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shadowkatFinished binge watching Legacies - I was about eight episodes behind. So watched four last weekend and four this weekend. Last week's episode was worth the effort, entitled The Boy Who Still Have More Good to Do -- it was an excellent episode. Legacies is doing a better job than Vamp Diaries and Buffy in exploring all the characters, in particular POC, and doing it without falling into cliches, overdone tropes, or stereotypes. I was rather impressed with Milton Greasely's story, and the three boys going to help MG confront his parents during Spring Break, only to have it blow up in a big way in their faces.
Rafe's character is also far more complex than Tyler was in the Vamp Diaries, or OZ in Buffy.
The character development and the development of the vampires, witches, werewolves, and world building is actually pretty good. Was rather impressed. Granted some of the episodes are rather on the cheesy side, but it is inventive in regards to monsters. Tight plotting for the most part, as well.
The Vamp Diaries universe was pretty much conceived by Kevin Williamson and Julie Plec. Kevin Williamson was the creative talent behind Scream movies and Dawson's Creek. And they are good at plotting. The plot moves quickly. And it's not all that predictable -- certainly didn't see this episode coming.
There's a great scene, actually a couple of great scenes with Kaleb, who is rapidly becoming one of my favorite characters. Actually I like everyone but the Saltzman Twins, who are annoying and not very likable. When they disappeared for a couple of episodes, I barely noticed. We do need a few more women characters though. The Vamp Diaries Universe has always been a bit weak in regards to its female character, very male heavy. But I've hopes they'll develop Emma and Penelope more -- both have potential.
Annoyed Dorian took off -- want him back. That was in the last episode, which didn't quite work as well and wasn't quite as good as this episode. The series is at its best when it focuses on familial relationships and friendships. It's not that good at romantic relationships or love triangles. This seems to be true of most television serials, or so I've noticed.
2. Rosewell, New Mexico -- is getting better each week. This week's episode was quite good, and delved even deeper into the characters, also the underlying mystery of what happened years ago to Rosa, and for that matter to Isabel and why.
I'm rather impressed by it. It's doing a good job of not just focusing on the romantic entanglements and building it's world and looking at the broader picture.
How the aliens coming to Rosewell changed a lot of people -- and not for the better.
3. Grey's Anatomy -- was interesting this week, better in some respects than last. (I'm struggling with the character of Maggie Pierce, I keep wanting to smack her -- this week a few people did it for me.)
The interesting thing about Grey's -- is it gets a lot of mileage out of "foot in mouth" disease. Most if not all of the conflicts on Grey's are caused by folks not being mindful of what they are saying. And hurting each other irreparably as a result, or creating a misunderstanding, because the other person took their words the wrong way.
Also everyone talks a mile a minute and devolves into a sort of nervous chatter. Meredith has calmed down a bit as has Alex. But a lot of the others haven't.
I find it interesting -- because being a long-time sufferer of foot-in-mouth disease myself? I can relate.
4. I tried the second season of the Big Family Cooking Showdown -- and they completely and utterly ruined it. It's now unwatchable. They changed it to two pretty young twenty-something chefs (who are insanely annoying and think way too highly of themselves, as opposed to the two seasoned sixty-something cooking chefs and teachers from the previous season who were utterly charming), and four families (made up of what appears to be four-five people each) in an airy window lined studio at wooden tables in rows behind each other, all cooking at the same time -- without any hosts (last season we had Nadyia and another lovely host -- who both had to drop out). At the end of each episode one family leaves. Ugh. I flipped it off immediately. It looked annoying and unbearable and like all the other cooking competitions are -- which I find unwatchable.
Such a shame, considering how utterly charming and engaging and comforting the first season was.
Rafe's character is also far more complex than Tyler was in the Vamp Diaries, or OZ in Buffy.
The character development and the development of the vampires, witches, werewolves, and world building is actually pretty good. Was rather impressed. Granted some of the episodes are rather on the cheesy side, but it is inventive in regards to monsters. Tight plotting for the most part, as well.
The Vamp Diaries universe was pretty much conceived by Kevin Williamson and Julie Plec. Kevin Williamson was the creative talent behind Scream movies and Dawson's Creek. And they are good at plotting. The plot moves quickly. And it's not all that predictable -- certainly didn't see this episode coming.
There's a great scene, actually a couple of great scenes with Kaleb, who is rapidly becoming one of my favorite characters. Actually I like everyone but the Saltzman Twins, who are annoying and not very likable. When they disappeared for a couple of episodes, I barely noticed. We do need a few more women characters though. The Vamp Diaries Universe has always been a bit weak in regards to its female character, very male heavy. But I've hopes they'll develop Emma and Penelope more -- both have potential.
Annoyed Dorian took off -- want him back. That was in the last episode, which didn't quite work as well and wasn't quite as good as this episode. The series is at its best when it focuses on familial relationships and friendships. It's not that good at romantic relationships or love triangles. This seems to be true of most television serials, or so I've noticed.
2. Rosewell, New Mexico -- is getting better each week. This week's episode was quite good, and delved even deeper into the characters, also the underlying mystery of what happened years ago to Rosa, and for that matter to Isabel and why.
I'm rather impressed by it. It's doing a good job of not just focusing on the romantic entanglements and building it's world and looking at the broader picture.
How the aliens coming to Rosewell changed a lot of people -- and not for the better.
3. Grey's Anatomy -- was interesting this week, better in some respects than last. (I'm struggling with the character of Maggie Pierce, I keep wanting to smack her -- this week a few people did it for me.)
The interesting thing about Grey's -- is it gets a lot of mileage out of "foot in mouth" disease. Most if not all of the conflicts on Grey's are caused by folks not being mindful of what they are saying. And hurting each other irreparably as a result, or creating a misunderstanding, because the other person took their words the wrong way.
Also everyone talks a mile a minute and devolves into a sort of nervous chatter. Meredith has calmed down a bit as has Alex. But a lot of the others haven't.
I find it interesting -- because being a long-time sufferer of foot-in-mouth disease myself? I can relate.
4. I tried the second season of the Big Family Cooking Showdown -- and they completely and utterly ruined it. It's now unwatchable. They changed it to two pretty young twenty-something chefs (who are insanely annoying and think way too highly of themselves, as opposed to the two seasoned sixty-something cooking chefs and teachers from the previous season who were utterly charming), and four families (made up of what appears to be four-five people each) in an airy window lined studio at wooden tables in rows behind each other, all cooking at the same time -- without any hosts (last season we had Nadyia and another lovely host -- who both had to drop out). At the end of each episode one family leaves. Ugh. I flipped it off immediately. It looked annoying and unbearable and like all the other cooking competitions are -- which I find unwatchable.
Such a shame, considering how utterly charming and engaging and comforting the first season was.
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Date: 2019-03-11 06:53 am (UTC)Yes to Kaleb and I thought that was just me about the twins.
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Date: 2019-03-11 12:39 pm (UTC)Hee. I was wondering much the same thing -- but definitely not just you. The writers don't appear to know how to develop them without falling into cliché or overdone tropes? I've noticed a pattern in both this series and Vamp Diaries (don't know if Originals was similar?) -- which is that the writers seem more comfortable with and more interested in the male characters, male perspective, and dynamic than the female characters. It's a major weakness. They need to fix that.
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Date: 2019-03-11 04:15 pm (UTC)Yes it was.
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Date: 2019-03-11 04:34 pm (UTC)Then it's definitely a show-runner/writer/casting director problem. Noticing it with Rosewell, a bit too. They are also doing a far better job with the m/m romance on Rosewell than f/f on Legacies -- which is confusing and muddled. They really need to fix it, because it will hurt them in the long-run.