Wonderfalls: the First Four Episodes

[osprey_archer]

THEY PLAYED THE VERONICA MARS THEME SONG IN EPISODE THREE. For this alone I am filled with love for Wonderfalls.

Fear not, I like Wonderfalls for other reasons too. Jaye may be the most obnoxious heroine in the history of the universe, but four episodes in I am filled with Jaye-love. The exorcism scene? Priceless. Hilarious AND creeptastic.

The female characters on the show generally are good. They have depth! They talk to each other about things that are not men! I like Jaye and Jaye’s sister (whose hair is a refugee from World War II, I swear) and the nun; even Jaye's mother might grow on me.

Also, Jaye’s brother: way cool. And the cute bar guy Jaye likes (yay romances with actual chemistry! One problem with Firefly: except for Zoe and Wash the romances lack spark).

However, I could get very tired of the talking inanimate objects that are always right. My tolerance for anything that’s always right is very, very low, especially if said things just sit back smugly until their victim abandons hope of an explanation and gives in to the Incredible Aura of Rightness, at which time everything works out.

Also, there’s this odd thing where there will suddenly, randomly, be shots of Niagara Falls. It’s like in Torchwood where there are all these inexplicable airplane shots of Cardiff at night. Either I am missing something deeply thematically significant (possible with Wonderfalls; I don’t think the Torchwood people have the subtlety) or the shots just got shoehorned in because, gosh darn it, we spent too much money shooting ‘em not to use ‘em.

I’m looking forward to the next DVD.

Comments

[osprey-archer.livejournal.com]

The DVDs for Pushing Daisies don't come out until September. THIS IS SO UNFAIR. I WANT IT NOW.

Just watching those snippets put me in my happy place. The stylized candy-colored setting! The mixture of fantasy and mundanity! The awesome chemistry between Chuck and Jaye's brother (I didn't catch his name). It should not be possible to make a ceramic monkey kiss so hot.

Sometimes I think that couples have chemistry in inverse proportion to how much physical contact they have. Maybe screenwriters put more effort into the dialogue when there's less kissing, whereas once the kissing starts they figure that counts as chemistry and quit?

Although that didn't work for me with Kaylee/Simon, so there must be more to it.

Jayne/Kaylee is a canon pairing? *brain explodes* That is just so wrong.

[visualthinker11.livejournal.com]

aw, i'm very sorry. the show is rather amazing... i suppose you could look on illegal tv sites or something... sidereel?

the character is ned, though we never learn his last name. and the colors are awesome, and there is a lot of chemistry (with a couple different pairings, actually), the show is funny and clever and the sweetest thing ever. soooo much of it makes me go "awwww."

(i should probably apologize again for ranting about all this *before* the dvds come out....)

but pushing daisies has to be especially clever, since it's not just no kissing, it's no touching at all. so they do lots of cool clever angles, and vicarious hugs (which you saw), and dancing in bee keeping uniforms... but yes. very clever.

not really. it was a hinted-at character pairing that never went too far. jayne likes kaylee...that's pretty much it. it's also part of jayne's long-standing hatred for simon.

[osprey-archer.livejournal.com]

Jayne having a crush on Kaylee is all right. (She is, after all, fabulously awesome.) It was the idea that it might be reciprocated that unnerved me.

[visualthinker11.livejournal.com]

oh, well, yes. i totally understand that.

he almost gave her a stuffed turtle though. in the unfilmed episode. it was cute.