2007 TV round up

Wed, Jan. 2nd, 2008 05:54 pm
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This year was a strange TV year for me. I feel like I mostly stopped being enthusiastic about American dramas; a large part of this was because of my falling out with Heroes. While I did start watching a few new shows this year, I'm not head-over-heels in love with any of them yet, at least not in the same way I have been obsessing about kdramas.

2007 will probably also go down as the year I got sucked into Asian dramas. I managed to resist for about eight years, too, and then that little thing called Coffee Prince came along...

No spoilers in any of the below; please use <span style="color:#333,background:#333">spoiler text</span> for any spoilers in the comments.

Shows that didn't work for me

The Collector )

Ugly Betty )

Dr. Who )

The only reason Heroes isn't on this list is because 2007 included some of the great S1 episodes.

Shows that I'm watching but not excited about

Scrubs )

Dead Like Me )

Heroes )

Life )

Blood Ties )

Fantasy Couple )

Snow Queen )

Shows that I'm very excited about!

Homicide: Life on the Street )

Spooks/MI-5 )

Pushing Daisies )

Avatar: the Last Airbender )

So You Think You Can Dance )

Nobuta wo Produce )

My Name Is Kim Sam Soon )

And now, my very favorite shows of the year! It's cheating a little, because I'm not done with either yet, but I am so filled with squee!

Damo )

Coffee Prince )

Huh, looking at all this, I did watch a lot this year. It just didn't feel like it, because for most of the year, I was hopping from show to show to show. I didn't fall into kdramas until Thanksgiving, but wow, I fell hard.
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I think I am just not quite grokking this show. It's not that it is bad; the last episode I watched was actually pretty good. But I still don't really care about Morgan's Tragic Past and his Incredible Angst, no matter how good he looks with stubble and sans shirt.

There also aren't enough women or minorities in this show; the main female characters tend to be rescued by Morgan, or they are concerned mothers. Still, I think I'll finish the season just to see what's up with Creepy Little Boy.

Spoilers for all 6 eps. )
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Hey, I liked this one! Well, I gritted my teeth over some of the things (note to writers: a 16-year-old will not be the youngest person to win a gold in figure skating, did you all forget about Tara Lipinski?), but I might have missed bits of the dialogue explaining (maybe it was the youngest Canadian?). Also, her mother could do a triple axel? I feel they are not that common among female skaters, given that Kimmie Meissner was the first American to land one in competition.

Anyhoo, probably no one cares about the ice-skating bits but me.

But this really was much, much better than the first two episodes.

Spoilers )
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Morgan Pym (a rather unfortunate name, as I was watching this while eating tasty raspberry Pim's and will now forever associate the two and really he is not even remotely like a tasty raspberry Pim's) --

I will start over, now that I have gotten that insanely long parenthetical out of the way.

Morgan Pym used to be a monk way back when (aka, 600+ years ago). Then he made a deal with the devil, and now, he helps collect souls for the devil. I'm not quite sure why he gets to be the collector instead of being one of the damned, but I assume that'll be explained eventually.

Lately, he's gotten a little bored with what he does and wants to try saving people. He's got 48 hours to get someone who's sold their soul to the devil to repent; otherwise, they go to hell.

Current themes/long-running plotlines seem to be: Morgan's Tragic Romantic Past, Morgan's drug addict hooker friend-maybe-romantic-interest, a reporter who may end up exposing Morgan, and assorted save-the-person-of-the-week A plots.

Um, so far, I am not too impressed. Part of this is because of the cheesy voiceover that introduces every episode and the overacted devil, part of it is because I have no idea why the devil would be giving Morgan hints on how to save people, and part of it is because the three MotW Sold-Souls-otW are very boring. We have: one sold soul for fame, one for the attempt to do good which of course horrifically backfires. And then I watched the third episode and nearly threw something at my TV.

It concerns a vapid model (the vapidity isn't even funny, it's just a bad writer's idea of what a vapid model should be like) and her gaining weight back and indulging in all sorts of anorexic behavior. And in the end, what is the lesson? No, it is not that society propagates images of thinness, or that the ideal of beauty is off. It is that fast food is bad for you!

ARRRGH!

Um, does this get better?

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