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stillaneThis is a Thursday. This means something in my world. Unfortunately, I forgot what that something was until 9:18 and therefore had to skip the rest of that something in order not to screw up the enjoyment of the Winchesters in all their glory.
I fail at life.
Thank all that is holy for the internet. So... how was it? I seem to be seeing general squee. Yes?
And on another note... Raines.
I fail at life.
Thank all that is holy for the internet. So... how was it? I seem to be seeing general squee. Yes?
And on another note... Raines.
I am in like. While Goldblum occasionally makes me twitch a little, he tends to then come right back and thwap me with cool. I wasn't impressed with the premise when I heard it advertised, but the first episode managed to convince me of the value of the twist. I love the evolution of the not-ghost of the week, and the guest actors so far have done a nice job with the subtler shifts.
Am I calling the plots? Yeah. Do I really mind? No. The acting is good, the dialog is snappy, and the characters are charming. So long as the interactions keep me involved, I'm content to watch more for the human element than the mystery.
The whole idea of the show does raise some neat questions, though. I mean, come on. Not ghosts? What the hell's wrong with ghosts? Some of my favorite characters see dead people all the time... (And then again, some of them are dead people.) It's really interesting that the only character on TV who legitimately knows that he isn't speaking with the dearly departed is the one most afraid of being insane. There's something in that about the grounding of the show's premise in reality, and yet... the show itself is all about perception, and where the boundary between real and not goes fluid.
It seems like the only way to coexist with the weird - be it in your own mind or otherwise - is to accept it and move on. Since this particular brand of weird is stemming from an inability to communicate with himself (that's my story and I'm sticking to it), there's a whole other level to that process for Raines. I'm curious to see where they go with Raines' visitors, and how much they'll push to explain just why this is happening to him. I'd also like to know where they're going to go with the dead partner angle, the obvious explanation for his presence being that Raines needs him, although Raines himself doesn't seem to want to acknowledge that. He does just fine when it's a question of the hallucinations needing him ('fine' being a relative term, of course), but when it's about what he needs, up go the oblivious walls.
Mostly, I'd just like to see Raines and Benton Frasier meet.
Am I calling the plots? Yeah. Do I really mind? No. The acting is good, the dialog is snappy, and the characters are charming. So long as the interactions keep me involved, I'm content to watch more for the human element than the mystery.
The whole idea of the show does raise some neat questions, though. I mean, come on. Not ghosts? What the hell's wrong with ghosts? Some of my favorite characters see dead people all the time... (And then again, some of them are dead people.) It's really interesting that the only character on TV who legitimately knows that he isn't speaking with the dearly departed is the one most afraid of being insane. There's something in that about the grounding of the show's premise in reality, and yet... the show itself is all about perception, and where the boundary between real and not goes fluid.
It seems like the only way to coexist with the weird - be it in your own mind or otherwise - is to accept it and move on. Since this particular brand of weird is stemming from an inability to communicate with himself (that's my story and I'm sticking to it), there's a whole other level to that process for Raines. I'm curious to see where they go with Raines' visitors, and how much they'll push to explain just why this is happening to him. I'd also like to know where they're going to go with the dead partner angle, the obvious explanation for his presence being that Raines needs him, although Raines himself doesn't seem to want to acknowledge that. He does just fine when it's a question of the hallucinations needing him ('fine' being a relative term, of course), but when it's about what he needs, up go the oblivious walls.
Mostly, I'd just like to see Raines and Benton Frasier meet.
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Date: 2007-03-23 05:20 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-03-23 10:19 pm (UTC)Being a lazy bastard begets itself, I've found. You know you've hit rock bottom when entertainment seems like too much effort. *g*
As to the other bits of the entry... Not that you need yet another one to add to the list, but Raines is shaping up to be an interesting show. You might want to put it on the long-term hmm list. It's mostly Jeff Goldblum running around being Jeff Goldblum, but with company provided by his own mind in the form of murder victims. Which is far lighter than it sounds, actually. Well, aside from the growing consistently attached to dead figments of the imagination, that is.