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ghanimasun) wrote2011-09-13 12:07 am
ghanimasun) wrote2011-09-13 12:07 am
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i have feelings about tv
Since I rarely seem to actually update to write about tv show reactions (even though this journal is mostly fandom oriented these days), I figure I might as well try it now. Major spoilers for all of Torchwood Miracle Day, Doctor Who - The Girl Who Waited and True Blood - whatever the fuck the last episode of season four is called.
Torchwood. Not even going to pretend I loved this season/Miracle Day. Torchwood was never big on logic or continuity and MD keeps that tradition alive. Now that the season's over, it feels like so much of the 10 episodes were a complete waste of time, because most of it really went nowhere and added nothing to the plot at all.
And in the other Torchwood tradition, everyone got killed! Except for Gwen (and anyone related to Gwen--except her dad)! Of course, Vera and Esther were the only good/main characters whose deaths were permanent. (They even killed most of the awesome guest stars: Kira, Q and Newman!)
A small part of me wondered if they would kill off Jack for good, but they didn't, and I'm glad. But that's really just because I want to see him on Doctor Who again (so many awesome things he could do on there. Hell they could just have Jack ride along and give amusing commentary and his thoughts on things and it would improve some of the recent episodes imo).
And then they decided to completely nonsensically make Rex heal from the bullet wound at the end, leaving everyone (where everyone is Jack and Gwen) completely confused as fuck. Annnnnd.....then it's over. Jack and Gwen's reaction faces are so perfect I stole this cap to share.
Cap stolen from afterelton. If you have not already, check out all their recaps by Heather Hogan for Miracle Day. (finale recap is brilliant)
I never loved Gwen when the first two seasons aired. I disliked her sometimes, and other times I didn't have a strong opinion either way. I've decided I like her now though. I like her well, for one thing, because Eve Myles is gorgeous and I do like to watch her act. Also because Gwen is so deeply flawed and fucked up, and that's interesting. She's made a lot of stupid mistakes, and done some shitty things, but she still keeps trying (which is mostly just because she'll probably never get killed off). I liked it when she admitted to Jack that she hated a lot of what Torchwood did to her life, but at the same time she loved it, in her very selfish egotistical way.
And I've always liked Jack, but I've not really loved loved John Barrowman too much. He really did it for me in this series though. I thought he had some wonderful acting moments. And I am now even more of a Barrowman fan than I had been before.
Really though I don't think I can take Torchwood too seriously. This season tried to be serious, but there were just so many flaws in the storytelling that it was hard to become too invested in the plot. Mostly I just care about Jack (even though he is basically the most tortured tv character ever? Seriously, give the guy a break already!) because he is gorgeous and a mess. I wouldn't be too broken up if there were no more Torchwood to be honest. Because the storytelling is not really worth it, and given that they kill every other character besides Gwen, it's hard to become invested in any new characters. So I just will keep on hoping they give us some Jack on Doctor Who soon.
Doctor Who. I dont think I've talked about it much lately. I'm one of the people that does not really care for Moffat's run of DW so far. I don't hate it, but I don't feel as connected to it or as invested in it as I did the previous seasons of new Who. This latest episode was at least more interesting than the previous episode (which I think was called Night Terrors? I don't even remember.) I even liked parts of it. I just find this season to be very confusion emotionally. Because there are a lot of characters lying to each other or just not expressing how they feel about things. And I'm still so very confused about the baby thing: I'm confused why Amy and Rory seem to be totally disinterested in finding their infant baby that was stolen from them! Yes, I know there are many supposed explanations for this, but I don't find any of them satisfying and I don't think the show has explained any of them enough for them to make sense to me. I don't really understand why Amy and Rory will want to stay with the Doctor after The Girl Who Waited. The Doctor has really fucked up their lives and he seems very distant from them to me. I like watching 11 because I do think Matt Smith is attractive and he is a good actor, but I also think 11 is a bastard who is selfish, manipulative and really just a jerk to Amy and Rory.
I will continue to watch Doctor Who, even though it sounds like I dislike nearly everything about it lately. And I will continue to have hope that I like it, while I remain my pemisstic old self.
