Hiatuses, cancellations, and new stuff!

So, there hasn't been anything new on this blog in a little while. Reasons include:

• Arrow has been on hiatus
• Cult has been canceled with no indication of when the remaining eps will air
• Zero Hour has been canceled, but is still airing in Canada
• I have a part-time job (yay!)

I've also been watching The Following, aka the last cult conspiracy show standing. It's getting quite interesting, but the characters continue to do more and more stupid things. I want to start a drinking game based on how often Kevin Bacon goes into a building where a serial killer is without backup. There may or may not be a post on the compiled stupidity of the first season.

The pilot of Defiance aired this weekend, and it's a kind of last-remaining-human-outpost show that feels like Falling Skies meets Outcasts. So far, I think I kind of like it.

Tried watching the first two episodes of Hannibal. I found it deeply weird. Deeply, deeply weird and kind of fucked up. Like, the creepiest episodes of the early years of X-Files weird and fucked up.

And my roommate has gotten us both addicted to Alias. Some of the stuff is a blast from the past and is so late 90's/early 00's it's ridiculous. And there's a young Bradley Cooper in it!

Best of all, I have 20 episodes of Ancient Aliens queued up on my DVR. My "Best Of" selection of some of the episode titles includes:

• Aliens and the Secret Code (sounds like Nancy Drew)
• Aliens and the Third Reich (yep, Nazis again!)
• Aliens and the Undead (zombies are popular, too)
• Aliens and Bigfoot (sounds like X-Files)
• Aliens and Dinosaurs (There was a Doctor Who episode or three like this)
• Aliens and Cover-Ups (Conpsiracy theories exist to cover up the real conspiracies!)
• Destination Orion (We already know that all alien things lead to Orion)

So, yeah. New stuff soon!

New midseason TV!

Now that Fringe is over... OK, I still haven't gotten over Fringe, and there's now an empty Fringe-shaped space in my heart on Friday nights. OK, there haven't been any Friday nights yet, but there will be.

New shows that sound interesting are Continuum (Syfy), Defiance (Syfy), Cult (CW), and The Following (Fox). Then there's Zero Hour (ABC), which looks like it might be compatible with my Ancient Aliens (or Dan Brown or National Treasure) bingo cards.

First of all, the pilots of Cult and Zero Hour won't air for another month or so.

I saw the pilot of The Following last night, and unlike when I saw it at Comic-Con, I saw it from the start. It has Kevin Bacon, making the game Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon even easier now, and one Shawn Ashmore, the twin brother of Aaron Ashmore who I liked on Warehouse 13 (Oh, hey there's two of them! I can live with that ;-) Plot-wise, it so far seems like there's a non-zero number of characters who will, sooner or later, end up doing stupid things that will result in me yelling at the screen. Oh, and it's about this retired FBI agent who is apparently now consulting (something that retired FBI employees get asked to do both frequently and for good pay, in a rare glimpse of realism on television. It's less realistic that they get paid to consult on catching serial killers). 

Defiance has Jaime Murray from Warehouse 13 (yep, I love that show) and also has a cool-looking MMO. Unfortunately, it does not have a cool-looking MMO that's compatible with Mac OS or Ubuntu Linux. Maybe the little things that are available On Demand will catch me up on what's going on? And there's this really neat website you can mouse around and check out. No, really. Sadly, we'll have to wait for April to see it. (And then it will be back-to-back with Warehouse 13. Yay!)

Also watched the pilot of Continuum, which is apparently Syfy's next entry in its (now) long and storied tradition of just straight-up importing stuff because Canadians are the only people actually making new scifi right now. Future cop winds up chasing down future terrorists in 2012 (really? Did they know they weren't even airing this until 2013?) but this seems like it'll raise a lot of interesting paradoxes about time travel and things, especially considering that Future Cop can't stop a present-day character from seeing glimpses into the future and knowing that they're going to be important and famous.

Slightly spoilery speculation for Continuum behind the cut...