Tevee Report: Fringe and Babylon 5

[emmiere]

You know, if I remembered to post when I actually have thoughts, this wouldn't be so damn long.  It's hard enough just to keep this to Fringe and B5.

1. I'm a little sad I don't have anything to say about BSG these days. Which is my own fault.

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[emmiere]

As Lyssie pointed out we do indeed get a season 3 of Leverage *parties HARD because, OMG, dude, so much love* And this is maybe why I'm completely zen about Tara, apart from loving her lots, because of course Sophie will return and it will be MAGICAL and make season 3 the bestest thing since everything else. :D?

Slightly tangential, but I'm sort of hoping this will be the show that sneakily eats fandom. It's practically tailored made for it and no show's perfect, but the fail is less with this one. And think of the VIDS. :)

I'm so happy there are like 4.5 people watching Fringe who are a bit 'meh' about Peter/Olivia! And I'm a little more charmed by Peter in a reluctant sort of way, but even with season 2 giving him more potential story, they haven't actually developed anything new that develops him or makes him more interesting as a character. There was a whole episode about dad angst and it STILL didn't tell me anything I hadn't already found out before!

(there was lots of debate about which icon to use here, I hope you're happy. ;))

Plus, your Olivia fear meta is weirdly encouraging. Because, yes it's an issue of trust, and I have it very much wrapped up in my mind with Peter/Olivia and the implications of Do Not Want that I think I'm making it preemptively fail-y in ways it actually wasn't.

So what did she do? Decide, for herself, that she wasn't going to access them, that she wasn't going to do it anymore, and confront it with strength and bravery and a refusal to be afraid.

That's a great way to put it. <3 And I actually didn't make the link of the hearing thing disappearing so good call there for sense-making.

Babylon 5!

watching some of the political plotlines play out in a post-WARONTERROR!OMG! world

I kind of love this very much, really. I haven't been able to convince myself to buy a full ticket yet, but I'm meeting it halfway? And, OMG yes, there's enough character love in those 3 you mentioned to keep me going if nothing else does. And I wouldn't say that's where I'm at, so...*stops rambling* Yay B5! :D

[beccatoria]

Yes, indeed! Since I knew Sophie would be coming back I wasn't exactly anxious about it and Tara is a fun replacement, but I still miss her...

Re: your tangent, I would love if Leverage were a more mainstream fandom! The vids I have seen for it have been awesome fun. I think that for it to be my One True Show it would need to be a little more character-arc-based and a little less camp adventures every week like Ocean's Eleven. However, that might also destroy the magic that is the show, so I'm not really pulling for a change. Just...I love this show but I don't think it'll ever be my main fandom. Even if the though of vidding Sophie somehow is appealing. (I have no song or idea for this, just the idea is one that feels right...)

Re: Fringe - I am very glad most of the peopel I know who watch Fringe are more on the Peter/Astrid boat than the Peter/Olivia boat too! But I do have the feeling that Peter/Astrid is the Kara/Sam of fandom, since most people seem on board with Peter/Olivia. And the show is clearly going that way. *sigh*

I think you hit on something though - they made Peter relevant to the Pattern and stuff by making him from the Other Side which was a good move because until that point he really was hilariously irrelevant, in terms of the mytharc, since Olivia and Walter were both strongly connected to it. But then, well, as you say, they didn't do anything with that, and they kept trying to make him more relevant and more at the centre of the episodes during the start of S2, but like, it was just as random as when they tried it at S1, but worse, because it was more often and therefore more forced. They somehow managed to make him relevant to the mytharc without actually...making him relevant to the mytharc? It's weird. So I'm simultaneously relieved that soon it will all come out because when it was all secret we were in the same situation as we were in S1, but also nervous because I don't want the show to be EVEN MORE about him. HMM.

I'm glad that you found my take on the fear encouraging at least. I do definitely understand the preemptive assumption of fail. I have that reaction a LOT to TV, especially since being let down so badly by a number of shows, most notably my favourite one, lately. ;)

Keep us updated on B5!

[emmiere]

No, I don't think I'd call Leverage my forever show either, but it's got a lot going for it that I wish some of the apparently more mainstream fandoms did. (remind me to link you some interviews of Dean Devlin talking about fans and fanworks). And is it wrong that the first thing I thought of when you mentioned a Sophie vid was "That's Not My Name" by The Ting Tings, which would possibly work even better for Parker (or, um, a John Connor crack vid, but that's an entirely different story. o_O,probably Cameron after checking out the lyrics, actually)

it was just as random as when they tried it at S1, but worse, because it was more often and therefore more forced.

And I think you've got the key thing there because they choose a kind of relevant that made him inherently more interesting to the mytharc, while not requiring him to DO anything, because he doesn't know. So Walter still gets any of the action from it and Peter gets more story time that isn't really earned or important yet.

*hopes trust issues are the only BSG trauma left* ;)