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deborahmm! I hope it started well and just gets better with every hour ::many hugs::
I watched the new Tru Calling episode last night; 2.4. So good. So not fair to cancel it. It's hard to believe it's the same show when you compare it to the early episodes of season one.
Ducking behind a cut so I can ramble...
What I like about this show is that it's not static, or rather, it keeps peeling off layers and there's more inside. And what I hate is that with two episodes to go we're never going to get to the chewy centre ::broods::
Jack is of course one majot reason it got better. Tru without an adversary with a face was floundering a little; there was tension as she tried to save people but no active opposing force that we could see. Jack as pure evil, conscienceless and smiling smoothly as he let people die was also a little too sharp-edged to last for long. Last night we got complexity, indecision, angst and it was wonderful.
If we'd had longer to know them (and that's one small problem; we never can; the people in danger are there, and then they're not; hard to get too terribly attached) the end would've been like the end of Becoming Part Two because Jack, by his lights, made the exact decision Buffy did when she sent Angel to hell; he sincerely believes (and who's to say he's not wrong, which is something else I love) that one person doesn't matter; that the balance has to be maintained.
And last night it was killing him to do that because he really wanted that girl to have that little bit longer.
There's more going on. Tru's father (who is nice and evil and we can hate him unreservedly, which is good to have in a secondary character; he's Linwood, not Lindesy) threatened Jack with what would happen if he failed and Jack told the girl (meh, can't remember her name) that he wasn't 'strong enough' to save her. Obviously there's something going on there...
And we won't find out probably :;gnashes teeth::. At least we know now how Jack gets the information (and it still doesn't make my headache from those quick flash images any better, thank you; by the end of S1 I was closing my eyes when they happened; way too often, long and visually disorientating).
It's also so much better without sister and friend. Harrison has really grown on me, bless his elfin little face. And Davis is adorable. The med student, well, whatever. Not going to happen, tru, so don't bother trying.
deborahmm! I hope it started well and just gets better with every hour ::many hugs::I watched the new Tru Calling episode last night; 2.4. So good. So not fair to cancel it. It's hard to believe it's the same show when you compare it to the early episodes of season one.
Ducking behind a cut so I can ramble...
What I like about this show is that it's not static, or rather, it keeps peeling off layers and there's more inside. And what I hate is that with two episodes to go we're never going to get to the chewy centre ::broods::
Jack is of course one majot reason it got better. Tru without an adversary with a face was floundering a little; there was tension as she tried to save people but no active opposing force that we could see. Jack as pure evil, conscienceless and smiling smoothly as he let people die was also a little too sharp-edged to last for long. Last night we got complexity, indecision, angst and it was wonderful.
If we'd had longer to know them (and that's one small problem; we never can; the people in danger are there, and then they're not; hard to get too terribly attached) the end would've been like the end of Becoming Part Two because Jack, by his lights, made the exact decision Buffy did when she sent Angel to hell; he sincerely believes (and who's to say he's not wrong, which is something else I love) that one person doesn't matter; that the balance has to be maintained.
And last night it was killing him to do that because he really wanted that girl to have that little bit longer.
There's more going on. Tru's father (who is nice and evil and we can hate him unreservedly, which is good to have in a secondary character; he's Linwood, not Lindesy) threatened Jack with what would happen if he failed and Jack told the girl (meh, can't remember her name) that he wasn't 'strong enough' to save her. Obviously there's something going on there...
And we won't find out probably :;gnashes teeth::. At least we know now how Jack gets the information (and it still doesn't make my headache from those quick flash images any better, thank you; by the end of S1 I was closing my eyes when they happened; way too often, long and visually disorientating).
It's also so much better without sister and friend. Harrison has really grown on me, bless his elfin little face. And Davis is adorable. The med student, well, whatever. Not going to happen, tru, so don't bother trying.