OMG, yay for long fannish posts. I sense this will be a long, fannish comment.
So I'm just saying, it grew on me and maybe if you let it... it will grow on you too.
Seriously? Huh. I was really excited for Bones, because I have a huge soft spot for chemistry between partners, and I nearly always get sucked into that kind of drama. Mulder/Scully, Elliot/Olivia, etcetera. But I watched the pilot and I was completely unimpressed and bored, and I didn't like the main actress. I believe I downloaded the second episode JIC, but I either FFed through it very quickly or skipped it entirely. This kind of makes me thing I should try it again. What episode(s) would you suggest I watch if I were to give it another go?
I was shocked to find in my poll that someone I generally find to have much the same taste as myself, apparently is the one person not to like these books, who has been exposedYeah, I guess that would be me? I tried to revive my interest in fantasy the first summer I was home from college, and I bought the first ASOIAF book
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Bones was definitely a show it took me a while to get hooked on. I think the episode I stopped "catching it occasionally" and started making sure to see after was "Judas on a Pole" but I missed a lot of the earlier stuff (yay for friend with DVDs he willing to lend me) so I wouldn't say that is a definitive "best" or whatever. I know a lot of people loved the ep in which they went to Vegas. I definitely think that Emily/Bones takes a while to grow on you because she's really closed off (although less so this season), but JoaP is a lot about her backstory so it might help. I would also try a lighter ep (like maybe the Pirate one?) because often when you aren't attached to the characters you don't want to hear about their drama. "Aliens in a Spaceship" for instance is a really good ep but only if you care about the characters
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Oh, I didn't think you were, no worries. And I actually really used to love fantasy when I was a kid, but I think I've always enjoyed the lighter, subversive stuff or the stuff that's really grounded in our universe, like Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, which I adored.
But most of all I wish you were right and Lee will just hallucinate her all season like Gaius and Six and Tigh and Ellen and Adama and his ex wife. I think everyone should see their SO in their cracked out brains.
Especially since (to me, at least) the hallucinations we've seen on the show all seem to be induced by staggering amounts of guilt. Gaius's selfishness resulted in the genocide of the human race, and so Six is part of his PTSD. Caprica!Six fell in love with Gaius and betrayed him. Tigh killed Ellen. And Lee convinced Kara to fly that day, to trust him to keep her safe. So it would be consistent. Not that this show actually does consistent, but I can dream.
Have you read Phillip Pullman's His Dark Materials? The primary world is an AU in which John Calvin became Pope instead of Protestantism taking off and various other things are different, but it also goes into ours world and various others and it's a subversive theological piece eventually.
That makes so much sense... sadly too much sense for the show.
Ha. I was just talking about His Dark Materials with a f'lister last night, because HBO had their First Look at the making of it. Anyway, I started reading it when I got the book. I must have been around twelve, maybe, and I found the subject matter too heavy at the time. So I set it aside. I've always meant to go back and reread it, but then I got ill with fantasy and I have no idea where the book even is, so. Long story short, I haven't.
You know what I have always meant to read? The Discworld books.
sadly too much sense for the show.
I'm glad I was never really that invested in BSG, because it could seriously have broken my heart. It's like 95% of everything I thought was awesome about it turned out to be LIES.
So I'm just saying, it grew on me and maybe if you let it... it will grow on you too.
Seriously? Huh. I was really excited for Bones, because I have a huge soft spot for chemistry between partners, and I nearly always get sucked into that kind of drama. Mulder/Scully, Elliot/Olivia, etcetera. But I watched the pilot and I was completely unimpressed and bored, and I didn't like the main actress. I believe I downloaded the second episode JIC, but I either FFed through it very quickly or skipped it entirely. This kind of makes me thing I should try it again. What episode(s) would you suggest I watch if I were to give it another go?
I was shocked to find in my poll that someone I generally find to have much the same taste as myself, apparently is the one person not to like these books, who has been exposedYeah, I guess that would be me? I tried to revive my interest in fantasy the first summer I was home from college, and I bought the first ASOIAF book ( ... )
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Oh, I didn't think you were, no worries. And I actually really used to love fantasy when I was a kid, but I think I've always enjoyed the lighter, subversive stuff or the stuff that's really grounded in our universe, like Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, which I adored.
But most of all I wish you were right and Lee will just hallucinate her all season like Gaius and Six and Tigh and Ellen and Adama and his ex wife. I think everyone should see their SO in their cracked out brains.
Especially since (to me, at least) the hallucinations we've seen on the show all seem to be induced by staggering amounts of guilt. Gaius's selfishness resulted in the genocide of the human race, and so Six is part of his PTSD. Caprica!Six fell in love with Gaius and betrayed him. Tigh killed Ellen. And Lee convinced Kara to fly that day, to trust him to keep her safe. So it would be consistent. Not that this show actually does consistent, but I can dream.
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That makes so much sense...
sadly too much sense for the show.
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You know what I have always meant to read? The Discworld books.
sadly too much sense for the show.
I'm glad I was never really that invested in BSG, because it could seriously have broken my heart. It's like 95% of everything I thought was awesome about it turned out to be LIES.
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Yeah I definitely am glad I never gave BSG my heart. I've seen the damage it inflicted on those who did.
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*weeps* I TRIED TO WARN YOU.
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