The end is nigh
How about them tv-shows?
Ugly Betty is over! *sniff* I've loved that show a lot, all the way. There was always something wonderfully sympathic about it, warm and funny, underneath that ditzy surface. And I love how it all ended, I love it ultimately was about being brave. I'm going to miss you, Betty. And Mark. And Amanda! ♥ ♥
I've just watched the first episode of Treme - going into it with very high hopes. And so far, it's looking really good! I will admit that it's not always that easy following what they're saying, with some of the accents. It was the same with The Wire. Dialects and street talk aren't easy for non-native speakers. But it's not too bad, it's just a couple of people. Also, the ears adjusts, after a while. But yeah, looks like it'll be a good ride. :)
Southland: I like this show, and I find it interesting to watch. But right from the very beginning, I've gotten the feeling that they're aspiring to be something greater than they are, to be important and different. And I feel they only partly manage. They're broaching topics that they never fully deal with. It's not a huge problem for the show, because it works anyway, but it could have been a lot better.
And then of course there's the celebrating Supernatural which had a great episode, even if not AS great as I'd maybe hoped. I think they're talking a bit too much for it to be really good... The first scenes were heart breaking. Gosh. I wonder what that note said? Sam would never have forgiven him! And since no one ever dies on this show, it'd be an ongoing disaster forever and ever.
Adam coming back was an interesting twist - those angels are seriously disturbed - even if his tie to Dean & Sam is more theoretical than anything real. Still, they were relying of Dean's hero complex making things go their way. And I love the fact that it was SAM, looking at Sam, thinking about him, about their relationship for real, that made Dean change tactics. This whole episode was such a great testament - again - to how it's always best when they work together. They just seem to keep forgetting that. Stupid boys.
I haven't read any reviews or reactions to this episode yet (busy, busy!) but I imagine that all Dean/Castiel fans were thrilled to bits. I was too, in fact. Castiel is so much more interesting now, as a character. His stoic prescence has bored me at times, so it's much more intriguing to follow his slow descent into becoming what later is Castiel the Love Guru (from The End). Or something like that. He's kind of hot when he's angry like this. And my god, he's completely fixated on Dean. Sam doesn't really exist, in his world, it seems. Got Dean all hot and bothered too. I think we can safely say that Dean is an equal opportunity-sexual guy, by now. When he said to Castiel 'the last time someone looked at me that way, I got laid' (and then WINKED at him), certainly corroborates that theory. Because if that's not implying that guys have looked at him 'that way' and he got laid as a result, I don't know what. Hee! (I'm not sure what all the Dean/Castiel thing was about this time - a wink to THAT side of the fanbase?)
Finally, a rec:
candle-beck has outdone herself again, with her new Holmes/Watson story Mistakes of our youth. It's long, it's angsty, there's pining and it's just perfect. In fact, I had to start rereading it, right after I'd finished, it's just that kind of story. It's like living in their brains, and while they may be dark places, I just never want to leave. :)
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Ugly Betty is over! *sniff* I've loved that show a lot, all the way. There was always something wonderfully sympathic about it, warm and funny, underneath that ditzy surface. And I love how it all ended, I love it ultimately was about being brave. I'm going to miss you, Betty. And Mark. And Amanda! ♥ ♥
I've just watched the first episode of Treme - going into it with very high hopes. And so far, it's looking really good! I will admit that it's not always that easy following what they're saying, with some of the accents. It was the same with The Wire. Dialects and street talk aren't easy for non-native speakers. But it's not too bad, it's just a couple of people. Also, the ears adjusts, after a while. But yeah, looks like it'll be a good ride. :)
Southland: I like this show, and I find it interesting to watch. But right from the very beginning, I've gotten the feeling that they're aspiring to be something greater than they are, to be important and different. And I feel they only partly manage. They're broaching topics that they never fully deal with. It's not a huge problem for the show, because it works anyway, but it could have been a lot better.
And then of course there's the celebrating Supernatural which had a great episode, even if not AS great as I'd maybe hoped. I think they're talking a bit too much for it to be really good... The first scenes were heart breaking. Gosh. I wonder what that note said? Sam would never have forgiven him! And since no one ever dies on this show, it'd be an ongoing disaster forever and ever.
Adam coming back was an interesting twist - those angels are seriously disturbed - even if his tie to Dean & Sam is more theoretical than anything real. Still, they were relying of Dean's hero complex making things go their way. And I love the fact that it was SAM, looking at Sam, thinking about him, about their relationship for real, that made Dean change tactics. This whole episode was such a great testament - again - to how it's always best when they work together. They just seem to keep forgetting that. Stupid boys.
I haven't read any reviews or reactions to this episode yet (busy, busy!) but I imagine that all Dean/Castiel fans were thrilled to bits. I was too, in fact. Castiel is so much more interesting now, as a character. His stoic prescence has bored me at times, so it's much more intriguing to follow his slow descent into becoming what later is Castiel the Love Guru (from The End). Or something like that. He's kind of hot when he's angry like this. And my god, he's completely fixated on Dean. Sam doesn't really exist, in his world, it seems. Got Dean all hot and bothered too. I think we can safely say that Dean is an equal opportunity-sexual guy, by now. When he said to Castiel 'the last time someone looked at me that way, I got laid' (and then WINKED at him), certainly corroborates that theory. Because if that's not implying that guys have looked at him 'that way' and he got laid as a result, I don't know what. Hee! (I'm not sure what all the Dean/Castiel thing was about this time - a wink to THAT side of the fanbase?)
Finally, a rec:
candle-beck has outdone herself again, with her new Holmes/Watson story Mistakes of our youth. It's long, it's angsty, there's pining and it's just perfect. In fact, I had to start rereading it, right after I'd finished, it's just that kind of story. It's like living in their brains, and while they may be dark places, I just never want to leave. :)
This entry was originally posted at http://charlidos.dreamwidth.org/505382.html. Comments: