vaznetti: (end of the world)
Apparently I am more middle-class than I realised; my four-year-old had a week of vacation and I am feeling vaguely guilty for not taking him off for a couple of days of learning how to ski. Why? No one else I know is doing this! I haven't been on skis in about 30 years!I had to work this week!

In televisual news:

Revenge, season 2 )

Other things that I am watching: Ripper Street (police procedural set in London in the early 1900s (I think). Good in many ways, but obviously someone in the production process decided "what this show needs is more whores!" Not a bad thing in itself (the show has a certain Deadwood-but-not-as-good vibe to it), but clearly he (?) also thought that this would be cool and edgy and a great way to discuss the sexual exploitation of women. To which my response is officially "bored now." Otherwise, however, there are some good characters and interesting dynamics.

Utopia. Here someone decided that being ultra-violent would be cool and edgy. It is actually quite pretty, but also incoherent. the first episode it worth it for the worst thesis proposal defence I have ever seen. The would-be student's argument was (as far as I could tell) "you should let me write this thesis because it is relevant to my emotional damage." Normally I don't mind the complete lack of accurate representation of what I do for a living on TV, but this scene is particularly bizarre.

Also, I do not feel that I am spoiling anything to say that the big conspiracy in this is just just like the big conspiracy from the X-Files, but with 100% fewer bees and 100% more comic books.

Dancing on the Edge: Downton Abbey, but with more jazz music and black people. More seriously, if you liked Angel Coulby as Gwen in Merlin, you should totally give this a try. She is amazing. I am assuming that that is really her voice (is it?) -- I had no idea she could sing as well as act. She acts very well in this too, in a way she didn't always get to in Merlin, because it was a very different kind of show.

Call the Midwife. This show remains the ideal Sunday night serial. I am guaranteed to cry at least once in it, but it is so good to watch a show which is more interested in character and storytelling than being cool and edgy. (It is also totally uninterested in the lives of men, who appear to exist mostly to give the women something other than work and the socio-economic situation of their patients to talk about.)

Last week, though, there was a far-too-chatty priest played by the actor who played Herrick on Being Human. I kept waiting for him to try to rip someone's throat out so that Sister Julienne could stake him. That is obviously what would happen.

And speaking of… Although I still feel some residual sorrow for the way the story lines of certain characters were wrapped up last season, the current cast of Being Human is marvellous. I adore Hal and his OCD, and Tom and his sheltered little mind and Alex's general irritation with the universe and her outfit. The show careens neatly from being very funny to very scary -- I would have been perfectly happy to have only the government-cutbacks plot, but who am I to say no to Satan as the antagonist?
vaznetti: (wandering albatross)
Thank you everyone for the birthday wishes -- it was quiet but actually very nice. I was going to have a hobbit birthday present story done, but obviously that did not happen. But at least I think I know where the story is going! (And I'm writing something) But instead, television!

Being Human: palinode goes here )

We are now watching the second series of Scott & Bailey, a police procedural known affectionately in our household as "All Men Are Crap"; this season seems even better than the last, probably because they've given Gill Murray (the boss) an even bigger role. She does walk away with pretty much every scene she's in. small spoilers )

Now that it's out of DVD I have seen all of A Game of Thrones. Yay. Well, mostly yay. )

We are also watching Homeland -- it's just started here. Has everyone else given up on it? Was it cancelled in the US? I like it a lot.
vaznetti: (just bomb somewhere)
These aren't spoilery for specific events, but are very much so for the S4 setup. And they are not uncritical, although as I note below the problem may be with me not the show -- the execution is as usual very good.

babies )

and vampires )

Reading over this, I wonder whether I'm trying to shoe-horn the show back into the comic end of things, when the writers have more or less given that tone up (to the extent that some of the comic scenes feel out of place to me now, considering everything that has happened.)
vaznetti: (river song)
Hello, Livejournal! or Dreamwidth! I am sorry I haven't posted in more than a month. And I am sorry that this isn't any kind of personal update (maybe I should do that?) Instead I have comments on the season opener of Being Human under the cut )
vaznetti: (god will dance for john)
Now that I have stopped making incoherent noises, have some spoilers, including for the promo for next week )

I'm sure there's more to say, but I've just run out of steam a bit.
vaznetti: (best of friends)
As usual, I am not dead, just dragging my feet about updating. It's so much easier to read my friends list than to think of something to write -- and the less I write, the more I need to write when I finally do get around to updating. It's like a vicious cycle! And there are so many things to talk about (and I am so behind at work...)

On the televisual front...

I don't know what to do with my Saturday Sunday nights, now that Being Human is over. (I have a non spoilery theory about that show. You know the myth about the Norns, or whoever they are, where there's three of them and they only have a single eye and have to pass it around? Well, Mitchell, Annie and George only have one dose of common sense between the three of them: one of them can exhibit common sense at any given time, but no more than one of them. Exhibit A: pretty much every episode in season 2.)

I have other things to say about Being Human, but they belong in a post of their own, under a cut.

As usual with American shows, I'm more than a step out-of-step. So I am enjoying Glee very much (in part because I've never seen such a collection of horrible people in a single show), and wondering why everyone on my friends list is so enthusiastic about The Good Wife (I saw the first few episodes, and it seemed very by-the-numbers; obviously this changes at some point?) And even though I mean to watch NCIS (only two seasons behind!) somehow I keep forgetting to.

I actually acquired the most recent flashback episode of Supernatural, despite not having seen any of this season or the last. I haven't watched it yet, mind you, but it's on my computer. The next question is: will the desktop melt down before I get around to viewing the episode? I have concerns about that.

And on that bombshell, as they say (and this is a whole 'nother issue, because I totally blame Jeremy Clarkson for the fact that Spartacus' favorite word is "car"), I must go figure out how I managed to lose all my ink pens, and why I still have so many essays to mark for tomorrow.
vaznetti: Arya and Nymeria, from A Game of Thrones (when the wolf comes home)
This is the one about the vampire, the werewolf, and the ghost all walking into a bar sharing a house, and their wacky hijinks, complete with obligatory peasants with pitchforks (sort of). It was awesome, and has been renewed, and you should all watch it. My love for George cannot be textually rendered. Seriously. Also my love for Annie. I'm a little cooler toward Mitchell, because I feel that the vampire with a crisis of conscience is something I've seen before once or twice, and his relationship with Herrick was very Forever Knight -- except here Herrick is the cop, which I guess was a nice twist. So yes, although Mitchell and his issues drove the series plot, he didn't really interest me that much.

a little more, with spoilers for episodes five and six in particular, under the cut )

I am so looking forward to series two.

In other news, I let Spartacus play with the keyboard this morning, since he often grabs for it. He promptly his some combination of keys which crashed the computer. ::rolls eyes::

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