ROUND UP [7th Feb, 2014]

[lostdragonfound]

AIRING TONIGHT
Helix 1x06 HOMEBASE POST

AIRING TONIGHT: HOMEBASELESS
Banshee 2x05
Raising Hope 4x15

COMING UP TOMORROW
Bitten 1x05
Black Sails 1x03
Firefly Rewatch 1x02 HOMEBASE POST
Veronica Mars Rewatch 1.05 - 1.08 HOMEBASE POST

COMING UP SOON (Sunday)
Shameless (US) 4x05
Girls 3x06
Lost Girl 4x12
True Detective 1x04
The Walking Dead 4x09
*Homebase coming soon for The Walking Dead

COMING UP SOON (Monday)
Teen Wolf 3x18 HOMEBASE POST
Almost Human 1x10 HOMEBASE POST
Being Human (US) 4x05 HOMEBASE POST
The Following 2x04 HOMEBASE POST
Intelligence 1X06 HOMEBASE POST
Beauty and the Beast 2x13
Hart of Dixie 3x13


WHAT WE ARE TALKING ABOUT THIS WEEK
→Almost Human 1x09 HOMEBASE POST
→Supernatural 9x13 HOMEBASE POST
→Justified 5x05 HOMEBASE POST
→Arrow 2x13 HOMEBASE POST
→The Following 2x03 HOMEBASE POST
→Pretty Little Liars 4x18 HOMEBASE POST
→S.H.I.E.L.D. 1x13 HOMEBASE POST
→Elementary 2x15 HOMEBASE POST

INTERESTING LINKS
*Interview with Clark Gregg on AGENTS OF SHIELD and more (SPOILERS) {AssignmentX, SHIELD)
*Lightning Round 11: Once Upon a Time Bosses Answer Your Burning Questions (MAJOR SPOILERS) [TVGuide, Once Upon a Time]
*Devil in the Details: Bryan Fuller's "Hannibal" (SPOILERS for season one)[dreampunk, Hannibal]
*Vampire Diaries Recap (SPOILERS) [TV|Line, TVD]
*While you weren't looking, Tomorrow People became a great TV show(SPOILERS) [io9, Tomorrow People]
*Whedonverse Alums On Life After "Dollhouse" [BuzzFeed, Whedonverse]
*Paul Wesley Will Make His Directorial Debut On "The Vampire Diaries" [BuzzFeed, TVD]

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Comments

[adafrog]

That's a great interview with Clark Gregg. Kind of makes me want to catch up on Agents of SHIELD.

[lostdragonfound]

I've really been enjoying the show more and more as it's progressed.

[adafrog]

He said that it's really gelled through the first 10 episodes or so. Sounded like it'll get more interesting.

[rheasilvia]

This was an odd ep of Banshee - in some ways, it almost seemed as though they suddenly found they'd planned the season with one ep short and had to come up with a filler.

(Hope it's okay to post this here, since the show has no homebase yet!)

[laisserais]

I'm so glad someone else watches Banshee!

Did you think it was filler? I thought it was one of the most beautiful episodes of television I'd ever seen! It was a poem, using visuals as recurring, rhyming couplets and strongly evoking emotion and memory.

At first I thought it was weird, with the rhythm of the time jumping and repetition, and obviously it didn't advance the plot much, but I did feel that it beautifully addressed one of the core issues at the heart of the show: the relationship between 'Hood' and 'Carrie.' They will always be moving away from their lost dream; it will never be theirs again, and like a unicorn, a rare and mythical creature, their childhood, starcrossed love will never be recaptured.

I palpably felt them giving up, shifting gears, shifting their perspectives in this episode. It was all on the inside, though, which is why I was so impressed with how they visually represented it. (because I'm rather dense about the finer points of feelings, and the fact that I *got* them in this ep is like, no short of a miracle lol)

All of the imagined reactions that are intercut with what actually happens was gorgeous too. This is all strongly centered in "Hood's" pov, and the fact that we continually shifted from fantasy to reality and back, cycling through could-have-beens and wishful thinking, marked only slightly by the change in lighting, made it seem like more critical action was happening, because we are always off kilter, never sure what's really going on. And the framing shots--the overhead crawling through the corn--and color palette all really strongly evoked a sense of dream/memory/artifice, even in the parts where action *is* happening, making this sort of effortless blend of all three--and I really got a sense of being inside 'Hood's" mind and got a sense of how he sees the world. Which goes a long way to explaining his justification for how he behaves, along with the mythos he's built up of his time with Anna.

Also, I loved the fact that we've been following this FBI guy all along, and assuming his arc would be heroic, that he'd end up getting Rabbit, by virtue of the fact that he's dying, but practically as he's proclaiming his grand plan, he's cut short; more fodder for our fear of Rabbit, and reinforcing the sense that nothing is fair, or safe, or just in this universe.

lol uh, I guess I could go on for a while on this show. I'm glad there's someone else out there watching! It's not the usual fannish sort of thing. But it's amazing, isn't it?

[rheasilvia]

It was a poem, using visuals as recurring, rhyming couplets and strongly evoking emotion and memory.

That's a lovely way to put it - and you are right, the ep did do those things, and did them well. However, it was such a radical departure from the series' usual tone and pace that it felt totally off to me. A sudden near-total deceleration and shift into inner space and poetic symbolism was not what I expected from Banshee, and to me it's such a radical departure that the ep feels like a foreign body in the context of the rest of the series.

I do think that the emotional state of the characters was very clearly shown, including the turning point (or crisis) that they are both facing. However, I felt this was basically an extended re-iteration of things that had already been clear before. I don't see the need for this ep in narrative terms.

Perhaps the series intends to take not!Hood and Anastasia in new and different directions in terms of goals, dreams and hopes, and that was why they felt they needed such a clear watershed? If so, it would make somewhat more sense to me... but to be honest, that's not the impression I got. Even now, I would still be surprised to find not!Hood letting go of the desperate dream of Anastasia that he clutched so desperately to carry him through 15 years of hell.

(I *would* actually welcome this change on not!Hood's part, although I still think it's not likely to happen. For one thing, it would mean a badly needed measure of healing and moving on for him, and for another, I feel that he and Anastasia are not good for each other in the present day. Plus I am getting rather tired of that plot. *g*)

I do agree on the FBI agent - that was a very nice and utterly surprising twist. I'm sorry to see him go, though; I liked him.

Banshee is indeed a very interesting series! I enjoy many aspects of it, although there are also aspects that make me grit my teeth and/or roll my eyes (and hit the fast-forward button *g*). And I must say that I am incredibly impressed by the main actors, especially not!Hood.