Stalker and things
I'm on the verge of going to bed but I wanted to comment on the pilot for Stalker that I watched tonight, despite not expecting to.
I'm so SICK AND TIRED of crime shows where a law enforcement character says, "We have to catch this guy--fast".
NO SHIT, SHERLOCK. DID YOU FORGET THE PURPOSE OF YOUR JOB?
I'm not overly impressed by this and there were a couple lines that made me uncomfortable, aside from the whole unprofessional nature of the "job" portrayed in this episode.
Both of them were Dylan McDermott's lines (since when has he started attracting the sleezebag roles, anyway?) and they both basically were a dig at him being a man. I'm paraphrasing but one was when they were profiling one of the apartments of one of the female victims and he said something like, "It's what us men do". As if that says everything about why this person is doing what they're doing. It was supposed to be in a sarcastic way but it also seemed to be dragging out the idea of "boys will be boys" mentality and felt very out of place and obvious.
Also later in the episode when Dylan's character is trying to ask Maggie Q's about why she doesn't like him or hasn't warmed to him immediately he apologizes for staring at her breasts when she first met him. She gave him a, "WTF" response and his reply was basically that it was all he could think of and "he's a guy" so he couldn't help it because she was wearing nice clothes and obviously wanted to be noticed.
She then shut him down by saying she wore them for HERSELF which felt like it was supposed to be a, "fuck you, I'm a woman and I can wear what I want and it's my right to be able to do that without inviting unwanted attention from men" which, yeah. Absolutely that's the way it should be.
But this show really made it feel like a cheap attempt to make Maggie Q's character a badass. She's either got or had a stalker but she doesn't let that hold her back. She's in control and does what she pleases! She wears what she wants! Men are bad! Down with male on female violence!
Nope, not how it came off. At all.
I can't tell if I'm reacting to this episode/show like this because I went in having heard some rumblings about it (but not delving too much into what people said about it) or if I'm being extra sensitive or what. I think I feel like if the writing was better it wouldn't have felt so fucking cheap and fake and like a JOKE. It also sucks because it's a Kevin Williamson show and I have thought him to be an okay writer in the past.
But after The Following (although I'm not sure how involved he has been or still is in this show any longer) and now this I'm beginning to wonder about his writing. I'm sure that if I went back and watched Dawson's Creek again I'd roll my eyes so hard they'd fall out of my head.
Thoughts?
Also watched the season premiere of Criminal Minds tonight. The only things I could think were (speaking of Dawson's Creek), "Jack McPhee, what would your SISTER think?!" and how, while watching Jennifer Love Hewitt's debut, I wasn't watching a known actress playing a character. I was watching Jennifer Love Hewitt on screen being her trying to be a character. She wasn't terrible, but her reputation overshadows anything she could bring to the show as a member of the team, both as a character and an actress.
Work things are happening and I have an opportunity that scares me, to a point, but I'm mostly worried about dropping the ball. Repeatedly. I'd go into it more but I have to go to bed and don't want to start thinking about it again before that. It's not bad at all, just nerve-wracking.
I'm so SICK AND TIRED of crime shows where a law enforcement character says, "We have to catch this guy--fast".
NO SHIT, SHERLOCK. DID YOU FORGET THE PURPOSE OF YOUR JOB?
I'm not overly impressed by this and there were a couple lines that made me uncomfortable, aside from the whole unprofessional nature of the "job" portrayed in this episode.
Both of them were Dylan McDermott's lines (since when has he started attracting the sleezebag roles, anyway?) and they both basically were a dig at him being a man. I'm paraphrasing but one was when they were profiling one of the apartments of one of the female victims and he said something like, "It's what us men do". As if that says everything about why this person is doing what they're doing. It was supposed to be in a sarcastic way but it also seemed to be dragging out the idea of "boys will be boys" mentality and felt very out of place and obvious.
Also later in the episode when Dylan's character is trying to ask Maggie Q's about why she doesn't like him or hasn't warmed to him immediately he apologizes for staring at her breasts when she first met him. She gave him a, "WTF" response and his reply was basically that it was all he could think of and "he's a guy" so he couldn't help it because she was wearing nice clothes and obviously wanted to be noticed.
She then shut him down by saying she wore them for HERSELF which felt like it was supposed to be a, "fuck you, I'm a woman and I can wear what I want and it's my right to be able to do that without inviting unwanted attention from men" which, yeah. Absolutely that's the way it should be.
But this show really made it feel like a cheap attempt to make Maggie Q's character a badass. She's either got or had a stalker but she doesn't let that hold her back. She's in control and does what she pleases! She wears what she wants! Men are bad! Down with male on female violence!
Nope, not how it came off. At all.
I can't tell if I'm reacting to this episode/show like this because I went in having heard some rumblings about it (but not delving too much into what people said about it) or if I'm being extra sensitive or what. I think I feel like if the writing was better it wouldn't have felt so fucking cheap and fake and like a JOKE. It also sucks because it's a Kevin Williamson show and I have thought him to be an okay writer in the past.
But after The Following (although I'm not sure how involved he has been or still is in this show any longer) and now this I'm beginning to wonder about his writing. I'm sure that if I went back and watched Dawson's Creek again I'd roll my eyes so hard they'd fall out of my head.
Thoughts?
Also watched the season premiere of Criminal Minds tonight. The only things I could think were (speaking of Dawson's Creek), "Jack McPhee, what would your SISTER think?!" and how, while watching Jennifer Love Hewitt's debut, I wasn't watching a known actress playing a character. I was watching Jennifer Love Hewitt on screen being her trying to be a character. She wasn't terrible, but her reputation overshadows anything she could bring to the show as a member of the team, both as a character and an actress.
Work things are happening and I have an opportunity that scares me, to a point, but I'm mostly worried about dropping the ball. Repeatedly. I'd go into it more but I have to go to bed and don't want to start thinking about it again before that. It's not bad at all, just nerve-wracking.