Stealing coffee

[ellestra]

Doctor Who - I don't know what to think about Listen. I kept switching my mind during the episode - I liked it at one moment and then didn't like it at another and then I ended at meh? I liked Clara and Danny but the Rupert thing was kind of creepy and not in the scary way (although I liked the Doctor's conversation with the night caretaker). I liked Orson but the whole great-grandparent thing just weirded me out. I loved the War Doctor connection but Clara being the cause of this whole 'fear under the bed thing' seemed way to repetitive (she's already scattered all over his timeline). And by the end I didn't even care if the monsters were real (too many of those already in Moffat's repertoire anyway). But I really love the Doctor and Clara's relationship now - especially the banter.


I was starting to get into the Intruders - especially Madison (the actress is pretty awesome) but they lost me at the end again. I'm starting to figure out that the returnees have some kind of ritual that once they pass gets them new bodies. When they wake up in them it's like a possession - the other soul is still there and can fight them (like Madison tries to fight Marcus and maybe that's why that teen killed herself in the pilot). I assume that in the house Marcus can kick Madison out/take over permanently. This is the interesting part - the rest is a mess. John Simm's character and most people around him behave in such a unnatural way that it's hard for me to feel the unnaturalness of the returnees. They just cannot reach his level of false emotion (the outburst in the car was especially bad). Also his dialogue mostly seems more like something from pulp noire detective novel (or The Tick voiceover) than actual human communication. James Frain's character is a blank hole of being vaguely menacing and shooting people. And there's a lot of whisper shouting. Still I'll keep watching for a little girl acting like an old man because it's eerie and creepy and this is what this whole show should be more like.

Z Nation felt like Syfy Original Movie or amateur webseries. I never been fan of zombies so I'm probably not the best judge of the premise but everything about it felt forced. See how our heroes meet and lose everything but find a reason to go on a roadtrip to save the world guided only by the voice coming on radiowaves. There is even the McGuffin for them to get to California. I'm not sure if I can take all the B-movie cliches that will come later.