... in which it's all a load of Boffle
So, my life right now basically consists of snow and work, which is boring, especially as I am, uh, not doing much of the working. I have, however, watched the first season of A Bit of Fry and Laurie, and most of the first season of Scrubs. This means that I am going to geek.
Many of you might have noticed that I tend to rather like Stephen Fry. That said: if any of you haven't been to abitof to grab the episodes yet, and you have any time, you really should have a look. Cause there is very little as delightfully silly as this. The whole thing feels like Stephen and Hugh are just randomly messing around to make each other laugh, and it's gorgeous. I am totally in awe of their ability to find the daft in everything and then use it relentlessly. Squee!
As someone who already owned the books, I also really love how much funnier it is than the scripts. I totally hadn't appreciated just how aweosme the Control sketches are with Stephen and Hugh's delivery. Pitch-perfect, every time. Heeeeeee. The vox pops are also much better when you can see the costumes and hear Stephen and Hugh do the accents, heh, and it's really cool to see how well they can do the bantering thing. They just make such an awesome team, whether they're lounging around pretending to be critics or wearing really ridiculous wigs, and it just makes me happy. Especially when they go all-out for the meta like Stephen and Hugh do, heh. Smart people making intelligent points by being very, very silly is one of the best things ever. So good, people. Seriously.
If Boffle's the strawberry parfait of random comedy, small but delicious, I think Scrubs is probably the popcorn. Or possibly the "chips and gravy you bought from the burger van": can be really nice, and certainly has lots of good points, but too much and you realise there's not that many nutrients in it.
Actually, that sounds kind of mean - it's a rather more realistic look at hospitals than most hospital dramas, and it is well worth watching cause it's very cute and funny. I'm just quite amused by how very much it's All About Zach Braff Being A Woobie; luckily I do think Zach Braff's cute and funny, eh? I think what I really meant about it being popcorn was that it sometimes seems to think it's doing a lot more than it actually is; like, the geek references are fun (the Star Wars hair, heheh, and the Batman costumes!), but they are very much "look what we can reference!", set off as references explicitly outside the main story... which isn't necessarily a bad thing in and of itself, and works within the context of the show, but which ever so slightly grates. I don't know why, either. Probably it's just cause I was hoping for a hospital version of Spaced, which works its references in so subtly and brilliantly thoughout every aspect of the show that I'm in awe every single time: I've been spoiled, dammit. :)
That said, I really am enjoying this show. It's just so much fun. Zach Braff as JD is, as mentioned, ridiculously cute and pettable, and I love that there are not only non-white people on the show, but some of them are actually characters! who aren't dumb or hookers or evil or going to die! Some of them are even women. This is freaking awesome. Almost as awesome as Dr Cox, who reminds me very much of Dr House, only rather more over the top and not played by Hugh Laurie. He's great, in a Bitchlord of Sacred Heart Hospital kind of way. He sings "wrong!" to the tune of the Brownie Guides, people. Hee. And like I was saying to cabari before, the Janitor is totally who Cox would be if he'd ended up a janitor. I love his random evilness. Bwah.
I was also talking to cabari about how very gay the show is. It occurred to me that this show is a perfect example of why people see slashiness - if you had two different-gender friends who lived together, missed each other so much they imagined the other's face when they were apart, said things like "I miss you so much it hurts sometimes" and had partners who were jealous of the friendship because "you're more in love with [the other friend] than you are with me"... well, can you imagine anyone who'd doubt that the series was eventually going to be about how these obstensibly platonic friends ended up together? Eeeeexactly. I mean, at least the series recognises how very not-straight it sounds sometimes, but if these weren't two guys involved then the show would totally revolve around their eventual hooking up. Just sayin'. (I would also make a case for potential Carla/Elliot femmeslash if you want to see it that way. Hee.) Though the JD/Turk friendship is lovely anyway. Awww, JD.
