don't be dull, be fannish

I still haven't caught up on Agents of SHIELD, Daredevil, Sense8 and 12 Monkeys, but I just can't be bothered, really. I plan on getting 12M on DVD anyways but DD bored me to tears, S8 had a great concept but... eh, and AoS... I love Lance and Bobbi but I can't stand the endlessly shifting loyalties, all the betrayals, now we're with them, now we're with them... eh. I might just follow Huntingbird on Tumblr via gifs and be done with the show because Coulson and Daisy never held my interest and it's all about them... eh. Just... eh. I might return to the show one day but right now, I JUST CAN'T BE BOTHERED!

Henry Simmons AKA Alphonso "Mack" Mackenzie was upped to a regular on Agents of SHIELD: link. That makes me very happy because I think he deserves to be a regular. Everybody else was upped and it felt wrong that he was still only a recurring. Mack might not always be the most likable person, sometimes, he irks me to no end, but he's quite fascinating in his conviction. And I think that he actually and really likes both Fitz and Hunter. He might not always be on their side, but he always tries to do his damnest to protect them. Also, on a very shallow note, Henry Simmons is GORGEOUS! \o/ I'm quite curious about what's in store for him next...

OMG! OMG! OMG!

As ABC and Marvel are prepping a spinoff from sophomore drama Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D., I have learned that Season 2 cast additions to the mothership series Adrianne Palicki and Nick Blood are finalizing deals to headline the offshoot.

Palicki and Blood’s characters Lance Hunter and Barbara “Bobbi” Morse aka Mockingbird have quickly become fan favorites since joining Phil Coulson’s (Clark Gregg) team early this season. Lance is a quick-witted mercenary sharpshooter, while Bobbi worked undercover in HYDRA laboratories. Giving the spinoff a Mr. & Mrs. Smith vibe, Lance and Bobbi are former husband and wife who have let sparks fly in a push-pull relationship on Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Marvel, ABC and reps for Palicki and Blood declined comment.

The spinoff is supposed to be set up by events from this season of S.H.I.E.L.D.

Source: Deadline (via CBM)

PLEASE, LET IT BE TRUE! PLEASE, LET IT BE TRUE! *runs around like a chicken with its head chopped off* Huntingbird, my precious Huntingbird OTP, is the reason why I love AoS right now, Bobbi and Hunter and their sexy banter and them kicking ass together and the way they still adore each other despite being divorced and... and... and... PLEASE, JUST... PLEASE!

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! Do you hear the dolphin noises I'm making right now? Luke Mitchell AKA John Young from The Tomorrow People AKA the only reason I watched that show is joining Agents of SHIELD as a ( spoilers! ) OMG! OMG! OMG! Yes! I was so sorry that TTM was canceled but I'm so happy that we will get to see Luke play a similar character on AoS! EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

Agents of SHIELD 206: During S1, my favorite relationship on the show was FitzSimmons. Now? Fitz and Mack, and Hunter and Bobbi, or FitzMack and Huntingbird as the pairings are called on Tumblr. I especially adore the banter between between Hunter and Bobbi, it's Mr. and Mrs. Smith all over again. And it's adorable!

Brooklyn Nine-Nine 205: Funny as always. The best part, though, was Jake ( spoilers! ) LOL!

The Flash 105: I'm not a big fan of Xovers, so... I think this was the weakest episode yet, good but the weakest one of the bunch. Though it was interesting to see Wells ( spoilers! )

Stalker 101: The jury is still out on this one. The case was interesting but I find Dylan McDermott's character really creepy. It's like he's a sociopath only pretending to have real human emotions...

Episodes 202 to 204 were much better than the season premiere, but I still think this show's better viewed in batches rather than ep for ep, week for week.

I like how the new team is getting along, becoming a unit. And I can't believe I'm saying this but Skye is all kinds of awesome - and I couldn't stand her at first, at the beginning of S1. Huh! As far as friendships go, I adore Coulson and May's relationship and now Fitz's with ( spoilers! )

I think the show's now much better than during S1. It's just too bad most people dropped it and didn't come back. It's now at 1.6-1.7 demo only and if ABC weren't a part of the Disney/Marvel group, I think they would've dropped it by now...

