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curuchamion) wrote2011-01-15 04:30 pm
curuchamion) wrote2011-01-15 04:30 pm
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Specificity is the soul of wit.
Or something like that. Um... this me having watched Piles Of New Stuff since renewing my Netflix a month ago, and wanting to natter about the stuff people on my flist kept telling me I should see. ;-)
Stargate: Atlantis - I've seen three episodes so far (if you count the pilot as one), and I suspect it will continue to be a "this should be so much better than it is" sort of show. There ought to be more exploring and professionalism and Here Are These Characters Being Awesome, and less of These Are The Stars, Worry Because They Are In Danger. And Dr Weir lost all my respect for her when she decided that blindness to the odds was more important than letting Teyla have the last rites of her religion; she's not even military, there is NO justification for that.
However, if there was a show that was these characters exploring the Pegasus Galaxy with better banter and more common sense (in other words if it was more like SG-1 in the right ways) I'd so watch it.
Mythbusters - It is SKIENCE. And it blows up. *huge grin* ;-)
Firefly - I saw the first episode. I am of two minds about watching the rest. On one hand, the set design and worldbuilding are pretty darn amazing and I should like to see more; on the other hand, the aggressive focus on sexuality as The Most Important Thing about each character makes me cranky. "Here's Kaylee. She's a good engineer and she's gay, and now you have been introduced to Kaylee." "These are Reavers. They rape you to death and they scare Jayne (and have a really ugly ship), and now you know about Reavers." o_O It got to the point where I wondered if they had a quota of gratuitous sexual references they were trying to hit.
The Real McCoys - The best I can say for it is that you can really tell it's based on vaudeville. The pacing and writing are terribly uneven, and there's no characterization whatsoever. Which is a shame, because Walter Brennan is a darn good actor and cute in an old-guy way.
Hamlet (the David Tennant version) - Well, I finally saw it. Then I telephoned my mother and told her it is the best version of Hamlet for characterization and acting. :D I do not wish to be pelted with rotten things, but I am still going to say that David Tennant makes a better Hamlet than he does a Doctor. He was born to play Hamlet. Wow.
(Also? All the casting was better than the Gilligan's Island Hamlet. Which I did not think was possible. WOW.)
The Sarah Jane Adventures - I really like the characters. I'm not in a huge hurry to see the rest of the show, but that's because RTD's hand in the writing and producing is very, very evident, and he annoys me.
Mystery Science Theater 3000 - I guess it just doesn't fit my sense of humor. I prefer mocking bad movies myself with my friends, rather than sitting through other people mocking them.
Psych - Somewhere about halfway through the pilot I went "Okay, THAT is the way to update Holmesian deductions". It is not particularly a show for fen who like the trappings of Holmesiana, but I've always been along for the deductions as much as for the character of Holmes himself, and Psych handles the problems of deducing in a modern world way better than the new Sherlock does. 'Scuse me for saying.
Highlander - Um, does it get any better? I got about halfway through the pilot, which appeared to consist entirely of soft porn, bad Phantom Menace swordfighting, and '80s clothes. (Although I was amused when Connor MacLeod smacked Duncan across the backside with the flat of his sword for showing off in practice. I've been known to do that myself. *g*)
The Middleman - All right, now here is a show I want to watch the rest of RIGHT NOW.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
eponymous_rose has amazingly good taste in telly; that's the third show her squeeing has persuaded me to watch (the others being S&S and Legend), and they've all been unqualified "must devour all canon and fic NOW, why is there not more?" successes. I like the characters, I love the writing - although I doubt I was expected to think it "realistic" as I found myself doing, lol - and I am vastly amused by the discovery that I spent most of 2006 designing Matt Keeslar's face. That's weird.
TL;DR: SGA begins to be boring. Mythbusters is awesome. Firefly is... if I could play in the 'verse without dealing with the characters, I would. The Real McCoys is lame. David Tennant's Hamlet is incredible. Sarah Jane Adventures is probably better on average than New Who. MST3K isn't my style. Psych is a fun show (and besides the pilot had Don S. Davis in it. Hands up, all who miss General Hammond.) Highlander is unwatchable-by-me if the first half of the pilot is a representative sample. And The Middleman is my new flash-in-the-pan fandom. :D
Stargate: Atlantis - I've seen three episodes so far (if you count the pilot as one), and I suspect it will continue to be a "this should be so much better than it is" sort of show. There ought to be more exploring and professionalism and Here Are These Characters Being Awesome, and less of These Are The Stars, Worry Because They Are In Danger. And Dr Weir lost all my respect for her when she decided that blindness to the odds was more important than letting Teyla have the last rites of her religion; she's not even military, there is NO justification for that.
