thread: 2006-01-13 : Some remarks, mostly re: media
On 2006-01-13, John Laviolette wrote:
I haven't watched it, because I barely get broadcast tv, sos I didn't know anything about it. I caught something like five minutes of it recently, but didn't know enough of the backstory to get into it and get hooked.
So, the tv shows I've been watching are Smallville and Supernatural, both of which are flawed. Smallville had some great episodes early on: it's probably the first version of the Superman mythos to actually give him any depth. However, lately the characters have been making the same mistakes over and over and it's starting to annoy me. Supernatural annoys me, too, because I can see what they *could* do to do the show right, and so far they haven't. But I'm cutting them slack because they just got started.
You know what the *best* tv right now is? Better than BSG? The 2005 season of Doctor Who. The writers did an amazing job on boiling away most of the cheese and revealing the powerful moral message that was deep inside the Doctor all along. I've hooked a couple people who never liked the old Doctor on Christopher Eccleston's version of the Doctor.
Best Doctor Who quote: "This is my life... It's not fun, it's not smart, it's just standing up and making a decision because nobody else will."
This makes AJN go "Hell yeah! And..."
...I really want to play My Life with The Doctor some day.
