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shallowness) wrote2014-05-12 07:42 am
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Weekend bookends?
As you can see below, I've caught up somewhat on bits and bobs, but I spent the weekend without the internet, so I'm way behind. (Actually, the only shows I'm all caught up on are Revenge and The Good Wife to go from one extreme of quality to the other.)
B99 - 1.16 The Party
Mildly amusing as the precinct bring their inappropriate behaviour to a grown up party. Despite the fact that he’d talked himself into stalking (ditto Santiago), of course Jake got to espouse his tolerance and mad detecting skillz. Charles scored with an older (?) lady foodie. Terry getting more and more wound up with his charges was funny, as was thingy’s montage.
The Autobiography of Jane Eyre
Ep 83 A proposal
Okay, so Jane decided to film herself crying. Okay. (Weird. Might have worked better if she’d broken into tears while starting to talk about her frustration?)
Every time she apologised, it was a national stereotype...but being sick of tea says it all. (Although maybe she could read Tolstoy...)
They have set up Simon’s proposal nicely, his rationale for why they had to be married made sense and it was an excellent clash of views. He’d thought it all out and never considered her POV and wanted to railroad her because he was so sure he was right. Which, no. I liked how the argument overlapped between nursing as a way of helping and Jane’s choice to help in other ways and their views on marriage.
This ep was more about Simon seeing Jane in a certain way and simply not getting that she’s her own person, but I do think this version of him has been shown in previous episodes to have romantic feelings for her (or who he thinks she is) that he doesn’t know how to process too, which are making him more bullheaded.
Ep 84 Fallout
Not as good. (Either under-rehearsed or over rehearsed). Shouty!Jane had most of the points on her side, and after quietening down, demanded to make them, but Simon did have a couple of just comebacks about Jane using strangers in the internet to help her make up her mind. I was still essentially on her side, because he was encroaching on her right to make her own decisions.
Given the hostility he’d shown towards her filming, it might have been a good ending for Simon to switch off the camera (and for Jane to post the fight anyway in pique).
Ep 85 Diana Says
Not sure that was strictly necessary. Granted, it was nice for Jane to have confirmation of the offline variety that Simon was wrong to propose and react the way he did, and some of Diana’s analysis was valid.
Ep 86 Apologies
Distraction number 1: empty mug acting, from the way she held it, there clearly wasn’t hot tea in it, to the placing it down on what looked like the bed!?
Distraction number 2: granted, I got why they got Simon to blather on about the brain and what we do and don’t know about how it affects thematically relevant parts of our lives, but it went on too long and even before that I was mostly thinking about the actor learning the script/the science and having to regurgitate it.
So, that was distancing.
Anyway, we went from coached apology to Simon thinking it was then all right to make a connection by lecturing Jane on the basal ganglia (ha, I did take some of it in). I don’t know that I’d react to ‘I totally think of you like my sisters’ going on to leaning in for a kiss quite how Jane did. Oh, I know the first line was bunkum and his way of allowing himself to say he loves her (or the version of her he thinks she is), and even though he’s cute like a puppy, he’s really hard work. (Definitely not looking at the YouTube comments to this vid).
So, was that sound of the door/someone shouting Jane’s name meant to take place of you know what?
Ep 87 Mischance
Quite a lot was packed into this. (We’ll ignore the little cuts, just like I did in the last episode, but I don’t understand if the first set up was via Grace’s camera, because it would make no sense for it to be Jane’s, and then the second confused me too. Grace giving her permission for the video to be made didn’t really clarify anything.)
Belligerent!Simon didn’t like the kissing being interrupted. Or the threat of Him and Jane’s past coming to take ‘his’ Jane away.
Mary’s popcorn-eating response was perfect amid all the drama. No wonder she was the one to watch the vids with Jane.
Grace’s conversation with Jane was interesting, because of how they resolved the plot issues and tried to make her sympathetic, and mostly did, because her competing loyalties came over loud and clear. Jane asked sensible questions, although she forgot Adele. I wonder if we’ll ever know more about how discovering Jane affected ‘Beth’. I also liked that they made the videos a part of the Masons' case against Rochester and for Jane to feel a measure of culpability for bringing Thornfield down.
And then the perfect ringtone for Adele and the DRAMATIC DRAMA at the end. I liked that Jane was able to calm Adele more, so I won’t kvetch that, again, the kid got forgotten. Did she know more about Beth? Did she know her mother was dead? Was she okay? These were questions Jane should have been asking. Okay, maybe not of Grace, but she could have mentioned her.
I got the impression that Jane wasn’t that near to Rochester, so it was strange to hear Jane saying that she and Grace would be nipping over to pick Adele up.
I suppose we’re meant to be too busy with all that’s happened to think about the timeline of the editing and posting inuniverse.
Revenge 3.18 Blood
Aiden-heavy episode featuring quite a lot of exposition in some scenes and not enough in others.
But let’s accentuate the positives:
Bringing Mason back was more interesting than most of everything else, especially as it let me have Jack and Nolan working together for Emily. Here, I was grateful for the exposition, because although I remembered Mason had made a deal with Emily, I really didn't remember how much he knew or had/hadn't done.
The Conrad-Victoria scene was fun, mainly because of him.
I hated seeing Stevie blame herself for what happened to Mason (even though I couldn’t see that Team Emily’s takedown would be to kill him) and for a second thought she thought that Jack had been involved in killing him, which would explain the relapse. So, that was an emotional response amid tutting, head-shaking and eye-rolling. (In the abstract, obviously, a child walking in on a parent who has apparently committed suicide is distubring, but her the child was Aiden.)
