House rules, and the state of my icons.
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ldhensonI watched the first episode of House on DVD...well, I'll be adding it to my TV schedule. Making your main character such a tough guy to get along with is a tricky thing to try to pull off; I suspect that had they cast anyone else, I might not be watching, but Hugh Laurie is magnetic. And there are enough chinks in the armor to keep him intriguing.
I like the pacing of the medical explanations--fast enough to keep me interested, slow enough that I could keep up. I really enjoyed following the "mystery" from start to finish. Which is quite a good thing really, as this is the first medical drama I've been inclined to watch.
Rest of the cast seems to have gotten off to a good start, too...plus they're just lovely to look at. I'd like to see where they take them from here.
I do wish they'd let Hugh keep his native accent. But if that's the price I have to pay for having him on my TV every week, then so be it.
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You know how I complain regularly, and in fact did so again just very recently, that space for 50 icons is not nearly enough? Well, I've been sitting at 48 icons for the past week, with another two icons about to be pulled.
And I have nothing I'm dyin' to fill the four empty spaces with. In my first honeymoon fling with Sky Captain, I churned out 32 WOT icons--as far as I can remember--in 6 weeks. Half of those were for other people, the others for me. And now I seem to be tapped out for icons about anything.
I'll be pulling my Depp-centric icons because, strangely, Johnny has for me gone back to the "Hot but Not" category of men whose looks are undeniably good but who otherwise don't do anything for me. (I know. Please don't lynch me.) I still appreciate him as an actor, but my days of drooling over him are, for now, at an end.
I like the pacing of the medical explanations--fast enough to keep me interested, slow enough that I could keep up. I really enjoyed following the "mystery" from start to finish. Which is quite a good thing really, as this is the first medical drama I've been inclined to watch.
Rest of the cast seems to have gotten off to a good start, too...plus they're just lovely to look at. I'd like to see where they take them from here.
I do wish they'd let Hugh keep his native accent. But if that's the price I have to pay for having him on my TV every week, then so be it.
You know how I complain regularly, and in fact did so again just very recently, that space for 50 icons is not nearly enough? Well, I've been sitting at 48 icons for the past week, with another two icons about to be pulled.
And I have nothing I'm dyin' to fill the four empty spaces with. In my first honeymoon fling with Sky Captain, I churned out 32 WOT icons--as far as I can remember--in 6 weeks. Half of those were for other people, the others for me. And now I seem to be tapped out for icons about anything.
I'll be pulling my Depp-centric icons because, strangely, Johnny has for me gone back to the "Hot but Not" category of men whose looks are undeniably good but who otherwise don't do anything for me. (I know. Please don't lynch me.) I still appreciate him as an actor, but my days of drooling over him are, for now, at an end.
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Re: hot but not ^^
Date: 2005-01-03 06:39 pm (UTC)I'm watching that happen right now with Damian Lewis.
I haven't seen either of those movies, but that's it exactly! Good actors who throw themselves into the role, and when they play slimeballs, well they're just not all that likeable. ^__^ Amusingly enough, though, there are also actors who are just so fun that even when playing bad guys they end up likable. (Of course, some bad people *are* nice other than the parts that make them bad. Even mass murderers love their pets...)
And then, on my third viewing of the movie, bam! Suddenly he was hot.
{giggle} Yes! That one too! I tend to blame ones like that on hormones -- wasn't watching it at the right times before or something. ;p
Funny thing, I had him pegged as the science guy!
He sure doesn't look like the military type! Too skinny! ;) I keep thinking that if those were *real* guns in the show, he wouldn't be able to lift them, let alone take the recoil. LOL... (Though Airforce doesn't necessarily need bulk or ability to fire ground weapons since they're in the air most of the time. But that's being real, not suspending my disbelief, lol.)
What's the premise of the show? A new gate?
New Galaxy, cut off from Earth. So no cross-overs with SG1 (at least for first season) and a new enemy. In the first episode, they used the earth gate with a one-time powerup to gate a couple hundred scientists to the new galaxy they'd just found out about (an old Ancient place, turned out to be Atlantis). There isn't enough power on the other side to do another galaxy hop, but they have enough to do local gating.
I wasn't initially expecting much more than an SG-clone, and in a lot of ways it still is, but the characters (for me) make it a fun show. ^^ (Not that SG-clones are bad... ;p )