However, if there was a show that was these characters exploring the Pegasus Galaxy with better banter and more common sense (in other words if it was more like SG-1 in the right ways) I'd so watch it.
Mythbusters - It is SKIENCE. And it blows up. *huge grin* ;-)
Firefly - I saw the first episode. I am of two minds about watching the rest. On one hand, the set design and worldbuilding are pretty darn amazing and I should like to see more; on the other hand, the aggressive focus on sexuality as The Most Important Thing about each character makes me cranky. "Here's Kaylee. She's a good engineer and she's gay, and now you have been introduced to Kaylee." "These are Reavers. They rape you to death and they scare Jayne (and have a really ugly ship), and now you know about Reavers." o_O It got to the point where I wondered if they had a quota of gratuitous sexual references they were trying to hit.
The Real McCoys - The best I can say for it is that you can really tell it's based on vaudeville. The pacing and writing are terribly uneven, and there's no characterization whatsoever. Which is a shame, because Walter Brennan is a darn good actor and cute in an old-guy way.
Hamlet (the David Tennant version) - Well, I finally saw it. Then I telephoned my mother and told her it is the best version of Hamlet for characterization and acting. :D I do not wish to be pelted with rotten things, but I am still going to say that David Tennant makes a better Hamlet than he does a Doctor. He was born to play Hamlet. Wow.
(Also? All the casting was better than the Gilligan's Island Hamlet. Which I did not think was possible. WOW.)
The Sarah Jane Adventures - I really like the characters. I'm not in a huge hurry to see the rest of the show, but that's because RTD's hand in the writing and producing is very, very evident, and he annoys me.
Mystery Science Theater 3000 - I guess it just doesn't fit my sense of humor. I prefer mocking bad movies myself with my friends, rather than sitting through other people mocking them.
Psych - Somewhere about halfway through the pilot I went "Okay, THAT is the way to update Holmesian deductions". It is not particularly a show for fen who like the trappings of Holmesiana, but I've always been along for the deductions as much as for the character of Holmes himself, and Psych handles the problems of deducing in a modern world way better than the new Sherlock does. 'Scuse me for saying.
Highlander - Um, does it get any better? I got about halfway through the pilot, which appeared to consist entirely of soft porn, bad Phantom Menace swordfighting, and '80s clothes. (Although I was amused when Connor MacLeod smacked Duncan across the backside with the flat of his sword for showing off in practice. I've been known to do that myself. *g*)
The Middleman - All right, now here is a show I want to watch the rest of RIGHT NOW.
eponymous_rose has amazingly good taste in telly; that's the third show her squeeing has persuaded me to watch (the others being S&S and Legend), and they've all been unqualified "must devour all canon and fic NOW, why is there not more?" successes. I like the characters, I love the writing - although I doubt I was expected to think it "realistic" as I found myself doing, lol - and I am vastly amused by the discovery that I spent most of 2006 designing Matt Keeslar's face. That's weird.TL;DR: SGA begins to be boring. Mythbusters is awesome. Firefly is... if I could play in the 'verse without dealing with the characters, I would. The Real McCoys is lame. David Tennant's Hamlet is incredible. Sarah Jane Adventures is probably better on average than New Who. MST3K isn't my style. Psych is a fun show (and besides the pilot had Don S. Davis in it. Hands up, all who miss General Hammond.) Highlander is unwatchable-by-me if the first half of the pilot is a representative sample. And The Middleman is my new flash-in-the-pan fandom. :D
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Must see:
Season 1: Before I Sleep & Letters from Pegasus (it;s ridiculous that I'm including a clip show in that, but it's a)actually a much better way of catching up with the season! :) b) provides very good feeling for the characters c)got dowright funny bits)
Season 2: Grace Under Pressure, Michael
Season 3: The Real World, Common Ground, McKay and Mrs Miller, The Return, Tao of Rodney, Sunday (spoiler alert! spoiler alert!)
Season 4: Tabula Rasa, Quarantine, The Last Man
Season 5: The Shrine, Vegas
Otherwise good episodes: 38 minutes, Poisoning the Well, Home, The Storm/the Eye, Hot Zone, The Siege, Trinity, Critical Mass, The Long Goodbye, Allies/ No Man's Land/ Misbegotten, Phantoms, Echoes, Trio, Tracker, First Contact/ The Lost Tribe.. I might have missed something good in seasons 4-5, I've only ever seen them once because they were so terrible the first time round I didn't feel like inflicting them on myself for a second time.
SG1 is consistently better (maybe with the exception of season 10 vs. season 3 Atlantis). I don't know how they managed to fail so spectacularly with SGA (haven't bothered with SGU, TBH).
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