OMFG

[rivkat]

Tower Prep!  Okay, so I have a 9 meg, 1 minute divx clip from the season finale.  I'm pretty sure there are several TV Tropes entries about this.  Download it and judge for yourself.  Also, it's a fun show; you should watch it (and tell me if I missed anything like this in previous episodes, because sweet zombie Jesus!).

Comments

[ariadnes_string]

lol--I can't say I noticed that when I watched it with my kids! (I did however, google the guy who plays Ian, because I was curious about how old he was, and saw thousands of v. twinky, mostly naked pics....*clutches pearls*)

I kinda loved the episode, tho'--loved how dystopian the whole thing is--very un-Hogwarts. The boys liked the fighting.

[voleuse]

I...I am not familiar with the show at all, but I don't think you're wrong. I could easily see the actor unconsciously fiddling with a prop while talking, but certainly someone else should have picked up on that...

[darkemeralds]

LOL! I can't say for sure, but I think that even without your prompt, I would have been, um, hard-pressed to see that sock-monkey arm as anything other than highly phallic.

I mean, monkey? Come on. I've just downloaded the first ep. It looks like a fun show.

[rivkat]

Oh, I'm definitely loving the overall arc (except how the girls just stand there in the fights except for getting one whack each this time). My eyes just bugged out when I got to this part.

The guy who plays Ian is very nicely muscled; I was assuming he must be in his 20s. Now I have to decide if I want to google all those pictures!

[rivkat]

Those motions just seem oddly specific for fiddling with the prop, you know?

[rivkat]

I hope you like it! It's got a bunch of X-Files refugees on staff, so it's visually very nice.

[ariadnes_string]

24, as far as I can tell. And, to be fair, I think they're all modeling pics--he's seems to have been quite the success. And he went to college on a soccer scholarship, so I guess he comes by the athleticism naturally.

You're right about the girls, though--

[mareen]

I've been thinking since episode 1 that the actor is playing Gabe as gay. If you go back to the very first time he sees Ian, there's a whole lot of staring involved. And then there was that episode with the Sirens, and Gabe being the only guy not reacting to them. At all.

So this? I don't think that wasn't intentional for a second.

[darkemeralds]

I've watched the first ep now, and I'll definitely be watching more! What a fun show! Am I alone in hoping that the three very interesting-looking roommates become more than cardboard cutout high school villains?

[rivkat]

Yes, I've definitely thought he was checking Ian out, but this was different! For one thing he starts talking about his dad right as he's finishing, not just Ian. I just think this was a failure of vision on the part of the network standards folks, and I really wonder whether the actor did it on his own or with help.

[rivkat]

Well, there is a lot of XF veteran involvement, so it's hard to say who's really a villain (or if they have any idea where they're going with the plot), but the core foursome does end up with some interesting antagonists/allies.

[mareen]

But the camera is moving towards his face the moment he starts talking of his father. The only thing you still see (and only for a short moment) is the shadow of Senor Guapo's leg.

[mareen]

Oops, hit enter before I was actually finished.

I meant to add that I think it was a thing the actor and the director probably decided to do together. It would explain why the camera shot changes once the subject Gabe talks about changes.