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TV slut update...
May. 27th, 2006 03:42 pmYEs, I watched the Lost finale and the House finale and the Alias finale, also Desperate Housewives and Greys and Veronica Mars. Not to mention Gilmore Girls and West Wing. Plus Smallville (sigh), Supernatural, and ER - the last half-hour.
Of the season finales, Veronica Mars surprisingly enough was the best. With Grey's Anatomy a close second. Smallville was hokey and I do not admit in public that I watched it. ( vague spoiler for Smallville ) Housewives annoyed me -
( spoilers for Desperate Housewives )
The Innovative and somewhat trippy award goes to House - which if you didn't catch, highly recommend you do. House is the anti-procedural, unlike all the procedurals - it's more interested in the characters and uses the procedures merely as metaphors to explore them. Usually procedurals use characters as pawns to explain complicated procedures and solve puzzel mysteries.
( spoilers for House )
Veronica Mars wins the reward for having a finale that visually reverses images from the season opener or shows them in new revealing way. The episode, while flawed in places, does stick within the conventions of the genre, while at the same time expanding on the genre. If you watch Veronica with the view that it is a replacement of Buffy or another Gilmore Girls, you are missing the point. Veronica isn't trying to be either.
Lost managed to put all the lead characters in jeopardy or rather the ones with an edge that the audience cared about. Yet, still satisfied by answering left over mysteries from the year before.
( spoilers for Lost )
Grey's Anatomy had a hokey ending, but up until the finale reel was quite enjoyable. Have to be honest, I'm not invested in who Meredith ends up with or cared very much about Denny.
I watched for everyone else. Alex, Christina, the Nazi, Chief, Burke, George, Callie, and Addison.
( vague spoilers for Grey's )
( vague spoilers for West Wing )
The other shows...sigh. Not worth mentioning. Except that I hope Gilmore is better written next year or will give up on it and that Supernatural's ending seemed just a tad over-the-top.
Now half-watching a dumb chick-flick that I enjoy.
[Updated to hide anything that could possibly be considered a spoiler by any stretch of imagination. If I spoiled you prior to this, my apologies. Wasn't deliberate.]
Of the season finales, Veronica Mars surprisingly enough was the best. With Grey's Anatomy a close second. Smallville was hokey and I do not admit in public that I watched it. ( vague spoiler for Smallville ) Housewives annoyed me -
( spoilers for Desperate Housewives )
The Innovative and somewhat trippy award goes to House - which if you didn't catch, highly recommend you do. House is the anti-procedural, unlike all the procedurals - it's more interested in the characters and uses the procedures merely as metaphors to explore them. Usually procedurals use characters as pawns to explain complicated procedures and solve puzzel mysteries.
( spoilers for House )
Veronica Mars wins the reward for having a finale that visually reverses images from the season opener or shows them in new revealing way. The episode, while flawed in places, does stick within the conventions of the genre, while at the same time expanding on the genre. If you watch Veronica with the view that it is a replacement of Buffy or another Gilmore Girls, you are missing the point. Veronica isn't trying to be either.
Lost managed to put all the lead characters in jeopardy or rather the ones with an edge that the audience cared about. Yet, still satisfied by answering left over mysteries from the year before.
( spoilers for Lost )
Grey's Anatomy had a hokey ending, but up until the finale reel was quite enjoyable. Have to be honest, I'm not invested in who Meredith ends up with or cared very much about Denny.
I watched for everyone else. Alex, Christina, the Nazi, Chief, Burke, George, Callie, and Addison.
( vague spoilers for Grey's )
( vague spoilers for West Wing )
The other shows...sigh. Not worth mentioning. Except that I hope Gilmore is better written next year or will give up on it and that Supernatural's ending seemed just a tad over-the-top.
Now half-watching a dumb chick-flick that I enjoy.
[Updated to hide anything that could possibly be considered a spoiler by any stretch of imagination. If I spoiled you prior to this, my apologies. Wasn't deliberate.]
