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123. Broen season 2.
Is it just me or was this season a tad sex fixated?
124. Edderkoppen
I was actually surprised at how much I enjoyed this series. Admittedly, the hero is annoying and self-righteous and the fact that basically every eligible woman throws herself at him the moment she meets him (as does a gay character that seems to be in the script just for that scene) is not just annoying, it's making me question the script writers. But the seedy underbelly of post-Occupation Copenhagen is like something out of an HBO series, I love how fucked-up the entire police force is (understandable - the poor bastards spent the last part of the war in Buchenwald), and I rather liked Lars Mikkelsen's character, the hero's older brother who got shipped overseas just before the war because he was hanging with a bad crowd (ie. Nazis) and now returns full of jazz music dreams and nobody lets him forget his youthful mistakes. And I like how the show doesn't succumb to a typical, idiotic love triangle - even if everything does go to hell in a handbasket.
125. Ripper Street season 2.
Wait - they cancelled this? Why? It's good - I mean, not fannish good, but entertaining. So why?
126. Person of Interest season 1.
Okay, I admit it, this is fun. Mind you, my favourite bits turned out to be the complicated relationship between Reese and Fusco - poor dirty cop getting in over his head and finding that he actually likes working with the good guys. *pets him* Also Reese being all scary wolf, especially early on - Finch hiring him and clearly not quite trusting this predator he's invited into his life.
127. Prince of Jutland
Apparently, Gabriel Byrne had experience at playing the evil Viking lord before Vikings. Well, not Viking lord, strictly speaking - this is set in Denmark before the Viking Age. Oh, and not only do they know about England, they easily travel back and forth between the lands. Anyway, the movies fine, if a bit typically Danish historical movie - it's a retelling of the original Amled tale, which basically makes it one long fix-it story for Hamlet, except Shakespeare's version is newer and basically broke all the things that requires fixing. Anyway, Amled is - actually, it's fun, for all that the old Vikings valued physical courage and warriors highly, then the best stories featured heroes who combined those traits with cunning and planning, like Amled or Regnar Lodbrog.
128. Anna Karenina
Maybe I should have read the book.
129. Doctor Who: The Time of the Doctor
That was - pretty meh. And I'm sorry to say that Peter Capaldi's eyebrows in the 50th worked better for me than this first glimpse of the entire 12th Doctor. Anyway, the plot was pretty dull, the tension for "oh no he has no more regenerations" was non-existent, because we already knew (and surely he should have to? Did he already forget "all 13 of us"? Also - if the Time Lord's just needed the Doctor to basically verify that they had the right place, so if they knew enough to send through a fresh set of regenerations, surely they'd also know they had the right place? Or did I miss something? I mean, it's not like keeping the Time Lords out did anything to stop the epic war... And can we not talk about the naked thing (because we have a more than 1000 year old Time Lord who has spent a substantial part of that time hanging around in 20th and 21st century Britain, he knows not to show up randomly naked) or random new has-known-the-Doctor-forever people and...
Let's sum up: I rather did like Matt Smith as the Doctor. He was often fun. Sadly, his reign was marked by an overarching plot of timey-wimey confusion and constant retcons that went far beyond what even I enjoy + lets not even talk about how all the human women characters seem far too alike.
130. The Hobbit: the Desolation of Smaug
Oh, this was fun. Better than the first, really - for one thing, it didn't have half as much of that cringe-worthy "humour". The action scenes ran a bit too long (when is the amusement park with the barrel water rollercoaster opening?), but, well - anyway, Smaug was awesome. And there were details, like Thranduil's scars and how Bilbo can only hear the spiders talking when he's wearing the one ring. Also, I rather liked how they tricked everybody with the trailers - pretending that Tauriel was a love interest for Legolas, for instance, when while she's certainly a love interest, but not his (and now I worry, because Kili died in the book, and I kinda want those two to have a happy end).
131. The Scarlet Pimpernel
That is a really terrible poem. Movie's fun, though - it mostly shows its age in being a bit slow at times, but really, it's fun. I think I would have loved it madly, if I had made its acquaintance when I was younger. Now, I was entertained and oh baby!Ian Mckellen and I spent time musing how truly amateurish Percy's little group act - nobody even has codenames except the Scarlet Pimpernel himself?!
