I couldn't work out the tone, precisely.
Yeah. It's got too much "Wait, that's just stupid" to be taken seriously, and yet it spent too much time being all Batman Begins about it to be camp.
Sometimes I miss having powers... Oh. Oh! I know what this is! This is peer pressure! Any second now you're gonna make me smoke tobacco and--and have drugs!
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Strega - Jan 11, 2011 5:37:29 pm PST #15623 of 30001
Zenkitty - Jan 11, 2011 5:40:25 pm PST #15624 of 30001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
My sister, of all people, called me to tell me The Cape was on and to watch it. I probably wouldn't have otherwise. She seemed to like it. I thought it was predictable and hokey, and yeah, couldn't quite tell if it was meant to be campy and poke fun at itself, or take itself seriously. I kept saying, Is that really Richard Schiff? Dang.
It's in the category "I didn't really like it, but I watched it all anyway, and I'll watch another just to see if it gets better. Also, Summer Glau."
Ginger - Jan 11, 2011 6:33:40 pm PST #15625 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
It seems to be trying to be Batman Begins. I'm going to give it a chance. I like the magician. Also, Summer Glau.
le nubian - Jan 11, 2011 6:45:33 pm PST #15626 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
I couldn't get past minute 10. I will suffer through a lot to watch Glau (I watched every episode of "Dollhouse" after all), but this show tested me.
tiggy - Jan 12, 2011 4:33:56 pm PST #15627 of 30001
I do believe in killing the messenger, you know why? Because it sends a message. ~ Damon Salvatore
gah. Meltdown is so effing sexy. Ben and Claudia have got to have some of THE best chemistry in the history of ever.
§ ita § - Jan 12, 2011 5:02:21 pm PST #15628 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I just rewatched this last Christmas Who special, and I liked it so much more the second time. It's now my second favourite after The Next Doctor.
I may be in an incredibly sappy mood.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jan 12, 2011 7:23:15 pm PST #15629 of 30001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
gah. Meltdown is so effing sexy. Ben and Claudia have got to have some of THE best chemistry in the history of ever.
I think we have to go to the great cinema couples to exceed them. It's incredible that they practically set TV sets on fire in Farscape, yet were able to make that completely disappear when playing their Stargate characters - I never felt the slightest bit of potential heat between Vala and Cam.
tiggy - Jan 13, 2011 1:58:08 am PST #15630 of 30001
I do believe in killing the messenger, you know why? Because it sends a message. ~ Damon Salvatore
I stopped watching SG1 pretty soon after Ben showed up because it got so dreadful. even those two back together couldn't keep me watching.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jan 13, 2011 5:40:04 am PST #15631 of 30001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
I can't really argue that it was a mistake to do so, though I'd have watched According to Jim if they had been brought on as regulars.
Consuela - Jan 13, 2011 7:14:38 am PST #15632 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
I stopped watching SG1 pretty soon after Ben showed up because it got so dreadful
Such a waste of his talent. I mean, I'm happy he was working and getting (however limited) exposure, but he's so much better than the material those guys were able to give him.
I occasionally wonder what SGA would have been like if they'd cast Ben instead of Joe Flanigan (which was a possibility at one point). The Sheppard/McKay relationship would have been quite different, I suspect, and it's hard to imagine BB as any kind of a slacker.