kate_nepveu: sleeping cat carved in brown wood (wood cat)Kate ([personal profile] kate_nepveu) wrote,
@ 2011-10-02 09:53 am UTC
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Entry tags:tv: burn notice, tv: game of thrones

Yes, we're so cutting-edge with our entertainment. Anyway, I think it can be summed up in this conversation about whether to watch the second episode next:

Chad: " . . . I think I'm more in the mood for Burn Notice."

Me: "Yeah, I feel awfully grimy."

(And that's with having left the room for the scene that I knew would upset me most.)

(We are about 3/4 of the way through the current half-season of Burn Notice, btw, and is it me or are they just not even trying to paper over the plot any more? The one with the asthmatic kid and the one with the pharmaceutical guy both ended the case-of-the-week bits with "and then some magic happened" handwaves. However, I approve of Agent Pearce and of Jesse, so I'm willing to keep listening while I work on my Christmas presents.)


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[personal profile] trent_goulding
2011-10-03 04:17 pm UTC (link)
I think my tolerance for grime, or at least for viewing depictions of it, might be too high :-)
...that said, I think if I were to sum up my personal reaction to the first season, it would be that they got it probably as near close to perfect as possible, given various physical constraints...a lot closer than Peter Jackson did, for instance (insert "in my opinion" disclaimer, naturally). The casting was phenomenal; so many of the ensemble cast just kill it in their rolls.
Of course, there's always room to quibble on the margins, but I thought it was a great achievement. But getting back to the grime quotient..yeah, you're going to have a few more discomfort-making scenes, to be sure.

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[personal profile] kate_nepveu
2011-10-03 07:33 pm UTC (link)
I'm not sure whether we're going to bother, as our TV time is so limited. And I just don't know how much gratuitously amplified misogyny and racism I can have shoved in my face.

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[personal profile] trent_goulding
2011-10-03 07:53 pm UTC (link)
It is ultimately (supposed to be) entertainment, and if you're not being entertained, or if the entertainment factor is outweighed by the discomfort/dislike factor, there's sure to be better ways to spend one's time.
I can think of one (newly invented-doesn't appear in the book) scene that appears mid-season, set in a brothel, that engendered much comment across the ether about gratuitousness. I'm thinking if you did reach that far, you might drop it at that point....

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