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shallowness) wrote2014-03-04 08:20 am
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bumper TV catch-up post, then
The Musketeers 1.06 The Exiles
Better! Although the opening was weak and some things were as subtle as a brick being hurled through a window, Marie de Medici was a fun villain – with Fitzgerald's distinctive low register and the interesting hair choice. (I still think the former Princess now a Duchess should be ruling France.) I loved how insincere she was around her son, while the Queen tried to make the best of it, Gage acted his socks off as the idiot Louis and Capaldi’s Cardinal had an opponent worthy of him.
Meanwhile there was an A-Team reference and I was chuffed that Constance is more than an Amy. Granted, she was involved because she’s a woman and she’s still mainly D’Artagnan’s love interest, but visually, she was one of the Musketeets/Aramis’s family at the end and impressed Aramis with her handling of the fight.
I rolled my eyes a lot at Aramis, who I think is getting as broody as Constance admitted to, and how he only dimly realised what love is – fluttering his eyelashes at Agnes. Still, he did the honourable thing (although I think he could and should have trusted Agnes by telling her as soon as de Medici’s men were rounded up, but then we wouldn’t have had the dramatic scene in the mountains.)
Amy Nuttall (aka Ethel from Downton) was playing a mother once again, although her hair was so reddish, I wondered if that was why the villagers shunned her – I was very slow in figuring out how the two plots intertwined*. Thinking of her as Ethel made me wish for a downstairs view of all the Palace shenanigans. I bet the servants have a better idea of what the Musketeers are up to than most, seeing as they loudly give things away around them.
The interiors of the palace were scrumptious.
*Was this a play on The Man in the Iron Mask?
I watched Brooklyn Nine Nine and laughed a bit, but I have nothing more to say about it.
E4 has been advertising Revenge over the past week with a really funny trailer about how getting all Revenge-y makes the characters sigh. A lot. It is basically clips of everyone exhaling.
Revenge 3.9
This episode was a bit meh, because it was mainly about setting things up for the wedding and the aftermath and there was little to engage me emotionally.
I realised that I’d forgotten everything that happened after Lydia fell from the window to the car.
All the sad music in the world can’t make me feel too much for ‘Danny’/Sarah and his shut out from a redemption arc.
They had Charlotte try to make a voiceover that was worthy of Emily’s. Like most of what they try to do with Charlotte, it was derisory.
No scene between Emily-Jack, barely a goodbye scene between Emily-Nolan and plenty of foreshadowing for how the plan to bring down Victoria at the wedding is going to go wrong (we’re supposed to be taking Aiden seriously as a chance for a happy ending for Emily and forget that he keeps trying to take agency away from her and clearly doesn’t really know her as he doesn’t realise, despite plenty of evidence, that she’s a control freak? Ha. He said he will die for her, and she will cry and I won’t. I may do a dance of joy) even before Victoria did her thing. Which was marvellous of her as she was being boxed into the crazy corner, let alone putting a spanner into Emily’s works.
Surely Margot is more Perry White than Lois Lane. So, she chose Jack and we
will be bereft of Emily/Jack (although there should be Jack hissing at Emily for not enacting her revenge so he can bring Carl back) for a bit in season 3. See, no emotional investment except that Nolan did a nice thing for Jack and maybe Conrad getting excited at being a birth grandfather.
Better! Although the opening was weak and some things were as subtle as a brick being hurled through a window, Marie de Medici was a fun villain – with Fitzgerald's distinctive low register and the interesting hair choice. (I still think the former Princess now a Duchess should be ruling France.) I loved how insincere she was around her son, while the Queen tried to make the best of it, Gage acted his socks off as the idiot Louis and Capaldi’s Cardinal had an opponent worthy of him.
Meanwhile there was an A-Team reference and I was chuffed that Constance is more than an Amy. Granted, she was involved because she’s a woman and she’s still mainly D’Artagnan’s love interest, but visually, she was one of the Musketeets/Aramis’s family at the end and impressed Aramis with her handling of the fight.
I rolled my eyes a lot at Aramis, who I think is getting as broody as Constance admitted to, and how he only dimly realised what love is – fluttering his eyelashes at Agnes. Still, he did the honourable thing (although I think he could and should have trusted Agnes by telling her as soon as de Medici’s men were rounded up, but then we wouldn’t have had the dramatic scene in the mountains.)
Amy Nuttall (aka Ethel from Downton) was playing a mother once again, although her hair was so reddish, I wondered if that was why the villagers shunned her – I was very slow in figuring out how the two plots intertwined*. Thinking of her as Ethel made me wish for a downstairs view of all the Palace shenanigans. I bet the servants have a better idea of what the Musketeers are up to than most, seeing as they loudly give things away around them.
The interiors of the palace were scrumptious.
*Was this a play on The Man in the Iron Mask?
I watched Brooklyn Nine Nine and laughed a bit, but I have nothing more to say about it.
E4 has been advertising Revenge over the past week with a really funny trailer about how getting all Revenge-y makes the characters sigh. A lot. It is basically clips of everyone exhaling.
Revenge 3.9
This episode was a bit meh, because it was mainly about setting things up for the wedding and the aftermath and there was little to engage me emotionally.
I realised that I’d forgotten everything that happened after Lydia fell from the window to the car.
All the sad music in the world can’t make me feel too much for ‘Danny’/Sarah and his shut out from a redemption arc.
They had Charlotte try to make a voiceover that was worthy of Emily’s. Like most of what they try to do with Charlotte, it was derisory.
No scene between Emily-Jack, barely a goodbye scene between Emily-Nolan and plenty of foreshadowing for how the plan to bring down Victoria at the wedding is going to go wrong (we’re supposed to be taking Aiden seriously as a chance for a happy ending for Emily and forget that he keeps trying to take agency away from her and clearly doesn’t really know her as he doesn’t realise, despite plenty of evidence, that she’s a control freak? Ha. He said he will die for her, and she will cry and I won’t. I may do a dance of joy) even before Victoria did her thing. Which was marvellous of her as she was being boxed into the crazy corner, let alone putting a spanner into Emily’s works.
Surely Margot is more Perry White than Lois Lane. So, she chose Jack and we
will be bereft of Emily/Jack (although there should be Jack hissing at Emily for not enacting her revenge so he can bring Carl back) for a bit in season 3. See, no emotional investment except that Nolan did a nice thing for Jack and maybe Conrad getting excited at being a birth grandfather.