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Dec. 17th, 2017 10:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shadowkat1. Gave up on A Christmas Story - Live -- Fox's presentation of the musical adaptation of Jean Shepard's A Christmas Story. It's horrible. Seriously, they butchered it. I made it about an hour into it before I gave up. The songs are bad, the musical numbers atrocious, and no one can sing.
No wonder it wasn't successful on Broadway, it came and disappeared.
2. Also deleted Happy -- the new Syfy series, which is...a bit too dark for me. I can't stand any of the characters, and it's gory and bleak. About a disgruntled crooked cop turned hit man, on drugs, contemplating suicide who starts seeing a tiny flying blue unicorn voiced by Patton Oswalt named "Happy" who sings an annoying ditty right out of kid's show. The unicorn is trying to convince the hitman to help him save a little girl who has been kidnapped by a store Santa Clause and put inside a crate. Meanwhile a cop is investigating a series of crimes, while her boss is corrupt sadist who is threatening her mom if she doesn't deliver...and I just, gave up. It sounded like a great premise, but the writing and production is ...very dark and grim and not in a fun way. Billy Bob Thornton's "Bad Santa" it's not.
Maybe ten years ago I could have watched it, but not now. I need light and fluffy, not dark, nihilistic, and misanthropic. I can get that just by watching the news or following national/international politics.
3. Once Upon a Time -- was flirting with deleting it, when, hmmm -- it got interesting. The person who created the curse wasn't the evil Step-mother, but the step-sister, Droodzilla, who did it to cause her mother pain and suffering. She wanted to punish her mother. And Regina had taken this girl under her wing, taught her magic, in the hopes of redeeming her and taking her on a better path than her own -- it backfired big time, and the girl learned from Regina's mistakes and created a hero-proof curse.
I'm curious how. They've also managed to change Rumple and Regina a bit, putting them on the opposite side of things...instead of them being responsible for the curse, they are the recipients of it.
Also Rumple isn't after romance, so much as redemption, so he joing Belle. He's looking for someone to pass on the burden of the Dark One.
It's still crack fic. But the twist intrigued me enough to hang in there for a bit longer. Mainly because they appear to be exploring the characters of Regina and Rumple in a new way. Unfortunately, Henry is still not that interesting and he's the lead.
No wonder it wasn't successful on Broadway, it came and disappeared.
2. Also deleted Happy -- the new Syfy series, which is...a bit too dark for me. I can't stand any of the characters, and it's gory and bleak. About a disgruntled crooked cop turned hit man, on drugs, contemplating suicide who starts seeing a tiny flying blue unicorn voiced by Patton Oswalt named "Happy" who sings an annoying ditty right out of kid's show. The unicorn is trying to convince the hitman to help him save a little girl who has been kidnapped by a store Santa Clause and put inside a crate. Meanwhile a cop is investigating a series of crimes, while her boss is corrupt sadist who is threatening her mom if she doesn't deliver...and I just, gave up. It sounded like a great premise, but the writing and production is ...very dark and grim and not in a fun way. Billy Bob Thornton's "Bad Santa" it's not.
Maybe ten years ago I could have watched it, but not now. I need light and fluffy, not dark, nihilistic, and misanthropic. I can get that just by watching the news or following national/international politics.
3. Once Upon a Time -- was flirting with deleting it, when, hmmm -- it got interesting. The person who created the curse wasn't the evil Step-mother, but the step-sister, Droodzilla, who did it to cause her mother pain and suffering. She wanted to punish her mother. And Regina had taken this girl under her wing, taught her magic, in the hopes of redeeming her and taking her on a better path than her own -- it backfired big time, and the girl learned from Regina's mistakes and created a hero-proof curse.
I'm curious how. They've also managed to change Rumple and Regina a bit, putting them on the opposite side of things...instead of them being responsible for the curse, they are the recipients of it.
Also Rumple isn't after romance, so much as redemption, so he joing Belle. He's looking for someone to pass on the burden of the Dark One.
It's still crack fic. But the twist intrigued me enough to hang in there for a bit longer. Mainly because they appear to be exploring the characters of Regina and Rumple in a new way. Unfortunately, Henry is still not that interesting and he's the lead.