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shapinglightThe Lucifer stuff is to do with ratings and the new time slot and the reason for Tom Welling's presence in the show (because it's certainly not because of his acting). The Expanse/Discovery stuff is just a brief grouse about something.
This is the first time in a year or so - not since The Americans was renewed by Fox for two final seasons - that I've actually cared at all about ratings. Or cancellations.
Okay, so Sense8 being cancelled was upsetting, but I was so busy with K and the WMBB at the time that it hardly registered with me, and anyway the show's been given a two hour finale so all is not lost.
With Lucifer, though I really care about it not getting cancelled, so I suppose I should just grit my teeth and accept that Tom Welling being in the show possibly makes that less likely, were ratings to be less than stellar (though they have started off okay, from what I gather). I actually saw someone on Twitter asking the other day if it was wrong that they only watch Lucifer for Tom Welling, and I thought, yes it is. But now I think, well, if it means you watch it, who cares? Go for it. It's weird to me that the guy has a fanbase, because I just don't get the attraction, but quite possibly the majority of TV viewers wouldn't understand why I find the people I find attractive either, so fair do's, I guess.
I was also a bit miffed about the new US timeslot, because I was afraid that being aired pre-watershed would mean that certain aspects of Lucifer's character that I enjoy - his bisexuality, his joyful drugs references - would have to be toned down (there's no mention of either so far but early days, I suppose). I'd been thinking that surely it would have been better to have shown Fox's new teen X-Men drama, The Gifted at 8, and keep Lucifer at 9pm. But now I think, maybe this way around is better? People who have switched on to see The Gifted might not stick around for Lucifer, but the other way around they might possibly watch both shows. Who knows? And if The Gifted tanks, it won't spoil things for Lucifer because it's on first so people will watch that and then switch off if they don't care about The Gifted.
And clearly I thought all this back in the Dark Ages when people still watched TV rather than streaming/catch-up etc, and it's come through a wormhole in space/time and just caught up with me. ;)
My grouse about The Expanse/Discovery is slightly spoilery so behind another cut.
Yesterday, I watched the third episode of Discovery, which I thought was a big improvement on the first two (though I still really hate the way they've reimaged the Klingons), but today I watched episode 8 of season 1 of The Expanse and I realised that Discovery has totally ripped it off - the scary, dark abandoned spaceship, the bio-hazard, even blowing up the dead ship at the end. What do you think?
This is the first time in a year or so - not since The Americans was renewed by Fox for two final seasons - that I've actually cared at all about ratings. Or cancellations.
Okay, so Sense8 being cancelled was upsetting, but I was so busy with K and the WMBB at the time that it hardly registered with me, and anyway the show's been given a two hour finale so all is not lost.
With Lucifer, though I really care about it not getting cancelled, so I suppose I should just grit my teeth and accept that Tom Welling being in the show possibly makes that less likely, were ratings to be less than stellar (though they have started off okay, from what I gather). I actually saw someone on Twitter asking the other day if it was wrong that they only watch Lucifer for Tom Welling, and I thought, yes it is. But now I think, well, if it means you watch it, who cares? Go for it. It's weird to me that the guy has a fanbase, because I just don't get the attraction, but quite possibly the majority of TV viewers wouldn't understand why I find the people I find attractive either, so fair do's, I guess.
I was also a bit miffed about the new US timeslot, because I was afraid that being aired pre-watershed would mean that certain aspects of Lucifer's character that I enjoy - his bisexuality, his joyful drugs references - would have to be toned down (there's no mention of either so far but early days, I suppose). I'd been thinking that surely it would have been better to have shown Fox's new teen X-Men drama, The Gifted at 8, and keep Lucifer at 9pm. But now I think, maybe this way around is better? People who have switched on to see The Gifted might not stick around for Lucifer, but the other way around they might possibly watch both shows. Who knows? And if The Gifted tanks, it won't spoil things for Lucifer because it's on first so people will watch that and then switch off if they don't care about The Gifted.
And clearly I thought all this back in the Dark Ages when people still watched TV rather than streaming/catch-up etc, and it's come through a wormhole in space/time and just caught up with me. ;)
My grouse about The Expanse/Discovery is slightly spoilery so behind another cut.
Yesterday, I watched the third episode of Discovery, which I thought was a big improvement on the first two (though I still really hate the way they've reimaged the Klingons), but today I watched episode 8 of season 1 of The Expanse and I realised that Discovery has totally ripped it off - the scary, dark abandoned spaceship, the bio-hazard, even blowing up the dead ship at the end. What do you think?