Tuesday TV thoughts
May. 14th, 2003 11:11 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
yendiIf it's Wednesday, I must be ranting about Tuesday TV. Who'd have thought that Gilmore Girls would be the show I enjoyed least last night?
Spoilers Rake (one cannot maintain a garden with hoes alone, of course).
Buffy:
I liked this episode. Technically, it was just the first half of the finale. But things moved forward nicely. We finally know where Caleb gets his power from. We finally get more info on the origins of the Slayers and Watchers. We finally see Angel in Sunnydale again. We finally realize that no one in Sunnydale would recognize a scythe if it bit them in the ass.
Okay, so it wasn't perfect.
But it was still fun. Buffy -- the real Buffy -- was back this episode. Everyone was sharp and in character. Xander got wonderful lines. All major characters had at least a moment or two. Buffy kicked Übervamp ass. She kicked Caleb's ass. The Guardian was nifty until she died. Spike's whiny ass didn't bring down the show overmuch. Principle Wood was M.I.A. And we had a Rocky II Wheelchair Tribute Fight.
My only real non-scythe complaint was the overkill on the foreshadowing of Anya's death. Joss needs to know when to tone it down a notch.
One week. Then no more new Buffy. :-(
Smallville: Now this is what the show should be like. Lex and Lionel conniving against each other and everyone else. Lex's dark side starting to show through. Lex's lust for Clark coming between him and his marriage (I mean, who the fuck makes a sixteen-year-old their best man?).
Okay, it wasn't great. Pete and Chloe had ten lines between them, and the Chloe/Lana/Clark thing is getting out of hand. Although it seems as if Chloe, at least, will get a much more significant role next season, once she accepts Lionel's offer.
The show is pure cheese, so I hold it to lower standards than I do the other shows.
Gilmore Girls: Note to the WB: If I wanted to watch a fucking pilot for the "Jess and his wacky California Family Show," I'd watch it. I don't mind the actual characters -- the wacky relatives are a lot less annoying than Jess, and his annoying whiney attitude plays nicely off of them. But this episode could have had a real Lane plotline. It could have moved the buying-an-inn plotline forward. It could have had Paris in an A-plot (although she at least got some good moments). It could have furthered the Dean storyline. We might even have heard something about Sookie's pregnancy. Or even seen Kirk be a schmuck. But shit. It wasted half the fucking episode on a pilot for a wanker's spinoff. Much as I love Sherrilyn Fenn, I love the folks in Stars Hollow more.
That said, I like the forwarding of the Emily/Rory/Lorelai plotline. The financial aid one is okay. All other plots were basically backburnered.
In terms of little things, I like Jess's future step-sister. And I'm going to miss Madeline and Louise as minor characters. And I do like that the seeds for Paris to go to Yale have been sown. I wonder if the religious psycho college that Lane is off to is near New Haven? If they'd had time, I'm sure they could have mentioned it.
Spoilers Rake (one cannot maintain a garden with hoes alone, of course).
Buffy:
I liked this episode. Technically, it was just the first half of the finale. But things moved forward nicely. We finally know where Caleb gets his power from. We finally get more info on the origins of the Slayers and Watchers. We finally see Angel in Sunnydale again. We finally realize that no one in Sunnydale would recognize a scythe if it bit them in the ass.
Okay, so it wasn't perfect.
But it was still fun. Buffy -- the real Buffy -- was back this episode. Everyone was sharp and in character. Xander got wonderful lines. All major characters had at least a moment or two. Buffy kicked Übervamp ass. She kicked Caleb's ass. The Guardian was nifty until she died. Spike's whiny ass didn't bring down the show overmuch. Principle Wood was M.I.A. And we had a Rocky II Wheelchair Tribute Fight.
My only real non-scythe complaint was the overkill on the foreshadowing of Anya's death. Joss needs to know when to tone it down a notch.
One week. Then no more new Buffy. :-(
Smallville: Now this is what the show should be like. Lex and Lionel conniving against each other and everyone else. Lex's dark side starting to show through. Lex's lust for Clark coming between him and his marriage (I mean, who the fuck makes a sixteen-year-old their best man?).
Okay, it wasn't great. Pete and Chloe had ten lines between them, and the Chloe/Lana/Clark thing is getting out of hand. Although it seems as if Chloe, at least, will get a much more significant role next season, once she accepts Lionel's offer.
The show is pure cheese, so I hold it to lower standards than I do the other shows.
Gilmore Girls: Note to the WB: If I wanted to watch a fucking pilot for the "Jess and his wacky California Family Show," I'd watch it. I don't mind the actual characters -- the wacky relatives are a lot less annoying than Jess, and his annoying whiney attitude plays nicely off of them. But this episode could have had a real Lane plotline. It could have moved the buying-an-inn plotline forward. It could have had Paris in an A-plot (although she at least got some good moments). It could have furthered the Dean storyline. We might even have heard something about Sookie's pregnancy. Or even seen Kirk be a schmuck. But shit. It wasted half the fucking episode on a pilot for a wanker's spinoff. Much as I love Sherrilyn Fenn, I love the folks in Stars Hollow more.
That said, I like the forwarding of the Emily/Rory/Lorelai plotline. The financial aid one is okay. All other plots were basically backburnered.
In terms of little things, I like Jess's future step-sister. And I'm going to miss Madeline and Louise as minor characters. And I do like that the seeds for Paris to go to Yale have been sown. I wonder if the religious psycho college that Lane is off to is near New Haven? If they'd had time, I'm sure they could have mentioned it.