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jamesmcgraw

In which James has an argument with himself

Feb 16, 2009 23:30

Fours weeks in, and I'm really enjoying Being Human. This week's had a bit of unsubtle crap ("EE" was a bit much, "EA" would have been better), but was, by and large, excellent and makes me very interested to see how it all pans out. This series, along with the bastard well brilliant Jekyll from last year, contrasted with the past two seasons of ( Read more... )

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azikale February 17 2009, 00:24:23 UTC

battle_kitten February 17 2009, 09:10:20 UTC

Ditto, I wanted to watch this based on your recommendation and am thoroughly enjoying it. Thank you :)

PS also agree with you about short arcing plots and episodic things; it's what lost and heroes do badly but shows like buffy and Dr Who manage well.

jamesmcgraw February 17 2009, 18:53:29 UTC

Doctor Who manages it well through being highly episodic, and having a bizarre set of narrative assumption.

Buffy... Buffy mainly managed it through having good writing and by maintaining a strong episodic, formatty element as well as a serial element. But then, I stopped watching after season 3, so what do I know?

battle_kitten February 18 2009, 09:34:58 UTC

Re Buffy: Exactly, I was holding up the two as examples of shows that manage both. Buffy series 7 was a bit long-arc, short on plot but other than that it did pretty well.

That's why I was so annoyed that firefly didn't even get a full season, it would have been so interesting to see how that panned out if given the chance to develop naturally. The film was great an' all but...

mekare_enra February 19 2009, 01:41:07 UTC

I'm going to start watching Being Human this weekend! :)