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Haven 3.1-3.2: So, uhm, Eric Balfour is, naturally, allowed to do whatever he wants to with his hair (Though I'm not sure the long hair actually suits him. It might grow on me, though.), but couldn't they have done something so that Duke didn't suddenly have radically different hair in the same scene that we left off with last season?

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Person of Interest 2.1: I was very happy thinking the season was kicking off with The Machine trolling Reese.

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Revolution 1.2: Yes, yes, it's kind of terrible but it has lots of fun stuff at levels where I do not care. (If it took itself a bit less seriously, it'd be a shinier version of a campy 90s TV show.) And as glad as I am that the show realizes its own worldbuilding makes no sense (save that's it's worldbuilding really is "WTF THAT"S NOT PHYSICS!") I hope we don't have Aaron ranting about it every episode. Also, please keep the hot and competent woman of color who likes swords and blowing things up.

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Sinbad 1.8-1.12: Err, did we change writers? Because they seemed to forget everything from the first seven episodes except "Jamil died in the pilot, Taryn is evil" and...had a completely different feel, and not for the better. Still, entertaining enough that I'll watch the second series, if there is one.

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World Without End ep 4: Does anyone know how long this is supposed to be? I honestly can't tell from the pacing or progress. It still feels like all the plotlines don't quite go together and there isn't as much of a centralized driving force vas I'd like, but I enjoy it aside from the abuses the women have to suffer through. (Though, using PotE as a model, I'm assuming the majority of the victims will get some degree of justice and happyness and the abusers will have horrible things happen to them. Though I was hopeful and then cruelly deprived with Ralph in that regard this episode.*) There's still a lot more of that than in PotE, and I'm wondering if the popularity of Game of Thrones affected that? I haven't read the book, but comments on it and the series that I've read are either "*bleep* it Follett, can't you go two chapters without raping a woman?" or "There's more rape in one episode than the first half of the book!" Which makes me think it's probably that it was all in the book, but not as clearly spelled out and so a lot of people didn't notice unless women were being accosted in the woods and thrown on the ground screaming.

The main draw, really, is Miranda Richardson as the Mother Superior who is smarter than everyone else but constrained by annoying rules. Though I'm a bit weirded out by her fixation to get Caris to be a nun, even though I get her perspective in that.

*In the first episode, I thought that Ralph was hotheaded and had some anger issues made worse at the time because he had to serve the man who killed his father and took his lands, but thought he was a character I'd end up liking. HOW WRONG I WAS ON ALL COUNTS. It saddens me to think that he probably carries Richard and Aliena's DNA.

The Elementary pilot was slightly different from the leaked version, though mostly just the music. (For the better.) This isn't the first time I've watched the actual airing of a pilot a few weeks after watching a leaked version, but it's the first time it's been a show that has each episode be largely self-contained instead of metaplot driven, and so instead of looking for things I may have missed before I spent a lot of time goin "I wish I was watching the second episode..." I still haven't watched Downton Abbey, and Scandal's return snuck up on me. I haven't decided if I want to watch Last Resort yet. Dichen Lachman is my main interest.