Nip/Tuck and Supernatural
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timepiececlockNip/Tuck
I've been watching the last few weeks of Nip/Tuck. Because my roommate is into it. Another roommate has also gotten sucked into it recently.
Let me just say that this is the most fucked up show that I've ever sat through more than five episodes of. Bless basic cable.
Let me also say "OH FUCKING SHIT THAT'S SO WRONG!" and "I KNEW IT!" and "They [Christian and Sean] will be sleeping together within two seasons."
Although, at the point at the end when Sean got out the knife to cut himself, I started giggling. I told my roommates, amongst my giggling, "Wow, this is almost Greek."
The levels of sordidness, passive and active violence, and incestuous tones in this group of people is practically absurd. I had to giggle once Sean held up the knife. Cause at this point it was getting funny. And Greek.
There should be a play.
Giggling aside, I'll be watching next week too of course! After all, a show with this many OMG!s is hard to turn away from. (Though I actually physically looked away on two occasions in this episode.) I watched the very early episodes when it first aired, but was turned off. I think watching with friends makes it more fun/easier to watch somehow.
Supernatural
I've been watching this show off-and-on too, though the entertainment factor has been significantly less than N/T. For one thing, I don't particularly like either character. And there's the fact that I don't think tney're "driving around randomly fighting ghost crime while searching for Daddy" is being very plausibly carried out. And there's the fact that it's not particularly scary or inventive or clever.
If it's not scary, it's not inventive, it's not clever, and I don't like the characters, why am I watching a cheap X-Files/Buffy rip-off anyway? Dunno. Because it's on and I'm easy when it comes to sci-fi/fantasy television.
Another thing I don't like: the fact that this "demons and bad spirits exist" premise isn't good enough for me anymore. I want the X Files, where you aren't told ahead of time that they exist, but instead are constantly chasing the mystery to validate their existence, because there could always be a scientific explanation if you look hard enough, but at the same time you're always asking yourself DO YOU BELIEVE? -- Or there's the Buffy/Angel premise, where demons and ghosts do exist, yeah, but something else exists that has a job to kill them, and that girl's existence is just as crazy and magical and demonic in origin.
I like my ghost/demon plot set-ups to come with a twist. "They're out there we are weak humans who such" isn't good enough. I've read a hundred books and watched a hundred movies about that and it's so old.
Also, turn a fucking light on. It's not THAT dark ALL the time. Sheesh. The world is not gray. The world is only gray at times. Take an art class. Walk outside. The world is not gray and it's boring to look at a show with a constant blue/grey/pink filter.
But about tonight's episode: for the first three quarters it was actually kind of creepy. Which surprised me, and I think only worked because I'd half-played Bloody Mary myself as a child.
But around the climactic battle in the third act, before the scene even started I was picking holes in the brother's plan. Seriously, there were holes. And I was explaining them to my roommates because dude, if I were there I wouldn't be that fucking stupid. And I don't even chase demons on a regular basis like these two clowns.
After the thing going wrong that I predicted did go wrong, my roommates told me I was right and I should be a demon hunter for a living. I think I'd be a bit of a Wesley in the beginning, but I'd like to think I'd make an okay demon-hunter after I learned to use a crossbow and stuff.
I've been watching the last few weeks of Nip/Tuck. Because my roommate is into it. Another roommate has also gotten sucked into it recently.
Let me just say that this is the most fucked up show that I've ever sat through more than five episodes of. Bless basic cable.
Let me also say "OH FUCKING SHIT THAT'S SO WRONG!" and "I KNEW IT!" and "They [Christian and Sean] will be sleeping together within two seasons."
Although, at the point at the end when Sean got out the knife to cut himself, I started giggling. I told my roommates, amongst my giggling, "Wow, this is almost Greek."
The levels of sordidness, passive and active violence, and incestuous tones in this group of people is practically absurd. I had to giggle once Sean held up the knife. Cause at this point it was getting funny. And Greek.
There should be a play.
Giggling aside, I'll be watching next week too of course! After all, a show with this many OMG!s is hard to turn away from. (Though I actually physically looked away on two occasions in this episode.) I watched the very early episodes when it first aired, but was turned off. I think watching with friends makes it more fun/easier to watch somehow.
Supernatural
I've been watching this show off-and-on too, though the entertainment factor has been significantly less than N/T. For one thing, I don't particularly like either character. And there's the fact that I don't think tney're "driving around randomly fighting ghost crime while searching for Daddy" is being very plausibly carried out. And there's the fact that it's not particularly scary or inventive or clever.
If it's not scary, it's not inventive, it's not clever, and I don't like the characters, why am I watching a cheap X-Files/Buffy rip-off anyway? Dunno. Because it's on and I'm easy when it comes to sci-fi/fantasy television.
Another thing I don't like: the fact that this "demons and bad spirits exist" premise isn't good enough for me anymore. I want the X Files, where you aren't told ahead of time that they exist, but instead are constantly chasing the mystery to validate their existence, because there could always be a scientific explanation if you look hard enough, but at the same time you're always asking yourself DO YOU BELIEVE? -- Or there's the Buffy/Angel premise, where demons and ghosts do exist, yeah, but something else exists that has a job to kill them, and that girl's existence is just as crazy and magical and demonic in origin.
I like my ghost/demon plot set-ups to come with a twist. "They're out there we are weak humans who such" isn't good enough. I've read a hundred books and watched a hundred movies about that and it's so old.
Also, turn a fucking light on. It's not THAT dark ALL the time. Sheesh. The world is not gray. The world is only gray at times. Take an art class. Walk outside. The world is not gray and it's boring to look at a show with a constant blue/grey/pink filter.
But about tonight's episode: for the first three quarters it was actually kind of creepy. Which surprised me, and I think only worked because I'd half-played Bloody Mary myself as a child.
But around the climactic battle in the third act, before the scene even started I was picking holes in the brother's plan. Seriously, there were holes. And I was explaining them to my roommates because dude, if I were there I wouldn't be that fucking stupid. And I don't even chase demons on a regular basis like these two clowns.
After the thing going wrong that I predicted did go wrong, my roommates told me I was right and I should be a demon hunter for a living. I think I'd be a bit of a Wesley in the beginning, but I'd like to think I'd make an okay demon-hunter after I learned to use a crossbow and stuff.
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Re: Addendum.
Date: 2005-10-12 07:34 am (UTC)It's not even so much about the medical aspect than House verbally assaulting everyone (especially his patients) around him, and still managing to remain an endearing person. I've been gobsmacked plenty at stuff he's said, but I'm with him again by the end of the episode.
I like all of the characters on the show, except for Cameron. Talk about a complete waste of fucking space. I hate her. Hate hate HATE HATE. ::takes in a deep breath:: Yeah.
Either way, wouldn't hurt to DL the first few episodes. I don't recall any eps that fell flat with me early on. Maybe two in the whole first season. And I was extremely disappointed with the last one they aired before the show went on hiatus for baseball's post-season (season two, episode three).