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I've been watching Twitch City and I just don't get it. I just... don't. This makes me sad because the impression that I got from Canada fandom was that it's well worth watching. So, yes, I'm disappointed and wondering why I'm not getting it...

I'm six episodes in, halfway in other words, and as of this point, I can't get past Curtis being a lazy selfish money-obsessed manipulator, Hope is a nitwit with a pathetic faith in the niceness of other people, Nathan is just plain horrible and I suspect that I only found Newbie unobjectionable because he's played by Callum Keith Rennie.

So - HELP!! If you love Twitch City, please PLEASE fill me in on what makes it appeal to you. Does it all come together in the next six episodes? And is there more Callum or have we seen the last of Newbie? Because I am dangerously close to saying WTF and abandoning it in favour of something more rewarding. Gah.

I've just watched Flower and Garnet as part of my compulsion to watch everything that Callum Keith Rennie has even been in. Which means that yes, I've watched a couple of stinkers. This wasn't one of them.

It made my chest ache, and I had my fingers pressed against my mouth for at least half of it. I was almost completely unspoiled, for which I'm thankful! Callum was wonderful as the children's dad - he did a great job of portraying a character you could feel for without making him too sympathetic, which would have been a cheap shot and I think would have undermined the terrible effects of his own emotional isolation on his son. And Colin Roberts deserves a special mention for his role as Garnet. The despair and helplessness of a neglected eight-year old who picks up many more of the undercurrents than anyone around him realises - he was heartbreaking.

( Spoiler-cut. Because it is really worth watching this unspoiled! )

I'm very very glad I watched it.

Gacked from any number of people and rather late, to boot:

1. Go to your desktop and press the Print Scrn key (located on the right side of the F12 key).
2.Open a graphics program (like Picture Manager, Paint, or Photoshop) and doing a Paste (CTRL + V). If you wish, you can “edit” the image before saving it.
3. Post the picture on your blog. You can also give a short explanation on the look of your desktop if you want. You can explain why you prefer such a look or why it is full of icons. Things like that.
4. Tag five of your friends and ask them to give you a Free View of their desktops as well.

( I love the lighting. And his eyelashes. And knowing which scene it's from and what inevitably happens next. *shiver* )

In my continuing quest to watch everything Callum Keith Rennie has ever been in, I watched an episode of Smallville (s5e18 - Fragile) yesterday, in which - surprise! - CKR plays a cardboard baddie with - surprise! - no redeeming qualities. *sigh*

He looked pretty good, though, so at least the bits where he was on screen weren't a complete waste of my time, and he gave the character enough moral ambiguity that I wanted things to work out for him - which I don't think was the intention of the script. Maybe I'm just conditioned to sympathise with characters played by CKR, even if they're supposed to be completely amoral and despicable...

What tickled me most was the description of him by one of the other characters as "good looking in that psycho killer sort of way." Hee.

Okay, back to watching The Unquiet Dead, today's episode in my epic rewatch with fajrdrako of the Ninth Doctor's arc - discussion here in fajrdrako's lj.