TV thoughts and ficcish things

[pellucid]

Why do TV creators who have broken my heart and then stomped around on it not impressed me have to do things like come up with new shows and then cast Stockard Channing in them???? How can I watch further work of Ron D. Moore???? How can I not watch Stockard Channing???? And it's a supernatural cop show. Also to star Jamie Bamber, apparently, which

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[beccatoria]

I FEEL THE EXACT SAME WAY ABOUT THIS EXCEPT BEFORE I THOUGHT IT WAS A COP SHOW AND NOW I FIND OUT IT'S GENRE? STOCKARD CHANNING AND JAMIE BAMBER (WHO OKAY I MIGHT LIKE A FAIR BIT) AND GENRE? YET DONE BY RDM? ARGH.

In other news, yay! Fringe! Basically with Peter I...cannot begin to properly explain whether or not it all ends in tears, partly because they've just started telling the part of the story that might make it do so, and partly because, um, the show is super weird about his character. It's like the narrative almost NEVER focuses on him, except occasionally the show then has a panic attack when it realises it keeps passing over the emo white boy in favour of the serious girl and the crazy old man, and tries to foist narrative relevance upon him...which promptly turns into a focus on the serious girl and the crazy old man and how they feel about this. Which is sometimes hilarious, sometimes reassuring, and sometimes infuriating because there does reach a point where you've got all this narrative significance hanging on the most inconsistently drawn character in the ensemble and it just draws MORE attention to how...arbitrary it all is.

PLUS IT MAY YET END IN TEARS. But you'll see my LJ explode (more) when and if it does. ;)

[pellucid]

I...yeah. I feel like I really shouldn't put myself through another RDM show. But Stockard Channing!!!! (And Jamie Bamber, and maybe other people I like before this is all over with.) So torn! But it's early yet--they're still casting the pilot, so it's possible it won't even get picked up (though with all the press it's getting, I suspect it will).

At this point, I think my biggest problem with Peter is simply casting. Joshua Jackson looks like he's 22 (I also don't like his voice, but that seems like a less substantial problem). This makes it difficult for me to take him seriously, or to understand why Olivia takes him seriously. So far he's not taken over the narrative in any way that I find problematic, but I also sort of feel like if he's going to be this irrelevant, why is he even there? And my solution to this would be to get rid of him, not to give him something to do. :)