Once Upon A Time: Let It Go! First Official Frozen Shots!
Posted by Dustin on 07.31.2014 at 9:24 pm
So at Comic Con, “Once Upon A Time” showcased real footage from Season 4. Following the movie, Anna’s getting married, Elsa is against it, and then there is other good stuff like Regina bringing back Sydney Glass (whose show “Revolution” was canned). Of course the preview clip is pretty much as impossible to find online as the leaked “Batman Vs Superman” teaser also shown there.
However ABC has released the first official photos of Elsa (Georgina Haig) and Kristoff (Scott Michael Foster). We also know Anna will be played by Elizabeth Lail, Tyler Jacob Moore will play Prince Hans, and the incomparable John Rhys-Davies will voice Pabbie the rock troll elder.
The divide between Barbie and Julia was finally resolved in the latest episode of “Under The Dome,” and the shadow of doubt put on Sam where it should have always been. I knew from the minute he showed up that he was no good and knew Melanie. Barbie learns about Melanie, her past, and her friends from the kids. Melanie remembers when and where she died, but doesn’t know who did it. They initially suspect Lyle killed Melanie when they found and fought over the meteor/egg. She was dating Sam, she doesn’t think he did this to her. However it really was Sam. To make matters worse, Jr goes and tells his uncle that his mom was still alive, and he suspects a missing page in his mom’s diary will tell them who killed Angie and why. Yeah, guess who has that page, good ole Uncle Sam! He also tells Sam who the remaining three hands are. Jr, I’m gunna need your gun and badge back. It seems that Sam thinks killing the hands will bring down the dome. As if!
Rebecca and Big Jim served all of two minutes of jail time for trying to poison half the town. People are still on his side, and Julia acting as the new mayor basically pardons them at the end of the episode. Hang them I say! This town is seriously full of brainwashed idiots!
Phil went rogue in this episode and stole the towns food supply, though it was really Big Jim’s master plan to make himself look like the savior of the town once again. They staged it so that it appeared the food, which Julia convinced everyone to gather to keep it safe, was blown up by accident. The plan failed when the food was found by Norrie’s mom and figured out what Phil did. He tried to kill her, but Barbie shot him. I was going to be seriously upset if they killed Norrie’s only remaining mom.
The real honor for saving the town went to Hoyt’s Mama from “True Blood.” Yup, just when I thought I was rid of her! Her late husband was a hoarder and a preparer, and she had oodles of food stored in her home. She is playing a good person on this show, but to me she’s still Hoyt’s Mama.
At the end of the show Joe gets an idea to have the science teacher Rebecca test Melanie’s blood. Meanwhile Barbie and Julia discover something in Angie’s locker . . . a secret underground tunnel! Where does it go? The next few episodes explore that.
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Lot’s of spoilers below for both shows, including the return of Rosie O’Donnell to “The Fosters” and the Summer Finale. I have to play catch-up on both shows honestly, which is why I haven’t blogged about them. I’ve watched them, but wasn’t always paying close attention. I plan to rematch the latest episodes again this week. I know that Allison is annoying me and I may whack her soon if someone else doesn’t!
Witches Of East End: Is Fredrick Really Evil? Plus Spoilers!
Posted by Dustin on 07.28.2014 at 1:18 pm
So a lot has been going down with the “Witches of East End” in the past few episodes. The major question still remains as to what Fredrick is up to. Each week it seems to flip flop from he’s bad, to he’s good, to he’s back to being bad. The last two episodes had Victor kidnapped by these twins from “The Rat Clan” who were old friends of Fredrick’s in Asgard and banished long ago. They wanted Fredrick to open the portal and let them go back. They later kidnapped Freya to make him do this. While Joanna went to rescue the family, Fredrick went to deal with the rats. The sister got away it seems, but Fredrick killed the brother. Before doing so the brother said he would be killing his family at the same time, and Fredrick didn’t seem to care! So it seems like Fredrick hasn’t changed at all. Meanwhile Joanna did rescue Freya, but Victor apparently died in a spell trap. He actually sacrificed himself to save Freya and Joanna. I refuse to believe it though. We didn’t see Victor actually die, Joanna and Freya had to flee or be caught in the trap too. Also the sister is still out there I think.
