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Slave to television
In which I whine a lot, but I also squee a bit . . . .
Hex -- And why I'm still compelled to watch this show, I have no idea. Call it a curiosity, but really you'd think I'd have better things to do with my time. For me, the show's simply not put together well. As![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
bearfacedcheek and I discussed last week, it's almost like the people who make the show don't really know where it's supposed to be going. Worse, they don't seem to know what they really want to do with the characters, either. Exposition and groundwork were supposed to be set down a long time ago, and yet I still get a big 'WTF?' when it comes to the randomness of the plotlines.
I know that this week was supposed to be all tense and shocking, but I missed the boat at the buildup, apparently. Is it just me? Because I definitely don't get the sense of urgency that's supposed to be swirling around the necessary killing of Cassie's child.Mary Sue Leather Girl spouted lines about "the fate of mankind" and "plagues of demons," but I've seen absolutely no evidence to back that up, and certainly nothing that convinces me that it's so urgent to kill the baby. (Were these screenwriters absent on the day their teachers taught "Show, don't tell?") Seriously, there were more Nephelim running around possessing people *before* Cassie had her child. In fact, the rest of humanity seems to be just fine. (And did Roxanne's entire subplot seem utterly pointless to anyone else? Was it just supposed to remind us that other students still exist in this world and that there is some real reason for setting the action at a school after all?)
And this new image of Azazeal as some sort of anti-hero, rather than the cool villain I thought he would be in the very first episode? Bor-ring.
As for Cassie's "death" -- meh. Whatever. It's not like she was really doing anything interesting. Though apparently she forgot that she has the ability to fling Leather Girl's knife across the room just using her mind. This show is just way too inconsistent.
Lost -- Whee! Great episode! I liked the fill-in-the-blanks aspect of it where we got to see what Locke and Kate were doing during last week's episode. Just too bad we didn't get to see beyond the initial confrontation between Jack and Crazy!Desmond. (And Kate's a gal after my own heart! Stumbles onto a room filled with provisions and what does she take? The chocolate!)
Veronica Mars -- Re: the bus. Huh. And here I was, about ready to write this season's big mystery as dull.
Jeez - poor Meg. (Though, the limo thing? Real life, real school, no *way* would that happen. Too much liability.)
I did laugh at how every person that Veronica took pictures of at the beginning - including herself - had a green shirt on. (Not a school shirt, either.) I notice weird things.
Hex -- And why I'm still compelled to watch this show, I have no idea. Call it a curiosity, but really you'd think I'd have better things to do with my time. For me, the show's simply not put together well. As
bearfacedcheek and I discussed last week, it's almost like the people who make the show don't really know where it's supposed to be going. Worse, they don't seem to know what they really want to do with the characters, either. Exposition and groundwork were supposed to be set down a long time ago, and yet I still get a big 'WTF?' when it comes to the randomness of the plotlines.I know that this week was supposed to be all tense and shocking, but I missed the boat at the buildup, apparently. Is it just me? Because I definitely don't get the sense of urgency that's supposed to be swirling around the necessary killing of Cassie's child.
And this new image of Azazeal as some sort of anti-hero, rather than the cool villain I thought he would be in the very first episode? Bor-ring.
As for Cassie's "death" -- meh. Whatever. It's not like she was really doing anything interesting. Though apparently she forgot that she has the ability to fling Leather Girl's knife across the room just using her mind. This show is just way too inconsistent.
Lost -- Whee! Great episode! I liked the fill-in-the-blanks aspect of it where we got to see what Locke and Kate were doing during last week's episode. Just too bad we didn't get to see beyond the initial confrontation between Jack and Crazy!Desmond. (And Kate's a gal after my own heart! Stumbles onto a room filled with provisions and what does she take? The chocolate!)
Veronica Mars -- Re: the bus. Huh. And here I was, about ready to write this season's big mystery as dull.
Jeez - poor Meg. (Though, the limo thing? Real life, real school, no *way* would that happen. Too much liability.)
I did laugh at how every person that Veronica took pictures of at the beginning - including herself - had a green shirt on. (Not a school shirt, either.) I notice weird things.