In other news, Gay Penguin for President! You know it makes sense. More sense than the fact Johnny Depp totally does have some kind of satanic agreement or evil painting or something somewhere, anyhow.
Many of you might have noticed that I tend to rather like Stephen Fry. That said: if any of you haven't been to abitof to grab the episodes yet, and you have any time, you really should have a look. Cause there is very little as delightfully silly as this. The whole thing feels like Stephen and Hugh are just randomly messing around to make each other laugh, and it's gorgeous. I am totally in awe of their ability to find the daft in everything and then use it relentlessly. Squee!
As someone who already owned the books, I also really love how much funnier it is than the scripts. I totally hadn't appreciated just how aweosme the Control sketches are with Stephen and Hugh's delivery. Pitch-perfect, every time. Heeeeeee. The vox pops are also much better when you can see the costumes and hear Stephen and Hugh do the accents, heh, and it's really cool to see how well they can do the bantering thing. They just make such an awesome team, whether they're lounging around pretending to be critics or wearing really ridiculous wigs, and it just makes me happy. Especially when they go all-out for the meta like Stephen and Hugh do, heh. Smart people making intelligent points by being very, very silly is one of the best things ever. So good, people. Seriously.
If Boffle's the strawberry parfait of random comedy, small but delicious, I think Scrubs is probably the popcorn. Or possibly the "chips and gravy you bought from the burger van": can be really nice, and certainly has lots of good points, but too much and you realise there's not that many nutrients in it.
Actually, that sounds kind of mean - it's a rather more realistic look at hospitals than most hospital dramas, and it is well worth watching cause it's very cute and funny. I'm just quite amused by how very much it's All About Zach Braff Being A Woobie; luckily I do think Zach Braff's cute and funny, eh? I think what I really meant about it being popcorn was that it sometimes seems to think it's doing a lot more than it actually is; like, the geek references are fun (the Star Wars hair, heheh, and the Batman costumes!), but they are very much "look what we can reference!", set off as references explicitly outside the main story... which isn't necessarily a bad thing in and of itself, and works within the context of the show, but which ever so slightly grates. I don't know why, either. Probably it's just cause I was hoping for a hospital version of Spaced, which works its references in so subtly and brilliantly thoughout every aspect of the show that I'm in awe every single time: I've been spoiled, dammit. :)
That said, I really am enjoying this show. It's just so much fun. Zach Braff as JD is, as mentioned, ridiculously cute and pettable, and I love that there are not only non-white people on the show, but some of them are actually characters! who aren't dumb or hookers or evil or going to die! Some of them are even women. This is freaking awesome. Almost as awesome as Dr Cox, who reminds me very much of Dr House, only rather more over the top and not played by Hugh Laurie. He's great, in a Bitchlord of Sacred Heart Hospital kind of way. He sings "wrong!" to the tune of the Brownie Guides, people. Hee. And like I was saying to cabari before, the Janitor is totally who Cox would be if he'd ended up a janitor. I love his random evilness. Bwah.
I was also talking to cabari about how very gay the show is. It occurred to me that this show is a perfect example of why people see slashiness - if you had two different-gender friends who lived together, missed each other so much they imagined the other's face when they were apart, said things like "I miss you so much it hurts sometimes" and had partners who were jealous of the friendship because "you're more in love with [the other friend] than you are with me"... well, can you imagine anyone who'd doubt that the series was eventually going to be about how these obstensibly platonic friends ended up together? Eeeeexactly. I mean, at least the series recognises how very not-straight it sounds sometimes, but if these weren't two guys involved then the show would totally revolve around their eventual hooking up. Just sayin'. (I would also make a case for potential Carla/Elliot femmeslash if you want to see it that way. Hee.) Though the JD/Turk friendship is lovely anyway. Awww, JD.
In other news, Gay Penguin for President! You know it makes sense. More sense than the fact Johnny Depp totally does have some kind of satanic agreement or evil painting or something somewhere, anyhow.
