Weekly Recap

This week's review/ vlog is late because I am sick.  So much so that I have lost my voice and I've pretty much slept straight through since Saturday.  But I did watch the finale of Walking Dead, as well as the new episodes of Once Upon a Time and Breakout Kings.  I've also watched all of the episodes of Spartacus: Blood and Sands, which include Spartacus: Gods of the Arena, and Spartacus: Vengeance.  Like I said, I'm really very sick, so this is going to be very brief.  And point form-ish.

The Walking Dead:  I have one thing to say.  And if you have read the comics there is one thing in the season finale that made you jump out of your seat and scream 'yes'!  Or clap a lot in my case because I'm sick.  And that one thing is the introduction of Michonne!  The awesome chick with a katana and two zombies (minus their arms and lower jaws) on leashes!  Everything else in this episode pales in comparison.  

Once Upon a Time: I'm honestly losing interest in this show, but it comes on after Walking Dead, and before the auto-rerun of Breakout Kings, so it's no skin off my back to watch it.  I still like Rumpelstiltskin, but the rest of the town is just boring.  A mystery show only really works if they know exactly where they're going with the plot, but you can see this show is both syndicated and episodic, so the writing is waiting for the big company to tell them where they can go and when they can go there.  Which leads to a lot of filler.

Breakout Kings: Although this show is also episodic, it makes sense that it is because of the show's set up.  Also, each episode brings more to the forefront, and the stakes to the characters are always important and very present.  The main plot is also not predicated on a mystery, which works well in its favor.  Everything seems up to the minute, and the characters have a chance to be both reactionary and productive, though mostly reactionary because of the show's base plot, where they go and catch criminals when they break out of jail, which isn't a bad thing.  This episode gave insight to Julia's past and skills, but also her deep psychological problems, and how she finally asked Lloyd for help.  Of course, the commercials have to ruin it for us by showing her kiss Lloyd in a future episode, but when Doctor Who did that when they showed River Song in that eye patch thing, the reason for it turned out to be way different than we expected, so it could still be a little bit of a surprise.

Spartacus: If you haven't watched this show, go and watch it, I dare you.  I love how this show is like a more elegant version of 300.  Yes, you read that right, I said Spartacus was elegant.  And I mean it.  Yeah, there's a ton of sex and gore, like Caligula level of sex and gore, just short of being a hardcore porn.  I'll be honest, I was expecting to see full frontal nudity on women, but I was pleasantly surprised to see there was more on men, and in not specifically sexual moments.  There's even one scene where two guys fight each other nude.  It's great to see something that's a (somewhat) historical portrayal of ancient Roman society.  As for it being like 300, it's either a complete rip-off or a soul sequel.  Every episode has slow-mo action, cartoonish blood, cgi gore, slow-mo sex, etc.  It even has a couple of the same actors.  This show works a lot better here because there is a lot less cgi and a lot more color, and the acting and plot is quite a bit better.  Also, Lucy Lawless!  In nude scenes!  Did that get your attention?

Now I'm going to sleep, because despite I haven't talked yet today, my throat is killing me.  See you next week!