Random TV notes-Warehouse 13, Doc Martin, Leverage, The LA Complex

[karaokegal]

Also a quickie at the end about The Hour and Sherlock.

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[book_junkie007]

I heard of the LA Complex back in January(?) when it first started airing because Kaylee from Firefly plays Raquel. I haven't gotten around to it though as there's so many shows I've gotten into which have a massive backlog of seasons (Doctor Who, Buffy). I also haven't been watching a lot of TV, either, which isn't helping. How have you been finding the eps? Are they of good quality?

I also still need to get around to watching the Hour. So many TV shows, so little time...

[karaokegal]

You REALLY need to see The Hour. Just amazing television, including a great performance by Burn Gorman in the first few episodes.

I haven't actually see The LA Complex myself. My friend Frank was selling me on it when I saw him at the Mint on Saturday, and I thought I'd pass the word on. I didn't even know that Jewel Staite
was in it. That makes it even more fannishly appealing.

[cuddyclothes]

Wow, I am amazed at so much television. I can hardly get through anything, although I've wanted to look at Warehouse 13. Supernatural also has the same problem: NOBODY IS EVER REALLY DEAD. There was a great ep this past season, "Death's Door," killing off one of the main characters. I bawled like a baby when it was over. And then he came back. As a ghost. Then got annihilated during the season finale. He will absolutely be brought back next season. That is so irritating. Bad enough the main characters die over and over again.

[karaokegal]

Now that House is gone, there's almost no shows that I'm watching in real time. Over the weekend, hubby and I usually knock of a disc of TV on both Saturday and Sunday nights or we'll back-log something like Warehouse 13 on TIVO and then watch a bunch of them.

I know people get pissed at Joss Whedon's propensity for killing off characters, but at least (with a few exceptions, like Buffy herself) when he kills a character, they are really, most sincerely dead and you can count on them to stay that way and for the surviving characters to genuinely live through the fall-out.

I won't rehash the entire House debacle, but you may remember the extent to which I railed against the cop-out aspects of that ending.

[cuddyclothes]

OH, yeah. :)

It's hard to get my husband to watch anything but a baseball game. We had our last Netflix movie for a MONTH. It's two goddamn hours! What is the problem??

So you can imagine how well we'd do with DVR.

[tourmaline1973]

"Only five actors in the UK" - we used to say the same about Australian TV. And every Australian actor ever has been in either Neighbours or Home & Away, many of them have been in both & several daytime shows too. I did wonder if Guy Pearce headed to Hollywood because he had been in everything on Australian TV and the alternative was for him to start writing The Guy Pearce Show or something similar.

[karaokegal]

the alternative was for him to start writing The Guy Pearce Show or something similar.

I'd watch that! (I still resent that he had to play his biggest dramatic scene in LA Confidential against Kim Basinger. I found her acting in that part to be truly awful and I think that her Oscar was completely undeserved.)

[cuddyclothes]

I will never forget the look he gave James Cromwell when Cromwell said something echoing someone else. Forgive my vagueness, but I saw it a long time ago.

[karaokegal]

He did some great acting in that movie; almost everyone except Ms. Basinger did. It's probably the last time I could actually stand Russell Crowe.

[msp_hacker]

I'm pretty cool with the Claudia and Jinks. She has big brother issues! He has little sister issues! Together they have sibling issues!

That, and relationships are played for the lulz in that show unless the other party is dead/about to kill someone with an artifact.

I was so pissed off after the second episode, I was going to refuse to watch the next ones until Artie got a grip about the whole Doom of the Watch thing. Because, whatever horrible thing that was going to happen was going to suck less than the world having no hope. Did they?

It took me forever to watch the last two episodes in the last season because I thought they killed the dog.

[karaokegal]

Awesome. Like I said, I'm still Artie/Claudia all the way, but the Claudia/Steve thing would be delightfully fucked up as well. Yeah, the plotting of the whole Davinci Code rip-off crap is just ludicrous, although the weirdest part of wondering who was playing the Mad Monk type only to have it be a nearly unrecognizable Brent Spiner. Also...how many premonitions of DOOOOM, are they going to bother throwing at us, when it's clear that none of it is really going to happen, Claudia is NOT going to be EEEEEEVIL etc etc. Or at least none of it will stick. The only other Syfy show I've watched is Eureka and they were also very bad about resets and anything having consequences. In fact, it drove me nuts that they went SO DARK in the last two seasons and it still all ended happily ever after. (Except for those of us who believed the only plausible ship on the show was Jack/Henry.)

[dref22]

My bro was telling me to watch Warehouse 13 recently, I think I'll give that a try!

Btw LOL @ Steven/Claudia. For a second, I thought you were talking about Dynasty. XD

[karaokegal]

HEH! I didn't even notice. (Claudia usually calls Steven "Jinksy.) The comparison is quite apt since that Steven is for all intents and purposes gay in name only and we've never even seen him flirt with a man.

[dref22]

I'm almost going to think this is a shout out to Dynasty. XD

[karaokegal]

The show is very pop-culture aware, so I wouldn't be surprised. Random characters keep asking Steve if he watches "Revenge."