which kind of crap do you want to watch today?
The kind where the last thirty seconds of every episode are pasted on and feature some couple that has nothing to do with the rest of the show? They're called Grissom/Sara or something. :P (CSI
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"an improv fest where you can tell that everyone was having *way* too much fun filming" actually sounds like it could be fun. Or really painful, depending. I mean, you could tell that everyone had tons of fun during the latest Supernatural ep, too, and yet I hated it so much that it almost managed to single-handedly kill my massive love for that show.
CSI: Argh. Personally, I think Grissom/Sara would be difficult enough to do well if they actually devoted some attention and skill to it, but pastede on yay!, it sounds painful.
SG1: Exposition Is Them. I occasionally watch it with my boyfriend and it regularly sends me into frothing-at-the-mouth rants. How can people who made it to paid writers of a successful TV show be so damned clumsy?
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*lol*
Actually, it's the only fandom I'm really in, on LJ. All the other stuff I pretty much watch by myself. That's why I'm staying. I love my flist's thoughts on it, no matter how stupid the show is. :)
an improv fest [...] actually sounds like it could be fun. Or really painful, depending.
Well, for me it's fine. For once. I usually don't like it when they go overboard, but that show is about nothing else. It's built around the lead's slapstick talent. So it's fine with me. He's pretty good, actually.
How can people who made it to paid writers of a successful TV show be so damned clumsy?
Word.
Grissom/Sara would be difficult enough
They're doing wuite well in the not-pasted-on parts, actually. For CSI, at least. They're totally understating everything so noone is 'bothered by pesky private life romance'. Except for those hammer-scenes at the end. I don't get it. I am way too addicted after more than 6 seasons to quit now, though.
I mean, you could tell that everyone had tons of fun during the latest Supernatural ep, too, and yet I hated it so much that it almost managed to single-handedly kill my massive love for that show.
Oops. I can imagine that the show doesn't really lend itself to being mocked.
I still don't watch it, though, so this really goes way over my head. I have seen Skin now, but don't really see the relevance for an arc so far. Also, it had way too many logic holes for me. I'm hoping that will get better. I'm so not for the weaponry fetish, either. *cringe* But as you can tell from the number of shows on my list right now, it will take a while until I get around to the stuff I'm not really invested in yet.
Oh, btw, I did watch one ep of Starsky and Hutch, too. It is painfully reminiscent of everything I watched in the eighties. Okay, they're from the seventies, so they really hold the copyright on all that stuff. I imagine they were pretty trendsetting. The slash is overwhelming, even my husband was impressed. Also, I like the guy who plays Starsky. He's actually a really good actor from what I could tell from that one ep. The other one: more on the painfully bad side. :(
What really struck me most was how theatrical it all was then. The long shots, the actual *acting* by these guys. You can tell they all have theatre experience and it is a welcome change from the rapid cuts they do nowadays.
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Oh, it's not that at all - there are many aspects of the show that lend themselves fabulously to being mocked. Dean's womanizing, for example. But that's not really what they did - they showed the characters mocking each other in what looked to me like a really hateful, contemptuous way. To me, it looked like a complete denial of the love between those two, like the total opposite of everything I love about the show. The only way I can explain this ep to myself is by fanwanking/pretending that they were a lot more influenced by the bad guy than the show really admitted to.
I still don't watch it, though, so this really goes way over my head. I have seen Skin now, but don't really see the relevance for an arc so far.
I don't think the arc has started yet at Skin. First ep of the arc is the one with the visions.
Anyway, I mostly love it for the Dean!angst, and the best parts of that also start later.
Starsky and Hutch is a little hit-and-miss - there are some truly awful eps. The third season is by far the best. Martha and me are through with it now, so you can have that one when you come over on my birthday.
You can tell they all have theatre experience and it is a welcome change from the rapid cuts they do nowadays.
I really enjoy that. The pace is slow enough that we can actually talk about how insanely slashy the previous scene was or something like that without losing three different important plot points in the five seconds we're not paying attention.
Although it does get too much occasionally - there are some eps that are just painfully slow.
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