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I had intended to post this sooner, but the new shows I tried this year had start dates anywhere from August to November so there never seemed to be a time when I'd seen enough episodes of everything to post. Now that it's the end of the year, I figured I'd better get a move-on.
Rubicon: The plot moved at an utterly glacial pace, but I'm glad I stuck with it until the end. The ultimate resolution was worthwhile and tied all the previous episodes together, even the ones where it seemed like nothing was going on. Still, I'm not surprised it was canceled. I mean, once you expose the giant conspiracy, where do you go from there? Expose another giant conspiracy? Drag out the first giant conspiracy? I'm not sure I would've watched a second season had there been one, but I am going to miss Kale Ingram. He was such a great character. It's always nice to have a friend who knows exactly what to do about that dead body in your living room in a way that will never implicate you. He also gives good attitude adjustments to deadbeat ex-husbands.
Sherlock: The only other times I have fallen this hard, this fast for a show were with The X-Files and Max Headroom. Seriously, I'm ridiculously in love with this show, and it'll be a long wait for series two. My flist was all a-squee for Benedict Cumberbatch, and while I have no complaints about him or his portrayal of Sherlock Holmes, I think Martin Freeman may have ruined me for all other John Watsons, including the canon one.
The Walking Dead: I had a strange reaction to this one that I wasn't expecting. I honestly have no complaints about the pilot. I thought it was well-written and well-acted and beautifully shot. But apparently I have a limited attention span for the zombie apocalypse, because even though I really liked the pilot, I was never even remotely tempted to watch another episode. It looks like I can only cope with zombie apocalypses for the length of one movie or TV episode, and not for an episodic, multi-season TV series.
The Event: I liked it at first, but as usually happens to me with shows that have ensemble casts and multiple plot lines, I'm only interested in some of the characters and some of the plots and how much I'm interested in an episode depends on how much it revolves around the characters and plots I like. Then my brain must have decided that the show was about Sean's hunt for his missing girlfriend, because as soon as he found her the show felt over for me, to the point where I regularly forgot it was on. I haven't seen an episode since and don't miss it at all.
Chase: I like Kelli Giddish in this. There's just something about a woman who can handle a shotgun like she means it that appeals to me. It's also nice to see a female lead in an action adventure show doing the kinds of things (foot chases, gun battles, jumping on and off moving vehicles) that are pretty standard for male leads in such shows. That said, I like it enough to watch it streaming because it's on opposite Hawaii Five-0 (although I hear it's moving to Wednesdays after the holiday break, so that solves that problem), but it wouldn't break my heart if it got canceled.
Hawaii Five-0: Hello, shiny new fandom! I love this show so much, but I definitely don't watch it for the plots. This show is my new Stargate Atlantis. Steve and Danny are clearly the new Sheppard and McKay, and I'm not the only one who thinks so. Getting into this fandom was easy and comfortable for me because there were so many McSheppers here already that you'd think the entire McShep fandom just packed up and moved to H50 en masse. Many of my favorite McShep authors are now writing Steve/Danny fic, which is making for some very good reading for a show that's only been on for half a season.
Law & Order: UK: I'd heard people complaining that the U.K. version was "just" reworkings of scripts from the U.S. episodes. While it's true that each U.K. episode is based on a U.S. one, the scripts have been reworked enough to take into account differences in culture, laws, and legal procedures between the two countries that even if you've seen the original U.S. version of the episode, the U.K. version isn't predictable. My only complaint is that the Crown prosecutors seem to lose more cases than they win, which is a curious choice for a show that's at least half about courtroom proceedings. But at this point I'm just happy to be watching Jamie Bamber on television again.
ETA: The entry referred to in comment 2a has been deleted because all of the linked videos it contained are no longer available on the internet. Boo.
Rubicon: The plot moved at an utterly glacial pace, but I'm glad I stuck with it until the end. The ultimate resolution was worthwhile and tied all the previous episodes together, even the ones where it seemed like nothing was going on. Still, I'm not surprised it was canceled. I mean, once you expose the giant conspiracy, where do you go from there? Expose another giant conspiracy? Drag out the first giant conspiracy? I'm not sure I would've watched a second season had there been one, but I am going to miss Kale Ingram. He was such a great character. It's always nice to have a friend who knows exactly what to do about that dead body in your living room in a way that will never implicate you. He also gives good attitude adjustments to deadbeat ex-husbands.
Sherlock: The only other times I have fallen this hard, this fast for a show were with The X-Files and Max Headroom. Seriously, I'm ridiculously in love with this show, and it'll be a long wait for series two. My flist was all a-squee for Benedict Cumberbatch, and while I have no complaints about him or his portrayal of Sherlock Holmes, I think Martin Freeman may have ruined me for all other John Watsons, including the canon one.
The Walking Dead: I had a strange reaction to this one that I wasn't expecting. I honestly have no complaints about the pilot. I thought it was well-written and well-acted and beautifully shot. But apparently I have a limited attention span for the zombie apocalypse, because even though I really liked the pilot, I was never even remotely tempted to watch another episode. It looks like I can only cope with zombie apocalypses for the length of one movie or TV episode, and not for an episodic, multi-season TV series.
The Event: I liked it at first, but as usually happens to me with shows that have ensemble casts and multiple plot lines, I'm only interested in some of the characters and some of the plots and how much I'm interested in an episode depends on how much it revolves around the characters and plots I like. Then my brain must have decided that the show was about Sean's hunt for his missing girlfriend, because as soon as he found her the show felt over for me, to the point where I regularly forgot it was on. I haven't seen an episode since and don't miss it at all.
Chase: I like Kelli Giddish in this. There's just something about a woman who can handle a shotgun like she means it that appeals to me. It's also nice to see a female lead in an action adventure show doing the kinds of things (foot chases, gun battles, jumping on and off moving vehicles) that are pretty standard for male leads in such shows. That said, I like it enough to watch it streaming because it's on opposite Hawaii Five-0 (although I hear it's moving to Wednesdays after the holiday break, so that solves that problem), but it wouldn't break my heart if it got canceled.
Hawaii Five-0: Hello, shiny new fandom! I love this show so much, but I definitely don't watch it for the plots. This show is my new Stargate Atlantis. Steve and Danny are clearly the new Sheppard and McKay, and I'm not the only one who thinks so. Getting into this fandom was easy and comfortable for me because there were so many McSheppers here already that you'd think the entire McShep fandom just packed up and moved to H50 en masse. Many of my favorite McShep authors are now writing Steve/Danny fic, which is making for some very good reading for a show that's only been on for half a season.
Law & Order: UK: I'd heard people complaining that the U.K. version was "just" reworkings of scripts from the U.S. episodes. While it's true that each U.K. episode is based on a U.S. one, the scripts have been reworked enough to take into account differences in culture, laws, and legal procedures between the two countries that even if you've seen the original U.S. version of the episode, the U.K. version isn't predictable. My only complaint is that the Crown prosecutors seem to lose more cases than they win, which is a curious choice for a show that's at least half about courtroom proceedings. But at this point I'm just happy to be watching Jamie Bamber on television again.
ETA: The entry referred to in comment 2a has been deleted because all of the linked videos it contained are no longer available on the internet. Boo.
