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hammerfan 01-08-2013 12:43 PM

Not fair, it's still not on On Demand for me! I've been checking every day!

ChronoGrl 01-08-2013 01:11 PM

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Originally Posted by hammerfan (Post 943294)
Not fair, it's still not on On Demand for me! I've been checking every day!

I found that sometimes they'll delay posting it to On Demand until Wednesday. It's annoying.

They probably want you to pay for it on Hulu or iTunes.

hammerfan 01-08-2013 01:27 PM

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Originally Posted by ChronoGrl (Post 943296)
I found that sometimes they'll delay posting it to On Demand until Wednesday. It's annoying.

They probably want you to pay for it on Hulu or iTunes.

I have Hulu Plus, and they're not able to show it this time.

fortunato 01-08-2013 02:31 PM

As far as what next season will be, Ryan Murphy said to look for clues in these last few episodes. "I Put a Spell on You", along with a couple references to "pagan practices" and also these shoes: http://i48.tinypic.com/2ikxp3t.png

A lot of people are saying something involving witches, perhaps.

neverending 01-08-2013 05:10 PM

Well, I Put a Spell on You is a song about VOODOO... so maybe we'll go New Orleans!

neverending 01-08-2013 07:13 PM

Actually, if they went South it would be really great, say New Orleans or Texas. They haven't at all dealth with some really basic aspects of horror in America, such as rural horror, isolation, kidnapping/slavery, cults, backwoods inbred families and MONSTERS- such as Chupacabra, bigfoot, werepigs etc...

fortunato 01-08-2013 08:57 PM

Yeah, voodoo was the other thought. I would absolutely love a New Orleans-set season, for sure.

hammerfan 01-09-2013 02:23 PM

I'm finally getting to watch it!

newb 01-09-2013 02:56 PM

well....they've covered ghost in the first one

and Aliens, Serial Killers, Devil Possession, Insanity,Nazis and Scientific Experiments Gone Wrong in season 2.

ChronoGrl 01-11-2013 08:49 AM

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Originally Posted by fortunato (Post 943300)
As far as what next season will be, Ryan Murphy said to look for clues in these last few episodes. "I Put a Spell on You", along with a couple references to "pagan practices" and also these shoes: http://i48.tinypic.com/2ikxp3t.png

A lot of people are saying something involving witches, perhaps.

When I think of red shoes, I think of:
  • The fairy tale "The Red Shoes" - Cautionary tale about vanity
  • Dorothy, Oz, and, of course, Kansas

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Originally Posted by neverending (Post 943314)
Actually, if they went South it would be really great, say New Orleans or Texas. They haven't at all dealth with some really basic aspects of horror in America, such as rural horror, isolation, kidnapping/slavery, cults, backwoods inbred families and MONSTERS- such as Chupacabra, bigfoot, werepigs etc...

Very good point - All of this is getting me super-excited about next season.

Also - This week's episode was fantastic as always; the "current day" storyline delightfully eeked me out.

Atraxi 01-12-2013 08:52 PM

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Originally Posted by fortunato (Post 943317)
Yeah, voodoo was the other thought. I would absolutely love a New Orleans-set season, for sure.

I would love this so much.

I really liked the musical number. Someone on another forum mentioned that maybe the aliens were cloning the people that they abducted.

I still don't really know how I feel about this season. There were parts that I really liked about it but I still feel like it was all over the place. I don't think I'm going to be able to fully appreciate it until it comes to a close. I love stories of insane asylums but so far I think Murder House was better.

ImmortalSlasher 01-15-2013 11:47 AM

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I still don't really know how I feel about this season. There were parts that I really liked about it but I still feel like it was all over the place. I don't think I'm going to be able to fully appreciate it until it comes to a close. I love stories of insane asylums but so far I think Murder House was better.

I think both seasons kind of lose their energy at the end. The original was like that too. I believe there are only two episodes left. Really no more major twists just closing story lines now.

neverending 01-17-2013 07:48 PM

More clues on Season 3

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/liv...-peters-413542

Atraxi 01-20-2013 09:50 PM

What is going on with the angel of death?

