Awake and on tv.
May. 7th, 2012 02:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
serynI figured out why I'm struggling to enjoy Awake. I didn't see it on the TV, but found it via Hulu. (Which explains the thing I heard about Hulu requiring a cable subscription... no one is really reaching the DVR user market in terms of new shows. And now that 6 things I watch are ending this year, I'm really wondering why I should bother paying for cable.)
Awake is about this guy (played by the actor who did Lucius Malfoy, but sans wig, he looked better prissed up) who is seeing both paths from a diverging quantum event. In one version, his wife lives and his son dies during an auto accident. In the other version, it's just him and his son left. He switches realities when he sleeps. Weirdly each reality informs the other for him professionally (he's a police detective), so details from a case that interferes with watching his son's game will end up being crucial to solving the one that makes him late to the dinner with his wife.
But what really bothers me is the two therapists. One has his female therapist proving that she's in [the/a] real world, and being somewhat supportive. The other has this male therapist telling him that the other world is a dream and being a complete dick about his continuing belief in that reality also being true. But that's the reality where the therapist was assigned by his work and the main character must endure.
I hate shows where we all know better but the character must endure the suffering. I find myself reluctant to watch the show because I hate that guy who blames the main character for his miraculous bifurcated life.
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In other news... I'm really irked that something trumps House in my recording preferences. I know I'm going to get spoiled on that before I can see it because of the stupid-ass delay in the online streaming sources.
Which is again something that irritated me about the newest season of Sherlock. There were enough spoilers that I didn't thoroughly enjoy the first episode. I'm especially irritated by the people who said that they hated the plot with Irene Adler because it intruded on the Sherlock-John relationship. Not quite so irritated with the people who really truly want Sherlock to be asexual and thus found his apparent interest in a woman repulsive, but just the in-depth discussion of that really undermined my enjoyment of the show. And since I watched it during the US premiere, it seems like the people who were stealing the content should shut up about it.
Awake is about this guy (played by the actor who did Lucius Malfoy, but sans wig, he looked better prissed up) who is seeing both paths from a diverging quantum event. In one version, his wife lives and his son dies during an auto accident. In the other version, it's just him and his son left. He switches realities when he sleeps. Weirdly each reality informs the other for him professionally (he's a police detective), so details from a case that interferes with watching his son's game will end up being crucial to solving the one that makes him late to the dinner with his wife.
But what really bothers me is the two therapists. One has his female therapist proving that she's in [the/a] real world, and being somewhat supportive. The other has this male therapist telling him that the other world is a dream and being a complete dick about his continuing belief in that reality also being true. But that's the reality where the therapist was assigned by his work and the main character must endure.
I hate shows where we all know better but the character must endure the suffering. I find myself reluctant to watch the show because I hate that guy who blames the main character for his miraculous bifurcated life.
____
In other news... I'm really irked that something trumps House in my recording preferences. I know I'm going to get spoiled on that before I can see it because of the stupid-ass delay in the online streaming sources.
Which is again something that irritated me about the newest season of Sherlock. There were enough spoilers that I didn't thoroughly enjoy the first episode. I'm especially irritated by the people who said that they hated the plot with Irene Adler because it intruded on the Sherlock-John relationship. Not quite so irritated with the people who really truly want Sherlock to be asexual and thus found his apparent interest in a woman repulsive, but just the in-depth discussion of that really undermined my enjoyment of the show. And since I watched it during the US premiere, it seems like the people who were stealing the content should shut up about it.
