Legend of the Seeker...
Nov. 30th, 2009 07:11 pm![[personal profile]](http://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
giandujakiss...isn't really doing much for me, after the first three disks of the first season.
I'll keep watching and report in, but I think I've figured out the problem.
It's got exactly the fantasy elements that normally appeal to me. It's got a forbidden-love romance that hits most of my kinks, and an insanely crackish BDSM premise that is exactly the kind of stuff fannish dreams are made on (that episode? With the dominatrix and the training? Holy shit.)
But.
I'm just not into the leads.
Normally, when I fall in love with a cheap syndicated fantasy series, it's because the series features a cast that, while perhaps not particularly skillful or talented, is at least charismatic. That's what happened to me with Xena, and with Hercules, and with The Lost World (shut up shut up shut up - Marguerite was awesome - and someday when I'm in the mood I'll compare her character to certain archetypes like Debra Kerr in King Solomon's Mines and to, swear to god, one of my favorite feminist icons, Alexandra in the cartoon version of Josie and the Pussycats, but today is not that day). But none of the leads in Legend of the Seeker really appeals to me on any level, even just an aesthetic one. It's completely a matter of idiosyncratic personal taste, but they just don't have that spark that made, say, Lucy Lawless and Kevin Sorbo so much fun to watch.
But I'll still keep at it. It's hiatus, after all.
I'll keep watching and report in, but I think I've figured out the problem.
It's got exactly the fantasy elements that normally appeal to me. It's got a forbidden-love romance that hits most of my kinks, and an insanely crackish BDSM premise that is exactly the kind of stuff fannish dreams are made on (that episode? With the dominatrix and the training? Holy shit.)
But.
I'm just not into the leads.
Normally, when I fall in love with a cheap syndicated fantasy series, it's because the series features a cast that, while perhaps not particularly skillful or talented, is at least charismatic. That's what happened to me with Xena, and with Hercules, and with The Lost World (shut up shut up shut up - Marguerite was awesome - and someday when I'm in the mood I'll compare her character to certain archetypes like Debra Kerr in King Solomon's Mines and to, swear to god, one of my favorite feminist icons, Alexandra in the cartoon version of Josie and the Pussycats, but today is not that day). But none of the leads in Legend of the Seeker really appeals to me on any level, even just an aesthetic one. It's completely a matter of idiosyncratic personal taste, but they just don't have that spark that made, say, Lucy Lawless and Kevin Sorbo so much fun to watch.
But I'll still keep at it. It's hiatus, after all.