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My personal TV-flops
Sick leave is a practical thing, especially when all you have is a really ugly bronchitis. It's unpleasant, but it doesn't knock you off your feet completely, so you're actually capable of reading, writing, watching TV, thinking and the likes.
Not that I'd be happy with TV lately. Sure, the numerous German channels do bring a lot of reruns from older shows I love a great deal, but the new ones... God, be merciful to me! I realize that there are unnumbered people who love them, but God, I hate a great lot of them.
Let's start with "Life on Mars". I was so looking forward to this one, as several of my online friends seemed to like it a lot, and those are people whose taste I trust. Now it finally came to German TV (they're usually a year or so behind, and let me not even start with Hungarian TV here), and I was biting my nails in anticipation. Well... please, don't lynch me, guys, but I didn't even manage to suffer it through to the end of the pilot episode. It bored me to tears and I gave up after the first thirty minutes or so.
Perhaps it's my fault. As someone who still doesn't own a cell phone and never calls anyone on their own cell because it's too expansive from a traditional one, I simply couldn't really identify with the problems of the main hero. Not to mention that I didn't find him likeable at all and hated practically all other characters. Ah, well, that's a fandom I certainly won't get hooked on. The better for me. I've got more than enough on my plate as it is.
Then, there's "Criminal Minds". People are heals over head in love with that one (or the other way round?). I'm still unable to keep the characters apart, with the exception of Mandy Patinkin, and the cases are increasingly sick. Plust, the investigation is lagging and boring. For me, the worst things in a TC show are boredom and characters I can't care for. So, another fandom I won't get hooked on. Good for me!
Let's see. "Navy CIS". Well, what an utter crap it turned out to be! I dearly love the characters of Gibbs and Ducky, and I like the Goth girl Abby, but honestly, they're all cardboard caricatures. And don't even mention DiNozzo, that obnoxious, immature idiot (how in heck did he end up having such an important job) and the anorexic, genderless femme fatale of the season, whether she's called Kate or Ziva! So, no, no danger of me ever writing NCIS fanfiction, except in rage to kill off the whole bunch.
Well, "House M.D"? Since when is it an endearing character trait if someone is rude? Not in my book, sorry. And the other docs have no personalities whatsoever. And they all seem to be so horribly incompetent, the patients has to die three times until they figure out what's wrong with him - and then he dies a fourth time. Brrr. No. Just no.
OTOH, I'm warming up for "CSI New York", since they killed off that woman with the Botox-lips. I like Gary Sinise, and the new girl on the team, Anna Belknap is just the right type whom I'd buy the lab rat. Rather than Stella Bonasera - and just who had the brilliant idea to name a forensic specialist "Good Night", just because she's supposed to be Italian or whatnot? Anyway, I can tolerate the New York team a lot better in their new configuration.
What else is there? "Criminal Intent" - oh God, Vincent D'Onofrio's long-winded crime scene investigations, his stupid, theatral gestures and his annoying omniscience! And that blond chick who work with him, looking like an idiot all the time!
And then that Special Victims Unit stuff with Mariska Hargitay and whatshisname who plays her partner... Well, actually, I like the two, and I even like Ice-T and the ugly old man who plays his partner, but the show itself gives me the depressions. It always seems that the good guys lose, even if they sometimes, surprisingly enough, have to win.
So, what about older shows I used to like? "Stargate" went straigt to hell when Richard Dean Anderson left and TPTB turned it into a modified version of "Farscape" (another show I hated like the plague). "Atlantis" - I just can't connect to all those new characters. I mean, they had the greatest supporting characters of all shows - and where are they now? Where's Bates, Stackhouse, Kavanagh, Miko? I know I'll probably be lynched by Lornites for this, but honestly, Lorne doesn't do a thing for me. Gimme back Bates, with his paranoia, and keep the flyboy.
So, I'm back to the reruns; at least those old shows aren't full of gloom and doom and perversion - and they're most definitely not boring. I even returned to "Voyager", at least where fanfiction is concerned. I know the show was a criminal waste, but I still cared for the characters - and I could, at least see what was happening on the TV screen. Have none of the creators of these new shows paid their electricity bills that the things are so dark you can only guess what's happening?
