'Atlantis' | Jason on a secret mission to sell it as a 'family show' [pic]

[gealach_ros]

Comments

[arwyn_t]

'We got re-re-recycled scripts, we got same characters, but look at the family oriented chests and boobs we got, eh? EH??'

[issy5209]

They're recycling their actors too, just read that Jemima was offered the job, no auditions - and no script, no nothing apparently.

I think the J's definition of "family drama " has come from the same place their definition of "dark" has come from.

They presume the fans are as shallow as they are

[faynia]

Do you suppose they'll just KEEP bribing us with shirtless people? Because I won't watch, but I will certainly oogle.

[gealach_ros]

I don't mind looking at gym shaped bodies but it needs MUCH more than flat abs to make me watch a show. I also prefer to know and like a character (or actor) before I fangirl over their physical appearance.

Do you suppose they'll just KEEP bribing us with shirtless people?
The show's set in 'sunny' Atlantis, more shirtlessness is probably a given.

[sallyna_smile]

Well, a tiny part of me is happy they're not objectifying women for once, the other is ogling because I have eyes -and hormones, the other is annoyed XD

[marvelpku]

Well, anyway, shirtless gym male body DO sell. Let's not be too judgemental. At least, it is not too bad to look at those beautiful bodies. LOL.

[rtms]

[marvelpku]

Fully agree. The 2 Js should go to Starz. They can show whatever they want to show on that Channel. LOL.

[reverie_indigo]

That's the first thing about Atlantis that's given me any impetus to watch because I'm shallow.

A show needs good writing or I won't invest the time. Instead I'll just use google images on this guy. Often.

If Merlin had even Teen Wolf-quality writing it would have made the show 10 times better.

[marvelpku]

Teen wolf? Well, I know it is popular but the whole show is ridiculous and made for young fan girls. I like to watch it but only for those gym bodies. (Well, I know I am shallow but it is the only thing that can interest me to that show).

[reverie_indigo]

My point wasn't that TW has great writing, because it doesn't. Characters are consistent, though, and have story arcs that evolve - for example, when Stiles' crush on Lydia no longer served a purpose, it was ditched. I never have the urge to track down and murder the writers like every episode of Merlin S5 gave me

[barnbat]

I agree with you about the writing, but not about Morgana indicating any particular misogyny when looked at in context. The male villains on Merlin were routinely creepy/crazy guys who lacked three dimesionality in the writing, that wasn't a thing reserved for female villains at all (in fact some female villains like Morgause were at least somewhat sympathetic at times). Uther very rarely showed short flashes of something a bit more, but just when the writers wanted to put Arthur in a touching father/son moment and Uther was otherwise so awful and guilty of so many atrocities it didn't add up to anything significant