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girlofpreyI have to go for a bus in about 15 minutes, so I must be brief, but:
On Sunday I watched the last episode in this series of George Gently, which was aslkdfsd. I wish there were other George Gently fans on my flist. Maybe I should go and find some. At the moment the main person I have to discuss TV with is my mum, and her way of doing so is to look at me politely until I stop. Then I watched the episode of Poltergeist: The Legacy where Nick investigates and gets kidnapped by his former Navy SEALs commander. I was worried it wasn't going to be as good as I remembered, or wasn't going to be as slashy, but no. Gay as anything. It all seemed a bit rushed though. Like, they had to fit Nick's past with the guy, the guy's supernatural thing, and his attempts to get Nick to join him into one episode. I can't tell though if I only feel that way because I could have happily watched 2 or 3 episodes of Nick being tied up in a cave with his former commander who loves him. Or 24 episodes. Whatever.
Season 2 of PTL is weird. They've made Derek make more sense, but because he makes more sense I just hate him more when he's a jerk. And the CONSTANT ROMANTIC INTERESTS, I can't believe them. And then they try to make me care about him and I don't, and it's just irritating. Philip doesn't trouble us as much though. And the stories - when they aren't about Derek - are often a lot tighter and more interesting, and the main cast sort of make fun of each other and love each other more. So it's odd. I can see why I loved it, but I can also see why maybe I didn't watch Seasons 3 and 4. Although I'm pretty sure I stopped watching them because there was a rumour one of the main cast would die in Season 3, and I was so afraid it might be Nick that I sort of cut myself off emotionally from it. Because that's how I roll/ed, with emotional over-investment.
Also last night I watched all the soaps, although not all of Emmerdale.
Emmerdale: Dreadfully, I tend to side with Carl whenever he's being a dick, because I really loved him once, and he killed his dad, which is bound to fuck anyone up. And his dad deserved to be killed, which wasn't really Carl's fault. But he is being a proper dick at the moment. But then it's kind of hard to side with Chastity, given that they made her do something she NEVER WOULD HAVE DONE. Sleeping with her cousin's boyfriend while her cousin's daughter was dying? No. But it does make Carl's every argument about how she acted like she was better than him and clearly she isn't make sense. And it makes Chas and Cameron's arguments about how he will be HURTING DEBBIE by telling the truth make no sense, as Carl points out. I hate Cameron, by the way, if anyone was wondering. Mostly I'm hoping that this whole is leading up to Carl finally telling Chas about the fact he killed his dad, and getting it off his chest, and who knows, maybe leaving. Because I love him, but I'm kind of sick and tired of waiting for this storyline to play out.
And I hate Paddy. I kind of always did, a little bit, but he's kind of being a cunt at the moment. Then again, I hate the pairing of Marlon and Laurel, and I have no idea how much of a dick Marlon was to Rhona about wanting to go to New Zealand for her career, so I'm a little free of sympathy on both sides of the storyline at the moment.
Eastenders: Janine left Michael with their baby, and I sincerely hope he mans up and looks after it. Soap mags are, out of nowhere as usual, suggesting he might sell her, which I think he couldn't really do when Janine's still alive anyway. But I hope he just loves her and looks after her instead, I am properly ready for him to melt in at least a few areas of his life.
Coronation Street: I really don't know what to make of the new Tina storyline. Like, I think it's really good, and a good way to develop the debt storyline, and something we've not seen before. But so far everyone's just making me furious about it. I didn't see whether it was Tina's idea or Owen's, but Tina obviously wants to do it, right now. And while I know that it's a difficult subject, and you'd probably feel differently if it was someone in your own personal life, I really expected people's reactions to be more about being worried about Tina, and checking that she REALLY FEELS like she could have a baby and then give it up. Instead of Tommy acting sort of jealous, and possessive of his girlfriend's womb, like she's actually having a baby with Gary or something. And Rita not seeming to understand the concept of surrogacy, claiming that a baby should 'come from a loving couple', in all cases. And basically accusing Tina of being hard-faced, rather than you know, in a desperate situation. And obviously it's fucked up, given that Owen's paying her, and I'm guessing that that's going to cause some trouble down the line. But Tommy and Rita seem less concerned by the fact that it's fucked up, than by the fact Tina's doing it at all.
Also, I didn't see this, but do Gary and Izzy know that Owen's paying Tina? I can't imagine Izzy would be okay with it, but then I can't imagine it's a secret given that people are practically shouting it all over the pub, and Tina's casually telling Rita about it. Also Gary seems like he's being weird and pushy about the whole thing, but then like I said, I haven't really seen it, so I don't know what it's been like or how strongly he feels about it.
I hate Karl. I miss David. WHERE IS DAVID?
On Sunday I watched the last episode in this series of George Gently, which was aslkdfsd. I wish there were other George Gently fans on my flist. Maybe I should go and find some. At the moment the main person I have to discuss TV with is my mum, and her way of doing so is to look at me politely until I stop. Then I watched the episode of Poltergeist: The Legacy where Nick investigates and gets kidnapped by his former Navy SEALs commander. I was worried it wasn't going to be as good as I remembered, or wasn't going to be as slashy, but no. Gay as anything. It all seemed a bit rushed though. Like, they had to fit Nick's past with the guy, the guy's supernatural thing, and his attempts to get Nick to join him into one episode. I can't tell though if I only feel that way because I could have happily watched 2 or 3 episodes of Nick being tied up in a cave with his former commander who loves him. Or 24 episodes. Whatever.
