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Sorry haven't gotten a chance to respond to comments. Spent the day in meetings interviewing and evaluating consultants regarding the design of a rehabilitation/restoration of the exterior envelope of a 175 year old building. ( personal stuff )
Farscape - have come to the conclusion that the episodes focusing on Zhan are the weakest of the series. Actually in the first and second seasons...the episodes focusing on Zhan and D'Argo so far appear to be the weakest. The strongest are the ones focusing on Pilot, Cricton, and Aeryn. This could change.
Dream a Little Dream appears to be reworking of the original premiere to Season 2, Re-Union. I prefer the re-working. The original premiere was a bit over-the-top and cheesy.
(Zhan has a tendency to be a little on the touchy-feely smulchy side of the fence. I did not miss her when she left...to be honest.) It's not the actress' fault - she's actually quite good in it. The role is written unevenly. Nor is this a problem that is isolated to Farscape, every tv series I've seen has one or two characters that grate after a bit or a little goes a long way. At least with Farscape they got rid of the weak links fairly quickly and in a logical and satisfying manner. Can't say that about the others. Also, Farscape has an advantage over Lost in my book - in that I adore the lead povs, Aeryn and John, while in Lost the lead point of views, Kate and Jack - often were like Zhan, grating, which made Lost difficult to love at certain points. If you are going to have a weak link? Let it be an easily disposed of supporting character. (Granted, this is highly subjective and I'm sure someone on my flist adores Zhan, Jack and Kate and hates well, the ones I love. Such is life, or so I've discovered.)
That said, Dream a Little Dream does have some interesting bits. I found the set-up hilarious or rather the following line.
Rygel: This is an ass-backwards world, they don't have monarchies or political parties - they have ruling law firms
However, it like all shows that feel the need to denigrate a profession the writers obviously know little about outside of what they see in movies, books, and tv shows, tend to fall into cliche. It's not just the legal profession that gets this treatment, I've seen it done to librarians, publishing, academia, doctors, police, etc. Granted they do denigrate and make fun of what they do for a living too...but it tends to be less cliche when they do it for some reason. At any rate, every time I see an episode such as this one about evil lawyers, I feel an overwhelming desire to lock these folks up in law school for three years. Then, hee, force them to take the bar exam - specifically the NY or California Bar Exams (which I refuse to take, the Kansas one, the easiest or so I've heard, was bad enough. The difficulty level of the bar exam has a lot to do with the complexity of the laws in the state you are in. Which Farscape also made fun of - and I laughed, because that was on target. They said something about if there was a why for us to make things more complicated? We'd find it. And the more people who choose to or desire to practice law, the more complex the law becomes in order to accomodate them and give them something to do. I think there may be a bit of truth in that.)
The best bits of the episode were the character bits.( Read more... )
Farscape - have come to the conclusion that the episodes focusing on Zhan are the weakest of the series. Actually in the first and second seasons...the episodes focusing on Zhan and D'Argo so far appear to be the weakest. The strongest are the ones focusing on Pilot, Cricton, and Aeryn. This could change.
Dream a Little Dream appears to be reworking of the original premiere to Season 2, Re-Union. I prefer the re-working. The original premiere was a bit over-the-top and cheesy.
(Zhan has a tendency to be a little on the touchy-feely smulchy side of the fence. I did not miss her when she left...to be honest.) It's not the actress' fault - she's actually quite good in it. The role is written unevenly. Nor is this a problem that is isolated to Farscape, every tv series I've seen has one or two characters that grate after a bit or a little goes a long way. At least with Farscape they got rid of the weak links fairly quickly and in a logical and satisfying manner. Can't say that about the others. Also, Farscape has an advantage over Lost in my book - in that I adore the lead povs, Aeryn and John, while in Lost the lead point of views, Kate and Jack - often were like Zhan, grating, which made Lost difficult to love at certain points. If you are going to have a weak link? Let it be an easily disposed of supporting character. (Granted, this is highly subjective and I'm sure someone on my flist adores Zhan, Jack and Kate and hates well, the ones I love. Such is life, or so I've discovered.)
That said, Dream a Little Dream does have some interesting bits. I found the set-up hilarious or rather the following line.
Rygel: This is an ass-backwards world, they don't have monarchies or political parties - they have ruling law firms
However, it like all shows that feel the need to denigrate a profession the writers obviously know little about outside of what they see in movies, books, and tv shows, tend to fall into cliche. It's not just the legal profession that gets this treatment, I've seen it done to librarians, publishing, academia, doctors, police, etc. Granted they do denigrate and make fun of what they do for a living too...but it tends to be less cliche when they do it for some reason. At any rate, every time I see an episode such as this one about evil lawyers, I feel an overwhelming desire to lock these folks up in law school for three years. Then, hee, force them to take the bar exam - specifically the NY or California Bar Exams (which I refuse to take, the Kansas one, the easiest or so I've heard, was bad enough. The difficulty level of the bar exam has a lot to do with the complexity of the laws in the state you are in. Which Farscape also made fun of - and I laughed, because that was on target. They said something about if there was a why for us to make things more complicated? We'd find it. And the more people who choose to or desire to practice law, the more complex the law becomes in order to accomodate them and give them something to do. I think there may be a bit of truth in that.)
The best bits of the episode were the character bits.( Read more... )
