Other TV stuff in brief
Feb. 2nd, 2018 11:43 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shapinglightWas going to make a post about other TV stuff before, but never got around to it somehow. It's possibly because I've been too busy watching TV. ;) Oh, and reading. I'm on my third book since the operation now. This may sound like nothing to many of you but I - from being a voracious reader as a young woman - have struggled to get through more than a dozen books a year for quite some time now. ;)
Spoilers behind cut for Star Trek : Discovery. Also mention of The Gifted, The Marvelous Mrs Maisel and The Good Place. Slight spoilers for those.
I finished The Marvelous Mrs Maisel, which, IMO, lived up to its title in every way. Superbly written and acted, and looked great. I can see an eventual reconciliation between Midge and Joel some way down the road, but I think they're a long way from it yet, and I only base this on the fact that Joel followed the guys who were barracking Midge out of the Gaslight and picked a fight with them for saying Midge wasn't funny. She was hilarious, I thought, though I can also see how some men would find her humour threatening. Not much has changed really, has it?
I also finished The Gifted, which has taken me ages, mainly because I found the Strucker family so dull! This continued even after the revelation that they were the same Struckers (or Von Struckers) from the comics - Magneto's mortal enemies, btw. Wonder if that will ever come up? I can see why the show got another series. Some of the characters/actors are really good - in particular Coby Bell as Agent Turner and Emma Dumont as Lorna - and I do like how it ties into the original comics series. But it's been way too slow at times, and I'm really, really not interested in the Struckers. Oh well.
Those two finished, I looked around for something else to watch and decided to try The Good Place on Netflix. It's great fun, very funny, and of course there's lots going on under the surface, but I have issues with it - not least of which is that, despite her beginning to reform (as it were) I really don't like Eleanor. I know her being unlikeable (at least at the beginning) is sort of the point, but IMO we're also supposed to sympathise with her POV and think the other inhabitants of the Good Place are a bunch of self-righteous, liberal do-gooders who care about stuff like education that 'real' people find boring. And that grates on me a bit, have to say. It does in a lot of US comedy - Friends for instance. I used to get really irritated by how the other five would react with yawns and incomprehension whenever Ross talked about his work, and that we were obviously supposed to sympathise with their POV.
I hope this isn't a really contentious view, btw. I don't really want to argue with anyone.
None of this is enough to make me stop watching, though. The Good Place is witty and fun. And the episodes are short, which is a plus.
I found this week's Star Trek: Discovery a little disappointing. This is mainly because of Lorca. It just seems such a waste to me the way his character was built up all season, making him quite complex and interesting, only to have him suddenly become this mwah!hah!ha! villain and get killed a minute later. I was also disappointed the Mirrorverse version of Dr Culber never appeared. It seems the character is just gone, then? :( No idea what might happen in the last two episodes. Can't imagine ex-Empress Philippa is going to care for the Federation-verse. I suppose it's possible she'll be just what they need to beat the Klingons, though.
We'll see.
Spoilers behind cut for Star Trek : Discovery. Also mention of The Gifted, The Marvelous Mrs Maisel and The Good Place. Slight spoilers for those.
I finished The Marvelous Mrs Maisel, which, IMO, lived up to its title in every way. Superbly written and acted, and looked great. I can see an eventual reconciliation between Midge and Joel some way down the road, but I think they're a long way from it yet, and I only base this on the fact that Joel followed the guys who were barracking Midge out of the Gaslight and picked a fight with them for saying Midge wasn't funny. She was hilarious, I thought, though I can also see how some men would find her humour threatening. Not much has changed really, has it?
I also finished The Gifted, which has taken me ages, mainly because I found the Strucker family so dull! This continued even after the revelation that they were the same Struckers (or Von Struckers) from the comics - Magneto's mortal enemies, btw. Wonder if that will ever come up? I can see why the show got another series. Some of the characters/actors are really good - in particular Coby Bell as Agent Turner and Emma Dumont as Lorna - and I do like how it ties into the original comics series. But it's been way too slow at times, and I'm really, really not interested in the Struckers. Oh well.
Those two finished, I looked around for something else to watch and decided to try The Good Place on Netflix. It's great fun, very funny, and of course there's lots going on under the surface, but I have issues with it - not least of which is that, despite her beginning to reform (as it were) I really don't like Eleanor. I know her being unlikeable (at least at the beginning) is sort of the point, but IMO we're also supposed to sympathise with her POV and think the other inhabitants of the Good Place are a bunch of self-righteous, liberal do-gooders who care about stuff like education that 'real' people find boring. And that grates on me a bit, have to say. It does in a lot of US comedy - Friends for instance. I used to get really irritated by how the other five would react with yawns and incomprehension whenever Ross talked about his work, and that we were obviously supposed to sympathise with their POV.
I hope this isn't a really contentious view, btw. I don't really want to argue with anyone.
None of this is enough to make me stop watching, though. The Good Place is witty and fun. And the episodes are short, which is a plus.
I found this week's Star Trek: Discovery a little disappointing. This is mainly because of Lorca. It just seems such a waste to me the way his character was built up all season, making him quite complex and interesting, only to have him suddenly become this mwah!hah!ha! villain and get killed a minute later. I was also disappointed the Mirrorverse version of Dr Culber never appeared. It seems the character is just gone, then? :( No idea what might happen in the last two episodes. Can't imagine ex-Empress Philippa is going to care for the Federation-verse. I suppose it's possible she'll be just what they need to beat the Klingons, though.
We'll see.