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Nov. 21st, 2011 05:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ivyficI finished watching Hex. Or rather, the DVDs of Hex, which include the six-episode of the first season, then four episodes of the second season and then--stop. Which is a fitting metaphor for the entire show, as that makes as much sense as anything else.
The plot is so far beyond gibberish in this series that there are scenes where the characters might as well be in an Ionesco play--their words literally have no meaning in the context of what's supposed to be happening. I could point out the individual plot stupidities, but what would be the point, really?
There's the plot!fail, then there's the race!fail (Hello black headmaster who exists to say creepy things about the heroine and spout exposition about voodoo!), and the lesbian!fail. Holy crap, the lesbian!fail. And then there's Michael Fassbender standing in shadows with a beam of light falling just exactly on his eyes and a single tear rolling down his cheek. And following a logic that falls into the great mysteries of the universe. The best I can figure is he's been hanging around for centuries, fucking his daughter, then his grand-daughter, on and on until our main character must be 99% Fassbender genes.
And then all the leads decide to leave this catastrophe and they replace Cassie with the Mary Sueiest of them all, and decide to turn the rapist from the first episode into a virgin cause why not.
On Friday, I spotted one of the actors from Hex in that epitome of cinematic ecstasy, Immortals (Joseph Morgan, who played Troy on Hex and Lysander in Immortals). It really says something about both pieces that I can't decide which one's plot was more non-sensical. They seem pretty much on par. Immortals had a bigger budget, but beyond that...
The plot is so far beyond gibberish in this series that there are scenes where the characters might as well be in an Ionesco play--their words literally have no meaning in the context of what's supposed to be happening. I could point out the individual plot stupidities, but what would be the point, really?
There's the plot!fail, then there's the race!fail (Hello black headmaster who exists to say creepy things about the heroine and spout exposition about voodoo!), and the lesbian!fail. Holy crap, the lesbian!fail. And then there's Michael Fassbender standing in shadows with a beam of light falling just exactly on his eyes and a single tear rolling down his cheek. And following a logic that falls into the great mysteries of the universe. The best I can figure is he's been hanging around for centuries, fucking his daughter, then his grand-daughter, on and on until our main character must be 99% Fassbender genes.
And then all the leads decide to leave this catastrophe and they replace Cassie with the Mary Sueiest of them all, and decide to turn the rapist from the first episode into a virgin cause why not.
On Friday, I spotted one of the actors from Hex in that epitome of cinematic ecstasy, Immortals (Joseph Morgan, who played Troy on Hex and Lysander in Immortals). It really says something about both pieces that I can't decide which one's plot was more non-sensical. They seem pretty much on par. Immortals had a bigger budget, but beyond that...