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Brave new season

I didn't even really follow baseball much this summer and I'm still behind on all of my TV watching! I did just finish S3 of Southland though, which was fantastic. I finished watching all 10 episodes in a few days. It's one of those shows that I just enjoy more when I'm mainlining it. The Killing was like that too, and I also kind of did that with Mad Men and The Walking Dead (hmm, all the AMC shows).

I like how natural Southland is, they show the randomness and variety of incidents that cops respond to, but there are enough ongoing storylines to give the show some structure, and it's an ensemble and all the characters do interact with each other, but they're not all one big Scooby gang or anything or even good friends (aside from the partners).

I'm a sucker for SyFy shows. :) My favourite is Haven. I guess I like quirky, soft shows like that. They had a really fantastic beginning to an episode that involved drowning a boy. It was super creepy and disturbing, but then later it's revealed to be something else totally. Ahh well. I do appreciate individual moments and scenes and aspects of TV... which is why I watch so much of it I guess.

Alphas seemed kind of blah, but interesting enough to keep watching. The whole premise has been done before in X-Men, Heroes and The 4400, which I think was the most interesting take on the concept. Then I watched the episode with the guy who can incite rage in people and was so impressed with all the horrific crowd violence scenes. They could have just filmed a bunch of people punching each other, but the first scene being set in a train and all of the camera angles and selective colouring and stuff that they would do really intensified the horror of what was going on.

I watched the pilots of Ringer and The Secret Circle and will keep watching both. I didn't think I was going to like Ringer and honestly just watched it for Sarah Michelle Gellar, but it played as more interesting than what it sounded like on paper. I do love The CW though. I enjoy 90210 even, haha. It's like SVU set at a high school. Mentally, I am still 15 years old.

The S2 premiere of Hawaii Five-0 actually addressed a couple of the things I was iffy about in the S1 finale (gun shot residue and the stun gun injury) and even though I didn't fully buy the explanations, I appreciated that they mentioned it. That show can be as ridiculous as it wants as far as I'm concerned as long as they keep the banter between Alex O'Loughlin and Scott Caan. Daniel Dae Kim is getting a tiny bit more to do than just be Serious Korean Guy, Grace Park didn't do anything too awful, although there was a moment when I got all excited that Wo Fat was going to kill her and was disappointed that he didn't. I'm pleased with Masi Oka becoming a series regular but dunno how or if they'll expand his role.

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I watched the first season of Southland when it was on NBC and rather enjoyed it. Didn't follow it to TNT because it was a long time later and I'm very forgetful. Apparently, I need to remedy that. Sounds like it's gotten even better.

Yeah, it's definitely retained the same tone, but because all of the subplots have progressed, it's become more interesting? If you liked S2 you'll probably like S2 and S3.

lee and I are both sick of waiting for soutland, we are clearly going to just have to buy the DVD's.

If you haven't got it on TV over there by now... yeah, hehe.

I've developed a crush on Steve McGarrett. He is CRAZY. Why do the weird ones always seem so appealing to me? SIGH.

Also season 1 gag reel for Five-0 : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKErYSCeXyo


If you watch his other shows, you'll realize that it's not actually Steve, it's Alex O'Loughlin because he's not a very good actor the same in Moonlight, Three Rivers and Hawaii Five-0. I don't know what it is about him, but he is very comforting to watch on TV and I would watch him in pretty much anything. :)

Haha, so much good stuff there! I like how the guest actor called Daniel Dae Kim "Jin". And all the swearing, muahaha! I love the ending with them HOLDING HANDS AND RUNNING DOWN tHE BEACH. Oh man. And really relieved that Alex O'Loughlin wasn't talking with an Australian accents.

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