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Cleopatra 2525
Apr. 18th, 2008 09:01 amYou probably never saw this series, and you don't miss it, but since when has that stopped me from talking about anything?
The big problem with this series is not that the plot vibrates between implausible and nonexistent, not that the effects are terrible, not that the whole show is an excuse to watch cute girls tumble about in titanium lingerie. The problem, sad to say, is Gina Torres. She is too good.
Gina Torres, snapping orders and guiding people through life-threatening emergencies is just too plausible. She stands out, like a glacier of commanding authority in a sea of cheesecake. They don't know how to deal with her. They resort to giving her bad hair.
In the first episode, there's a moment where Gina Torres claps her hand over another character's mouth and says "Never scream like that again." Alas, that character goes on to scream like that again. Which is a problem, because, you see, if Gina Torres clapped her hand over my mouth and told me never to scream, a collection of sexually-motivated nerve impulses in my brain would corner the nerves that controlled screaming, back them into a dark alley, and go at them with an axe. Screaming girl should no longer be capable of screaming. She should be melting against Gina Torres like Swiss cheese on a sandwich, making, at most, some soft moaning noises.
I think the show died because the writer's failed in general, but they failed extra hard at Gina Torres.
I have to go do homework now. Really.
The big problem with this series is not that the plot vibrates between implausible and nonexistent, not that the effects are terrible, not that the whole show is an excuse to watch cute girls tumble about in titanium lingerie. The problem, sad to say, is Gina Torres. She is too good.
Gina Torres, snapping orders and guiding people through life-threatening emergencies is just too plausible. She stands out, like a glacier of commanding authority in a sea of cheesecake. They don't know how to deal with her. They resort to giving her bad hair.
In the first episode, there's a moment where Gina Torres claps her hand over another character's mouth and says "Never scream like that again." Alas, that character goes on to scream like that again. Which is a problem, because, you see, if Gina Torres clapped her hand over my mouth and told me never to scream, a collection of sexually-motivated nerve impulses in my brain would corner the nerves that controlled screaming, back them into a dark alley, and go at them with an axe. Screaming girl should no longer be capable of screaming. She should be melting against Gina Torres like Swiss cheese on a sandwich, making, at most, some soft moaning noises.
I think the show died because the writer's failed in general, but they failed extra hard at Gina Torres.
I have to go do homework now. Really.
