Nov. 7th, 2006

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It's a good idea for a TV programme - a highly skilled crisis negotiation team, distracted and (maybe) driven apart by powerful personal relationships. Unfortunately, Standoff isn't about that because the two leads Matt Flannery (played by Matt Livingstone) and Emily Lehman (Rosemarie DeWitt) have all the chemistry of a wet piece of soap. Somehow we are to believe that these two are just so passionate about each other than they will place hostages' lives on the line. Matt and Emily don't even look like they believe so why should we?

Cheryl Carrera (the wonderful Gina Torres) looks like she wants to run a mile from this and so she should. In the space of one episode, Matt and Emily break just about every rule in the book about hostage negotiation (according to the progamme's own vision of that, not mine), and yet there are no consequences for them. At least add tension by breaking up the team and finding that each is a crap negotiator on their own but together they are brilliant despite the unorthodoxy of their approach. You have put them back together but you know you should. What to do? What to do? See - more tension there than in this entire episode.

And as for the gun-happy "just shoot them so me and mah buds can get back to the paintballin' and Coors and locker room high jinks" SWAT team leader?

*sigh*
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Neil Patrick Harris finally comes out! I'm only shocked that he took so long. Let's hope the all usual homophobic wankers burst a collective blood vessel over this one.

LEGENDARY!

(Sorry, I just couldn't help myself!)
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Just to show that he can write great books (or, since I still can't find a copy in any of the local book stores, that he can at least write a book with a very pretty cover), [livejournal.com profile] kradical produces a detailed list of annotations for Blackout.

It is so good to see these last BtVS few books really get away from the rather slapdash approach of some of the early books that seemed to make no effort to keep with the BtVS mythos and canon. Another book in the same vein was Go Ask Malice - I was endlessly impressed by this book as this was another author who had obviously done his work.

It is sad to know that the entire BtVS book range may be halting soon. Let's hope the sales of these last few books has increased enough to keep the range running. Perhaps the BtVS S8 comics will get a few new readers of BtVS (as opposed to viewers)?

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