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So, based on your knowledge of Sab and television; sell me on:

Demons
Sanctuary
Lie to Me
Trust Me
Lark Rise to Candleford
Sophie
Being Human
Primeval
United States of Tara
Skins

(eta (tuesday): Okay, so thanks to all y'all beautiful people, I will try Sanctuary, Being Human and United States of Tara expecting boatloads of promise, and Primeval expecting boatloads of crack. Will give all the rest a pass and will report back on my findings after executing the experiments. My LORD THANK YOU.)

I haven't seen a single ep of any of these except Skins, of which I've seen a few and actually quite liked, despite my bias against teenager-based shows. Still I haven't seen anything in order and don't remember much; plus I think the cast is all different now?

Anyway; if you're watching, have watched, are loving, have loved, tried and hated, or are ambivalent about any of the above, let me know? And if you ARE loving, or even liking one of the above, pimp it to me, will you? Picspam is always nice but not necessary (eta: because with a handful of very particular exceptions, hot people are not enough to sell me on a show, especially those tiresome young hot people *sigh*). Funny quotes or clever plot references are good! Fic recs too!

ALSO if you're out there and curious about one of these shows, go ahead and comment and second the request and maybe some nice soul will answer us?

LOVE,
SAB

Date: 2009-02-16 11:24 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] fialka.livejournal.com
Sanctuary
Lie to Me
United States of Tara

I'm in the weird love for Sanctuary camp. I watched it as webisodes so it was very cool to see it writ larger (some of the webisode footage has been incorporated, but not quite in the same order). You have to get used to the games graphics -- almost all of it is CG except for the actors and the practicals -- but it gives the show a rather unique super-sharp look that reminds me in an odd way of Farscape (not sure why since FS was softer, and a golden palate -- Sanctuary, in my head, looks rather blue). Oh, and Amanda Tapping's British accent is HORRENDOUS, bless her cotton socks. That apart, the characters are generally interesting, the stories reasonably intriguing and the dialogue is at least Stargate-standard. I'd say give it a go, I think it's a love it or leave it sort of thing, but since you loved Bab5 a bit of bad accent shouldn't throw you too far out of the picture :)

I think maybe United States of Tara is also a love it or leave it -- I left it halfway through the pilot. Dunno, something about the basic premise just didn't work for me.

Lie to Me I just started watching, since I seem to be in a weird phase of Special Snowflake Procedurals (yes, I who'd watch maybe one a season am now watching Bones, Life, The Mentalist, Fringe, 11th Hour and Lie to me. I need to get out more and NOT to the library, srsly.) I'm liking Lie to Me though. It's probably about as true to, well, anything, as CSI (and deah gott, if I start watching that, please text La M to come up and shoot me), but it has a fine dry wit about it and you can't get bored watching Tim Roth.

Date: 2009-02-17 01:39 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] somedaybitch.livejournal.com
her accent hasn't improved? *sigh* bless her, it truly is deeply, deeply awful.

Date: 2009-02-17 11:27 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] fialka.livejournal.com
It got better, yes. (Or maybe I just got used to it?) But still pretty frelling awful. I'm not sure why they made that choice -- the character doesn't particularly need to be English, or could have lost her accent over the centuries(handwaveAngelhandwave). Though I thought it was pretty damn funny when they cast Jim Byrnes as her father and his accent was even worse!

Date: 2009-02-17 11:34 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] somedaybitch.livejournal.com
right? they couldn't have just made them immigrants TO the UK??
oi.

Date: 2009-02-17 01:50 am (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] abyssinia4077.livejournal.com
I'm no judge of accents (I have NO ear for them) so I can't tell if Helen's accent is that bad in Sanctuary or not but...considering AT was born in England and thus, probably grew up with parents and family who had British accents, I'm highly amused that hers is apparently bad.

Doesn't make me love her any less :)

Date: 2009-02-17 11:32 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] fialka.livejournal.com
Wow, I didn't know she was born in England. Clearly she has no ear for accents either :) Unless her parents were Canadian expats?

Doesn't make me love her any less either. Hell, I love Claudia Black too, but whenever she tries to do American my ears start to bleed.

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