DiogenestheCynic

Not my cup of tea. Parodies are hard to get right, and I'm afraid that this show missed the mark by a wide margin. I lasted a while, but eventually the overwhelming stupidity of the characters, the writing, and pretty much everything else convinced me to give up.

I can't think of any other occasion where a book I read was turned into a TV show and I actually liked the show more than the book, so this show is unique for me. The writing was brilliant ("Oh, that worked out."), the casting was perfect (even though I initially thought that Neil Patrick Harris looked like an evil bobblehead), and the performances even had me liking the villains. Superb job from everyone involved, and I cannot recommend this show highly enough.

If Star Trek Voyager had been like this I would have watched every season. It's unfortunate it ended after only two seasons, but I must admit the final scene was a great note to end on.

The cast turnover was... unpleasant, but after a number of starts and stops I managed to watch the whole show. I docked a point due to unfortunate cast changes and half a point due to teen drama nonsense (even though they are teens), but overall a good show. The expanding mythology managed to maintain my interest fairly well.

I enjoyed this show quite a bit, and thought Stephen Lang did a very good job in what I can only describe as a repeat of his Avatar character. Time travel paradoxes aside, they did a good job with an interesting and challenging premise.

I feel as though I've been tricked into liking a kid's show, but here I am. The characters are fun, with Kelsey Grammer's voice acting being the clear highlight. The plots are appropriate for children without being overly dumbed-down. The animation made most of the humans look a bit too skinny for the massive weapons they were swinging around, but it's magic so I can accept it. Sorry to see it end after only three seasons, but the follow-up series looks good too.

Veronica Mars is one of my favorite 'detective' characters, falling behind only Adrian Monk on that list. A shockingly 'adult' show from the very beginning, it managed to weave very serious plotlines into an otherwise lighthearted teen show. Very well done.

The show had promise, but there were a couple problems that kept me from really enjoying it. First, the original mystery (who killed the daughter) stunk of the mystery that would continually accumulate clues but never actually get solved. Well, not until everyone had lost interest. The second is that while they did briefly address the idea of mob justice, they barely touched on how big of a problem that would have been. With an app like this there would be plenty of false identifications and a constant danger of mob justice. Still, I had to give this show a good rating because the cast was excellent and they actually made me care about them and their goals. I didn't expect to be able to maintain that through a second season, but it was enjoyable for most of its run.

Not a bad show, and it had a pretty good run for science fiction. I was a little annoyed by the choice to make the main male protagonist a man-child, but that stereotype is a cheap source of comedy and I can see why writers take the easy route. The two female protagonists were both good characters, so they balanced that out a bit.

The first season was amazing, and having not read the books (or even heard of them prior to watching the show) I was able to enjoy each reveal as it came. Sadly, the delay between seasons killed the momentum (not to mention actor contracts and plot-lines) of the first, leaving season two feeling entirely disconnected from what I had already watched and enjoyed. It was a good attempt, but the network shouldn't have delayed so long in airing the first season, as that left them with a series that couldn't succeed; even if it was popular.