The Librarians

I'm ok with the late part, but starting it the week before Christmas then leaving it to the second week of January doesn't sound like a good ratings strategy.  Then again, I can always hope it's because it was supposed to start in January but they are doing an early episode with Bruce Campbell.

Yeah, I saw a commercial that said the 13th.  YAY !!!!!

My dvr shows two episodes on Wednesday. I looked at the description of them. The second episode has Santa, so that means BRUCE!!! Yay!

There's sneak peeks up for the first and second episodes:

Ep 4.01:


Ep 4.02:


The irony is the 4.01 popped up when i went to look for an AoS sneak peek.

I guess I'm as guilty as the rest, but zero discussion on the opening pair of episodes.  I'm kind of on the fence myself.  I thought the show was more original than to go the route of "the church is evil" thinly veiled behind the active group being the "rogue heretic sect".  If it becomes a season of knowledge vs Christianity I'll probably stop watching, though I do want to see what's up with the previews with
Unfortunately, John Noble is exactly the type of actor who would make a good all-season villain.

On the good side, the second episode was very much a standalone, with the only thing recurring from the first episode being a mention of the binding ceremony.
However, there's some glaring errors in human nature in the episode...
The people who go to the race track on any regular basis use a system of logic to pick the horses, plus the odds vary with the bets placed so if nobody was betting on one of the horses the odds would skyrocket and there are always people who bet on the longshot.  Bets are also not just to win, there are also bets to 'place' and 'show' which mean you make money even if your horse comes in second or third.
Then there's the slots.  Casinos are required to report the payback percentage their machines are set to and there's a gaming commission that makes sure they are set as reported and an audit that would very quickly show if there was nothing paying out even if the machines reported being set correctly.  I've also read the gaming commission has undercover people who play and observe other players and again would quickly notice the lack of payouts on the machines.  And finally, if people were losing their luck by watching the television screens, why didn't she just make a commercial and do an advertising blitz that would have caught a lot more people than a televised horse race?

So far, not so good.

Thanks for posting those.

Edited to add: two episodes will air next Wednesday as well. I wonder if this is going to be the pattern for the whole season.

We got gipped in the Christmas episode. We didn't get to see the sweaters Cassie made for Flynn, Eve and Jenkins lol. I laughed out loud at the cowboy stuff on Stone's sweater and then the very next episode, he was in the cowboy outfit. Love that he got to sing though. I love his voice (speaking and singing). Didn't know he could yodel though lol. Ezekiel's sweater looked like it had a game controller on it. I have to imagine that Jenkins' sweater would have had knight related stuff on it. No idea about the other two sweaters. Anyone else have any thoughts?



Looks like only one ep per week from now on.

So the Darrington Dare ep: he said something and I thought "is he a librarian or Sherlock Holmes?"... And then a few minutes later he says Doyle based Sherlock on him lol.