Latest eps of Misfits, True Blood etc
Nov. 29th, 2009 04:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shapinglightHave to admit, this is a bit of a writing avoidance post. I should be revising my ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
noel_of_spike story (you know, the one where I couldn't write the sex scene and then decided the sex scene was the only good bit?) but it's really hard to make myself get on with it. Still suffering from a bit of a long, dark night of the soul where writing's concerned, and currently don't know what will shake me out of it.
So anyway, I thought I would make a post about Thursday's ep of Misfits and Wednesday's of True Blood. Still on season 1 of the latter, btw, so please don't spoiler me for anything. And of course spoilers within.
Must admit, I like True Blood more and more with every episode. Okay, it's campy and gothic and OTT and Bill is a bit boring (though I like him more than I did), but it's still great fun, with terrific production values and a wonderful soundtrack (which would be my cue to cross my fingers and hope that the BBC won't ruin Being Human by sticking it with an OTT orchestral score the way they do DW and Torchwood). I really enjoyed the last episode I watched, which was the one where Jason and his creepy girlfriend kidnap Lafayette's V source and Sookie helps Eric and Pam (know who Pam is now, thanks to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
maharet83) to discover whose been stealing from them. There were some great moments in the ep, and lots of laugh out loud funny moments (my favourite being when the poor bewildered bloke at Merlotte's complimented Tara on her appearance only to get his head bitten off and to ask plaintively if he was being sexist). I think I've sort of fallen in love with this show. Even if it doesn't address any 'deep' issues, I just like it, and I like lots of the characters.
Then there's Misfits, which probably very few people on my flist have actually seen. Ep 3, though it didn't leave me feeling vaguely repulsed, as ep 2 did, still contained some very troubling material. This was all to do with Alisha and her so-called superpower, which is basically to make every man she touches desperate to have sex with her (or the power to get raped, as you could also see it). I'd been worried about where the show was going with this story right from the first episode, and now it's been dealt with (because I think ep 3 was the Alisha episode), I'm still not quite sure what to think. There are some very troubling elements to the storyline, obviously, in that in this ep, Alisha wanted Curtis, but the only way she could get him was by touching him. And when he came out from under her 'fluence and realised what he'd done, he was the one who felt violated. Of course, the show didn't ignore the other all too likely result of Alisha's power, when she was assaulted by both Curtis and the charity worker (let's call him Kumbaya Bloke) because she touched them by accident and only escaped by kicking Kumbaya Bloke in the head.
Thing is, Curtis is right, of course. Alisha does have problems. She seems to have a desperate need for validation of her attractiveness to men. However, it's almost as if her power is punishing her for this by showing her how empty it is, and unless the other Misfits' powers are treated in a similar way, it'll leave me with a bad taste in my mouth.
We'll see. It is still interesting, and I shall be watching till the end, if only because I like Kelly the chav so much.
noel_of_spike story (you know, the one where I couldn't write the sex scene and then decided the sex scene was the only good bit?) but it's really hard to make myself get on with it. Still suffering from a bit of a long, dark night of the soul where writing's concerned, and currently don't know what will shake me out of it. So anyway, I thought I would make a post about Thursday's ep of Misfits and Wednesday's of True Blood. Still on season 1 of the latter, btw, so please don't spoiler me for anything. And of course spoilers within.
Must admit, I like True Blood more and more with every episode. Okay, it's campy and gothic and OTT and Bill is a bit boring (though I like him more than I did), but it's still great fun, with terrific production values and a wonderful soundtrack (which would be my cue to cross my fingers and hope that the BBC won't ruin Being Human by sticking it with an OTT orchestral score the way they do DW and Torchwood). I really enjoyed the last episode I watched, which was the one where Jason and his creepy girlfriend kidnap Lafayette's V source and Sookie helps Eric and Pam (know who Pam is now, thanks to
maharet83) to discover whose been stealing from them. There were some great moments in the ep, and lots of laugh out loud funny moments (my favourite being when the poor bewildered bloke at Merlotte's complimented Tara on her appearance only to get his head bitten off and to ask plaintively if he was being sexist). I think I've sort of fallen in love with this show. Even if it doesn't address any 'deep' issues, I just like it, and I like lots of the characters. Then there's Misfits, which probably very few people on my flist have actually seen. Ep 3, though it didn't leave me feeling vaguely repulsed, as ep 2 did, still contained some very troubling material. This was all to do with Alisha and her so-called superpower, which is basically to make every man she touches desperate to have sex with her (or the power to get raped, as you could also see it). I'd been worried about where the show was going with this story right from the first episode, and now it's been dealt with (because I think ep 3 was the Alisha episode), I'm still not quite sure what to think. There are some very troubling elements to the storyline, obviously, in that in this ep, Alisha wanted Curtis, but the only way she could get him was by touching him. And when he came out from under her 'fluence and realised what he'd done, he was the one who felt violated. Of course, the show didn't ignore the other all too likely result of Alisha's power, when she was assaulted by both Curtis and the charity worker (let's call him Kumbaya Bloke) because she touched them by accident and only escaped by kicking Kumbaya Bloke in the head.
Thing is, Curtis is right, of course. Alisha does have problems. She seems to have a desperate need for validation of her attractiveness to men. However, it's almost as if her power is punishing her for this by showing her how empty it is, and unless the other Misfits' powers are treated in a similar way, it'll leave me with a bad taste in my mouth.
We'll see. It is still interesting, and I shall be watching till the end, if only because I like Kelly the chav so much.