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1. Once Upon a Time...last night's episode, Whatever Happened to Frederick?
My difficulty with Once is three of the lead characters are starting to grate on my nerves. They are Mary Margaret, David, and Regina. I want to shake them for different reasons. And I want Emma to smack each and every one of them upside the head.
Once suffers from some of the same narrative structural issues that LOST did. I wanted to shake Jack, Kate, and Ben for some of the same reasons. Although Ben was a lot more entertaining than Regina. It's a pacing issue. They are spending a lot of time explaining who each character is and what motivates them - so there is actually more going on in the fairy tale world than the real world.
( spoilers )
2. The Good Wife - far better paced series than Once. It's also admittedly better written.
Although I found this episode a bit slow. And the case rather uninteresting and sort of sentimental. The show's at it's best when it plays on the political entanglements of its characters. At any rate, I'm happy with the resolution of the Will storyline, didn't expect them to do that. The previews lead me to believe they'd go in the opposite direction. Was just a tad disappointed they hadn't. But not overly so - it will open up things a bit more, and shake certain things up. Good Wife unlike other tv series that have a procedural angle, does evolve its characters and change things continuously.
At any rate, not nearly as much fun as the previous episode, but still great tv.
3. Downton Abbey...I sort of agree with kristin cahshore's post about Downton, which I now have to locate for you. Here: It's all about writing characters.
I agree. That's my problem with Downton as well. Too many leaps in time and narrative. I'm losing the characters. ( spoilers )
My difficulty with Once is three of the lead characters are starting to grate on my nerves. They are Mary Margaret, David, and Regina. I want to shake them for different reasons. And I want Emma to smack each and every one of them upside the head.
Once suffers from some of the same narrative structural issues that LOST did. I wanted to shake Jack, Kate, and Ben for some of the same reasons. Although Ben was a lot more entertaining than Regina. It's a pacing issue. They are spending a lot of time explaining who each character is and what motivates them - so there is actually more going on in the fairy tale world than the real world.
( spoilers )
2. The Good Wife - far better paced series than Once. It's also admittedly better written.
Although I found this episode a bit slow. And the case rather uninteresting and sort of sentimental. The show's at it's best when it plays on the political entanglements of its characters. At any rate, I'm happy with the resolution of the Will storyline, didn't expect them to do that. The previews lead me to believe they'd go in the opposite direction. Was just a tad disappointed they hadn't. But not overly so - it will open up things a bit more, and shake certain things up. Good Wife unlike other tv series that have a procedural angle, does evolve its characters and change things continuously.
At any rate, not nearly as much fun as the previous episode, but still great tv.
3. Downton Abbey...I sort of agree with kristin cahshore's post about Downton, which I now have to locate for you. Here: It's all about writing characters.
And it's not that characters can't change. It's only that we need to understand what made them change. Otherwise they stop being characters and become tools for advancing/manipulating the plot.
I agree. That's my problem with Downton as well. Too many leaps in time and narrative. I'm losing the characters. ( spoilers )