scifi tv :|
13 Apr 2008 07:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cimoreneI want to like Torchwood and Doctor Who, but I've been finding it difficult lately, not to mention impossible to get excited about it. ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
bibliotech gave a good explanation of why a few weeks ago. It hasn't even run for long enough to go back and watch the good ones over and over again - at least not for very long. One and a half good seasons isn't much, is it? I'm rather dreading the backlog of tw episodes and the new who episodes. Going from their records they're far more likely to prove an irritating disappointment than a pleasant surprise. It's just that when they were good TW and DW were so much fun - a nice modern fantasy in science fiction clothing, and I like modern sf/f the best - with bright colours and silly dialogue and effects and cheesy episodic plotlines reminiscent of 70s and 90s sf at its finest - and on top of that, jeans and Converse and. Neon seafoam-green jackets and ugly chav clothes. It was great fun. And it made me giggle every time I wore my red Converse, for a while there.
So I have similar problems with every other currently-running sff show that I've tried to watch except The Sarah Connor Chronicles, which I don't have too extraordinarily high hopes for, however, because they could so easily fuck it up next season, or cancel it right away. But at least the small hopes I have are in the optimistic direction, since it isn't cancelled yet, and it's just the sort of fun that lets me ignore and handwave away all kinds of low budget, lame dialogue, and plot inconsistencies. You can't go into skiffy and enjoy it if you're planning to look for holes in the pseudoscience, after all. I wonder if we should try watching that new vampire show, or... or... or something. There is a void in my life.
bibliotech gave a good explanation of why a few weeks ago. It hasn't even run for long enough to go back and watch the good ones over and over again - at least not for very long. One and a half good seasons isn't much, is it? I'm rather dreading the backlog of tw episodes and the new who episodes. Going from their records they're far more likely to prove an irritating disappointment than a pleasant surprise. It's just that when they were good TW and DW were so much fun - a nice modern fantasy in science fiction clothing, and I like modern sf/f the best - with bright colours and silly dialogue and effects and cheesy episodic plotlines reminiscent of 70s and 90s sf at its finest - and on top of that, jeans and Converse and. Neon seafoam-green jackets and ugly chav clothes. It was great fun. And it made me giggle every time I wore my red Converse, for a while there.So I have similar problems with every other currently-running sff show that I've tried to watch except The Sarah Connor Chronicles, which I don't have too extraordinarily high hopes for, however, because they could so easily fuck it up next season, or cancel it right away. But at least the small hopes I have are in the optimistic direction, since it isn't cancelled yet, and it's just the sort of fun that lets me ignore and handwave away all kinds of low budget, lame dialogue, and plot inconsistencies. You can't go into skiffy and enjoy it if you're planning to look for holes in the pseudoscience, after all. I wonder if we should try watching that new vampire show, or... or... or something. There is a void in my life.
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