Lewis series 4
May. 29th, 2010 10:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kindkitI just watched Lewis 4x04, "Falling Darkness," (which doesn't actually air until tomorrow, but I had help from the magic internet pixies), and I can now definitively say that series 4 was a waste of my time.
Apparently the show has decided it's through with character development and arcs and all that unnecessary stuff, and it'll focus on making its plots sensationalistic and contrived instead. The only thing of note that happened this season, character-wise, was the start of the Lewis/Hobson romance. Although as a m/m slash fan I'm disappointed (but not surprised) I don't mind Lewis/Hobson, really. I like Hobson as a character: she's an adult woman with brains, skills, and independence, who has a purpose on the show besides being a love interest. (Er, let's hope the way 4x04 handled her character was a one-off, yeah?) The romance doesn't interest me, and I don't feel there's much spark between Lewis and Hobson, but I'm not sure how much of that comes from problems with the writing/acting and how much is me not liking het romance. But I do think the show not exploring what this new relationship means to Lewis--how it affects his deep, longstanding grief over his late wife, for example--is a genuine failure. The writers seem to have forgotten that Lewis has a history.
As for poor Hathaway, he didn't get to do anything all season except shag an incredibly annoying rich girl. Oh, and go to a music festival. He wore a studded leather belt for the latter and looked both slightly ridiculous and extremely sexy, so at least that was worth watching.
Early on I accidentally read a spoiler that said Hathaway would have a nervous breakdown this season. Saying that I was looking forward to it sounds wrong, but I thought it would be interesting and, frankly, in character for Hathaway, who's wound pretty damn tight. But no. No nervous breakdown, no nothing. In the first couple of seasons of Lewis, Hathaway was one of the most interesting characters on television. I loved his reserve, his neurotic asceticism, his quiet intense intellectualism. Not to mention his heavily implied queerness. Now . . . he's just bland. And straight.
The whole show has become bland. That's a pity, because it used to be so good.
Apparently the show has decided it's through with character development and arcs and all that unnecessary stuff, and it'll focus on making its plots sensationalistic and contrived instead. The only thing of note that happened this season, character-wise, was the start of the Lewis/Hobson romance. Although as a m/m slash fan I'm disappointed (but not surprised) I don't mind Lewis/Hobson, really. I like Hobson as a character: she's an adult woman with brains, skills, and independence, who has a purpose on the show besides being a love interest. (Er, let's hope the way 4x04 handled her character was a one-off, yeah?) The romance doesn't interest me, and I don't feel there's much spark between Lewis and Hobson, but I'm not sure how much of that comes from problems with the writing/acting and how much is me not liking het romance. But I do think the show not exploring what this new relationship means to Lewis--how it affects his deep, longstanding grief over his late wife, for example--is a genuine failure. The writers seem to have forgotten that Lewis has a history.
As for poor Hathaway, he didn't get to do anything all season except shag an incredibly annoying rich girl. Oh, and go to a music festival. He wore a studded leather belt for the latter and looked both slightly ridiculous and extremely sexy, so at least that was worth watching.
Early on I accidentally read a spoiler that said Hathaway would have a nervous breakdown this season. Saying that I was looking forward to it sounds wrong, but I thought it would be interesting and, frankly, in character for Hathaway, who's wound pretty damn tight. But no. No nervous breakdown, no nothing. In the first couple of seasons of Lewis, Hathaway was one of the most interesting characters on television. I loved his reserve, his neurotic asceticism, his quiet intense intellectualism. Not to mention his heavily implied queerness. Now . . . he's just bland. And straight.
The whole show has become bland. That's a pity, because it used to be so good.
