Lost Girl: This is a very silly, very fluffy, very amusing show. It relies a lot on telling rather than showing (the amount of constant exposition is nuts), and it likes to butcher mythology (I am totally down with reinterpreting mythology, or being inspired by mythology, or otherwise doing new and interesting things with it, but this is straight-up ham-handed butchering), and the acting is sometimes hilariously bad, but... I really like it anyway. It almost never takes itself seriously, and the "monster-hunting goth chick who fell down the faerie rabbit hole" urban fantasy premise tickles me deep down in the remaining vestiges of my inner teenager. This is another one of those shows that makes me want to write things, because I keep thinking, "Oh, that's a fun idea! If only they'd done this instead..." There are so, so many things you could do with a show like this.
The Walking Dead: Straight-up fantastic. I loved every minute of it. They did the zombie apocalypse right! So many zombie stories don't bother to research what would actually happen to things like electricity and running water and wildlife regrowth, or how long local gas stations would still have any fuel, or whether or not one could even access that fuel, and it bugs the crap out of me. But this show knew those things, and it made them count! It used them as part of the story! I was so, so happy. So happy. And oh, the rest of the writing was just as excellent. It was funny and touching and gut-wrenching and awful and completely sucked me in. At the end of the pilot, I almost jumped off the bed to go run for my TV and grab it and shake it and beg it to please give me the next episode, please, please! Waiting that week between new installments was positively agonizing.
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Date: 2011-02-02 01:12 am (UTC)The Walking Dead: Straight-up fantastic. I loved every minute of it. They did the zombie apocalypse right! So many zombie stories don't bother to research what would actually happen to things like electricity and running water and wildlife regrowth, or how long local gas stations would still have any fuel, or whether or not one could even access that fuel, and it bugs the crap out of me. But this show knew those things, and it made them count! It used them as part of the story! I was so, so happy. So happy. And oh, the rest of the writing was just as excellent. It was funny and touching and gut-wrenching and awful and completely sucked me in. At the end of the pilot, I almost jumped off the bed to go run for my TV and grab it and shake it and beg it to please give me the next episode, please, please! Waiting that week between new installments was positively agonizing.