Dash and Killian have been reunited, but Killian doesn’t remember what happened to him. He thinks he was knocked out in a storm and wound up being found by his new girlfriend Eva. The brothers rediscovered their heritage, but Dash misused a spell that almost ended up killing Killian. Ingrid saved him, but not before the Mandragora aka the Plant Monster got to her again. Ingrid confessed to Dash that she was losing bits of time, and she had marks on her body that she can’t explain. It’s where the Mandragora is sucking her life basically. She asked Dash for his help. You can tell these two are going to end up together, which will not please Freya. Dash is also still boarderline nuts from all that’s happened to him. When Killian finally remembers, things will get ugly.
Eslewhere Wendy and the EMT are dating, but it seems like their relationship is almost jinxed. Wendy keeps hurting the poor guy in various ways. She’s had to use magic over and over to save him, and he’s eventually going to catch on. Right now he’s playing dumb almost, but I think he probably knows exactly who and what she is. I wouldn’t be shocked if he was a warlock.
Spoilers for the next three episodes below! Including special guest James Marsters (Spike from “Buffy”)!
So last night we got some major answers on “True Blood.” It was Sookie who unknowingly infected Bill. She cut herself to draw the Hep-V vamps out, and got splattered with their blood, infecting her and later infecting Bill who drank from her. Oops! I did wonder how with all that blood being splattered nobody managed to get infected. Bill’s disease is out of control and he likely has hours left. I’m guessing that’s the affect of the fairy blood mixed with the disease.
A spurned Violet has decided to take things out on Adeline and Wade, who she kidnapped at the end of this episode. They had run away to be together as they are in love, and Andy wasn’t thrilled when he found them “doing the deed.”
It turns out Lettie Mae isn’t crazy after all. Lafayette did V with her to try and put her delusions to rest, and he too saw Tara. She sent them on a mission to the house she lived in growing up. There is something there they have to see or do for her.
Finally we learned, as I somewhat guessed last week, that Sarah Newland does have the cure for Hep-V. Actually she IS the cure. She drank the antidote and now her blood is the cure. But will she be found in time to save Eric, Bill and others? I’m thinking Eric is not going to make it out of the season alive honestly. I’m not even sure about Bill at this point with how fast his disease is spreading.
It was just another OK episode of “True Blood.” It makes me sad to say that at this point I’m okay with it all ending.
On another note, I have been watching “The Leftovers” which airs right after “True Blood.” I will probably start a blog on it. It annoys me to no end, and I can’t stand half the characters, but yet I keep watching it! A lot of my rants about it can be found on my Twitter.
Once Upon A Time Season 4 Comic Con Teaser: Frozen!
Posted by Dustin on 07.27.2014 at 12:08 pm
The following is the teaser shown at Comic Con for Season 4 of “Once Upon A Time” with the “Frozen” footage. It’s basically a long mash-up of Season 3 highlights, with “Frozen” and Season 4 at the very end.
The following commentary from IGN sheds more light on what was actually show from the real Season 4. I’ll update this post with more info as soon as I can locate the actual clips.
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So I neglected to write a blog on last week’s “True Blood,” mainly because I felt it was a boring and uneventful episode. The only parts I liked were the Pam and Eric flashbacks about how they started Fangtasia, and the end when everyone finally was rescued from the basement of Fangtasia.
The latest episode had a huge party being thrown at Sookie’s by the town to celebrate Alcide and Tara’s life, rather than morn their death. Of course all kinds of stuff went down there. The one happy event was Andy proposing to Holly, who said yes. Bill showed up and was nice and polite like he was in the beginning of the series, and we got to see all these flashbacks of his past. He did not want to fight in the civil war, and even tried to escape with his family and several slaves on the underground railroad. I assumed this was all being done to prop Bill up as a good guy again so he and Sookie could be together. That may not happen given the last shocking scene. We saw Bill taking a nice hot bath at his house, look at himself in the mirror, and he had the beginning veins of Hep-V! The mystery of course is how he got it. Sookie drank from him recently to re-establish their connection, so is she infected now too? Or did he somehow get it in the fight with the Hep-V vamps? Or did Sookie have it and give it to Bill somehow? Also did Bill really need a nice hot bath, I mean he’s dead, it won’t warm him up. Yes, that went through my mind too.
