AgtSpooky's Hangout

To counter my rant against Sherlock earlier this morning, let's talk about Almost Human and Sleepy Hollow. Two shows that actually make me happy!

It was glaringly obvious that this episode of Almost Human was shown out of order. This was supposed to be the second episode. Why it couldn't actually be shown correctly just baffles me. Because now you've got Kennex basically regressing with his anger toward the MX's and his synthetic leg, etc. when we know he's moved past that. Along with Paul's hostility toward Kennex that has waned considerably.

Though the anger management class was good for some laughs. :-) Along with Dorian singing a Korean pop song. [snort] Then he turns around and is a total bad-ass with those two guns.

I liked that they brought up the missing evidence, etc. from the pilot (which I just mentioned last week) but again, this was supposed to be the second episode.

What do you think Kennex wrote with the "old fashioned" pen and paper? Favorite line, Dorian to Kennex: "You like me. That's okay, I like you, too." Hee!

In other Almost Human news, it really concerned me that it was never mentioned during FOX's panel yesterday at the TCA's, unlike Sleepy Hollow that was talked about. That's not a good sign. So I went looking for information and came across only one blurb, from GiveMeMyRemote.com:

After Fox boss Kevin Reilly held his Press Tour exec session, he talked with reporters about a few issues that weren’t covered in the panel in depth…

ALMOST HUMAN: Given that the show has been airing considerably out of order, I asked Reilly how he felt about the show and its future.

“Really good,” he said. “That’s another crazy delivery pattern situation [like SLEEPY HOLLOW has had] and holidays and sports interruptions, and it’s been challenging. But I think the show is in a pretty good groove right now, and I really love our leads. I think there’s a show there, and I look at the cume [viewings] on the DVR, and it’s encouraging. So that’s going to be an interesting discussion [about its future].”

Translation: CANCELED. I'm waiting for the other shoe to drop any day now and I'm going to be PISSED. Yet again FOX screwed over this show just like Firefly - airing it out of order, pulling it for weeks at a time (we're on another three week break???) pre-empting it for sports. Why would you purposely sabotage your own show?? This is the first new show since Supernatural that I've been really passionate about and to see it go down in flames not because of bad ratings, but because of network interference is just wrong.
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I have just two words to sum up Sleepy Hollow - skinny jeans. (Bwhahahaha!!)

Loved that the priest was channeling the Winchester brothers with the salt!

I've mentioned before that I don't care for Jenny and with every episode they're making her more and more important than Abbie. So much so that they'll probably kill off Abbie in the season finale and Jenny will step up and be Crane's new partner. Because you know that the two witnesses are really Jenny and Abbie, not Crane and Abbie. Would love it if Jenny sacrifices herself to save Abbie but I'm sure that's not going to happen. :-(

What did you guys think of Almost Human and Sleepy Hollow last night?

Hey, I figure if Orlando Jones can combine Supernatural and Sleepy Hollow into SuperSleepy then I can combine Almost Human and Sleepy Hollow. [snort]

So a show of hands as to who is watching Almost Human and/or Sleepy Hollow. Man, is that a winning one-two punch on Monday nights now or what?? I haven't been this interested in new shows in forever and how awesome that they're back to back. Makes Mondays something to look forward to now instead of dreading. :-)

I'm so glad I put aside my initial dislike of Almost Human because it so closely copied the same concept of Mann & Machine. Because I love it! I actually liked the second and third episodes better than the pilot, so that's always a good sign. Karl Urban is just knocking it out of the park. And I'm warming up to Michael Ealy more with every episode. I love their snarky/witty dialogue exchanges. Notice that most of the time it happens in the car? I can't help but think of Danny and Steve from Hawaii 5-0 each and every time it happens. :-)

Okay, gold star to those of you who caught Kennex channeling Han Solo last night as he hung up on the Captain…"Boring conversation anyway." ROTFL!!

I should be paying attention to the ratings that it's getting. Anyone know if it's doing well? I'd really hate to lose this one. And is it only going to have 13 episodes like Sleepy Hollow this first season?

And speaking of Sleepy Hollow, how great is this show, too?? At first I thought it was going to be pretty hokey, but with the folks from Fringe involved with this I had faith they'd make it interesting. And I was right! It's got that great X-Files vibe to it with the MOTW and also the mythology. And I don't care if Crane is married, the chemistry between him and Abbie is off the chart! The only thing I don't care for is Abbie's sister and I hope the duo of Crane and Abbie doesn't turn into a threesome each week. :-/

As an aside, how strange is it that two actors from the new Star Trek movies (Urban and Cho) end up on back to back shows on the same network? Bizarre! And it honestly took me a bit to stop calling them Bones and Sulu in my head. :-)