The one where I really like White Collar.
So far, any positive comments I've seen about White Collar - including my own - have made a point of saying that it's brainless (if extremely pretty) fun. But I begin to wonder exactly what we mean by that.
I mean, it is tv, which is usually not your high water mark for intellectual stimulation, and by virtue of its very premise, White Collar has ( Read more... )
I mean, it is tv, which is usually not your high water mark for intellectual stimulation, and by virtue of its very premise, White Collar has ( Read more... )
Costume dramas are probably a good place to find Magic Hair, though. I was always quite partial to Christian Bale's hair as Laurie in Little Women... (*And* he wears vests!)
And speaking of Fraser? Latter half of the second season, and he's getting some Magic Hair, too!
I know! I love that half-grown-out thing he has going on. I first started noticing the waves in "One Good Man," I think, and was horribly distracted. (My theory is that the show is very aware of Fraser's attractiveness, so it's not as if I can be expected not to notice. :) But I know what you mean: he tries so hard not to present himself as a physical being, and there I go mooning over his hair and his blue eyes!)
I always think Clark Kent is more attractive than Superman--now I know it's probably the dorky specs.
ETA: Whoops! I got distracted by all the talk of prettiness, and completely forgot to answer your first question. :) I think I saw the first two episodes after the pilot aired, but I can't remember quite what happened in the third one I saw (which wasn't in order). I missed quite a bit of the episode--why was I not home, I wonder? Anyway, I hope the show will find its legs, because I do like the characters a fair bit.
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Even if BSG is not for you, there has got to be some less depressing Jamie out there for you, there just has to! He just seems like your kind of dude!
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If I had to describe BSG succinctly (well, at least the part of the series I really believe in), I would say that it's a story about soul-searching (why do humans deserve to live?) and rising to the occasion posed by the human condition. Some of the characters are asked for a great deal more than others, and some succeed, some fail, some succeed only by making great sacrifices that look a whole lot like failures, and some grow strong when they're faced with decisions so difficult that there really is no easy notion of success. Most of the main characters are people who never expected to be called on for leadership or heroism - at least not to anything like the degree that they find themselves called upon - and I love that the show respects their foibles, anxieties and burdens, but also gives them opportunities for healing and triumph. (I especially love that the show manages to cook up so much conflict between good people who each care about doing the right thing. I mean, there are bad and not-so-good people, too, but they'd have plenty of problems, even if they didn't have any outright villains).
Oh, and it's also kind of a love story/a story about family. There's an odd sense in which the core characters, even though they haven't all known each other for very long, depend upon one another and function like a little nuclear family, with a mom and a dad (and a crazy, drunken uncle) and rivalries for each other's affection and loyalty.
There are some very dark moments. Oddly enough, one extremely upsetting example comes right smack dab in the middle of possibly my favorite arc of all. But it's also funny and endearing - and sometimes quite romantic - with lots and lots of memorable characters. Oh, and the score can be positively GORGEOUS - as can the boys, heh heh.
In fact while, as I say, SOME VERY DARK MOMENTS here and there, my biggest hesitation in recommending it to someone who likes thoughtful tv with complicated and ethical characters is that I'm ultimately rather displeased by where the show goes. It's tough; I could do like some fans do and tell friends to leave off watching at the end of season 2 or 3 (but a person wouldn't want to miss out on the stellar end of season 3, imho!) but there are aspects of the show that stay excellent all the way to the end. It just doesn't maintain all its aspects with equal excellence, and it makes some kind of stupid (again, imho) missteps. Bleh. Battlestar! I loved you so much! Why did you have to do me like that, Battlestar?
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Battlestar! I loved you so much! Why did you have to do me like that, Battlestar?/i>
Heh. I felt that way about Gilmore Girls, only the feeling got steadily worse for, like, three or four whole seasons.
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Er... um... er... so I may have been a little misleading, actually. But Hornblower isn't unremittingly dark! It's only sometimes a bit dark! Lots of it is adventuresome and hearty! It's just that Jamie Bamber's character happens to be involved in a couple of the saddest moments. But the sadness isn't bleakness, I promise.
In brief: totally watch it. Just don't come back and kick me if you need a tissue occasionally.
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This. Right here. ;o9
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But! Handsome young men in uniforms! With swords! And Captain Pellew! And it really is kinda EPIC.
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