oh noes, he's been jimmied!
I don't know if I've said this before on this journal, but I fangirled Being Human. Seriously. A show about a vampire, a werewolf and a ghost that was much deeper than it looked like. Really. S1 was beautiful. The show had everything. George and Mitchell a happy pseudo/Clex bromance, Goerge and Nina (CHLAVIS, I know it still sounds like a venereal
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See there's SV bad, which is a mind-boggling level of taking potentially great storylines in the worst and most absurd and counter-intuitive direction possible, but at the heart of SV lies the problem of "canon said so!" and that's one thing. Though that shouldn't have had any bearing on Chloe and Davis, both being original characters.
When you get a show that, I'm assuming, there's no "canon said so!" and nothing is stopping characters from going in their organic directions, there's no excuse. And what is it with this new brand of "complex" characters where complex = asshole? Seriously, I am sick of this.
I am also sick of people pulling storylines out of their ass, or going in absurd directions for shock value. I want logical follow through damnit. Even if it's predictable, so what? If it's what needs to happen and it's well done that's WAY better than random character 180s
And Jimmy. That's when you know SV had sold out to pathological fanboys and that female viewers were no longer really welcome. They love him. The pathetic small-penis asshole who somehow manages to get the pretty girl, who's always the victim no matter what he does because the pretty girl doesn't make him the center of her world as they feel she should, and the pretty girl who has to be soundly punished for straying from him.
Chimmy was insulting enough before s8 that a strong female character, who previously admitted she regretted having sex with him because it didn't mean anything, would lower herself to being in that relationship. But in s8, particularly in the finale it reached new levels of offensive.
Other shows have no right to pull this shit.
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That's the gesture . . .
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Our tv screens are wasted on random and rather boring *ahem* scenes. When we could've had this filmed if only GAEETTAAA had picked up a video camera to research Davis's intense emotions.
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Iwillnotwritethisfromgaetaspoviwillnot
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WudithelpifIwhinedabouthavingtostudyalotandhavingbeinghumanturnintoashitshow?
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I warn you though, Gaeta's kinda omnisexual and he wants that. Because this is a better show which we are totally writing stand ins for yourselves haha and everyone's a nympho haha
Plus he's Gaeta, and Gaeta is interested in other people's sex lives. In fact, he was bugging Crashdown about his - or rather, his his ladyfriend's breasts.
But for now:
Emil: You might want to take off your shirt.
Chloe: *half-hearted* should I leave?
Davis/Emil: No. (They have tension, because Davis thinks he's going to sell him to the government or something bad)
Emil: *clears throat* It's better that you stay in case he transforms. I'd rather my body parts didn't decorate the walls.
Davis: *unbuttons shirt*
Chloe: *stares hungrily*
Emil: *gets behind camera*
Davis: You're video taping this?? *eyes start to flash red*
Chloe: *puts her hand on his chest to calm him* Davis just relax we can trust him. *keeps petting* Oooh.
Davis: *smiles shyly. Lowers voice* this isn't calming me, Chloe.
Chloe: *blushes, but peels his shirt off his shoulders and throws it on the floor*
Davis: *getting a little uncomfortable, but looks determined* Okay now what? *wishes Gaeta would go away*
Emil: We should start by encouraging your human impulses. Strong emotions, attachment. Desires . . .
Davis: *clears throat, looks down sadly*
Chloe: Davis . . . *presses against him and notices how rigid he's getting* . . . I know you're still a guy in there. That's the whole point of this. Just let that part of you out. *leans up and starts to kiss him*
Emil: *gets behind the camera* That's good, just concentrate on the human sensations . . . *turns camera on*
Davis: *pulls away from Chloe* You're videotaping this? *eyes go red again*
Chloe: Davis . . . *a little nervous, but pulls her dress off*
Davis: O_O
Chloe: *blushing* No time for modesty when it comes to saving the world, right?
haha
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Sorry show, this just winnnss. If I had show with them on it. I'd bottle red k. Hell. I'd JUG it.
hehe. You keep talking about Gaeta, and this BSG is stating to get too interesting to me. *pokes*
-We all know Chloe doesn't want to leave because she's frightened of someone else stealing Davis's virtue.
