Dr. Who: "Rose"
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Dr. Who: "Rose"

When I put it in writing "zany impish guy is now a traumatized veteran" sounds like an edgy juvenile deconstruction. It isn't, though. It really, really isn't.

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Altered Carbon S1E4: “Force of Evil”
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Altered Carbon S1E4: “Force of Evil”

The sort of charisma she uses is equal parts primal fear and primal allure. Like you can't tell if you're afraid she's about to burst out of her human suit and tear you to shreds, or if she's just the sexiest thing ever

....okay, rereading that paragraph right after I wrote it is making me a little worried about myself, ngl.

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Altered Carbon S1E1: “Out of the Past” (continued unto the conclusion)
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Altered Carbon S1E1: “Out of the Past” (continued unto the conclusion)

Raven is the best. I really hope that Kovacs stays in that hotel in the semi-long term, so that Raven isn't just a one episode wonder. Hell, I want Raven to be the Cortana to Kovacs' Master Chief and play adjutant/dispatch for him over neural commlink. It's not like that would be much sillier than the baseline for this show. Yeah, I'll say it: I fucking ship it.

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“The Guy Who Didn’t Like Musicals” (part four)</a>
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“The Guy Who Didn’t Like Musicals” (part four)

It's good. It could be really, really good with better production values, a bigger cast, and maybe a liiiittle bit of trimming and moving things around here and there. It might come close to greatness, but there are too many really fundamental flaws (the mostly so-so music being the biggest) for it to get all the way there in my opinion.

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