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I'm still watching JAG, but I expect to be done with it after breakfast. ;-)
Now, I know no one wants to talk about JAG, but I still am going to say a few thinsg about it.
1) Watching those ten seasons in the last few weeks has been tons of fun. I really enjoyed every single episode and I never angsted about it in a way I angsted about shows like Stargate or Farscape or NCIS. I never disagreed with the authors choices. And that's not saying that I'm not emotionally invested in JAG, no, I really like it. And it did make me cry a few times. Unlikely as it is, what made me cry most was Bud telling the Admiral that his baby (Sarah) had died during birth. The way he sat there and broke down. I wasn't even paying much attention and I suddenyl brokw down in tears.
It's a really good show.
Though, and here's where I'm not as emtionally invested in JAG as in other shows: I do fastforward a lot. Especially through the Mac-centric scenes that do not contain Harm. Which get me to my next point.
2) Mac
I have issues with her. Actually, I have issues with her issues. That woman has issues that make Murdock look like a sane person. The whole Harm/Mac thing is something that I really never understood. Maybe at the beginning, but then it just got annoying. And you can tell that he is annoyed with it at the end. He's like "whatever, I'm here" for the last three seasons, while Mac is all " I can't!" and "I love Webb, I think, maybe, what's love anyway and did I mention I can't?".
It's annoying. And boring.
The thing is, those two lead such normal lives. At least compared to the characters of other TV shows that I watch. No saving the world from evil aliens, no living in a future dystopia controlled by the thought-police, no demons or ghosts or immortals out for their heads. They don't even have had hard lives: none of their wives and kids has gotten killed, no brothers and sisters kidnapped by aliens... hell, they even have time to date and cook and lead lives apart from what their role on the show commands. So, tell me, with that little issues, what is keeping them apart? What is their to angst about?
3) They don't even make a good couple
I never know what attracted them to each other, aparts from them both being attractive, that is. They don't seem to have anything in common other than being lawyers and friends, though I guess that's more because of the long time they worked together. We never see them do much friends-stuff apart from being friendly at work. Well, and the one time Harm took Mac flying, but that didn't really work out so well.
Fact is, I think they are both settling for a convenient way to have a partnership, but there's no real love between them. Well, maybe Harm thinks he loves her, but then, he's so desperate for a family that it's be easy for him to mistake friendship for love. In fact, we haven't seen him in love with anyone in those ten years, even though he was dating a lot. He was in love with Annie, but not with her person, but with the instant family she gave him. He sure wasn't in love with Renee, (whom I really liked, btw). I think he may have been able to fall in love with that psychologist girl (he was really attracted to her), but things happened before he got the chance to really fall for her.
Mac, well, by agreeing to marry Brumby, she pretty much proofed that she is willing to marry someone she doesn't love at all, just to have a relationship. She probably views it as a personal failure that she has no relationship, overachiever that she is. And then, the one guy who really does love her (Webb), she scares of by being complicated, because no, Sarah MacKenzie can't simply enjoy a relationship. In Mac's life, relationships aren't something to be enjoyed.
4) (though I admit that I rather loved the UST between them when they made out on the admiral's porch.
5) That's not to say that I don't like Mac. I like her fine. I just don't like her issues.
6) I don't think I need to mention again that I'm completely in love with Harm?
7) I'm a bit disappointed that season 10 is so much worse than the first nine seasons. All of the first nine seasons were excellent. I don't think one was better than the other, they were just all good. But season 10, well, it showed that they were running out of energy. Though I still think that the new guy (Vic?) and the blond girl could have carried a season 11. As much as JAG was about Harm and Mac, it also was a pretty good show on its own, and though it wouldn't have been the same, it would still have been a good show without Harm and Mac.
And I'll miss it.
But enough about JAG. Once I'm done with season 10, I'll need to move on to something else. Now, I know I said I was going to watch Stargate, but this morning I woke up feeling more like Farscape. And then I though, how about watching the dvds I haven't watched yet before I start rewatching another show? So let's see, what do I have:
- Riptide Seasons 2 (oh, that sounds like fun!)
- BSG Season 3 (but I'd have to rewatch the first seasons, and I don't feel much like it at the moment)
- Charlie Jade (I've watched the show, but not since I have the DVDs, and I'd really like to see it on the tv instead of the computer)
- Californication Season 1
Hmm, I think I'll watch Riptide. And then Stargate.
