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Eek it’s been quite a few months now since I’ve properly visited LJ, I’ve mostly been on Twitter this year and really lost track of this site I’m afraid, but I came across this article today and thought it was interesting after the many fandom debates there have been on this question


Buffy The Vampire Slayer creator would make Willow bisexual in modern-day remake after being persuaded against it: ‘We’re not ready for that’

Speaking exclusively to Metro.co.uk, Joss says that some of the confusion regarding Willow’s sexuality would be cleared up today, since he was pressured to not make the character, over fears her same-sex attractions would feel like a ‘phase.’ ‘There are you things you can’t do, thanks to [the society at the time],’ the Marvel director explained.

‘It [was] like, “OK, you can’t make Willow bi, you can’t say this is a phase, because that’s what people do to deny their existence.”‘

Joss continued: ‘So, if I did it now, I’d be like yes she can be bi. Because some people are! But back then it was like, no…we’re not ready for that.’

Which TV shows did you start watching in 2019?

Quite a few this year!

You, Sex Education, Russian Doll, The Umbrella Academy, When They See Us, Unbelievable, The Act, Chernobyl, Euphoria, Looking For Alaska, The Boys, and Derry Girls. Also watched the first season of American Horror Story (only nine years after everyone else has lol) and really enjoyed it, but I can’t decide how quickly I want to catch up with the rest as it is an anthology show and each season will be so different. Also watched the first season of True Detective which I absolutely loved, but couldn’t get into season 3 at all when I gave that one a go, so I think it’s best if the first remain a perfect standalone series for me

And I started watching Elementary and The Good Doctor, both of which were very good, but I did find it harder to get back into that style of procedural television. I actually really loved the first season of Elementary and fell in love with the characters and their growing relationship completely, but then found that the episodes started to drag after that for me. Didn’t help that I was not at all a fan of the casting of Sherlock’s brother in season 2! I’m now halfway through season 3 and still loving all of the character moments, but the episodes themselves are just so hit and miss for me. It’s not that they’re bad exactly, but more that they all kind of blend into one another after a bit. Maybe some shows are better designed if you try and watch them weekly, rather than an entire season all one after another, or maybe I’m just not used to 24 episode seasons any more 🤷‍♀️


Which TV shows did you let go of in 2019?

The Handmaid’s Tale. I wish that the show would have switched to following Emily and the other characters in Canada, all of the close-ups and heroic cameras shots of June got old fast, and this just doesn’t feel like a show that needed to be stretched into so many seasons. I think that the show died for me after June decided to stay in Gilead at the end of season 2, the writing tied itself into knots after that to justify her safety as the protagonist, even as everyone died around her because of the risks that June was taking.


Which TV shows did you mean to get into but didn't in 2019? Why?

Couldn’t get on with Fleabag at all personally which was a bit disappointing after all the hype that it’s been getting. It had some very funny jokes, but it was waaaay too self aware and smug for me, and tbh I didn’t really like the main character enough to keep watching past the first two episodes.

The Crown was another show that I really expected to get into as I find a lot of the online discussions of the characters and the history very interesting, but I ended up dropping it after the sixth episode as it was just really dragging and feeling like such a chore to get through. A real shame as it’s a show that I did want to love, and it all looked gorgeous, but the pacing of it was sending me to sleep unfortunately!


Which TV shows do you intend on checking out in 2019?

As ever the answer to that is too many! But just a few I’m considering at the moment are Schitt’s Creek, Stumptown, Nancy Drew, Roswell New Mexico, Broadchurch, V Wars, Servant, Truth Be Told, and Dickinson (actually just starting that one now!) Of course a few of those shows depend on if they ever get an air date here in the U.K. , but I’m definitely hoping to catch up on most of the shows that are easily available to watch on streaming services like Netflix and Apple


Your favorite film you watched this year?

I thought that Get Out was excellent


Your favorite book read this year?

Naomi’s Year In Books

Probably A Silent Patient was my overall favourite. I didn’t understand the hype that My Lovely Wife got at all, much like Girl On A Train in fact it was a thriller that I couldn’t get into at all, but then A Silent Patient was a case of the hype being well deserved! I did start to guess the twist towards the end admittedly, but it was still very well done imo and gripping to follow. I also thought that Verity by Colleen Hoover was very good and extremely creepy, although I was quite perplexed to see it listed under romances in the Goodread reader awards! Not that it wasn’t sort of a romance I suppose, but that’s not exactly what stands out to me with it?


Your favorite TV show(s) of the year?

Sex Education, Derry Girls, The Marvellous Mrs.Maisel, The Boys, The Act, Looking For Alaska, Veronica Mars, and True Detective


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Especially the opening and closing shots with the BTK killer *shudders*

I was surprised that there was less of a focus of the serial killer interviews this time around. Other than Charles Manson, Son Of Sam, and Wendy’s first interview, it didn’t seem like the show focused on them much which is a bit surprising after they were talked about as being most people’s favourite part of the first season. I was expecting more of Kemper too than just that one brief scene, although it probably was one of the most memorable parts of the season when he points out that they can only interview and profile the serial killers who have been caught, while presumedly the really skilled ones are the ones who are hiding in plain sight?

