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piranhai've been watching "bones", which i overall mostly like (though not quite as much as CSI, which has more nuance). but just now i finished an episode i want to throw against the wall. hard.
season 3, episode 3, "death In The Saddle" deals with the murder of a man who engaged in pony play. the show is quite disrespectful of the fetish, mainly in the form of agent booth whose conservative, catholic, white-bread personality can't seem to keep a professional front; aside from various dismissive comments towards the people who're involved in the subculture (who all are shown to be quite cooperative with his investigation), he actually assaults one of the ponies (grabs the guy by his reins and pulls him forward). bones, on the other hand, gives us a few anthropological insights about fetishism, and mentions that she, too, has engaged in some role playing, albeit not pony play. ok, that's something, at least.
at the end, however, they're sitting in a restaurant, and booth pontificates some more about fetishists, culminating in the claim that it's crappy sex. why, asks bones? booth goes on about how we're all lonely, and forever searching for that real connection with somebody else, and now and then, in lovemaking we reach the miracle of becoming one with another. and that fetishists and their little role playing games are nothing compared with that.
and bones says "you're right".
*barf*. of all the time to let him win an argument, this isn't it.
i really hope they'll never end up together. i can tell they will; the show has that feel to it, the never-ending sexual tension between the two main characters who don't admit to it until the show has had a good run (and then they get thrown together and the show goes downhill). but i dislike booth a lot, and wish bones (whom i like a lot) somebody less mired in pablum philosophy.
this makes me want to go back and rewatch the CSI episodes with lady heather -- that was so well done in comparison.
season 3, episode 3, "death In The Saddle" deals with the murder of a man who engaged in pony play. the show is quite disrespectful of the fetish, mainly in the form of agent booth whose conservative, catholic, white-bread personality can't seem to keep a professional front; aside from various dismissive comments towards the people who're involved in the subculture (who all are shown to be quite cooperative with his investigation), he actually assaults one of the ponies (grabs the guy by his reins and pulls him forward). bones, on the other hand, gives us a few anthropological insights about fetishism, and mentions that she, too, has engaged in some role playing, albeit not pony play. ok, that's something, at least.
at the end, however, they're sitting in a restaurant, and booth pontificates some more about fetishists, culminating in the claim that it's crappy sex. why, asks bones? booth goes on about how we're all lonely, and forever searching for that real connection with somebody else, and now and then, in lovemaking we reach the miracle of becoming one with another. and that fetishists and their little role playing games are nothing compared with that.
and bones says "you're right".
*barf*. of all the time to let him win an argument, this isn't it.
i really hope they'll never end up together. i can tell they will; the show has that feel to it, the never-ending sexual tension between the two main characters who don't admit to it until the show has had a good run (and then they get thrown together and the show goes downhill). but i dislike booth a lot, and wish bones (whom i like a lot) somebody less mired in pablum philosophy.
this makes me want to go back and rewatch the CSI episodes with lady heather -- that was so well done in comparison.
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on 2010-07-11 11:36 (UTC)so, leverage. tell me about it. what's good, what's bad?
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on 2010-07-12 08:57 (UTC)I hardly ever watch US-ian TV, but Leverage is one of my favorite shows! The characters have most amazing group chemistry, omg, even though it's not sexual you sort of wonder how the whole bunch of them haven't exploded into an orgy. (Well, I mean, sometimes it's sexual. But not with ALL of them. I mean. Okay, moving on.) It's hysterically funny and the characters are intensely lovable and the cons are really intense and exciting! AND STRONG LADIES, IT HAS THEM.
It's done some things that annoyed me at times, but nothing that made enough of an impression on me that I can actually... remember it... right now...
(I am maybe not so coherent or helpful here! SORRY. I'm terrible at explaining why I love the things I love, I just sort of flail around and go OMG THAT WAS AWESOME, AND THEN, THERE WITH THE THING, OMG SO. AWESOME. over and over.)