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cblj_backupI am not too hung over today! I feel a bit triumphant about that.
I am, however, very congested. So I'm spending the day in bed watching TV.
Have you guys seen this show Person Of Interest? My parents really like it and I thought I'd watch it. I downloaded the first ten episodes and I've seen the first few, and to my surprise it's really good. To my even bigger surprise, it's apparently crazy popular, and its ratings haven't really dipped at all since it came on the air in the fall.
It's a weird little show, kind of a fusion of crime procedural and cyberthriller. It's dark and really ambiguous, morally and in a storytelling sense -- one of the episodes I just watched is a little bit hinkey on gender issues, but it has the most fantastic lack-of-ending I've seen on a TV show in a long time, where you just...don't find out what happened.
A huge chunk of the overall premise concerns how and where the American government monitors its citizens, and how fragile our idea of our personal security really is in the digital age, and there's an ongoing theme that's a sort of meditation on war and its effect on individuals as well as our society. It's not necessarily an issues show in the way some shows are, where the characters openly debate political questions as sort of soapbox-beings for the writers, but the questions just hover in the background constantly.
Plus it has what basically amounts to Batman without the cape, running around New York saving people at the behest of a sarcastic, reclusive billionaire puppetmaster.
I don't know if there's a fandom for it but it hasn't pinged any of my radars, which is interesting. Anyway, I might do a recc post for it later if it continues to be awesome, we shall see.
I am, however, very congested. So I'm spending the day in bed watching TV.
Have you guys seen this show Person Of Interest? My parents really like it and I thought I'd watch it. I downloaded the first ten episodes and I've seen the first few, and to my surprise it's really good. To my even bigger surprise, it's apparently crazy popular, and its ratings haven't really dipped at all since it came on the air in the fall.
It's a weird little show, kind of a fusion of crime procedural and cyberthriller. It's dark and really ambiguous, morally and in a storytelling sense -- one of the episodes I just watched is a little bit hinkey on gender issues, but it has the most fantastic lack-of-ending I've seen on a TV show in a long time, where you just...don't find out what happened.
A huge chunk of the overall premise concerns how and where the American government monitors its citizens, and how fragile our idea of our personal security really is in the digital age, and there's an ongoing theme that's a sort of meditation on war and its effect on individuals as well as our society. It's not necessarily an issues show in the way some shows are, where the characters openly debate political questions as sort of soapbox-beings for the writers, but the questions just hover in the background constantly.
Plus it has what basically amounts to Batman without the cape, running around New York saving people at the behest of a sarcastic, reclusive billionaire puppetmaster.
I don't know if there's a fandom for it but it hasn't pinged any of my radars, which is interesting. Anyway, I might do a recc post for it later if it continues to be awesome, we shall see.
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Date: 2012-01-08 05:01 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-01-08 05:34 pm (UTC)http://no-detective.livejournal.com/286666.html
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Date: 2012-01-08 05:50 pm (UTC)Also, Jonathan Nolan co-wrote the Dark Knight with his brother, so the Batman stuff is totally not a coincidence.
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Date: 2012-01-08 06:05 pm (UTC)I do a lot of friendslist-hopping, and hardly ever see anyone even talking about the show, let alone writing fanfic for it. It may be a late-starter, if it lasts a couple of seasons.
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Date: 2012-01-08 10:40 pm (UTC)I thought of the two children shown, Barbara is the daughter, and I figured what happened would motivate her to become Batgirl in the future, like the young girl in Kill Bill. Is it because the character is too young to do so anytime soon? Or did he actually say this somewhere?
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Date: 2012-01-08 08:24 pm (UTC)I haven't seen much about it online. The Television Without Pity has ceased doing its recaps, which is a shame. The forum mostly snarks about Taraji Henson.
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Date: 2012-01-08 09:50 pm (UTC)I'm loving it. Carter is awesome. Love how Taraji Henson is so understated. I am hoping another female lead comes into things at some point, though the guest stars do tend towards lovely complex ladies. And I adore Michael Emerson on a bad day and he doesn't seem to be having those - he's playing very familiar to my experience with disability too. Which is nice for a change.
Heh, I hadn't thought about Caviezel being Batman. That really works. And any show that hits all my hyper-competency kinks gets my thumbs up.
Bonanza of Lost-links too. Though I was more squeeful about Once Upon A Time's "product" placement recently. Which leads to the question: are Apollo bars a real thing?
:)
Jaydeyn
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Date: 2012-01-09 02:16 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-01-08 11:23 pm (UTC)Huh, that's the OTHER way Bruce Wayne could have turned out. Mind you, he manages the 'Sarcastic' and 'Billionaire' parts just fine. You only have to add 'Reclusive' and 'Puppetmaster'. Maybe that's what he turns to when he retires.
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Date: 2012-01-09 05:04 am (UTC)also, Jim Caviezel totally rocks the greying temples.
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