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galadriel1010 ([personal profile] galadriel1010) wrote2011-08-15 09:30 am
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Am I being over sensitive?

'Miracle Gay'. Not big and not clever. More immature and damaging, actually. If I thought it were a comment on how over the top the gay jokes are and the fact that it comes across as vaguely homophobic, then maybe. But I really don't get that feeling, I think it's more of the 'it's so gay' that's hurting young LGBT people so badly.
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[identity profile] fiwen1010.livejournal.com 2011-08-15 05:44 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, I heard that :/ It's not even the right coat!

Mind you, if it were the right coat it would be like the waiter were flirting with Ianto, which would be weird and slightly awkward

[identity profile] morbid-sparks.livejournal.com 2011-08-15 05:46 pm (UTC)(link)
The whole thing felt to me like they were throwing a crumb to the fans. Except they clearly have absolutely no idea.

[identity profile] fiwen1010.livejournal.com 2011-08-15 05:48 pm (UTC)(link)
Having no idea seems to be their default state of being.

[identity profile] morbid-sparks.livejournal.com 2011-08-15 06:07 pm (UTC)(link)
The thing is......the storyline/writing is /kinda/ good. As in, I need to keep watching because I need to know what happens. I need the payoff. There's just so much about it that's bad. Characterisations are rubbish, generally (the new characters are all fairly stereotyped). There are plot holes - they might end up being explained, but I doubt it. Each episode seems to have a new response to MD from the public (the soulless, dead is dead, etc) and no continuity in terms of that.

It's such a shame, I had reasonably high hopes given Jane Espenson's done so much of the writing.

[identity profile] fiwen1010.livejournal.com 2011-08-15 08:13 pm (UTC)(link)
It really seems like a NaNowriMo novel, in that they have a decent idea, but not enough time to make it good and too many words in which to write it. Add to that a case of Too Many Cooks and it's... a bit of a disaster. Could be good with a year of reworking, stripping out the sex and explosions that were put in for padding and make the plot coherent.

[identity profile] morbid-sparks.livejournal.com 2011-08-15 08:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, that's it. They needed longer to work on it.

As for explosions - Gwen with a rocket launcher? We all know RTD wishes he was Joss Whedon, but Buffy did it with much more style.
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