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Article #2142Re: February sweeps and the continuing ghettoization of scifi
From: Jim G.
Date: Mon, 04 Mar 2013 20:33
Date: Mon, 04 Mar 2013 20:33
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shawn sent the following on Thu, 28 Feb 2013 17:16:18 -0500: > On Thu, 28 Feb 2013 14:21:52 -0600, Jim G. > <jimgysin@geemail.com.invalid> wrote: > > >shawn sent the following on Wed, 27 Feb 2013 18:43:03 -0500: > >> On Wed, 27 Feb 2013 14:54:48 -0600, Jim G. > >> <jimgysin@geemail.com.invalid> wrote: > >> > >> >shawn sent the following on Mon, 25 Feb 2013 16:56:54 -0500: > >> >> On Mon, 25 Feb 2013 14:43:17 -0600, Jim G. > >> >> <jimgysin@geemail.com.invalid> wrote: > >> >> > >> >> >erilar sent the following on Sat, 23 Feb 2013 12:58:14 -0600: > >> >> >> In article <barmar-948DB1.00000823022013@news.eternal-september.org>, > >> >> >> Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> wrote: > >> >> >> > >> >> >> > Rumor has always been that it would come back in late March. Is your > >> >> >> > calendar broken? > >> >> >> > >> >> >> I saw a Grimm ad. Early March. I quit watching it because I got so sick > >> >> >> of Juliet's selective amnesia and fixation on Nick's boss, and according > >> >> >> to the ad, it continues, so I don't intend to watch. > >> >> > > >> >> >Yeah, the Juliet storyline is admittedly beyond the tedious stage, but > >> >> >there's so much other good stuff with this show that I'm willing to suck > >> >> >it up on that front. But hopefully they'll wrap up that silliness in the > >> >> >second half of season two. There have already been indications that > >> >> >she's snapping out of it, IIRC. > >> >> > >> >> Yes, I feel certain they will wrap up that storyline soon. > >> >> Unfortunately we will have to deal with the infatuation that Juliet > >> >> and Nick's boss are still feeling for each other. Hopefully that won't > >> >> take too long since it seems that the facts behind it are coming out. > >> > > >> >You think that the infatuation will remain after Juliet snaps out of the > >> >spell? For a viewer like me who hates the soapy stuff, that would really > >> >suck. And Nick probably wouldn't like it, either. > >> > >> No, I just meant that we will have to deal with that infatuation for a > >> few more episodes before she snaps out of the spell. After that > >> happens I expect all we will get is awkward silence if the two meet > >> but no more than that. > > > >And hopefully the writers won't spend episode after episode with Nick > >and Juliet "exploring" their feelings for each other in the aftermath, > >or whatnot. Get 'em back together quickly. Break 'em up quickly. I don't > >care either way. Just be done with it and move on to the non-soapy > >stuff. Ideally, I'd like to see Juliet in on the secret once and for > >all, whether she's still with Nick or not. The current three musketeers > >need a female touch, after all. > > I'll be shocked if they don't bring Juliet in on the secret by the end > of the season. I hope that you're right. > I suspect they will keep her and Nick together I agree. But then again, this *is* NBC, and if they think that the soapy stuff will keep the non-skiffy fans coming back... > but > either way I expect her to be brought in on the secret before long. Again, I hope that you're right. > Heck, even this sudden infatuation with Nick's boss should be raising > questions in her mind. Yeah, she's not stupid, and now that she's got *most* of her faculties back, she should be busy processing things... > I do agree that whatever they are going to do > they need to do quickly. This isn't the sort of show that works as a > soap opera. Amen. And I can only hope that someone is beating this point into the NBC suited pinheads on a daily basis. -- Jim G. | A fan of the good and the bad, but not the mediocre "Good evening. I'm a lizard woman from the dawn of time, and this is my wife." -- Madame Vastra, DOCTOR WHO
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From: Jim G. <jimgysin@geemail.com.invalid>
Newsgroups: aus.sf,rec.arts.tv,rec.arts.sf.tv
Subject: Re: February sweeps and the continuing ghettoization of scifi
Date: Mon, 04 Mar 2013 14:33:24 -0600
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