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First, because I know at least a few people are watching Stargate Universe:
Okay, I saw "Light" and thought, "Wow! This show could yet shape up and be something!" It wasn't there yet, but I cared about the characters, I got to see cool things, and it had some great scenes. I could see possibilities for character growth, I got to see sides of Camile and Greer I hadn't seen before, and Rush turned out to be halfway decent when not suffering from caffeine withdrawal.
Not so "Water." Here's what I liked:
Eli made an anti-grav sled using kinos!
Eli admitted he'd made it as part of his ongoing efforts to fly!
Eli refused to be cowed by Rush!
See a problem even in what I liked? Yep, the only thing worth watching for me was the Eli the Math Guy show last night (yes, I know it aired Friday, but that's what TiVo is for).
Here's what I didn't like:
All that screen time, and I still have little clue what TJ is thinking, what motivates her, anything. (Who was it who ran a poll where one of the choices for the female characters on SGU was "No, seriously: who does your makeup?" I turned to Brilliant Husband during a Serious Scene with TJ and said, "No, seriously: who does her makeup?") I really want to like TJ. BH already does. I'm not there yet, and I'm starting to lose hope. The only thing I liked about her was when she told Greer honestly that she didn't trust him (and he respected that, too).
BH said it for me: he gnashed his teeth when Young said, "You'll do fine" to TJ. Remember "No uncoded messages on an open channel"?! (That's Wrath of Khan.) How does it sound to everyone else that the senior officer leaving the ship tells the one he has just put in charge that she'll do "fine"? That suggests that she needs reassurance, or that everyone else does.
I was more angry, though, that Young went to the planet. He's the senior officer, and, last I knew, he was ready to die on the ship because he'd been injured. Srsly, he's the one going out to haul ice? Why not choose someone younger, stronger, and healthy?
I don't care about Scott. He turned off his radio to kiss Chloe (and might have gone further if James hadn't found them). Wasn't James the one in the broom closet with him? I like James better than him already. He seems to make the same mistake over and over.
What's with Rush telling Eli to grow up? Is he jealous because Eli seems to be the one doing everything? (and occasionally others). It's not Rush who did the calculations; it's Eli ("No, I'm the one who pulled the numbers out of my ass.") It's not Rush who invented the antigrav sled; it's Eli. It's not Rush who invented the torch gun; it's Greer. ("You're not the only one who can invent things." Go Greer! Okay, I guess I had one other favorite moment.) Did Rush do a single useful thing all episode?
I want to bang the writers' heads together. Yes, it's a familiar feeling.
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sg_betty, but I really get a strong BSG vibe. The visuals strike me as very BSG, especially shots of the ship. BH could get all technical about how (and did, but I forgot what he said), but I just keep going, "Isn't that a Galactica shot?" Only I was never that fond of BSG. (I want 4 1/2 years of my life back—yeah, I skipped half a year, but I didn't have the sense to stay gone.) Characters who don't learn from their mistakes may be more realistic than those who do, but I don't want to watch them.
And characters who sit around thinking but don't actually get anywhere, just get lucky, impress me even less. I'm talking about you, Col. Young. Did it never occur to you to try to make some kind of pulley with the rope? I mean, you've got huge blocks of ice there; do the words "mechanical advantage" ring a bell?
Eli is still learning—nobody told him wormholes only stay open for 38 minutes? Seriously, who left that out of the briefing video? The more I see Chloe with Scott, the less hope I have for her. I'm intrigued by Greer and Camile, but I keep waiting for more.
Enough complaining for now—at least about SGU.
Is anyone else watching Eastwick?
Okay, I liked it a lot for a bit. For one, maybe two weeks, I even thought, "Maybe this could be my show!" I love that it focuses on female friendship: the show is about the women, and mostly it's not about competition or backstabbing, it's about women learning to be friends with people they didn't like before. The women have other relationships, but they love each other. I love that.
I love the show's literate moments: quoting Shakespeare, quoting the Bible. I love Paul Gross and Rebecca Romijn. I like Jamie Ray Newman and Lindsay Price. I really like Matt Dallas (Chad).
See a problem yet?
They freaking killed Chad! How could they? Why would they? Tell me it's all a mistake! Chad's not really dead; he has gone to the hospital, and the funeral we saw in the psychic visions (and maybe the previews for next week) isn't his. Please, tell me!
Except that I know why they did it. Chad and Roxie were working out. They were lovable, and they loved each other, and they weren't going to leave each other, even after fights. Chad had to die so that Darryl could get a chance at Roxie. I'd been thinking, "Gee, I've seen scenes with those two in early previews that I still haven't seen, and I'd think her boyfriend would preclude some of those," but I decided they'd probably been cut as the show developed. Stupid, stupid me. Of course writers might resort to a cheap trick like killing off Roxie's love to drive her into the arms of the devil!
Because they're the same writers who make Joanna an idiot on a regular basis and made Will pretty freaking dim too. They're the same writers who abandoned their literary allusions to give us a moon that looked three times its normal size for a pseudo-scientific reason that was so stupid I wish Darryl had just called it "Eastwood magic." They're the same writers who gave us a town full of people going nuts for those pseudo-scientific reasons and yet had only Roxie and Chad arrested for public indecency, and Mia and Josh for being part of a crowd of dozens who were t.p.'ing the school. That entire episode was stupid.
So why wouldn't they do something stupid like killing off a character about whom I cared to hurt a character about whom I cared even more so that she'd do something really, phenomenally stupid?
I'm not quitting yet and will probably regret it, but I do want to see a little more of what happens. And I'm really, really hoping it's all a cheap stunt with Chad and he's fine and now he and Roxie will make up and be closer than others.
Yes, I'm delusional. That's why I'm still watching SGU, too, isn't it?
