The 4400, Hex

[beccaelizabeth]

The 4400 - Interesting setup, won't know if I like it until I see what they do with it. Which I want to. Will watch again.

Hex - ... There wasn't actually anything in this episode that made me want to watch another one.
I also can't fathom why they'd compare it to Buffy.

It is all about sex. Like seriously, there was no plot, just a bunch of nudity, some snogging, a lot of suggestive remarks.
Is also about her trying to be popular.

Can we say 'bored now'?

So she finds this jar, which has something to do with voodoo, from when there were slaves there. And she starts getting scary hallucinations, and probably being telekinetic.

But so far, it isn't about power. Not her power anyway. She's entirely done to, not doing. And thus far the only issues involved are high school ones - grades, class, boys, dating. No monsters, no saving lives. No plot.

I thought for a moment they were going to go with giving her some Horrible Trauma, but they only got as far as hinting (something about looking after her mother?) and a sexual assault (which stopped when she accidentally blew the electricals).

Why is it always *sexual* assault when its a woman?

See this is the central problem. The stuff I've been reading about feminism and culture this week, its all with the big complaining that women are depicted in ways that are All About Sex, and are made victims, often of sexual violence. This time apparently theres a haunting too. But still, scaredy victim girl.

Where is the Buffy in any of that? Where is the positive portrayal of women?

And, to be fair, the depictions of men are just as sexualised - lots of naked.

But the girls are all... like, in the textbook, talking about drawbacks of so called 'girl power' and ladette culture - well, here it is on the screen. The girls have the power to spend all the time talking about boys, and the getting of them.

I'm not remotely interested in these cheap teenage hormone bombs. Shag or don't, I don't care.

I honestly can't think of a single reason to watch the second episode. None.
That is a very bad first ep.

So, anyway, now I have that 'wasted an hour' feeling and I'm wound up. Annoyance.

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[sparklebutch.livejournal.com]

First time we saw 4400, we thought "hmm, potential". Second time, we thought "ugh". Third we thought, "we're not gonna watch the fourth, huh".

Cat wishes to add, "I think there was an 'oh, come ON' somewhere in there".

[beccaelizabeth]

*sigh*
typical.
thanks :)