Thanks for the DVD loan offer. I'll take you up on that at some point in the future. I have to watch all of Buffy and Angel first. A friend loaned me Buffy, but I only had time to watch an episode a week so ended up giving them back mostly unviewed as she was beginning to think I'd sold them on ebay. One day I'll set aside a weekend and have a Buffy marathon.
You're quite right about the interchangeable Barbie dolls on BL. However, I've managed to blinker myself so all I see is the adorable friendship between Alan Shore and Denny Crane. I like the quirky, yet thought-provoking nature of some of the legal cases too.
You may know Eric Close from Magnicent 7 - he was the very cute one with the sandy blonde curly hair. He was also in the sadly short lived show Now and Again. WAT is Without a Trace, a rather formulaic show about a team of FBI agents who track down missing persons. The lovely Mr Close plays FBI agent Martin FitzGerald. He was seriously wounded in the opening episode of season 4, which caused his team-mate Danny to be majorly emotionally traumatised thanks to him being secretly in love with Martin. (The writers are no doubt oblivious to the true cause of Danny's trauma, but it is as plain as day to those of us not writing television for the mainstream US market.)
Sadly the show focuses far too much on the guest missing person, and when it does focus on the FBI agents we get loads of the team leader - an obnoxious character called Jack, and very little of the others. The show has also commited the unforgiveable sin of having a SamnJack relationship - Sam being a blonde subordinate who not only lusts after her boss, but had an affair with him. (Just for good measure the actress that plays Sam can't act). However, the show is redeemed by the snuggliness of Martin and Danny, although fans have to wade through endless tedium for the occasional nugget of cuteness.
Season 3 is currently airing on a satellite channel on Tuesday evenings - can't remember which one. I recommend taping the show so you can fastforward through all the tedious scenary chewing and doe-eyed looks. Just watch the hot pretty boy scenes.
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Date: 2005-10-14 01:04 pm (UTC)You're quite right about the interchangeable Barbie dolls on BL. However, I've managed to blinker myself so all I see is the adorable friendship between Alan Shore and Denny Crane. I like the quirky, yet thought-provoking nature of some of the legal cases too.
You may know Eric Close from Magnicent 7 - he was the very cute one with the sandy blonde curly hair. He was also in the sadly short lived show Now and Again. WAT is Without a Trace, a rather formulaic show about a team of FBI agents who track down missing persons. The lovely Mr Close plays FBI agent Martin FitzGerald. He was seriously wounded in the opening episode of season 4, which caused his team-mate Danny to be majorly emotionally traumatised thanks to him being secretly in love with Martin. (The writers are no doubt oblivious to the true cause of Danny's trauma, but it is as plain as day to those of us not writing television for the mainstream US market.)
Sadly the show focuses far too much on the guest missing person, and when it does focus on the FBI agents we get loads of the team leader - an obnoxious character called Jack, and very little of the others. The show has also commited the unforgiveable sin of having a SamnJack relationship - Sam being a blonde subordinate who not only lusts after her boss, but had an affair with him. (Just for good measure the actress that plays Sam can't act). However, the show is redeemed by the snuggliness of Martin and Danny, although fans have to wade through endless tedium for the occasional nugget of cuteness.
Season 3 is currently airing on a satellite channel on Tuesday evenings - can't remember which one. I recommend taping the show so you can fastforward through all the tedious scenary chewing and doe-eyed looks. Just watch the hot pretty boy scenes.