Elsewhere at the party, Lafayette and James finally got it on, only to be caught by a pissed off Jessica. Lafayette talked to her about how he deserved to be happy too, and he didn’t think she and James were that happy together. He said if she didn’t love him then to let him go. Jessica and Jason had a long talk, she realized Lafayette was right. Jason did too, applying it to his situation with Violet. He doesn’t really love her. Before you knew it, Jason and Jessica were getting it on! Unfortunately Violet heard them from outside the room, and now they are both screwed! That crazy witch will make them pay, that’s for sure.
Lettie May is still insisting that Tara is stuck and needs her help. She attacked Willow to get her blood, but Sookie and others stopped her.
Pam, Eric and Sarah Newland’s sister all went to Dallas to find her. Sarah’s sister is a vampire and the dark secret of the family. She wants revenge on Sarah, as she’s infected with Hep-V and her boyfriend died from it. They tracked Sarah down at a Republican fundraiser for Ted Cruz, but unfortunately so did the Yakuza who is after her. The Yakuza shot up the place, killing both of Sarah’s parents. Eric took their leader out for revenge as he killed some old girlfriend of his in Europe once. Sarah seems to have gotten away yet again.
Pam as usual had the best line in the show. Eric gave her this gaudy sequin dress for the party. She put it on and said “Oh my God, I’m a Republic#$@%! Yeah it’s too dirty to even type, but I bust out laughing.
With Bill and Eric dying from Hep-V, it’s starting to look like Sookie isn’t going to get a happy ending. I am hopeful that they will find a cure, and I bet Sarah knows it. However it’s possible both could die. Sam’s girlfriend sorta flipped out on Sam and the town in this episode for not being normal. I could see her ditching the kid with Sam and running off, and him and Sookie finally being together and raising it.
So I have not been all that amused with “Big Brother” this season. I have been watching the live shows, reading what is going on via various sites and apps, but I have yet to get sucked in by the feeds and “After Dark.” With that demon spawn Devin gone I was hoping I’d start getting back into the show, but aside from Donny I feel the cast is so boring! There seems to be a new alliance formed daily and nobody can keep their mouth shut. Caleb is also on everyone’s nerves because of his love for Amber. I think he is likely the next male to go. The entire house is also against Jocasta, Victoria and Brittany for reasons I haven’t figured out. Well Jocasta I get, she’s just annoying! If she ever gets rid of that damn bow tie I will praise Jesus! If this show comes back next summer I really hope it’s another All-Stars show.
Under The Dome: Who Stopped The Rain. Plus Spoilers!
Posted by Dustin on 07.15.2014 at 7:09 pm
So on the latest episode of “Under The Dome” we got some major answers, and I think my speculation from the first episode of the season was partially right! Let’s dish on this episode . . .
In the latest episode we were introduced to the town barber Lyle (guest star Dwight Yokum) who is the latest townie to go nuts thanks to the dome. When red rain began pouring down, he thought that given they had bugs last week that this was a message from God. As pointed out, the bugs weren’t locusts, and the blood rain burned like extreme acid rain. However he was sure there was a new God in town, the dome. He lost it and kidnapped the science teacher, who had to be rescued from him.
The kids were all at the school supposed to be working on a project Rebecca the science teacher gave them. However they soon realized for some reason they had an internet signal to the outside world. Why? The rain’s interference? It was never explained, and it didn’t last long. Norrie noted that on twitter there is some strange woman who has formed an almost online dome cult. James soon learned the woman appears to be his mom. She sent him and him only a private message revealed that yes, she was alive, and that creepy Lyle could give the answers! We learned as kids the two dated . . . So she is alive, on the outside, and seems to know what is going on. Hmmmmmm.
