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lyssie ([personal profile] lyssie) wrote2012-04-26 03:44 pm

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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[identity profile] lyssie.livejournal.com 2012-04-27 07:12 pm (UTC)(link)
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)

[identity profile] mfirefly10.livejournal.com 2012-04-28 07:59 pm (UTC)(link)
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 :)
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[identity profile] lyssie.livejournal.com 2012-04-28 08:13 pm (UTC)(link)
YES. More screen-time, and interacting with each other. That is exactly what it needs.