lyssie | On another subject: TV

1. Is anyone watching Scandal? I've only seen the first two episodes, but I found it entertaining. I don't think it's particularly GOOD tv, but I have this thing for the kind of things they do (sneaking onto crime scenes! Protecting madames who are grandmas!). The only sour note is the eye-roll-worthy "OMG OLIVIA LOVES THE PRESIDENT AND SHE IS HIS TRU LUV" and the attendant "she can't resist him" nonsense.

2. I watched the second and third seasons of Wish Me Luck. I liked them both, but they were very different from each other. The second continued where the first left off, but the third deviated and went to a different plot-line. And at the end, Liz got to be Christine Granville for a bit (and Miss Ashley continued to be Vera Atkins). I do think the third focused more on the male characters than the first two did--and I didn't enjoy that as much, but I also preferred it to one of the plot-lines from the second series which was baffling in its stupidity (and I don't normally dislike female characters, but I kept wanting to slap Vivian during the second season.)

3. Revenge--er, I haven't seen last night yet. But I've seen last week. AND I HAD FORGOTTEN HOW MUCH I MISSED IT. Show, never go away for that long again, please. Though, erm, one of the new plotlines felt rather shoe-horned in. (I just looked James Purefoy up. Suddenly, the reason for my urge to punch him in the face when he appeared is explained. I hated him in Resident Evil)

4. WHAT am I going to do once the last episode (of series two) of Scott and Bailey airs next week? This show is amazing and ridiculous, and I love it so. Every week, I sort of make gleeful noises as the credits roll. (RACHEL AND JANET AND GILL, HOW ARE YOU ALL SO AMAZING?) Also, I love that half the significant conversations occur in bathrooms and hallways and stairwells. eta: also, 2x7 had Melody Pond meeting Idris. hahahah.

5. Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries continues to be somewhat entertaining, if sometimes a little... uncomfortable in the way it treats the ~Orient~. I continue to miss Mac deeply.

6. My thoughts on the new season of Eureka are... spoilery. I'll have to make a different post at some point.

7. I'm two episodes behind on Missing, Person of Interest is still on hiatus (I think?), and I think that might be all of the currently-airing TV I watch. Hrm. (Leverage will be back July 15th, according to TNT's site. HURRAH)

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Just a heads up, new POI tonight!

whoot!

LJ ate my first comment :(

Basically, I agree with your thoughts on Scandal. But I also have a weakness for Kerry Washington so that could also play a part. Love Revenge and Missing. Missing needs more women, though.

Eureka...I shall look forward to those thoughts :)

Oh, I really like Olivia! It's just the stupid TRUE LUV sub-plot which is eye-rolly. I think she's really awesome and compelling, and I love how she's in charge and no one questions it.

Missing does need more women, though aren't there Becca, Violet and Oksana as well as Washington DC lady? I guess that isn't as many as there could be, though. (basically, I wouldn't have minded Sylvie hanging round instead of Giancarlo)

The 'true love'/can't resist him thing is just silly. There were ways to do a connection between those two characters without making it so nausea-inducing.

I guess it's not so much that Missing needs more women as I think they need to give their current female characters more screen-time? Other than Becca, of course. And it'd be nice if some of that screen-time involved interaction with each other, but that might be too much to ask for :)

YES. More screen-time, and interacting with each other. That is exactly what it needs.

I am finding Scandal to be a fun guilty pleasure. I love Olivia and I'm really hoping they drop the President storyline. Even though it looks like they won't. ~~I'd much rather see her with the District Attorney guy.~~

It's a fun show.

IKR? I sort of half-shipped it from the first time she blocked him from her client.

I'm sort of hoping the season-long plot-arc ends with her destroying the president and unseating him from office. Because that would be awesome.

I am really digging her with the DA. Olivia is the type of character that I can only ship with people who don't take her shit and he doesn't. Also they were slightly adorable in the last episode.

That would be a brilliant ending to the plot arc.

As for Eureka - I don't believe that Person A is really gone - this is Eureka after all! I was having that infamous Monty Python line echoing through my head. "I'm not dead yet!"

I caught a few minutes of POI tonight - intense is just too mild a word for it. I need to watch the whole ep to really figure out what's going on. :)

I'm'a wait until I've gotten up a spoiler post before commenting on Eureka.

5. Yes, and I'm not entirely sure why they used Mandarin when almost all the Chinese people in Australia at this time were Cantonese speakers.

And hurray for more Leverage!

5. ... that is really weird. I wonder if they just didn't bother doing the research?

1. I like Scandal. I would love it if not for the president thing. Olivia is just so awesome when she makes people do whatever she wants.

3. This was Emily I fell in love with. I also find it amusing that the Graysons are right - it's all Amanda Clarke fault. They just blame wrong one.

7. i feel like Missing is getting more and more ridiculous and at the same time I find it highly entertaining. I just try to avoid thinking and enjoy the action and Becca being badass.

1. YES. That was why I fell in love with the show. Olivia says jump, everyone says "how high". and there's none of that "You're a woman, prove you can be better than us" bullshit.

3. AHAHAHAH. So very true. OH, Graysons. Tsk, tsk, tsk.

7. Becca hitting things is pretty much the reason I watch it. *is shallow*

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