Other than those interviews though, Holden especially seemed really disinterested with some of the less infamous killers, and then in the second half of the season the focus shifts completely to the Atlanta child murder investigation. It is interesting that everyone seemed so excited about them speaking to Manson (Holden too was so in awe of him), and he was very much seen as the biggest get, when show itself points out that he was the only one they interviewed who never actually personally killed anyone. I wonder what it is that makes some killers so much more notorious than others...I was surprised that I had never heard of the candy man killer before actually when, on the face of it, his body count was far higher than Manson and Son Of Sam, not to mention the torturing of his victims over days and managing to convince two young teenage boys to go along with luring others to him, yet it doesn’t seem to be remembered as one of the really notorious true crime stories in the same way?


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And I feel like I almost need a whole separate entry for how much there is to say about the backlash to the big twist!( Read more... )

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And on another note, it seems like Netflix has really been lacking in the U.K. recently, I’ve noticed that they hardly add any new shows these days that aren’t Netflix originals. It seems like their deal with the CW must have come to an end for starters as they haven’t added any of their newer shows like Legacies and Roswell New Mexico (and I really wanted to see that one!), it’s just been the new seasons of shows that they already had an existing arrangement with. Traditionally they’ve always included tons of shows from the other US networks, they were one of the easiest ways to find shows like Breaking Bad, The Good Place, Suits, Hannibal etc etc. And they’re all still there thankfully, but they’ve hardly picking up any new shows. Hopefully not a sign of things to come, but I suspect that it is :(

I really enjoyed it! I loved the soundtrack <3 The cinematography was pretty great also, I liked how the world had a very retro feel to it, and you see characters using typewriters rather than laptops and mobile phones

For me Klaus was the sibling who totally stole the show, I’ve been a fan of that actor ever since he played Nathan in Misfits, and he was incredibly charismatic and engaging whenever he was on screen. I loved that final moment of him learning to control his powers alongside Ben. I was really expecting to get more of a backstory on Ben actually, it seemed strange to not even mention how he died, although I assume that will come up in the second season?

Five was another favourite of mine, that young actor was so good at playing a 58 year old man trapped in a child’s body, he really impressed me at how he managed to pull off scenes such as playing drunk (which he wouldn’t have any real life experience of obviously), or the scene with Dolores where he actually manages to make you feel sad at him saying goodbye to a mannequin

Hazel and Cha Cha were favourites of mine as well, I loved how the show had them with their somewhat mundane and typical work complaints about the bosses, only with the heightened reality of Hazel pointing out that wouldn’t it be nice to just do your own thing and kill the people that you want to kill XD I wasn’t sure what to make of Hazel’s romance with the old lady from the donut shop at first tbh, but I thought the show did a good job of selling it in the end and they were very sweet together

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‘Feeling The Churn: Why Netflix Cancels Shows After A Couple Of Seasons & Why They Can’t Move To New Homes”

Honestly they’re just shooting themselves in the foot because I was planning on checking Santa Clarita Diet out after season 3 seemed to get really great reviews, and I heard people on my flist were really enjoying it, but hearing that it has been cancelled on a cliffhanger has just put me off even starting it. And their originals are going to be on their platform forever, so those are the shows that they should be spending and investing on to make sure that they get good conclusions, not paying out millions to temporarily keep Friends for another year. I get that Friends is doing really well for them right now, but surely they should be thinking more about looking after their own shows for the long-term?

The importance of viewer loyalty should not be underestimated, people are going to be put off even starting a new Netflix show if they know that it’s likely to be cancelled out of the blue like this. If Netflix wants to keep shows down to three seasons or less then I suppose that I have no strong objections to that, just as long as they tell the creative people involved that this is going to be your final season, we want to give you a chance to wrap it up. Don’t just leave the story half finished ffs!

I can’t help feeling like they’re shooting themselves in the foot as well though to keep chasing the hot new show all the time, it’s clearly been shown that the most popular shows on Netflix are the long-running comedies like Friends and The Office that viewers are nostalgic for and heavily invested in, for me personally I prefer tv over movies partly because of the depth of character development you get when a show is long-lasting and you really feel like you get to know the characters lives, and yet Netflix seems to have no interest in creating shows to run over the course of years (well other than The Crown I guess). It seems like they’re they’re so heavily invested in binge-watching that they almost treat tv more like movies, that they want to just churn out a couple of ten episode seasons to watch in a weekend as the equivalent of a really long movie?

‘Veronica Mars Revival Set for July Premiere at Hulu — Watch Teaser”


Your summer vacation will officially take place in Neptune, California: Hulu’s eight-episode revival of Veronica Mars will drop on Friday, July 26, the streaming service announced Friday. TVLine has confirmed that all eight installments will be released at once.

In addition to revealing the premiere date, Hulu also dropped a short teaser for the new episodes (embedded above), in which Kristen Bell’s titular sleuth prepares for spring break in Neptune — and all of the unsavory sights that come with it.

