And we’re back! For all the right reasons!

• Good news for fans of FANDOMONIUM:

I will probably never be able to afford my last semester of college, so you’re going to see a huge increase in blog posts, which will probably get more and more manic and desperate as my job search continues.  Hooray for new content!

• Bad news for fans of FANDOMONIUM:

I really like The Bachelorette.  I mean, I REALLY like The Bachelorette.  A lot.  I look forward to Monday nights like Christmas morning.  More, actually, because at least on Monday nights my family doesn’t gather to speculate about whether I’m anorexic.  So, sorry guys, I’ll eventually get to why X-Men: First Class is my favorite movie ever, but first…a detour.

Don’t worry, I’m not going to go into a ton of detail here.  There’s a new episode tomorrow, and plenty’s been said about Jeff’s mask and Bentley’s….I don’t even know.  I just wanted to talk about William, who somehow won me over by crashing and burning spectacularly on national television.  I think he summed it up best himself when he stared balefully into the camera and said, “I’m an idiot.”

Please be my new favorite show, Grimm.

It’s that time of year again, lovelies.  The very special time when all of the networks buy a bunch of pilots, and some of them sound really great, and I get my hopes WAY UP, and then most of them I never hear about again, and a handful I do, and then they BREAK MY HEART.  I’m talking to you AGAIN, Undercovers.  You are my Fredo.  (That’s a little Godfather humor for you.)

This season, NBC’s ordered a pilot called Grimm, and I can already tell I’m going to be crying over it someday, for one reason or another.  According to EW, it’s a “dark but fantastical cop drama about a world in which characters inspired by Grimm’s Fairy Tales exist.”  Not only does that sound awesome all on its own, but the creative team behind it includes Jim Kouf (Angel) and David Greenwalt (Buffy the Vampire Slayer), so I’m gonna go ahead and put all of my eggs in Grimm‘s basket.  Oh yes.

I know what you’re thinking.

It probably won’t even get picked up.  And if it is, it’ll be a disappointment.  Or worse, it’ll be the best new show on television that no one watches for about 9 episodes.  You know what, I don’t even care.  I’m very very excited.  This is going to be the best pilot season ever!  Right?

Right?

 

Whatever guys, this is totally relevant.

If you’ve talked to me for, let’s say…ten seconds out of the past two months, you know that I’ve been having a nonstop Boxleitnerpalooza ever since I watched TRON (1982) on a whim in early December.  I went on to watch TRON a billion more times, and then TRON: Legacy, and then Babylon 5 (which I’ll probably be ready to ramble about in a week or two, once I’m done weeping bitterly), and THEN, during a spree of Bruce Boxleitner YouTube Comic-Con video watching (shut up, that’s a thing), I found THIS:

And I thought to myself, what the heck is Scarecrow and Mrs. King?  Gee, that show must have been terrible/cancelled after nine episodes, because I have never heard of it.  So I did a little more YouTubing, and I was wrong, I was wrong, I was so very wrong.  This show is my new favorite thing.  I will tell you why.

Being Human (for Yankees)

I should preface this by putting it out there that I haven’t seen the original BBC version of Being Human. Not one second of it. So while my thoughts on the Syfy adaptation of the show will lack insight into how it compares to the original, there will also be a lack of whining about how one version or the other is clearly superior/inferior. With that out of the way, I thought the debut of Syfy’s Being Human was pretty solid and one of the better new shows I’ve seen so far this midseason.

“LOST” reference in NBC’s “The Cape?”

Am I crazy, or did that…ah…decorative…light thing in the background during the Pilot episode of The Cape look a lot like the Oceanic Airlines logo?  Oceanic has made appearances in everything from Alias and FlashForward (obviously) to Buffy (the comic) and Chuck.  I don’t think it’s completely outside the realm of possibility.

 

 

I don’t know, thoughts?