Thirty Day TV Meme: Day 2
Today was all full of "ohgodohgodohgod SO MUCH TO DO!!!!" again, so I may not reply to comments right away or, well, ever (I'll get better again after this whole dissertation thing is done, but I can't promise I'll catch up with the backlog). But I figured that falling off the wagon on the second day of a 30-day meme was kind of lame, so here we go
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I'm not really answering this because I have to be out the door in 15 minutes, but mostly yes, I agree. Fundamentally it's the fact that the characters aren't interesting. I'm actually liking Jack the best, even though Erica ought to be similarly hitting my buttons. But I think I find him slightly less predictable, whereas Erica is so single-mother-cop stereotype that she's completely boring.
As for what, for lack of a better word, I'll call the politics of it, yeah. If Stargate: Atlantis completely failed on making Our Heroes morally ambiguous (I broke up with that show fairly dramatically after it turned into a reenactment of the British empire) and BSG, at least most of the time, walked the line reasonably well (sympathetic characters doing horrible things while still managing to remain sympathetic), I think V is somewhere in between. In the past few eps, Our Heroes have gotten much darker, which is, I think, a move in the right direction, but there's no visible fallout--probably because of this giant Us vs. Them thing the show has set up. Human Emotions (whether experienced by humans or Vs)=GOOD and other Vs=BAD, and that doesn't leave room either for the baddies to be interesting (Anna is the most boring among a host of boring characters) or for the good guys to be complex and morally ambiguous (which they so need to be if this is going to work at all).
So yeah. More on this when I'm less busy! Which will be SOON OMG!!!!!!!
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