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Traders
So I bought the first season of "Traders" after watching clips on YouTube (*glares accusingly at ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
with_apostrophe*) and we watched the first four episodes last night. It's fun! Who would have thought a show about stock trading could be this entertaining?
Sally Ross reminds me a lot of Elizabeth from SGA, except she's like a version of Elizabeth who actually achieved what the SGA writers never quite managed to do with the character -- strong without being bitchy, tough without being abrasive, vulnerable without being maudlin, moral without being cloying.
Grant is, of course, adorable. And so is Donald, whose eager-puppiness is a nice contrast to everybody else's "sharks with blood in the water" sort of mentality.
I'm still having to work to sell myself on Jack. There were some nice scenes with him and his father, but I'm having trouble getting past his corporate ruthlessness. With a character like Marty or Adam, you relate to them first as a total bastard and any shreds of human decency they may manage to muster are a nice bonus. With Jack, I feel like we're supposed to relate to him as a sympathetic character (a "nice guy" as opposed to the not-nice guys like Marty), but there's enough of the bastard in him that it's hard to empathize with him on that level.
ETA: Can people PLEASE not put spoilers in the comments, even vague ones? My favorite way to watch a show is completely unspoiled -- it's basically impossible in SF fandom to do that, but since Traders is kind of an obscure show, I really have no idea at all what's going to happen next and I like that. I'm sure I'll be wanting to talk about events in the more advanced seasons when I get there, but I'd really appreciate it if discussion could be restricted to the part of the series that I've seen (which is up to episode 7, as of tonight). I don't want to know which characters stick around, I don't want to know how the relationships develop, I don't want to know ANY of that.
with_apostrophe*) and we watched the first four episodes last night. It's fun! Who would have thought a show about stock trading could be this entertaining?Sally Ross reminds me a lot of Elizabeth from SGA, except she's like a version of Elizabeth who actually achieved what the SGA writers never quite managed to do with the character -- strong without being bitchy, tough without being abrasive, vulnerable without being maudlin, moral without being cloying.
Grant is, of course, adorable. And so is Donald, whose eager-puppiness is a nice contrast to everybody else's "sharks with blood in the water" sort of mentality.
I'm still having to work to sell myself on Jack. There were some nice scenes with him and his father, but I'm having trouble getting past his corporate ruthlessness. With a character like Marty or Adam, you relate to them first as a total bastard and any shreds of human decency they may manage to muster are a nice bonus. With Jack, I feel like we're supposed to relate to him as a sympathetic character (a "nice guy" as opposed to the not-nice guys like Marty), but there's enough of the bastard in him that it's hard to empathize with him on that level.
ETA: Can people PLEASE not put spoilers in the comments, even vague ones? My favorite way to watch a show is completely unspoiled -- it's basically impossible in SF fandom to do that, but since Traders is kind of an obscure show, I really have no idea at all what's going to happen next and I like that. I'm sure I'll be wanting to talk about events in the more advanced seasons when I get there, but I'd really appreciate it if discussion could be restricted to the part of the series that I've seen (which is up to episode 7, as of tonight). I don't want to know which characters stick around, I don't want to know how the relationships develop, I don't want to know ANY of that.
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