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Demons - What a load of tosh!

Date: 2009-01-03 10:11 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bogwitch.livejournal.com
In hindsight probably.

Date: 2009-01-03 10:14 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hils.livejournal.com
Hehe! If you liked it you may no longer comment on my crap taste in TV ;)

Date: 2009-01-04 10:55 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bogwitch.livejournal.com
Actually it did remind me a little of Merlin...

Date: 2009-01-04 11:29 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hils.livejournal.com
Pfft! I will admit Merlin has its flaw but it was NOWHERE near as bad as Demons

Date: 2009-01-03 10:14 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] annwnrho.livejournal.com
Oh no! I was looking forward to watching that! What's wrong with it if you don't mind me asking? Also having figured out how old you ctually are can I just say that you are not that old women good grief you're young and having seen your picture I have to say very beautiful too. Sorry off topic but having read your posts on the new doctor I felt I had to say it.

Date: 2009-01-03 10:20 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hils.livejournal.com
Hee!!! Well, I feel old :(

Gosh, where to start with what's wrong with it. It's badly acted (especially Philip Glenister's fake American accent), badly scripted and is just overall a cheap and poor rip-off of Buffy

Essential plot: Main character, teenage boy, discovers he is the last descendent of Van Helsing and it's his destiny to fight demons. Mina Harker (from Dracula) and a guy named Rupert Gavin (not quite Rupert Giles) are there to train him and he has a female best friend who knows is secret and is his solo Scooby gang.

Date: 2009-01-03 10:23 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] annwnrho.livejournal.com
Oh god fake american accents *shudders* I've hated bad accents since the Prince and Me debacle. Rupert Gavin makes me role my eyes without having to watch it. But sadly I know I'll still watch it and the next episode just to see if it gets better or like with Torchwood and Bonekickers I'll watch it just to see the train wreck!

Date: 2009-01-03 10:25 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hils.livejournal.com
I like Torchwood!

Never even bothered with Bonekickers

Date: 2009-01-03 10:33 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] annwnrho.livejournal.com
I like series 2 of Torchwood but I felt that series 1 was a bit of a struggle for me at times.

Date: 2009-01-03 10:34 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hils.livejournal.com
Oh, yeah, series 1 was flawed in a lot of ways but still enjoyable

Date: 2009-01-03 10:37 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] annwnrho.livejournal.com
I loved small worlds! I loved how sad Estelle and Jack was. So yes I did enjoy some of series 1 but sometimes I wondered if it perservered simply because it was a Doctor Who spin off. I'm glad it did because I liked series 2 but it was a bit of a shaky start.

Date: 2009-01-03 10:38 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hils.livejournal.com
Yeah, I have high hopes for series 3 when we eventually get it

Date: 2009-01-03 10:42 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] annwnrho.livejournal.com
I didn't think there was a series 3 but a long special or have I misread/heard?

Date: 2009-01-03 10:45 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hils.livejournal.com
Yeah, it's a 5-part mini-series. I'm counting it as series 3

Date: 2009-01-03 10:34 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] annwnrho.livejournal.com
I just have to add on bonekickers you're lucky you missed it because it was actually 6 hours of horrendously painful tv I would recommend watching it for just the sheer crapness of it because seriously if you don't watch it all you won't believe me when I describe how bad it is.

Date: 2009-01-03 10:36 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hils.livejournal.com
LOL!! I have a hard enough time watching good TV. I'll give the crap a miss, thanks

Date: 2009-01-03 10:38 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] annwnrho.livejournal.com
I think I may be bitter about the whole thing (I'm an archaeologist/ ancient historian) and am taking it out on unfortunates in my immediate area.

Date: 2009-01-03 10:38 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hils.livejournal.com
LOL!!! Yeah, I can see how that would bother you

Date: 2009-01-03 10:41 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] annwnrho.livejournal.com
I promise I'll leave you alone after this (I'm writing a fic at the moment and must concentrate!) but I have to say I laugh at people who complain (seriously not in a sort of half annoyed at a small thing kind of way) because I fell like sake 'for goodness sake there's a Dragon under the castle I think that should give you a big clue to the historical accuracy of the programme right of!'
And now I promise to leave you alone :D Thank you for chatting (One last question have you read any Torchwood books?)