Season 2 of PTL is weird. They've made Derek make more sense, but because he makes more sense I just hate him more when he's a jerk. And the CONSTANT ROMANTIC INTERESTS, I can't believe them. And then they try to make me care about him and I don't, and it's just irritating. Philip doesn't trouble us as much though. And the stories - when they aren't about Derek - are often a lot tighter and more interesting, and the main cast sort of make fun of each other and love each other more. So it's odd. I can see why I loved it, but I can also see why maybe I didn't watch Seasons 3 and 4. Although I'm pretty sure I stopped watching them because there was a rumour one of the main cast would die in Season 3, and I was so afraid it might be Nick that I sort of cut myself off emotionally from it. Because that's how I roll/ed, with emotional over-investment.
Also last night I watched all the soaps, although not all of Emmerdale.
Emmerdale: Dreadfully, I tend to side with Carl whenever he's being a dick, because I really loved him once, and he killed his dad, which is bound to fuck anyone up. And his dad deserved to be killed, which wasn't really Carl's fault. But he is being a proper dick at the moment. But then it's kind of hard to side with Chastity, given that they made her do something she NEVER WOULD HAVE DONE. Sleeping with her cousin's boyfriend while her cousin's daughter was dying? No. But it does make Carl's every argument about how she acted like she was better than him and clearly she isn't make sense. And it makes Chas and Cameron's arguments about how he will be HURTING DEBBIE by telling the truth make no sense, as Carl points out. I hate Cameron, by the way, if anyone was wondering. Mostly I'm hoping that this whole is leading up to Carl finally telling Chas about the fact he killed his dad, and getting it off his chest, and who knows, maybe leaving. Because I love him, but I'm kind of sick and tired of waiting for this storyline to play out.
And I hate Paddy. I kind of always did, a little bit, but he's kind of being a cunt at the moment. Then again, I hate the pairing of Marlon and Laurel, and I have no idea how much of a dick Marlon was to Rhona about wanting to go to New Zealand for her career, so I'm a little free of sympathy on both sides of the storyline at the moment.
Eastenders: Janine left Michael with their baby, and I sincerely hope he mans up and looks after it. Soap mags are, out of nowhere as usual, suggesting he might sell her, which I think he couldn't really do when Janine's still alive anyway. But I hope he just loves her and looks after her instead, I am properly ready for him to melt in at least a few areas of his life.
Coronation Street: I really don't know what to make of the new Tina storyline. Like, I think it's really good, and a good way to develop the debt storyline, and something we've not seen before. But so far everyone's just making me furious about it. I didn't see whether it was Tina's idea or Owen's, but Tina obviously wants to do it, right now. And while I know that it's a difficult subject, and you'd probably feel differently if it was someone in your own personal life, I really expected people's reactions to be more about being worried about Tina, and checking that she REALLY FEELS like she could have a baby and then give it up. Instead of Tommy acting sort of jealous, and possessive of his girlfriend's womb, like she's actually having a baby with Gary or something. And Rita not seeming to understand the concept of surrogacy, claiming that a baby should 'come from a loving couple', in all cases. And basically accusing Tina of being hard-faced, rather than you know, in a desperate situation. And obviously it's fucked up, given that Owen's paying her, and I'm guessing that that's going to cause some trouble down the line. But Tommy and Rita seem less concerned by the fact that it's fucked up, than by the fact Tina's doing it at all.
Also, I didn't see this, but do Gary and Izzy know that Owen's paying Tina? I can't imagine Izzy would be okay with it, but then I can't imagine it's a secret given that people are practically shouting it all over the pub, and Tina's casually telling Rita about it. Also Gary seems like he's being weird and pushy about the whole thing, but then like I said, I haven't really seen it, so I don't know what it's been like or how strongly he feels about it.
I hate Karl. I miss David. WHERE IS DAVID?
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I also hate Karl and I do not understand how Sunita went from being perfectly nice to being involved with HIM :O
David Platt reminds me so much of my brother, lol
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Date: 2012-09-19 10:06 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-09-19 11:11 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-09-19 09:49 pm (UTC)And the Kirsty storyline, yeah - I was so prepared to give her the benefit of the doubt at the beginning, when she was sort of just a bit extreme, and they acted like maybe they were going to give her a backstory to explain it. And I do like that they're dealing with domestic abuse, and female-on-male domestic abuse, which isn't done very often. But it just doesn't make any sense, because she already tried to KILL Tina. People already know she's a bit nuts. And I'm pretty sure Eileen heard Kirsty and Tyrone 'fighting' once anyway, so it just doesn't make sense that NO-ONE would believe Tina, or believe that Kirsty was capable of it. ksjdksj.
And if Izzy and Gary know, that just doesn't make any sense either. Izzy was not happy for her sister to go through with surrogacy in case it was too hard for her to give the baby up, so why would she be okay essentially paying Tina to do it? Unless she really just doesn't care about the problems it might cause for Tina, she just wants to be relatively sure she'll actually get the baby at the end of it. And even if she does, doesn't she realise that there might be some problems on that side of things too? Even with the promise of some cash at the end of it? Man.
And as for Karl, I don't know. The way Dev was treating Sunita was terrible, and I totally understand her leaving him. And she and Karl really clicked when they first got together. But now he just obviously doesn't care, and she always did and still does seem like she has too much self-respect to put it with that.
So yeah, it's incredibly frustrating. Because they have a bunch of storylines that are PERFECTLY FINE, but they just seem to feel the need to slightly overdo every one of them. And I don't know why!