Emmy 2012 - Predictions

The 64th Primetime Emmy Awards are tonight and since it conflicts with a Ravens game, I, unfortunately will not be watching.  I will be recording it to at least watch the intro before going to bed.  Not watching it live will in no way hamper my trying to guess who's going to win tonight.  I'm offering up who I personally think should win the category and who I think will actually win.  Last year was my first attempt at this and I did really bad, so let's see how this one goes.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Season 1

I was a late convert to Joss Whedon.  My gateway drug was Firefly, and that wasn't even until after the movie had been out for a couple of years.  It just so happened my roommate had the DVD set and one summer I decided to sit down and finally watch something from this Joss guy I'd heard so much about.  I was hooked immediately and have since devoured any new stuff he's put out (except his comics work).  Dollhouse, Dr. Horrible, and just this year The Cabin in the Woods and The Avengers.  Going backwards though, was a more daunting task.  Seven seasons of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and five seasons of Angel is a lot of episodes.  I finally got the push I needed when two of my favorite TV critics were going to be revisiting the first season of Buffy on their podcast.

Emmy 2012 - Dream vs Reality

Wow, have I been lazy.  It's been a month since the Emmy nominations came out and the last time I posted anything.  I'd like to make excuses about real life, vacation, and blah blah.  The truth is that it's summer and I'm lazy.  I'll try to keep things a little more lively around here moving forward.  So here's the post (finally) that compares my dream nominations against the actual nominations.

Emmy 2012 - Dream Ballot

It's Emmy time again, and tomorrow morning the nominations for the 64th Primetime Emmy Awards will be announced.  Considering how late I'm posting this, most of you will read it after the announcements.  In any case, you can see how different my tastes and the tastes of the Academy are (hint: very, very different).  I'll have a post up later highlighting those differences, but for now this is who or what I would choose to nominate if I had any say in the matter.

Breaking Bad - Season 4

I swear this show gets better every season.  Breaking Bad is about the slow build, and this season perfected the technique.  We knew from the first episode that this season would be about Walt vs Gus, and slowly over 13 episodes things would move closer and closer to that confrontation being resolved.  Then they hit you with the last string of episodes where everything comes together and things get crazy.

The Legend of Korra - 1x11/12 - Skeletons in the Closet/Endgame

I want to say upfront that for the most part, this was a pretty great finale to an overall pretty spectacular season.  Knowing that there were going to be two seasons, I kind of expected the Amon story to play out over both seasons, with this one ending on some sort of downer (a la Book 2: Earth) or maybe with a resistance building in the underground.  Instead the Amon storyline is brought to a close and done very well.  Overall, this is not a bad thing, many series do season long arcs with one big bad, a problem arises in the final wrap up though.

The Legend of Korra - 1x09 & 1x10

Real life has intruded into my writing these past couple of weeks.  You'd think there would be less things going on in the summer.  Therefore, this will be a quick post on the past two episodes of The Legend of Korra before the double episode finale tomorrow.

Game of Thrones - 2x10 - Valar Morghulis

We've come to the end of the second season of Game of Thrones, and I've had almost two weeks (so lazy) to mull over the finale and the season as a whole.  Comparing it to the first season is inevitable and I think there are ways that the second was better, and ways that it's not.

The Legend of Korra - 1x08 - When Extremes Meet

The new Team Avatar has finally been officially formed and Tarrlok has a few shady schemes he's cooking up.

Game of Thrones - 2x09 - Blackwater

The big battle has finally come.  I usually structure my reviews by locale, but due to the scale of events happening this week, the entire episode takes place at King's Landing.  The focus gives the episode a clarity that a few of the preceding episodes were lacking because of having to jump around and serve so many stories.  I wonder if the show could do this more often without viewers losing the threads of the stories left out.