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2fs - 2009-01-15 19:37:20
I'm apparently less sentient than you - because with the exception of Buffy, I'm less familiar with everything you write about here than you are. I haven't seen Bones so can't comment on Boreanaz's acting there...but he definitely improves over the course of his time on BTVS. Should you become fully addicted, watch its spinoff Angel (which, of course, starred Boreanaz) - where his acting became even better. I'm surprised to hear he's wooden in Bones simply because by the end of his time on Angel he'd become quite supple an actor. Perhaps it's having grown into the role (or maybe his character on Bones is poorly written)...
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Paula - 2009-01-15 19:45:23
Oh the characters on Bones are terribly written. Their backstories are interesting, but the characters are single-note all the way. You know, they represent positions ("I believe in Science!" "Well, I believe in Religion!") and they speechify and...ugh. I just watch it for the corpses!

Also, I would have pegged you as an Architecture in Helsinki fan! They seem right up at least one of your alleys.
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grigorss - 2009-01-15 20:20:49
If you're watching Bones for the corpses, might I recommend the movie Kissed? Better "corpse" action -- in every way!
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Paula - 2009-01-15 20:30:22
Hmmm....Ok....
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Bob - 2009-01-16 00:36:41
Boreanaz quite LITERALLY was no sort of actor at all when he got hired to do Buffy. And though there were times when i got right into BTVS, the show Angel was indeed more fun. (Just avoid the season where it f'd the shark by giving Angel a poorly done son from another dimension.) [But may I say, not re today, hmphhh... can't fondly tease a female fellow informative writer - whose information I am interested in - about a little redundancy?... hmphhh.]
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Philip - 2009-01-16 03:42:34
Just try not to cringe to much when you get to Riley, and hang on for Season 5 -- every episode is perfect.
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MacGregor - 2009-01-16 11:34:14
I never really got into Buffy but followed Angel for a bit and enjoyed it. Spike is definitely the most entertaining character. Bones, I found entirely intolerable, unbelievable and acted horribly.
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Joe - 2009-01-16 14:04:41
Guess I'm the only BONES-lover here. Just got into it recently, and consumed Season 1 in about 3 weeks. Yeah, it's one-dimensional, but I think of it as HOUSE or MONK (which I also like) with a really cute girl as the lead...
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Paula - 2009-01-16 14:30:17
Good analogy, Joe. I've seen every episode of BONES (via DVD) and, like MONK, I enjoy the mystery/procedural aspect of it--I'm just sayin' I don't watch it for the drama, which rings hollow to me (especially all the stuff with the father in season 2, and the long, extended "romantic tension" thing between Bones and Booth).
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Jestaplero - 2009-01-16 17:54:00
"Perfect role for every actor" - is there a better example of this phenomenon than Keanu Reeves in the MATRIX movies? He's so perfect as Neo, and yet....so unwatchable in anything else. Oh, except RIVER'S EDGE. Two ideal roles for Keanu. But that's it. There is no third thing.
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grigorss - 2009-01-16 18:50:23
Re; Keanu -- wait a minute; you're forgetting his fine work as "Ted" in the Bill & Ted movies. Keanu is the archetypal California dude!
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Paula - 2009-01-16 20:12:14
Ted, Neo and River's Edge Dude all seem like the same character to me...It's when he tries his hand at, for example, being a doctor romancing a playwright (Something's Gotta Give) that the pain starts...
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2fs - 2009-01-17 05:11:57
I've heard some Architecture in Helsinki...it's okay, I guess. But I dont' actually remember it. (Mostly it's shown up via Aaron's mixes.) I've heard one or two Santogold tracks - they seemed pretty good, but nothing that made me run out to the CD store/click madly to appropriate websites/etc. Oh - and Chabon's YPU is on my "to read" list...most likely, I'll get to it 'round about 2012 or so, unless I run into a cheap copy. I really should get a job that allows me to retire someday, because I'd make a *great* retired person, just reading and music-listening and movie-watching and writing and etc. all day long. That, and clipping coupons and paying for groceries with exact change entirely in coins. (I did have more than a dollar in change the other day, including lots of pennies and nickels, and did torment the girl at checkout by counting out exact change for my purchase. I was self-aware though - I said to her, "sorry for paying for this like some old guy." Sadly, I don't think she caught the irony...)
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Miles - 2009-01-19 05:15:43
Angel IMO never did one bit of shark-jumping, and I couldn't disagree with Bob more about the character of Connor (the "poorly done son"), or Vincent Kartheiser's portrayal of same - I think it works very well in terms of plot and deepening what we know about already-familiar characters. Also, nothing wrong with Riley; that's one o' them thankless roles where the actor is being asked to be a wooden straight-arrow kinda guy, and then takes flack for coming across as a wooden straight arrow, when, well, he's just doing his job! You have a lot of Buffy/Angel goodness ahead of you!
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