Okay, I saw "Light" and thought, "Wow! This show could yet shape up and be something!" It wasn't there yet, but I cared about the characters, I got to see cool things, and it had some great scenes. I could see possibilities for character growth, I got to see sides of Camile and Greer I hadn't seen before, and Rush turned out to be halfway decent when not suffering from caffeine withdrawal.
Not so "Water." Here's what I liked:
Eli made an anti-grav sled using kinos!
Eli admitted he'd made it as part of his ongoing efforts to fly!
Eli refused to be cowed by Rush!
See a problem even in what I liked? Yep, the only thing worth watching for me was the Eli the Math Guy show last night (yes, I know it aired Friday, but that's what TiVo is for).
Here's what I didn't like:
All that screen time, and I still have little clue what TJ is thinking, what motivates her, anything. (Who was it who ran a poll where one of the choices for the female characters on SGU was "No, seriously: who does your makeup?" I turned to Brilliant Husband during a Serious Scene with TJ and said, "No, seriously: who does her makeup?") I really want to like TJ. BH already does. I'm not there yet, and I'm starting to lose hope. The only thing I liked about her was when she told Greer honestly that she didn't trust him (and he respected that, too).
BH said it for me: he gnashed his teeth when Young said, "You'll do fine" to TJ. Remember "No uncoded messages on an open channel"?! (That's Wrath of Khan.) How does it sound to everyone else that the senior officer leaving the ship tells the one he has just put in charge that she'll do "fine"? That suggests that she needs reassurance, or that everyone else does.
I was more angry, though, that Young went to the planet. He's the senior officer, and, last I knew, he was ready to die on the ship because he'd been injured. Srsly, he's the one going out to haul ice? Why not choose someone younger, stronger, and healthy?
I don't care about Scott. He turned off his radio to kiss Chloe (and might have gone further if James hadn't found them). Wasn't James the one in the broom closet with him? I like James better than him already. He seems to make the same mistake over and over.
What's with Rush telling Eli to grow up? Is he jealous because Eli seems to be the one doing everything? (and occasionally others). It's not Rush who did the calculations; it's Eli ("No, I'm the one who pulled the numbers out of my ass.") It's not Rush who invented the antigrav sled; it's Eli. It's not Rush who invented the torch gun; it's Greer. ("You're not the only one who can invent things." Go Greer! Okay, I guess I had one other favorite moment.) Did Rush do a single useful thing all episode?
I want to bang the writers' heads together. Yes, it's a familiar feeling.
And golly, I know you disagree with me,
sg_betty, but I really get a strong BSG vibe. The visuals strike me as very BSG, especially shots of the ship. BH could get all technical about how (and did, but I forgot what he said), but I just keep going, "Isn't that a Galactica shot?" Only I was never that fond of BSG. (I want 4 1/2 years of my life back—yeah, I skipped half a year, but I didn't have the sense to stay gone.) Characters who don't learn from their mistakes may be more realistic than those who do, but I don't want to watch them. And characters who sit around thinking but don't actually get anywhere, just get lucky, impress me even less. I'm talking about you, Col. Young. Did it never occur to you to try to make some kind of pulley with the rope? I mean, you've got huge blocks of ice there; do the words "mechanical advantage" ring a bell?
Eli is still learning—nobody told him wormholes only stay open for 38 minutes? Seriously, who left that out of the briefing video? The more I see Chloe with Scott, the less hope I have for her. I'm intrigued by Greer and Camile, but I keep waiting for more.
Enough complaining for now—at least about SGU.
Is anyone else watching Eastwick?
Okay, I liked it a lot for a bit. For one, maybe two weeks, I even thought, "Maybe this could be my show!" I love that it focuses on female friendship: the show is about the women, and mostly it's not about competition or backstabbing, it's about women learning to be friends with people they didn't like before. The women have other relationships, but they love each other. I love that.
I love the show's literate moments: quoting Shakespeare, quoting the Bible. I love Paul Gross and Rebecca Romijn. I like Jamie Ray Newman and Lindsay Price. I really like Matt Dallas (Chad).
See a problem yet?
They freaking killed Chad! How could they? Why would they? Tell me it's all a mistake! Chad's not really dead; he has gone to the hospital, and the funeral we saw in the psychic visions (and maybe the previews for next week) isn't his. Please, tell me!
Except that I know why they did it. Chad and Roxie were working out. They were lovable, and they loved each other, and they weren't going to leave each other, even after fights. Chad had to die so that Darryl could get a chance at Roxie. I'd been thinking, "Gee, I've seen scenes with those two in early previews that I still haven't seen, and I'd think her boyfriend would preclude some of those," but I decided they'd probably been cut as the show developed. Stupid, stupid me. Of course writers might resort to a cheap trick like killing off Roxie's love to drive her into the arms of the devil!
Because they're the same writers who make Joanna an idiot on a regular basis and made Will pretty freaking dim too. They're the same writers who abandoned their literary allusions to give us a moon that looked three times its normal size for a pseudo-scientific reason that was so stupid I wish Darryl had just called it "Eastwood magic." They're the same writers who gave us a town full of people going nuts for those pseudo-scientific reasons and yet had only Roxie and Chad arrested for public indecency, and Mia and Josh for being part of a crowd of dozens who were t.p.'ing the school. That entire episode was stupid.
So why wouldn't they do something stupid like killing off a character about whom I cared to hurt a character about whom I cared even more so that she'd do something really, phenomenally stupid?
I'm not quitting yet and will probably regret it, but I do want to see a little more of what happens. And I'm really, really hoping it's all a cheap stunt with Chad and he's fine and now he and Roxie will make up and be closer than others.
Yes, I'm delusional. That's why I'm still watching SGU, too, isn't it?
