Don't Look In The Rearview Mirror

[redbrunja]

HIMYM has been rather disappointing lately.

Also, I'd decided to drop Supernatural. It just hasn't been holding my interest lately and I realized that I have about five other shows I'd rather spend my time watching.

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[ryanitenebrae.livejournal.com]

Yeah, my outlook for TV shows is actually kind of depressing. (I'm not really picky, there are just few TV shows I genuinely like.) My Oh-My-God-This-Is-Amazing-I-Love-This-Show program has been canceled, and Bones is becoming . . . something. It's like a friend who starts ignoring you and acting like an idiot and you consider ending the friendship and then you have this beautiful, tender moment that reaffirms the friendship. It's just that they aren't doing anything with the plot, I can't tell where the character arcs are going, Booth and Brennan are being used more and more for comic relief . . .

Lost on the other hand, seems to have abandoned its irritating love triangle, made its less interesting characters more interesting, and is focusing less on the only character I hate(Jack, the lead. Michael's not on the show anymore,) and more on the characters I like. Also, a fantastic minor, minor character has returned with a large role, one of the main females has become inexplicably interesting in a completely different way, and they've abandoned some of their more bizarre structural aspects, and have stopped taking themselves so seriously, and even though the show's gotten weird, it somehow is working really well. I'm sort of just . . . shocked. (This is not trying to get you to watch Lost. It has a good first season, a somewhat frustrating second season, a confusing third season, and a messy fourth season. It's really not worth watching, but since I'm doing so anyway, I'm glad it's suddenly improved.)

Also, Dollhouse and Merlin should be starting soon . . .

(Sorry for randomly rhapsodizing in your Blog. Didn't mean to do that.)

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

I am in the same boat of not!awesomeness.

Bones jumped the shark when they made Zack evil and nothing they've done so far or spoilers I've heard have made me retract that opinion.

Personally, I'm on pins and needles waiting for Dollhouse to start up. THAT is a show I'm looking forward too. And likely, it will get cancalled before Joss can kill all the joy.

Also, please don't ever apologize for long comments in my lj - I love it when people care/are interesting enough to.

[ryanitenebrae.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the concept of Dollhouse intrigues me. It seems like what we'll get with the nine episodes we know we'll get will be the first seeds of a plot, some starts of characterization (Most likely centering around the lead becoming self-aware), and some tragic one-episode plots. That sounds good to me. And if we get more, cool. Joss is generally hit-or-miss with me, and the closest I've come to loving something he did, was Firefly, which I really, really like, but have a couple issues with. (Don't mind me. I've only ever truly loved two hour-long television shows in my life. Northern Exposure and Pushing Daisies.) Dr. Horrible was really fun, but fell apart at the end, and I just could never get into Buffy. Nonetheless, Dollhouse sounds really awesome, and there's at least one actor I really love that's going to be in it. I'm just hoping all nine episodes get aired in the right order.

(The actor I love, by the way, is Harry J. Lennix. He played the Chief-of-Staff on the short lived Commander in Chief, which was a show about Geena Davis becoming president. He plays an ex-cop self-loathing bodyguard, so I look forward to seeing him.)

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

*Nods*

I pretty consistantly enjoy Joss's work, although I DO have problems with it. However, since he has a tendancy to start not working for me much later in the game than the first season or two, I'm quite looking forward to Dollhouse. A writer with a good track record + an actress I really like? Sign me up!

And Lennix sounds very, very promising.

[fairest1.livejournal.com]

I figure I'll stick with Supernatural a bit longer because there's very little I want to watch that's actually going to be on the air until around mid-February.

*pulls up 'to Download' list*

Heroes -- haven't watched it in months, though I did like the developments with Sylar it was getting tiresome in nearly everything else.

The Mentalist -- Started watching it for the beautifully fucked-up main character, will see out the season if they return to that but am rather annoyed at their handling of Wicca.

Dollhouse -- February 13
Castle - March 9
Cupid - March 23
Pushing Daisies, Eureka, True Blood, Dexter - Not sure when new episodes will come.

So, Supernatural has until Dollhouse to win me over again. A positive female character who lives through more than two episodes would be a start.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I realized when I was having more fun watching Gilmore Girls and EVA that maybe it was time for Supernatural to be dropped by the wayside.

I stopped watching heroes when I went to Paris and then heard nothing good about the second season.

I can't wait for Dollhouse to start. Speaking of Pushing Daises, isn't that show cancelled?

A positive female character who lives through more than two episodes would be a start.

Wouldn't it?

[fairest1.livejournal.com]

There are three episodes of Pushing Daisies remaining. I will watch them when I can. I shake my fist at ABC for killing it just as I fell in love.

Heroes . . . I mainlined it somewhere near the end of season two, and I think it's one of those shows that works best when you watch it in a big lump; it's easier to work out all the twisty subplots that way. But the science started to come across like the adults in a Charlie Brown cartoon.

Supernatural seems to have picked up my "I'm watching it to the bitter end, dammit!" approach to a show that I last felt with X-Files. After season eight, nearly any new development automatically becomes more palatable.

And, hey, nothing else to watch until Dollhouse starts up . . .

*sigh* There's not even that many characters in general who live through two episodes. I still have my fingers crossed that Jo turns out to be an illegitimate Winchester. She kicked a reasonable amount of ass during her stint(as did her mother). Here I'll shake my fist at fandom's hatred of ovaries.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the shows dislike of the ladies got very, very old, very very fast. And now, I'm just not really interested anymore. If I knew for sure that season four was going to be the end, I think I'd be more amenable to sticking with it until the bitter end.