Listen, lady, just because Merlin isn't well-written and apparently has nothing to do with canon doesn't mean I can't enjoy Colin Morgan and his UST with Bradley James. Anyway... weren't you watching Robin Hood a while back? ;)
As to the cliche thing, I think I mean more like... well... maybe I do mean cliche. I dunno. I mean, up until Jaynestown I wasn't even sure most of them could act (I'm still not sure about Inara). But we've got a hooker with a heart of gold and an unrequited crush on Captain Jack Harness Mal. They're my biggest problem. As for the rest, they're more... maybe even flat than cliche. I don't actually dislike them, I just... don't really find them interesting. Though I do think Kaylee/Simon is adorable. Like, Wash is funny when he manages to deliver one of his token snarky lines without sounding like he's reading it off a cue card, but his relationship to Zoe(?) seems almost forced most of the time. I did begin to appreciate it and him a little more in the scene where the whore/thief is trying to seduce him. And Kaylee's perkiness is cute, but the fact that she comes off as "the happy girl" makes her almost dull. She's getting a little more interesting as her relationship with Simon develops, admittedly, but my first impression of her was to be rather bored. Again, up until Jaynestown, I thought Jayne was the absolute worst character on board. The "tension" in the scene with the gun called Vera, though funny at the end, was initially really confusing and almost unmotivated. I mean, I know a lot of people on the internet worship Joss Whedon, but this is my first exposure to him (not including Doctor Horrible, which I didn't really care for) and every line just seems like it looks really great and funny on paper, but the delivery of the actors rarely sells it.
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Date: 2008-11-16 06:41 pm (UTC)As to the cliche thing, I think I mean more like... well... maybe I do mean cliche. I dunno. I mean, up until Jaynestown I wasn't even sure most of them could act (I'm still not sure about Inara). But we've got a hooker with a heart of gold and an unrequited crush on Captain
Jack HarnessMal. They're my biggest problem. As for the rest, they're more... maybe even flat than cliche. I don't actually dislike them, I just... don't really find them interesting. Though I do think Kaylee/Simon is adorable. Like, Wash is funny when he manages to deliver one of his token snarky lines without sounding like he's reading it off a cue card, but his relationship to Zoe(?) seems almost forced most of the time. I did begin to appreciate it and him a little more in the scene where the whore/thief is trying to seduce him. And Kaylee's perkiness is cute, but the fact that she comes off as "the happy girl" makes her almost dull. She's getting a little more interesting as her relationship with Simon develops, admittedly, but my first impression of her was to be rather bored. Again, up until Jaynestown, I thought Jayne was the absolute worst character on board. The "tension" in the scene with the gun called Vera, though funny at the end, was initially really confusing and almost unmotivated. I mean, I know a lot of people on the internet worship Joss Whedon, but this is my first exposure to him (not including Doctor Horrible, which I didn't really care for) and every line just seems like it looks really great and funny on paper, but the delivery of the actors rarely sells it.I... don't know if any of that makes sense...