quite low, actually

[kindkit]

When my obsession with Michael Fassbender really began to kick in and I started watching stuff just because he was in it, st_aurafina remarked that she was waiting to see how low I'd go for a fix.

I believe we have an answer, folks. Last night I watched the first episode of Hex. Hex was sort of intermittently enjoyable, but frustrating, because I can see the outline of the halfway decent show it might be if the creators were interested in telling a good story instead of finding excuses for the attractive young cast to remove their clothes. (Also, why didn't Michael Fassbender get his kit off? He's hotter than any three of them put together. I hope this dire omission will be rectified in a future episode, even if I have to watch a het sex scene to see it.) It would also help if the show hadn't gone for the massively failtastic "Evil African Voodoo calls up demons through the sacrifice of innocent white girls" thing, because, seriously? Is that the best you could do, show?

I can also see the totally different and much better show that Hex ought to have been. Thelma is the star instead of the Semi-Dead Lesbian, and there is no Cassie. Azazeal is her hot gay slight-fallen angel best pal, and together they fight crime the Nephilim homophobia anything, really. Thelma gets to have a real romance instead of mooning over a straight (?) girl, and Azazeal gets some lovin' too, and therefore Michael Fassbender gets his kit off but in a totally non-exploitive way that's with another guy vital to the plot and characterization and really the artistic integrity of the whole piece. *cough* And the principal is in the show too, but less creepy.

On the plus side, broody!evil!wearing lots of eyeliner!moodily playing the piano!Fassbender is sex on legs in a trenchcoat. And yet Azazeal is quite evil, and if the story heads where I think it will--which is all about how he's secretly a tormented lonely woobie who learns to love Cassie--I shall be annoyed.

In conclusion: Michael Fassbender should wear eye makeup more often.

Comments

[st_aurafina]

*snorts* I so enjoy watching you do the Fassbender limbo.

But I would totally watch your version of Hex! Together they fight crime and the homophobia of the Nephilim. (Actually, Thelma gets some loving in season two. There's a magic lady with a leather trenchcoat (important plot point *nods*) and the ghost of a flapper.)

I think, from memory, (which isn't saying much) that Azazeal stays assholish the whole way. Creepy and stalkerish, but you'd have to stretch to make him a woobie. I don't doubt that the fandom made that stretch, but I didn't particularly see it.

[kindkit]

Oh, I'm capable of going lower yet. Probably nothing will beat my watching Megalodon because Robin Sachs (Ethan from Buffy) was in it. And Mark Sheppard, although at the time I didn't know who he was (for a long time afterwards I referred to Sheppard as "Ethan's boyfriend" because of the character he played in Megalodon, who technically was not the Sachs character's boyfriend but, you know, almost).