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Some TV Shows
Rizzoli & Isles
It's like Bones except David Boreanaz is replaced with Angie Harmon, and we follow the Booth character instead of the Bones character. This means that the show makes me sad because I just keep thinking "NEEDS MORE ISLES."
The Gates
Another damn vampire show. This one has a great premise: vampires, wereolves, and mythological et ceteras have banded together in a tightly controlled, upper-class gated community to protect themselves from persecution from both humans and their own kind. Also, they all hate each other and get involved in internal politics trying to get the others to break the rules and get caught so they get kicked out. And yet, so far (and by so far, I mean I'm two episodes behind), it's been doing things in the most boring way possible.
This paragraph contains spoilers, if there's anyone who cares. For example, a teenage girl is planning to go to the father-daughter dance with her single dad. The day of, she makes out with her new boyfriend and leaves him drained of energy. The school nurse/witch tells dad that his daughter is becoming a full-fledged succubus, and they need to start dealing with it. Dad says he wants to wait to tell her until after the dance, to have one last moment of innocence. Now, given all this what do you think happens at the dance? Does the daughter lose control and drain the life of her father while "Butterfly Kisses" plays on the PA, leaving her scared, traumatized and vulnerable? Or is the dance entirely uneventful and followed by a sober, serious talk that cuts away before we actually get to see her learn the truth? If you thought the latter would make better TV, then you're a crappy enough writer to make The Gates what it is today.
Seriously it makes me The Vampire Diaries. When's that coming back?
Haven
Only seen the pilot (I've got a DVR backlog), but the mandatory banter between the lead and Love Triangle Points B and C was reasonably amusing.
It's like Bones except David Boreanaz is replaced with Angie Harmon, and we follow the Booth character instead of the Bones character. This means that the show makes me sad because I just keep thinking "NEEDS MORE ISLES."
The Gates
Another damn vampire show. This one has a great premise: vampires, wereolves, and mythological et ceteras have banded together in a tightly controlled, upper-class gated community to protect themselves from persecution from both humans and their own kind. Also, they all hate each other and get involved in internal politics trying to get the others to break the rules and get caught so they get kicked out. And yet, so far (and by so far, I mean I'm two episodes behind), it's been doing things in the most boring way possible.
This paragraph contains spoilers, if there's anyone who cares. For example, a teenage girl is planning to go to the father-daughter dance with her single dad. The day of, she makes out with her new boyfriend and leaves him drained of energy. The school nurse/witch tells dad that his daughter is becoming a full-fledged succubus, and they need to start dealing with it. Dad says he wants to wait to tell her until after the dance, to have one last moment of innocence. Now, given all this what do you think happens at the dance? Does the daughter lose control and drain the life of her father while "Butterfly Kisses" plays on the PA, leaving her scared, traumatized and vulnerable? Or is the dance entirely uneventful and followed by a sober, serious talk that cuts away before we actually get to see her learn the truth? If you thought the latter would make better TV, then you're a crappy enough writer to make The Gates what it is today.
Seriously it makes me The Vampire Diaries. When's that coming back?
Haven
Only seen the pilot (I've got a DVR backlog), but the mandatory banter between the lead and Love Triangle Points B and C was reasonably amusing.
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