Monday sandwich
Nov. 18th, 2014 08:06 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shallownessI started catching up on The Mindy Project, switched to watching Gotham live during the break, and then went back to TMP.
The Mindy Project 2.20 An Officer and a Gynaecologist
The first half amused me. I could believe the crazy stunts that Mindy and Danny got into and enjoyed them. A nice awkward-friends-with-history-and-FEELINGS-is-what-we-are-now moment between Danny and Mindy at the hospital. Watching Mindy delusionally hang out with Jenny raised the obligatory ‘and when did you last hang out with a woman your own age?’ question. (Answer: not this season.)
I then watched Gotham (see below), which may have contributed to my chuckling more at the second half. But it wasn’t just absence and contrast, I think it was the quality of the writing, and the casting.
No, Danny, you don’t get to look at Mindy like that any more! At least he seemed not to be set to stop stringing Ally along.
Gotham 1.06
I sighed when we went back 10 years. I sighed when we saw ‘the son of the goat’ (what was that all about? I almost wished the mythology had been significant, instead of dressing for blaming the 1%) and his silly hood and growly voice. Remind us of anyone? Sigh. (Although wee!Bruce snarking at him was worthy of a small smile.)
And I sighed too at Harvey turning out to have been the Jim Gordon once – although at least they stuck to the impetuosity. Why yes, do go and face the hypnotist behind the killers all on your own. I’ll just admire the production design because like with most of this episode, I knew what was coming. (I had already wished Patrick Jane would turn up and mock the detective work, but then Harvey mentioned a ‘person of interest’ and there seems to be no sign of that returning to five and doing this sort of thing better.)
The most interesting bits were incidental to the case of the week – Oswald and Mama (Oedipal, OF COURSE, but Carol Kane’s Mama going after Jim is bound to be more interesting than Renee’s ever so slightly jealousy-driven mission) and Selina stealing off Bruce. Well, she saw the Wall, so she’s been warned. Also, that looked like a personalised silver doo-dad, surely hard to fence. They have to talk at some point, right? (Although I like the actor who plays him more, while all of her best moments have been silent, really.)
I look back at the wilderness years between Batman Returns and when Batman: the Animated Series was on telly here and The Dark Knight Rises and shake my head. How could I forget that BatCat is an OTP of mine!? I'm not saying I'm shipping them as kids right now on this show, although I'm really interested in how her being a witness to his parents' murder will change their relationship.
Meanwhile, we had more Nygma time, and he’s just...annoying, nowhere near as charismatic as Oswald. If it’s just Bullock refusing to let him finish a riddle that makes him flip, I will do more than sigh. I wanted Kristen Kringle (that’s a comic book name, surely, but does she become someone significant?) to do violence to him and spare us all, after burning that hideous skirt, frankly. Yeah, there’s a reason I like Batman.
Although Bruce was grossly insensitive about Alfred.
I'll try to finish catching up with The Mindy Project's second season ASAP.
The Mindy Project 2.20 An Officer and a Gynaecologist
The first half amused me. I could believe the crazy stunts that Mindy and Danny got into and enjoyed them. A nice awkward-friends-with-history-and-FEELINGS-is-what-we-are-now moment between Danny and Mindy at the hospital. Watching Mindy delusionally hang out with Jenny raised the obligatory ‘and when did you last hang out with a woman your own age?’ question. (Answer: not this season.)
I then watched Gotham (see below), which may have contributed to my chuckling more at the second half. But it wasn’t just absence and contrast, I think it was the quality of the writing, and the casting.
No, Danny, you don’t get to look at Mindy like that any more! At least he seemed not to be set to stop stringing Ally along.
Gotham 1.06
I sighed when we went back 10 years. I sighed when we saw ‘the son of the goat’ (what was that all about? I almost wished the mythology had been significant, instead of dressing for blaming the 1%) and his silly hood and growly voice. Remind us of anyone? Sigh. (Although wee!Bruce snarking at him was worthy of a small smile.)
And I sighed too at Harvey turning out to have been the Jim Gordon once – although at least they stuck to the impetuosity. Why yes, do go and face the hypnotist behind the killers all on your own. I’ll just admire the production design because like with most of this episode, I knew what was coming. (I had already wished Patrick Jane would turn up and mock the detective work, but then Harvey mentioned a ‘person of interest’ and there seems to be no sign of that returning to five and doing this sort of thing better.)
The most interesting bits were incidental to the case of the week – Oswald and Mama (Oedipal, OF COURSE, but Carol Kane’s Mama going after Jim is bound to be more interesting than Renee’s ever so slightly jealousy-driven mission) and Selina stealing off Bruce. Well, she saw the Wall, so she’s been warned. Also, that looked like a personalised silver doo-dad, surely hard to fence. They have to talk at some point, right? (Although I like the actor who plays him more, while all of her best moments have been silent, really.)
I look back at the wilderness years between Batman Returns and when Batman: the Animated Series was on telly here and The Dark Knight Rises and shake my head. How could I forget that BatCat is an OTP of mine!? I'm not saying I'm shipping them as kids right now on this show, although I'm really interested in how her being a witness to his parents' murder will change their relationship.
Meanwhile, we had more Nygma time, and he’s just...annoying, nowhere near as charismatic as Oswald. If it’s just Bullock refusing to let him finish a riddle that makes him flip, I will do more than sigh. I wanted Kristen Kringle (that’s a comic book name, surely, but does she become someone significant?) to do violence to him and spare us all, after burning that hideous skirt, frankly. Yeah, there’s a reason I like Batman.
Although Bruce was grossly insensitive about Alfred.
I'll try to finish catching up with The Mindy Project's second season ASAP.
