A TV show that is not Doctor Who?

[eve11]

Nor hockey? And I'm talking about it? Why yes, it's Burn Notice.


We're watching season 2 on DVD, and I'm noticing a trend not unlike the trend that squicks me a bit with Pretender, which is the whole "Well he/she is a bad guy, so it's okay if Michael and company scam them into getting killed by a bigger bad guy." Arg! Stop it, show! Please? I'm really enjoying the rest of it, but this form of "they had it coming" justice really really rubs me the wrong way. I really don't like to see any person (goodie or baddie) in the situation wherein they are imminently about to get killed. I mean, okay, self-defense is one thing, in a fight or immediate kill-or-be-killed, but these are like, bad guy gets set up and then Mike and Co. let the bigger bads clean up the mess.

I didn't quite notice so much of that last season. It's like they're upping the ante or something. Anyway, yeah, bad guys are people too, and I don't really subscribe to the eye for an eye thing.

In other news, hey we got to the ones with Number Six and Daniel Jackson! Woot! (Also I liked the one with Lucy Lawless; she was a Cylon too, wasn't she? It's a Vancouver sci-fi actor party; those are the best! didn't realize they made it that far south, though...)

Comments

[astrogirl2.livejournal.com]

See, that doesn't bother me much, really, not because I think it's morally right or anything, but because I kind of like it when my heroes have a bit of a dark side. And Mike Westen can be pretty damned callous when it comes to people he considers the bad guys. It makes him a bit scarier...

[eve11]

hee! Love your icon!

As a character development vehicle, I don't mind that kind of thing, I suppose, but so far at least in this series they really haven't said anything about it. It's like there's the resolution scene where everything is wrapped up nice and good and you're supposed to be feeling like yay the good guys won and then they say, "Oh yeah, Eddie took a ride with Valentine out on his boat, and never came back, hahaha! Here, have some money." And there's no acknowledgment (yet at least) that it's still an ugly outcome.

Also I've never been good at watching fictional people (even bad guys) realize they've made a fatal mistake and do stuff like beg for their lives from the person who is going to kill them, etc. Totally a personal thing; they could be the worst person in the world and it still bugs me. It's different than watching eg, an action movie where the doomed person uncovers a bomb that ticks to zero and then there's a giant explosion. It's why I can't watch mafia movies.

[mamoulian.livejournal.com]

It continues and they keep raising the stakes. It's a fun show to watch.

[eve11]

Well I suppose I will just have to learn to handwave that part. I really do like the rest of it. It's really quite a superhero kind of show, isn't it? But replace "superhero" with "spy" ;) There's no way that one person could know how to do all that stuff, is there? ;)

[somedaybitch.livejournal.com]

there really is. ;) their consulting producer is a former spook.

[eve11]

lol, point taken. I guess the ones they warn us about at work are just the boring ones then. Less covert ops and more extra curious at conferences.

[somedaybitch.livejournal.com]

in the real world, since Michael has a handler, he's a NOC [non-official cover], thus, the actual in the field "spook" guy.

the majority of agents, ie: CIA, NSA, etc, aren't field personnel in the strictest sense, so, you know, the warnings are probably not too far off. ;)