True Blood. This show is ridiculous. I don't know how else to explain it properly. Luckily I'm not very invested in it; although I sort of don't understand how one could get too invetsed in it, given how RIDICULOUS it is. Anyway about the season four finale. It pissed me off. Not the plots necessarily, because they are always nonsense and stupid and silly. But all the frakking character deaths. Well not all of them. But Jesus. They killed Jesus. I cannot explain why this upset me so much. It just pissed me off and upset me so much. (I was more upset about him dying than about Esther dying in the last episode of Torchwood even!) The show made Jesus seem slightly sketchy last season and this season they sort of explained it and I was able to not be so suspicious of him. (Plus I he was getting hotter and hotter as the show went on, I thought). And then show basically showed him to be legit though, not some evil dude who was using Lafayette for his own means. And then he essentially sacrificed himself to save Lafayette, or in the hope that someone would help Layfette get rid of Marnie's possession. I kept hoping and hoping that there would be some way to save him, since they were going on about how it was Halloween and the walls between the realms were weakened (or some shit like that, I didn't pay terribly close attention to the details).
So then after Lafayette is saved, he's traumatized by what happened. Obviously. (Thank god the spirit/ghost of Jesus was not evil and was nice to him at least.) AND THEN. AND THEN. Tara, who I'm not gonna lie, was one of my favorite characters. GETS SHOT IN THE FRAKKING HEAD. Trying to save Sookie's life! Are. you. kidding. me.
I don't hate Sookie. I also don't like her too much. And not to go on about it, on this one topic, but she's been a shitty, shitty friend to Tara. And yet Tara tries to push Sookie away from being shot and ends up taking the bullet instead. Oh Tara. (I've already seen people talk about the possiblity that Tara could be saved by vamp blood, which is reasonable I guess. Although she was shot in the head I don't know if vampire blood can save someone from that level of injury or not).
So good job True Blood, on killing off two minority characters and making sure that Lafyette is completely victimized and traumatized.
Some other stuff happened too, but it was the usual True Blood crackiness and I don't really feel compelled or interested in commenting on it.
Wait I take that back, I have a few comments about True Blood, and they illustrate how deep and compelling I find the show:
I don't think Alcide is attractive. At all. He's too giant and muscley and lumberjack-like to be appealing to me at all. And I've started finding Jason attractive which is something I hadn't done before.
But alas, these deep TB thoughts will have to simmer over many months since the show is over for the season.
Torchwood. Not even going to pretend I loved this season/Miracle Day. Torchwood was never big on logic or continuity and MD keeps that tradition alive. Now that the season's over, it feels like so much of the 10 episodes were a complete waste of time, because most of it really went nowhere and added nothing to the plot at all.
And in the other Torchwood tradition, everyone got killed! Except for Gwen (and anyone related to Gwen--except her dad)! Of course, Vera and Esther were the only good/main characters whose deaths were permanent. (They even killed most of the awesome guest stars: Kira, Q and Newman!)
A small part of me wondered if they would kill off Jack for good, but they didn't, and I'm glad. But that's really just because I want to see him on Doctor Who again (so many awesome things he could do on there. Hell they could just have Jack ride along and give amusing commentary and his thoughts on things and it would improve some of the recent episodes imo).
And then they decided to completely nonsensically make Rex heal from the bullet wound at the end, leaving everyone (where everyone is Jack and Gwen) completely confused as fuck. Annnnnd.....then it's over. Jack and Gwen's reaction faces are so perfect I stole this cap to share.
Cap stolen from afterelton. If you have not already, check out all their recaps by Heather Hogan for Miracle Day. (finale recap is brilliant)
I never loved Gwen when the first two seasons aired. I disliked her sometimes, and other times I didn't have a strong opinion either way. I've decided I like her now though. I like her well, for one thing, because Eve Myles is gorgeous and I do like to watch her act. Also because Gwen is so deeply flawed and fucked up, and that's interesting. She's made a lot of stupid mistakes, and done some shitty things, but she still keeps trying (which is mostly just because she'll probably never get killed off). I liked it when she admitted to Jack that she hated a lot of what Torchwood did to her life, but at the same time she loved it, in her very selfish egotistical way.
And I've always liked Jack, but I've not really loved loved John Barrowman too much. He really did it for me in this series though. I thought he had some wonderful acting moments. And I am now even more of a Barrowman fan than I had been before.