Is it just me or was this season a tad sex fixated?
124. Edderkoppen
I was actually surprised at how much I enjoyed this series. Admittedly, the hero is annoying and self-righteous and the fact that basically every eligible woman throws herself at him the moment she meets him (as does a gay character that seems to be in the script just for that scene) is not just annoying, it's making me question the script writers. But the seedy underbelly of post-Occupation Copenhagen is like something out of an HBO series, I love how fucked-up the entire police force is (understandable - the poor bastards spent the last part of the war in Buchenwald), and I rather liked Lars Mikkelsen's character, the hero's older brother who got shipped overseas just before the war because he was hanging with a bad crowd (ie. Nazis) and now returns full of jazz music dreams and nobody lets him forget his youthful mistakes. And I like how the show doesn't succumb to a typical, idiotic love triangle - even if everything does go to hell in a handbasket.
125. Ripper Street season 2.
Wait - they cancelled this? Why? It's good - I mean, not fannish good, but entertaining. So why?
126. Person of Interest season 1.
Okay, I admit it, this is fun. Mind you, my favourite bits turned out to be the complicated relationship between Reese and Fusco - poor dirty cop getting in over his head and finding that he actually likes working with the good guys. *pets him* Also Reese being all scary wolf, especially early on - Finch hiring him and clearly not quite trusting this predator he's invited into his life.
127. Prince of Jutland
Apparently, Gabriel Byrne had experience at playing the evil Viking lord before Vikings. Well, not Viking lord, strictly speaking - this is set in Denmark before the Viking Age. Oh, and not only do they know about England, they easily travel back and forth between the lands. Anyway, the movies fine, if a bit typically Danish historical movie - it's a retelling of the original Amled tale, which basically makes it one long fix-it story for Hamlet, except Shakespeare's version is newer and basically broke all the things that requires fixing. Anyway, Amled is - actually, it's fun, for all that the old Vikings valued physical courage and warriors highly, then the best stories featured heroes who combined those traits with cunning and planning, like Amled or Regnar Lodbrog.
128. Anna Karenina
Maybe I should have read the book.
129. Doctor Who: The Time of the Doctor
That was - pretty meh. And I'm sorry to say that Peter Capaldi's eyebrows in the 50th worked better for me than this first glimpse of the entire 12th Doctor. Anyway, the plot was pretty dull, the tension for "oh no he has no more regenerations" was non-existent, because we already knew (and surely he should have to? Did he already forget "all 13 of us"? Also - if the Time Lord's just needed the Doctor to basically verify that they had the right place, so if they knew enough to send through a fresh set of regenerations, surely they'd also know they had the right place? Or did I miss something? I mean, it's not like keeping the Time Lords out did anything to stop the epic war... And can we not talk about the naked thing (because we have a more than 1000 year old Time Lord who has spent a substantial part of that time hanging around in 20th and 21st century Britain, he knows not to show up randomly naked) or random new has-known-the-Doctor-forever people and...
Let's sum up: I rather did like Matt Smith as the Doctor. He was often fun. Sadly, his reign was marked by an overarching plot of timey-wimey confusion and constant retcons that went far beyond what even I enjoy + lets not even talk about how all the human women characters seem far too alike.
130. The Hobbit: the Desolation of Smaug
Oh, this was fun. Better than the first, really - for one thing, it didn't have half as much of that cringe-worthy "humour". The action scenes ran a bit too long (when is the amusement park with the barrel water rollercoaster opening?), but, well - anyway, Smaug was awesome. And there were details, like Thranduil's scars and how Bilbo can only hear the spiders talking when he's wearing the one ring. Also, I rather liked how they tricked everybody with the trailers - pretending that Tauriel was a love interest for Legolas, for instance, when while she's certainly a love interest, but not his (and now I worry, because Kili died in the book, and I kinda want those two to have a happy end).
131. The Scarlet Pimpernel
That is a really terrible poem. Movie's fun, though - it mostly shows its age in being a bit slow at times, but really, it's fun. I think I would have loved it madly, if I had made its acquaintance when I was younger. Now, I was entertained and oh baby!Ian Mckellen and I spent time musing how truly amateurish Percy's little group act - nobody even has codenames except the Scarlet Pimpernel himself?!
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