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

[aizjanika.livejournal.com]

Fritz is awesome. *g* And you were right about this show. I found it annoying at first and Brenda's accent was annoying, but you and David Hewlett convinced me to give it another chance. *g*

I thought this season was the first season--I thought it was a new show. I was surprised near the end of the season (or after the end?) when they were advertising season 4 on DVD, so I had to get the rest of it on DVD. I'm glad I did. I've really enjoyed it.

I'm also really, really glad that they eventually dropped the "everyone hates Brenda and makes her life difficult" thing, though I do think it was well-done and probably realistic for someone in her position--being the new guy, taking over for someone already established, jumping over the heads of people who might have been promoted, AND a woman with a thick, Southern accent... *g*

I sort of disliked the fact that they set her up as having had an affair with a married man who was now her boss, but overall, they've done pretty well with that, too. I think it's clear that, in the beginning, the chief was harboring feelings, but it's also clear that he brought her in to do the job and not for other reasons. Or at least, that's how I read it. While I wish they hadn't saddled her with that cliche background, in this case, they didn't make too much of it, and, really, it just shows that she was young and foolish once like many of us, but that she was really ready for her grownup relationship with Fritz now.

While I prefer when the show doesn't stray too far from the "Brenda solves a case" plot (ex. of straying too far is that episode where they were all in the RV), but I genuinely like the bits and pieces we see of her life, including her relationship with Fritz.

I think I only watched one episode of Being Human and never made it all the way through the second. It wasn't purposeful. I just thought it was boring, and I meant to get back to it, but I never did. There's only six episodes? I probably should have given it more of a chance, I guess. *g*

Re: Leverage -- I'm not quite sure what's not working for me. I'm still recording it, so I may get back to it, but I just find myself avoiding it, because I think it's kind of boring. I'm not really a fan of the general setup of the show, and none of the characters really grabbed me.

The problem could also be that I started watching it this season, so I've never seen the earlier seasons. It seemed like they'd done some sort of reboot and that the Timothy Hutton character used to be an alcoholic and/or a heavy drinker previously. I'm not sure I want to go back and watch that as I have a thing about that. lol

I didn't know about the "man getting revenge for his dead child" thing, though. Is it Timothy Hutton's character whose child died?

[nialla]

David Hewlett has convinced me to watch a lot of stuff. He's evil. *g*

I thought the "everyone hates Brenda and makes her life difficult" was something that had to be done to establish the character and they did a good job without it going on forever. They wouldn't have liked "her" much as a "him" either, under the circumstances, but it might not have been so obvious with a guy.

I didn't like the backstory of an affair with Pope either, but looking back, it was a sort of retroactive cautionary tale about sexual politics in the workplace. It was yet another thing to make her team think Brenda had slept her way into the job, because she really had slept with Pope.

And I have to add it give me a little smile to see Brenda's addiction to sweets? Just about everyone has some comfort food hangup, and it adds to the character to see that as an ongoing thing.

There's only six episodes to the season with Being Human, so it doesn't quite build the same way a 13 or 20+ episode season would.

As it progresses, you get the backstory into how each character came to be in their current state and how they're (not) dealing with it, with episodes highlighting each combined within the rest of the storyline. They start to come to terms with themselves by being friends with each other.

I also adored that they showed the trio as very supportive of each other, without trying to make it into a love triangle. Annie's a ghost, but still, most shows would have tried to have the boys arguing over her attention, or her mooning over one of them.

Hutton's character setup is that his child died because the insurance company he worked for wouldn't pay for a treatment. IIRC, it was experimental, so there's no guarantee he would have survived anyway, but he latched on to how even that chance was given to him.

I've recorded season two that's aired so far, but haven't watched it. They did have an ongoing storyline in the first season about Hutton's character drinking a lot after his son's death, and what I've heard about the fallout of the finale doesn't inspire me to watch right away.

I like the "Robin Hood" aspect of someone helping the little guys against the big guys, and generally doing it with style, but the UST and the actress they chose for that role both annoy me.