Passive Entertainment

While I’ve been traveling and working and livin’ large and otherwise engaged, my DVR has been recording hours and hours of stuff.  Is it worth watching?  You tell me.

I have a good many episodes of Defiance stored up.  I’ve watched the first half of the pilot, in which high production values were matched with an utter lack of originality.  Generic post-holocaust future, generic aliens with generic Star Trek forehead bumps, and a great deal ripped off from Alien Nation, assuming of course that Rockne S. O’Bannon can rip off himself.  Does it get any better?

My DVR has also been recording Vikings.  Are the wholly fictionalized adventures of Ragnar Hairypants worth a look?

Ditto Ripper Street.

And while I’m asking, should I break my longstanding tradition of avoiding films with “3” in the title and see the new Iron Man?  Because the precedents set by other superhero films hat were third in the series are not encouraging.

Y’all let me know.