In what I would imagine is a very good sign for the future of the series, ABC has officially released a new name and description for Joss Whedon’s planned S.H.I.E.L.D. series based on The Avengers. From now on, it will officially be named Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
This week, we got our fourth Clara adventure. Well, it’s technically only her second as a proper companion. As such, she gets her first trip in the TARDIS and gets to see what life with the Doctor is really like and how he operates. Not only does changing companions allow for a change alongside the Doctor but it gives the opportunity for him to tweak some habits too. But the one thing that really didn’t change was what the format of the first off-world adventure for a new companion.
What immediately grabbed my eye was how the first adventures with both Donna and Amy seemed to have a similar visual palette and style to “The Rings of Akhaten.” Both “The Fires of Pompeii” and “The Beast Below” had a lot of red and browns dominating the sets and costumes. The sets all looked a little dirty and dusty rather than clean, futuristic sci-fi. And each had a scene in something that looked like a market.
No, I’m not going to stop giving The Walking Dead shit over an utterly confusing and dissatisfying finale to the third season. It’s all well and good that you do something different from the comic but it has to be a quality product put on screen. Being different doesn’t make a show good. Being good makes a show good.
And that brings me to this week’s reminder to watch Game of Thrones. It’s my favourite show on TV right now. It should be yours too.
The Walking Dead is the highest-rated series on all of television, not just cable, in the critical 18-49 demographic. It’s doing AMC’s best viewership numbers ever, even better than award-winning shows like Mad Men and Breaking Bad. However, the third season finale is going to leave a bad taste in people’s mouths and AMC is at risk of seeing many viewers tune out.
First, the numbers. The finale got a total of 12.4 million viewers overall and 8.1 million in the 18-49 demo. That brought the season’s average in the 18-49 demo to the highest in television this season. Hell, the Talking Dead after show (a wasteland of utter crap since switching to 60 minutes) managed to pull more 800,000 more viewers for its first airing than Game of Thrones’ first airing on HBO (5.2 million to 4.4 million). Basically, AMC is swimming in money from everything The Walking Dead.
Now, to say that The Walking Dead’s ratings aren’t sustainable isn’t exactly a bold prediction. What goes up must come down, right? However, I have more reasons than that.
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After numerous denials, we finally have the first officially confirmed piece of news about the upcoming 50th Anniversary special of Doctor Who. As first reported by Blogtor Who as being revealed by this week’s Doctor Who magazine and later confirmed by the BBC, David Tennant and Billie Piper will reprise their roles as the Tenth Doctor and Rose Tyler for this fall’s Doctor Who 50th anniversary special.
Steven Moffat loves that little catchphrase that he wrote back in Season 3’s Blink. When Moffat writes, you get the sense that wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey will be involved at some point. (That or Weeping Angels.) With new companion Clara Oswald, we got our fair share of wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey fun. There just wasn’t that same Moffat writing that we come to expect from his episodes in The Bells of Saint John.
The second half of Series 7 of Doctor Who begins this weekend too. We’re six episodes into the fourteen episode season (if you include the Christmas Special) which means we have a fair bit of time left to figure out what the deal is with The Doctor’s new companion, Clara Oswald.
Here’s the official launch trailer. The show is back tomorrow (Saturday, March 30th) in the UK, Canada and the US.
Game of Thrones returns on Sunday for Season 3. Unfortunately, HBO has put the first showing of the season premiere against the season finale of The Walking Dead. Assuming that three weeks of nothing happening hasn’t turned people off of TWD, you can always catch the 10:00 PM and 11:00 PM showings.
In case, for some strange reason, you missed Season 2 of Game of Thrones, you can catch up on the show with this short recap video.
You know what? I’m already sick of those 1995 style intros for TV dramas. One was unique but I’m already tired of it and only a couple more have popped up since that first one for The Walking Dead.
However, UnusualSuspect2011 has a pretty good and, thankfully, unique take on the stylized TV intro. He did an intro mashup of Marvel’s The Avengers with the classic Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers intro. It even has Coulson! How can you not like that?
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