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frustration of the day - I bought the first season DVDs for a TV show and only now find out theres an all seasons box set for only double the price.
gah!
right, shall order that and sell the first season.
*pause, thinks*
shall watch my first season discs (which aren't even wrapped), see if I like the show, then order that later today.

prices are annoying and bizarre. impossible to figure out, and having no relation to how much things cost to make or anything.

BUGS

I've been watching the ancient (1995) BBC series 'BUGS'

there's probably a proper description for it but I've been thinking of it as kind of cyberpunk with minimal cyber and no punk. Technothriller? Spy stuff, with gizmos.

its kind of fun.
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Somewhere in the back of my head this is filed as sci-fi. Kind of marginal, but what it does is play with the possibilities and impact of technology, along with blowing things up a lot. And having high speed chases involving a Jeep Cherokee, some hedgerows and a ploughed field. (And just to note, if there's only one bush in the whole field, driving through it is *not* dramatic, just *very stupid*).

I also discover the automatic slasher circuit in my head looks at Nick and Ed and goes 'hmmmmm'.
Despite both of them drooling and going brainless over women. Its action adventure, of course they do that. And the part where Nick says out loud he doesn't want to see Ed's arse is just completely irrelevant! Or amusing.


Anyways, watching this I'm sort of comparing it to all the other stuff I watch and trying to figure out which bits it has in common.

Secret threats dealt with by small band of knowledgeable heroes, who have power *because* of their knowledge.

... aside from that, not so very matching other things. I mean bugs that go boom aren't technically magic. But they aren't exactly everyday either.
If this was a straight up cop show I wouldn't even remember it. But it has this gizmo bit, so.


Still haven't decided if I'll get the boxed set yet. If I do I'll sell this first season.

Back to watch more episodes.


And also hope remains of headache go away. I took ibuprofen right away today, and its mostly worked, just a nagging sort of feeling left. it combines poorly with the kabooms, but aside from that I'm having fun.

BUGS season 1

Okay
so I watched the entire first season (all 10 eps - Brit TV) of BUGS today

I'm kind of wondering why

I mean, it isn't brilliant. But, it isn't bad. Its like 10 mini action movies in a row. Full of gizmos and death traps and implausible plots, and a lot of stuff goes boom.

fun!


its also full of women.
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I'm kind of tempted to go through the thing analysing it from a feminist perspective.

What is interesting is that while the guys often try to treat the women as 'just' women - background bimbos, distraught mother - they never get away with it. They lose their car, or the mother picks up a gun she designed and goes to rescue her daughter (who meanwhile does most of the work to rescue herself). Its never as simple as damsel in distress. When it looks like it is, wait five minutes and they'll have rescued themselves before the men turn up. Or sometimes go rescue the men.

Its not as 'grrr, girl power!' as having one central woman kicking ass, but its a lot of action-adventure where women are taking full parts.

But the men still do turn up and grab the gun and charge to the rescue. But it doesn't so much seem like its because they're *men*, its because they're the *team*, they have the training. The woman from the team turns up and charges in too.

Plus the incompetent government team is explicitly contrasted with the Gizmos good guys in their not employing women. They assign a man to be security shadow to a woman, who gives him the slip via the changing rooms. "This is what happens when you don't employ enough women." says Ros, and the all male other guys are left looking Very Stupid.

So its action adventure spy stuff with a feminist thing going on. Kind of cool.



But at this point I suspect the time it was on had at least as much to do with why I watched it.
Still can't decide if I should buy the boxed set.
£26 for all 4 series, 3 of them I don't got yet. Offer ends 31st Jan. Hmmmm. *thinks*