Doomed fandom love...
Recently I've been storing up episodes of Almost Human to watch on my Sky+ box - it has androids, Karl Urban and generally feels like a similar-ish set-up to Asimov's Robot series (with the wonderful buddy-cop duo of R. Daneel Olivaw and Lije Bayley), or even to the Alien Nation TV series (with the equally wonderful buddy-cop partnership of Matt Sykes and George Francisco). So in general, right up my alley!
I have an innate fondness for bromance-type situations with people who hate each other on sight but are reluctantly forced to work together, and then realise that they work well together and actually they have the potential to be really, really good friends (why hello there, Merlin!). That plus the accompanying existential consideration of what it means to be sapient and/or human, and acknowledgement of the civil rights issues that proceed from the extra complications of the setting, makes this a series that I predict I'm going to enjoy rather a lot.
And even better because I've been avoiding a lot of modern sci-fi recently and it'll be nice to get back to my roots.
I'm not sure why I've been mostly avoiding non-Trek SF, except that a lot of it seems to be too dystopic for my taste, or (in books) the prose is too stylised and dense for my M.E. brain to cope with at the moment. So most of my reading and watching lately has been focused on easier subjects that don't need to much concentration and continuity-recall - old favourites, simpler writers, a hefty dose of fanfic, crime, fantasy and romance...
Anyway, today I got stuck into Almost Human and watched the first few episodes.
It is good!
Karl Urban and Michael Ealy make a great team, Lili Taylor makes an excellent boss, and it's great to see Mackenzie Crook getting a good (if slightly stereotypical geek) role.
So the only fly in the ointment of my giddy, new-found fannish glee is that I've just discovered that Fox cancelled the series after only one season. *sigh*
Ah well, I suppose at least, knowing this going in, I can't get too attached to it?
...On a slight tangent, because the names are just too similar not to occasion lots of confusion: does anyone else think there should be a lot of Almost Human/Being Human crossover fic?
I have an innate fondness for bromance-type situations with people who hate each other on sight but are reluctantly forced to work together, and then realise that they work well together and actually they have the potential to be really, really good friends (why hello there, Merlin!). That plus the accompanying existential consideration of what it means to be sapient and/or human, and acknowledgement of the civil rights issues that proceed from the extra complications of the setting, makes this a series that I predict I'm going to enjoy rather a lot.
And even better because I've been avoiding a lot of modern sci-fi recently and it'll be nice to get back to my roots.
I'm not sure why I've been mostly avoiding non-Trek SF, except that a lot of it seems to be too dystopic for my taste, or (in books) the prose is too stylised and dense for my M.E. brain to cope with at the moment. So most of my reading and watching lately has been focused on easier subjects that don't need to much concentration and continuity-recall - old favourites, simpler writers, a hefty dose of fanfic, crime, fantasy and romance...
Anyway, today I got stuck into Almost Human and watched the first few episodes.
It is good!
Karl Urban and Michael Ealy make a great team, Lili Taylor makes an excellent boss, and it's great to see Mackenzie Crook getting a good (if slightly stereotypical geek) role.
So the only fly in the ointment of my giddy, new-found fannish glee is that I've just discovered that Fox cancelled the series after only one season. *sigh*
Ah well, I suppose at least, knowing this going in, I can't get too attached to it?
...On a slight tangent, because the names are just too similar not to occasion lots of confusion: does anyone else think there should be a lot of Almost Human/Being Human crossover fic?