Okay, you can start throwing the rotten tomatoes now. *g*
Not that I'd be happy with TV lately. Sure, the numerous German channels do bring a lot of reruns from older shows I love a great deal, but the new ones... God, be merciful to me! I realize that there are unnumbered people who love them, but God, I hate a great lot of them.
Let's start with "Life on Mars". I was so looking forward to this one, as several of my online friends seemed to like it a lot, and those are people whose taste I trust. Now it finally came to German TV (they're usually a year or so behind, and let me not even start with Hungarian TV here), and I was biting my nails in anticipation. Well... please, don't lynch me, guys, but I didn't even manage to suffer it through to the end of the pilot episode. It bored me to tears and I gave up after the first thirty minutes or so.
Perhaps it's my fault. As someone who still doesn't own a cell phone and never calls anyone on their own cell because it's too expansive from a traditional one, I simply couldn't really identify with the problems of the main hero. Not to mention that I didn't find him likeable at all and hated practically all other characters. Ah, well, that's a fandom I certainly won't get hooked on. The better for me. I've got more than enough on my plate as it is.
Then, there's "Criminal Minds". People are heals over head in love with that one (or the other way round?). I'm still unable to keep the characters apart, with the exception of Mandy Patinkin, and the cases are increasingly sick. Plust, the investigation is lagging and boring. For me, the worst things in a TC show are boredom and characters I can't care for. So, another fandom I won't get hooked on. Good for me!
Let's see. "Navy CIS". Well, what an utter crap it turned out to be! I dearly love the characters of Gibbs and Ducky, and I like the Goth girl Abby, but honestly, they're all cardboard caricatures. And don't even mention DiNozzo, that obnoxious, immature idiot (how in heck did he end up having such an important job) and the anorexic, genderless femme fatale of the season, whether she's called Kate or Ziva! So, no, no danger of me ever writing NCIS fanfiction, except in rage to kill off the whole bunch.
Well, "House M.D"? Since when is it an endearing character trait if someone is rude? Not in my book, sorry. And the other docs have no personalities whatsoever. And they all seem to be so horribly incompetent, the patients has to die three times until they figure out what's wrong with him - and then he dies a fourth time. Brrr. No. Just no.
OTOH, I'm warming up for "CSI New York", since they killed off that woman with the Botox-lips. I like Gary Sinise, and the new girl on the team, Anna Belknap is just the right type whom I'd buy the lab rat. Rather than Stella Bonasera - and just who had the brilliant idea to name a forensic specialist "Good Night", just because she's supposed to be Italian or whatnot? Anyway, I can tolerate the New York team a lot better in their new configuration.
What else is there? "Criminal Intent" - oh God, Vincent D'Onofrio's long-winded crime scene investigations, his stupid, theatral gestures and his annoying omniscience! And that blond chick who work with him, looking like an idiot all the time!
And then that Special Victims Unit stuff with Mariska Hargitay and whatshisname who plays her partner... Well, actually, I like the two, and I even like Ice-T and the ugly old man who plays his partner, but the show itself gives me the depressions. It always seems that the good guys lose, even if they sometimes, surprisingly enough, have to win.
So, what about older shows I used to like? "Stargate" went straigt to hell when Richard Dean Anderson left and TPTB turned it into a modified version of "Farscape" (another show I hated like the plague). "Atlantis" - I just can't connect to all those new characters. I mean, they had the greatest supporting characters of all shows - and where are they now? Where's Bates, Stackhouse, Kavanagh, Miko? I know I'll probably be lynched by Lornites for this, but honestly, Lorne doesn't do a thing for me. Gimme back Bates, with his paranoia, and keep the flyboy.
So, I'm back to the reruns; at least those old shows aren't full of gloom and doom and perversion - and they're most definitely not boring. I even returned to "Voyager", at least where fanfiction is concerned. I know the show was a criminal waste, but I still cared for the characters - and I could, at least see what was happening on the TV screen. Have none of the creators of these new shows paid their electricity bills that the things are so dark you can only guess what's happening?
Okay, you can start throwing the rotten tomatoes now. *g*
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Actually, I liked the 1970s - does it say anything about my age if I tell you that I started working full time in 1975? - and perhaps was so disappointed because I remember them very differently?
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Wait... do you mean that you didn't have proper illumination in your country in the 1970s? *g*
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