Atraxi 01-24-2013 06:04 PM

I loved the ending but it didn't really wrap everything up for me. What was going on with the aliens? What was up with the angel of death in the second to last episode?

neverending 01-24-2013 06:23 PM

SPOILERS BELOW


The aliens abducted Kit's partners, impregnated them, and produced the two kids, who in the terminology of the mythology are "star children" - little clues are given throughout the episode that the children are "special." In classic UFO mythology, the aliens came to spread their seed, mix with our race, creating mutations to advance the species.


I'm not sure exactly what you're not sure about with the Angel of Death.

fortunato 01-24-2013 07:43 PM

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I actually really liked the fact that the aliens' precise motivations weren't revealed. Their basically incidental involvement opens the scope of the show in an interesting way, especially with there already being supernatural-religious occurrences, too.
Overall, a melancholy finale, and it felt like a satisfying end to this season.

ChronoGrl 01-25-2013 04:44 AM

I'm going to be honest - for some reason the finale just wasn't satisfying for me, but I can't really put my finger on it.

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I'm fine with where they left the Alien plot - I like the Star Children and how they wrapped up Sister Jude's story (so melancholic)... I was also OK with Kit's demise...

But I feel like it fizzled a bit. I'll have to figure out what I mean, but it seemed anti-climactic overall. Not sure what I would have done to change it, and I think that the subtle melancholy was definitely purposeful... But it somehow was just... unsatisfying. Great season, but I feel maybe the finale could have been two hours instead of one perhaps?

hammerfan 01-25-2013 04:52 AM

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Originally Posted by ChronoGrl (Post 944108)
I'm going to be honest - for some reason the finale just wasn't satisfying for me, but I can't really put my finger on it.

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I'm fine with where they left the Alien plot - I like the Star Children and how they wrapped up Sister Jude's story (so melancholic)... I was also OK with Kit's demise...

But I feel like it fizzled a bit. I'll have to figure out what I mean, but it seemed anti-climactic overall. Not sure what I would have done to change it, and I think that the subtle melancholy was definitely purposeful... But it somehow was just... unsatisfying. Great season, but I feel maybe the finale could have been two hours instead of one perhaps?

Yes, yes, yes! I feel the same way! I was left feeling VERY unsatisfied, like there could have been more. And, like you, I'm not really sure what I would do to change it. I felt like season one's finale was much better.

ChronoGrl 01-25-2013 10:17 AM

Totally - Now, that isn't to say that I didn't like the season... I LOVED the season! I just thought that it really fizzled. It felt like the last episode was more of an afterthought/epilogue than anything else, but I also feel as though the director did that purposefully.

Did anyone feel that way? Wondering what your thoughts were to the tone - Just an odd amount of storytelling and exposition.

neverending 01-25-2013 10:39 AM

Yah, it was a bit hit and miss for me. The end of Bloody Face seemed too easy...

If Bloody Face had survived, out there, lurking...

ChronoGrl 01-25-2013 04:09 PM

Completely agree - Don't get me wrong, I thought their confrontation was incredible... But the end seemed to... easy.

I think that's what part of my issue is... While I think of how the different storylines wrapped up in the last episode, they all make sense - I think that, while not predictable, they all reached a very logical conclusion.

But since this season has been so much about insanity and especially flirting with the concept of the Unreliable (and insane) narrator, I didn't think that the end would be so "neat."

Not sure if I'm expressing myself correctly, but for example...



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When Sister Jude finds out that she had been in the asylum for YEARS instead of a couple of months and that the Pinhead was dead... It was so incredibly disorienting... That's how I envisioned the ultimate conclusion being... Incredibly disorienting, dizzying, and thought-provoking.


This was all too neat and tied up - Like an odd epilogue. I find it rather confounding.

That being said, Sister Jude bonding with the Star Children was just so lovely.

Atraxi 01-26-2013 03:21 PM

What I mean by the angel of death is when she came back as a patient or prisoner. I didn't really get that whole thing.

