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Saturday, June 02, 2007

Hex Second Season Premiere

Well, well, well... what did you think?

[SPOILERS]

I sincerely hope they do a little more with Ella and Leon's "relationship" or whatever you would call that. I feel like they played it up all last season, then it just died. Of course, there is some realism there; maybe they just didn't hit it off sexually?

But I also feel like they did the same with Malachi's character. We knew he would age at an accelerated rate because of how Cassie's pregnancy went, but here he is in the second season, not only physically grown, but fully developed (in character, personality, intelligence, etc.). Yes, I know - Supernatural, daemons, witchy shit happening all around - but still, it seemed like they kind of jumped over a lot of complexities really quickly and I was so busy trying to figure out exactly what was going on that the Suspension of Disbelief never got a chance to really take hold. It felt a lot like they'd been told, "Wrap up all these dangling plotlines because this is the last season," and so they just dispensed with damn near all of them right off the bat.

But even more jarring was the lack of humor which is what really drew me - and probably many others - into the show to begin with. There were some funny moments, but all in all, it was far more serious than almost any of the first season's episodes. Thelma was always cracking wise and Leon made puerile sex jokes and even Ella snapped off a few good ones here and there. But aside from one or two scenes which played more on the physical (such as when Leon came in drunk and she knocked him off the bed), that sly, sometimes subtle, wit just wasn't there.

Again, it felt like they were trying to wrap-up a lot of storylines far too quickly. But it doesn't matter because I'm going to watch the repeats after Graham Norton, then I'll watch it again next week, then I'll watch it again when they do the marathons later in the summer, and I'll definitely watch it when BBCA decides to pick it up for a third series (hint, hint, nudge, nudge, know wot I mean?).

What did everyone else think?

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