TV starts back up
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lodessaFirst there was TWO hours of Bones last Wednesday, the only show I've been anticipating really since the end of last year's season. The season finale was a little bit... ummm dissapointing but I still really really love this show.
Well I was really happy to have the show back:
+ Booth would like being called a cowboy too much.
+ Booth is the reason Bones doesn't sleep with Ian.
+ Indira does not die for once (though heaven help us if she shows up in a later episode I am sure it will happen)
+ Her telling Bones to "climb Everest". I am sure that Booth would also like being referred to that way.
+ Also British people and tea instead of coffee and Booth doesn't do well with the unfamiliar.
- The mandated plot to keep Angela and Hodgins from being boring(aka: happy together)was sort of forced and lackluster.
+ I did like the concepts about why they were having issues being about trust and ownership.
+ I totally loved everyone's reaction to her husband.
+ Sweets sort of totally failing to foresee the consequences of his analysis (he's smart but sort of fails at life).
- Then sort of glossing over that it was a problem and he was probably wrong.
+ I love that Cam is assertive but only likes somewhat unavailable men ever. I would love to write about that and her issues. Because she has them, and hopefully the show will continue to do well with that.
- I felt like the tone or timing or something was just a little off... like everyone hadn't quite slid back into the groove yet.
+ BONES AND BOOTH!
So last week (or maybe the week before?) I watched Season 1 of The Sarah Connor Chronicles. I liked it, although some of the logic/paradoxes of time and causality sort of needed to be hand waved. Basically Summer Glau makes a great robot trying to understand and interact with humans and that's what's really compelling to me, much as I may like Sarah being hardcore etc. So last night we watched the season 2 opener:
This was a damned good episode:
+ All the biblical stuff: the resurrection, Babylon, and of course Samson and Delilah. Although, this show is going to have to be very careful to stay away from territory trodden with BSG regarding robots and religion. Cameron's comment works because it fits into her character's attempts to understand humanity from the facts that she has. Shirley Manson's character's motivations were more nebulous, but I like to think that it was her way of either trying to incorporate human culture or poking fun.
+ Broken/Fixed Cameron. Holy fuck I never thought they'd go there... at least not yet. Her pleading with him and how the "I'm fixed" was sort of working but "I love you" was the last straw and couldn't be tolerated. It reminds us of Vick and his marriage too much. Although, if she thought it would work it says a lot about her and future John, because she wouldn't come up with that out of nowhere. Also, if John in the future basically makes himself a robot to love (or falls in love with the robot he makes, like Pygmalion and Galatea) that is interesting and possibly could be about how he can't trust anyone, but you can trust a machine to be a machine... to follow programming... except of course when it doesn't. And of course the issue of her possible... evolution? Because the screen flashed Terminate before being overridden so I kind of suspect maybe she overrode it and it wasn't just whatever he did kicking in because if that was the case would it not have loaded that way in the first place?
+ Charlie and Ellison are awesome, aren't they? Because Charlie is so solid and Ellison is so dogged and I am so glad they are alive really and on the show. Also I really liked Derek and Charlie interacting and how there's sort of a competition there to be a man for Sarah and a paternal figure for John.
* CEO Terminator. I love Shirley Manson and I am really interested to see how the character develops. If she is what she seems then we may grow to understand Skynet in a way we never have before. Or they could turn it all around, of course. Also she was the motherfucking urinal. Because this show is awesome with gender issues and of course the men felt safe from "the bitch" in the male space of the men's bathroom. It's never safe.
*Samson and Delilah (some more). How I adore this conceit. I kind of read it differently than everyone else on my flist has been though. Samson is Cameron not John. He cuts her hair and takes away her strength, because she's the berserker who can tear down buildings, and she asks him to. She tells him to.
Well I was really happy to have the show back:
+ Booth would like being called a cowboy too much.
+ Booth is the reason Bones doesn't sleep with Ian.
+ Indira does not die for once (though heaven help us if she shows up in a later episode I am sure it will happen)
+ Her telling Bones to "climb Everest". I am sure that Booth would also like being referred to that way.
+ Also British people and tea instead of coffee and Booth doesn't do well with the unfamiliar.
- The mandated plot to keep Angela and Hodgins from being boring(aka: happy together)was sort of forced and lackluster.
+ I did like the concepts about why they were having issues being about trust and ownership.
+ I totally loved everyone's reaction to her husband.
+ Sweets sort of totally failing to foresee the consequences of his analysis (he's smart but sort of fails at life).
- Then sort of glossing over that it was a problem and he was probably wrong.
+ I love that Cam is assertive but only likes somewhat unavailable men ever. I would love to write about that and her issues. Because she has them, and hopefully the show will continue to do well with that.
