tv: Blood Ties
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timepiececlockI just caught 3/4ths of a show called Blood Ties on Lifetime. It's rare that I can snag the only tv with cable in time to watch any show at all, but I'll probably be watching this one again next Sunday. I only saw 45 minutes of it, but I was better hooked by that than by 3 episodes of The Dresden Files. Though to be fair, when I get back to my own computer in two months I'll catch up on DF too.
Blood Ties didn't blow me away, but it interested me. I remember browsing the book covers in the library, but I never actually read the novels. I flipped by tonight, saw the hot guy with high cheek bones and red-orange lighting, and I thought "He looks like a vampire." Sure enough, not 10 minutes later someone calls him one. Weirdly, imdb.com says that the actor is 22. Which means I'm older than him by 4 months. Um... right. Sure. The actor looks about 26. Though that could just be the camera (and hell, three people this week have told me that I look like I'm in high school. Five people in the last two weeks combined; one waitress looked at my ID and literally said "Oh wow!)
I like the female lead character, Vicki, as well. She doesn't annoy me. Since many female characters on tv, especially in supernatural or action-based shows, get annoying stereotypical habits, not annoying me and actually making me like her in 4 minutes is a very good thing. The female cop on The Dresden Files bores me to death. Vicki on Blood Ties, so far, vaguely reminds me of Scully. Very... straight-to-business and efficient. Many of the reviews I just read tonight said the show evoked some of the Buffy vibe. It actually felt more like CSI, to me. Kind of procedural. This lead character isn't as original a character as Buffy Summers and the vampire Henry isn't as exotic and fucked-up-adorable as Spike, but he's definitely sexy. Unfortunately, being a dark-haired sexy mysterious vampire isn't terribly original.
I think on the thing that I so loved about Spike as a vampire character (as opposed to just being a standard male character) was that he was not the dark and mysterious one. He wasn't Angel, or Lestat, or anything. He was annoying and -----
-----oooh, one of my teammates just came by the computer, set a bowl of cut fresh pineapple in front of me, and said "Happy spring break." I have the best NCCC team!----
---and he was exotic vampire handsome but he was also totally a guy. With annoying real-guy habits like tv show addictions, a preference for large black boots, and personal opinions on food. As dating choices go, instead of being "forbidden and out of reach" he was merely "risky and unwise." BTVS made its monsters real not just through the angst, romance, and tragedy they experienced, but through the small details that made them seem more like people than figures of a video game profile.
I don't expect every sci-fi show to do that. But, you know, it'd be nice. Nice for the same reason that Bilbo was a more entertaining protagonist than Frodo.
Blood Ties didn't blow me away, but it interested me. I remember browsing the book covers in the library, but I never actually read the novels. I flipped by tonight, saw the hot guy with high cheek bones and red-orange lighting, and I thought "He looks like a vampire." Sure enough, not 10 minutes later someone calls him one. Weirdly, imdb.com says that the actor is 22. Which means I'm older than him by 4 months. Um... right. Sure. The actor looks about 26. Though that could just be the camera (and hell, three people this week have told me that I look like I'm in high school. Five people in the last two weeks combined; one waitress looked at my ID and literally said "Oh wow!)
I like the female lead character, Vicki, as well. She doesn't annoy me. Since many female characters on tv, especially in supernatural or action-based shows, get annoying stereotypical habits, not annoying me and actually making me like her in 4 minutes is a very good thing. The female cop on The Dresden Files bores me to death. Vicki on Blood Ties, so far, vaguely reminds me of Scully. Very... straight-to-business and efficient. Many of the reviews I just read tonight said the show evoked some of the Buffy vibe. It actually felt more like CSI, to me. Kind of procedural. This lead character isn't as original a character as Buffy Summers and the vampire Henry isn't as exotic and fucked-up-adorable as Spike, but he's definitely sexy. Unfortunately, being a dark-haired sexy mysterious vampire isn't terribly original.
I think on the thing that I so loved about Spike as a vampire character (as opposed to just being a standard male character) was that he was not the dark and mysterious one. He wasn't Angel, or Lestat, or anything. He was annoying and -----
-----oooh, one of my teammates just came by the computer, set a bowl of cut fresh pineapple in front of me, and said "Happy spring break." I have the best NCCC team!----
---and he was exotic vampire handsome but he was also totally a guy. With annoying real-guy habits like tv show addictions, a preference for large black boots, and personal opinions on food. As dating choices go, instead of being "forbidden and out of reach" he was merely "risky and unwise." BTVS made its monsters real not just through the angst, romance, and tragedy they experienced, but through the small details that made them seem more like people than figures of a video game profile.
I don't expect every sci-fi show to do that. But, you know, it'd be nice. Nice for the same reason that Bilbo was a more entertaining protagonist than Frodo.
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Date: 2007-04-03 04:11 am (UTC)today in English class my professor compared the fact that Night resides in Hell, which is basically the basement of the House of Pride in Book 1 of The Faerie Queene, to the witch who apparently lives in the basement of Passions.
I'm sure the guy sitting next to me wondered why I sat and snickered to myself for the next few minutes.