Spontaneous Musings

Yay ! Thanks to ABC's insane marketing campaign: ABC’s Once Upon a Time opened to strong ratings Sunday, lifting ABC to its best performance in the time period with regular programming in nearly three years in the 18-49 demographic. (According to Hollywood Reporter). http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/once-upon-time-ginnifer-goodwin-jennifer-morrison-252502.

Not surprising. ABC is doing an excellent job this year of finding it's nitch audience - which is women between the ages of 18-49. And it's Sunday night line-up is meant to be counter programming. NBC is Football, AMC is well Walking Dead,
CBS is 60 Minutes, The Good Wife, and CSI Miami. And Fox is animated comedies. What am I watching? Once Upon a Time, The Good Wife, and Walking Dead. I told you I'm diverse in my tastes. On Wed? I watch American Horror Story and Revenge, Raising Hope, and Subrogatory. Thursday? It's mostly soap night - Grey's, Vamp Diaries, Secret Circle, and Big Bang Theory (or Community if Big Bang is in reruns) and Prime Suspect. Monday? House, Gossip Girl, and Terra Nova (although that may end soon - it's getting boring). Tuesday? Ringer, Parenthood and Glee. Friday? Nikita (although I may ditch soon since I've burned out on the trope finally), Grimm (again we'll see), and Supernatural (which I'm getting tired of).
Too many tv shows...some may get canceled soon.

Would watch Fringe, but I'm still watching S2 on DVD, which means I'm at least one season behind. Saw great episode tonight - White Tulip, the other great episode was Peter - both delve into Walter Bishop's back story regarding what he did to save his son and how he wrecked the universe doing it. In White Tulip, we get the great Peter Weller as a guest star. John Nobel and Peter Weller have a great scene together. Fringe has it's moments, you just have to get through all the crappy monster disease of the week episodes to get to them. Although have to say they are a lot more interesting disease of the weeks than all the other procedurals in this trope. Get bloody tired of the serial killers of the week in the other shows. There's only so many ways you can torture and maim another living human being after all. In House - I'm getting tired of the medical issue of the week.

And EW's link on Once Upon a Time : http://insidetv.ew.com/2011/10/23/once-upon-a-time-stars-give-scoop-on-the-season-ahead/, provides teasers for the season ahead. It really is going for character driven sort of like Lost did, with lots of chewy metaphors. I suppose it has a Disney vibe, but it doesn't bother me, but then I sort of like Disney at times. My neice is currently watching old Disney films, because all the new kids movies are either too violent or too frenetic for her. She's also watching Dick Van Dyke.

Really curious to see what they do with Once Upon a Time. Because it is a clever premise and there's all sorts of ways they can go over several seasons. Pleased to see something new for a change.

But it has split the critics down the center - some hate it, some love it. So I'm guessing it will split viewers. And it's not split along gender lines. The only clear pattern in taste split that I see is people who are more into plot-centric, a la Bones, Castle, NCIS, CSI, Criminal Minds, Ringer, Fringe, X-Files, Angel, the list goes on - I can't see necessarily liking this. Tucker preferred Grimm. While people who love bizarre narrative forms like Lost, Friday Night Lights, Revenge, Desperate Housewives, BSG, Buffy, Dollhouse, Doctor Who, and more into character driven and emotional arcs, will love it.
But even that? Is wild generalization. Taste is impossible to pre-determine or predict or even understand. I'm still trying to figure out what it is about this series that's grabbed my interest. Been a while since a tv show really did in quite this way, to the point I'm looking for more information and other people who it grabbed hold of. I think the last one was...Game of Thrones, yeah, I adored Game of Thrones. But I think this one will be easier to watch and a lot less painful. Which is amusing, considering Ken Tucker and some critics called it dark and grim, seriously guys - have you watched 90% of the tv shows on?
Most of them are about people hunting down serial killers or reality shows about nasty people that you want to hit repeatedly.
And yes, I'm admittedly a serial junkie - love serials.