- I felt like the tone or timing or something was just a little off... like everyone hadn't quite slid back into the groove yet.
+ BONES AND BOOTH!
So last week (or maybe the week before?) I watched Season 1 of The Sarah Connor Chronicles. I liked it, although some of the logic/paradoxes of time and causality sort of needed to be hand waved. Basically Summer Glau makes a great robot trying to understand and interact with humans and that's what's really compelling to me, much as I may like Sarah being hardcore etc. So last night we watched the season 2 opener:
This was a damned good episode:
+ All the biblical stuff: the resurrection, Babylon, and of course Samson and Delilah. Although, this show is going to have to be very careful to stay away from territory trodden with BSG regarding robots and religion. Cameron's comment works because it fits into her character's attempts to understand humanity from the facts that she has. Shirley Manson's character's motivations were more nebulous, but I like to think that it was her way of either trying to incorporate human culture or poking fun.
+ Broken/Fixed Cameron. Holy fuck I never thought they'd go there... at least not yet. Her pleading with him and how the "I'm fixed" was sort of working but "I love you" was the last straw and couldn't be tolerated. It reminds us of Vick and his marriage too much. Although, if she thought it would work it says a lot about her and future John, because she wouldn't come up with that out of nowhere. Also, if John in the future basically makes himself a robot to love (or falls in love with the robot he makes, like Pygmalion and Galatea) that is interesting and possibly could be about how he can't trust anyone, but you can trust a machine to be a machine... to follow programming... except of course when it doesn't. And of course the issue of her possible... evolution? Because the screen flashed Terminate before being overridden so I kind of suspect maybe she overrode it and it wasn't just whatever he did kicking in because if that was the case would it not have loaded that way in the first place?
+ Charlie and Ellison are awesome, aren't they? Because Charlie is so solid and Ellison is so dogged and I am so glad they are alive really and on the show. Also I really liked Derek and Charlie interacting and how there's sort of a competition there to be a man for Sarah and a paternal figure for John.
* CEO Terminator. I love Shirley Manson and I am really interested to see how the character develops. If she is what she seems then we may grow to understand Skynet in a way we never have before. Or they could turn it all around, of course. Also she was the motherfucking urinal. Because this show is awesome with gender issues and of course the men felt safe from "the bitch" in the male space of the men's bathroom. It's never safe.
*Samson and Delilah (some more). How I adore this conceit. I kind of read it differently than everyone else on my flist has been though. Samson is Cameron not John. He cuts her hair and takes away her strength, because she's the berserker who can tear down buildings, and she asks him to. She tells him to.
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Date: 2008-09-09 06:22 pm (UTC)And the song (I have the mp3 if you're interested)!
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Date: 2008-09-09 06:25 pm (UTC)That monologue was great, no matter how you interpret it.
And I am totally interested in the song! (as is most of my flist)
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Date: 2008-09-09 06:34 pm (UTC)I just loved the "I'm perfect. I ran a test." I mean, ♥!
http://www.sendspace.com/file/6p5vfa
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Date: 2008-09-09 06:36 pm (UTC)Yes. That itself was perfect. I love how she's just so much a computer program and yet...
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Date: 2008-09-09 07:09 pm (UTC)I'm really looking forward to seeing more of Shirley Manson's character and where this'll all lead.
I only caught partial of Bones but I have to say, I hate how they're making things difficult for Hodgins and Angela to be together. I know they think it's for the drama to have an obstacle or whatever but, really now, they're cute and we've been waiting a long time to see them finally be happy and tying the knot. Them breaking up just kind of, I don't know. It makes me upset that they would do that.
But as always, Booth and Brennan fun and entertaining and if anything else, make the show for me. Booth's tantrum was hilarious.
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Date: 2008-09-09 08:44 pm (UTC)Also I am excited to be watching some of the same things so that we can have shared opinions.
I think with Cameron that even if you don't believe in evolving in a traditional sense you could say that exposure to new information in the form of her experiences changes how her programming reacts to a given stimulus in some sense... which is really a tech-y way of getting the same effect.
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Date: 2008-09-09 09:19 pm (UTC)And SCC 2.1 was probably the best episode yet. Of course, I'm mostly watching this series because I love me some kick-ass Summer Glau ;)
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Date: 2008-09-09 09:22 pm (UTC)Yes. I seriously think it was. And she is the PERFECT robot. Seriously.
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Date: 2008-09-10 08:25 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-09-10 02:31 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-09-10 02:49 pm (UTC)*misses you lots*
*hugs and cuddles*
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Date: 2008-09-10 02:50 pm (UTC)*continues writing the porn*
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Date: 2008-09-11 07:56 am (UTC)*hugs*
*loves*
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Date: 2008-09-11 02:39 pm (UTC)*hugs*