I go through phases of watching a lot of TV. Some of it, my satellite company kindly provides for me (for example, Empire is finally starting next week in the UK) and I'm more than happy to trail along however many weeks or months behind we are than the US/Canada. Others, not so much. ;)
I was thinking the other day about, a few years back in Stargate SG-1 fandom, when we had the delights of what we called 'squintyvision'. None of this TV-ready files from wherever for us, nope we put up with blurry and tiny copies of episodes that also took hours and hours to download. And we were grateful! (insert usual 'uphill in the snow both ways'-type reference here). Heh.
Anyway, onto the shows. My usual rule is that if I can make it through the pilot then they're probably safe, but that's not always been the case this season:
1. 12 Monkeys - well, it turned up on the TV so I gave it a try, but honestly I got bored 2 or 3 episodes in. And if you're going to have Kirk Acevedo in your show (who I have loved in everything he's ever been in) why waste him as a supporting character?
2. Chicago Fire - so, because one of my friends (she knows who she is) happens to be a major fan of this show, I gave it a try. Assisted by Sky running all of season 1 on a daily basis, which meant it was a no-brainer to catch up with. But, easy on the eye as all of the folks involved are, I just couldn't bring myself to care enough about any of them to carry on.
3.Gotham - can be summed up as 'I don't care about Batman, so struggled to give a crap about pre-Batman'. Which is a shame, because I really liked Ben MacKenzie in Southland and he deserves good things. This is not one of them.
4.Extant - oh, Halle Berry, why? This ought to have been catnip for me, but I found her (and everyone else, honestly, though it was a shock to see the woman who plays Control in Person of Interest being nice to people!) intensely unsympathetic and it's hard to watch a show when you don't give a crap about the people in it.
5. The Flash - I watch Arrow. There we have it. I wanted to like The Flash but a couple of things threw me out of it - firstly the whole Barry-Iris thing squicks the hell out of me. Yep, legally they are not brother and sister but my brain is registering that relationship in those terms. It's the same for me as age regression fic where character A ends up looking after character B and changing his nappies and suddenly character B is an adult again and sexytimes with no thought of the squickiness. YMMV. Maybe it's the same thing as Spider-Man for me, that I actually (as a middle-aged woman) don't really care about teenage/early twenties angst any more and just find it annoying?
There'll probably be a post at some point soon about new shows I've started watching, but no promises!
I was thinking the other day about, a few years back in Stargate SG-1 fandom, when we had the delights of what we called 'squintyvision'. None of this TV-ready files from wherever for us, nope we put up with blurry and tiny copies of episodes that also took hours and hours to download. And we were grateful! (insert usual 'uphill in the snow both ways'-type reference here). Heh.
Anyway, onto the shows. My usual rule is that if I can make it through the pilot then they're probably safe, but that's not always been the case this season:
1. 12 Monkeys - well, it turned up on the TV so I gave it a try, but honestly I got bored 2 or 3 episodes in. And if you're going to have Kirk Acevedo in your show (who I have loved in everything he's ever been in) why waste him as a supporting character?
2. Chicago Fire - so, because one of my friends (she knows who she is) happens to be a major fan of this show, I gave it a try. Assisted by Sky running all of season 1 on a daily basis, which meant it was a no-brainer to catch up with. But, easy on the eye as all of the folks involved are, I just couldn't bring myself to care enough about any of them to carry on.
3.Gotham - can be summed up as 'I don't care about Batman, so struggled to give a crap about pre-Batman'. Which is a shame, because I really liked Ben MacKenzie in Southland and he deserves good things. This is not one of them.
4.Extant - oh, Halle Berry, why? This ought to have been catnip for me, but I found her (and everyone else, honestly, though it was a shock to see the woman who plays Control in Person of Interest being nice to people!) intensely unsympathetic and it's hard to watch a show when you don't give a crap about the people in it.
5. The Flash - I watch Arrow. There we have it. I wanted to like The Flash but a couple of things threw me out of it - firstly the whole Barry-Iris thing squicks the hell out of me. Yep, legally they are not brother and sister but my brain is registering that relationship in those terms. It's the same for me as age regression fic where character A ends up looking after character B and changing his nappies and suddenly character B is an adult again and sexytimes with no thought of the squickiness. YMMV. Maybe it's the same thing as Spider-Man for me, that I actually (as a middle-aged woman) don't really care about teenage/early twenties angst any more and just find it annoying?
There'll probably be a post at some point soon about new shows I've started watching, but no promises!
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