Kyle XY: Hands on a Hybrid
Who directed this episode? Was it a member of the Junior High Soap Opera Re-Enactment Society? The pained expressions and over the top delivery was just too much tonight, and as I sat there watching Kyle and Jessie pull up the t-shirts to expose their matching belly button free bellies, I had to wonder, who is this show aimed at?
The Kyle XY panel at Comicon was in a pretty small room and, despite Kyle’s mug plastered on every free plastic bag picked up at registration, you didn’t have to stand on line for three hours to get in. Must not be aimed at that crowd.
Although, there were a couple of teenage girls waiting for the panel who looked and dressed a lot like Andie – now known as Cancer Girl.
OK, so there’s funky, socially conscious, teenage gamer girls – the ones who deign to watch ABC Family, anyway. Who else is watching, besides me because there is nothing else on?
Chicks, it looks like. The season two premiere drew about 263,000 women in the 18 – 34 age bracket. I have no idea if that’s falling, but I’m certainly not motivated to pick up Kyle XY for another season.
Why? Because while it has some cool ideas, overall it’s just girly, and not in a glitter lip gloss and tiara kind of way. It’s girly in the bathroom gossip and cheerleader backstabbing and boyfriend stealing kind of way.
You know, the annoying, sterotypical girl kind of way.
What I don’t understand is why TV people think that, in order to draw in women viewers, they have get dramatic and bring in sensitive guys who really care that we’re having cramps and show it with a thinkle.
Is that really what women want in their sci-fi? Does that really work? Help me understand because when I see a sensitive drama guy and the “human” side of sci-fi, I want to change the channel before I puke.
That being said, I would have been much more impressed by Kyle and Jessie’s mind melding at the cancer carnival if they had created a vortex that led to the 8th dimension. Or a black hole. Or if they fused together to make a two headed, four armed, four legged Thinkle-Eyebrow Beast.
That would have been cool.
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