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lifeonqueen) wrote2007-10-17 10:09 pm
lifeonqueen) wrote2007-10-17 10:09 pm
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Oh, Intertoobz
Why, why is my flist and the Interwebs themselves not full of Bionic Woman porn fic?
Is this not the cracky girl-power* goodness for which fandom has been waiting.
*pause while I doublecheck that I typed that with a straight face*
In truth, I like my fannish glee to come in shades and varieties of broken: as a writer and all-around imaginative person, it leaves me places to go with the characters in my mind, OOC moments to fix, plotholes to close. In that sense, Bionic Woman reminds me of the "Choose Your Own Adventure" novels I used to read as a kid - so much potential, such shitty execution (Katee Sackhoff and Molly Price excepted for they are awesome like whoa). While Good TV is something to be savoured, as a viewer, I am forced to let the story and the characters unfold at a pace and in ways set by the storytellers themselves. And honey, sometimes that just takes too damn long. But at the same time, the view, once you get there, is fantastic.
Bionic Woman is more like the "Choose Your Own Adventure" novels I used to read as a kid - brilliant concepts, sucktastic execution. It is a show that begs to be rescued from the pile of suck by collective pop consciousness of fandom, polished up and set loose on the web to mutate and flourish. I suppose three weeks is too soon to expect this to happen (I did mention my problem with delayed gratification, right - i.e. the delay) and, to be honest, the majority of the episodes thus far have resembled a fannish Bataan - slogging scene after painful scene of bad writing, fetid dialogue, whinging sisters, plotlines so colossally contrived as to make Robert McKee wake nights in a cold sweat, and a directionless* lead actor for bare moments of cracky goodness both intentional (any time Sackhoff opens her mouth) and unintentional (the metatextual awesomeness of Isaiah Washington's beatdown in last week's episode).
*I mean that literally; I've been watching Jekyll - Steven Moffat, I want to have your babies - and Michelle Ryan's Katherine Reimer is everything Jaime Sommers should be - smart, pert, flinty, arrogant, over-confident and bit of a badass. Only Katherine is also well-written and directed. I'm pleased to see that Ryan actually has some chops - if only they'd actually give her something to work with.
Still, it would be nice if the intertoobz showed as much enthusiasm for faintly ridiculous, clumsily executed girl-centric action dramas as it does for the boys' own variety.
What about you, Intertoobz? What adds the crunch to your peanut butter?
Is this not the cracky girl-power* goodness for which fandom has been waiting.
*pause while I doublecheck that I typed that with a straight face*
In truth, I like my fannish glee to come in shades and varieties of broken: as a writer and all-around imaginative person, it leaves me places to go with the characters in my mind, OOC moments to fix, plotholes to close. In that sense, Bionic Woman reminds me of the "Choose Your Own Adventure" novels I used to read as a kid - so much potential, such shitty execution (Katee Sackhoff and Molly Price excepted for they are awesome like whoa). While Good TV is something to be savoured, as a viewer, I am forced to let the story and the characters unfold at a pace and in ways set by the storytellers themselves. And honey, sometimes that just takes too damn long. But at the same time, the view, once you get there, is fantastic.
Bionic Woman is more like the "Choose Your Own Adventure" novels I used to read as a kid - brilliant concepts, sucktastic execution. It is a show that begs to be rescued from the pile of suck by collective pop consciousness of fandom, polished up and set loose on the web to mutate and flourish. I suppose three weeks is too soon to expect this to happen (I did mention my problem with delayed gratification, right - i.e. the delay) and, to be honest, the majority of the episodes thus far have resembled a fannish Bataan - slogging scene after painful scene of bad writing, fetid dialogue, whinging sisters, plotlines so colossally contrived as to make Robert McKee wake nights in a cold sweat, and a directionless* lead actor for bare moments of cracky goodness both intentional (any time Sackhoff opens her mouth) and unintentional (the metatextual awesomeness of Isaiah Washington's beatdown in last week's episode).
*I mean that literally; I've been watching Jekyll - Steven Moffat, I want to have your babies - and Michelle Ryan's Katherine Reimer is everything Jaime Sommers should be - smart, pert, flinty, arrogant, over-confident and bit of a badass. Only Katherine is also well-written and directed. I'm pleased to see that Ryan actually has some chops - if only they'd actually give her something to work with.
Still, it would be nice if the intertoobz showed as much enthusiasm for faintly ridiculous, clumsily executed girl-centric action dramas as it does for the boys' own variety.
What about you, Intertoobz? What adds the crunch to your peanut butter?