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craigoxbrow) wrote2009-05-13 06:34 pm
craigoxbrow) wrote2009-05-13 06:34 pm
TV: Gnaaah.
Heroes bumbled along reasonably watchably, nerfed the most horrendously broken of the good guys so that Peter actually has to show a glimmer of intelligence from time to time, did something interesting with the still-very-broken Sylar, and continued to provide ways for HRG to demonstrate his awesomes. And then it got to a jaw-droppingly unsuccessful final twist.
So near, and yet so fail.
Speaking of fail, I may well be the only person within shouting distance of this blog who watched Damages, but it's my blog so there you go. The first season was clever, gleefully mean-spirited, twisty-turny, and used the flashback construction smartly to enhance the tension. The second season was... well, it was still mean-spirited. But the twists were largely weak and/or daft, the villains were comic-booky or too far into the Banality of Evil and just kinda dull, the whole two-parter with Uncle Pete's backstory was deeply silly and it all just felt like "uh, we have to do a sequel... right now!" and all the interesting stuff could have been mashed down into three episodes.
Still a cool theme though.
I'm so grumpy I could even complain about the dockworkers in The Wire season two. Man, they're just annoying. And the whole McNulty remaking Striking Distance thing... yeesh...
So near, and yet so fail.
Speaking of fail, I may well be the only person within shouting distance of this blog who watched Damages, but it's my blog so there you go. The first season was clever, gleefully mean-spirited, twisty-turny, and used the flashback construction smartly to enhance the tension. The second season was... well, it was still mean-spirited. But the twists were largely weak and/or daft, the villains were comic-booky or too far into the Banality of Evil and just kinda dull, the whole two-parter with Uncle Pete's backstory was deeply silly and it all just felt like "uh, we have to do a sequel... right now!" and all the interesting stuff could have been mashed down into three episodes.
Still a cool theme though.
I'm so grumpy I could even complain about the dockworkers in The Wire season two. Man, they're just annoying. And the whole McNulty remaking Striking Distance thing... yeesh...
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