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So I did a sort of spontaneous review/rant/mental spasm thing of the new pilot Hellcats. I don't know why I decided to put it on. True Blood's finished so, naturally, cheerleaders is the next best thing, right?
OMG Hellcats is bad. I mean, bad bad. Not in a its-so-bad-its-good way. In a cellotape my eyes shut and tear my ears off way. The voiceover alone was badly acted and irritating. And the main character's face annoys me. She needs to change her face. It disturbs me. There's a lot of effort made to make the main character 'cool'. Make her listen to some screamy-girls music. She has fingerless gloves. I mean, I have fingerless gloves. I have nothing against fingerless gloves. But somehow this girl makes me hate them.
And its that dude that Faith went out with in Buffy as the Doctor (?), isn't it? I haven't seen Buffy for ages so I might be wrong. Wasn't he the Principal of Sunnydale?
How much do I hate the cheerleader flipping across screen for scene change? Its incredibly cheesy.
AWFUL dialogue. Oh shut up, people do not actually speak like this! They don't even speak like this in tv shows! "You kill my hope and you kill me!" Jesus Christ and his Shiny Kimono. Who the hell writes this? And she looks after her mother, feeds her, clothes her, bails her out of jail. YAWN.
Stop thrusting cushions into my face, crazy curly blonde girl.
Do they actually give scholarships for cheerleading? I actually find this all a bit strange, even the giving of sports scholarships. That pretty much never ever ever happens in the UK. I guess we're not that bothered about sport (at least within the academic environment).
Ok, LOL she watches Bring It On to practice, now that is rather amusing. Especially because Bring It On is hilarious.
I predict that Curly Girl's best friend dude ends up with the HSM cheerleader. He's snarky. He's the only even vaguely bearable character in this thing.
Cue montage of try outs. YAWN. Is this meant to be impressive in some way? Curly Girl looks more like she's having some sort of episode. I did like however that HSM cheerleader didn't vote against her- so she's not the typical bitchy cheerleader. And...*cue triumphant shout and triumphant music*
OH wait she has a guitar! She MUST be cool! I'm so sick of TV shows thinking that if a character owns a guitar it proves that they are indie/cool/alternative ('alternative to what?'). IT DOESN'T! IT MEANS THAT THEY SIT ON THE SCHOOL FIELD ANNOYING THE OTHER KIDS BY SINGING THE BEATLES AND THINKING EVERYONE WANTS TO HEAR THEIR ONE NOTE BLEATING ABOUT FRICKIN JUDE!
*Ahem.* Okay, personal experiences may have clouded that one.
CHEERTOWN? WTF is that?
OMFG WHY IS THE PRINCIPAL A CYCLON?
How does she still have make up on in the shower? Oh and the steal-the-clothes-scene. How inventive. At least in Veronica Mars Kristen Bell rocked the funny out of that sort of scene.
How on earth does a group of cheerleaders 'wing it' in practice? It doesn't make sense. The only reason they 'winged it' is to let Curly Girl show off her madd danz skillz. This is like a 14 year old making up a dance with their friends in their bedroom. Its vaguely embarrassing. And suddenly they are co-ordinated and slapping their collective ass. Ah, the magic of Psychic Cheerleading.
So now HSM cheerleader and Curly Girl are like total best buds and Curly Girl and HSM cheerleader is going to write on her arm a special word (I'd go for 'wash your face, you're wearing too much makeup') and then Curly Girl smiles sickening into the camera until the camera just can't handle it anymore and dies on the spot out of sheer desperation.
Yeah, I don't think I'm going to be watching that again. It completely sucked AND it was boring (not always mutually exclusive).
And why can I write all this about a show I detested but I can't spin together a couple of words about the Merlin episode that was on the other day and I loved? :( I suppose I'm just better at ranting than raving.
OMG Hellcats is bad. I mean, bad bad. Not in a its-so-bad-its-good way. In a cellotape my eyes shut and tear my ears off way. The voiceover alone was badly acted and irritating. And the main character's face annoys me. She needs to change her face. It disturbs me. There's a lot of effort made to make the main character 'cool'. Make her listen to some screamy-girls music. She has fingerless gloves. I mean, I have fingerless gloves. I have nothing against fingerless gloves. But somehow this girl makes me hate them.
And its that dude that Faith went out with in Buffy as the Doctor (?), isn't it? I haven't seen Buffy for ages so I might be wrong. Wasn't he the Principal of Sunnydale?
How much do I hate the cheerleader flipping across screen for scene change? Its incredibly cheesy.
AWFUL dialogue. Oh shut up, people do not actually speak like this! They don't even speak like this in tv shows! "You kill my hope and you kill me!" Jesus Christ and his Shiny Kimono. Who the hell writes this? And she looks after her mother, feeds her, clothes her, bails her out of jail. YAWN.
Stop thrusting cushions into my face, crazy curly blonde girl.
Do they actually give scholarships for cheerleading? I actually find this all a bit strange, even the giving of sports scholarships. That pretty much never ever ever happens in the UK. I guess we're not that bothered about sport (at least within the academic environment).
Ok, LOL she watches Bring It On to practice, now that is rather amusing. Especially because Bring It On is hilarious.
I predict that Curly Girl's best friend dude ends up with the HSM cheerleader. He's snarky. He's the only even vaguely bearable character in this thing.
Cue montage of try outs. YAWN. Is this meant to be impressive in some way? Curly Girl looks more like she's having some sort of episode. I did like however that HSM cheerleader didn't vote against her- so she's not the typical bitchy cheerleader. And...*cue triumphant shout and triumphant music*
OH wait she has a guitar! She MUST be cool! I'm so sick of TV shows thinking that if a character owns a guitar it proves that they are indie/cool/alternative ('alternative to what?'). IT DOESN'T! IT MEANS THAT THEY SIT ON THE SCHOOL FIELD ANNOYING THE OTHER KIDS BY SINGING THE BEATLES AND THINKING EVERYONE WANTS TO HEAR THEIR ONE NOTE BLEATING ABOUT FRICKIN JUDE!
*Ahem.* Okay, personal experiences may have clouded that one.
CHEERTOWN? WTF is that?
OMFG WHY IS THE PRINCIPAL A CYCLON?
How does she still have make up on in the shower? Oh and the steal-the-clothes-scene. How inventive. At least in Veronica Mars Kristen Bell rocked the funny out of that sort of scene.
How on earth does a group of cheerleaders 'wing it' in practice? It doesn't make sense. The only reason they 'winged it' is to let Curly Girl show off her madd danz skillz. This is like a 14 year old making up a dance with their friends in their bedroom. Its vaguely embarrassing. And suddenly they are co-ordinated and slapping their collective ass. Ah, the magic of Psychic Cheerleading.
So now HSM cheerleader and Curly Girl are like total best buds and Curly Girl and HSM cheerleader is going to write on her arm a special word (I'd go for 'wash your face, you're wearing too much makeup') and then Curly Girl smiles sickening into the camera until the camera just can't handle it anymore and dies on the spot out of sheer desperation.
Yeah, I don't think I'm going to be watching that again. It completely sucked AND it was boring (not always mutually exclusive).
And why can I write all this about a show I detested but I can't spin together a couple of words about the Merlin episode that was on the other day and I loved? :( I suppose I'm just better at ranting than raving.