As previously reported, Hulu’s limited-run revival — which is set five years after the events of the 2014 feature film — will focus on a new mystery as Mars Investigations is hired to look into the murder of a student on spring break.


Awesome!!! Having all eight episodes drop at once was just what I was hoping for, and July isn’t so far away at all :D :D :D

My only slight grumble is that it’s a bit worrying that there haven’t been any plans mentioned for the international fans. Not to sound overtly demanding lol, but a ton of fans in other countries did help towards funding the movie as well, and so it seems a bit mean to now make this new tv series US only. I will find other ways of watching it regardless of course :ahem:, but still it’s a shame that there’s been no official alternative way offered as yet for the international fans to watch and support the show, or even assurances that we haven’t been forgotten

1. if you could reboot one TV show, which one would it be?
2. if you could have saved one TV show from cancellation, which one would it be?
3. have you ever quit a show before it finished? why?
4. what's your comfort show?
5. which shows do you think are underrated and need more love?
6. have you ever been inspired to start a new show based on gifs or memes it has produced?
7. do you prefer week-to-week content, or just binging all in one go?
8. what’s one show you thought you’d hate but turned out to really enjoy?
9. what’s one show you thought you’d love but turned out to really hate?
10. which TV show has the best musical soundtrack, in your opinion?
11. have you ever watched a show just for a specific actor? did you enjoy it?
12. what genre of TV show is your favourite?
13. do you tend to stick to one type of TV show (eg, short-form comedy), or are you into many different genres?
14. have you ever written fanfiction for a TV show?
15. have you ever drawn fanart for a show?
16. are there any shows on your “to watch” list right now?
17. Netflix, Hulu, or Prime originals?
18. if you could be a guest star on any show, which one would it be?
19. if you could write your own TV show, what would it be like?
20. are you a fan of will-they-won’t-they plots?
21. how do you feel about bottle episodes?
22. do you prefer proper opening credits, or a simple title card?
23. favourite TV show theme song?
24. which actor do you think deserves an Emmy for their work on TV?
25. who would be your dream cameo on your favourite show?
26. do you tend to quote TV shows a lot? have you ever started using a word/phrase because of a TV show?
27. what’s one show you could probably write a 2,000 word essay on, and what would be your topic?
28. do you use subtitles while watching TV if you can?
29. what’s one show you could watch over and over?
30. would you be interested in trying a show in another language?
31. what are your top 5 shows right now?
32. who are your top 5 TV characters right now?
33. what TV character would you die for?
34. which TV show setting would you most like to visit?
35. do you prefer hour long episodes, or 30 minute?
36. do you prefer 22 episode seasons, or 13?
37. is there a show coming out soon that you’re really excited about?
38. if you could change 1 detail about any show, what would you change and why?
39. what’s the longest amount of time you’ve ever watched a show in one sitting?
40. what do you think is a good amount of seasons for a TV show?
41. if you could replace any actor on TV in playing their role, who would you like to play and why?
42. do you own any TV shows on DVD?
43. do you prefer to watch TV alone or with friends?
44. are there any shows you love but your friends aren’t interested in?
45. are there any shows your friends love but you aren’t interested in?
46. who are your favourite couples on TV?



Ask me whichever question(s) you like, and I’ll do my best to answer

The Jim Henson Company's Hit Sci-Fi Series Farscape Comes To Amazon Prime Video On Tuesday, March 19th

Beginning Tuesday, March 19, The Jim Henson Company's groundbreaking sci-fi series Farscape will be available in the US, UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the Nordics, and several other countries around the world on Amazon Prime Video. All four seasons in HD (88 x 60'), plus the Emmy®-nominated mini-series finale – also newly remastered in HD - will be available. Die-hard fans and sci-fi aficionados can binge, watch, and re-watch the entire award-winning cult favorite that has earned its place in science fiction canon.

Throughout the coming year, fans will have multiple ways to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Farscape, which first premiered on March 19, 1999. In addition to the launch on Prime Video, enthusiasts can expect fan events and various licensing initiatives including a special edition vinyl soundtrack release from Music.Film Recordings and Varèse Saraband this summer. Collectors can look for products from Chronicle Collectibles, Toy Vault, and Trevco in the coming months. 'Scapers' (Farscape fans) are encouraged to follow the official Farscape social channels using the fan-created hashtag #FarscapeNow for specific Prime Video territory details and any upcoming announcements.






I soo need to have a rewatch, it’s been absolutely years now, but there’s always so much new content to watch on streaming sites that I never get around to my old shows much any more :( This year does feel like the perfect time for a rewatch though. Any fans want to discuss favourite seasons and episodes? My favourite season would be season 3, favourite characters are John and Aeryn naturally, and my top episodes would be


Nerve/The Hidden Memory

Crackers Don’t Matter

The Way We Weren’t

Won’t Get Fooled Again

Die Me, Dichotomy

Relativity

Scratch ‘n’ Sniff

Infinite Possibilities two-parter

The Choice

Into The Lion’s Den two-parter

Kansas/Terra Firma

A Constellation of Doubt