But sometimes it's the annoying personality in a show that helps suck me in. I don't know that I would have been nearly as obsessed with SV if I hadn't hated Lana so much (or rather, what they did with her from about season 2 through season 5). I just don't want to wake up one day and think "Oh God. It's happening again."
I agree with you about Tara--she was extremely boring and listless and I couldn't believe that it was her death that caused Willow to go dark and kill people.
I was never on board with the idea that Buffy/Angel were an epic love story or that Spike/Buffy were so passionate. I always thought the epic love story belonged to Angel and Darla and the most tragic romance was Spike and Dru's.
And I thought that Cordelia and Anya were two of the greatest characters on Buffy and that they should have had their own spin off, with Willow making appearances. Wesley also improved once he was on Angel and I loved his friendship with Gunn and I hated that the love triangle over Fred ruined it.
My clearest memory of Tara is an episode (I forget which one) in which something has happened at the magic shop and the scoobies are checking it out. They kick Dawn out because they don't want her getting hurt and so she's out sitting on the curb, looking listless, and Tara joins her with a comment like, "We're not really needed". I always wondered if that was some kind of meta-acknowledgement by the showrunners that they had these two characters they weren't sure what to do with now that their initial stories had played out
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I never watched a lot of Buffy. I couldn't get past say episode 5.
If you are going to get sucked into a garbage television show it may as well be basically after the fact so you don't have a lot of time to wrap yourself around the axle. That said I started Smallville at the start of season 6 assuming it would be the last season. Sigh.
Anyhow, my best advice for you to inoculate yourself against crap show heartbreak is to watch Dr. Who. That show constantly reinvents itself in sort of a predicable rhythm which gives one a sense of perspectives about hoped for endings. If you watch it long enough there will bits you like and bits you loathe, but it will all be one messy parcel.
That said, I don't think Revolution is going to be that show. I say this from not actually watching the show, just overhearing dialog as my husband watched it for a bit.
Sounds like me. I started in with "Smallville" in the 2nd half of season 7 and I have yet to recover.
The problem with "Revolution" is that it apparently has really good ratings, which means that it may have some staying power; a character I really loathe, which always seems to appeal to my masochistic side; an actress I really like who doesn't appear to get much screentime; and a premise that sounds dynamite on paper but kind of sucks in execution. Hell, the only difference between this and SV is that I've been burned once before.
That said, I don't know if I'm up to becoming a Dr. Who fan. Don't they dump the side-kick character every season or two? For someone like me, who is all about the sidekicks, I don't know that I could handle that. It sounds like heart-break every other season. Maybe that's what I need though: learn how to toughen up & move on.
They DO dump the sidekick regularly, and the main character a tad less regularly. That is the beauty of it. They know they will cycle. They have an arc, they execute the arc and begin anew. The companions usually have some common traits that lend themselves to a everywoman to heroine arc (or man to hero). So you start a new one you aren't instantly in love but usually you can count on them to improve. And if they don't, you know they are temporary. Even knowing that the ones you love are temporary helps not feel cheated when they go.
Ugh. Revolution. Good concept, but badly written and with a lead actress with no charisma to be seen. I tried for the first six or so, but it just made me sleepy. It's s shame because I love Elizabeth Mitchell SFM and really wanted her on something cool after V got cancelled (and, to me, V was awesome and had a cast that was perfection itself
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I know, right? Between her and Giancarlo Esposito I was expecting pure performance awesomeness. Sadly, not so much ... mainly because you hardly ever saw those two.
Oh well.
Totally agree with you about the hate-sex, and in fact am just realizing now that's probably why I thought of Wesley/Lilah as a gender-bending version of Chlex.
You make a good point about Tara and them perhaps wanting to make her as inoffensive as possible. I sometimes forget that I'm watching the show ten years after the fact (maybe because I live in the midwest the hairstyles from, say, season 4 onward still feel fairly current.). I know that's why they were tentative about showing them actually kissing/having sex and hence the magic-as-metaphor scenes with the floating, etc. (I wonder if that is a reason Whedon threw in what I thought was the rather gratuitous scene between Inara and the Counselor on Firefly. After the Pilot, I don't think we ever saw her in action with one of her clients except for that scene
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But sometimes it's the annoying personality in a show that helps suck me in. I don't know that I would have been nearly as obsessed with SV if I hadn't hated Lana so much (or rather, what they did with her from about season 2 through season 5). I just don't want to wake up one day and think "Oh God. It's happening again."
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I agree with you about Tara--she was extremely boring and listless and I couldn't believe that it was her death that caused Willow to go dark and kill people.
I was never on board with the idea that Buffy/Angel were an epic love story or that Spike/Buffy were so passionate. I always thought the epic love story belonged to Angel and Darla and the most tragic romance was Spike and Dru's.
And I thought that Cordelia and Anya were two of the greatest characters on Buffy and that they should have had their own spin off, with Willow making appearances. Wesley also improved once he was on Angel and I loved his friendship with Gunn and I hated that the love triangle over Fred ruined it.
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If you are going to get sucked into a garbage television show it may as well be basically after the fact so you don't have a lot of time to wrap yourself around the axle. That said I started Smallville at the start of season 6 assuming it would be the last season. Sigh.
Anyhow, my best advice for you to inoculate yourself against crap show heartbreak is to watch Dr. Who. That show constantly reinvents itself in sort of a predicable rhythm which gives one a sense of perspectives about hoped for endings. If you watch it long enough there will bits you like and bits you loathe, but it will all be one messy parcel.
That said, I don't think Revolution is going to be that show. I say this from not actually watching the show, just overhearing dialog as my husband watched it for a bit.
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The problem with "Revolution" is that it apparently has really good ratings, which means that it may have some staying power; a character I really loathe, which always seems to appeal to my masochistic side; an actress I really like who doesn't appear to get much screentime; and a premise that sounds dynamite on paper but kind of sucks in execution. Hell, the only difference between this and SV is that I've been burned once before.
That said, I don't know if I'm up to becoming a Dr. Who fan. Don't they dump the side-kick character every season or two? For someone like me, who is all about the sidekicks, I don't know that I could handle that. It sounds like heart-break every other season. Maybe that's what I need though: learn how to toughen up & move on.
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I know, right? Between her and Giancarlo Esposito I was expecting pure performance awesomeness. Sadly, not so much ... mainly because you hardly ever saw those two.
Oh well.
Totally agree with you about the hate-sex, and in fact am just realizing now that's probably why I thought of Wesley/Lilah as a gender-bending version of Chlex.
You make a good point about Tara and them perhaps wanting to make her as inoffensive as possible. I sometimes forget that I'm watching the show ten years after the fact (maybe because I live in the midwest the hairstyles from, say, season 4 onward still feel fairly current.). I know that's why they were tentative about showing them actually kissing/having sex and hence the magic-as-metaphor scenes with the floating, etc. (I wonder if that is a reason Whedon threw in what I thought was the rather gratuitous scene between Inara and the Counselor on Firefly. After the Pilot, I don't think we ever saw her in action with one of her clients except for that scene ( ... )
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