iZombie worthy successor to Buffy
June 6th, 2015 at 2:31:13 PM permalink | |
Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25011 |
That describes all women for a few days every month. And yes, it is frightening. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
June 7th, 2015 at 12:04:12 AM permalink | |
Fleastiff Member since: Oct 27, 2012 Threads: 62 Posts: 7831 | Zombie dancing has the appeal of p to approaching someone in the style of a zombie and by touching them, turning them into a zombie dance partner of some sort. So concerts or club acts or intermissions get some sort of group activity going. It seems that even the Quadratic Equation gets sung to a strip tease and cornet playing. With the naked singer remaining on stage for awhile. |
November 17th, 2015 at 4:59:28 PM permalink | |
Pacomartin Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 1068 Posts: 12569 | The show iZombie is still entertaining (20th episode tonight). Although the comic book character wasn't sexy, the TV character is very cute. I wanted to give Supergirl a chance, but the 4th episode was a massive disappointment as it was like a douche commercial with women weeping and talking about their feelings for the entire show. "I became a government agent fighting aliens because I could never please you mommy". Dialogue like that for an hour. |
November 18th, 2015 at 12:30:11 PM permalink | |
Ayecarumba Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 89 Posts: 1744 |
I understand they had to do a last minute swap since the originally scheduled episode had a plot that was uncomfortably close to the recent Paris massacre. |
November 18th, 2015 at 2:12:42 PM permalink | |
Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25011 |
I figured they depend on 80% of the viewers to be females. Xena is ain't. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
November 18th, 2015 at 3:51:17 PM permalink | |
Pacomartin Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 1068 Posts: 12569 |
The original episode Supergirl featured the city being hit by a series of bombings. Instead they swapped in the girls and their feelings episode instead. I remember 16 years ago when a Buffy episode had a student loading a rifle in a clock tower. But instead of intending to shoot students, he was going to commit suicide. The Columbine massacre was the week before so they delayed the episode by a few months. Networks have moved shows so many times now, that it is a little annoying that people can't realize that these fictional stories were shot months earlier, and has nothing whatsoever to do with real world events of a few days before the scheduled airing. Procedural drama deliberately capitalizes on real world horror stories all the time, but fictional super hero / sci-fi /horror can't bump into real world monstrosity by accident. |
November 18th, 2015 at 6:50:04 PM permalink | |
Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25011 | The episode that aired Monday of Legends has a Muslim taking weapons to Paris from London so he can kill a bunch of people. Talk about a coincidence. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
November 18th, 2015 at 7:03:12 PM permalink | |
Ayecarumba Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 89 Posts: 1744 | I thought the plot device of the zombie absorbing the brain's memories, skills and defects was fun, but the hero temporarily taking on memories and different skills via a plot device has been done in a number of other shows. There's a show called "Stitchers" on ABC Family where the heroine is able to walk around in the memories of the recently deceased in order to solve their murders. Unfortunately, the lead, Emma Ishtar, is not a very good actress, but she sure is tall. |
November 18th, 2015 at 7:46:48 PM permalink | |
Pacomartin Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 1068 Posts: 12569 |
No, it certainly isn't an original plot device. As a matter of fact, the show seems to be an amalgamation of TV genres. I mostly like how the cast plays off each other. It has more chemistry than most shows. |