Oh, and Gabriel Mann’s line reading about the Japanese weed that allowed them to get Mason out was hilarious (but faking his death and then having the other reporter fake his own death in one episode!? REALLY? However, I won’t begin down that road or this’ll quadruple in length.)
B99 - 1.16 The Party
Mildly amusing as the precinct bring their inappropriate behaviour to a grown up party. Despite the fact that he’d talked himself into stalking (ditto Santiago), of course Jake got to espouse his tolerance and mad detecting skillz. Charles scored with an older (?) lady foodie. Terry getting more and more wound up with his charges was funny, as was thingy’s montage.
The Autobiography of Jane Eyre
Ep 83 A proposal
Okay, so Jane decided to film herself crying. Okay. (Weird. Might have worked better if she’d broken into tears while starting to talk about her frustration?)
Every time she apologised, it was a national stereotype...but being sick of tea says it all. (Although maybe she could read Tolstoy...)
They have set up Simon’s proposal nicely, his rationale for why they had to be married made sense and it was an excellent clash of views. He’d thought it all out and never considered her POV and wanted to railroad her because he was so sure he was right. Which, no. I liked how the argument overlapped between nursing as a way of helping and Jane’s choice to help in other ways and their views on marriage.
This ep was more about Simon seeing Jane in a certain way and simply not getting that she’s her own person, but I do think this version of him has been shown in previous episodes to have romantic feelings for her (or who he thinks she is) that he doesn’t know how to process too, which are making him more bullheaded.
Ep 84 Fallout
Not as good. (Either under-rehearsed or over rehearsed). Shouty!Jane had most of the points on her side, and after quietening down, demanded to make them, but Simon did have a couple of just comebacks about Jane using strangers in the internet to help her make up her mind. I was still essentially on her side, because he was encroaching on her right to make her own decisions.
Given the hostility he’d shown towards her filming, it might have been a good ending for Simon to switch off the camera (and for Jane to post the fight anyway in pique).
Ep 85 Diana Says
Not sure that was strictly necessary. Granted, it was nice for Jane to have confirmation of the offline variety that Simon was wrong to propose and react the way he did, and some of Diana’s analysis was valid.
Ep 86 Apologies
Distraction number 1: empty mug acting, from the way she held it, there clearly wasn’t hot tea in it, to the placing it down on what looked like the bed!?
Distraction number 2: granted, I got why they got Simon to blather on about the brain and what we do and don’t know about how it affects thematically relevant parts of our lives, but it went on too long and even before that I was mostly thinking about the actor learning the script/the science and having to regurgitate it.
So, that was distancing.
Anyway, we went from coached apology to Simon thinking it was then all right to make a connection by lecturing Jane on the basal ganglia (ha, I did take some of it in). I don’t know that I’d react to ‘I totally think of you like my sisters’ going on to leaning in for a kiss quite how Jane did. Oh, I know the first line was bunkum and his way of allowing himself to say he loves her (or the version of her he thinks she is), and even though he’s cute like a puppy, he’s really hard work. (Definitely not looking at the YouTube comments to this vid).
So, was that sound of the door/someone shouting Jane’s name meant to take place of you know what?
Ep 87 Mischance
Quite a lot was packed into this. (We’ll ignore the little cuts, just like I did in the last episode, but I don’t understand if the first set up was via Grace’s camera, because it would make no sense for it to be Jane’s, and then the second confused me too. Grace giving her permission for the video to be made didn’t really clarify anything.)
Belligerent!Simon didn’t like the kissing being interrupted. Or the threat of Him and Jane’s past coming to take ‘his’ Jane away.
Mary’s popcorn-eating response was perfect amid all the drama. No wonder she was the one to watch the vids with Jane.
Grace’s conversation with Jane was interesting, because of how they resolved the plot issues and tried to make her sympathetic, and mostly did, because her competing loyalties came over loud and clear. Jane asked sensible questions, although she forgot Adele. I wonder if we’ll ever know more about how discovering Jane affected ‘Beth’. I also liked that they made the videos a part of the Masons' case against Rochester and for Jane to feel a measure of culpability for bringing Thornfield down.
And then the perfect ringtone for Adele and the DRAMATIC DRAMA at the end. I liked that Jane was able to calm Adele more, so I won’t kvetch that, again, the kid got forgotten. Did she know more about Beth? Did she know her mother was dead? Was she okay? These were questions Jane should have been asking. Okay, maybe not of Grace, but she could have mentioned her.
I got the impression that Jane wasn’t that near to Rochester, so it was strange to hear Jane saying that she and Grace would be nipping over to pick Adele up.
I suppose we’re meant to be too busy with all that’s happened to think about the timeline of the editing and posting inuniverse.
Revenge 3.18 Blood
Aiden-heavy episode featuring quite a lot of exposition in some scenes and not enough in others.
But let’s accentuate the positives:
Bringing Mason back was more interesting than most of everything else, especially as it let me have Jack and Nolan working together for Emily. Here, I was grateful for the exposition, because although I remembered Mason had made a deal with Emily, I really didn't remember how much he knew or had/hadn't done.
The Conrad-Victoria scene was fun, mainly because of him.
I hated seeing Stevie blame herself for what happened to Mason (even though I couldn’t see that Team Emily’s takedown would be to kill him) and for a second thought she thought that Jack had been involved in killing him, which would explain the relapse. So, that was an emotional response amid tutting, head-shaking and eye-rolling. (In the abstract, obviously, a child walking in on a parent who has apparently committed suicide is distubring, but her the child was Aiden.)
Oh, and Gabriel Mann’s line reading about the Japanese weed that allowed them to get Mason out was hilarious (but faking his death and then having the other reporter fake his own death in one episode!? REALLY? However, I won’t begin down that road or this’ll quadruple in length.)