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Two weeks of TV in one night
We've been saving up TV episodes and got all caught up tonight.
I believe that Lost and I have finally parted ways for good.
There's just ... no reason to keep watching this show, really, except a sort of vague curiosity about what's going on with the island, but I'm starting to suspect that we're never going to get a satisfactory resolution to that, either. And I don't think curiosity is worth it for how unhappy the show has been making me lately.
It's tough to put my finger on just what about it, exactly, is leaving me so disturbed. I think a lot of it is the way that it'll set you up to want a particular resolution with the characters, and then jerk the rug out from under your feet, time after time. It's like Charlie Brown and that damn football. The way they take away all the characters' power and leave them helpless and mindfucked, and then just keep twisting the knife ... it *hurts*, and not in a good way.
If they're trying to depict the island turning all the characters into paranoid, manipulative assholes, then they're doing a great job. Unfortunately, I have better things to do with my time than watch a bunch of unlikeable and whiny people manipulate each other.
(I still like Hurley. And Jin and Sun. But they're just about the only ones.)
But SPN was very squee-worthy!
So many of the shows I've been watching lately have 20-episode seasons ... I thought that this was the season finale, so it left me kind of confused at first -- and WORRIED, because there was no cliffhanger; did that mean no third season? But the season finale starts next week ... *whew*.
And oh ... oh, oh Dean. Ouch. After Lost working over my emotions in an abusive-boyfriend kind of way, I really needed this: a show where someone does the right thing, even though it hurts them, because they're a decent person and it's the right thing to do. And they get something worthwhile back from it. Ahhh. My faith in genre television is restored. *grin*
No, seriously, fun episode. I guessed the "It's a Wonderful Life" angle right off the bat, but nice twist on the Matrix-style finale. I was actually expecting something more like "The Monkey's Paw" -- with Dean wishing for a perfect suburban life and it all going horribly and ironically wrong. The reality was more poignant in some ways, perhaps less so in others, since ultimately I really don't think the decision was THAT much of a decision, especially for Dean. A false happiness is still false, and with the real Sam still out there and now facing demons alone, I couldn't see Dean choosing any other way. Once they dropped their veil, they'd lost him. Still, it was a very telling character episode, seeing Dean's idea of a perfect life and the various small ways in which his subconscious screwed it up for him. (It actually reminded me of the SGA episode "Home" in a lot of ways, especially how Season 1-era Sheppard screwed up his own alternate "perfect" reality with a similar kind of self-doubt.)
Oh, yeah, and we also watched 2x19 tonight, the prison episode, which made exponentially less sense than even an average John Shiban episode (I mean, really, Dean, the 1001 obvious holes in your "plan" -- I use the term loosely -- never occurred to you? How are you still walking around?) but it was entertaining and I liked the prison-guard twist, which I really did not see coming.
I believe that Lost and I have finally parted ways for good.
There's just ... no reason to keep watching this show, really, except a sort of vague curiosity about what's going on with the island, but I'm starting to suspect that we're never going to get a satisfactory resolution to that, either. And I don't think curiosity is worth it for how unhappy the show has been making me lately.
It's tough to put my finger on just what about it, exactly, is leaving me so disturbed. I think a lot of it is the way that it'll set you up to want a particular resolution with the characters, and then jerk the rug out from under your feet, time after time. It's like Charlie Brown and that damn football. The way they take away all the characters' power and leave them helpless and mindfucked, and then just keep twisting the knife ... it *hurts*, and not in a good way.
If they're trying to depict the island turning all the characters into paranoid, manipulative assholes, then they're doing a great job. Unfortunately, I have better things to do with my time than watch a bunch of unlikeable and whiny people manipulate each other.
(I still like Hurley. And Jin and Sun. But they're just about the only ones.)
But SPN was very squee-worthy!
So many of the shows I've been watching lately have 20-episode seasons ... I thought that this was the season finale, so it left me kind of confused at first -- and WORRIED, because there was no cliffhanger; did that mean no third season? But the season finale starts next week ... *whew*.
And oh ... oh, oh Dean. Ouch. After Lost working over my emotions in an abusive-boyfriend kind of way, I really needed this: a show where someone does the right thing, even though it hurts them, because they're a decent person and it's the right thing to do. And they get something worthwhile back from it. Ahhh. My faith in genre television is restored. *grin*
No, seriously, fun episode. I guessed the "It's a Wonderful Life" angle right off the bat, but nice twist on the Matrix-style finale. I was actually expecting something more like "The Monkey's Paw" -- with Dean wishing for a perfect suburban life and it all going horribly and ironically wrong. The reality was more poignant in some ways, perhaps less so in others, since ultimately I really don't think the decision was THAT much of a decision, especially for Dean. A false happiness is still false, and with the real Sam still out there and now facing demons alone, I couldn't see Dean choosing any other way. Once they dropped their veil, they'd lost him. Still, it was a very telling character episode, seeing Dean's idea of a perfect life and the various small ways in which his subconscious screwed it up for him. (It actually reminded me of the SGA episode "Home" in a lot of ways, especially how Season 1-era Sheppard screwed up his own alternate "perfect" reality with a similar kind of self-doubt.)
Oh, yeah, and we also watched 2x19 tonight, the prison episode, which made exponentially less sense than even an average John Shiban episode (I mean, really, Dean, the 1001 obvious holes in your "plan" -- I use the term loosely -- never occurred to you? How are you still walking around?) but it was entertaining and I liked the prison-guard twist, which I really did not see coming.