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Just finished watching the leaked pilots for Constantine and the Flash. Both were pretty good, although I liked the Flash better.

The Flash seems to have more of a DC scope with it's many Easter eggs for the fans (especially the ending), but Constantine had a good one, too. I'm not well versed in the mythology of John Constantine, so I can't speak to the other characters, but he seemed close to the smart-assed John that I've seen in the DCU.

Thumbs up to both!

but it is still what it is. meaning an american horror story buffy true blood mash up. while not quite as good as any of those three when they were at their best there are some excellent episodes (maybe two) towards the end (it just ended the series) and it's one of my top shows right now. i think the last three episodes were pretty good with one that was very superb. it is better than true blood is now. and more compelling than american horror stories fizzing out.


Eva Green is the stand out with good performances by dalton (who is a bit soap operaey) and hartnett (who tries hard ...).



... one plot line is so so dull.

I saw a movie over the holiday that I previously didn't know existed and - if I had - never would have thought that I'd not only enjoy it, but also still be thinking about it three days later... and slowly coming to the opinion that I'd seen a work of art.

Trust me, no one is more surprised than I that I dug this so much - but I'm talking about movie from 1968 called, "Head," starring... The Monkees.


First off, although I'd seen The Monkees TV show before, I've never liked it. I don't enjoy the sort of dumbed-down slapstick and random jump cut thing that typified the show.

That being said, though... "Head," - made after the cancellation of the show, and during a drastic wane in the Monkees popularity - was a pop art deconstruction of the prefabricated nature of the band, from the same production team that would go on to make "Easy Rider," and "Five Easy Pieces." In addition, it's also a meta-fictional reflection on the nature of reality and free will.


Yes... really.


It's very difficult to describe the movie in terms of plot... there actually isn't much of one, apart from an overarching theme of the four band members attempting to break free of the various levels of fictional constructs in which they exist. Instead, it plays out in a series of vignettes, connected in a stream of consciousness fashion that follow a sort of dream logic.

Throughout these vignettes, the band members are continually confronted with the artificial nature - not only of the world in which they exist (breaking out of staged scenes only to find that the "behind the scenes" reality is staged as well) - but also of their selves (having their actions cut short to be informed that they are not in line with the archetypes that they are supposed to be filling; being torn apart as their very bodies are revealed to be mannequins).

The ultimate journey toward trying to assert free will involves them realizing the only way out of this illusionary world is by death, so, in the final scene (which connects to the first scene in a "Finnegan's Wake" type loop) they attempt to commit suicide by jumping off a bridge... only to find even these actions are nothing more than part of a pre-scripted world.


I'll know that "meta-fiction" is not everyone's cup of tea... but when combined the "psychedelic" sheen of the era in which it was made, as well as some of the most bizarre cameos to ever be in a single movie - Frank Zappa, Annette Funicello, Jack Nicholson, and Sonny Liston, as well as others - it all just really clicked for me.


To sum up my feelings on it, I'd say it was like "A Hard Day's Night" as imagined by Grant Morrison.


If that sounds like something you'd like... check out "Head".

I'm finding the new "Leftovers" intriguing, but I'm still bitter over Lindelof's botching of the last 2 seasons of Lost so I'm still a little wary as to where it will go.

As you mention Lost, I'm also reminded of the Battlestar Galactica relaunch, shows in which a long, slow burn to revelation ended with colossal disappointment. I think I've been burned too many times by the 'slow burn' storytelling approach, and have no patience for this any more.

So, Orphan Black Season 2 was pretty damn brilliant. Just about everything about it was fantastic: plot, acting, writing, pacing, etc. Tatiana is just mesmerizing.

Helena's "entrance" into the season was horrifying and awesome--one of my favorite moments (you'll know which one I mean). And then she can go on to be so funny in some scenes.