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I watched the pilot and second episode of Caprica, and they seemed amazingly long for the running time and stuck on a single, depressing emotional note. And not even *good* depressing. And I do not care about any of the characters.
Thus, I am going to take it off the list of shows I am following, which is just *wrong* because it leaves me with no spaceships at all! I am thinking of catching either Farscape or Babylon 5 to fill this lack. Or if anyone has better suggestions....?
Other shows I am following: Grey's Anatomy - It is really starting to bother me, what they are/have forever been doing to Cristina. Or maybe just that it's so realistic? She is fighting, but I know women who've been kicked into the same trap.
Leverage - I am increasingly convinced the *show* ships the OT3. Although I always immediately forget any important emotional beats. Made it awkward trying to talk to people about The Future Job, I will say.
White Collar - A new one! After there were 3 consecutive posts on my flist promising me Awesomeness, I gave in and checked it out. I am not decided where it lives on the Awesome scale, but it is a good 9.2 on Hot. That Neal Caffrey is ridiculously pretty, I will take him in a package of a half dozen.
(Though I will not share what I would *do* with them, lest you think less of me.)
The last ep even guest starred Sarah Carter, who I've been known to have impure thoughts about, so full points this show in getting my attention! (Although she did not ping me very hard this time around, maybe it was the hair?)
Thus, I am going to take it off the list of shows I am following, which is just *wrong* because it leaves me with no spaceships at all! I am thinking of catching either Farscape or Babylon 5 to fill this lack. Or if anyone has better suggestions....?
Other shows I am following: Grey's Anatomy - It is really starting to bother me, what they are/have forever been doing to Cristina. Or maybe just that it's so realistic? She is fighting, but I know women who've been kicked into the same trap.
Leverage - I am increasingly convinced the *show* ships the OT3. Although I always immediately forget any important emotional beats. Made it awkward trying to talk to people about The Future Job, I will say.
White Collar - A new one! After there were 3 consecutive posts on my flist promising me Awesomeness, I gave in and checked it out. I am not decided where it lives on the Awesome scale, but it is a good 9.2 on Hot. That Neal Caffrey is ridiculously pretty, I will take him in a package of a half dozen.
(Though I will not share what I would *do* with them, lest you think less of me.)
The last ep even guest starred Sarah Carter, who I've been known to have impure thoughts about, so full points this show in getting my attention! (Although she did not ping me very hard this time around, maybe it was the hair?)
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I highly recommend it.
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I will give a warning, though: if you think Leverage is mind-blowing in its OT3tastic-ness, you should probably stay away from White Collar. Just saying. Leverage at least went in for initial relationship building.
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That said, it takes most of season one to get good. It starts off as a mostly lolzy show, and then, general consensus seems to be that at "A Human Reaction" it's suddenly "Oh my god this show is amazing." I mean, in retrospect, there are a lot of important season one episodes in terms of developing the characters so that you can be all heartbroken by the end of season four with how much they've changed, but when you're first watching, it's kind of hard to get through.
I could talk about Farscape all day. :(
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I don't know that there are any better spaceships than Moya though. That said, I'm not sure the idea behind Moya would have come about without the Shadow vessels from B5.
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I highly recommend them both, but for different reasons. They both get A++ marks on female characters (Farscape is better with women having sex lives, but B5 has its two most ass-kick speeches in the whole series--and this is a speechifying series--delivered by female characters; I still get chills watching either of them), and they both have excellent arcage. B5 has a more coherent overall plot, but Farscape does more with inverting SF tropes. B5 does better epic drama and politics, but Farscape does better interpersonal drama and psychology. B5 has better music (the music makes a lot of scenes) but Farscape has better visuals (this latter is, admittedly, mostly because B5 pretty much invented CGI. Also, the lens flare. They apologize most sincerely for that). They both take a while to find their feet (I nearly gave up on Farscape at one point in the first season and only got interested again when Scorpius shows up). Fascape probably has better dialog than B5--Babylon 5 gets a lot of "Nobody talks like that!" complaints, although it never bothered me--but B5 is definitely an "Everyone lives to the twenty-third century" show, in religion as well as race. Every area you can go "Yes, but one has better thingie than the other!" you can come up with a retort for.
All and all, I'd say this one depends a lot on what you're in the mood for, although by all means do watch them both, just not at the same time. But to start, do you want epic space opera or the adventures of an American trapped in the Australian BDSM scene?
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A lot Babylon 5 is remarkable because it really feels like this is what humanity will be like in the future; there's money and corporations and political infighting and people with bad relationships and addictions and just... us. Us with a bigger viewpoint and a few more additions, all of which are handled believably as well. (I suspect the last vestiges of racism and homophobia died on earth when telepaths were discovered, all "You disgusting perverted sub-hu--what? Telepaths?! Come, my black queer transexual friend, let us break in some Teep skulls!" It's all about having someone else to hate and fear.)
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Just really, really not at the same time. Hell, when you Farscape limit yourself to a maximum of three episodes at once as soon as Scorpius shows up. I marathoned once and wasn't the same for days afterwards--your mind starts warping with John's. (
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Isn't that the fucking weirdest thing about Farscape? Even though, while I'm watching it, nearly every episode tears my heart out, when I remember it, I remember it as a mostly lolzy show. I think that may be because it's a weirdly hopeful show. I mean, to me, the basic message is "Life sucks, and it's hard, and it will change you, and a large amount of your friends will be killed be Scarrans, and you will be driven insane, but if you stick through it, in the end, everything will be okay."
...Man, when I type it out like that, it does not sound like its message is about hope at all. D:
Also, speaking of people being driven batshit insane, how fucking awesome was "Crackers Don't Matter" for making you go "Ha ha that Crichton, he sure was crazy there, what a funny episode, good thing he's not that crazy really!" and then DDDDDDDDDDD: by the end of season four because he is that crazy now?