-you know how we love tension. *ahem* And beast Davis was cutelynotly menacing. I can just hear his voice here. haha.
-lol @ decorating the walls
-of course, Gaaeetttaa gets behind the camera just as Chloe turns on the nympho. he's like, something's gonna happen.
-petting while pulling out the whole 'we can do it'. She's wheedling him, she is.
-Davis reaction is too Davisy. Honest and all plastiquelike in its seduction. ON film. We needs it!
- of course the whole human thing gets Davis 'rigid'. Heh.
-I can see Dr G getting all absent at about human sensations, he forgot what he was saying didn't he?
-Oh to Davis's O_O. We always new Chloe had a kinky biatch somewhere thar.
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Wooo, "No time for modesty when it comes to saving the world, right?"
This wins
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NORIGHTTOPULLTHISSHIT. With you. So much. I mean with Smallville I expected, in the words of Sue Sylvester, to be given kitten I loved and then be punched in the face in the dead of night.
But Being Human was really organic and terribly awesome in S1. (Episode 3 had this episode where geek!Davis/George finally snags a date with a Chloe-like character, and he was utterly awkward and a sweetheart, and ended up freaking out about the sex thing and making weird animalistic noises. Then Nina finally did push him for the facts, Being a Nurse, tried to talk about his 'problem' (he never said) right when he was about to turn. Let it be said, that it ended with Villain of the Story Consummation, followed by emotional development. It wasn't like True Blood, but it was more willing to get dirty than Smallville, and then it would actually delve into motivations. I liked everyone, and it could look beyond the black and white. Now, it's just mired in creepy dysfunction and relationships I don't care about, that had nothing to do with the rest of the show.
Sorry, I'm still in mourning.
See there's SV bad, which is a mind-boggling level of taking potentially great storylines in the worst and most absurd and counter-intuitive direction possible, but at the heart of SV lies the problem of "canon said so!" and that's one thing. Though that shouldn't have had any bearing on Chloe and Davis, both being original characters.
Exactly. That last part makes me fairly apoplectic with rage.
It's liked they talked themselves into a runt with the mythos stuff and only chose the worst parts. in their 'loyalty' to mythos they screwed up more of it than they didn't. And they always went in counter intuitive directions. GRR!
No canon said so in BH, they roll where they please. And some of it. Ugh!
I mean, maybe they think it'll make George 'complex' to randomly have sex with people who taunt him because he didn't get it on with his gf for ONE DAY. but it's not. That's just shitty behavior. I don't even get where his angst comes from, he definitely is not troubled over killing someone...but he just decides everyone pressures him to much. oohh. big story!
180s suck. It's like wrapping a ball of yarn up by traling it all around your house. In the end, what you're going to remember about it is A SNARL. no storyline. SNARL.
And Jimmy. That's when you know SV had sold out to pathological fanboys and that female viewers were no longer really welcome. They love him. The pathetic small-penis asshole who somehow manages to get the pretty girl, who's always the victim no matter what he does because the pretty girl doesn't make him the center of her world as they feel she should, and the pretty girl who has to be soundly punished for straying from him.
*frames, again*
What baffles me is these people's capacity to take this drugged out, abusive storyline storyline as serious. It was a joke in more than one way, and I could have bought a Jimmyfanboy like in Glee where everything is poked fun at, but the 'seriousness' I can't take. Controlling assholes are not suddenly epic and heroic because they mosey their fingers around people's guilt buttons or because of something written 50 years ago. We don't want to hear about their insecurities every moment. Sometimes they are just assholes.
Zod after vessel. Such a left field, counter-intuitive.... And then it got ickier in s6, so I hear and in s8 (especially with Davis's antithesis to that) *wretch*
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As for Jimmy. He's a jerk. Not only that but it was such a 180 for Chloe to jump into a relationship with him in the first place after saying what she said in s4. She looked so pathetic. It really contributed to the ruin of her character, in addition to her attachment to Clark
I'm no Chlarker. I've loved their friendship in the past, but they should have let them try to get together in s6. She should have seen him pine for Lana, realized for good and all this isn't what she wants and made her peace with it. They should have introduced Jimmy and made him Clark's friend to replace Pete. I never understood why they used Jimmy the way they did.
