The first two episodes told a single story, with the big reveal being "yup, clones!" to our main character. In episode three the drama story became "main character passing herself off as a detective" which is only possible due to everyone being as stupid or more stupid than she is. And that is very stupid.
Well done for bailing at the right time.
I'm curious, why is everyone else on the show stupid? Because they didn't realize that the main character was impersonating the cop? I guess I just have a bit more suspension of disbelief than you. If someone I see on a daily basis suddenly starts acting differently, I don't think "Oh my god! Person X has been replaced by a doppleganger who's really his/her cloned twin!" I think a clone could very easily pass himself or herself off as another person in real life because we don't think clones exist and would never assume that someone acting strange was a clone. You seem to be applying knowledge and logic that you as the audience know, but that the characters in the show would never be aware of.
Now, you might not have liked Orphan Black, but to stop watching the show because you thought the characters were stupid because they didn't realize that one character was pretending to be her cloned sister seems a bit unfair.
If me, the viewer, can work out what the plot is within 2 or 3 episodes and in addition to this it is contrived, it is not worth my time. If it was well acted, written and produced I would also reconsider it but this show fails in all 3 categories.
The cops were being stupid about non-clone matters. Her partner took another partner out to a crime scene. They took no photos, made no notes, didn't call in a forensics team, didn't take samples, didn't make a cast of footprints, disturbed loads of physical evidence. That was all in the span of about thirty seconds.
My girlfriend really enjoys watching detective shows and CSI style dramas. For her it was torture. I'm happy to let this stuff pass, but if a show is doing police procedural material, the bar is set very high by other shows.
Also, as an identical twin, I don't find mistaken identity stuff all that clever. Being a genetic clone only gets you so far.
For example, when the main character had sex with the dead detective's boyfriend, all I could think was "are vaginas not changed by anything in life?" Surely all vaginas are different, even between identical twins. I know I could tell the difference between my girlfriends vagina and a different vagina. And the main character has had a child. Giving birth surely changes things down there.
If a show is good, I wouldn't think about these things. But if I do find myself thinking these things, and my girlfriend is next to me complaining how shit it is, those are good signs the show isn't worth my time.
There is nothing more unfair than me wasting my time on shit.
Meanwhile, I'm catching up with season three of Breaking Bad and really enjoying it. There are lots of stupid people in that, but due to the overall quality, I'm happy to ignore it.
I'm really enjoying Blackish, I was not expecting it to be great but was happily surprised by the writing, acting and the music is amazingly well aligned for my tastes and suit the content of the show. Hopefully it doesn't get cancelled and continues being great.
Banshee season 2 is great so far. I really like how they're playing up the conflict between the organized crime in the area and the Native American casino/organization.
I can't imagine that many people are watching this show because it's on Cinemax, but it's really good.
Most of the shows I watch: Game of Thrones, Mad Men, and Last Week Tonight, are all off the air at the moment.
All I'm currently watching is Star Wars: Rebels, which is surprisingly good (only really one bad episode out of 8 so far). I'll also watch maybe half of an episode of SNL each week (my wife watches and will show me the funny parts later).
I might watch Better Call Saul when it starts up, given that Breaking Bad was so fucking good and everyone needs more Bob Odenkirk in their lives. I'm at end-of-season breakpoints with so many shows, like Archer, Adventure Time, etc., where I just need to pick up the next season and keep going. I tried to watch Star Wars: Clone Wars and I find it fucking unbearably bad.
I'm watching Agents of SHIELD (HOLY CRAP INHUMANS COMING SOON), Arrow (OH LOOK ANOTHER FUCKING ARCHER IS GOING AFTER ARROW, Also why does the Arrow and Red Arrow dress up in Masks, but Diggle gets to dress as Shaft???), Flash (They are really doing Flash's action scenes well), Gotham (It's all about Penguin), Brooklyn Nine-Nine (Funny stuff) and Constantine (PLEASE MAKE A BOOK OF MAGIC SHOW PLEASE) on HULU. All at least decent to great.
Also watched all of Scandal on Netflix recently, the show is definitely a guilty pleasure, Some of those characters really should be very dead by now, considering how easily some of those guys kill people.
I'm thinking of rewatching West Wing, which I tend to do whenever a Election goes south. I mean that's the show that got a lot of us through the Bush years.
I'm digging Agents of Shield more than last season. It's definitely got me hooked more than last and I wonder where it's going. Now that I know it's Inhumans, it has me looking up that stuff on wikis. Seems interesting.
Agent Ward is an interesting character and I wonder what the writers are going to do with him and if he is a bad guy or good guy in the end.
You don't need to. I don't think the show is going to have them as a dominant part of the series as well. Are the comics work looking into?
Depends which ones. Like all underwear pervert comics, each character appears in a myriad of storylines. Some good, some not so good. Most of the Inhumans that I have read are in old Fantastic Four comics. I most recently saw them in the War of Kings series, which is not bad, but not incredible.
I would actually recommend reading Eternals by Neil Gaiman. The Inhumans were created by the Eternals, so this can be seen as the Inhumans origin story. Also, Neil Gaiman.
