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wiseheartStill watching "Lie To Me". Still enjoying it a great deal. The plots are still fairly predictable, but I still love the approach and the complete absence of brutality. Besides, I've loved Kelli Williams since the forgettable "Earth 2" series. And I loved her in "Medical Investigations", or what the heck was the title. Actually, I liked her more in that one, as her cleavage didn't play such a significant role back then, but I'm still happy to see her.
Stargate: Universe reaches new lows in each new week. *is frustrated* It's a frigging sci-fi series, ain't it? So why do I get barely a glimpse of the cool, 100,000-year-old starship and have to suffer through 30-35 minutes of Col. Young's marriage crisis, stupid little whore Chloe's identity crisis and Gen. O'Neill being turned into a fat, incompetent old man who can't stand up to the IOA any longer? It's hard to decide which part was the worse and most boring, but I think it would be Chloe having a crisis in the disco. Stupid Ancient communication stones. They doubtlessly save a lot of cash, since half the crew is roaming Earth in other people's bodies all the time, but they sure as hell make the whole series boring beyond endurance.
Watched Merlin with great delight, though. Only one more episode to go. Colin Morgan is absolutely fantastic, and the other male actors are great, too. Both the regular ones and the guest stars. I love Gaius and Uther, I love Arthur, and the Witchfinder was sufficiently creepy. Hell I absolutely love the Dragon, too!
The female characters, OTOH, are rubbish. I wouldn't buy Morgause killing a sick chicken, save alone five guards and beating Arthur. Gwen is gaining more an more traits of a Mary Sue, save from the being pretty part - sorry, but she just isn't. I can deal with political correctness, even though I seriously doubt that in Arthur's supposed time there were much people of colour in Albion. But if princes and knights are supposed to fall in love with her, even though she's only a servant, she ought to be at least pretty.
Not that the other girls would be much better. At least in Season 1, Morgana was someone interesting. Now she's getting manipulated by male, female, animal and mineral. Everyone uses her for their purpose, and she's always stupid enough to believe that they actually care for her. When, exactly, did she get lobotomized?
It's sad, really. Not that she turned evil - that was to be expected, considering the legends. But I wanted her to be powerful and independent and creepy - while still stunningly beautiful and scheming and whatnot. Instead, she seems to fall for every sorcerer, male, female or evil little brat, and generally just serves as a plot device, so that the other characters can react. Season 1 Morgana would have deserved better.
The female villains are abysmally bad anyway. Nimueh was a great disappointment for me. Someone as powerful as she was supposed to be, she ought to be creepy. Well, she wasn't. Okay, she didn't get older, or she could conceal ageing, I would buy that. But she behaved like a spoiled brat, and the sultry way she cast spells woke associations that probably weren't intended. (second-class porn star voice anyone?) Or if it was intended, it's all the worse.
That Sidhe girl in the Avalon episode just looked like one of those round-faced porcelain dolls my Mum used to have as a child. She looked just way too plump for being a Sidhe, even a cast-out one, forced to wear a human body. Now, I don't have anything against plump women - on the contrary - but they ought to be cast for the right part, IMO.
The only really great female villain was Lady Catrina, the troll. The actress was absolutely beautiful while showing the human disguise, and the transformation was done very well. Plus, she wasn't a snot-nosed girl; it's always a delight to see a mature woman in a series made for a younger audience. I would have bought Uther falling for the human Catrina, even without enchantment.
I liked Freya, the druid girl, too - of course, she wasn't a villain. She and Merlin were so sweet together, it just couldn't end well, eh? Still, I hope we'll see her later again.
Lady Vivien was a spoiled little beast, of course, but that was intended, so I really enjoyed her. Arthur falling in enchanted love and behaving like an idiot was hilariously funny.
All in all, "Merlin" is still a uniquely charming series. I can't wait for the next season to come. I hope we'll see Lancelot again - and that he grows out his hair again. Yes, I'm that shallow. I loved him with the longer hair.
Stargate: Universe reaches new lows in each new week. *is frustrated* It's a frigging sci-fi series, ain't it? So why do I get barely a glimpse of the cool, 100,000-year-old starship and have to suffer through 30-35 minutes of Col. Young's marriage crisis, stupid little whore Chloe's identity crisis and Gen. O'Neill being turned into a fat, incompetent old man who can't stand up to the IOA any longer? It's hard to decide which part was the worse and most boring, but I think it would be Chloe having a crisis in the disco. Stupid Ancient communication stones. They doubtlessly save a lot of cash, since half the crew is roaming Earth in other people's bodies all the time, but they sure as hell make the whole series boring beyond endurance.
Watched Merlin with great delight, though. Only one more episode to go. Colin Morgan is absolutely fantastic, and the other male actors are great, too. Both the regular ones and the guest stars. I love Gaius and Uther, I love Arthur, and the Witchfinder was sufficiently creepy. Hell I absolutely love the Dragon, too!
The female characters, OTOH, are rubbish. I wouldn't buy Morgause killing a sick chicken, save alone five guards and beating Arthur. Gwen is gaining more an more traits of a Mary Sue, save from the being pretty part - sorry, but she just isn't. I can deal with political correctness, even though I seriously doubt that in Arthur's supposed time there were much people of colour in Albion. But if princes and knights are supposed to fall in love with her, even though she's only a servant, she ought to be at least pretty.
Not that the other girls would be much better. At least in Season 1, Morgana was someone interesting. Now she's getting manipulated by male, female, animal and mineral. Everyone uses her for their purpose, and she's always stupid enough to believe that they actually care for her. When, exactly, did she get lobotomized?
