I hate dropping shows but...
Nov. 9th, 2010 10:39 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
katikat... I'm actually honestly contemplating dropping Hawaii 5-0 and Bones.
H50: The show is going nowhere fast. Steve is not likable enough to carry the show and his sister is downright annoying. Danny's kid and ex-wife don't interest me at all. Kono is mostly window dressing. Chin could be an interesting character but he's mostly just the "tech guy"... When I ffwd through parts of an episode and/or I would be rather watching some old show on DVD, it's time to drop it.
Bones: This season is simply not doing it for me. The addition of Hannah was a bad idea, IMHO, and the series simply lost its charm for me. I mean, I swallowed the very annoying Zack, I handled Angela's sexual harassment of all the men in her vicinity (although it brought me on the verge of dropping the series) and I dealt with the writers' inability to handle long arcs. But now they are artificially dropping barriers between Bones and Booth and enough is enough. It's not just cringe-worthy, it's downright ridiculous.
I would hate to drop Bones in its 6th year but the last time I felt like this, it was with Numb3rs, when it started to be all about who the Eppes brothers were dating, and watching the show became a chore, not a pleasure. Also, right now, if I compared Bones to Castle - another male/female UST procedural - Castle would win by a mile: it's much tighter, with a smaller cast and more humor.
I'll give both shows this week, one more week to convince me to stay. If they fail to do so, I'll delegate both to the "Watch One Day, In a Distant Future" column together with shows like Eureka or Chuck, both of which, though cute, disappointed me.
H50: The show is going nowhere fast. Steve is not likable enough to carry the show and his sister is downright annoying. Danny's kid and ex-wife don't interest me at all. Kono is mostly window dressing. Chin could be an interesting character but he's mostly just the "tech guy"... When I ffwd through parts of an episode and/or I would be rather watching some old show on DVD, it's time to drop it.
Bones: This season is simply not doing it for me. The addition of Hannah was a bad idea, IMHO, and the series simply lost its charm for me. I mean, I swallowed the very annoying Zack, I handled Angela's sexual harassment of all the men in her vicinity (although it brought me on the verge of dropping the series) and I dealt with the writers' inability to handle long arcs. But now they are artificially dropping barriers between Bones and Booth and enough is enough. It's not just cringe-worthy, it's downright ridiculous.
I would hate to drop Bones in its 6th year but the last time I felt like this, it was with Numb3rs, when it started to be all about who the Eppes brothers were dating, and watching the show became a chore, not a pleasure. Also, right now, if I compared Bones to Castle - another male/female UST procedural - Castle would win by a mile: it's much tighter, with a smaller cast and more humor.
I'll give both shows this week, one more week to convince me to stay. If they fail to do so, I'll delegate both to the "Watch One Day, In a Distant Future" column together with shows like Eureka or Chuck, both of which, though cute, disappointed me.