Yea the inhumans tend to appear in things and not be the title characters of the story so it can be hard to point out the best Inhumans stuff. Though that's changing now that Marvel figured out they can probably use inhumans instead of Mutants in movies.
Yea the inhumans tend to appear in things and not be the title characters of the story so it can be hard to point out the best Inhumans stuff. Though that's changing now that Marvel figured out they can probably use inhumans instead of Mutants in movies.
Inhumans are a group that still suffers from similar discrimination that mutants do. Non super people are similarly afraid of them as they are an unknown quantity.
That being said, there are just a handful of Inhumans. They don't appear all over the place like mutants do. Also, IIRC, they live in a very isolated place. Is their palace under the sea or something? They do have a strong connection with the Avengers because of Crystal.
Really, they should just make a Lockjaw movie. That would actually get me to the theater.
I don't know anything that has happened to underwear perverts for the past few years. Saga > ALL.
Also, how can there be "dormant" Inhumans? They were a manufactured race, not a mutation of regular humans. They just happen to be human shaped, but so are Kree and Shi'ar. A human "awakening" into an Inhuman makes as much sense as a human awakening into a Skrull.
My boy Adam Warlock was manufactured too. You don't see dormant warlocks awakening anywhere. Ridiculous.
"During the end of the "Infinity" storyline, the Terrigen Bomb was detonated in Earth's atmosphere during the Inhumans' fight with Thanos. This caused anyone who was a descendant of an Inhuman to develop powers of their own"
Inhumans got around to some sexing over the years.
"During the end of the "Infinity" storyline, the Terrigen Bomb was detonated in Earth's atmosphere during the Inhumans' fight with Thanos. This caused anyone who was a descendant of an Inhuman to develop powers of their own"
Inhumans got around to some sexing over the years.
The only really good Inhumans comic, where they're actually the stars as opposed to guest-starring in the Fantastic Four etc, was the Inhumans maxi-series by Paul Jenkins and Jae Lee that came out back in 2001, under the Marvel Knights banner. It's a 12 issue series collected in one volume and is probably one of my favorite single-story collections of all time. It won the Eisner Award for Best New Series.
This comic isn't just superheroes punching things. It's very understated, very political, and incredibly awesome. You really don't need to be familiar with any of the characters to understand what's going on. After reading this though, you'll understand why Blackbolt is such a badass.
Did anyone check out Over The Garden Wall? It was a mini-series made by another Adventure Time alumnus with a very heavy Grimm Fairytale/Maury Sendak vibe to it. It was released and finished over the course of a week and many animation buffs are really going nuts over it.
I'm in the minority here, I thought it was good, but not quite great. It has incredible atmosphere and music with really stellar voice acting and character design. However, plot-wise I think it's a bit too jumbled and mismanaged and the only character I liked by the end of it was Greg, the little brother. Most of it comes down to the last two episodes which give backstory to the characters, but I was mostly unimpressed by what it was doing. It came off as twee rather than ambitious. But I would recommend that anyone else should see this because it is a very unique, well-crafted piece of work.
Also, at the mid-season finale of How To Get Away With Murder. So damn fun. This is one of the best guilty pleasure shows around and every episode just has me excited to watch the next one, especially as the wrapped up the arc with all the flash-forwards.
My attempts to pad out my Sailor Moon cred by watching the live-action show are being foiled by my inability to stop laughing incredulously whenever Terrible CGI Luna is onscreen.
Holy shit, Black Mirror is the best thing to hit Netflix streaming in I don't know how long. It's exactly what I wanted, being that I don't often have time to commit to a series. TV watching is far down on my priority lists.
Black Mirror is a modern Twilight Zone, made in the UK, and there are only a handful of episodes. I've watched the first two (the second being much more sci-fi than the first) and they are both incredibly well made short stories.
I've been watching the Wire a lot lately. I started before the HD remaster though, and the transition was a bit shaky. It seems like they just added bits to the left and right.
Star Wars: Rebels came back this week and it is still quite good. In related news, I officially gave up on trying to watch Clone Wars. I put it on during workouts and pushed through 11 episodes but it is just so bad.
The 100 Literally a young adults / kids show, wanted to turn it off after the first 10 minutes as I knew what every cliche character was going to say. Could have done much better with the premise.
Marco Polo Watched the first season. The costume, hair and most characters are interesting. However it seems to be poorly written and directed, rather it is inconsistent in these areas. Also the protagonist, (if that?) is blank and non compelling. May watch the second season but I'm likely to drop it.
Transparent Half way through the first season. Weird little show that sometimes is too real for it's own good especially when superbly unlikely things happen in the same show. Goes for shock factor quite a bit in the early episodes. The comedic bits end up being difficult to evoke emotion however rather I'm unsure as to whether it was supposed to be funny or not. Maybe every character's life is over the top 200% all of the time but I will continue to watch it as the characters seem to be growing and the show is maturing.
I've been watching the Wire a lot lately. I started before the HD remaster though, and the transition was a bit shaky. It seems like they just added bits to the left and right.
Damn I didn't realise there was a HD remaster. They added bits? I'm going to look this up.