But it's one thing I'm sick of on this show, among many things.
The girls (usually Lana, but Chloe is basically Lana in s8, so) meet some nice guy (Adam, Lex, Jason, Davis) who puts Clark/Jimmy to shame and the story ends up with them said girl terrified and begging for her life because that guy's turned psycho and is going to kill them. Like the women have to be punished.
Jimmy treated her like a possession, didn't trust her, was insecure, spied on her, cheated on her, did drugs, broke into her house, called her a cunt, etc. But he's the victim! It's *her* fault he does these things because she was a bad girlfriend, and then he gets to be the hero and she has to be eternally mourning him? It's gross.
And it makes no sense to have written Jimmy in this way in the first place. He should have been Clark's friend all along. He should have died trying to snap a picture of Doomsday tearing apart Metropolis. Nobody liked Chimmy, not the Jimmy fans or the Chloe fans. There was no need to handle either character that way and it's mindboggling. But it's obscene how Jimmy got a free pass tob e an asshole with no accountability, and then all of a sudden he's a hero.
I swear, with his downward spiral in s8. *HE* should have been the one who snapped at the end. *HE* should have been the human monster. The Fail should have been reversed. Even if Davis died because they couldn't get SW for s9, people could have appreciated the tragedy of it, especially with Bride. Also it would have had continuity - Chloe starting out holding Clark dying in her arms, then Jimmy in Bride, and finally Davis.
But no. Totally unnecessarily bad handling of all the characters. There was no reason or excuse for any of it from s6 onward.
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Did I mention he pulls the Jimmy and dares her to leave because she's not omg fulfilling all his physical needs (serious) and then blames her for his shit?
And the writers had a S2 early on, so no excuse.They had some great possible storylines for s2, along with doing an ealy!lex thing with Gerorge while his girlfriend tried to protect him and then turned to Clark, people started creating genetically designed werewolves, the whole Annie/Mitchell thing went somewhere instead of random hookups. but NONE of IT.
And that! sv s8 thing! WORD!
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I hated that after s4. it was complete...shit. Sometimes that's what i think having so many writer's on a show can do. One doesn't even watch an early ep, so he or she's like, oh yeah, she slept with some guy, lets put her with him. I bet they didn't see the ep. or they were severely asshattish. Then after than little ep was written everyone clumsily builds on it and it gets worse and worse.
Really it madeChloe look beyoond pathetic.
Lana had the whole epic love excuse. or WHATEVER.
Chloe didn't.
I remember I Chlarked for like a month, before seeing the show. I think that natural storyline resolution with Chloe coming to terms would have been great. And it could have satisfie mythos and non-mythos by bringing about a good resolution. Plus Davis could come in to play in S7.
Also, show, Jimmy and Clark were not friends, on it, barely acquaintances. he could have made a good, different Pete.
I hate the punishing women storyline for actually falling for non-asshats. ugh.
GROSS is the word.
Nobody liked Chimmy, not the Jimmy fans or the Chloe fans.
Actually I have come across exactly two people on the web. And one of them hated Chloe.
That ending would have had a symetry to it and made me cry.
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I've heard people say that in the middle of s4 the original SV creators stopped having so much involvement. I don't know if that's true, but there certainly wasn't so many continuity problems before that. Too many writers, no longer needing 22 ep seasons, pleasing the comic fans . . . all of it.
Davis shoulda been there all along haha the random paramedic who treats Lex everytime he gets shot haha
But Chloe? We got Jimmy sucking the soul out of her and then her turning into a total doormat to serve Clark's secret, giving up all her ambitions in life. Then we got her murdering people for Clark's secret, and colluding with murderers (Ollie), and then her changing motivations every scene and then . . . ugh The destruction of her character was pretty terrible.
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