Date: 2009-01-03 10:45 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hils.livejournal.com
Oh, I know! My sister's fiance keeps bitching because 'it's all wrong'

I'm like 'Dude, it's a myth. There is no right or wrong.'

No, I haven't read any of the Torchwood books. Are they good?

Date: 2009-01-03 10:50 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] annwnrho.livejournal.com
I've only read three but I brought a new one Twilight street which I've not read yet. One of them Border Princes written during Season 1 has the same basic plot as the Adam episode and Another life has the point of view of the alien which jumps from body to body which is quite interesting. I quite liked Trace Memory because it has a time traveller meeting all the crew at some point in there pasts. Most of them are a little thicker than the Doctor Who ones (which I am sad to say I have every single one just about ) and there light reads so.

Date: 2009-01-03 10:33 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] gillo
Understatement of the year so far!

Date: 2009-01-03 10:35 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hils.livejournal.com
Hee! It's early days yet ;)

Yes, won't be watching any more of that, thanks.

Date: 2009-01-03 11:18 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ionaonie.livejournal.com
What is it with ITV not being able to do family entertainment saturday night TV?

I'm so glad I'm not the only one who thought it was so terrible.

I so can't believe that they call supernatural beings 'freaks' - the subtext to that is just...so wrong.

The bad acting. Oh, my god, Phil Glenister why are oh why did you jump to ITV? The kid - Luke, is it? - is SO wooden and Nina isn't much better.

I liked the best friend - Ruby - she was amusing.

Just, I can't believe how bad it was. Not even endearing bad, just bad.

*eyeroll*

Date: 2009-01-03 11:20 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hils.livejournal.com
God, wasn't it terrible!

My suspicion was first aroused when they casually tossed Mina Harker into the mix and when they dropped the Van Helsing bombshell that was it for me.

Why, Philip Glenister, why? We know you are awesome! Can't you go and do more Ashes to Ashes or something?

*cries a little*

Date: 2009-01-03 11:48 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] foreign-origin.livejournal.com
Is it really so bad? I'm gonna watch 1st ep. tomorrow for Philip and then decide but I don't give up easily, I watched Mutual Friends and Survivors and I really don't think they can do anything as bad as Bonekickers that forced me to give up...

Date: 2009-01-03 11:49 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hils.livejournal.com
Hehe! It was pretty terrible. I'll be interested to know what you think when you watch it

Date: 2009-01-05 06:18 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] foreign-origin.livejournal.com
OMG the first impression was so awful, the whole atmosphere and that cgi... something, bleh. But at the end I decided I may quite like it, I'm so easy, it's enough if I have pretty people talking British on my screen *headdesk*

Date: 2009-01-05 09:50 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hils.livejournal.com
God, even Philip Glenisters faux American accent?

Date: 2009-01-05 02:57 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] foreign-origin.livejournal.com
I really didn't even notice, only now when you reminded me about that I can tell he didn't have his normal accent. I'm just gonna go to some dark corner to you know... hide :P

Date: 2009-01-05 02:58 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hils.livejournal.com
Hee! No, no, if you liked it then that's fine.

Date: 2009-01-04 12:40 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] otw1980.livejournal.com
Opps, I forgot all about it!

Date: 2009-01-04 12:41 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hils.livejournal.com
You didn't miss much

Date: 2009-01-04 11:50 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] daniramble.livejournal.com
I switched off my brain about 2 minutes in...

Date: 2009-01-04 11:56 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] daniramble.livejournal.com
I spent the rest of it wondering what Philip Glenister was thinking....

Date: 2009-01-05 12:01 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hils.livejournal.com
And what he was doing too!

Date: 2009-01-05 12:04 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] daniramble.livejournal.com
oh I know!

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