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It is a waste of a viewer's time.
My girlfriend really enjoys watching detective shows and CSI style dramas. For her it was torture. I'm happy to let this stuff pass, but if a show is doing police procedural material, the bar is set very high by other shows.
Also, as an identical twin, I don't find mistaken identity stuff all that clever. Being a genetic clone only gets you so far.
For example, when the main character had sex with the dead detective's boyfriend, all I could think was "are vaginas not changed by anything in life?" Surely all vaginas are different, even between identical twins. I know I could tell the difference between my girlfriends vagina and a different vagina. And the main character has had a child. Giving birth surely changes things down there.
If a show is good, I wouldn't think about these things. But if I do find myself thinking these things, and my girlfriend is next to me complaining how shit it is, those are good signs the show isn't worth my time.
There is nothing more unfair than me wasting my time on shit.
Meanwhile, I'm catching up with season three of Breaking Bad and really enjoying it. There are lots of stupid people in that, but due to the overall quality, I'm happy to ignore it.
I can't imagine that many people are watching this show because it's on Cinemax, but it's really good.
All I'm currently watching is Star Wars: Rebels, which is surprisingly good (only really one bad episode out of 8 so far). I'll also watch maybe half of an episode of SNL each week (my wife watches and will show me the funny parts later).
I might watch Better Call Saul when it starts up, given that Breaking Bad was so fucking good and everyone needs more Bob Odenkirk in their lives. I'm at end-of-season breakpoints with so many shows, like Archer, Adventure Time, etc., where I just need to pick up the next season and keep going. I tried to watch Star Wars: Clone Wars and I find it fucking unbearably bad.
Also watched all of Scandal on Netflix recently, the show is definitely a guilty pleasure, Some of those characters really should be very dead by now, considering how easily some of those guys kill people.
I'm thinking of rewatching West Wing, which I tend to do whenever a Election goes south. I mean that's the show that got a lot of us through the Bush years.
Agent Ward is an interesting character and I wonder what the writers are going to do with him and if he is a bad guy or good guy in the end.
I would actually recommend reading Eternals by Neil Gaiman. The Inhumans were created by the Eternals, so this can be seen as the Inhumans origin story. Also, Neil Gaiman.
That being said, there are just a handful of Inhumans. They don't appear all over the place like mutants do. Also, IIRC, they live in a very isolated place. Is their palace under the sea or something? They do have a strong connection with the Avengers because of Crystal.
Really, they should just make a Lockjaw movie. That would actually get me to the theater.
"When will the Terrigen Mist spread in the Marvel Cinematic Universe?"
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Also, how can there be "dormant" Inhumans? They were a manufactured race, not a mutation of regular humans. They just happen to be human shaped, but so are Kree and Shi'ar. A human "awakening" into an Inhuman makes as much sense as a human awakening into a Skrull.
My boy Adam Warlock was manufactured too. You don't see dormant warlocks awakening anywhere. Ridiculous.
Inhumans got around to some sexing over the years.
This comic isn't just superheroes punching things. It's very understated, very political, and incredibly awesome. You really don't need to be familiar with any of the characters to understand what's going on. After reading this though, you'll understand why Blackbolt is such a badass.
I cannot recommend this comic enough.
amazon.com/Inhumans-Paul-Jenkins/dp/0785107533/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&sr=8-1&qid=1416599242
I'm in the minority here, I thought it was good, but not quite great. It has incredible atmosphere and music with really stellar voice acting and character design. However, plot-wise I think it's a bit too jumbled and mismanaged and the only character I liked by the end of it was Greg, the little brother. Most of it comes down to the last two episodes which give backstory to the characters, but I was mostly unimpressed by what it was doing. It came off as twee rather than ambitious. But I would recommend that anyone else should see this because it is a very unique, well-crafted piece of work.
Also, at the mid-season finale of How To Get Away With Murder. So damn fun. This is one of the best guilty pleasure shows around and every episode just has me excited to watch the next one, especially as the wrapped up the arc with all the flash-forwards.
Black Mirror is a modern Twilight Zone, made in the UK, and there are only a handful of episodes. I've watched the first two (the second being much more sci-fi than the first) and they are both incredibly well made short stories.
Otherwise sticking with Arrow and TWD, which are both on break.
Literally a young adults / kids show, wanted to turn it off after the first 10 minutes as I knew what every cliche character was going to say. Could have done much better with the premise.
Marco Polo
Watched the first season. The costume, hair and most characters are interesting. However it seems to be poorly written and directed, rather it is inconsistent in these areas. Also the protagonist, (if that?) is blank and non compelling. May watch the second season but I'm likely to drop it.
Transparent
Half way through the first season.
Weird little show that sometimes is too real for it's own good especially when superbly unlikely things happen in the same show. Goes for shock factor quite a bit in the early episodes. The comedic bits end up being difficult to evoke emotion however rather I'm unsure as to whether it was supposed to be funny or not. Maybe every character's life is over the top 200% all of the time but I will continue to watch it as the characters seem to be growing and the show is maturing. Damn I didn't realise there was a HD remaster. They added bits?
I'm going to look this up.