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Feb. 25th, 2007 12:33 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nnyTraders is good for the same reason that Boiler Room is good, in a nutshell. I mean, seriously - you make a TV show about aliens or dragons or superheroes, you already have half my attention. I'll expect you to do something to keep that attention, obviously, but it won't really take all that much of an effort. Especially if, let's face it, the lead actors are pretty and look at each other more than once an episode.
Random Canadian series about merchant banks, though? Really, starting at a disadvantage. I know nothing and care nothing for merchant bankers, except they give me enough information that I'm drawn into the action without being bored, they give me characters and storylines that make me want to know more, that don't frustrate me with the lack of depth or moral superiority that can grate, and they use actors like David Hewlett. Who has a ridiculously odd CV, and works bloody hard, and has kept me seriously interested in various new and shiny things for a good while, now. Also, good beard.
I dunno. I watched Southbound earlier, and now I'm all 'Yay Canadian weirdnesses!' Which is something I've been doing on and off since 1995 when I was unhealthily obsessed with the X-Files and banging Mulder and Krycek action figures together. (My writing has really improved since then. My notion of a good story, definitely. I find this reassuring.) I suppose it's some kind of mutual underdog thing? I don't know - my impression of Canadian-American relations is based entirely on shows like this, and my impression of British-American relations is based entirely on the stuff I don't wince away from quickly enough on the news. :D? British-Canadian relations are the bits where I stick a maple leaf flag down the back of my T-shirt and run through the middle of arguments between family members, declaring myself neutral zone and tea-scavenger.
Some day I realise I'll have to form opinions and actually know something about something, yes. Today, however, I'm getting a cold and snot vaguely in your general direction, instead.
Random Canadian series about merchant banks, though? Really, starting at a disadvantage. I know nothing and care nothing for merchant bankers, except they give me enough information that I'm drawn into the action without being bored, they give me characters and storylines that make me want to know more, that don't frustrate me with the lack of depth or moral superiority that can grate, and they use actors like David Hewlett. Who has a ridiculously odd CV, and works bloody hard, and has kept me seriously interested in various new and shiny things for a good while, now. Also, good beard.
I dunno. I watched Southbound earlier, and now I'm all 'Yay Canadian weirdnesses!' Which is something I've been doing on and off since 1995 when I was unhealthily obsessed with the X-Files and banging Mulder and Krycek action figures together. (My writing has really improved since then. My notion of a good story, definitely. I find this reassuring.) I suppose it's some kind of mutual underdog thing? I don't know - my impression of Canadian-American relations is based entirely on shows like this, and my impression of British-American relations is based entirely on the stuff I don't wince away from quickly enough on the news. :D? British-Canadian relations are the bits where I stick a maple leaf flag down the back of my T-shirt and run through the middle of arguments between family members, declaring myself neutral zone and tea-scavenger.
Some day I realise I'll have to form opinions and actually know something about something, yes. Today, however, I'm getting a cold and snot vaguely in your general direction, instead.
