@Auspice @Three-Eyed-Crow I tend to agree that if they have something that gives the option, and the option is ignored, that's pretty impressively crappy.
There's the 'for the good of the game' argument, yes, but. If that's how it's going to be handled, don't leave the option in place. 
@Vorpal In fairness, I can think of two Robs I'd have to be under anesthesia to ever willingly encounter again.
Reign had Lorde's Royals done on cellos, after all.
Speaking of, I love this trashy show, but with pretty much nobody left who's originally part of Mary's crew (I don't count Anne of Green Gables) I'm not sure if there's anything left in it for me. They are dangerously close to the shark. They may have already jumped it.
Well, at least we do know how the cycle is going to land? (Head-first into the shark's mouth.)
@Coin I remember that one. That string quartet does some seriously amazing covers; there's a veritable mountain of them on youtube.
I really did enjoy the score. I only caught two of the songs covered for it (Black Hole Sun and Paint It Black) but am sure there are more.
Caught those, too, and really want to track down those versions of them now. They were fantastic. Both were "...is that... it is! Nice!" It's also a subtle mental cue: this show is set far enough in the future for those songs to get converted into good ambient muzak. 
@Three-Eyed-Crow I think it'll have a lot more promise there, honestly. They tend to be doing fairly well in ways the big three sometimes just... seem to miss, on some level.
@Misadventure I compare it a lot to The Flash, which is prrrrrrrrrrrrrobably not entirely fair of me. The Flash is really good (to me). I think they were aiming for a similar target in mood/feel/audience/etc. though, so it's hard to not make the comparison there, at least on some level. I find it ten times easier to care about and believe in the characters in The Flash -- they just vibe more genuine, and it seems to have more gravity. It's more... believable? Empathize-able with? I dunno how to put it. It has less 'glossy TV aura' going on.
I'd just rather they ignore the feminist issue by handwavium than handle it in a way that feels ham-handed or shallow to me, but I feel that way about every show and every 'very special episode' that I feel misses the mark in the same way, so it is a common festival of sighs.
@WTFE I am officially getting old. My first thought was: Damn, those things would be a bitch to clean.
@WTFE The srs bzns dollhouse folks are in the same zone. I suspect in the era of LEDs some of their stuff has come down in price, but we're talking real working miniature wiring and tiny little plugs and... it's sorta crazy.
I have also spent far too much money on large (often somewhat creepy) dolls, which should shock exactly no one. Can't afford them these days, but I wouldn't have room to put them at this point anyway.
Not every superheroine just marches in, sword and shield, and completely out bad-asses the boys the movie's named after.
That's not at all my issue with it, and isn't my expectation.
@Roz Supergirl gives me pain. At least its presentation of feminism does, and I simply cannot get past its horrible social media pop culture shallow childishness on that front. It comes across as 'screw unequal pay, screw the right to our own bodies, screw <insert every possible serious issue here>, and let's focus on whining about how it's supergirl instead of superwoman because that's totally the most important thing to fixate on!' (etc.) in ways that make me want to stab all the things.
I can't get past that aspect of it. I just can't, and I've tried.
Edit: If they had just left all of that out of things entirely, it would have been a better show by far. If folks are going to go there, going there in the most shallow of all possible ways is just... it's worse than just pretending it's not and never has been an issue, you know? Even my mother, who is not exactly the most progressive soul, groused about how that show was an enormous embarrassment to the challenges her generation and mine have faced.
I am hoping we get more Jessica Jones. I was a bit saddened that 'Oh, let's make a Luke Cage!' show seemed to be one of the biggest takeaways of that one -- and we could use more female hero shows that aren't cheeseballs of sucktastic awfulness. (I'm looking at you, Supergirl... )
@Insomnia Exactly why I doubt I'll ever get a hold of one.
@Insomnia ...I seriously may need a Betty White monitor mascot, oh my lawd.
@Karmageddon It really is so horrible it becomes amazing, right? I couldn't get through even that pilot entirely, but damn did it make an impression.
(And I know what you mean about the weird hybridization. I kept trying to decide if the MacGyver dude was the bastard clone hybrid of the dude who plays Matt on The Vampire Diaries and Heath Ledger or not, and I ultimately did not come down on the side of not.)
Also: that necklace needs to go for the sake of good taste if nothing else, I mean, goddamn.
@Karmageddon Found it. First episode. 8 minutes in, the ultimate hilarity begins to unfold. You'll have to get through the first commercial and a few more minutes in, but. At lucky(?) minute 13 or so, we get the classic line: "Sarah is correct, Michael. Removing your clothes will reduce your core temperature, thus delaying your death," in robotic car monotone.
http://www.nbc.com/classic-tv/knight-rider/video/a-knight-in-shining-armor/n1869
God, that's so, so much worse (and funnier) than I remembered, too.
@Karmageddon The Knight Rider one had me in tears laughing with it's horribleness at, I am not making this up, 'our car is on fire, oh no! We have to strip down to our underwear now so we don't roast alive!'
Must have been sweeps week?
Under the heading of 'save yourself the time', I would not recommend bothering with the Macgyver reboot. My inner child of the 80s is sad to say it, but damn. It isn't even enjoyably bad. 
And the lead looks like he meant to show up on the set of the latest high school teen drama, and made a wrong turn at the third soundstage on the left. 
@Tinuviel Somewhere, if I can ever find it, friends of mine and I (many years ago) were writing a random improv (it never got to any actual TS or even near it) 'seduction', and there was indeed a log. Between each set of poses, someone would call out the name of a new 'style' to pose in. I think we got through 'Penthouse Forum', 'Cheesy Romance Novel w/Flowery Euphemisms', and 'AOL Chatspeak' before we were too incapable of keeping a straight face to continue.
In other words: be careful what you wish for. <insert wild cackling here>
@Auspice said in Random links:
<immediately cribs notes from this for the next time someone pushes too hard for TS and it's time to give them what they truly deserve>
...that is made entirely of bliss, joy, and a laugh I so very desperately needed.