By now, I have hundreds of episodes of various shows downloaded that I haven't seen yet. Since Teen Wolf, I basically live and breathe TW. Yup, the season was THAT good.

One thing I have noticed this year regarding shows in general and the newbies in particular: an INCREDIBLY SLOW START. Like snail pace and awful shipping and generally boring material that cost several shows their viewership. Look at...

Almost Human: canned.

Agents of SHIELD: it started with 4.0+ ratings and now it's down to 1.8! It will be renewed because ABC is a part of the Disney network - but how can you lose 2.0+ demo points within 20 episodes with a material like FRICKIN' MARVEL?

Tomorrow People: it started with 1.0 demo and its last episode of the season - and almost certainly of the series - was 0.4. But then, it was executed by Julie Plec, she of The Vampire Diaries fame who is a huge fan of love triangles, so instead of focusing on the action, ULTRA vs. the Tomorrow People, from the get-go, it was all about who slept with whom etc. SERIOUSLY?!

And it doesn't matter how good the show becomes around episode 16 or whenever when by then most of its audience has fled in boredom! See SGU as another - expensive - example of a catastrophic failure. But the execs are incorrigible. They make the same mistake again and again and again, like they have blinders on their eyes or something...

The book I'm translating now is really pissing me off, a very trying piece of work, let me tell you. It's "The Path of Anger: The Book and The Sword 1" by Antoine Rouaud. I want... I really want to strangle all the characters, either they are blind fools or they're ruled by their genitalia. The last time I got this angry working on a book, it was... either Fiona McIntosh or Sara Douglass, I guess, those were some nightmarish months, two trilogies, 600+ pages per book. This one's luckily only 400+ pages long - and I'm almost at its end, thank the gods above.

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The Blacklist just got an early S2 renewal. I still haven't seen more than the first episode though. I have a hard time connecting with the characters. I think I need to be in the proper mood for this show.

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But I watched episodes 102-106 of Agents of SHIELD. It's getting slowly better, yet the show remains my biggest disappointment of the season. Because it's good. And it should be excellent. They had everything going for it and yet, the end-result is "only" good. No episode got my heart pumping yet and I ffwd through some of the stuff, mostly Skye related. But either I'm slowly building up my tolerance or they finally started toning down her obnoxiousness. I loved it when ( spoilers! ) I feel that Skye and Ward are the weakest links: Skye because of how she's written, Ward because of the actor, the guy simply lacks charisma, mostly he just looks constipated. The FitzSimmons are cute - especially in episode 106! - and Coulson and May are golden.

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Which reminds me, I think I will look up some Coulson centric fics. I didn't like him in the movies, he was just the guy who stood around, smiling smugly, and I wanted to punch him. But now that we are getting to know him better, I'm finally starting to find him interesting.

Any tips and recs? Slash, het, gen, whatever...

So, on the night Agents of SHIELD aired, DC/WB announced a Jim Gordon centric series, Gotham:

In one of the biggest drama deals this season, after a bidding war, Fox has landed Gotham, from Warner Bros. TV and The Mentalist creator Bruno Heller, with a series commitment. (...) It explores the origin stories of Commissioner James Gordon and the villains who made Gotham City famous. In Gotham, Gordon is still a detective with the Gotham City Police Department and is yet to meet Batman who will not be part of the series. The Gordon character was introduced in 1939 in the very first Batman comic.

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Well, sounds interesting - though I would've preferred Marvel's Agent Carter series, to be honest - but the way DC/WB's been playing catch-up lately, is rather pathetic. First they refused Joss Whedon's Wonder Woman script, then they said a Justice League movie was impossible to make - only to be proven wrong by Marvel's The Avengers. Now they obviously adapted the "see what Marvel does and copy" model. Well...