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snick_backupPilot
I'm going to like Dean a lot, aren't I? I was afraid of this. Drat! It's the sense of humor and the devil-may-careness. And also the competence.
Not to mention, there's something to be said for a show that'll coat its sex symbol in very un-sexy mud in the first twenty minutes.
I've long been hearing rumblings about the anti-feminism of this show, and man, it doesn't wait long to show its colors. Not one but two female characters get fridged in the opening episode for the purposes of man-pain, and the unrelated mystery features a woman freaking out, killing her children, committing suicide, and then wandering around a vengeful murderous spirit, all because of a man's actions. Yup.
On the plus side, the effect where she flickered in and out was pretty cool. It made her look like a glitchy hologram, but it was cool.
Is it going to turn out that all these "women in white" are someone being co-opted by a demon or evil spirit or something, causing them to all act out the same high tragedy, right down to the white dress? Yanno, something sort of Pratchettian - we're all in a story, and those stories are told over and over? Because that'd make more sense than just oh, this just happens sometimes, exactly the same way.
Seeing as Sam's girlfriend's murder is clearly going to be major motivation for some time to come, I wish I could have cared about her a little more. She was about as generic a college girlfriend as they come.
Wendigo
Can we keep this Hailey girl and her brother Ben? Because I like them a lot. She's a get-things-done girl and he seems pretty solid, too. (Other brother Tommy is a doofus, but otherwise I have no opinion.)
I notice Doc Cottle and Scruffy Cylon both show up in this ep. It's a regular BSG reunion.
I'm going to like Dean a lot, aren't I? I was afraid of this. Drat! It's the sense of humor and the devil-may-careness. And also the competence.
Not to mention, there's something to be said for a show that'll coat its sex symbol in very un-sexy mud in the first twenty minutes.
I've long been hearing rumblings about the anti-feminism of this show, and man, it doesn't wait long to show its colors. Not one but two female characters get fridged in the opening episode for the purposes of man-pain, and the unrelated mystery features a woman freaking out, killing her children, committing suicide, and then wandering around a vengeful murderous spirit, all because of a man's actions. Yup.
On the plus side, the effect where she flickered in and out was pretty cool. It made her look like a glitchy hologram, but it was cool.
Is it going to turn out that all these "women in white" are someone being co-opted by a demon or evil spirit or something, causing them to all act out the same high tragedy, right down to the white dress? Yanno, something sort of Pratchettian - we're all in a story, and those stories are told over and over? Because that'd make more sense than just oh, this just happens sometimes, exactly the same way.
Seeing as Sam's girlfriend's murder is clearly going to be major motivation for some time to come, I wish I could have cared about her a little more. She was about as generic a college girlfriend as they come.
Wendigo
Can we keep this Hailey girl and her brother Ben? Because I like them a lot. She's a get-things-done girl and he seems pretty solid, too. (Other brother Tommy is a doofus, but otherwise I have no opinion.)
I notice Doc Cottle and Scruffy Cylon both show up in this ep. It's a regular BSG reunion.
