Am I being over sensitive?

[galadriel1010]

'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.

Comments

[fiwen1010.livejournal.com]

I've been following the recaps *sheepish*. I would have watched it if people with similar tastes to me said it was good and worth watching, but I honestly feel like learning Quenya would be a more productive and less stressful use of my time than watching Miracle Day

[morbid-sparks.livejournal.com]

Jack meets waiter. Waiter likes coat. Jack uses that as an excuse to flirt.

[fiwen1010.livejournal.com]

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

[morbid-sparks.livejournal.com]

The whole thing felt to me like they were throwing a crumb to the fans. Except they clearly have absolutely no idea.

[fiwen1010.livejournal.com]

Having no idea seems to be their default state of being.

[morbid-sparks.livejournal.com]

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.

[fiwen1010.livejournal.com]

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.

[morbid-sparks.livejournal.com]

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.