There was so much crack that the ass-crack of the world choked on it.
The good things about MD:
Every scene with Gwen. I love her so much more than I did in earlier seasons. Most Badass Women (TM) in fiction can be unrelatable because their badassery comes from chosen-ness or solemn duty or super-powers. Gwen's badassery comes from exasperation with the status quo and hard-earned experience.
All the Welsh actors. All the scenes in Wales. I did wonder where all the Weevils went.
Anwen and the sheer GLEE on her face when Mummy and Daddy pulled out the heavy artillery.
The bad things:
It was "Plot? What plot?" with barely any porn. How does that happen?
The face-palm moments:
Every single time John Barrowman tries to Emote and looks like he has menstrual cramps.
Also every time JB picked the least appropriate inflections for his line delivery.
There was so much crack that the ass-crack of the world choked on it. Word.
The good things about MD: Agree v. much on all of these - esp. Gwen.
It was "Plot? What plot?" with barely any porn. How does that happen? I don't know. :( (Well TW was never brilliant with plot, but this was ten endless hours... I think, actually, that it was the anti-CoE. CoE was so taut and sharp and just dragged you along, heart in mouth. This killed all my excitement.)
Still love the man. Still giggle at him. Oh I ADORE him. AA Gill had a lovely review (*cough*) where he remarked that he couldn't for the life of him work out how JB had ended up in Serious Sci-Fi, and figured that JB didn't really either, coming across as constantly, pathetically, grateful to have escaped a lifetime in musical theater... ;)
he couldn't for the life of him work out how JB had ended up in Serious Sci-Fi, and figured that JB didn't really either, coming across as constantly, pathetically, grateful to have escaped a lifetime in musical theater.
I can totally buy that, except part of me is CONVINCED that Barrowman was incarnated for the sole purpose of portraying Captain Jack Harkness. To attribute it to some kind of chance is brain breaking.
Re your face-palm moments, I wasn't impressed with anyone's acting, for the most part, and I have been with the TW actors sometimes, so I'm thinking that a lot of *my* acting face-palm moments may have been due to the director, and not the actors.
I did get a bit tired of Gwen pulling out another Super!Spy!Skilz episode after episode, when she didn't have them at the end of COE, and MD (based on Anwen's size) began about 9 months after Jack left earth in COE. (But I've never liked the character, from the very first time I saw her in S1.)
And the whole Jack's immortal/not immortal makes my *headdesk* go *headdesk*. Jack's *always* been mortal, so his blood is mortal all the time. He dies, so when the Blessing made everyone immortal, Jack should have been made immortal too. ::checks blood pressure and shuts mouth::
The good things about MD:
Every scene with Gwen. I love her so much more than I did in earlier seasons. Most Badass Women (TM) in fiction can be unrelatable because their badassery comes from chosen-ness or solemn duty or super-powers. Gwen's badassery comes from exasperation with the status quo and hard-earned experience.
All the Welsh actors. All the scenes in Wales. I did wonder where all the Weevils went.
Anwen and the sheer GLEE on her face when Mummy and Daddy pulled out the heavy artillery.
The bad things:
It was "Plot? What plot?" with barely any porn. How does that happen?
The face-palm moments:
Every single time John Barrowman tries to Emote and looks like he has menstrual cramps.
Also every time JB picked the least appropriate inflections for his line delivery.
Still love the man. Still giggle at him.
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Word.
The good things about MD:
Agree v. much on all of these - esp. Gwen.
It was "Plot? What plot?" with barely any porn. How does that happen?
I don't know. :( (Well TW was never brilliant with plot, but this was ten endless hours... I think, actually, that it was the anti-CoE. CoE was so taut and sharp and just dragged you along, heart in mouth. This killed all my excitement.)
Still love the man. Still giggle at him.
Oh I ADORE him. AA Gill had a lovely review (*cough*) where he remarked that he couldn't for the life of him work out how JB had ended up in Serious Sci-Fi, and figured that JB didn't really either, coming across as constantly, pathetically, grateful to have escaped a lifetime in musical theater... ;)
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I can totally buy that, except part of me is CONVINCED that Barrowman was incarnated for the sole purpose of portraying Captain Jack Harkness. To attribute it to some kind of chance is brain breaking.
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I did get a bit tired of Gwen pulling out another Super!Spy!Skilz episode after episode, when she didn't have them at the end of COE, and MD (based on Anwen's size) began about 9 months after Jack left earth in COE. (But I've never liked the character, from the very first time I saw her in S1.)
And the whole Jack's immortal/not immortal makes my *headdesk* go *headdesk*. Jack's *always* been mortal, so his blood is mortal all the time. He dies, so when the Blessing made everyone immortal, Jack should have been made immortal too. ::checks blood pressure and shuts mouth::
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