Not quite what I’d planned to post (#SFWApro)

But we bicycled 30 miles today and that’s exhausting, More for me than TYG, as she has a lightweight bike, so it’s less effort to move it. I love our bike rides but dang, it doesn’t make me feel like doing much the rest of the day (although I did make waffles for dinner and they were delicious).
So as the TV season is now over, I figured I’d look at some of the series I’ve been watching—
Once Upon a Time had a great first half of the season, dealing with a monstrous, evil version of Peter Pan. The second half put them up against the Wicked Witch of the West, who turns out to have a score to settle with Regina, the ex-Wicked Queen, and it was, if not as good, still satisfying. And then I thought it was going to become an entry in my time-travel book as the climax involved the witch concocting a potion to turn back time, then Hook and Emma Swan getting hurled into the past—I was pretty confident they’d defeat the witch but come back to find reality drastically changed.
Instead, no change, except that when they return, it turns out Emma’s destroyed Regina’s love life (someone she saves and brings forward in time turns out to be the Lost Love of Regina’s new boyfriend) which looks to throw Regina—whose spent the season proving she can be a hero—back to her old villainous self. Been there, done that (and as before, she’s annoyingly self-righteous about how much people have hurt her). And the appearance of the Snow Queen doesn’t excite me—I can’t think of anything she brings to the table other than Frozen fans. A disappointing end.
Tomorrow People unfortunately will not be coming back—despite it’s stock oppressed-mutant set up, it became really entertaining as it went along. The finale wrapped up enough plot points to be satisfying, however I’m really, really annoyed at its handling of Carrie Anne Moss as the protagonist’s mom. Midway through the season, we learn she’s one of the psis herself, which seems to call for lots of explanation of some of her actions (and a bigger role in the adventures) but having revealed that, the show shoves her into the background again as if they weren’t the least curious about her. On that point, at least, Fail!
Arrow had, to put it mildly, a lively sophomore season as Ollie finds himself struggling to save Starling City from not only Brother Blood but Deathstroke, plus the usual array of one-shot villains, plus the intro for Barry Allen leading into the Flash spinoff, plus the debut of Black Canary. While the ending episode tried a little too hard for an apocalypse to match last season’s, there was enough character drama going on to make it a good finish (plus a torture scene I actually liked).
The Vampire Diaries and spin-off The Originals both left me a little underwhelmed at the finish. Vampire Diaries was certainly epic, involving body-jumping immortal witches and the destruction of the netherworld (or “a” netherworld) but it was so frantic I had a hard time remembering who was on which side of the life/death barrier. Originals, the spinoff set in New Orleans felt annoyingly like not enough changed—same power-struggles, same factions, just slight shifts in the dominant players.
I rather doubt I’ll be adding anything new to my viewing this summer to replace them, given the obligations of the book (lots of TV to catch). But I’ll be tuning in again in the fall (though Originals might get skipped).