Sunday/Monday tv catch-up post
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shallownessThe Musketeers 1.07 A Rebellious Woman
I thought the treatment of the main story was glib and a lot too smug. I ended up hooting ‘Check your privilege’ at the Countess Bluestocking, because I don’t think they fully thought about her attitude towards class and letting ex servant girls run up to fast-moving carriages. I mean, hinting that they should pass on petitions to the Queen by any means necessary.
I did appreciate the Romish machinations – the poisoning was exquisite, especially; as was referenced, there were quite a few supects who'd want to harm the Cardinal.
Most of the most engaging moments were to do with long-running aspects of the series: Athos hearing Milady’s voice and going beserk; D’Artagnan’s FACE after he let slip/admitted to her and himself that he loves Constance. D’Artagnan/Constance has done a lot of tropey things that I love in ships, but there’s the infidelity squick. Conversely, the Queen and Aramis’s interaction over her token got to me without making me all disapproving, because it was played as chivalry, somehow. I think she was just sad that the token of her favour had been passed on to someone else, but he had a good and innocent reason (and the token was returned) that chided her, alluded to their both seeing the best in each other.
Even though the king is about as useless as Constance's husband in many ways, I don't think the Queen/Aramis is going anywhere (or IS it?) I mean, the Queen has to know Aramis is a player – I liked that Comtesse Bluestocking called him on being a libertine. His line about thinking women are the superior sex is exactly the type of thing that made me call this episode glib.
Also, I wish the Queen were even more of an actor in state affairs. What little she did in this episode, where she was more principled than her husband and the Cardinal and, I think, wielded her power well, was really interesting – especially as she had no reason to love the Comtesse, what with her husband having a crush on her, Aramis giving her her token etc, but La Comtesse called on her, woman to woman, for help and the Queen listened. I want her to do more where she realistically can, because she isn’t in the Cardinal’s thrall. But being Spanish and childless, she's got to play it delicately.
Well, okay, I also wanted this episode to be written by a smart woman and involve Athos and Comtesse Bluestocking bantering in Ancient Greek, if I’m honest. I had to make do with Milady’s disgust at the Cardinal immediately, falsely accusing the Comtesse of being a lesbian as a form of attack (although one of the reasons that I wanted the Comtesse to check her privilege and suspect she could have been written more sophisticatedly was that she wasn’t always politic. I know, challenging the patriarchy was her MO, but some of what she was saying was so inflammatory that there was no way she was going to get away with it – to the King and Cardinal, plus in the court – and she had her students to think of; her weak point, as Milady accurately gauged.) It was also nice and refreshing to see Constance around other women!
Oh, Milday, I’m going to be sad when Athos kills you. So is he, but still. (Deeply unconvincing that everyone was going ‘What’s going on with Athos/Milady? No, let’s park that for this week.’) This is on top of being sad that a gender-switched The Musketeers with seven female characters to three male characters is never going to be aired.
Also, I got very cross with Athos and Aramis for using books as weapons in one of the fight scene. I think it just was the co-ordinator wanting to do something different, but la Comtesse had already howled about her books (heh, priorities – soldiers were manhandling her students) and I saw no good reason for the chaps not to draw their swords.
This episode in particular looked luscious, btw.
Brooklyn Nine-Nine 1.8 Old School
I enjoyed this again – both the Life on Marsesque strand (Jake Peralta IS Sam Tyler) and the one where they were trying to make Rosa more court-friendly, plus that they bookened it with most of the gang blowing stuff up.
I’m shipping Jake/Amy along with canon – I must be if I’m somehow equating him telling her that his grandmother called him Pineapple with her referencing her grandpa.
And of course Rosa’s happy place was doing violence. I’d like to see what her boyfriend’s like, please.
This show does need a tag.
Revenge 3.10
I’d got my hopes up that Aiden was going to get killed. Um, that is, I wasn’t expecting Emily’s planned reve to work, but I was hoping for big drama.
What I got was mainly ‘meh’ because I was so deeply unconvinced that this was going to be it, however many flashbacks and callbacks they lumped in. Also, stuff like what was going on between Nolan/Patrick sometimes made no sense. I am losing my respect for Sarah – unless if the attempted suicide is a lie – because while he didn’t deserve to be Emily’s patsy, her Danny isn’t worth it. U=I think that hearing there was no baby and Emily speak so callously in and of itself would be enough to push Daniel in that state to do what he did.
Victoria getting to see the picture and hearing Emily’s partial confession was mildly interesting. She also knows that Aiden is working with Emily (we now know how dodgy the actor's American accent is.)
I wonder if Emily had always planned never to meet up with Aiden – or am I grabbing at straws? For me, the most emotional parts were Emily saying goodbye to Jack, who was right to call her for being selfish in the infodump about Amanda, and goodbye to her other best friend, Nolan. (Futile try with Emily-Charlotte.)
