TV: New Shows Starting Up!

This will just be a quick one but I've seen some previews of new shows coming and I thought I'd share them with you...

First up is The Flash. We all know who The Flash is right? Well this is a spin-off from Arrow so there will be a few faces we already recognise in there, including the Star Labs team and maybe even an appearance from our favourite masked hero (Stephen Amell). I also recognised Tom Cavanagh from the show Ed. It's still a while away yet, the preview says Fall so I'm guessing another few months. But if I'm still watching Arrow then I guess I'll watch this one too... It's not my favourite of the new announcements but we'll get to that.

The next one is Constantine, which I have just discovered is actually a TV Movie! Damn. The preview looks really good and I would love it as a series rather than a movie... oh well. Check out the awesome preview starring Matt Ryan who has guest featured in quite a few popular shows but I've never actually seen him before... as well as Lucy Griffiths (Winter's Tale, True Blood) and Harold Perrineau (Romeo + Juliet, Sexy Evil Genius). The trailer looks so good, Constantine has that wicked dry humour that I just love. Add in the whole idea of who and what Constantine is and I am excited! If you haven't seen the movie starring Keanu Reeves (The Matrix, 47 Ronin) then you need to check that out first. Again, this premiers in Fall so a few months to wait still...

I read the first book of Guillermo del Toro's The Strain and now it's coming to TV! It's a vampire book/show... yes, I can hear your groans already... but think vampires in the style of Resident Evil. They aren't pretty and sparkly with fangs... they are humans infected with a virus that changes their genetic makeup. They eat through a giant barbarous tongue.. I was told to think of the vampires in Blade II (which was directed by del Toro). So it has potential to be something kinda cool. We shall see though... Starring David Bradley (Filch from Harry Potter), Sean Astin (Samwise from Lord Of The Rings), Kevin Durand (X-Men Origins: Wolverine, Lost) and Mia Maestro (Alias), The Strain premiers next month, July 13.

Crossbones actually just started the other day and from what I can see it is very much like Black Sails which is probably why I haven't watched it yet. I was almost convinced when I realised it stars John Malkovich (Being John Malkovich, Burn After Reading) as Blackbeard and features Richard Coyle who I loved in Coupling! The trailer looks cool too... ok, I've convinced myself to check it out, I'll get back to you on that one...

So yeah... new stuff, coming soon!

TV: Mass Post... Part III

Pretty sure this will be the last TV post, then we can finally move onto movies and possibly books... then back to your regular programming. Huzzah!

I watched the entire series of Smallville since I stopped blogging... probably why I stopped blogging... but since then I've been addicted to Arrow as well. There's just something about superheroes and an extra something about superheroes with no actual powers. I'm loving this cast too; Stephen Amell (Heartland), Katie Cassidy (Gossip Girl), Summer Glau (Serenity), Manu Bennett (Spartacus) and Kevin Alejandro (True Blood). One more episode until season finale and the city is falling down around them. Will they be able to stop Slade's (actually) super army?

The Tomorrow People: why am I still watching this? I have no idea... Isn't it funny how they spent 18 or so episodes looking for Stephen's dad. Then they finally find him, bring him back from the dead and he lasts a whole two episodes before he's shot and dies again! And the whole time, Stephen (Robbie Amell) was the one who was the Savior. Ugh! I was really disappointed when Hillary (Alexa Vega from Spy Kids) blew herself up and still didn't manage to take out the founder! So annoying. At least the season wrapped up nicely... and then started with a whole new plot...

Another one I'm still watching without knowing why is Glee, even though sometimes I just skip through the songs. But I think we all know that with Glee club being disbanded and all our favourite characters growing up - and Cory Monteith - this will be the last season of Glee. Maybe that's why I'm still watching... and I need a little sweetness with all these action shows I watch. I normally cook dinner while watching this show too... excuses, excuses.

And these two, they come as a pair: The Vampire Diaries and The Originals. TVD is like: doppelgangers, kill them, eat them, die, die, stab, stab and yet they still always seem to get out of whatever scrape they're in. This time it's Travellers aka Gypsies... mmhrmm. Lucky for them, Damon (Ian Somerhalder) is hot so I have to watch it. I actually prefer The Originals because Klaus (Joseph Morgan) is such a dick and I love to hate him. I enjoy Hayley (Phoebe Tonkin), Elijah (Daniel Gillies) and Davina's (Danielle Campbell) characters. The reappearance of Mikael (Sebastian Roche) interests me as well.

I think I've mentioned my love for Nathan Fillion (Serenity) before and since the hubs and I started watching Castle we've really grown attached to Stana Katic (Quantum of Solace) as well: so purdy! We love the banter between the two of them and the next/last episode looks like it's the wedding! Hooray! Hopefully it won't end tragically like Castle tends to, the hubs and I are forever expecting another sniper now...

Revolution is one show I'm actually still enjoying. The whole idea of the nano and wanting to experience life is kinda cool and yet the nano is such a dick. It could easily take out their enemies or warn them or something but it hardly ever does, no humanity, no real understanding of life. It's probably going to end up running the world and deciding who gets to live and die. I think what I really enjoy about this show is the way all the different groups keep switching from being the good guys to the bad guys... you can never really tell who's in the right. Two more episodes of this season.

So many shows! And I haven't even mentioned Black Sails or House of Cards yet... I've still got a few episodes of the awesome Banshee to watch. I'm also storing up the second season of Vikings to watch in one big chunk. Orphan Black has just started up again and Orange Is The New Black is back very soon. Exciting season!

Love Gee
xoxo

TV: Arrow SE1 EP1

Arrow
Action, Adventure, Drama

I've been waiting months for this show to start and now it's finally here! I wasn't sure whether it would be any good though, fortunately for us, it is! Green Arrow was a DC Comic book series. DC's Batman series was so popular that they thought creating a very similar super hero would do just as well... it didn't obviously but I think they did okay.

Oliver Queen (Stephen Amell) AKA Green Arrow was a billionaire playboy until a boating accident killed half his family and left him stranded alone on an island for five years. While he was floating in the middle of nowhere on a life raft, his father told him a few family secrets before shooting himself to give Oliver the highest possible chance of survival.

We haven't really been given much to go on just yet. We know it has something to do with Queen's shipping company and the sale of a factory right before the ill-fated boat trip. Not only did the boat sink, but Oliver was boinking his girlfriend Laurel's (Katie Cassidy) sister who then died. How awesome is that? (note the sarcasm) So obviously she doesn't want to see him... How weird, boyfriend and sister died, you'd be so angry with her, then the boyfriend suddenly reappears? Poor Laurel.

Fight scenes are pretty awesome, the use of parkour is especially cool. Would also like to know Mummy, Moira's (Susanna Thompson) part in all this conspiracy stuff because we all picked up that she was the one that had her own son kidnapped and tortured... well, they tried anyway.

Can't wait to see more...

3 out 5...uh, bow n arrows?

[Quote]

Tommy (Colin Donnell): "Your funeral blew..."

Oliver: "Did you get lucky?" 

Tommy: "Like shooting fish in a barrel."