Call me a sheep, i don't c are...

[tabaqui]

Yes! i watched 'Bones'. Had to, really. Just like i'll watch 'Kitchen Confidential' and 'Smallville' *gods help me*.

I won't be watching the 'How I Met Your Mom'. Yes, my Willow-dislike spills over into real life!
*ahem*

Anyway - 'Bones'. I won't cut since i'm not gonna spoil. Yes, i liked. Forensics! Cops! Bones and bits and cool little laboratory thingies! I'm a sucker for a show like that. Is it awesome to see Mr. Boreanaz out in sunlight? Yes! He's fun, solid, not stiff and fits the role. I like.
Quirky lab assistants? Check.
Crusty FBI superiors? Check.
Slightly improbable plot thingies? Check. But they weren't too awful.

Our 'heroine' fits the role, too. She's not model-pretty, super-skinny, wearing heels and makeup to a crime scene. She puts her hair back in a ponytail! She wears Wellies in the mud! At last, a practical working woman who doesn't lean her cleavage and her long, silky hair down into a three-week-old corpse.

If they don't push the 'romance' aspect too hard too fast I will enjoy this immensely.
Oh! And if the museum where her lab is anything like that in real life? DAMN. I must go.

Comments

[tabaqui]

Dude.
Where are you? Can you watch VHS tapes? I'm recording 'Bones' and 'House' cause i have no real way of watching otherwise without being interrupted a million times.

*hug hug*

[kitty-poker1.livejournal.com]

Thanks a ton for the thought, hon, but I'm in the UK and don't have a multi-region video.

I'm watching 'House', though. I can't believe what a brilliant American accent Hugh Laurie has! His normal accent is upper class, cut-glass English. You've probably seen and heard him on Letterman or something. He started off as a comedian. Who knew he'd be such a good actor?

*hugs back*

[tabaqui]

Ah, blah. Too bad. :)

I saw him on...something. And yes, i thought his accent lovely and wished so much he could use it on the show! The American one is so flat and uninteresting next to it!

[kitty-poker1.livejournal.com]

LOL. It's all a matter of perception. I had the chance to speak to amejisuto on the phone recently and I loved her WV accent. To me, it was exotic and so cute. lunabee34 has made a couple of voice posts too and the Southern accent? So pretty!

[tabaqui]

Yes, i suppose it is.
I've been 'accused' of having a 'weird' accent by people around here - when i was a kid, too - because my parents are from St. Louis and the East Coast, respectively, and we didn't grow up speaking the usual hick Missouri talk.

Funny how that is, that an accent always sounds neat to someone else.

[kitty-poker1.livejournal.com]

Someone, I think George Bernard Shaw, once said that America and Britain are two nations divided by a common language. *g* I don't think that's true any more, thanks to movies, TV and the 'net. I find it easier to understand a thick Texan accent than a thick Scottish one.

I'm not sure what people make of my accent. I'm Australian, my mother was too but was educated in England and my dad was from the Australian bush country. I've lived in England for over half my life and my husband is a Cockney. Aussies say I sound English and Poms say I sound Aussie. I prefer to think I'm unique. LOL.

[tabaqui]

Yes yes - unique is always better.
It's funny - you'd think with all the movies and stuff that would be so, but i know a lot of people who don't like to watch movies like 'Trainspotting' and 'Snatch' and such because they 'can't understand anybody' and it's boring.

Even slang words that have crossed over are lost on the rednecks around here for whom the world ends and begins at the city limits. Skeery, frustrating, and horrifying.

I spent most of my childhood - hell, my life - reading books by English or Scottish or Irish authors. Watching PBS and 'Masterpiece Theatre' and 'The Avengers' and things like that. And i used a dictionary when things were confusing.

Part of my childhood, and incomprehensible to most of my 'peers' here. Yerk.

I'd love to hear you talk. :)

[kitty-poker1.livejournal.com]

Is it true that 'Trainspotting' was subtitled in some parts of America because there were doubts that it would be understood otherwise?

The title of 'The Madness of George II' was changed to 'The Madness of King George' because it was feared that American audiences would think it was a sequel and wonder where the first one was, apparently. That is so patronising. Worse, because it was American executives who were doing the patronising. They doubted the intelligence of their own people.

It's not really much better here. TV is being dumbed down all the time by the proliferation of reality shows. It's getting easier all the time to get good exam results because the exams are made less difficult.

The reason I'm a good beta is that I'm well-read and love words. That's why you're an excellent writer. We're right; the hicks are wrong. They're missing out on a whole world they'll never know anything about. Poor sods.

I really should do a voice post one of these days! :)

[tabaqui]

I've never seen it like that but i'm sure it was. The 'dumbing down' of *everything* sucks. They changed/edited the Harry Potter books so American kids could 'get it' Grrrrrrrrrr.

Nobody edited 'Flambards' for me!

I loathe most tv anymore, hate all reality shows and basically stick to my BPK, which is medical/forensics. They're...okay.
Heh.

You should!
And so should i. Then we can listen to each other!
Heh.

[kitty-poker1.livejournal.com]

No!! If you talk down to the lowest common deminator, that will become the norm. That's sad. If you can't get the original versions of HP, send me your snailmail addy and I'll post the originals to you. Your kids deserve to see what JKR wrote.

http://www.flambards.co.uk/ It might give you a laugh, and somewhere to go if you ever come here. Jeani is just in the adjoining county.

I watch the various CSI's and L&O and quiz shows. They're fun, but Big Brother and Pop Idol? *shudder*

Yep, we should. I'd love to hear you for real. Go on, you first. :p

[tabaqui]

Oh, i know i know.
I have a set of the first four books that are original UK publications and i'd love to get the others in the same edition. I'll have to look at them and see if they're still available - it'd be nice if i had a whole matching set!

OMG - the Flambards theme park? That is just....wrong. So very wrong. I adore the books - have read them several times - and loved the PBS show made of them.

I am addicted to medical shows, so of course 'Bones' and 'ER' but also 'CSI:Miami' for the forensics. And 'Law and Order' and L&O:Special Victims Unit 'cause...cops. Heh.

That's about it, though. Sitcoms bore me, reality shows offend me.

Oooh, a challenge. Hrm... I can't think what to say in a phone post!
*ponders*