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Death in Paradise
Ack, I’m starting to ship the two leads, and they are toying with me. 😮 Ep 2.1 was a massive tease! 😯
I have been spoiled as to how it ends for those two, so I’m trying not to ship them. 🙁 But they are not making it easy!
They’ve definitely got a love/hate thing going on though. So far it’s clear that she likes him. But he is either in denial, scared, or a clueless idiot, LOL! I’m going with scared.
*update: As of ep 2.4, she deliberately annoyed him enough to get him to chase her down the beach. Just getting him to run on the beach at all is a major accomplishment! 😆
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I haven’t watched the opener of Defiance yet, and I have not heard good things about it so now I’m procrastinating. That’s the one I said I could not recommend. The first season was very good, (though the ending was absolutely baffling). The second season got weird and darker, but I still watched because I was invested in the characters, and I still found some things to like. But if season three continues to go downhill, and loses more of the things or characters I like, it may finally lose me. 🙁
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But I got really curious last night, and took a little break from “paradise” to check out “Dark Matter“. 🙂 Here is my review: 😎
Spoilers ahoy if you haven’t seen it yet!
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—–Well it was a little bit of a slow start, but it’s interesting enough to keep me guessing as to what is really going on.
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The girl is not one of the wanted prisoners (mercenaries, assassins, whatever they are). I think she came from the last place the Raza attacked, stowed away on board, and did something to the tech to wipe all their memories and the ship’s record of their next target. She knew whatever she did would wipe her memory too, so she brought along whatever is in that hold to gradually feed memories back to her (either her’s or someone else’s). Or at least whatever she needs to know. That’s why she “keep(s) it locked”, she needs to keep it from them. And it contains “secrets”, as that’s where she keeps her information, away from them.
My mother thinks the dream was entirely metaphor: the attackers were these criminals, their “eyes” being the knowledge that she removed from their minds. Now they see differently, cannot see what they were originally supposed to do. And the evil stepmother could be the corporation? I don’t know, it’s a theory in progress. 😉
Oh, and who is Rothgar? (Or is it Hrothgar?) Some leader to the oppressed? Where is he though? Could the green haired girl be one of his people come to help the mining colony, and could the pendant in the bedroom be hers?
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This is still full of cliches though. Oh look there’s an Asian guy, is he the techie? No! He’s Kung Fu / Samurai dude! 🙄
And the girl, as a tech prodigy with psychic visions, manages to be both Kaylie and River at the same time! 😛 LOL!
But why is David Hewlett grinning maniacally from the screen?!? 😆 ROTFL!
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I was also a little distracted by some of the names. “Rothgar” a friendly leader, and “The Raza” described as scary half lizard assasins (before the reveal). These names and descriptions seem to be taken from the Eragon book series! (Second show to borrow from there!)
In Eragon, Hrothgar is the friendly king of the dwarves. Now I know that Paolini got that name from older works and legends, so that is not so telling. But the Ra’zac are half bird creatures that do the evil bidding of the enemy, killing whoever they are told to. (Picture them as a deadly cross between “raven” and “cossack”.)
Now the Raza analogy still fits after the reveal, because they are mercenary / assassins flying around in a ship! 😯
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I have a few comments on Dark Matter, but first:
So I’m a little delayed in watching, because last week I got tired of waiting and started watching an older show that I have been meaning to try. And now I am hooked!!! 😀 And I may as well discuss this show here too, because it may not be new, but I’m watching it this summer! 😛
“Death in Paradise” is a British detective show starring Ben Miller. I am a fan of his since Primeval, and he doesn’t disappoint! 😀 He is sarcastically serious, and fun-grumpy! 😆 (And he even has an adorable pet lizard, for Primeval fans!) 😉
Anyway, I was surprised to see Sean Maguire in the first episode! He only had a small role though. He was locked in a small town jail cell, and the cell next to him was occupied by a goat, LOL! 😆
Interestingly, all of the first six episodes have had at least two guest stars who have been on Doctor Who! 😀 (I have a whole list, but I won’t make you read it. 😉 ) Although Ben Miller himself was recently on Doctor Who, playing the Sheriff of Nottingham in “Robot of Sherwood”! 😆
I know Ben Miller left the show after the first two seasons, and I don’t expect to keep watching it after that. He is the reason I love the show, he is just too much fun! 😀 I am going to be so disappointed when I get to his last episode. 🙁
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I keep breaking the quotes. Please stand by.
