A little TV talk
Oct. 17th, 2006 11:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shipperxA few comments on a few tv shows:
Nip/Tuck. Dear god this is a show populated with the most horrible people! Sean was a match for Liz, but lied about it. He has no reaction for almost killing the babysitter he fucked, because that was last week and he forgot all about it. Christian went with hypocrisy saying to latest girlfriend that he wasn't a whore when just like week he screwed Rosie O'Donnel for money, and if that isn't selling yourself, nothing is. Then the mindtrick he played on Kimber was just awful. So of course Kimber has to go seduce Matt. Right now, plotwise, I mostly think that Nip/Tuck jumped the shark last season, but it does remain populated with amazingly fascinating (as in watching a train wreck) characters. They're reprehensible, but they're relatively true to their own selfish, shallow, neurotic natures. Only decent person on the show is Liz.
Heroes. Still not great, but greatly enjoyable. Mohinder is pretty, but he isn't the brightest bulb in the box. Any box. Hiro and Ando are great though. I died laughing when Ando started to convince Hiro that they could make money off his superpower by comparing Hiro to Peter Parker. I swear, I think Ando was momentarily possessed by the ghost of Anya. They used the exact same arguments! As far as Claire using her superpower of indestructability to kill the (singing Avalanche along with the Butthole Surfers) ever present football-player rapist. I don't think that the mentions of Spiderman were an accident. I think buried in all of this was a message that it's not the powers that make someone a hero, but the choices that they make, and some potential heroes are making poor choices at the moment.
Also, how cool was Ninja from the future Hiro?
The show has many flaws, but it also brings some laughs, and some squees while watching and thus remains quite entertaining. That's all I ask.
Friday Night Lights (aka the best damn show that no one is watching.) Another excellent episode. Every week this show has managed to mine genuine emotion from its situations and has done so in a way that doesn't feel cheap. You have the football hero, Street, who was awesome in the scene where he finally lost it with Lyla, telling her that her clinging to the deluded hope that his spine will heal was killing him.
And I felt terribly sorry for Lyla as she overheard her parents talking about how she'll grow bored with Street and her love will fade away. That scene worked on every level. I can totally buy that her parents believe that because, quite honestly, don't most of us believe exactly that? On the other hand, I can see how a lovestruck good girl feels betrayed by her parents believing that. It's almost like she's being accused of being shallow, when, I think it's more that she's young and this situation is so hard to take for anyone, much less two teens.
The booster who is recruiting a player? Dude, that happens all the time so, as a plot point it made total sense, and it will no doubt lead to some problem down the line for the coach because as the coach pointed out -- that's a rules violation.
Also feel sorry for the new quarterback Sarancen (sp?) That kid is under a hell of a lot of pressure as it's becoming clear that his grandmother isn't just odd, she's unwell. Does she have Alsheimer's or something? Add in his father in Iraq, and it breaks your heart that the booster isn't willing to even give Saracen a chance to be QB, but is out (illegally) recruiting a replacement for the poor kid who is trying so hard.
It seems I was also right when thinking last week when Street's best friend kept reviewing the play tape that the friend was blaming himself for Street's injury. The confrontation between the best friend and Lyla was well done. Her hurt and anger was very visceral. The little actress did a good job because as she screamed at the friend for not being there for Street, I bought it. And it was staged well, because the scene managed to combine both characters hurt, anger, pain... and give it some sexiness such that when the embrace turned to a kiss, again, totally bought that these two messed up, stressed out kids could end up in a clinch when all those emotions and hormones were running around. In many ways, it's completely predictable that this would happen, but like most things with the show, it also rings completely true. It's easy to see how these kids ended up in that emotional place, and it's going to be equally easy to believe the denial they're both going to go into about it. The best friend is actually developing into an interesting bad boy and Street is so heartbreaking himself. With Lyla so determined to be the 'good girl' and now believing that she's betrayed Street, there's a nice minefield of relationship issues to have to work through.
Anyway, the Lyla/BadBoyBestFriend scene got me. I actually teared up as she cried and screamed at him for letting Street down. It was a well executed scene... and kinda hot.