It's sad, really. Not that she turned evil - that was to be expected, considering the legends. But I wanted her to be powerful and independent and creepy - while still stunningly beautiful and scheming and whatnot. Instead, she seems to fall for every sorcerer, male, female or evil little brat, and generally just serves as a plot device, so that the other characters can react. Season 1 Morgana would have deserved better.
The female villains are abysmally bad anyway. Nimueh was a great disappointment for me. Someone as powerful as she was supposed to be, she ought to be creepy. Well, she wasn't. Okay, she didn't get older, or she could conceal ageing, I would buy that. But she behaved like a spoiled brat, and the sultry way she cast spells woke associations that probably weren't intended. (second-class porn star voice anyone?) Or if it was intended, it's all the worse.
That Sidhe girl in the Avalon episode just looked like one of those round-faced porcelain dolls my Mum used to have as a child. She looked just way too plump for being a Sidhe, even a cast-out one, forced to wear a human body. Now, I don't have anything against plump women - on the contrary - but they ought to be cast for the right part, IMO.
The only really great female villain was Lady Catrina, the troll. The actress was absolutely beautiful while showing the human disguise, and the transformation was done very well. Plus, she wasn't a snot-nosed girl; it's always a delight to see a mature woman in a series made for a younger audience. I would have bought Uther falling for the human Catrina, even without enchantment.
I liked Freya, the druid girl, too - of course, she wasn't a villain. She and Merlin were so sweet together, it just couldn't end well, eh? Still, I hope we'll see her later again.
Lady Vivien was a spoiled little beast, of course, but that was intended, so I really enjoyed her. Arthur falling in enchanted love and behaving like an idiot was hilariously funny.
All in all, "Merlin" is still a uniquely charming series. I can't wait for the next season to come. I hope we'll see Lancelot again - and that he grows out his hair again. Yes, I'm that shallow. I loved him with the longer hair.
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Date: 2010-03-25 10:33 am (UTC)I did expect a soap opera from the earliest character descriptions, but I didn't think it'd be SO bad! At least a good soap opera is entertaining, if cliched. The SGU soap opera drama isn't even entertaining.
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Date: 2010-03-25 09:32 pm (UTC)Did I really need to listen to awful disco music while Chloe was having a crisis, using poor Eli to bawl on his shoulder and then tell him what a good friend he is - but not good enough to accept him as an interested young man? Cuz she can spread her legs for Scott?
Did we really need to watch Young lusting after BArbie the Borg in the opening scenes? Or is this the new apocalyptic concept? Let's all have sex, as Owen has suggested in one of the Torchwood eps? Cuz if it is, then I must agree with Ianto: I didn't think that the end of the world could become any worse, either.
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Date: 2010-03-25 09:39 pm (UTC)*lol* Indeed! But if it'd been Torchwood, they'd at least have made it an awesomely funny end-of-the-world-sex scene (and yummy, Jack and Ianto! *grin*)
Yeah, the whole body swap thing annoys me, too. It destroys the whole point of sending people into some far-away galaxy - besides just being an excuse to give them cheap earth-bound soap opera drama. The whole show would have been much improved if they'd done away with the stupid body swap stone idea. Then we might actually get some real sci-fi "lost in space" drama like they promised us.
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Date: 2010-03-25 10:00 pm (UTC)Have you noticed that they've got about two or three shots of the starship exterior, tops? They show one of those once a day, and then it's all dark, empty rooms and yammering back on EArth.
Come to think, I never understood why so many of those effing starships are dark all the time. Okay, they're in outer space, but that doesn't mean they have to sit in the dark all time, right? The only starship where basic lighting seemed to have worked were Kirk's Enterprise and that of TNG. Whenever untalented directors want to show you drama, they kill the lights on the scene...
BTW, there was one encouner I actually liked this week's SGU disaster: Eli visiting his Mum. And he was the only one intelligent enough not to try telling that poor woman who he actually was... So much about top secret stuff, eh?
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Date: 2010-03-25 10:08 pm (UTC)Yeah, I liked the Eli scene, too. Alas, even Eli can't be THAT adorable to make up for the overall suckiness of the episode :(
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Date: 2010-03-25 10:22 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-03-25 10:27 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-03-25 10:30 pm (UTC)Plus, women on Atlantis are generally attracted to brains... because they have some, too.
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Date: 2010-03-25 10:44 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-03-25 10:50 pm (UTC)What about that Russischer Zupfkuchen recipe you promised? *hint, hint*
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Date: 2010-03-25 11:21 pm (UTC)Sounds really good, will have to try cheesecake with pears sometimes, too.
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Date: 2010-03-25 11:47 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-03-26 11:49 am (UTC)Ich habe dieses Rezept verwendet: http://www.chefkoch.de/rezepte/856988205496/Russischer-Zupfkuchen.html
Allerdings werde ich das nächste Mal 10-20% weniger Zucker nehmen
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Date: 2010-03-26 09:20 pm (UTC)Thanks for the link. Will give it a try. Do you want the recipe from the cheese cake with pears? It's in German, so all I have to do is to type it up.
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Date: 2010-03-26 09:25 pm (UTC)Hehe, just stirring the dough makes for the best baking, of course. But with baking, complicated is not so bad for me. I hate having several pans and pots to attend to, though.
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Date: 2010-03-26 09:49 pm (UTC)But at least in the morning I've managed to finish the next chapter of "Atlantis CAfé". Will type it up tomorrow, too.
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Date: 2010-03-26 09:52 pm (UTC)What was so disastrous about the cultural event?
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Date: 2010-03-26 10:17 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-03-26 10:45 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2010-03-26 10:55 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-03-26 11:19 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-03-26 11:32 pm (UTC)then mind control is the only way you have left
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Date: 2010-03-27 12:00 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-03-27 01:22 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-03-27 04:13 pm (UTC)*starts saving money for the project*
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Date: 2010-03-27 04:41 pm (UTC)