Really though I don't think I can take Torchwood too seriously. This season tried to be serious, but there were just so many flaws in the storytelling that it was hard to become too invested in the plot. Mostly I just care about Jack (even though he is basically the most tortured tv character ever? Seriously, give the guy a break already!) because he is gorgeous and a mess. I wouldn't be too broken up if there were no more Torchwood to be honest. Because the storytelling is not really worth it, and given that they kill every other character besides Gwen, it's hard to become invested in any new characters. So I just will keep on hoping they give us some Jack on Doctor Who soon.
Doctor Who. I dont think I've talked about it much lately. I'm one of the people that does not really care for Moffat's run of DW so far. I don't hate it, but I don't feel as connected to it or as invested in it as I did the previous seasons of new Who. This latest episode was at least more interesting than the previous episode (which I think was called Night Terrors? I don't even remember.) I even liked parts of it. I just find this season to be very confusion emotionally. Because there are a lot of characters lying to each other or just not expressing how they feel about things. And I'm still so very confused about the baby thing: I'm confused why Amy and Rory seem to be totally disinterested in finding their infant baby that was stolen from them! Yes, I know there are many supposed explanations for this, but I don't find any of them satisfying and I don't think the show has explained any of them enough for them to make sense to me. I don't really understand why Amy and Rory will want to stay with the Doctor after The Girl Who Waited. The Doctor has really fucked up their lives and he seems very distant from them to me. I like watching 11 because I do think Matt Smith is attractive and he is a good actor, but I also think 11 is a bastard who is selfish, manipulative and really just a jerk to Amy and Rory.
I will continue to watch Doctor Who, even though it sounds like I dislike nearly everything about it lately. And I will continue to have hope that I like it, while I remain my pemisstic old self.
True Blood. This show is ridiculous. I don't know how else to explain it properly. Luckily I'm not very invested in it; although I sort of don't understand how one could get too invetsed in it, given how RIDICULOUS it is. Anyway about the season four finale. It pissed me off. Not the plots necessarily, because they are always nonsense and stupid and silly. But all the frakking character deaths. Well not all of them. But Jesus. They killed Jesus. I cannot explain why this upset me so much. It just pissed me off and upset me so much. (I was more upset about him dying than about Esther dying in the last episode of Torchwood even!) The show made Jesus seem slightly sketchy last season and this season they sort of explained it and I was able to not be so suspicious of him. (Plus I he was getting hotter and hotter as the show went on, I thought). And then show basically showed him to be legit though, not some evil dude who was using Lafayette for his own means. And then he essentially sacrificed himself to save Lafayette, or in the hope that someone would help Layfette get rid of Marnie's possession. I kept hoping and hoping that there would be some way to save him, since they were going on about how it was Halloween and the walls between the realms were weakened (or some shit like that, I didn't pay terribly close attention to the details).
So then after Lafayette is saved, he's traumatized by what happened. Obviously. (Thank god the spirit/ghost of Jesus was not evil and was nice to him at least.) AND THEN. AND THEN. Tara, who I'm not gonna lie, was one of my favorite characters. GETS SHOT IN THE FRAKKING HEAD. Trying to save Sookie's life! Are. you. kidding. me.
I don't hate Sookie. I also don't like her too much. And not to go on about it, on this one topic, but she's been a shitty, shitty friend to Tara. And yet Tara tries to push Sookie away from being shot and ends up taking the bullet instead. Oh Tara. (I've already seen people talk about the possiblity that Tara could be saved by vamp blood, which is reasonable I guess. Although she was shot in the head I don't know if vampire blood can save someone from that level of injury or not).
So good job True Blood, on killing off two minority characters and making sure that Lafyette is completely victimized and traumatized.
Some other stuff happened too, but it was the usual True Blood crackiness and I don't really feel compelled or interested in commenting on it.
Wait I take that back, I have a few comments about True Blood, and they illustrate how deep and compelling I find the show:
I don't think Alcide is attractive. At all. He's too giant and muscley and lumberjack-like to be appealing to me at all. And I've started finding Jason attractive which is something I hadn't done before.
But alas, these deep TB thoughts will have to simmer over many months since the show is over for the season.
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It took forever though! Writing r hard.
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And the way things have been going, my guess is that Tara will come back next season as a zombie. Hey, Arlene said it, zombies are the new vampires. Foreshadowing, right there. Although she was shot in the head, so she'll probably be a super-zombie that can't die by headshots.
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But yeah it's a mess and I'm glad it's done with for the season actually.
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Yeah I am too, it's a relief.
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