrier, but I think the bigger reason may be that Emmett himself is just going through a lot right now and is kind of going off the rails a little bit. Love him, yes I do, but he's kind of being a huge idiot. He needs to straighten his wings and fly right before he and Bay can work things out. Which, I'm not even sure that's something I'm interested in watching anymore? Him being overly sensitive when she really is trying her best -- and not even about the speech therapy and her lack of deaf etiquette, but about virtually everything - It's just getting really old, really fast.

I actually did feel sorry for Daphne's former teammate. I forget her name right now. Because it seemed like she did get blamed for a lot of things she didn't actually do and that she was trying to reconnect with Daphne in a meaningful way. I know it seems unlikely now, but I certainly hope that she sticks around, just because it's so much more real and interesting to watch complicated characters like that even when things get really messy. I feel like just painting her a villain and dropping her would be the easy and predictable way to end this story line.

I'm interested to see where these next two episodes go. This show has been a really nice surprise, but there is a heck of a lot of frustration happening in almost all of the storylines right now and I'm eager to see some of them come to an end.

[daybreak777.livejournal.com]

I didn't watch last night's SaB, either but am caught up other than that.

I'm an Emmett apologist so I blame the writing. I do think they wrote Bay with three boyfriends all in a row. The last two, Ty and Emmett, she seemed to really care about. Bay had a point. Emmett kissed her when she was with Ty. They never really worked that out. Emmett is very emotional and goes with his heart. I love that about him but it's fast. He's all putting up posters and saying he loves her and well, Bay is sixteen. And he has some serious stuff going on at home. So does she. It's a lot on both of them.

I'm mad that Emmett's mom put Bay in the middle of her divorce. That's not fair. She shouldn't need her son's girlfriend's help with getting custody of her son.

That said, the show does polarize Emmett. They did when he was angry, young deaf boy and mad at the hearing world. When they wrote him falling for Bay, then they wrote another angry young deaf boy character. I don't like that at all and it does get repetitive, tiresome, and stereotypical.

I don't trust Daphne's former classmate. She lies so much it's hard to tell what's the truth. She got the Latina girls kicked out of Bruckner and they never stole anything. She says she will pay for drinks and leaves without paying. And she never gets caught! It's maddening. I don't want her to be just a villain but the writers don't seem to be getting at any deeper issues at why she is how she is. Why did she latch on to Daphne and Daphne's brother so quickly and so tightly? Something isn't right there.

There is a lot of frustration! Where the heck did Angelo go? I had just begun to trust him. What about the suit against the hospital? Kathyrn was so stupid to pay their only witness. Who switched the kids? Will Kathryn get a book published?

There is a lot going on there.