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Oh, laziness. Soon I shall have to go work on my thesis, but until this point, this weekend has been full of TV-catchup!
Torchwood: As usual, we have just the right mix of intentional hilarity and unintentional hilarity to keep me happy. Right now I am pleased with most everyone! Ianto is pleasingly witty and competent and seems to have got over his manpain; Jack's shock at how well his team coped without him also pleases me, because he needs the comeuppance; Owen is much less of an ass so far this season; Tosh needs more screentime, as usual; Gwen needs to stop mooning over Jack right now; James Marsters can continue being Spike Lite as long as at some point he provides fake-broody voiceovers for the team. (Please? If I'm really really good?) Also, every time a little old lady or a grumpy policeman mocks The Team, it brings giant warm fuzzies to my heart.
I am really not pleased with Russel T. Davies for constantly casting black women as Scary Sort-Of Human Except Actually Totally Other And Not To Mention Unintentionally Murderous To The People They Love Cyborg/Alien Ladies, but at least Beth was less creepily sexualized than Ianto's ex. And I am so looking forward to Martha's arrival you wouldn't believe. She will bring a competence injection! (But not permanently, of course. Too much competence and Torchwood wouldn't be Torchwood.)
As for the ginormous Owen/Tosh vibes they were sending in the first episode, I am cautiously in favor of this, IF AND ONLY IF Owen makes a move on her and Tosh turns him down because despite her crush she knows what's good for her, thanks, and then Owen spends the rest of the season trying to prove himself worthy before they get together. Because Tosh deserves the best.
Sarah Connor Chronicles: I have seen two out of three episodes; I was not completely sold on the first, but by the second I am liking the show better and will probably continue watching. At the close of the first episode, I was thinking that the show probably would not be ensemble-y enough for me - I wasn't really identifying with any of the characters at that point, and while I don't always need that, sometimes I do. But the second episode provided a little more characterization for everyone and more interesting quiet moments. I really liked the makeover, and the scene with the car was fabulous (dangerous ladies!), but it was possibly the turkey scene that sold me, since I do that all the time.
Also, Lena Headey is very, very pretty, and both Lena Headey and Summer Glau get to be kickass a lot, and this makes me happy.
What will keep me watching the show: continual kickass from Our Heroes, but not so much that it takes up all the screentime. Recurring characters outside of our Main Three, which I hope will be happening now that they're established in time, and an emphasis on interpersonal relationships outside of Sarah-John, which - okay, I get that it's very important, and normally I do like seeing interesting parent-child relationships, but after having it beaten into my head with constant voiceovers I am kind of in rebellion against ANY MORE. Sarah-Cameron and John-Cameron, on the other hand, I think have the potential to be very interesting. So we will see. I'm not a hard sell, on the whole.
Eureka: I have been working my way slowly but surely through season ever since I got back from winter break. I have just finished episode seven, and I find it absolutely adorable - though it is fortunate that I know nothing at all about science, because the actual plotlines often just make me want to pat the heads of the writers. But they clearly don't take themselves at all seriously, so it's okay! Jo with her snark and her vest full of guns is my ABSOLUTE FAVORITE, but I am also very fond of Henry, and of Carter as the eternal straight man to Eureka's wacky - and SARAH is of course fabulous. Allison has yet to entirely capture my interest as a character, but, uh, this may be in part because I still have not actually seen the pilot, and so I have not quite figured out yet what her job actually is . . . she's in charge of something! Um. Question: what happened to Henry's scientist lady girlfriend? I liked her! I would also like to see more of Allison's son.
And now, off to do work. Or make icons. One or the other. >.>
Torchwood: As usual, we have just the right mix of intentional hilarity and unintentional hilarity to keep me happy. Right now I am pleased with most everyone! Ianto is pleasingly witty and competent and seems to have got over his manpain; Jack's shock at how well his team coped without him also pleases me, because he needs the comeuppance; Owen is much less of an ass so far this season; Tosh needs more screentime, as usual; Gwen needs to stop mooning over Jack right now; James Marsters can continue being Spike Lite as long as at some point he provides fake-broody voiceovers for the team. (Please? If I'm really really good?) Also, every time a little old lady or a grumpy policeman mocks The Team, it brings giant warm fuzzies to my heart.
I am really not pleased with Russel T. Davies for constantly casting black women as Scary Sort-Of Human Except Actually Totally Other And Not To Mention Unintentionally Murderous To The People They Love Cyborg/Alien Ladies, but at least Beth was less creepily sexualized than Ianto's ex. And I am so looking forward to Martha's arrival you wouldn't believe. She will bring a competence injection! (But not permanently, of course. Too much competence and Torchwood wouldn't be Torchwood.)
As for the ginormous Owen/Tosh vibes they were sending in the first episode, I am cautiously in favor of this, IF AND ONLY IF Owen makes a move on her and Tosh turns him down because despite her crush she knows what's good for her, thanks, and then Owen spends the rest of the season trying to prove himself worthy before they get together. Because Tosh deserves the best.
Sarah Connor Chronicles: I have seen two out of three episodes; I was not completely sold on the first, but by the second I am liking the show better and will probably continue watching. At the close of the first episode, I was thinking that the show probably would not be ensemble-y enough for me - I wasn't really identifying with any of the characters at that point, and while I don't always need that, sometimes I do. But the second episode provided a little more characterization for everyone and more interesting quiet moments. I really liked the makeover, and the scene with the car was fabulous (dangerous ladies!), but it was possibly the turkey scene that sold me, since I do that all the time.
Also, Lena Headey is very, very pretty, and both Lena Headey and Summer Glau get to be kickass a lot, and this makes me happy.
What will keep me watching the show: continual kickass from Our Heroes, but not so much that it takes up all the screentime. Recurring characters outside of our Main Three, which I hope will be happening now that they're established in time, and an emphasis on interpersonal relationships outside of Sarah-John, which - okay, I get that it's very important, and normally I do like seeing interesting parent-child relationships, but after having it beaten into my head with constant voiceovers I am kind of in rebellion against ANY MORE. Sarah-Cameron and John-Cameron, on the other hand, I think have the potential to be very interesting. So we will see. I'm not a hard sell, on the whole.
Eureka: I have been working my way slowly but surely through season ever since I got back from winter break. I have just finished episode seven, and I find it absolutely adorable - though it is fortunate that I know nothing at all about science, because the actual plotlines often just make me want to pat the heads of the writers. But they clearly don't take themselves at all seriously, so it's okay! Jo with her snark and her vest full of guns is my ABSOLUTE FAVORITE, but I am also very fond of Henry, and of Carter as the eternal straight man to Eureka's wacky - and SARAH is of course fabulous. Allison has yet to entirely capture my interest as a character, but, uh, this may be in part because I still have not actually seen the pilot, and so I have not quite figured out yet what her job actually is . . . she's in charge of something! Um. Question: what happened to Henry's scientist lady girlfriend? I liked her! I would also like to see more of Allison's son.
And now, off to do work. Or make icons. One or the other. >.>