Ah, Christian Slater, how we won't miss you.
So long My Own Worst Enemy. I watched one episode and I knew this had "fail" stamped all over it. And after I sat through He Was a Quiet Man last night, the less I see of Christian Slater and his rapidly disappearing hair, the better. (The high point of that movie was me recognizing that Ms. Parker of Pretender fame in a photograph with William H
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I have been watching My Own Worst Enemy, but that's because I want to spend time with gryphonrose and because I sort of sit there stunned at the fact that Shelley Johnson could possibly be old enough now to have teenage kids! *feels ancient*
But I don't particularly like the show. And Supernatural has been getting a bit preachy, IMHO. But that may just be me rolling my eyes at their repeated lack of research. Though, according to the dictionary of Angels, Castiel is "A Thursday angel" - funny.
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My Own Worst Enemy felt rather preachy to me. darkling1 pointed out that shows that are based on a fictional trope--in MOWE's case, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde--that don't acknowledge that such fiction exists even in their fictional world feel really, really fake. It's like how Heroes was fun at first because Hiro was aware of geek traditions--comic book super heroes, Star Trek, et al. It meant that this was our world, it just also had super powers. You kind of need that, otherwise you find yourself wondering why this seems so crazy and new to everyone else...
Re: SPN--I bet that that's why they picked Castiel :P What haven't they researched? Granted, my knowledge of angels is heavily biased by things like The Prophecy, where they're not so great actually.
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Kidding. Yeah, I mean, right now, Heroes could take a pass on everything since end-of-season one with, "And then Hiro woke up," and I would probably prefer that.
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But I mean, Jekyll/Hyde literally or no, it's a pretty common story--a man split in half, good vs evil within etc. It just wasn't done well, even though Christian Slater wasn't even that bad a choice.
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In his defense however, the hair thing in HWaQM is clearly a makeup effect, even if it is going away.
It's too bad, though, I think I said this last time you brought up My Own Worst Enemy, but he really deserves to be in something that doesn't fail, and at this point it's almost entirely on the basis that he keeps trying new things. Someone who actually makes an effort to be in non-generic projects deserves some credit, and beyond that I think he's a good actor.
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I must have put this on my Netflix queue for the premise at the beginning. I really loved the idea that one homicidal gunman might be pre-empted by another. There's enough absurdity and indictment in the idea--that the second gunman is only a hero because he killed a killer instead of his original target. But yeah, the ending copped out. If he'd gone back and shot people up and proven the myth of the hero is entirely in the retelling by people who weren't there, then maybe it wouldn't have been so pointless.
In his defense however, the hair thing in HWaQM is clearly a makeup effect, even if it is going away.
Oh, I'm aware it was all makeup--the bad lip-wig, the roseate cheeks, even his teeth seemed fake. It just doesn't help Christian Slater's creep factor to accentuate those things. But I guess there's a healthy history of uglifying up people for roles.
It's too bad, though, I think I said this last time you ( ... )
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