Atraxi 01-26-2013 04:48 PM

http://www.tomandlorenzo.com/2013/01...ness-ends.html

neverending 01-26-2013 05:33 PM

Meh. They completely missed the Star Children bit.

newb 01-26-2013 06:57 PM

I enjoyed this season but I really think they threw in way too much. Could have done without the whole alien scenario IMO

Atraxi 01-26-2013 09:28 PM

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Originally Posted by newb (Post 944204)
I enjoyed this season but I really think they threw in way too much. Could have done without the whole alien scenario IMO

Agreed.
.......

fortunato 01-27-2013 12:49 PM

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I think the reason it felt like it fizzled is because of the Bloodyface Jr. storyline. It was really clipped; there wasn't much to it in the way of a rounded story. They never really took the time to develop it much, and then it had to end when the season did.

Elvis_Christ 01-28-2013 05:03 PM

A much better finale than the first season. At least it kept the tone of the rest of the series unlike the Beetlejuice bullshit that totally ruined the first season for me.

I liked the "neatness" of it all as it felt like coming out of a cloud of insanity and arriving somewhere more coherent (perhaps just like the characters themselves).

ImmortalSlasher 01-29-2013 03:50 PM

I agree with the others here about the ending. It was just so so for me.

neverending 02-26-2013 08:23 PM

Kathy Bates!

http://insidetv.ew.com/2013/02/26/am...ates-season-3/

hammerfan 02-27-2013 03:45 AM

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Sweet!!!!!!!

SamSlayer 03-09-2013 02:21 PM

Preferred this season over the first one but both season finales were just ''odd'' :confused:

Atraxi 03-09-2013 07:33 PM

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Yesss! Also, can we please strike down and kill "cray cray" from our collective vocabulary, please?

Geek 03-10-2013 05:14 AM

Do we know the next storyline yet?

neverending 03-16-2013 08:40 PM

Title for season three revealed.

http://bloody-disgusting.com/news/32...r-story-coven/

cheebacheeba 03-17-2013 04:01 AM

I have to say, I never thought I would enjoy it but I'm glad I gave this series a chance, well in the end, on a bored day which is really the best friend to shows that get held onto and/or overlooked, isn't it?

I marathon'd all of season 1 over 3 days by the time I got around to it...by then I'd seen information of the second series and already I knew I'd be taking a look.
Gotta say I was pretty impressed to know that this series was put together by the guys behind "Glee", you just wouldn't think it.
Though, I guess they did "nip/tuck" too, which while I haven't seen I've heard nothing but good things about.

The first series was a blast...it felt so oldskool...reminded me of other horror themed series of days past (american gothic, even outer limits in ways), the acting was pretty solid among most of the ongoing cast, the characters of relative depth and the suspense factor was great.
I too thought the ending was a little "happy ending" as well, I mean they could have had the characters go on in some other way...it just seemed too bright and perky for the overall tone.
Didn't bring down my enjoyment of the series too much though.

Asylum was better in my eyes - another area in which my expectations failed me...After digging watching the whole first show with no wait times, I did the same, grabbed all the eps and painstakingly waited.

Another piece of oldskool there to see the same cast play different characters, and HOW different they were was amazing.
Even one actress from American gothic (clearly these guys are fans) showed up, and does almost as big a character transformation as the sister that got possessed.
Better spanning storyline, the characters were more varied and enjoyable to watch, while I didn't find it more "scary" (not that the first one was all that much so) I found it more engrossing.
The not-quite-explaining things about the aliens in/towards the end IMO was a good move and stuck to the tone a lot better than the initial series finale.

So yeah while I never thought it would happen, after spending time watching this show, I'm pretty invested and I consider this a very watchable series and has been a long awaited return to a more classic kind of TV horror.

rlaugh0095 03-19-2013 12:17 AM

This show is amazing, but honestly I couldn't tell you which season I liked more. Both were amazing to me, but since I was probably 18 when I saw the first season, I would say I related to season 1 more than 2 just because of age.

cheebacheeba 03-19-2013 03:30 AM

You just liked the guy with the burnt face, didn't ya?
You thought about looking into that milky eye and placing slow kisses allover the fire-touched skin, while you thought about Russell Edgington.
Then you died.

Atraxi 03-19-2013 08:34 PM

Is Zachary Quinto not coming back?


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