Telly stuff
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shapinglightI uploaded a Bill n' Sookie icon the other day, but more in the spirit of irony than anything. Not become a 'shipper.
That aside...
Spoilers within for True Blood season 1, up to ep 10 (I think it was) and Misfits ep 4.
....I'm still enjoying True Blood a lot. The ep I watched last night was the one where Evil Amy killed poor Eddie the (mostly) harmless vampire and Bill was put on trial at the vampire court. This show does handle vampires very differently to BtVS in lots of ways, doesn't it (which you would expect, of course, given that the vampires in BtVS were mostly plot devices and when they weren't, ruined the show, if some people are to be believed). For one thing, though BtVS vampires regard people as food, the only time there was any suggestion of them setting themselves up as a superior race to humans was in The Wish, which was a What If scenario. Most of the time, they're shown as more like pests than anything, with Buffy as pest controller-in-chief. Even other demons look down on them. In True Blood, the vampires have their own parallel society, which seems to operate rather like the Wishverse, with humans kept as pets or slaves and regarded as little more than animals, but which apparently hasn't impinged on human society enough to get them noticed and exterminated. In fact, Bill keeps telling Sookie stuff that he says vampires don't want people in general to know, presumably because if they did know, the vampires are afraid they would be exploited and killed the way Eddie is in this ep.
So, though they go around acting all superior, they in fact have an awful lot of weaknesses and are very vulnerable, though you can't really feel sorry for them because en masse, like BtVS vampires, they aren't nice at all.
Interesting.
On a more shallow note, I was looking at Eric in last night's ep and thinking, yes, I get that he's handsome etc, but I'm afraid he doesn't do a lot for me. If anything, he's too perfect. I would probably like him better if he had a funny nose or bad skin or bandy legs, or some other defect. Never have gone for classically handsome.
I know a couple of people on my flist are still watching Misfits. I thought last week's ep (the Curtis ep) was very good, though possibly the time warping aspect of it doesn't bear too much thinking about. Poor old Curtis! No matter how hard he tried to make sure everything ended well for everyone, it just kept going wrong, didn't it? Also, I wonder if this ep was supposed to make us feel more or less sympathetic toTwazzock Boy Nathan? Have to say, my sympathies were with his dad. He really is a little git. Oh, and Simon is extremely creepy. Also, anyone else think it was quite sweet that Kelly found her boyfriend proposing to her using a stolen engagement ring he'd found in a car they'd broken into romantic?
Just me, then.
In other telly news, I just finished re-watching season 2 of Babylon 5. Yes, it looks clunky at times and I have to say, I find a little Brue Boxleitner goes a very long way, but even after all this time, I still love that show.
That aside...
Spoilers within for True Blood season 1, up to ep 10 (I think it was) and Misfits ep 4.
....I'm still enjoying True Blood a lot. The ep I watched last night was the one where Evil Amy killed poor Eddie the (mostly) harmless vampire and Bill was put on trial at the vampire court. This show does handle vampires very differently to BtVS in lots of ways, doesn't it (which you would expect, of course, given that the vampires in BtVS were mostly plot devices and when they weren't, ruined the show, if some people are to be believed). For one thing, though BtVS vampires regard people as food, the only time there was any suggestion of them setting themselves up as a superior race to humans was in The Wish, which was a What If scenario. Most of the time, they're shown as more like pests than anything, with Buffy as pest controller-in-chief. Even other demons look down on them. In True Blood, the vampires have their own parallel society, which seems to operate rather like the Wishverse, with humans kept as pets or slaves and regarded as little more than animals, but which apparently hasn't impinged on human society enough to get them noticed and exterminated. In fact, Bill keeps telling Sookie stuff that he says vampires don't want people in general to know, presumably because if they did know, the vampires are afraid they would be exploited and killed the way Eddie is in this ep.
So, though they go around acting all superior, they in fact have an awful lot of weaknesses and are very vulnerable, though you can't really feel sorry for them because en masse, like BtVS vampires, they aren't nice at all.
Interesting.
On a more shallow note, I was looking at Eric in last night's ep and thinking, yes, I get that he's handsome etc, but I'm afraid he doesn't do a lot for me. If anything, he's too perfect. I would probably like him better if he had a funny nose or bad skin or bandy legs, or some other defect. Never have gone for classically handsome.
I know a couple of people on my flist are still watching Misfits. I thought last week's ep (the Curtis ep) was very good, though possibly the time warping aspect of it doesn't bear too much thinking about. Poor old Curtis! No matter how hard he tried to make sure everything ended well for everyone, it just kept going wrong, didn't it? Also, I wonder if this ep was supposed to make us feel more or less sympathetic to
Just me, then.
In other telly news, I just finished re-watching season 2 of Babylon 5. Yes, it looks clunky at times and I have to say, I find a little Brue Boxleitner goes a very long way, but even after all this time, I still love that show.
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Date: 2009-12-11 12:07 am (UTC)It's weird, 'cos it's
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Date: 2009-12-14 07:11 pm (UTC)Yes, I have moments of liking him too. Then he'll do something to remind me how irritating he is most of the time. He is pretty, though.