A Certain Slant of Light

Galavant is back! And... my reaction to it is just as mixed as last year: cool premise, some great lines (loved the bit where King Richard is all "Can you get cancer from walking? Because I think my feet are getting cancer" - maybe you have to hear Timothy Omundson whine it while hiking across a verdant landscape to get the full effect), always happy for more musical TV shows, but it doesn't quite come together for me.

I also wasn't pleased about their choices with Isabella's storyline at the end of this episode. ( Spoilers )

But I'm probably going to end up watching the whole show, again like I did last year, because even if it is imperfect, it's still quite, quite unlike anything else I've ever seen on TV.

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I thought that Agent Carter was starting this Tuesday, but it looks like season 2 doesn't premier for another two weeks. WHY DO YOU TORMENT ME LIKE THIS, ABC?

Did anyone else watch the premiere of Galavant last night? I thought it was funny (particularly Timothy Omundson), and I am always in favor of more musical shows on TV... but I also didn't think they put enough meat on the characters to make any of them feel like people. Certainly I can see why they cut it down from a prospective long-running TV show to a four-episode serial, because I can't see any of these characters sustaining particularly long arcs. It's very much a poor man's A Knight's Tale or Men in Tights.

I seem to be undergoing on TV drought since catching up with Agents of SHIELD... Oh! But I am all caught up on that. I can't believe I haven't posted about it yet. I was not particularly impressed by the death, because it seemed random, and not in a "We know not the day or the hour" kind of way. More of a "We need someone to die to underscore that this is a serious show with high stakes" kind of way, and when you can actually see the narrative straining to make that point, it generally just ends up making the death look artificial and silly.

I find this particularly irritating because they actually had a character in peril whose death would have felt natural - super depressing, but natural - and would have made the point they wanted it to make, so I don't know why they went with last minute silly surprise death instead.

In other news, I am bored to death of Ward; I have in a few episodes gone from "Well, I suppose a redemption arc might be interesting" to "No. No, it really is not." I did like the moment when Skye got to punch him in the face, though.

Also sad: Bobbi has not worn her Evil Hydra Coat of Evil since she stopped being an undercover agent. This makes total sense, and yet I feel it is a tragic missed opportunity, because that coat was amazing and Bobbi should clearly wear it all the time.