Fall TV Gets Good
We watched the second episode of HEROES tonight. Wow, that show got awesome quick.
After a slightly boring pilot containing some bad dialogue, the follow up had everything you could want...brainless corpses, a legendary killer of people with gene mutations, apocalyptic time travel and a great scene involving a man who can fly. I could do without some of the effects related to the indestructible cheerleader, but whatever. Promise has clearly been shown. Shoshana was quite upset when a character described a person with major depressive disorder as having delusions of grandeur, thinking they were a superhero. Oh, Hollywood. What know you of the study of the mind ?
And then we have the LOST 3rd season opener, brilliant as always.
The peaceful book club meeting, the underwater Hydra station, Jack's obsessiveness and paranoia, the simple kindness Sawyer showed Kate. I read online earlier tonight that fans complained that the show posed question after question without revealing anything, without giving back. Which is fucking ridiculous...last season alone they gave more away than they probably should've. In this one episode tonight, they opened up a whole new world of characters and questions. Screw the so called fans. I like questions.
VERONICA MARS also just started. One day, I hope it overcomes the stigma of being considered a show for teens or " kids " like Buffy did, and gets credit for brilliant detectivery. What ?
It's completely a word !
The humor couldn't be more adult, and the 3rd season premiere brought back an old evil from last season, an elusive cult of rapists who shave a victim's head in her medicated sleep. As obsessive as I am in my love of LOST, it has let down with the occasional lame episode over the course of two seasons.
But MARS ? Never. Not once have I come away thinking that the writers didn't have a dark plan, or that this was just a filler episode. There really isn't any other series I can compare it with, including Buffy and Angel. Both of those fine programs have occasionally had trash episodes---or in the case of of BTVS, throwaway final seasons.
I like that the MARS writers don't really give a shit about bringing in new fans by re-explaining who all these people are and why they're acting this way. There's a drunken, obnoxious character in the premiere who just appear to be all surface, unless you'd seen the whys and hows of his torment last season. The closest equivalent I can think to MARS is the film KISS KISS, BANG BANG, which engages in similarly ironic and violent detectivery.
Hilariously morbid. Yeah, that's it.
After a slightly boring pilot containing some bad dialogue, the follow up had everything you could want...brainless corpses, a legendary killer of people with gene mutations, apocalyptic time travel and a great scene involving a man who can fly. I could do without some of the effects related to the indestructible cheerleader, but whatever. Promise has clearly been shown. Shoshana was quite upset when a character described a person with major depressive disorder as having delusions of grandeur, thinking they were a superhero. Oh, Hollywood. What know you of the study of the mind ?
And then we have the LOST 3rd season opener, brilliant as always.
The peaceful book club meeting, the underwater Hydra station, Jack's obsessiveness and paranoia, the simple kindness Sawyer showed Kate. I read online earlier tonight that fans complained that the show posed question after question without revealing anything, without giving back. Which is fucking ridiculous...last season alone they gave more away than they probably should've. In this one episode tonight, they opened up a whole new world of characters and questions. Screw the so called fans. I like questions.
VERONICA MARS also just started. One day, I hope it overcomes the stigma of being considered a show for teens or " kids " like Buffy did, and gets credit for brilliant detectivery. What ?
It's completely a word !
The humor couldn't be more adult, and the 3rd season premiere brought back an old evil from last season, an elusive cult of rapists who shave a victim's head in her medicated sleep. As obsessive as I am in my love of LOST, it has let down with the occasional lame episode over the course of two seasons.
But MARS ? Never. Not once have I come away thinking that the writers didn't have a dark plan, or that this was just a filler episode. There really isn't any other series I can compare it with, including Buffy and Angel. Both of those fine programs have occasionally had trash episodes---or in the case of of BTVS, throwaway final seasons.
I like that the MARS writers don't really give a shit about bringing in new fans by re-explaining who all these people are and why they're acting this way. There's a drunken, obnoxious character in the premiere who just appear to be all surface, unless you'd seen the whys and hows of his torment last season. The closest equivalent I can think to MARS is the film KISS KISS, BANG BANG, which engages in similarly ironic and violent detectivery.
Hilariously morbid. Yeah, that's it.