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[captainsblog]

You'd think that, with no significant blog posts to read, and less to write, I'd have time for things like Torchwood: Miracle Day.

Nope.

I'm stuck halfway into the second episode, from two weekends back. I'm just not LIKING these people the way I do the Doctor and friends, or Nurse Jackie and staff, or even Dexter. I'm sensing that fairly typical BBC tendency to villify the Americans, bringing out their worst; while the current Who season so far took a run at that by featuring Nixon, at least we got him out of the way quickly enough for the usual aliens (and even some unusual ones) to make their appearances.

Even Claire-um-Jilly, now that I've finally met her, isn't doing much for me. I'm liking her more than Esther, who for almost an entire episode I thought was her, but she still isn't warming my heart the way she did as Claire, or as KW, and certainly not as Emma, the last thing I saw/heard her as.

And I just now got a rash of eighteen straight setup[insert eight digit number]-dot-exe files tring to open themselves onto my computer. Best go kill dat.

Comments

[ellettra.livejournal.com]

It's hard to believe Claire wouldn't be good in everything.
I personally have been, ahem, sucked into the Vampire Diaries. I am getting a fair amount of ribbing from my mate over it, but t.v. is good if it's good for the person who's watching!!

[thanatos-kalos.livejournal.com]

The series gets better from about 4.2 onward-- 4.3 was quite good (though the Beeb's edits were inexcusable). I'm rarely connecting with anyone apart from the original characters-- your lack of familiarity with the series history is hampering you there; e me for explanations/analysis/bits of my PhD-- though again things start to settle from 4.3. It's an admittedly slow start, with the visual/auditory style (including intertexts)seesawing between cod-US medical drama and spy/political thriller in unpredictable ways, and some oif the transnational stuff being shoved in kind of awkwardly. It's getting better, though.

Jilly bugs me due to her name-- one of our profs is called Jenny Kitzinger (probably not a ref, since she doesn't work much on telefantasy) and I keep hearing the name wrong. (Also, Jenny's had a hellish year, so... *sigh*) Juarez gets better, Esther starts developing more of a personality, Rex is still very irritating and punchable. Oswald Danes is fun, esp starting from 4.3.