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

[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.