sometimes I talk about television (really!)

[pellucid]

The problem, I think, is that most of the television I've been watching lately isn't worth talking about. For a good part of the last year or so, that's exactly what I've needed--the more brainless, the better! I'm starting to miss good, thinky TV, though, and I suspect that soon enough I'll be tapping my fingers impatiently: where is my shiny, new

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[topaz_eyes]

the writers and Tim Roth, and perhaps some other folks--I can't remember all the interviews I've watched and read--keep characterizing season 1 as "boring" and "sciency" and season 2 as "edgy" and "character-focused," so those of us who don't like season 2 are by implication not a fan of edgy, character-focused stuff.

Uhm. Fandom is defined by "character-focused stuff." But we also like ideas. Characters can't go anywhere without those. With the science of lie detection, the stories should be endless, and shouldn't have to focus on one character as they have been doing since oh, the end of S1.

TPTB claim they dropped the FBI/Reynolds so they could widen the range of cases featured in S3. I'm okay with that, as long as a) the variety is there and b) the other characters get their fair share in the cases. (And I don't like how they dropped Reynolds. Geez.) IMHO a lot of the focus on Cal is because Tim Roth is a powerhouse actor. It's too tempting for TPTB to write juicy stuff for him at the expense of the other characters. That's the exact opposite of what they should be doing, y'know? Shows like Doctor Who have powerhouse talents and still spread the character development love equally.

So I don't know. I'll probably tune in for the first few S3 eps of LtM, and go from there.