Edit, trying again:
Currently, I am anxiously waiting for season 3 of Orphan Black to finish, so I can binge watch the whole thing.
It has been an incredible season. Like out of this world good. Enjoy it.
Yay!! 😀 Last year I binge watched seasons 1 and 2 together, so I know how addictive it is. I don’t want to have to wait a week once I start. 😉
– Dark Matter
I wanted to check this one out. We’ll see after the pilot how I feel. SyFy shows can be pretty hit or miss.
I’m happy that SyFy is getting back into actual space shows again! We’ll see how it turns out, but I have to give space shows a chance. 😎 Plus it’s from Stargate writers, so that’s cool.
And I’ve got to look forward to any show that Wil Wheaton is excited to be on. 😎 And David Hewlett is supposed to show up too! 😉
Also, my review is on the way soon! 😀
– Extant on CBS July 1.
There are a few of us who watch Extant regularly.
Cool! 🙂
Other than that, for me, it’s:
1) Wrapping up “Penny Dreadful” and its second season….it might be better than the 1st season. It has been pretty perfect this year.
2) Under the Dome which I watch only to make fun of at this point.
3) Masters of Sex
4) I want to check out The Zoo
I haven’t watched any of those. What is Penny Dreadful like? It’s horror, right? Is it very graphic?
And The Zoo, oy. I’ll spare you the socio-political rant, as I know you get more than enough of those. 😉 I’ll just say, the ads for that one triggered a major pet peeve in my household, and leave it at that. 🙄
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Keeper of Anna’s Awkward Babbling and Kristoff’s Fur-trimmed Tunic!
^ LOL, that’s what I said in chat earlier! 😀 Though I was surprised at the time that no one else had said it yet. 😛
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Keeper of Anna’s Awkward Babbling and Kristoff’s Fur-trimmed Tunic!
So I finished binge watching S2 of BBC’s Atlantis, and I had forgotten this but from day one I pictured Aiysha Hart (Princess Ariadne) as Princess Jasmine! She should totally play her, whether it is on Once or in a movie! 😀
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Chat has been really weird for the last couple of days. Half the time it won’t load, it just says “connecting” or “couldn’t connect to server, click here to retry”. Or a popup that says “oops an error occurred, please try again later”
I have also been using the “private chat” feature. Tonight I was in the middle of an hour long private chat, and the whole thing froze while I was in the middle of typing, I couldn’t type in the box anymore. After two minutes I got it to work again by loading a new page.
But a while later, it suddenly stopped responding again, still in the middle of conversation. I refreshed, waited, refreshed again. Not wanting to leave the other hanging. It just kept saying loading, until finally it stopped showing up at all. No main chat on the side, no two private chat boxes in front of the forum. Not a trace, just gone! 😮
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edit, 10 minutes later, it’s all working now! 🙄
Keeper of Anna’s Awkward Babbling and Kristoff’s Fur-trimmed Tunic!
The guy in the first picture I think? Isn’t he Peggy’s boss the one that explodes?
Not if he’s Benjamin Wilkinson. Peggy’s boss (Roger Dooley) was played by Shea Whigham: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0924154/
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The smilies in the chatbox don’t necessarily coordinate with the forum. There are some differences. I printed out a list for my use from WordPress since that’s connected to the forum and the chat is Cbox. Google is your friend and you can find a list.
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Muhahahha…I am master of the Smilies.
So, all of those translate to something new now, but I wonder if there are any more?
Let’s test for new ones. I’ll try a few:
>_< ^_^ V_V
edit, nope, LOL! Or: 😆
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