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cahnSmash: So I wasn't expecting to watch any more Smash, but then I realized there would be, like, an actual Broadway production in the last one, so I did. Kind of. Not paying much attention. It made me kind of sad, because every so often I'd get this Slings and Arrows memory and it just made me really unhappy for the show Smash could have been, if they'd trusted themselves to make that show. Sigh.
Once Upon a Time: Hee. Lana Parilla is MADE OF AWESOME. I was thrilled that Gold/Rumpel wasn't woobified; I liked that very much.
Stargate: Universe: Uh, I am sort of obsessed with Robert Carlyle? Although I should have watched this in the other order, because I keep getting weird Rumpelstiltskin flashes from having watched OUAT first (though these are fading rapidly). Also, it's really, really good this wasn't around when I was an adolescent, because brilliant snarky angsty scruffy physicist full of mockery? I might have been scarred for life by that fandom crush.
I don't necessarily recommend this show for others (communication stones, seriously? I've never watched any Stargate before, so I would just howl when these things came up... this just seems SO CAMPY EIGHTIES; and I want to tell the cameraman that rotating round and round does not an "edgy" production make; and it annoys me that all the characters with power are men; and then there's the part where two people just disappeared in the pilot part 3 and no one ever refers to them again, as far as I can tell), but apparently I am a complete and utter sucker for fantastical shows with people pulling together into a community and focusing on character interactions, and am willing to totally ignore the bits that don't make sense. (Hi, Firefly! And BSG before you got crazy! And OUAT! And Farscape!) Obviously I was going to really enjoy watching Rush, and I like Young quite a lot, and I disliked Eli for the first two episodes then swung completely around to adoring his character, and I just want to hug Riley, and I might have a crush on TJ too, she's so quietly and compassionately competent. Love that.
...should I watch the other Stargates?
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Date: 2012-06-04 12:57 am (UTC)I liked what SG-1 tried to do in the first season, despite some clunky plotlines and very clunky one-liners. S1 - S4 were okay-to-good, S5 - S8 have creeping quality issues, and S9 - S10 enjoyment is pegged to your feelings about Ben Browder and Claudia Black.
Haven't seen Smash or OUAT yet; is it worth picking up OUAT?
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Date: 2012-06-04 03:50 am (UTC)Huh. SG-1 sounds kind of interesting, actually! I, uh, sort of love Ben Browder and Claudia Black? Yeah, sounds like I might have to go watch that.
Smash is absolutely horribly terrible, not worth watching even a tiny bit (although it is a tiny bit worth watching the musical clips, which I think are available on nbc.com). OUAT is... not quite that horrible? I'd say, I don't think it's worth picking up unless you don't mind campy and doesn't-really-make-sense-if-you-think-about-it, but it does have the feature that almost all the action is initiated by women, and almost all the meaningful interactions are between women, and the men are there mostly as eye candy, which is a rather refreshing change from the usual.
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Date: 2012-06-09 05:33 am (UTC)SG-1 is probably worth a look, just keep in mind the later seasons were produced by the same people who thought up Universe. (I can't talk about being a little crazy, I watched Stargate Atlantis of my own free will.) May look up OUAT this summer, watch this space.