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selenayLast night involved a lot of TV watching, apparently. I recorded the first couple of episodes of Heroes on Monday and got to watch the first episode over supper yesterday.
The episode was largely about setting up the characters, but I can already see why it's being talked about to so much. There are some interesting characters, it's not about comic book superheroes and I can already see potential for interesting interactions (the cheerleader and her father?). There's also a bit of mystery - who is the cheerleader's father working for and why is he interested in the geneticist's research? Why can the politician fly? Can his brother really fly?
Putting that together with a cliff-hanger and I definitely need to find time to watch the second episode before I go to Redemption :-)
There was also the second episode of Life of Mars.
I still don't know whether Sam is coma guy or time travelling. This week's episode leant towards coma, but...
And what is with that phone call?
Anyway, the main plot was very good and I enjoyed it thoroughly. I was starting to suspect Harry Wolf by around half way through, but the way it was played out was completely watchable and I didn't expect the black detective to appear in that final confrontation. I also didn't quite expect Gene Hunt to shoot Harry :-) I liked the final scene in the pub because it shows that Gene and Sam are starting to sort of understand each other even though they still completely disagree about everything. It was a nice touch. Having Annie in the background, joining the boys even though they're still being thoroughly themselves about it, was also a good moment.
The attitudes, and the storyline about the black officer, were very well played and even though they probably toned it down from what would have been happening then, it was still an interesting insight. I'm a child of the 80s and 90s so, although there is still a certain amount of prejudice, it's not as overt as it once was and it's easy to forget how far things have come. Making it about (oh, god, I'm never going to remember any character's name unless it's repeated twenty times, am I?) the officer's attitude to the racism rather than a Sam campaign to educate his bigoted colleagues made it a much more interesting B-plot.
The only disappointment is that there will be no Life on Mars or Holby City next week, thanks to football. Why is football more important than quality drama?
For anyone interesting in writing and publishing, I stumbled across a fun blog yesterday thanks to a link on LibraryThing. It's the blog of an anonymous literary agent that's both informative and very funny. Go and read Miss Snark!
The episode was largely about setting up the characters, but I can already see why it's being talked about to so much. There are some interesting characters, it's not about comic book superheroes and I can already see potential for interesting interactions (the cheerleader and her father?). There's also a bit of mystery - who is the cheerleader's father working for and why is he interested in the geneticist's research? Why can the politician fly? Can his brother really fly?
Putting that together with a cliff-hanger and I definitely need to find time to watch the second episode before I go to Redemption :-)
There was also the second episode of Life of Mars.
I still don't know whether Sam is coma guy or time travelling. This week's episode leant towards coma, but...
And what is with that phone call?
Anyway, the main plot was very good and I enjoyed it thoroughly. I was starting to suspect Harry Wolf by around half way through, but the way it was played out was completely watchable and I didn't expect the black detective to appear in that final confrontation. I also didn't quite expect Gene Hunt to shoot Harry :-) I liked the final scene in the pub because it shows that Gene and Sam are starting to sort of understand each other even though they still completely disagree about everything. It was a nice touch. Having Annie in the background, joining the boys even though they're still being thoroughly themselves about it, was also a good moment.
The attitudes, and the storyline about the black officer, were very well played and even though they probably toned it down from what would have been happening then, it was still an interesting insight. I'm a child of the 80s and 90s so, although there is still a certain amount of prejudice, it's not as overt as it once was and it's easy to forget how far things have come. Making it about (oh, god, I'm never going to remember any character's name unless it's repeated twenty times, am I?) the officer's attitude to the racism rather than a Sam campaign to educate his bigoted colleagues made it a much more interesting B-plot.
The only disappointment is that there will be no Life on Mars or Holby City next week, thanks to football. Why is football more important than quality drama?
For anyone interesting in writing and publishing, I stumbled across a fun blog yesterday thanks to a link on LibraryThing. It's the blog of an anonymous literary agent that's both informative and very funny. Go and read Miss Snark!
