Once Upon a time ...there was snow white trapped in time and prince charming was in coma...

Ok so a couple of episodes rolled in some of my A list series are already in hiatus and sadly enough will only come back in January, while others will stick around for a couple of rounds more like " Once Upon A Time" that had a late start in the fall season.

Once Upon A Time has a new take on the classic farytales with a blend of real world thanks to a curse made by the Evil Queen, making all the classic farytales that we know forget who they were and be forced to leave in the real world without happy endings , now guess who is the only hope. ??? Prince Charming and Snow White 28 years old daughter , ow yes I know, did they have a kid? In this classy series yes , and she is the saviour bringing back time to Storybrook and making the time roll!

At this moment the serie is at episode 4, and we were introduced to some of the main character and some alternate stories to the classics were presented as the last one about Cinderella having her fairy godmother getting killed by Rumpelstiltskin and pregnant of a runaway prince!!!

A totally brave choice in my opinion taking the risk to update the stories with our reality!

It's amazing how much they accomplished in terms of technical aspects, each episode has an enormous number o special effects and an amazing use of the green screen ( come on let's consider the craziness of building actual sets for each castle and ballroom) and I would be lying if I said the first time I saw the trailer I didn't think it was a movie, it looks quite a bit like a movie and the stories arcs and references to the farytales on the real world are quite strong and nice to pick up !!!

I don't even have to go into the actors land, cos they have an amazing cast just to name few Ginnifer Goodwin, Jennifer Morrison, the adorable Jared Gilmore, Robert Carlyle, Lana Parrilla... Once Upon A Time airs on Sundays 8/7c on ABC.

Doppelgängers Season

So first was Katherine who we heard an entire season about ,till she decide to show up and mess Mystic Falls around, then it was Bolivia who exchanged verses and passed by the original Olivia, now we have two twins exchanging lives, Bridget and Siobhan, and hey we have two more even If I don't watch the Lying Game I know enough to tell that Emma and Sutton are twins.

Now making my point, is Doppelgänger season and we all know it. Ok maybe in some cases not in the complete sense of the word, but let's just stick to the simple sense of the word, that being, a double or a look-alike of a person.

So when the Doppelgänger landed at the Vampire Diaries, it was just Elena, learning that Katherine ,the love of Salvatore's life looked just like her, and by some unexplained reason the girls were linked, then to Katherine be actually alive ( it's vampire world here, go for the 100's of years), and that she back to mess with everybody's life, but not before trying to pass by Elena and succeeding a couple of times, she isn't gone for good, but the trick remains straight hair = Elena, curly=Katherine, except when Katherine is trying her charms on the Salvatore brothers.

Then Fringe just pushed the boundaries , and hey parallel worlds where the same people that lived in the normal world had different choices over there, and entire cast with double characters Olivia -Bolivia, Walter- Walternate… ow except Peter (remember 1st Peter died), till they exchange Olivias between verses, and then is Doppelgänger season cos she had everybody fooled for quite a long time, while original Olivia was stuck over there. Now everybody is back to their verses and normal hair colors, but aware of their doubles and even working together.

Now we have estranged sisters coming together , in double doses, honestly CW (Ringer) and Abc family (The Lying Game) launching series with very similar ideas at the same time but clearly to different audiences (so weird) . Ok will focus on "Ringer" that Im actually watching.

Well at this point we have more information about Bridget than about Siobhan, making the audience have more empathy for Bridget.

Summing up the story ,basically both sisters get in touch after a long time without talking to each other, an accident happens and Bridget takes Siobhan life,believing that she is dead. While Siobhan goes to Paris and who knows what are her plans, anyway Doppelgänger is in place, and no super different hair to help here this time is about places ,at least for now, USA = Bridget, Paris= Siobhan.

So not the first time Doppelgängers appear in series, and is extremely common in Mexican soap operas (Maria del Barrio, Usurpadora…) in Buffy The Vampire Slayer they appeared quite a few times, Willow and Vamp Willow in Doppelgangland is a classic one, but then we had a Xander episode too, and even a Buffy Bot, well but that was a robot so it doesn't count.

Anyway Doppelgängers have been around for a long time, they tend to cause quite a mess when they appear, as an audience I love to see the actors in question playing a different character in the same series, it must be a challenge, but Im under the impression they love.

I know nowadays it must be easier in terms of production nonetheless still tricky every time both characters are in the same scene.

So who is you favorite Doppelgänger?

Thursday combo!!!

So it's Thursday. This week passed so fast, anyway quick one on my Thursday picks ;)

The Big Bang Theory - I confess i took a while to start watching this series, but when I did, couldn't let go, those nerds/geeks are absolutely hilarious, with their experiments and crisis,specially when you put their relationships in the spotlight.

By the end of last season we could expect their circle of friends to be a little estranged, but by the end of this season first episode, Penny and Raj were only friends again so all the others.

Who can help but to laugh when Sheldon freaks about a chair that Penny got from the trash because he thinks is infested with bugs, and guess what?! In the end he is right, just so the guys end up taking said chair from the trash to his apartment.

The Vampire Diaries - It amazes me how much the series changed from the first couple of episodes in the 1st season, to what is now. The characters developed a lot, the stories arcs are concrete and really interesting, the blends of the mythologies make sense, and not just that ,create an intriguing mystery.

I confess I like the idea of having Stephan away of Elena so she becomes closer do Damon, and loved that Stephan turning off his feelings so he could follow Klaus was completely different from when Angel lost his soul in Buffy ,and Angelus was back.

On top of all of that, I really enjoy Caroline's arc with her parents dealing with finding out she became a vampire, taking out the vampire fight, it was quite human, like a fight that you can imagine any teenager having with her parents when she did something they didn't approve. Also liked Tyler becoming nicer as he finds out he is a werewolf, and Im a bit curious to know what part will Katherine play this season. And hey Stephan diary appeared again!!!

Grey's Anatomy - For sure is not the show it used to be,

but I still have hopes it get's better and make the characters less miserable, last week , hum well they were a bit less annoying. Let's see how the season unfolds. Anyway we always have Mc Dreamy, for this season at least!!

It was Wednesday and I forgot to post ;) Revenge

Revenge - I confess I had a hard time picturing sweet Amy (Everwood) or even dubious and then nice Rebecca (Brothers&Sisters) playing such a revengeful Amanda, oppsie my mistake Emily Thorne, but Emily VanCamp is doing it pretty well, and let me add with a lot of grace. The title for the series is pretty straight forward , it's about revenge, what we still don't know exactly what was the cause for her fathers ruin, but we do know Emily will bring down one by one that helped ruin her fathers and her life.

This week episode was full of revenge as expected and as we could see that Emily is not afraid to spend as much money as needed to get what she wants, and once again Victoria didn't get her way, but we also got to see Emily's Amanda side a bit, well every time she is with Jack and Sammy (smart dog) she goes back to her roots and it's the only time when she is not plotting.

However I can't figure out what happened to Jack so he would attack Daniel on the pilot Engagement Party. I wonder??