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Nov. 28th, 2007 10:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccaelizabethSo I didn't sleep.
This is a mistake. I can tell by the way the inside of my head is all spinning and trying to persuade me I am Queen of Idiots. Blah.
But, I did read a Doctor Who book, and it was good. Well, good enough, anyway. Last Dodo. I liked it.
Then I watched Heroes, which is up to the last but one episode of season 1. Next week, grand finale.
... tell me, do they kill another black character? is that what I just saw? cause I'm worried, on track record.
Heroes wowed me at the start of the season but it's managed to totally lose me. They're heading for all the plots crashing together and that ought to be cool, yet somehow I end up just not caring. Women characters are somebody's wife, girlfriend, mother, daughter, and don't do their own thing and have their own story. I tried to think of scenes where women talk to each other. early on there were some with Niki's friend, and Claire and her mother, but lately? Just lots of guys. And they don't get to team up with each other to save the world, they get to team up with their guys to save their guys. There's a fairly significant difference there, I feel.
I also feel I'd have benefitted from watching it on a different night when I wasn't so regularly grouchy tired, but I'm still not seeing where the shiny is here.
I mean the most effective women are the ones doing bad things. Where's the Heroes from the title???
Okay, so the guys are somebody's husband/father/son too, they exist in networks, but whereas the cop's story wouldn't have been hugely different if he had a different wife or no wife, the cheerleader's story only exists because of her father, and that's a whole Thing. Suresh and Petrelli are families where the story is tied to the Name, but they then proceed to actively shape their lives through their own choices. The women bounce around through the men's choices.
Or something.
I don't know.
Okay, I do know - there's not one character in this show I want to imagine being. Hiro is pretty cool and cute and all, but he's not enough to keep me interested. On shows I like there's women I'd kind of like to be. Not all of them, not always, but then the exceptions that sprang to mind were cop buddy shows where I'd like to be and do both partners so *shrugs*
... in a sense of 'like to be' that is more a writer thing, where I can hang out being them in my head, not where I'd want to be stuck there.
I like Buffy cause I could be Buffy or Willow or Giles or Andrew or Xander or lots of people. Or with Torchwood, Ianto or Jack or Tosh. Which doesn't explain why I ended up writing Owen. But being bad guys is fun too - Queen of the universe is waaaaay more cool than Queen of idiots. Could be Ethan or the Master or... why did Methos and Amanda come to mind? Heh, morally grey FTW.
I don't want to go be one of these people on Heroes. Let alone a whole bunch of them. I don't always know why, some of them look like they should be cool, but it just managed to lose me somewhere.
okay, that was rambly and whiny and probably inaccurate.
it's possible that if I rewatch at some time I'm not absolutely exhausted I'll react to the show completely differently. That would be nice. Then I could enjoy it.
Now logic says I should go sleep, but current mood says I should go watch something else. This is how I end up awake 24 hours watching DVDs. Methinks logic should win this one.
This is a mistake. I can tell by the way the inside of my head is all spinning and trying to persuade me I am Queen of Idiots. Blah.
But, I did read a Doctor Who book, and it was good. Well, good enough, anyway. Last Dodo. I liked it.
Then I watched Heroes, which is up to the last but one episode of season 1. Next week, grand finale.
... tell me, do they kill another black character? is that what I just saw? cause I'm worried, on track record.
Heroes wowed me at the start of the season but it's managed to totally lose me. They're heading for all the plots crashing together and that ought to be cool, yet somehow I end up just not caring. Women characters are somebody's wife, girlfriend, mother, daughter, and don't do their own thing and have their own story. I tried to think of scenes where women talk to each other. early on there were some with Niki's friend, and Claire and her mother, but lately? Just lots of guys. And they don't get to team up with each other to save the world, they get to team up with their guys to save their guys. There's a fairly significant difference there, I feel.
I also feel I'd have benefitted from watching it on a different night when I wasn't so regularly grouchy tired, but I'm still not seeing where the shiny is here.
I mean the most effective women are the ones doing bad things. Where's the Heroes from the title???
Okay, so the guys are somebody's husband/father/son too, they exist in networks, but whereas the cop's story wouldn't have been hugely different if he had a different wife or no wife, the cheerleader's story only exists because of her father, and that's a whole Thing. Suresh and Petrelli are families where the story is tied to the Name, but they then proceed to actively shape their lives through their own choices. The women bounce around through the men's choices.
Or something.
I don't know.
Okay, I do know - there's not one character in this show I want to imagine being. Hiro is pretty cool and cute and all, but he's not enough to keep me interested. On shows I like there's women I'd kind of like to be. Not all of them, not always, but then the exceptions that sprang to mind were cop buddy shows where I'd like to be and do both partners so *shrugs*
... in a sense of 'like to be' that is more a writer thing, where I can hang out being them in my head, not where I'd want to be stuck there.
I like Buffy cause I could be Buffy or Willow or Giles or Andrew or Xander or lots of people. Or with Torchwood, Ianto or Jack or Tosh. Which doesn't explain why I ended up writing Owen. But being bad guys is fun too - Queen of the universe is waaaaay more cool than Queen of idiots. Could be Ethan or the Master or... why did Methos and Amanda come to mind? Heh, morally grey FTW.
I don't want to go be one of these people on Heroes. Let alone a whole bunch of them. I don't always know why, some of them look like they should be cool, but it just managed to lose me somewhere.
okay, that was rambly and whiny and probably inaccurate.
it's possible that if I rewatch at some time I'm not absolutely exhausted I'll react to the show completely differently. That would be nice. Then I could enjoy it.
Now logic says I should go sleep, but current mood says I should go watch something else. This is how I end up awake 24 hours watching DVDs. Methinks logic should win this one.