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Have Mercy!

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I can barely stand to think about changing my OTPs. The “T” kind of dictates it, actually. TRUE. Arthur and Gwen are my one TRUE pairing. I’ve never been tempted to sympathize with the Gwen/Lancelot camp. Ever.

But HOLY F’N HELL. Santiago Cabrera as Lancelot blows all of that out the window. There is no excuse for a man to look so hot and be so sensitive. NONE. It’s messing with my understanding of the world. Only once before has the casting of an actor been so monumental to me that I had an actual reality shift (anyone who knows me knows this is about Sean Bean as Boromir, in case you were wondering), and I’m on the verge of praying to a god of something (spoilers, maybe?) that Lancelot becomes a regular on Merlin. Guh! :thud:

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SGU Mini-Review

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Going into the premiere of Stargate Universe, I held three truths: I love the Stargate franchise, David Blue (Ugly Betty‘s Cliff) is awesome, and Robert Carlyle seems like a dick.

Well, after this week, one of my truths is clinging to life while the other two are overstated. With the exception of a few cameos (*Hi, Sam! Hi, Jack, Daniel, Walter!*) and a gate, this is not Stargate. SG-1 and SGA had fun and never really took themselves too seriously. Stargate Universe has no heart, no joy, no interesting characters (yet), and the ones I *thought* would be favorites, quite frankly, suck.

Eli Wallace is played by the aforementioned David Blue. I made the mistake of following David on twitter for a couple of days around the premiere. His constant posting and ranting turned me off so much that now I don’t even think I’ll like Eli that much (not that I cared for the character AT ALL in the two-hour premiere). The other big surprise was how much I wanted Robert Carlyle, as Dr. Rush, to kick everyone’s shins and show them all what’s up. Easily my favorite character of the show, largely because he’s the only one with more than 1/2 of a dimension, but still, a favorite. I’m still not sure what Lou Diamond Phillips’ role is, but I’d like to see more of him, too.

The overacting of two cast members was so atrocious that I can see them being the reason I tune out if they don’t get it together. Jamil Walker Smith is Master Sgt. Ronald Greer and acts like he’s never been on camera before. His pacing and volume elicited laughs and groans during the premiere, and I hope he was only overacting because he was directed to, and not that this is how it’s going to be all the time. Elyse Levesque as Chloe Armstrong was ridiculous as well. First off, she needs bangs. I said it because it needed to be said. Now, she gets a pass because I believe my true annoyance with her truly was script-based. That crying scene went on way too long; literally, MINUTES too long. We get it, she’s sad. We understand. It’s not some foreign concept to be sad if your parent dies. Sad. OK. We didn’t need to see the snotting and the nasal flaring. Sick. She reminds me of ANTM Cycle 5 Winner, Nicole, but with no charm.

Overall, I’m going to watch at least a few more episodes because the two-hour premiere and next week’s episode are actually considered a multi-part arc, but if we don’t get some fun or interest in the characters, I’m out.

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Not a Spoiler!

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People, please. This is not a spoiler. One of the best known love stories of all time is that of Arthur and Guinevere. For a show, which features each of them, to have them kiss is, again, not a spoiler, nor is it out of place.

Merlin fandom is so fun, and I hope the shipper wars don’t tear the fandom apart. It’s no secret that in this telling of the legend, I think myself a Lancelot/Gwen fan, but the actors playing Arthur and Gwen looked their very best in “The One and Future Queen” and I can see this working out now. They each gave their best performance of the series, and I was very relieved to see how it played out.

So, yeah, just to recap: Not a spoiler.

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Flash Off

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Quite the media blitz leading up to the premiere of Flash Forward, eh? We were tempted by old faces, new ideas, and the possibility that larger answers could be found in Earth’s shared trauma.

Flash Forward had everything going for it, in my book. What the premiere delivered, however, has me tuning out for good. After an impressive disaster scene (which I had grossly underestimated in my narrow view of what Earth would resemble after everyone blacked out for 2:17), everything went downhill. The pacing seemed off, not frantic enough perhaps. We got a few glimpses of key players’ flashes, but even those were boring. As a matter of fact, I found the whole thing to be the most boring show in recent memory.

This kind of show works if the audience wants to stay onboard to learn the fates of the cast, but there is not one person I care about enough to see what their future holds. “Tormented, dedicated, alcoholic, law enforcer”, “Strong, beautiful, doctor, adulteress”, “Scared child”, “No-vision having sidekick”, etc. all adds up to BORING. Who cares what happened? Who cares who or what caused it? Who cares if the future is changed for any or all of the key players? These are questions that we should be asking after a strong premiere episode. All I asked myself was, “How fast can I delete this from DVR?”

The sad thing is, this show will probably get to finish its run, while the vastly superior Defying Gravity struggles to get the remaining episodes aired. Sometimes I hate network television.