TV Overload

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Which really could be subtitled again with the weird sex thing, although I liked lots of the other things they did like blonde cheerleader (Caroline, thank you joanne_c) waking up and them doing a pretty fantastic mix of regretting the night before and body horror. Also the dried blood looked reasonably accurate.

I like that they let Damon be a monster in this one, rather than the cool asshole brother (also, Damon's apparently the elder brother, which I so did not call). For reasons I can not explain I found his compelling of her to do the dishes worse than the feeding.

The advantage that Damon, as a character, has over Stefan is that he's allowed to have shading to his character. Stefan suffers from being Angel in Season 1, tall, dark, handsome, brooding and boring as.

I also really enjoyed the scene at the dinner party where Elena and Damon talk about Katherine and it's just gah! The good gah!

I am also deeply amused that Stefan is so upset about the death of the history teacher who, for what I assume is budgetary reasons, moonlights as the football coach, when as far as I can tell, everyone else will be ecstatic about it.

The reprise of its issues about sex came when, after the dinner party, you see Elena and Stefan kissing. And I'm like 16/17 year olds, dating enough to be having joint couple-y dinners with the unfortunate Bonnie (I've been there, sometimes it's okay, sometimes it's not), this is possible, except on this show where affection is all gooey eyes, so of course, I'm not surprised in the slightest when it turns out that it's Damon messing with her dreams.

I will grant Stefan this, the bit with the locket was, indeed, genius, and Elena deserves props for that slap.


I then made the terrible mistake of watching Being Human directly afterward, because it blew VD out the water.



Really, why do the terrible things always happen to George (granted that they also happen to Annie and are about to happen to Mitchell)?

He was so happy.

I also loved that Being Human did it's usual thing of horrific and funny, this time it being the warewolf tourettes. And the scene where he hits the guy that runs the college. Now in a lot of shows, that would be a moment of awesome, because the head of the college was a creepy pervert bully, but because it's all about George's loss of control, it becomes this moment of horror, because that's what George has to fight, every month.

Annie, meanwhile, totally showed the men with sticks what for, at least for the time being. I guessed what Sykes deep, dark secret was, although I'm intrigued by what he said when he left. Possibly there's two kinds of doors, men with sticks doors and good doors a la the one Gilbert went through.

For those who were wondering Sykes was played by the same guy that played Adam in Torchwood, who was also one of the seamen in Master and Commander. He appears to be aging backwards.

I've left Mitchell for last because he's bringing most of his future woes on himself. And how. But I loved that he didn't use 'do the right thing' on Ivan, he used 'this will be a sensation'. Ivan's the only 'woe is me, I feel nothing' character I can think of where that isn't played for sympathy.

I squeaked at the trailer for next week - Lucy the Vampire Slayer. That has to be deliberate, right. It smacks a little of Buffy from the daemons point of view, but I can live with that :)



And then I watched Glee.



Just once I'd like there to be a gay character on US TV that gets broadcast over here that isn't a flaming stereotype. But apart from that, I like Kurt, which marks him out on this show.

Because really, is there are single female character who is neither a sour shrew or a neurotic mess?

Also, apparently Puck is supposed to be an asshole with a heart of gold?? I'm getting a whole lot of ass and not a lot of heart.

The QB is lovely and all, and I feel for his girlfriend. The baby pinching subplot caused great amusement, because me and P, who in O's defence watch a lot more twisty shows than he does, got it immediately, and he only got it midway through the car scene on his second watch. We had to pause while I gathered myself back together.


I'm sure Glee's good, but it's just not for me.