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OUAT, Good Wife, Merlin and Lost Girl
Jan. 29th, 2012 10:09 pmWhile The Good Wife episode entitled "The Ham Sandwich" - rocked, I mean really rocked. That was a brilliant episode and a satisfying one as well. Once Upon a Time is starting to frustrate me.
Dear writers of Once Upon a Time, either kill off the bwwahhahha evil Regina, or give me a reason to feel sympathy for her. Because right now, she's starting to grate on my nerves, and having her win in EVERY SINGLE EPISODE is getting old. Keep it up and I'll jump ship. The whole proverbial carrot routine that was such an in-thing dramatically in the 20th Century, isn't going to work in the 21st when we have serials like the Good Wife, Dowton Abbey, Justified, etc to choose from.
In short? Get to the bleeding point. LOST drug out too long too. Learn from Lost's mistakes, pronto.
I'm of two minds about Once - I love the metaphors. And the back story on Sydney Glass, otherwise known as Regina's mirror, is quite brilliant. But it also paints Regina as a classic Narcissist with no redeeming value. This is a problem. Morgana on Merlin is more sympathetic.
Speaking of Merlin? I finally figured out who the guy playing Arthur's Uncle/Cheif Advisor and Morgana's co-conspirator is - he's the actor who played Inspector Lynely on the Lynely Mysteries.
(Courtesy of the Momster). I already knew who James Callis was - because I adored that actor in BattleStar Galatica v.2. This past week's Merlin also rocked. We got to see a really cute white dragon. I have weakness for dragons, I admit it. The Momster and I suddenly wished we had kept all those Anne McCaffrey Dragon Riders of Pern novels, so we could re-read them.
Rather love Merlin. Lost Girl...sigh, can the dialogue be any more wooden or the acting for that matter? Yes, the guy playing the fae cop is sort of hot and looks like a Fae, but...this show is really badly written and this comes from someone who has watched a lot of bad television in her lifetime. It may be too bad for me to tolerate. I refuse to watch the US version of Being Human, it's just so cheesy, and once you see the British version...well let's just say, the US is unwatchable. I don't know if I'd have liked it - if I hadn't seen the British version first. Possible. But now that I have seen the British version - I just can't watch the US one.
Okay off to bed. May write a more in-depth review on Once and Good Wife later.
Here's a few quickie impressions:
( spoilers for Once Upon a Time )
( Good Wife )
Dear writers of Once Upon a Time, either kill off the bwwahhahha evil Regina, or give me a reason to feel sympathy for her. Because right now, she's starting to grate on my nerves, and having her win in EVERY SINGLE EPISODE is getting old. Keep it up and I'll jump ship. The whole proverbial carrot routine that was such an in-thing dramatically in the 20th Century, isn't going to work in the 21st when we have serials like the Good Wife, Dowton Abbey, Justified, etc to choose from.
In short? Get to the bleeding point. LOST drug out too long too. Learn from Lost's mistakes, pronto.
I'm of two minds about Once - I love the metaphors. And the back story on Sydney Glass, otherwise known as Regina's mirror, is quite brilliant. But it also paints Regina as a classic Narcissist with no redeeming value. This is a problem. Morgana on Merlin is more sympathetic.
Speaking of Merlin? I finally figured out who the guy playing Arthur's Uncle/Cheif Advisor and Morgana's co-conspirator is - he's the actor who played Inspector Lynely on the Lynely Mysteries.
(Courtesy of the Momster). I already knew who James Callis was - because I adored that actor in BattleStar Galatica v.2. This past week's Merlin also rocked. We got to see a really cute white dragon. I have weakness for dragons, I admit it. The Momster and I suddenly wished we had kept all those Anne McCaffrey Dragon Riders of Pern novels, so we could re-read them.
Rather love Merlin. Lost Girl...sigh, can the dialogue be any more wooden or the acting for that matter? Yes, the guy playing the fae cop is sort of hot and looks like a Fae, but...this show is really badly written and this comes from someone who has watched a lot of bad television in her lifetime. It may be too bad for me to tolerate. I refuse to watch the US version of Being Human, it's just so cheesy, and once you see the British version...well let's just say, the US is unwatchable. I don't know if I'd have liked it - if I hadn't seen the British version first. Possible. But now that I have seen the British version - I just can't watch the US one.
Okay off to bed. May write a more in-depth review on Once and Good Wife later.
Here's a few quickie impressions:
( spoilers for Once Upon a Time )
( Good Wife )
