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OMG Kyle XY
Nov. 4th, 2008 07:00 pmI'm about halfway through Kyle XY and it's great. Much better than season one. They had mid-season break so the current plot is fairly wrapped up, I'm curious to see what the second half of the season will bring.
As well as the quite interesting sf-y drama, the relationships and characterisation are quite nuanced and engaging. For example, in this season there's a River-like character Jesse, who's morally confused and mentally broken, and her minder Emily, who's morally grey and totally sane. At various points I was sympathising with poor Jesse being controlled by big mean Emily, while at other times I sympathised with Emily who was genuinely afraid of her unpredictably dangerous charge. One of the things I really like about the show is that it creates these mentally very unusual characters (not just ordinary person+ extra abilities, but genuinely thinking a bit differently) and then lets us empathise and get into their heads rather than having them being this strange Other (like River)
Also, there's an episode with the explicit moral that girls like teenage boys if and only if they're not homophobic, and one of the characters describes two male characters slashy relationship as a "bromance" and comes up with a shippy portmanteu for them (Kyle/Declan=Keklan) Oh! And pretty much every time two or more characters have Drama due to a misunderstanding? They talk about it and figure things out! BIZARRE.
On the downside the only non-white character so far is unambiguously evil :/
As well as the quite interesting sf-y drama, the relationships and characterisation are quite nuanced and engaging. For example, in this season there's a River-like character Jesse, who's morally confused and mentally broken, and her minder Emily, who's morally grey and totally sane. At various points I was sympathising with poor Jesse being controlled by big mean Emily, while at other times I sympathised with Emily who was genuinely afraid of her unpredictably dangerous charge. One of the things I really like about the show is that it creates these mentally very unusual characters (not just ordinary person+ extra abilities, but genuinely thinking a bit differently) and then lets us empathise and get into their heads rather than having them being this strange Other (like River)
Also, there's an episode with the explicit moral that girls like teenage boys if and only if they're not homophobic, and one of the characters describes two male characters slashy relationship as a "bromance" and comes up with a shippy portmanteu for them (Kyle/Declan=Keklan) Oh! And pretty much every time two or more characters have Drama due to a misunderstanding? They talk about it and figure things out! BIZARRE.
On the downside the only non-white character so far is unambiguously evil :/
