It's Not Even Wednesday?

[smittywing]

Apparently this is going to be a long week. I'm thinking I need to come up with some discussion topics to speed it up. In the meantime:

trekreversebang has posted its Masterlist! Stories of at least 6,000 words, a range of pairings and ratings, and most of them include art!

shetiger has put me in a very JJ/Hotch mood of late, mainly with Way Back Into Love.

Comments

[thepouncer]

I tried to watch the pilot of The Good Guys, and I was not impressed. It's by the creator of Burn Notice, which I love with a deep and abiding passion, but The Good Guys didn't grab me at all. The first warning was when they opened with a People in Peril scene then flashed "xxx hours earlier" -- I've grown very tired of that type of narrative trickery unless it serves a real purpose. As far as I could tell, the only purpose was to sow confusion. The characters didn't impress me, and I never sought it out again.

[thepouncer]

Also, jfc: way to make me even LESS interested in the CM spinoff. Ugh ugh ugh. I really do not like her. At first I thought she was joining CM: the original, and made an instant decision that I'd stop watching.

[smittywing]

Dude, I feel bad for whoever does wind up in the original - that character is going to be the target of so much hostility. I don't mind Janeane Garafalo, but the spinoff is not selling me at all. *sigh*

[smittywing]

Bah. I blame the pornstache. It seems like it should be a great show, between the cast and the creator. It's disappointing that the pilot wasn't good. I haven't heard anything about it which means people aren't all, "OMG, MUST WATCH!" about it, usually. I'll probably procrastinate a little more and see if it gets cancelled or if people start getting excited about it before I decide to pursue it or not.

[thepouncer]

The purpose is comedy. It's a straight-up "straitlaced young cop gets stuck with hard-living, slightly burnt-out partner" buddy cop comedy. We come into each episode in jeopardy in the middle of a case that started out "X hours earlier" as a case for the Property Crimes division, our Good Guys, who somehow always manage to wander into a major crime that's tenuously connected to the busted vending machine or dog poisoning they started out with. Is it realistic? No. In fact, Hell, No! Neither are most cop shows, where nobody wears gloves at a crime scene and nobody gets chewed out for making more work for the fingerprint techs. But I think Colin Hanks and Bradley Whitford have great comic chemistry, and the plots verge on being the cop show version of a Rube Goldberg machine.

--Jessica