THE LIBRARIANS: THE NEXT CHAPTER
S01E1 “And the Deadly Drekavac”

Cut to the chase: thumbs up. Fred – Bob says “check it out“

From the previous series, Christian Kane guest stars as librarian Jake
Stone. He mentions that Cassie (Lindy Booth) sent him on this mission and talks to both Jenkins (John Larroquette) and Ezekiel Jones (John Kim) offscreen. So that accounts for everybody but Rebecca Romain, their
guardian. But they have a new guardian!

Jessica Green (sigh).

A) Jessica has learned to do a flawless American accent!
2) Jessica has learned how to act!!
Third) Jessica has learned how to act using a flawless American accent!!!

Two new characters join the fray and they split Dr. Daniel Jackson (from STARGATE, SG1 (the “SG” stands for: STARGATE!)) in half to create them. This became very apparent when they stopped dead in the middle of the
action to tell each other their backstories.

Written and directed by people behind The Outpost, the Ark, and Almost Paradise.

They keep saying the new librarian is a time traveler, but he’s really not since he got stuck in stasis and even then they didn’t get that right he
just was in slow time. He seems to be doing Robert Downey Jr. as Sherlock Holmes but there’s really nothing wrong with that.

Magic has been released and all the magical objects must be recovered as
the show morphs completely into Warehouse 13.

One weird bit of continuity tells us that holy water isn’t a real thing,
but that baptism is. I’d have to go back and check that third librarian
movie with the vampires to see if they’re paying attention.

Now the bad news. TNT sucking fucks. There was some sort of sports ball
show before, but it was over but they still had the moronic hosts going overtime with clever bits like asking Charles Barkley how he’d liked his steak cooked and him staring at them like he had no idea why he was there.
The real show started more than 10 minutes late and ended 18 minutes late
so if you had recorded it, you wouldn’t see a lot of it. And I’ve never seen as many commercials as I did last night.

Episode two airs tonight and the announcer warns us it will again be after playoff coverage.


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In <21668153.769969897.038739.anim8rfsk-cox.net@news.easynews.com> anim8rfsk <anim8rfsk@cox.net> writes:

THE LIBRARIANS: THE NEXT CHAPTER

Cut to the chase: thumbs up. Fred says "check it out"

[lots snipped]

Now the bad news. TNT sucking fucks. There was some sort of sports ball
show before, but it was over but they still had the moronic hosts going >overtime with clever bits like asking Charles Barkley how he;d liked his >steak cooked and him staring at them like he had no idea why he was there. >The real show started more than 10 minutes late and ended 18 minutes late
so if you had recorded it, you wouldn't see a lot of it. And I've never
seen as many commercials as I did last night.

Agreed. And the previews didn't even have the time of airing..

The only good news for many of us is that... "The Librarians" *is*
available "on demand" on Charter/Xfinity. So yes, you can pull
up the show. In fact, yesterday I was able to request Episode 1 a
couple of hours before it "aired"...

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danny burstein <dannyb@panix.com> wrote:

anim8rfsk <anim8rfsk@cox.net> writes:

THE LIBRARIANS: THE NEXT CHAPTER

Cut to the chase: thumbs up. Fred says "check it out"

[lots snipped]

Now the bad news. TNT sucking fucks. There was some sort of sports ball >>show before, but it was over but they still had the moronic hosts going >>overtime with clever bits like asking Charles Barkley how he;d liked his >>steak cooked and him staring at them like he had no idea why he was there. >>The real show started more than 10 minutes late and ended 18 minutes late >>so if you had recorded it, you wouldn't see a lot of it. And I've never >>seen as many commercials as I did last night.

Agreed. And the previews didn't even have the time of airing..

The only good news for many of us is that... "The Librarians" *is*
available "on demand" on Charter/Xfinity. So yes, you can pull
up the show. In fact, yesterday I was able to request Episode 1 a
couple of hours before it "aired"...

Did that avoid some commercials?

There are multiple repeats if you are recording from satellite.

If anybody cares, I'm going to try Adults (formerly Snowflakes) on FX
because, gah, I remember when there was a choice of comedies that were watchable when I was a kid and I don't understand why it's become so
impossible to be funny. Yes, I'd deluded.

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On 5/26/25 9:32 AM, anim8rfsk wrote:

THE LIBRARIANS: THE NEXT CHAPTER
S01E1 “And the Deadly Drekavac”

Cut to the chase: thumbs up. Fred – Bob says “check it out“

[snip]

Thanks for this.

I don't plan to watch it (or record it) off TNT. But if I can get it
direct from Max, I may put it into my Summer TV viewing plan.

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On May 26, 2025 at 3:30:59 PM PDT, ""Ian J. Ball"" <ijball@mac.invalid>
wrote:

On 5/26/25 9:32 AM, anim8rfsk wrote:

THE LIBRARIANS: THE NEXT CHAPTER
S01E1 “And the Deadly Drekavac”

Cut to the chase: thumbs up. Fred – Bob says “check it out“

[snip]

Thanks for this.

I don't plan to watch it (or record it) off TNT. But if I can get it
direct from Max, I may put it into my Summer TV viewing plan.

A viewing plan? That sounds suspiciously close to a list...

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Adam H. Kerman <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:

. . .

There are multiple repeats if you are recording from satellite.

And the recording I made was pre-empted by tennis. I'm watching on demand.

. . .

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Adam H. Kerman <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:

Adam H. Kerman <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:

. . .

There are multiple repeats if you are recording from satellite.

And the recording I made was pre-empted by tennis. I'm watching on demand.

. . .

And I got both national commercials and local commercials on demand. Boy
were there a lot of commercials. Nice to see Christian Kane again and he
still has both hands!

That was enjoyable; is Lysa going to be evil or at least duplicitous?

So, was that truly filmed on location in Belgrade?

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Adam H. Kerman <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:

Adam H. Kerman <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:

Adam H. Kerman <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:

. . .

There are multiple repeats if you are recording from satellite.

And the recording I made was pre-empted by tennis. I'm watching on demand.

. . .

And I got both national commercials and local commercials on demand. Boy
were there a lot of commercials. Nice to see Christian Kane again and he still has both hands!

That was enjoyable; is Lysa going to be evil or at least duplicitous?

So, was that truly filmed on location in Belgrade?

Jessica Green says: yes

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THE LIBRARIANS: THE NEXT CHAPTER
S01E2 “And the Dance of Doom”

As the series progresses, it wanders further from the pilot episode (which
so far is the best) and firmly into lifts from other shows. Warehouse 13 is obvious. But there’s also stuff from Doctor Who, including fixed points in time they can’t visit and my favorite chase music, and lots of stuff from Buffy and Angel.

The ballerina episode, of course reminds me of Angel and summer glow.

Their original mandate was to recapture magic that had escaped thanks to
the rogue librarian (another Angel nod there) but that’s quickly changing into recover the escaped artifacts. In this one, they encounter a witch
who’s been working on her evil plan for decades. I’m not sure why she came on their radar only now, but the escaped magic is only going to make her
scheme worse. The real culprit is extremely obvious as is the fact that
Jessica Green will end up on stage as a ballerina. I thought maybe it was
in the actress’ real life past but she says in the interviews that she had
to learn it for this episode. I kept waiting for somebody to say that the reason her character had to quit ballet lessons was that she’s about a foot too tall.



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