I haven't watched this season yet ... though I did watch all of last season, and the smug assumption that changing time and saving lives was good irritated me.
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§ ita § - Apr 06, 2005 9:36:22 am PDT #815 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Wolfram - Apr 06, 2005 9:41:48 am PDT #816 of 10001
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I don't like it is because Jason Priestly is so damn smarmy.
Smarmy. That's exactly the word I was looking for. I don't hate him; I just find him annoying as hell. Too bad they didn't get James Marsters for that role.
I am really curious to know how evil reliver knows who the victim is, considering they don't ask him for help.
Frankenbuddha - Apr 06, 2005 9:43:38 am PDT #817 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
I am really curious to know how evil reliver knows who the victim is, considering they don't ask him for help.
When Eliza starts running, Jason goes gunning?
-t - Apr 06, 2005 9:44:42 am PDT #818 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
the smug assumption that changing time and saving lives was good irritated me.
And that's why I like the introduction of Priestley's character. He makes the argument that he's the force for good, though the tenor of the show seems to imply that he's not. I'm kind of hoping for a big revelation that Tru is not as much on the side of the angels as she thinks. But it probably won't happen.
Wolfram - Apr 06, 2005 9:45:09 am PDT #819 of 10001
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You just reminded me of this awful movie I saw with Jason when he played a terribly emotionless hitman. Sort of a shitty version of Grosse Pointe Blank.
Vortex - Apr 06, 2005 10:06:58 am PDT #820 of 10001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
r. He makes the argument that he's the force for good, though the tenor of the show seems to imply that he's not.
exactly. The way that they have him portray the character is very deliberate, I think. They want you not to like him. It would be so much more interesting if the Anti-Tru was a character that you could like and believe in as well.
Wolfram - Apr 06, 2005 10:08:00 am PDT #821 of 10001
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I'm kind of hoping for a big revelation that Tru is not as much on the side of the angels as she thinks. But it probably won't happen.
Not in the next four episodes, it won't. Now I wish they'd made enough episodes for me to regret that there are no more episodes.
-t - Apr 06, 2005 10:19:22 am PDT #822 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
It would be so much more interesting if the Anti-Tru was a character that you could like and believe in as well.
You're right. I'm trying pretty hard to like him, because I've always wanted Tru to have dire consequences for her heroics - like she could save strangers but at a cost to her personal life, or to her family, or somethinhg. But the show really hasn't gone that way.
Vortex - Apr 06, 2005 10:22:39 am PDT #823 of 10001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
I'm trying pretty hard to like him, because I've always wanted Tru to have dire consequences for her heroics - like she could save strangers but at a cost to her personal life, or to her family, or somethinhg.
well, except for that whole boyfriend getting killed at the end of last season thing.
Wolfram - Apr 06, 2005 10:25:01 am PDT #824 of 10001
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well, except for that whole boyfriend getting killed at the end of last season thing.
eh, he was just overextended shmuck bait. They never really got the happy before the pain.