![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Meanwhile, on other shows ...
Shockingly, I'm actually watching other shows besides LoM! Amazing, I know. I just keep forgetting to post anything about them. Mostly because I haven't really been blown away by anything dazzling.
I went into my thoughts on the "Ghostfacers" episode of Supernatural in this comment thread over here. Now we're caught up on the latest and ... I kinda just want to write this season out of my personal canon. This wasn't a bad episode, but it's gotten to where I'm so braced to cringe when I watch the show that I'm not even enjoying the good bits anymore, especially since the show seems determined to live down to pretty much every low expectation that I have. And, no, I don't know why SPN is getting to me so much worse on the race & gender stuff than most of the other things I watch. But it is.
None of the recent NCIS episodes have really knocked my socks off, either. This past week's ... I kept feeling all through the episode that Ziva was wildly OOC. Her reaction didn't make sense -- this is a woman whose shot and killed her brother in her first episode on the show, for pete's sake. I really like Ziva as a character, and I generally quite like the episodes where we see beneath her facade to the person inside, but her shell-shocked behavior just felt wrong for her. It was like they'd written the episode for a different character and then retrofitted it to Ziva at the last moment.
I don't even remember the last few episodes all that well. They've been enjoyable enough while I was watching them but not, apparently, memorable in particular. Well, except for the dog episode, which stuck in my head mainly because I disliked the whole idea of the dog getting more sympathy than the guy who was mauled by the dog. I get that Abby's softhearted and can be a bit flighty when she's distracted by something, but considering how protective of her friends she normally is, I couldn't help feeling that her condemnation of McGee for shooting the dog in self-defense was a bit over the top.
Is that all I'm watching right now? I guess it is. Of course, I'm also re-watching LoM again from the beginning, so it's not as if I'm suffering for lack of entertainment.
I went into my thoughts on the "Ghostfacers" episode of Supernatural in this comment thread over here. Now we're caught up on the latest and ... I kinda just want to write this season out of my personal canon. This wasn't a bad episode, but it's gotten to where I'm so braced to cringe when I watch the show that I'm not even enjoying the good bits anymore, especially since the show seems determined to live down to pretty much every low expectation that I have. And, no, I don't know why SPN is getting to me so much worse on the race & gender stuff than most of the other things I watch. But it is.
None of the recent NCIS episodes have really knocked my socks off, either. This past week's ... I kept feeling all through the episode that Ziva was wildly OOC. Her reaction didn't make sense -- this is a woman whose shot and killed her brother in her first episode on the show, for pete's sake. I really like Ziva as a character, and I generally quite like the episodes where we see beneath her facade to the person inside, but her shell-shocked behavior just felt wrong for her. It was like they'd written the episode for a different character and then retrofitted it to Ziva at the last moment.
I don't even remember the last few episodes all that well. They've been enjoyable enough while I was watching them but not, apparently, memorable in particular. Well, except for the dog episode, which stuck in my head mainly because I disliked the whole idea of the dog getting more sympathy than the guy who was mauled by the dog. I get that Abby's softhearted and can be a bit flighty when she's distracted by something, but considering how protective of her friends she normally is, I couldn't help feeling that her condemnation of McGee for shooting the dog in self-defense was a bit over the top.
Is that all I'm watching right now? I guess it is. Of course, I'm also re-watching LoM again from the beginning, so it's not as if I'm suffering for lack of entertainment.
no subject
no subject
no subject
no subject
no subject
... speechless ...
...
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!
I ... I don't know where to BEGIN on the wrongness.
Maybe it will die a quick and merciful death ...
no subject
One can only hope. In the meantime, I'll have to keep telling friends that the real LoM isn't anything like that travesty and is, in fact, stunningly awesome and worth watching over and over again.
no subject
Sigh. Why couldn't they just take the concept, and go with it? Why use the same names and situations and lines and everything? I guess I just don't really get why you couldn't simply show the original. Are people that afraid of "foreign" stuff in the US? (I've seen this done to other shows, and the result is usually... um. Of doubtful quality? When it works at all. I'm thinking of the US Red Dwarf pilot, here.)
...okay, I'll stop invading your discussion now. *g*
no subject
I really don't get the American tendency to remake foreign stuff, either. And they typically get the basic trappings while missing whatever made the original good -- in this case, it looks like they've remade it as a typical Hollywood action show. (A big, muscular, buff Sam? The mind boggles!) The odd, sweet, sad, moody, slightly creepy vibe of the original is just gone. And I don't understand, either, why they can't just take the general idea and make something that's distinctly and uniquely itself, rather than a poor remake of a very good and quirky show.
You rarely see foreign anything on TV here (except for anime, but even then it's usually cut and dubbed), except on certain channels that are devoted to it. BBC America is, obviously, all British shows all the time, and I'm pretty sure they showed Life On Mars as part of their programming. But even something as well-known as Red Dwarf or Dr. Who runs late at night on PBS (our public -- i.e. non-commercial -- network). You just don't see foreign shows on prime-time TV, and never anything subtitled. I think it's incredibly sad that there's this whole world of excellent shows and movies that just don't get broadcast here; it's like a vicious circle where Americans don't pay much attention to the rest of the world, so network executives don't schedule international programming, so Americans pay even less attention to the rest of the world ... it's sad.