I hope LJ sorts out its editing bug ASAP for several reasons.
I thought the treatment of the main story was glib and a lot too smug. I ended up hooting ‘Check your privilege’ at the Countess Bluestocking, because I don’t think they fully thought about her attitude towards class and letting ex servant girls run up to fast-moving carriages. I mean, hinting that they should pass on petitions to the Queen by any means necessary.
I did appreciate the Romish machinations – the poisoning was exquisite, especially; as was referenced, there were quite a few supects who'd want to harm the Cardinal.
Most of the most engaging moments were to do with long-running aspects of the series: Athos hearing Milady’s voice and going beserk; D’Artagnan’s FACE after he let slip/admitted to her and himself that he loves Constance. D’Artagnan/Constance has done a lot of tropey things that I love in ships, but there’s the infidelity squick. Conversely, the Queen and Aramis’s interaction over her token got to me without making me all disapproving, because it was played as chivalry, somehow. I think she was just sad that the token of her favour had been passed on to someone else, but he had a good and innocent reason (and the token was returned) that chided her, alluded to their both seeing the best in each other.
Even though the king is about as useless as Constance's husband in many ways, I don't think the Queen/Aramis is going anywhere (or IS it?) I mean, the Queen has to know Aramis is a player – I liked that Comtesse Bluestocking called him on being a libertine. His line about thinking women are the superior sex is exactly the type of thing that made me call this episode glib.
Also, I wish the Queen were even more of an actor in state affairs. What little she did in this episode, where she was more principled than her husband and the Cardinal and, I think, wielded her power well, was really interesting – especially as she had no reason to love the Comtesse, what with her husband having a crush on her, Aramis giving her her token etc, but La Comtesse called on her, woman to woman, for help and the Queen listened. I want her to do more where she realistically can, because she isn’t in the Cardinal’s thrall. But being Spanish and childless, she's got to play it delicately.
Well, okay, I also wanted this episode to be written by a smart woman and involve Athos and Comtesse Bluestocking bantering in Ancient Greek, if I’m honest. I had to make do with Milady’s disgust at the Cardinal immediately, falsely accusing the Comtesse of being a lesbian as a form of attack (although one of the reasons that I wanted the Comtesse to check her privilege and suspect she could have been written more sophisticatedly was that she wasn’t always politic. I know, challenging the patriarchy was her MO, but some of what she was saying was so inflammatory that there was no way she was going to get away with it – to the King and Cardinal, plus in the court – and she had her students to think of; her weak point, as Milady accurately gauged.) It was also nice and refreshing to see Constance around other women!
Oh, Milday, I’m going to be sad when Athos kills you. So is he, but still. (Deeply unconvincing that everyone was going ‘What’s going on with Athos/Milady? No, let’s park that for this week.’) This is on top of being sad that a gender-switched The Musketeers with seven female characters to three male characters is never going to be aired.
Also, I got very cross with Athos and Aramis for using books as weapons in one of the fight scene. I think it just was the co-ordinator wanting to do something different, but la Comtesse had already howled about her books (heh, priorities – soldiers were manhandling her students) and I saw no good reason for the chaps not to draw their swords.
This episode in particular looked luscious, btw.
Brooklyn Nine-Nine 1.8 Old School
I enjoyed this again – both the Life on Marsesque strand (Jake Peralta IS Sam Tyler) and the one where they were trying to make Rosa more court-friendly, plus that they bookened it with most of the gang blowing stuff up.
I’m shipping Jake/Amy along with canon – I must be if I’m somehow equating him telling her that his grandmother called him Pineapple with her referencing her grandpa.
And of course Rosa’s happy place was doing violence. I’d like to see what her boyfriend’s like, please.
This show does need a tag.
Revenge 3.10
I’d got my hopes up that Aiden was going to get killed. Um, that is, I wasn’t expecting Emily’s planned reve to work, but I was hoping for big drama.
What I got was mainly ‘meh’ because I was so deeply unconvinced that this was going to be it, however many flashbacks and callbacks they lumped in. Also, stuff like what was going on between Nolan/Patrick sometimes made no sense. I am losing my respect for Sarah – unless if the attempted suicide is a lie – because while he didn’t deserve to be Emily’s patsy, her Danny isn’t worth it. U=I think that hearing there was no baby and Emily speak so callously in and of itself would be enough to push Daniel in that state to do what he did.
Victoria getting to see the picture and hearing Emily’s partial confession was mildly interesting. She also knows that Aiden is working with Emily (we now know how dodgy the actor's American accent is.)
I wonder if Emily had always planned never to meet up with Aiden – or am I grabbing at straws? For me, the most emotional parts were Emily saying goodbye to Jack, who was right to call her for being selfish in the infodump about Amanda, and goodbye to her other best friend, Nolan. (Futile try with Emily-Charlotte.)
I hope LJ sorts out its editing bug ASAP for several reasons.