Or maybe a few movies?
What do you think?
Now, I know no one wants to talk about JAG, but I still am going to say a few thinsg about it.
1) Watching those ten seasons in the last few weeks has been tons of fun. I really enjoyed every single episode and I never angsted about it in a way I angsted about shows like Stargate or Farscape or NCIS. I never disagreed with the authors choices. And that's not saying that I'm not emotionally invested in JAG, no, I really like it. And it did make me cry a few times. Unlikely as it is, what made me cry most was Bud telling the Admiral that his baby (Sarah) had died during birth. The way he sat there and broke down. I wasn't even paying much attention and I suddenyl brokw down in tears.
It's a really good show.
Though, and here's where I'm not as emtionally invested in JAG as in other shows: I do fastforward a lot. Especially through the Mac-centric scenes that do not contain Harm. Which get me to my next point.
2) Mac
I have issues with her. Actually, I have issues with her issues. That woman has issues that make Murdock look like a sane person. The whole Harm/Mac thing is something that I really never understood. Maybe at the beginning, but then it just got annoying. And you can tell that he is annoyed with it at the end. He's like "whatever, I'm here" for the last three seasons, while Mac is all " I can't!" and "I love Webb, I think, maybe, what's love anyway and did I mention I can't?".
It's annoying. And boring.
The thing is, those two lead such normal lives. At least compared to the characters of other TV shows that I watch. No saving the world from evil aliens, no living in a future dystopia controlled by the thought-police, no demons or ghosts or immortals out for their heads. They don't even have had hard lives: none of their wives and kids has gotten killed, no brothers and sisters kidnapped by aliens... hell, they even have time to date and cook and lead lives apart from what their role on the show commands. So, tell me, with that little issues, what is keeping them apart? What is their to angst about?
3) They don't even make a good couple
I never know what attracted them to each other, aparts from them both being attractive, that is. They don't seem to have anything in common other than being lawyers and friends, though I guess that's more because of the long time they worked together. We never see them do much friends-stuff apart from being friendly at work. Well, and the one time Harm took Mac flying, but that didn't really work out so well.
Fact is, I think they are both settling for a convenient way to have a partnership, but there's no real love between them. Well, maybe Harm thinks he loves her, but then, he's so desperate for a family that it's be easy for him to mistake friendship for love. In fact, we haven't seen him in love with anyone in those ten years, even though he was dating a lot. He was in love with Annie, but not with her person, but with the instant family she gave him. He sure wasn't in love with Renee, (whom I really liked, btw). I think he may have been able to fall in love with that psychologist girl (he was really attracted to her), but things happened before he got the chance to really fall for her.
Mac, well, by agreeing to marry Brumby, she pretty much proofed that she is willing to marry someone she doesn't love at all, just to have a relationship. She probably views it as a personal failure that she has no relationship, overachiever that she is. And then, the one guy who really does love her (Webb), she scares of by being complicated, because no, Sarah MacKenzie can't simply enjoy a relationship. In Mac's life, relationships aren't something to be enjoyed.
4) (though I admit that I rather loved the UST between them when they made out on the admiral's porch.
5) That's not to say that I don't like Mac. I like her fine. I just don't like her issues.
6) I don't think I need to mention again that I'm completely in love with Harm?
7) I'm a bit disappointed that season 10 is so much worse than the first nine seasons. All of the first nine seasons were excellent. I don't think one was better than the other, they were just all good. But season 10, well, it showed that they were running out of energy. Though I still think that the new guy (Vic?) and the blond girl could have carried a season 11. As much as JAG was about Harm and Mac, it also was a pretty good show on its own, and though it wouldn't have been the same, it would still have been a good show without Harm and Mac.
And I'll miss it.
But enough about JAG. Once I'm done with season 10, I'll need to move on to something else. Now, I know I said I was going to watch Stargate, but this morning I woke up feeling more like Farscape. And then I though, how about watching the dvds I haven't watched yet before I start rewatching another show? So let's see, what do I have:
- Riptide Seasons 2 (oh, that sounds like fun!)
- BSG Season 3 (but I'd have to rewatch the first seasons, and I don't feel much like it at the moment)
- Charlie Jade (I've watched the show, but not since I have the DVDs, and I'd really like to see it on the tv instead of the computer)
- Californication Season 1
Hmm, I think I'll watch Riptide. And then Stargate.
Or maybe a few movies?
What do you think?
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