I really do love that it's a bisexual show. I love that Captain Jack exists so much. He's an action hero! And he kisses boys! It's revolutionary and wonderful.
It's just... y'know, it just drives me crazy because I know it could be better. (Jack is so much more of an appealing character on Doctor Who. I don't really think the actor is great, but he has awesome charisma, and for some reason they let him shine far more on DW than on his own show, where mostly he's like, grumpy boss man. I am absolutely boggled that they managed to make a character like Jack boring for a good part of the first season!)
And, man, the characters do things that are just so stupid that I lose my ability to suspend disbelief, and then I find it really hard to care about anything they do when I can't respect them at all. And I don't understand why they haven't all been fired like 500 million times over. Let me tell you, if I kept an evil cyber!monster in my office basement, and it came out and tried to kill all of my coworkers, I would expect to be fired!
But, um, yeah. I'm curious what you'll think when you've seen the whole thing. And I don't want to minimize how awesome it is that they've got bisexual action hero characters. I just wish they'd stop acting like that's enough to make a successful TV show; revolutionary sexuality is good, but you still need stuff like three-dimensional characterization and interesting plots.
I am hopeful that they're realized the flaws of the first season and will fix things for the second. *fingers crossed*
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Re: TW
Date: 2008-01-15 06:24 pm (UTC)It's just... y'know, it just drives me crazy because I know it could be better. (Jack is so much more of an appealing character on Doctor Who. I don't really think the actor is great, but he has awesome charisma, and for some reason they let him shine far more on DW than on his own show, where mostly he's like, grumpy boss man. I am absolutely boggled that they managed to make a character like Jack boring for a good part of the first season!)
And, man, the characters do things that are just so stupid that I lose my ability to suspend disbelief, and then I find it really hard to care about anything they do when I can't respect them at all. And I don't understand why they haven't all been fired like 500 million times over. Let me tell you, if I kept an evil cyber!monster in my office basement, and it came out and tried to kill all of my coworkers, I would expect to be fired!
But, um, yeah. I'm curious what you'll think when you've seen the whole thing. And I don't want to minimize how awesome it is that they've got bisexual action hero characters. I just wish they'd stop acting like that's enough to make a successful TV show; revolutionary sexuality is good, but you still need stuff like three-dimensional characterization and interesting plots.
I am hopeful that they're realized the flaws of the first season and will fix things for the second. *fingers crossed*