It's official.
Jun. 11th, 2009 10:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
damkiannaI genuinely like Royal Pains now. I'm hesitant to make this a definite proclamation, but it certainly seemed like it was managing to actually start hitting its stride with the second ep.
Since the vast majority of the set-up got crammed into the pilot, there was more time for snarking, and even though I barely know the characters, I still got pretty well smacked in the sternum by some of the moments of cute - admittedly, there were also some serious anvils, but I am forgiving. :D Also, I have pretty definitely started to ship Hank and Evan. (Yeah, big shocker.) It doesn't hurt that the scenes where they're talking to each other seem to get a lot of the really funny dialogue - same goes for Libby and Tucker, they've gotten some pretty snappy writing (and are deeply adorable, I might add; I am very, very fond of the mentor/kid-with-daddy-issues relationship that Hank and Tucker are embarking on, too). I also love Jill; I really, really hope that she and Divya meet at some point and hit it off, because they are both so very awesome.
tl;dr: I'm glad I decided to stay up and watch it again. If it sticks to this quality or better, I will be very happy.
As for Burn Notice, I'm not sure I have any really specific squee. I'm still riding the high of it being back at all, it makes me SO RIDICULOUSLY HAPPY. :DDDDDDD
However, I can definitely note that I loved all the stealthy facial expression/eyebrow/miming-behind-the-bad-guy's-back conversations between Michael and Sam this episode, especially combined with Michael's meta-voiceover about working with people you genuinely trust. This is so weird for me, but I really am feeling the OT3. Mostly, all I can muster in the way of coherent thought is "OMG BURN NOTICE ♥♥♥♥♥ OMG".
(Note to self: I think there's enough about meta and shipping to tip Royal Pains over into having a fandom tag here, so I'm gonna stick one on. If I don't end up using it much, then I have to remember to get rid of it. I'm watching you, self!)
There was also some Tru Calling today; I really like that show, although the main cast is pretty relentlessly white. Not a lot of commentary to offer, because today's eps were from that phase where it was transitioning from solely dead-person-of-the-week to larger mytharc, and since I've already seen a bunch of the episodes from later in the mytharc, I knew exactly what was going on with Jack. His character really yanked on me in some of those later eps, but today's were just sprinkled with ... the occasional moment of yankage, let's say. So it was somewhat less compelling than it might have been if I had seen the episodes in order.
And now I need to go to bed, in the hopes that I'll be maybe a little more productive tomorrow. I was hoping to get stuff done today, but I ended up blowing the morning reading through the Cassandra Claire Plagiarism Debacle writeup for, I don't know, the tenth time? Every now and then I find myself revisiting big old wanks - that one, the Msscribe writeup, and some of the big Harmonian wanks, in particular. Like, not for any real reason or anything, just to kind of skim them, except then once I start, I can't stop reading, and before I know it I've spent four hours reading F_W and I haven't done one single thing from my list. /o\
Since the vast majority of the set-up got crammed into the pilot, there was more time for snarking, and even though I barely know the characters, I still got pretty well smacked in the sternum by some of the moments of cute - admittedly, there were also some serious anvils, but I am forgiving. :D Also, I have pretty definitely started to ship Hank and Evan. (Yeah, big shocker.) It doesn't hurt that the scenes where they're talking to each other seem to get a lot of the really funny dialogue - same goes for Libby and Tucker, they've gotten some pretty snappy writing (and are deeply adorable, I might add; I am very, very fond of the mentor/kid-with-daddy-issues relationship that Hank and Tucker are embarking on, too). I also love Jill; I really, really hope that she and Divya meet at some point and hit it off, because they are both so very awesome.
tl;dr: I'm glad I decided to stay up and watch it again. If it sticks to this quality or better, I will be very happy.
As for Burn Notice, I'm not sure I have any really specific squee. I'm still riding the high of it being back at all, it makes me SO RIDICULOUSLY HAPPY. :DDDDDDD
However, I can definitely note that I loved all the stealthy facial expression/eyebrow/miming-behind-the-bad-guy's-back conversations between Michael and Sam this episode, especially combined with Michael's meta-voiceover about working with people you genuinely trust. This is so weird for me, but I really am feeling the OT3. Mostly, all I can muster in the way of coherent thought is "OMG BURN NOTICE ♥♥♥♥♥ OMG".
(Note to self: I think there's enough about meta and shipping to tip Royal Pains over into having a fandom tag here, so I'm gonna stick one on. If I don't end up using it much, then I have to remember to get rid of it. I'm watching you, self!)
There was also some Tru Calling today; I really like that show, although the main cast is pretty relentlessly white. Not a lot of commentary to offer, because today's eps were from that phase where it was transitioning from solely dead-person-of-the-week to larger mytharc, and since I've already seen a bunch of the episodes from later in the mytharc, I knew exactly what was going on with Jack. His character really yanked on me in some of those later eps, but today's were just sprinkled with ... the occasional moment of yankage, let's say. So it was somewhat less compelling than it might have been if I had seen the episodes in order.
And now I need to go to bed, in the hopes that I'll be maybe a little more productive tomorrow. I was hoping to get stuff done today, but I ended up blowing the morning reading through the Cassandra Claire Plagiarism Debacle writeup for, I don't know, the tenth time? Every now and then I find myself revisiting big old wanks - that one, the Msscribe writeup, and some of the big Harmonian wanks, in particular. Like, not for any real reason or anything, just to kind of skim them, except then once I start, I can't stop reading, and before I know it I've spent four hours reading F_W and I haven't done one single thing from my list. /o\