When the signal went out, they used their obvious product placement Microsoft Surfaces to track it to where it was strongest. It was Angie’s locker where it was coming from. When egg/lake girl touched the locker and Angie’s bloody hand print, she just knew the combo. Unfortunately it was empty when they opened it. Norrie was suspicious of her, but Joe realized there was an explanation. They looked at a list of all the students who had that locker. One name stood out to egg/lake girl. They then looked in the yearbook for that individual and that year. She is the spitting image, not a day older, of one Melanie Cross in 1988! How can this be? I don’t know, especially since most schools change locker combinations yearly . . . Yeah that irked me. However it seemed like the temporary internet was a message from the dome, for both James and Melanie.
Barbie, James and Julia managed to rescue Rebecca from Lyle, and he was thrown in jail. Sam, Jr/James’ uncle, paid him a visit and said he was supposed to lay low, that was the deal they made. He was also supposed to make sure what they buried was never found . . . Yup, it sounds like they may have in fact killed on Melanie Cross to me and covered it up! If you subtract 25 from 2013 (the shows start year) you get 1988! Later, James/Jr. showed up to find out the truth about his mom. Lyle said that was a story to tell . . . I’m willing to bet she is involved in what was buried. It turns out Sam, Lyle and the mom Pauline were BFFs back in the day.
Finally we learned that Rebecca and Big Jim planned a census (because you know Chester’s Mill is so big it needs one) and what it was really for. Julia realized it was to gather information as to who was expendable when the time came and they had to get rid of people to stay alive. Julia was disgusted, but Barbie looked at it as a worst case scenario plan. She was disgusted with him too for siding with them. I really hate that they’ve suddenly thrown all these obstacles in Julia and Barbie’s path. Breaking them up like this is pissing me off, but not as much as having Barbie siding with Big Jim all of the sudden. In the last episode they noted how the town seems to be worshipping Big Jim, so I think the dome is now messing with Barbie’s head too. Then again, it could be his military training coming out.
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So we are two episodes into the second season of “Witches of East End” and so far I’m digging it. This posts discusses what’s been going on, and mainly my thoughts on the show so far.
Joanna’s son Fredrick came through the portal that was opened by Ingrid at the end of last season. He claims he is sorry that he sided with Joanna and Wendy’s father during the war in Asgard, but Wendy just doesn’t trust him. She thinks there is something bad about him. Fredrick had the power to heal his mom from the poison that Dash and Killion’s mom gave her as well. We’ve also learned that Fredrick and Freya are twins and share a unique magical bond, they can weave certain spells together. They used one to locate Killian, who Freya knew was in danger.
Elsewhere Dash is losing his mind slowly it seems. He’s having visions of his brother Killian, who he thinks is dead. Killian is sending him on a dangerous path, learning to use his powers and do harm. He’s also being blackmailed by someone who knows what he did to Killian. We don’t yet know who that person is though. For awhile I thought that he may be hallucinating the blackmail just like he is his brother, that this is all his guilt. Now I’m wondering if Killian’s new girlfriend Eva has something to do with it all. She is a witch down in Santa Dominga and found Killian adrift, and he’s having some memory issues it seems. I wonder if she is using both the brothers to get rich? I have to say I’m not liking Killian’s story yet. Get him back home and with Freya where he belongs. Eva is up to no good.
Wendy continues to suspect that Frederick is no good, but as of yet nobody realizes there is this bizarre plant monster in the woods that seems to be the real evil that also came through the portal. Ingrid had weird sex with the thing, and now it’s killed her boss. It killed someone else too, as we learned from an EMT and new potential love interest for Wendy, carving symbols into their chest and having them chant “The king is coming.” At first I wondered if the monster was part of Fredrick? Something he was projecting? Then again, he likely wouldn’t have had sex with his own sister. Fredrick is is acting bizarre though. He’s eyes were glowing red when he attacked a drunk in Freya’s bar, and he did some spell on Wendy’s earring. I also wonder if perhaps Fredrick isn’t Fredrick, but the grandfather who has shapeshifted in order to get to his daughters somehow? Things that make you go hmmmmm . . .
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