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Sep. 25th, 2013 11:02 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
impyFirst, a moment of sadness for not being able to see Tegan and Sara last night. :/
Moving along, it's officially Fall which means a lot of things. Today it means we're gonna talk about TV. I'm positive I've already gone on and on about how, when done correctly, TV is fabulous. It truly, truly is, and it has my heart. That said, I don't tend to watch a ton of it as it happens because I am poison to television shows. If I love it, it will die one way or another. See House. I started watching the summer before they took their cast and threw them into a blender just to see what the hell would happen.
Otherwise shows tend to be cancelled. Over the years I've cultivated a few rules that I frequently break when the need arises. For instance, I will not watch anything on Fox until it's been on the air for three seasons or more. (So I can watch Bones and it's fine.) I do not watch new Fox shows because Fox is the destroyer of dreams. They greenlight some fantastic shows and then wonder why no one watches them when they bury them somewhere or yank them for baseball. (Seriously, how hard is it for networks to realize that especially these days, TV watching is a habit. Once you snap someone out of their habit for a couple of weeks, it's very hard to get them to come back to you. You lot have had decades to figure this out!)
That said, I must also watch shows when Mums asks me to and they sound interesting. So... I started watching Sleepy Hollow last week. If you're on the fence like I was and you're waiting for someone to come back with word on the show, come sit next to me.
Before I go any further, I recommend Sleepy Hollow. It isn't, however, without its faults. The show has yet to prove it is as clever as it thinks it is and one could argue quite convincingly that there are plot holes that a fleet of semis could drive through with room to spare. It needs to trust that it's audience isn't full of complete idiots and will eventually catch up, so Crane should showcase the brains he allegedly has instead of spending a good fifteen minutes not understanding that when his witch of a dead wife says, "she's one of us!" she doesn't mean the dead, she means a witch. A major AHA should not occur twice, k?
Now, on to the good stuff. One, the leads have oodles of chemistry if that's your thing. Two, they are adorable behind the scenes two. Three, they're pretty. I'm not sure this should technically count, but they really are and it helps forgive a lot. Four, his accent. Swooning shall commence in three...two... The show is fun. It gives me Supernatural flashbacks (hell, after the squicky part in the morgue, most of the opening of the second episode was sorta ripped from the Supernatural play book) although I think thus far Supernatural has scared me moreso than SH, but that could also be because I watch Supernatural alone and SH with Mums and Widget (and the dogs) which does influence things just a tad. John Cho shows up, and Clancy Brown shows up, too if these names do anything for you.
But mostly, it's funny and I'm enjoying the hell out of Ichabod and Abbie just doing their thing. Some shows require their premise to be ironclad, others luck out with casting genius. This would be one of those shows.
How I Met Your Mother is back. I would like Netflix to freakin' get last season up so I can catch up, k? Thanks.
Last night brought us Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. and... I have some thoughts that mostly boil down to this: Melinda May is very quickly going to own my soul and bless you, Coulson, I might've teared up there just a second. *cough* I'm not really sure where the show will go, but if those two are there, I will follow. I just have to remind myself that with Whedon involved, there's likely to be a body count.
Moving along, it's officially Fall which means a lot of things. Today it means we're gonna talk about TV. I'm positive I've already gone on and on about how, when done correctly, TV is fabulous. It truly, truly is, and it has my heart. That said, I don't tend to watch a ton of it as it happens because I am poison to television shows. If I love it, it will die one way or another. See House. I started watching the summer before they took their cast and threw them into a blender just to see what the hell would happen.
Otherwise shows tend to be cancelled. Over the years I've cultivated a few rules that I frequently break when the need arises. For instance, I will not watch anything on Fox until it's been on the air for three seasons or more. (So I can watch Bones and it's fine.) I do not watch new Fox shows because Fox is the destroyer of dreams. They greenlight some fantastic shows and then wonder why no one watches them when they bury them somewhere or yank them for baseball. (Seriously, how hard is it for networks to realize that especially these days, TV watching is a habit. Once you snap someone out of their habit for a couple of weeks, it's very hard to get them to come back to you. You lot have had decades to figure this out!)
That said, I must also watch shows when Mums asks me to and they sound interesting. So... I started watching Sleepy Hollow last week. If you're on the fence like I was and you're waiting for someone to come back with word on the show, come sit next to me.
Before I go any further, I recommend Sleepy Hollow. It isn't, however, without its faults. The show has yet to prove it is as clever as it thinks it is and one could argue quite convincingly that there are plot holes that a fleet of semis could drive through with room to spare. It needs to trust that it's audience isn't full of complete idiots and will eventually catch up, so Crane should showcase the brains he allegedly has instead of spending a good fifteen minutes not understanding that when his witch of a dead wife says, "she's one of us!" she doesn't mean the dead, she means a witch. A major AHA should not occur twice, k?
Now, on to the good stuff. One, the leads have oodles of chemistry if that's your thing. Two, they are adorable behind the scenes two. Three, they're pretty. I'm not sure this should technically count, but they really are and it helps forgive a lot. Four, his accent. Swooning shall commence in three...two... The show is fun. It gives me Supernatural flashbacks (hell, after the squicky part in the morgue, most of the opening of the second episode was sorta ripped from the Supernatural play book) although I think thus far Supernatural has scared me moreso than SH, but that could also be because I watch Supernatural alone and SH with Mums and Widget (and the dogs) which does influence things just a tad. John Cho shows up, and Clancy Brown shows up, too if these names do anything for you.
But mostly, it's funny and I'm enjoying the hell out of Ichabod and Abbie just doing their thing. Some shows require their premise to be ironclad, others luck out with casting genius. This would be one of those shows.
How I Met Your Mother is back. I would like Netflix to freakin' get last season up so I can catch up, k? Thanks.
Last night brought us Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. and... I have some thoughts that mostly boil down to this: Melinda May is very quickly going to own my soul and bless you, Coulson, I might've teared up there just a second. *cough* I'm not really sure where the show will go, but if those two are there, I will follow. I just have to remind myself that with Whedon involved, there's likely to be a body count.