TeeVee Observations

[synabetic]

Since I'm here on LJ posting, I might as well dip into some observations about my TV watching habits that I find... most perturbatory.

First off, my favourite shows currently are Life, Dexter and Burn Notice. Notice how these aren't fantasy / sci-fi shows. If you know me then you will know this is greatly bothersome, as I'm a huge (like 900 feet!)

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[idsharman]

I was watching breakfast TV the other morning and they were previewing the new season of Heroes (which starts tomorrow) and the presenter said something like "the thing that amazes me about Heroes is that they keep coming up with new characters with new superpowers, I just don't know how they get all these new ideas." I have never wanted to reach into the TV and throttle someone so much in my entire life (and I watched the Obama/McCain debate the other night). I'm sick of hearing how it's about super heroes but it's "not like comics." Fuck off...it's exactly like comics. Only not as good.

[synabetic]

Yeah, Heroes is not only like comics, but it recycles old comic plots.

And characters.

The German guy who's into magnetism. You can't tell me those South American twins weren't inspired by New Mutants. The clone thing popping up now... Clone Saga. The show drips with cliche X-Men pathos. I'm just waiting for a blind supe to pop up. Maybe deaf. Disabled in some way so they can have disabledevil. The prison breakout was just like the first issue of New Avengers... and hey, wasn't Electro involved with that?

There's more to be sure.

Now, that's just me being cynical. I understand they can only come up with so much new stuff, which is why I try not to care. But they keep throwing more and more in without resolving anything.

We'll see, I guess, but I don't blame you for getting miffed at that presenter. Original and new ideas my hairy ass.

[poh]

"I suppose if I want good fantasy I can just watch the History Channel."

Man, I dunno how many times when I was a kid/young teen I'd flip the channels and catch some cartoon that looked like some kinda sword & sorcery bad-assery epic and it turned out to be some Bible story. Damn, I'd get pissed because I know they wouldn't do the good blood n' gots stories, nooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! I'd get all the stories about saying "sowwy" to God. :|

[wire_mother]

"I suppose if I want good fantasy I can just watch the History Channel."

i thought that you were specifying good fantasy.

i can't think of many serious attempts at a good fantasy (period, not urban) show. there were Xena and Hercules, that Robin Hood with Jason Connery which i haven't seen but am told is pretty good, and, um, Thundarr the Barbarian (which was better than it had any right to be - though that may be the rose-colored glasses of time). maybe Hawk the Slayer, but then you're starting to head down the road that leads to Beastmaster and Roar.

[dragon_smoke]

From the written description The Mentalist sounded like a "We R Seriuhs" version of Psych so we didn't bother to watch it. We love Psych!Fringe- watched the 1st ep and liked it, but my PVR is filling up with other eps while I watch more brain candy-ish type of stuff, like

[kevenn]

Ah, Babylon 5! That was (still is!) my shit!!! :D