TV: La verdadera ventana del alma
Glee: Ok, so it’s been a couple weeks since I finished watching the episodes that are out (13) and I have had time to think about it. 1) Glee is not High School musical, HSM tries to be realistic and Disney-pink and really stupid, Glee is a parody of that (and other teenager shows and life). 2) Glee is far from perfect, the characters given more spotlight are the white ones (till now). 3) The minority characters are there and it’s been just 13 episodes, a world of possibility awaits. 4) Awesome awesome music, I’m still getting stuck on new songs (from the few in the BSO even). 5) Kurt is adorable, Puck is hot, Rachel’s annoying (there needs to be less Rachel and more everybody else), I don’t care about the teachers’ beyond their relationship to the kids very much, Quinn’s hot and sweet and could have a lot of potential because she seems to have smarts, too. Mercedes? Walking cliché, sorry, no. Santana is fun in a total blonde way, although that might be more in fanfic that in the show. I want the baby to be named Drizzle, Finn could become someone mildly interesting but mostly I can only see him as a romantic interest, of course, since he’s the romantic interest of THREE other characters I would say that’s how the show’s selling him to us. The rest? I dunno.
Skins: Oh, Cassie! She’s so vulnerable and at the same time so smart, so needy and so independent. And so very pretty, I kind of hate Michelle so I don’t want to ship them. Tony’s hot and his confidence is attractive but he’s self-centered as fuck and well, a bad person all around. Sid’s pathetic, I don’t feel sorry for him, I want to *forget* about him, which is what his friends seem to feel, too. It took me two episodes to realize these kids were in college, not high school, the show looked less depraved when I did but they started looking less mature. Chris is kind of hopelessly cute. I have hardly seen Max and Anwar so couldn’t tell you yet.
Leverage: So, Nate is a weepy idiot to whom Karma is apparently making up for the whole “life destroying thing where his son died and his wife left him” by giving him amazing luck in his new endeavours. He, like everybody who’s just too lucky, abuses it and it should blow in his face sometime (which it won’t). Sophie is an idiot for liking him, otherwise I don’t care much about her except for how all the overacting gets annoying. But there’s Parker, awesome fucked up dysfunctional beautiful and very logical (in that Aspergers way that looks totally insane because other people just are not) Parker. And there’s Elliot, hot, yes, but also kind of going around with a “I’m the only sane person here card” and a vulnerability that he covers up by beating people up but not by being unsensitive (which, hero that isn’t an asshole to be manly, much appreciated!). Hardison’s fun too, he thinks he has a “I’m the only sane person here card” too but, like Elliot, he’s really only same when compared to the others, I wish he wouldn’t go overboard with the fan-references and ego-feeding but one can’t have it all. Except for how I would like to have those three together more so...
Being Erica: Or, the show of the quotes and the awesome soundtrack. Also, time-travel as a serious device to analyze the effect chance and choice has in our lives. I need to watch more but I kind of liked Erica’s high school teacher for a RI, also the recently divorced best friend. I don't know if I will ever need fic for this because this show is amazing.
The colors mean: dark = good, light = bad. Green = male. Red/pink = girls.
All in all I wrote (before thinking of doing this, btw) 56 words of good things about girls, and 45 of bad things. Oth, I wrote 95 words of positive things about boys and 110 negative ones. There is the matter that except for “Glee” and “Being Erica” all these shows have casts made up of more males than females, so the numbers by themselves aren’t really significant, but it seems that I’m more critical of males or I like them least since I had more negative things to say about them than good ones, and the opposite is true for girls. Maybe I’ll do this again later, not exactly super scientifically reliable to count “words” but…
