Felicity Smoak!

YAY! Emily Bett Rickards AKA Felicity Smoak is being upped to a regular on Arrow starting with S2! Source. How awesomely awesome is that? I love the character so very, very much! I can't wait for tonight's episode. Based on the promo, Felicity will rock it!

Also, a very cute interview with her here: link. Loved the bit where she talks about her scenes with Stephen Amell :)

Da Vinci's Demons

Starz's new show Da Vinci's Demons... Well, it looks good, doesn't it? The cinematography, all the action. And it has Alexander Siddig (AKA Siddig El Fadil from the ST:DS9 fame) which is always a plus. So... why am I not more excited about it?

Because Leonardo Da Vinci is a GAY ICON, yet so far, all the trailers have portrayed him as a womanizer. This interview - link - gives me hope but... In a series about Leonardo Da Vinci, the fact that he fucked men - pardon my French - shouldn't be just a BTW. I hope that the actor playing Leonardo is right, that they won't shy away from it, that it's a part of a bigger arc and thus they can't spoil anything. And yet.

If they turn his gay encounters into dalliances only and give his het ships a deeper meaning, I will hiss like a cat. Because there are very few people in history that the gay community can be proud of. To take that away... That's why I hope it will be the other way around, that his encounters with women will be meaningless and that he will actually fall in love with a man. That I could accept and wholeheartedly support. But until I actually SEE it, until I SEE how they handle it, I won't get my hopes up.