Tron, Falling Skies, Merlin BB, and the Pope

[destina]

Thanks to my vacation, I've managed to get some of my brain back, though it did take a week and a half to get back to a point where I felt I could write for fun again. I was just overloaded and overstressed, I guess. Anyway, I'm happily tapping out the last of my Merlin Big Bang, which is going to land somewhere between 45,000 and 47,000 words, it

Comments

[humming_along]

The relationship between Tom and Hal and Ben is what makes Falling Skies for me. I would watch anyway for Noah Wyle, but I enjoy it because of that family. Oh dark tortured scared Ben, you break my heart.

[destina]

Me too re Noah Wylie - I've loved him since his ER days. He's really why I stuck with that show long past its prime. *g*

[castalianspring]

I totally agree with you about Tom and Hal. I really like Hal and how he views his place in the family hierarchy and such.

Heh, as much as I gripe, it was sort of nice to see Weaver hesitate about blowing the bridge. He's come a long way since the pilot and that scene really highlighted just how far. I suppose I'd much rather them be stupid for good reasons (wanting to hold onto some humanity, etc) than turn too ruthless and selfish all in the name of survival and logic.

Definitely need more Dai.

[destina]

Wow, remember when Weaver was just awful every moment he was onscreen? I'm happy that at least he has shown character growth. *g*

[castalianspring]

Ikr? He went from one of those hugely frustrating characters I dislike so much to a downright likable and sympathetic one. I'd like to see growth like that for other characters as well.

[katie_m]

Yeah, Falling Skies is just... not a well-written show, but there is intrafamilial drama and hugging and trauma and shooting aliens. So, you know, I'm in.

I will say, I give them credit for being aware that as an alien invasion story, there should be aliens. (I'm looking at you, dinosaur show that got canceled whose name I have now forgotten.)

[telepresence]

I don't understand why all the problems with Falling Skies don't bug me. I can't really say it's better than Terra Nova or Walking Dead, but Terra Nova was useless and boring and Walking Dead enrages me. Whereas I watch Falling Skies and think "Man, for a scout team trying to find a safe way past a gauntlet of alien enemies they're trying to hide from, they sure do bellow at each other across long distances a lot."...oh well

[cofax7]

Yeah, Falling Skies is just... not a well-written show,

::sigh:: yes. That's kind of where I am. I mean, yeah, the intrafamily drama is certainly dramatic, but I really wish the writing would do a better job with the characters. Thirteen episodes in we should have a much better understanding of them all, and I'm including the Mason family in that.

Frankly, for me the only one who pops out against the background is Pope, and that has entirely to do with Colin Cunningham making his hairball douchebag entertaining, even while you still want to clock him with something heavy half the time.

IOW, I want to like FS more than I do, because I should be eating it up with a spoon, and instead I keep fantasizing about how great it would be if they spent part of the special effects budget on writers like Minear, Manning, or Greenwalt...

[katie_m]

It continues to amuse me that Colin Cunningham's actual acting specialty is playing scumbags, and yet every time I see him play one I think "Major Davis! What happened to you?"

[amnisias]

Have only seen the first half of the premiere yet, but so far I'm liking. The only thing that put me off was that rather cheesy hand-holding moment between bare woken up Tom and the good doctor. I love me some romance as much as the next girl, but that was General Hospital kinda bad.....

[destina]

Heh, this show is very earnest in embracing its soapiness! I kind of love it for that. Instead of OTT soapy, it's just earnestly soapy, which is bearable, at least. :)

[deirdre_c]

Ahhh. I need to find time to watch Tron: Uprising. I immersed myself so much in the movies while I was writing my fusion fic, I know it would fill me with kickyfeet glee. (Tricia Helfer whee!)

Now. Where to find the time...

[destina]

Oh Dei. I still have your Tron/SPN open in tabs, but I am held back by my complete inability to read anything SPN right now. I've developed an aversion to any SPN fic, pretty much, which is killing me. I'm hoping the summer and a few good eps in season 8 will cure me. :/ (Because, TRON! I need your story in my life!!!)

The series is really beautiful. I'm thinking that animation is where it should have been all along; the first movie was that weird graphic overlay-slash-animation blend, and the second was computer graphics which mimic animation, and...now that they can do beautiful things with animation so cheaply, this seems like the right realm for it, and all the untold stories. PLUS, RINZLER ie TRON! :D

[deirdre_c]

Oh, no worries, honey. I certainly understand the reading block. My sympathies! I just hope the Tron fic is still there in your bookmarks when you get over it!

(That's when, not if. *g*)