I'm sick of Will They or Won't They "plots". Aren't you? Say no to Will They or Won't They!

[gategrrl]

Who else has started hating "will they or won't they" situations on television shows? The Watcher (Mo) who writes for the Chicago Tribune has stated she's dropping Bones from her list of shows to watch and review. The comments to the article are interesting, too.

Comments

[gategrrl.livejournal.com]

LOL--the Guy DLd Farscape recently, or streamed it or something like that, and I started watching it with him last night, after trying REALLY REALLY HARD to get the bad putrid taste of Vala out of my mouth. Fortunately, Claudia and Ben's first incarnations as Aeryn Sun and John Crighton were not nearly as horrible as their stints on Stargate, and I was able to get back into their characters for Farscape (which was a much more charming show than SG at that juncture).

I don't mind what's going on in Farscape because that was a main plot string. Other shows? No.

[moonshayde.livejournal.com]

I agree that Ben and Claudia had much more to work with and had a better run on Farscape than SG-1. And the will they/won't they wasn't annoying on there, and their acting was top notch. Sadly, I find that show to be rather pretentious and overrrated, so I don't get much joy out of it.

[nialla]

Imagine being a Farscape fan, knowing what Ben and Claudia can do, then seeing what Stargate's TPTB did with their characters. It brought it into sharp focus that the problem was the writing, and even good actors can't salvage some of the dren Bridge has put out in recent years.

[gategrrl.livejournal.com]

I *was* one of those fans-not a rabid fan, unlike some unbalanced I've met on the internet-but still, enough that I was beyond pumped when I heard that Ben was going to be on SG1.

And the writing was never *great*. At least the original characters had been settled and written consistently before the big shake-up, and the established actors had something to work with, if they wanted.

[nialla]

I was thrilled to hear Ben was joining the cast, even that he went so far as to mainline all the DVDs so he could understand the show's past storylines.

No, the writing was never great, but the characters were generally interesting (though technically half of the leads came from the movie) and the actors could really lift things. In later years, even before RDA left, you could tell everyone was getting tired. Their characters became more like them, they didn't have to "act" as their characters, so I didn't "see" their characters very much.

I sometimes wonder if it would be viewed with 20/20 rose-tinted glasses as a better show if it had ended at the end of the Showtime years. Leave things hanging with Daniel out doing the glowy Ascended thing, and not trying to completely change the dynamics again.

Sure, there would have still been people complaining to this day about how it shouldn't have ended then, it could have gone on longer, etc., but I've found I have much better associations with shows that "ended too soon" versus those that didn't.