Comments | belantana: life: sunshine and subtlety

belantana

life: sunshine and subtlety

Jan 11, 2009 07:38

The reason I don't watch US tv shows is because they're pretty much always on commercial channels here, and I can't stand commercial channels. The ads, the blatant manipulative trailers, the way they can show all the blood and guts they want but as long as there's no f's or certain bits of anatomy it's okay for prime time.

So when my friend sat me ( Read more... )

review: life, many other things

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delgaserasca January 10 2009, 23:06:27 UTC

Welcome to the House of Joy.

And yes, Damien Lewis is a Brit :)

belantana January 10 2009, 23:09:43 UTC

I had no idea. Friends and Crocodiles was on the other night but I missed it, and I probably wouldn't've recognised him anyway.

Thank you! It is Joyous in the House of Joy, so far.

delgaserasca January 10 2009, 23:23:59 UTC

To be honest, the only other thing I've seen him in is Band of Brothers, and he plays an American in that too, lols.

The great thing about watching on DVD is you don't have to deal with adverts. And Life is a rare treat: great story paired with beautiful cinematography. I love it.

belantana January 11 2009, 01:24:09 UTC

It is very bright and beautiful. I love all the looking at the sky and squinting in the sun. And I also love your icons. Heeee!

And I like picking the oh-so-obvious ad breaks, haha.

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midvacent January 11 2009, 10:36:29 UTC

Lolz, YES! I love Life. And that's double meaning for me too. :D

belantana January 11 2009, 23:37:51 UTC

Indeed! They must've thought long and hard before commiting to such an ambiguous title.

midvacent January 12 2009, 08:50:49 UTC

You would think think so... you know, I never really thought about it before. I'm just so used to House and Lost and Dark Angel (which was awesome but didn't really have anything to with the characters or plot.) But yes, some american made tv can be completely FTW! as you now know. Can I offer the new BSG as another wonderful example.

belantana January 12 2009, 23:17:10 UTC

BSG: duly noted and filed!

hestia8 January 12 2009, 18:44:19 UTC

I LOVE Life, it's a gorgeous show. Also you can probably see why I keep banging on about the similarities between Charlie and Lucas now!

There are two series, 12 or 13 episodes each, I think. Maybe.

belantana January 12 2009, 23:19:01 UTC

I must've skimmed over the name Charlie when I didn't know who he was, because I didn't notice you banging on about it - but YES, Life handled the whole returning-from-prison thing so much better than Spooks.

hestia8 January 13 2009, 13:16:28 UTC

I imagine that's what most people did...

Yeah, I was rereading my s7 recaps and Lucas seems like someone who's maybe been away for 8 months, not 8 years - I don't think there should have been as much of a disconnect as there was with Charlie, but i know the phone I had in 2000 was some clunky thing with a tiny screen that could store 10 texts, and now I have a phone that stores photos, music, video, 500 texts etc. Camera phones. Phones with colour screens. POLYPHONIC RINGTONES, for goodness' sake.

And that's just one aspect of life. And obviously the show's set up slightly differently, so I'm not expecting them to spend as much time on it, but couldn't they have done something about it?

...that was probably more of a reaction than you were expecting ;) I'm off to work on my Life-themed fic.

belantana January 13 2009, 22:06:28 UTC

Haha, all so true. I imagine Lucas wouldn't be one to bring attention to the differences like Charlie does, but I can see him frowning a bit at a modern phone, or taking a few seconds to open it or something. And for the zillionth time, Spooks passes up one tiny tiny change which could've made such a difference.

Which is where your Life-themed fic comes in, I suppose. Yay!

Bizarrely, it's the everyday things I want to see more of, even though it's the massive fundamental changes to the intelligence system which are the major plot flaw. I presume there eventually was a debriefing, but it didn't take the months it would have to for Lucas to be up-to-speed.

lost_spook January 12 2009, 19:55:37 UTC

Sounds good. You've sold it to me. I shall have to keep an eye out, but it sounds the sort of thing that is only on Sky over here.

belantana January 12 2009, 23:22:16 UTC

As I said to Han, it deals with the return-to-the-real-world after prison thing so much better than Spooks does. ("A phone in your pocket? It's like the future!") I hope you manage to get your hands on it, and enjoy it!

hestia8 January 13 2009, 09:36:33 UTC

It's on ITV 3 if you have freeview/one of the non-sky packages. I'm not sure if it's on atm, but it'll probably be repeated soon.