Nip/Tuck. Dear god this is a show populated with the most horrible people! Sean was a match for Liz, but lied about it. He has no reaction for almost killing the babysitter he fucked, because that was last week and he forgot all about it. Christian went with hypocrisy saying to latest girlfriend that he wasn't a whore when just like week he screwed Rosie O'Donnel for money, and if that isn't selling yourself, nothing is. Then the mindtrick he played on Kimber was just awful. So of course Kimber has to go seduce Matt. Right now, plotwise, I mostly think that Nip/Tuck jumped the shark last season, but it does remain populated with amazingly fascinating (as in watching a train wreck) characters. They're reprehensible, but they're relatively true to their own selfish, shallow, neurotic natures. Only decent person on the show is Liz.
Heroes. Still not great, but greatly enjoyable. Mohinder is pretty, but he isn't the brightest bulb in the box. Any box. Hiro and Ando are great though. I died laughing when Ando started to convince Hiro that they could make money off his superpower by comparing Hiro to Peter Parker. I swear, I think Ando was momentarily possessed by the ghost of Anya. They used the exact same arguments! As far as Claire using her superpower of indestructability to kill the (singing Avalanche along with the Butthole Surfers) ever present football-player rapist. I don't think that the mentions of Spiderman were an accident. I think buried in all of this was a message that it's not the powers that make someone a hero, but the choices that they make, and some potential heroes are making poor choices at the moment.
Also, how cool was Ninja from the future Hiro?
The show has many flaws, but it also brings some laughs, and some squees while watching and thus remains quite entertaining. That's all I ask.
Friday Night Lights (aka the best damn show that no one is watching.) Another excellent episode. Every week this show has managed to mine genuine emotion from its situations and has done so in a way that doesn't feel cheap. You have the football hero, Street, who was awesome in the scene where he finally lost it with Lyla, telling her that her clinging to the deluded hope that his spine will heal was killing him.
And I felt terribly sorry for Lyla as she overheard her parents talking about how she'll grow bored with Street and her love will fade away. That scene worked on every level. I can totally buy that her parents believe that because, quite honestly, don't most of us believe exactly that? On the other hand, I can see how a lovestruck good girl feels betrayed by her parents believing that. It's almost like she's being accused of being shallow, when, I think it's more that she's young and this situation is so hard to take for anyone, much less two teens.
The booster who is recruiting a player? Dude, that happens all the time so, as a plot point it made total sense, and it will no doubt lead to some problem down the line for the coach because as the coach pointed out -- that's a rules violation.
Also feel sorry for the new quarterback Sarancen (sp?) That kid is under a hell of a lot of pressure as it's becoming clear that his grandmother isn't just odd, she's unwell. Does she have Alsheimer's or something? Add in his father in Iraq, and it breaks your heart that the booster isn't willing to even give Saracen a chance to be QB, but is out (illegally) recruiting a replacement for the poor kid who is trying so hard.
It seems I was also right when thinking last week when Street's best friend kept reviewing the play tape that the friend was blaming himself for Street's injury. The confrontation between the best friend and Lyla was well done. Her hurt and anger was very visceral. The little actress did a good job because as she screamed at the friend for not being there for Street, I bought it. And it was staged well, because the scene managed to combine both characters hurt, anger, pain... and give it some sexiness such that when the embrace turned to a kiss, again, totally bought that these two messed up, stressed out kids could end up in a clinch when all those emotions and hormones were running around. In many ways, it's completely predictable that this would happen, but like most things with the show, it also rings completely true. It's easy to see how these kids ended up in that emotional place, and it's going to be equally easy to believe the denial they're both going to go into about it. The best friend is actually developing into an interesting bad boy and Street is so heartbreaking himself. With Lyla so determined to be the 'good girl' and now believing that she's betrayed Street, there's a nice minefield of relationship issues to have to work through.
Anyway, the Lyla/BadBoyBestFriend scene got me. I actually teared up as she cried and screamed at him for letting Street down. It was a well executed scene... and kinda hot.
