a dirty shame
So they remade Angel starring Logan Echolls, Madame de Pompadour, and some guy I've never seen before. And it has Marshall Flinkman as Her Man Friday.
So how the hell could it possibly have been so bad? Even Some Guy wasn't exactly terrible, and yet, this show isn't even hilariously bad. It's just...not entertaining in the least. And yes, a disturbing number of the guest actors were halting and stiff and horrible, but I don't think the failure of the show can be laid at the feet of the actors. Me, I'm laying it squarely on the writing and directing. The writing was godawful and the directing was worse. I can't imagine that Some Guy would have stared off into space for like an hour while driving his Wannabe Angelmobile by choice. 'Cause I like I said, he wasn't that bad. And when actors I know can be good (like Sophia Myles) make consistently terrible choices, I have to assume it's because they're being asked to.
And it's a crying shame, because this show was obviously created by geeks. The local college is referred to as Hearst College. I'm not kidding. Not!Angel's vampire bride (no, seriously) is named Coraline and bears a distinct resemblance Cordelia Chase. It's just that these geeks (possibly because they haven't spent enough time in the vicious, cutthroat world of fandom) aren't quite ready for prime time. And have these people learned nothing from Joss Whedon and Rob Thomas? TV shows, even dramas, even dramas about angsty dudes with issues and the tortured blondes who love them (or vice versa), ought to be funny. Seriously, hire someone to write some jokes for you. I hear Tim Minear is available.
But cute Veronica Mars shoutouts aside, I suspect they're geeks who always thought Angel should have gotten together with Kate. Sophia Myles' character couldn't look more like Kate Lockley if she were actually played by Elisabeth Rohm. I find this exactly as troubling as the prospect of finding good fic in a die-hard shipper community.
The show picked up a bit during the action scenes at the end, but the highlight of the show was Jason Dohring's second scene, which had some snap to it. Just not nearly enough.
The low point was when that freaking Evanescance song started to play. It was every bad vid to that song ever.
The sad thing? I'll probably watch it again. Everyone gets to have one bad show, right? And I don't watch Grey's Anatomy.
Mostly, it made me sad that there won't be more Veronica Mars, which is still at the top of my DVR recording priority list. I haven't had the heart to erase it.
So how the hell could it possibly have been so bad? Even Some Guy wasn't exactly terrible, and yet, this show isn't even hilariously bad. It's just...not entertaining in the least. And yes, a disturbing number of the guest actors were halting and stiff and horrible, but I don't think the failure of the show can be laid at the feet of the actors. Me, I'm laying it squarely on the writing and directing. The writing was godawful and the directing was worse. I can't imagine that Some Guy would have stared off into space for like an hour while driving his Wannabe Angelmobile by choice. 'Cause I like I said, he wasn't that bad. And when actors I know can be good (like Sophia Myles) make consistently terrible choices, I have to assume it's because they're being asked to.
And it's a crying shame, because this show was obviously created by geeks. The local college is referred to as Hearst College. I'm not kidding. Not!Angel's vampire bride (no, seriously) is named Coraline and bears a distinct resemblance Cordelia Chase. It's just that these geeks (possibly because they haven't spent enough time in the vicious, cutthroat world of fandom) aren't quite ready for prime time. And have these people learned nothing from Joss Whedon and Rob Thomas? TV shows, even dramas, even dramas about angsty dudes with issues and the tortured blondes who love them (or vice versa), ought to be funny. Seriously, hire someone to write some jokes for you. I hear Tim Minear is available.
But cute Veronica Mars shoutouts aside, I suspect they're geeks who always thought Angel should have gotten together with Kate. Sophia Myles' character couldn't look more like Kate Lockley if she were actually played by Elisabeth Rohm. I find this exactly as troubling as the prospect of finding good fic in a die-hard shipper community.
The show picked up a bit during the action scenes at the end, but the highlight of the show was Jason Dohring's second scene, which had some snap to it. Just not nearly enough.
The low point was when that freaking Evanescance song started to play. It was every bad vid to that song ever.
The sad thing? I'll probably watch it again. Everyone gets to have one bad show, right? And I don't watch Grey's Anatomy.
Mostly, it made me sad that there won't be more Veronica Mars, which is still at the top of my DVR recording priority list. I haven't had the heart to erase it.