I think--BSG aside--it's hard to write a show where you're unsure whether characters will live from episode to episode, and I cut that kind of thing a lot of slack. Showing people in dangerous occupations in danger, but getting through it by the skin of their teeth, is part and parcel of writing for TV. But I don't cut the same strategy much slack when it's not a matter of life or death--we all knew Delenn and Sheridan would become the leaders, and really, I wish they'd just gotten on with it.
(OMG, if I hadn't been thoroughly spoiled for what happens to Ivanova, I don't think I would've made it through those episodes. Someone would've found me dead of a heart attack in my front of my computer.)
Come to that, does he actually manage sex anywhere in the whole show that doesn't turn out to be horrifying?
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Date: 2010-06-25 05:45 pm (UTC)(OMG, if I hadn't been thoroughly spoiled for what happens to Ivanova, I don't think I would've made it through those episodes. Someone would've found me dead of a heart attack in my front of my computer.)
Come to that, does he actually manage sex anywhere in the whole show that doesn't turn out to be horrifying?
I'm trying to think of an instance, and I am FAILING. (Hell, in that story he wrote for some magazine after the show, he managed to make Marcus/Ivanova REALLY INCREDIBLY CREEPY and HORRIFYING.)