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[meddow]

I'm a bit 'meh' about Merlin, the BBC's family-friendly Doctor Who replacement since it sounds a bit like Robin Hood version 2.0, and not even Richard Armitage's scowl could keep me watching that Robin Hood. But the casting is interesting. Arthur is an unknown to me, but Merlin is the teenager off Midnight, and Santiago Cabrera (i.e. Isaac the hot

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[airie_fairy]

Everybody keeps talking about how hot Richard Armitage is, but I find him unattractive/scary looking. :/

I spent almost the whole of the first season trying to convince myself I could get into Heroes and I have NO IDEA WHY. It's so unlike me to force like that.

[meddow]

Have you seen North and South? Because he gives Colin Firth in Pride and Prejudice a run for his money in that one.

I very nearly gave up on Heroes after the first two episodes, but my flatmate was watching it and I was still in mourning for Nine, so I decided to keep going until CE's guest stint was up. It really only clicked with me at about episode 14, and then I was obsessed. Even then my love is conditional. If they ever get rid of the Bennet family, I'm gone.

[airie_fairy]

Claude was the only thing about that show that kept me remotely interested between episodes. I liked other characters, chiefly Noah and Nathan and Zach (why the hell would they just drop that kid, he was great support?), but they didn't really keep up my interest, and the dialogue was generally stilted beyond belief. And I still don't get the big deal about Claire and the supposedly great acting job. Other than liking her relationship with her dad and Zach, mostly she was fine to occasionally bordering on a really uncreative, circular approach to angst (but then, stilted dialogue does connect to rudimentary personality-building skills).

[meddow]

The kid had to go off and become John Conner and save the world from evil robots or some such. Claire I quite liked during series one, it wasn't until the second series when she started to annoy me - but that was because she had learnt nothing from the first series, and it was the same arc all over again, but now with added stalker boyfriend angst. Ugh.

The dialogue does make me cringe at times (sometimes I think it's a competition to see how many times they can get the word 'destiny' into one scene). Often it comes down to how well the actors can sell it, some of them can and some of them can't. Unsurprisingly, my favourite characters seem to be played by the actors that can sell it (Noah, Nathan, Claude and Angela). But there are so many gorgeous shots, and the artwork is so pretty and the plot compelling enough (usually) for me to live with it.

[airie_fairy]

The thing I noticed was some of the characters are given dialogue that sparks with character, whereas the rest are just given cardboard. I don't understand it, because they seem capable of producing something that sounds decent if not great.