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emmuzkaAfter some re-furnishing (My lovely retro lamp! My lovely pseudo Persian rug!), I used the whole weekend by watching television series, old and new.
Slight spoilers ahead!
Dexter
Okay, I don't wonder a bit why there hasn't been a peep about this series in my friends list. Hey, a new series about a crime scene investigator, I thought. Wrong! It was series about a psychopath serial killer who happens to be a crime scene investigator. The whole premises of the series is bizarre, but without an execution bizarre enough to make it interesting. The actors are great, though. There is the guy from Six Feet Under (J. Michael Hall?), and his police boss woman is sooo beautiful, thinks me. She is so familiar from somewhere but I can't figure out the exact series.
Anyway, even as much as they try to make the main character likeable, it's pretty hard to like a psychopath. After the first episode, I wouldn't have kept watching unless I wouldn't have already dropped the five first episodes. Thankfully the series got better after a few episodes. At first it looked like it was going to be a justified-murder-of-the-week with a weak ub plot (think "Jack" plot in Profiler), but now I almost like the series. It's pretty fun when the main guy, being a psychopath without an access to emotions, keeps missing the point when people are talking with finer nuances.
As a material for fan fiction, this series would be impossible. The story telling tells all, without chances for the reader to really make the story her own. Also it would be pretty hard to write slash or any kind of relationshippy stuff for a character who is pathologically unable to feel emotions.
NCIS
Talking about crime scene investigators... I started with the first season of NCIS and frankly, I was disapointed. We have forgettable woman investigator! Stereotypical lab engineer! One-dimensional good-looking guy! And Mark Harmon, who makes boats with his hands! Look, he is quirky, like Grissom! Yeah, sure.
CSI first season
Still keeping it at crime scenes, I started to watch the first season of the original CSI. The are so young and wholesome! It's interesting to watch the first episodes; For example, It's not Greg and Nick who are frist shown talking shit, it's Greg and Grissom. The only irksome thing in the series at the moment is that in the European DVD box, the opening music is changed to some cheap low-grade do-it-yourself tune. At least they show the original opening credits music in television, unlike in House M.D, where even that has been changed.
Heroes
What if there really would be people with super power among us? This is a premise that offers nothing new, but it's made freshly and interesting way. I love this show, but I seriously suggest that these episodes should be viewed as many at once as you possibly can. This series lays heavily on experiencing flow, and watching only one episode at a time? Not going to happen. Almost all the characters are interesting and likable (I like most of the senator dude with the most ridiculous ability to fly) I love even the supporting characters since they are also multi dimensional. And who wouldn't love the Japanise nerd guy who isn't the traditional "let's put glasses on him and call him a nerd"-nerd of Hollywood style.
Hmm, what else? Of course there are Supernatural and Torchwood, but there isn't much to say about them right now. Except, unconditional love, right?
Slight spoilers ahead!
Dexter
Okay, I don't wonder a bit why there hasn't been a peep about this series in my friends list. Hey, a new series about a crime scene investigator, I thought. Wrong! It was series about a psychopath serial killer who happens to be a crime scene investigator. The whole premises of the series is bizarre, but without an execution bizarre enough to make it interesting. The actors are great, though. There is the guy from Six Feet Under (J. Michael Hall?), and his police boss woman is sooo beautiful, thinks me. She is so familiar from somewhere but I can't figure out the exact series.
Anyway, even as much as they try to make the main character likeable, it's pretty hard to like a psychopath. After the first episode, I wouldn't have kept watching unless I wouldn't have already dropped the five first episodes. Thankfully the series got better after a few episodes. At first it looked like it was going to be a justified-murder-of-the-week with a weak ub plot (think "Jack" plot in Profiler), but now I almost like the series. It's pretty fun when the main guy, being a psychopath without an access to emotions, keeps missing the point when people are talking with finer nuances.
As a material for fan fiction, this series would be impossible. The story telling tells all, without chances for the reader to really make the story her own. Also it would be pretty hard to write slash or any kind of relationshippy stuff for a character who is pathologically unable to feel emotions.
NCIS
Talking about crime scene investigators... I started with the first season of NCIS and frankly, I was disapointed. We have forgettable woman investigator! Stereotypical lab engineer! One-dimensional good-looking guy! And Mark Harmon, who makes boats with his hands! Look, he is quirky, like Grissom! Yeah, sure.
CSI first season
Still keeping it at crime scenes, I started to watch the first season of the original CSI. The are so young and wholesome! It's interesting to watch the first episodes; For example, It's not Greg and Nick who are frist shown talking shit, it's Greg and Grissom. The only irksome thing in the series at the moment is that in the European DVD box, the opening music is changed to some cheap low-grade do-it-yourself tune. At least they show the original opening credits music in television, unlike in House M.D, where even that has been changed.
Heroes
What if there really would be people with super power among us? This is a premise that offers nothing new, but it's made freshly and interesting way. I love this show, but I seriously suggest that these episodes should be viewed as many at once as you possibly can. This series lays heavily on experiencing flow, and watching only one episode at a time? Not going to happen. Almost all the characters are interesting and likable (I like most of the senator dude with the most ridiculous ability to fly) I love even the supporting characters since they are also multi dimensional. And who wouldn't love the Japanise nerd guy who isn't the traditional "let's put glasses on him and call him a nerd"-nerd of Hollywood style.
Hmm, what else? Of course there are Supernatural and Torchwood, but there isn't much to say about them right now. Except, unconditional love, right?
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Date: 2006-11-20 07:10 pm (UTC)Some people just complain for the sake of complaining. They are not happy until they have found at least something wrong with the thing they are supposed to be fans about. I understand if you try a show and then comment that it wasn't for your tastes and this and this was a bit off, but to go to a Torchwood board or community week after week and declare how the show once again managed to suck balls and declare how the writers suck, actors are terrible, characters all wrong and Small things was too much like Doctor Who (I'm still genuinely baffled by that one, how is it a bad thing if a spin-off resembles the original show). And if somebody disagrees or points out that they interpreted something wrong, they start a wankfest so they don't have to admit thay they might be just a tiny bit wrong about something.
And all this about a show that is still finding its legs. Even Babylon 5 was bad at this point.
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Date: 2006-11-20 07:15 pm (UTC)Bitching and whining for the sake of bitching and whining is annoying. You're absolutely right there; hating the show is one thing. Being a jerk is another. And yeah, why shoudn't a spinoff have tie ins to the original? In my humble opinion, Small Things was an excellent episode because they went beyond the new 'must be adult and have lots of controversial sexual innuendo' and actually told a story... where the adult thing came from the drama and the very difficult decision Jack made at the end... And see me rant now...
Damn it! Now I want to sit down for a week or so and watch Babylon 5 again. ;)