Comments | ascetic_hedony: TV from the sickbed

ascetic_hedony

TV from the sickbed

Nov 09, 2010 11:06

Another bout of sickness, nearly over, and I've been alternating between exploring my HDDs and reading. I'm also fairly up to date on my current 'must watch' list.
( cut for some spoilers )

tv, update

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sassie_collins November 9 2010, 08:35:22 UTC

As usual our viewing habits are fairly similar ;)
Love Nikita and Vampire diaries (the books were HORRIBLE), and season 3 of fringe is rocking hardcore.

I'm still loving supernatural, though last weeks Twilight episode left me a little cold ;)

ascetic_hedony November 9 2010, 13:23:46 UTC

Oh noes, an ugly vampire, how could it be?
Oh look, more dead women in cages - must be Supernatural.
Yeah, guess I'm just a little over Supernatural. I've got a bit to catch up on with Fringe, I started season one a couple of days ago.
Did you try atching The Gates? It had some potential, though it was pretty dodgy at times.

sassie_collins November 9 2010, 20:14:37 UTC

The Gates? Never heard of it. I do plan on trying the Walking dead though. Its getting pretty good reviews.

ravurian November 9 2010, 12:05:36 UTC

I love The Vampire Diaries, much more than I ever anticipated I would. Which is to say, after the Buffy/Angel/Twilight/Moonlight's of the past decade, I thought I'd reached saturation point with angsty 'raise-your-own-girlfriend' dramas, in which creepy older (dead) men perve on and occasionally eat (in a literal sense) teenage girls. TVD is, however, not that show. I mean, ostensibly it is, because the premise is not too dissimilar, but it's somehow much healthier in tone than its contemporaries and predecessors. It's a show full of smart, capable people who are not pared of their individuality in order to occupy US-specific high school stereotypical niches, or written as stupid because the subtleties of youthful inexperience are harder to write*. I mean, how refreshing to see young people on TV who aren't defined solely by their gender, issues, talents, or social class! And how nice to see a genre show where the passive, lazy and (frankly) boring idea of predestination is absent. So far, there is no prophecy, no fate, no doom (long ( ... )

ascetic_hedony November 9 2010, 13:19:33 UTC

Ah, you're alive ( ... )