Have some reviews of TV:
1. Battlestar Galactica
Well, there were lots of things I liked about this episode, but it's increasingly obvious to me that I no longer love the show the way I used to do. For example, I see lots of people cheering on the revelations about Ellen, but for me it felt like a betrayal of the premise of the show. In retrospect, it's obvious that Ellen was always a Cylon, but there's (in my opinion) so little of the scheming, petty, angry-drunk in this new beneficial!Cylon!God Ellen. Wouldn't it be easier to see Cavil's side of the story -- which I thought Dean Stockwell tried desperately to sell but fell just a milimeter short of doing, if more of the original!Ellen came through?
Starbuck's concern for Sam seems completely out of nowhere. Wasn't she just macking on Apollo two episodes ago? I liked this storyline a lot better when it was "Rapture" on DS9. Except for my thin hope that Sam is really braindead this time and we'll never have to see him again. Too slim, alas.
Likewise, I still don't fucking believe in Caprica and Tigh's relationship. Uh, whatever, show. I really, really, really LOATHE the continual effort of the show to make Tigh the hero as opposed to this fucked up bastard who Adama inexplicably keeps around. It's a worse case of Spikeification than what actually happened to Spike, because at least with that character we were given a continually climbing ladder of reasons why he was less of an evil bastard. As far as I can see, the woobification of Tigh rests solely on the justification that 'now that he's a Cylon nothing else matters!' Bleh!
I did enjoy the bits with the life and death of Battlestar Galactica the ship itself. So as the robots become man, and man becomes robot, and robot becomes man does the ship become organic. Nice touch.
Dollhouse: I will keep watching this. I have always liked Eliza Dushku, and the pilot is not NEARLY as big a mess as I was led to believe. Plus I genuinely am not really sure what will happen in the next episodes at this point.
Being Human: Ugh. Wish they hadn't brought this back. The new cast is mostly serviceable, but they're less solid actors than the ones in the one-off pilot and next to them, Russel Tovey's general crappy whining as the main character is even more grating than in the original. Plus, I feel like the show has betrayed a lot of the refreshing originality by having the ghost and the vampire spend more of the episode whining about being monsters. Meh, I tell you, meh. Now it's every dumb urban fantasy with vampires ever. Fuck that noise.
Well, there were lots of things I liked about this episode, but it's increasingly obvious to me that I no longer love the show the way I used to do. For example, I see lots of people cheering on the revelations about Ellen, but for me it felt like a betrayal of the premise of the show. In retrospect, it's obvious that Ellen was always a Cylon, but there's (in my opinion) so little of the scheming, petty, angry-drunk in this new beneficial!Cylon!God Ellen. Wouldn't it be easier to see Cavil's side of the story -- which I thought Dean Stockwell tried desperately to sell but fell just a milimeter short of doing, if more of the original!Ellen came through?
Starbuck's concern for Sam seems completely out of nowhere. Wasn't she just macking on Apollo two episodes ago? I liked this storyline a lot better when it was "Rapture" on DS9. Except for my thin hope that Sam is really braindead this time and we'll never have to see him again. Too slim, alas.
Likewise, I still don't fucking believe in Caprica and Tigh's relationship. Uh, whatever, show. I really, really, really LOATHE the continual effort of the show to make Tigh the hero as opposed to this fucked up bastard who Adama inexplicably keeps around. It's a worse case of Spikeification than what actually happened to Spike, because at least with that character we were given a continually climbing ladder of reasons why he was less of an evil bastard. As far as I can see, the woobification of Tigh rests solely on the justification that 'now that he's a Cylon nothing else matters!' Bleh!
I did enjoy the bits with the life and death of Battlestar Galactica the ship itself. So as the robots become man, and man becomes robot, and robot becomes man does the ship become organic. Nice touch.
Dollhouse: I will keep watching this. I have always liked Eliza Dushku, and the pilot is not NEARLY as big a mess as I was led to believe. Plus I genuinely am not really sure what will happen in the next episodes at this point.
Being Human: Ugh. Wish they hadn't brought this back. The new cast is mostly serviceable, but they're less solid actors than the ones in the one-off pilot and next to them, Russel Tovey's general crappy whining as the main character is even more grating than in the original. Plus, I feel like the show has betrayed a lot of the refreshing originality by having the ghost and the vampire spend more of the episode whining about being monsters. Meh, I tell you, meh. Now it's every dumb urban fantasy with vampires ever. Fuck that noise.