Basically, run
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grimoriePan-Am
Oh, I like this! I've been side-eyeing Playboy Club and all the things they're trying to sell about the show but this one I really like!
I hope someone retires like Mad Men only with planes because it doesn't even have the sense of it. It's set in the past but I feel its more of a fun escapist show with a lot of female characters who are in it for the Adventure and world travel.
Also, there are spies and cold war shenanigans and I'm perfectly fine accepting Pan Am for what it is, fun!
Revenge
For the truly wronged, real satisfaction can only be found in one of two places: absolute forgiveness or mortal vindication. This is not a story about forgiveness.
Guys, you are all fired for not telling me a gender flipped version of The Count of Monte Cristo was in the works!
So far I'm enjoying more than Ringer! Sorry, SMG. Although I will catch-up to your show too!
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Eleventh Doctor's defining moment. Or, at least it is for me, see if my brother showed me this clip the first time I think I would have immediately started watching Eleven's run as the Doctor but y'know I do like that it was River who brought me back.
But the part where Eleven walks through Ten's image and then suddenly it clicks in your head, he is the Doctor.
Basically, Run.
And look what I found!
Seventh Doctor defends the Pandorica!
Sylvester McCoy does a reading of this scene during the DragonCon 2011 and a fan edits it down to remove the audience clapping and added in the music:
Boy, now I see the similarities between Eleventy and Seven, I know a few people compared Ten with Seven but I think this is a far more apt comparison. Also, here's Matt Smith's Eleven doing the same speech:
Oh, I like this! I've been side-eyeing Playboy Club and all the things they're trying to sell about the show but this one I really like!
I hope someone retires like Mad Men only with planes because it doesn't even have the sense of it. It's set in the past but I feel its more of a fun escapist show with a lot of female characters who are in it for the Adventure and world travel.
Also, there are spies and cold war shenanigans and I'm perfectly fine accepting Pan Am for what it is, fun!
Revenge
For the truly wronged, real satisfaction can only be found in one of two places: absolute forgiveness or mortal vindication. This is not a story about forgiveness.
Guys, you are all fired for not telling me a gender flipped version of The Count of Monte Cristo was in the works!
So far I'm enjoying more than Ringer! Sorry, SMG. Although I will catch-up to your show too!
--
Eleventh Doctor's defining moment. Or, at least it is for me, see if my brother showed me this clip the first time I think I would have immediately started watching Eleven's run as the Doctor but y'know I do like that it was River who brought me back.
But the part where Eleven walks through Ten's image and then suddenly it clicks in your head, he is the Doctor.
Basically, Run.
And look what I found!
Seventh Doctor defends the Pandorica!
Sylvester McCoy does a reading of this scene during the DragonCon 2011 and a fan edits it down to remove the audience clapping and added in the music:
Boy, now I see the similarities between Eleventy and Seven, I know a few people compared Ten with Seven but I think this is a far more apt comparison. Also, here's Matt Smith's Eleven doing the same speech:
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Date: 2011-09-29 06:12 pm (UTC)I've talked about it a bit. But I think calling in an update of that book is too generous. Totally ymmw, but I liked this critic's take on it:
"Revenge" is extraordinarily loosely based on Alexandre Dumas' "The Count of Monte Cristo," but the basis is so loose that acknowledging it would be giving the Mike Kelley-scripted pilot way more literary credit than it deserves. There's zero point in my going through the major plot changes that impact and undo the entire nature of the Dumas story, so let's just say that this series is every bit as much "Secret Revenge Millionaire" as it is "Count of Monte Cristo."
"Count of Monte Cristo" is a tremendously satisfying book and it prolongs that satisfaction across 1000+ pages in its unexpurgated version. It's the construction of the story that makes "Monte Cristo" so great and fittingly, but unrelatedly, it's the construction of "Revenge" that makes it so unsatisfying.
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Date: 2011-10-01 09:41 am (UTC)Hmmm... it might be possible though that I saw this after Ringer which was such a ho-hum pilot that Revenge seemed to be a vast improvement!
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Date: 2011-10-01 05:55 pm (UTC)I'll certainly agree with that! When compared with the other fall pilots, Revenge is a slight bit better. Not that that's saying much this year. (Le sigh.)