Torchwood and other TV shows....

[fajrdrako]

This New York Times article about current TV shows is fun. I went to it for the Torchwood mention - which is a big spoiler if you haven't seen the end of series 2 yet, and most Canadians haven't.

I was amused by their easy acceptance of slash:

HOUSE (Fox, Sept. 16) Will prime time’s most unhealthy, obsessive love affair — the one between Dr. House (Hugh Laurie) and Dr. Wilson (Robert Sean Leonard) — survive the fact that House was instrumental in Wilson’s girlfriend’s death? Early episodes are inconclusive, but we all know that they’ll patch things up somehow.

I don't like the comments on Heroes at all. Sounds like more new characters (faugh) and focus on the old characters I didn't like (Maya). Ah well: gives me an excuse not to watch, when I don't have time anyway. Who am I kidding? Of course I'll watch, initially at least, if only to see how Nathan Petrelli survives - and because I want to see Peter Petrelli again.

Comments

[trialia]

GAK!

Thank you, so very much, for slapping me in the face with a huge House spoiler I had not previously encountered when I'm a season behind. *headdesk*

[mmegaera.livejournal.com]

My sympathies, trialia.

I watch House, too, but here in the States they've been showing teasers for the season premiere for weeks. So you didn't spoil anything for me, fajrdrako. I'm kind of looking forward to watching Wilson attempt to develop a backbone [g].

[boji.livejournal.com]

Personally, what with this being election year in the US I think the writers on Heroes have missed an opportunity if they're not planning to mine the Petrelli angle for all it's worth in terms of the dark side of the Kennedys as it were. And if they're focusing on Maya then that means Sylar and that would make sense to me in a season where heroes are supposed to become villains and vice versa.

When does the new season air? I have a save_nathan fic - post shooting - that I should have finished yesteryear.

I will be watching - I thought S2 was terribly weak in comparison to S1 and S3 will slide further no doubt, but the writerly claim is that the series as a whole will work cohesively (in a novelesque way) once all the seasons have played out and, though I don't believe them I'm curious to see them try to pull it off.

Latest Heroes Graphic Novel

[raissad.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the link. Here's part 2 of the Company arc finale:
http://www.nbc.com/Heroes/novels/novels_display.shtml?novel=102

[auriaephiala.livejournal.com]

I've been totally unimpressed with the ads for Heroes -- too violent and just not my thing at all -- but Robert Forster? He is an amazing actor, and can even shine in a movie by Quentin Tarantino. You'll have to tell me how he turns out ... and if Christopher Eccleston ever shows up again.

Torchwood: Lost Souls

[raissad.livejournal.com]

Here's Torchwood: Lost Souls:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/bigbang/torchwood.shtml

Latest Heroes Graphic Novel & More

[raissad.livejournal.com]

The Company Arc Finale:
http://www.nbc.com/Heroes/novels/novels_display.shtml?novel=103

Coleman has a blog:
http://www.televisionwithoutpity.com/Jack_Coleman/

So does director Greg Beeman:
http://gregbeeman.blogspot.com/