It's like magic! Really mean magic...
So...some of you who follow me on twitter may have noticed that I have been watching a lot of Rookie Blue this past week or so. I'm all caught up now including the episode from last night and, can I just say, THIS SHOW!
THIS SHOW! You guys! Why are you not watching it? It gives me FEELINGS.
It reminds me of how, back in the nineties, tv shows were a lot about relationship dramas set in the workplace, (NYPD Blue, ER, The Practice etc.), and then the millenium hit and suddenly everything was a procedural with the occasional hint of emotion (CSI, House, various others), and it seemed like character took a backseat. And ok, I watched those shows, I enjoyed them, but I think by virtue of being so focused on not focusing on characters or relationships or any of that stuff, they did themselves a disservice because by the third/fourth season when they started running out of stories to tell and finally turned to character based storylines, they got by turns more and more ridiculous until none of it was believeable and I turned off.
But now there seems to be a returning trend of shows that trust in developing the characters early on, letting them be the foothold that the viewer finds in the show, and brings the rest of it in to fill out the gaps. Rookie Blue is one of those.
And yesterday's episode was excellent.
I LOVE Frank and Noelle! And I realise that they're not the most obvious couple I should be talking about right now, but it just came out of nowhere and hit me over the head and since then every time they're on screen it just makes me really happy that they like each other and that he's all suave and she's all nervous and they're adults and I love them!
On the McSwarek front, YAY! Those two have impossible chemistry together, in every scene they're in I just want them to make out already! And then yesterday they did! HEE! And it was very good. Interestingly though, I'm not really interested in either of them outside of whether or not they're boning. That's bad, I know, but I don't. And while I want them to bone, I'm not really invested in it, I'm not shipping them, they're just really good together.
One thing that is quite interesting to me though, is the Gail/Chris/Dov triangle. I think mainly because I really love those three individually, Chris with his adorable face and Dov who is secretly some kind of thieving badass (WTF?!) and Gail who I just love, because she cares in a really blunt way I think.
I thought I really liked Gail/Chris together, but then all the stuff happened, and as it turns out, I don't really care. I think that I liked it because I wanted the both of them to be happy, but now that they're done (for the moment at least) I find myself firmly in the Peckstein camp. They even come with a pre-packaged ship name (thank you show, I think you did that on purpose, a la Glee, but I like it anyway)! And DOV! Brilliantly earnest Dov with his HAND-KISSING and his "If I were Chris"! It may well be that I am just a sucker for a big ole' declaration of love, but that one was a good one, and yeah, I love him.
I do think it's stupid that neither of them seem to have mentioned the HAND part of the kissing thing, but I think that it wouldn't really matter because the part that seems to matter to Chris is that Gail let him get close. Which, I love Chris, I do, but that's kind of lame. You're girlfriend's not allowed to be emotionally close with anyone but you? I mean, dude, just lock her in a room and keep her in the dark why don't you?
Anyway, clearly, I have feelings. I feel like the finale is going to be EPIC. I wish I could be here to watch it :(
In other news, reelpilots sign-ups close on Monday. Everyone who hasn't yet, go claim a movie!
AND I have been writing LOADS this week. I've had a pretty crazy week, in all honesty, but I'm coming out of the other side of it feeling pretty good, so we'll see what this week brings.
THIS SHOW! You guys! Why are you not watching it? It gives me FEELINGS.
It reminds me of how, back in the nineties, tv shows were a lot about relationship dramas set in the workplace, (NYPD Blue, ER, The Practice etc.), and then the millenium hit and suddenly everything was a procedural with the occasional hint of emotion (CSI, House, various others), and it seemed like character took a backseat. And ok, I watched those shows, I enjoyed them, but I think by virtue of being so focused on not focusing on characters or relationships or any of that stuff, they did themselves a disservice because by the third/fourth season when they started running out of stories to tell and finally turned to character based storylines, they got by turns more and more ridiculous until none of it was believeable and I turned off.
But now there seems to be a returning trend of shows that trust in developing the characters early on, letting them be the foothold that the viewer finds in the show, and brings the rest of it in to fill out the gaps. Rookie Blue is one of those.
And yesterday's episode was excellent.
I LOVE Frank and Noelle! And I realise that they're not the most obvious couple I should be talking about right now, but it just came out of nowhere and hit me over the head and since then every time they're on screen it just makes me really happy that they like each other and that he's all suave and she's all nervous and they're adults and I love them!
On the McSwarek front, YAY! Those two have impossible chemistry together, in every scene they're in I just want them to make out already! And then yesterday they did! HEE! And it was very good. Interestingly though, I'm not really interested in either of them outside of whether or not they're boning. That's bad, I know, but I don't. And while I want them to bone, I'm not really invested in it, I'm not shipping them, they're just really good together.
One thing that is quite interesting to me though, is the Gail/Chris/Dov triangle. I think mainly because I really love those three individually, Chris with his adorable face and Dov who is secretly some kind of thieving badass (WTF?!) and Gail who I just love, because she cares in a really blunt way I think.
I thought I really liked Gail/Chris together, but then all the stuff happened, and as it turns out, I don't really care. I think that I liked it because I wanted the both of them to be happy, but now that they're done (for the moment at least) I find myself firmly in the Peckstein camp. They even come with a pre-packaged ship name (thank you show, I think you did that on purpose, a la Glee, but I like it anyway)! And DOV! Brilliantly earnest Dov with his HAND-KISSING and his "If I were Chris"! It may well be that I am just a sucker for a big ole' declaration of love, but that one was a good one, and yeah, I love him.
I do think it's stupid that neither of them seem to have mentioned the HAND part of the kissing thing, but I think that it wouldn't really matter because the part that seems to matter to Chris is that Gail let him get close. Which, I love Chris, I do, but that's kind of lame. You're girlfriend's not allowed to be emotionally close with anyone but you? I mean, dude, just lock her in a room and keep her in the dark why don't you?
Anyway, clearly, I have feelings. I feel like the finale is going to be EPIC. I wish I could be here to watch it :(
In other news, reelpilots sign-ups close on Monday. Everyone who hasn't yet, go claim a movie!
AND I have been writing LOADS this week. I've had a pretty crazy week, in all honesty, but I'm coming out of the other side of it feeling pretty good, so we'll see what this week brings.