Argh. And more TV stuff
Feb. 10th, 2005 10:13 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thebratqueenI hate that people would make up stories like this. The entire concept behind them, that one "good" thing that came out of the tsunami is that Christians were saved, makes me want to vomit. How can anybody who supports ideas like that call themselves a human being, let alone a Christian?
Now to strip your gears, you know one of the things I like about Lost is that it does a pretty good job with its layered storytelling. This is why I suspect if any show has a shot of filling the ME void in my fannish life, Lost is going to be it. I like shows that are arc heavy, and tell big stories in subtle ways. I love how they have it together enough so that a tiny detail in one episode gets a new meaning in a later ep.
I also like how they're not being heavy-handed with it. Heavy-handed with some stuff, yeah, but they're pretty good about sitting back and letting small details sneak through without beating you over the head with them. Witness the Boone/Shannon subtext, as for example. They didn't smack us around and yell "Notice this! Notice the inappropriate relationship!!!" Instead it was just out there, and if you saw it you saw it and if you didn't, well oh well.
I'm not totally in love with it yet, but I'm liking it and you gotta start somewhere, right?
I do wish they'd drop the Kate/Jack thing, though. Kate and Sawyer are practically a little married couple right now anyway and frankly Kate and Jack are boring together. I mean both as a couple, and what being around each other brings out in them. Kate is not interesting when she's with Jack. She's barely interesting at the best of times, but when you keep her with Sawyer his chemistry clicks with hers and adds things to her that she's not bringing to the party all on her lonesome. Ditto Jack for Kate. Jack's much more interesting when he's interacting with non-Kate people. Kate and Jack around other people show facets of themselves that we don't see when they're on their own. Kate and Jack together somehow manage to smother all vague hints of interest or personality, and it kills what's otherwise a great dynamic for an ensemble show.
So that's my vote. We need the opposite of Xanya for Jack and Kate: instead of storylines that do nothing except keep them joined at the hip, we need storylines that make a decided point of keeping them as far apart as possible.
As for last night's West Wing - god I love Lord John Marbury. And it was nice to see that his character wasn't totally assasinated by Sorkin not being around. Man if anybody was vulnerable to the writing staff not getting it, it'd be him. After all these are the people who screwed up Will.
It was still frustrating, though, because this felt so much like an ep that in Sorkin's hands would have been classic West Wing, but in the current staff's hands just felt like them trying to imitate what Sorkin would do yet not quite hitting the correct notes. It felt like watching a rough draft instead of the real thing. It was still okay as it went, but made me miss the good stuff.
Tonight I have to do the million things that need doing before I go out to LA. Place your bets as to how many of them actually get done ;)
Now to strip your gears, you know one of the things I like about Lost is that it does a pretty good job with its layered storytelling. This is why I suspect if any show has a shot of filling the ME void in my fannish life, Lost is going to be it. I like shows that are arc heavy, and tell big stories in subtle ways. I love how they have it together enough so that a tiny detail in one episode gets a new meaning in a later ep.
I also like how they're not being heavy-handed with it. Heavy-handed with some stuff, yeah, but they're pretty good about sitting back and letting small details sneak through without beating you over the head with them. Witness the Boone/Shannon subtext, as for example. They didn't smack us around and yell "Notice this! Notice the inappropriate relationship!!!" Instead it was just out there, and if you saw it you saw it and if you didn't, well oh well.
I'm not totally in love with it yet, but I'm liking it and you gotta start somewhere, right?
I do wish they'd drop the Kate/Jack thing, though. Kate and Sawyer are practically a little married couple right now anyway and frankly Kate and Jack are boring together. I mean both as a couple, and what being around each other brings out in them. Kate is not interesting when she's with Jack. She's barely interesting at the best of times, but when you keep her with Sawyer his chemistry clicks with hers and adds things to her that she's not bringing to the party all on her lonesome. Ditto Jack for Kate. Jack's much more interesting when he's interacting with non-Kate people. Kate and Jack around other people show facets of themselves that we don't see when they're on their own. Kate and Jack together somehow manage to smother all vague hints of interest or personality, and it kills what's otherwise a great dynamic for an ensemble show.
So that's my vote. We need the opposite of Xanya for Jack and Kate: instead of storylines that do nothing except keep them joined at the hip, we need storylines that make a decided point of keeping them as far apart as possible.
As for last night's West Wing - god I love Lord John Marbury. And it was nice to see that his character wasn't totally assasinated by Sorkin not being around. Man if anybody was vulnerable to the writing staff not getting it, it'd be him. After all these are the people who screwed up Will.
It was still frustrating, though, because this felt so much like an ep that in Sorkin's hands would have been classic West Wing, but in the current staff's hands just felt like them trying to imitate what Sorkin would do yet not quite hitting the correct notes. It felt like watching a rough draft instead of the real thing. It was still okay as it went, but made me miss the good stuff.
Tonight I have to do the million things that need doing before I go out to LA. Place your bets as to how many of them actually get done ;)
