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shallowness) wrote2014-12-10 07:50 am
shallowness) wrote2014-12-10 07:50 am
Marvel and DC on TV
Agents of SHIELD 2.07 The Writing on the Wall
I thought this episode was fine. I didn’t remember that Coulson had initially been in charge of the TAHITI project (did we know? Quite probably we did, and I didn’t care.) I still don’t see an inuniverse reason why they wouldn’t bring in Tony, Bruce or Jane and Erik in on the city. Honestly, when the Avengers find out that Phil is still alive in the next movie, I hope that Joss will be aware that the audience is over it and not make a big deal about the reveal.
I am not bothered that this stage is over (but there’s no way that the alien artefact and creature feature stage is over, Mac).
Don’t get snippy about the new recruits, Ward, I like Bobbi fine.
I enjoyed the amnesiac spy (a total Hey, It’s That Guy) instinctively pulling off superspy moves, although it would have been even better if he’d thought to neutralise the guy with the knife! (I also had notes to Skye about not trusting Coulson when she’d just been given good reason not to trust Coulson. That was a step back to Fringeless Season 1 Skye.)
But then I didn’t enjoy Coulson speechlfying towards the end. Granted, he had to get everyone on board – there are so many of them lined together, it looks as if the double plot is going to be the way to go – but did he have to speechify?
Oh, but I did like the double eureka moment where I realised what Ward was up to with Bakhshi (Skye put it well when she compared him to a cat bringing its catches...for the human to look at it in bewildered dimsy) and Coulson was driven (crazy) by his need to know.
Gotham 1.09 Harvey Dent
A crowded episode – everyone bar the much mentioned Falcone turned up, pretty much.
I was most entertained by the Bruce and Selina stuff, because Bruce fancying her (of course) and how he went about it was really amusing. In terms of what happened, whoa, this show isn’t afraid of frontloading everything, and the way kissing came up and the food fight almost made up for Selina not pushing him in the pool etc. (I may have overthought what wee!Bruce and wee!Selina meeting would be like.)
Having shown us more of Wayne Manor, mainly from the outside, as she stalked his province, it looks like next week he’s going to her turf. Setting aside my Selina/Bruce tendencies, I think it’s a good tactic in terms of the actors, because she might improve from hanging around with him. I saw glimmerings of it in this episode, although she’s certainly not good enough to improve the lines she’s got as yet.
Also the best baddie, still, was Oswald. (RUN AWAY, LIZA, and RUN AWAY GOOD, not like Barbara’s version of running away.) Silly Fish, underestimating Penguin. (Ohhhhhh. Suddenly getting that nomenclature. Feeling stupid.)
Amidst the glimpses of Edward, the proto Riddler, we were introduced to Harvey Dent. I’ll be honest, I thought someone else had been cast in the part, but I could see why they chose this guy in the transformation scene, which must have been the audition scene, although he was dialled up to 10 the whole episode, and then zoomed up to 15 for the same amount of seconds. Looking ahead, though, I’m not sure that having nearly ALL the supervillains be a decade-or-more older than Bruce makes sense. I know that they want them to have some relationship with Jim (because some aspects of Jim’s relationship with Bruce are hilarious, even if it’s mediated through Alfred) but it’s noticeable that the only contemporaries to the future Bat are Cat and Poison Ivy (girls, if I have to spell it out, although at least they’re his age and not babies.)
Jim did stuff, like be understandably rude and disrespectful to the Mayor, but apart from bringing Arkham Asylum into the game, who cares?
I also cracked open my DS9 DVD boxset last night. SO GOOD. I won’t get into it now, maybe I’ll do a DVD by DVD thing like with Buffy, but I geeked out happily.
I thought this episode was fine. I didn’t remember that Coulson had initially been in charge of the TAHITI project (did we know? Quite probably we did, and I didn’t care.) I still don’t see an inuniverse reason why they wouldn’t bring in Tony, Bruce or Jane and Erik in on the city. Honestly, when the Avengers find out that Phil is still alive in the next movie, I hope that Joss will be aware that the audience is over it and not make a big deal about the reveal.
I am not bothered that this stage is over (but there’s no way that the alien artefact and creature feature stage is over, Mac).
Don’t get snippy about the new recruits, Ward, I like Bobbi fine.
I enjoyed the amnesiac spy (a total Hey, It’s That Guy) instinctively pulling off superspy moves, although it would have been even better if he’d thought to neutralise the guy with the knife! (I also had notes to Skye about not trusting Coulson when she’d just been given good reason not to trust Coulson. That was a step back to Fringeless Season 1 Skye.)
But then I didn’t enjoy Coulson speechlfying towards the end. Granted, he had to get everyone on board – there are so many of them lined together, it looks as if the double plot is going to be the way to go – but did he have to speechify?
Oh, but I did like the double eureka moment where I realised what Ward was up to with Bakhshi (Skye put it well when she compared him to a cat bringing its catches...for the human to look at it in bewildered dimsy) and Coulson was driven (crazy) by his need to know.
Gotham 1.09 Harvey Dent
A crowded episode – everyone bar the much mentioned Falcone turned up, pretty much.
I was most entertained by the Bruce and Selina stuff, because Bruce fancying her (of course) and how he went about it was really amusing. In terms of what happened, whoa, this show isn’t afraid of frontloading everything, and the way kissing came up and the food fight almost made up for Selina not pushing him in the pool etc. (I may have overthought what wee!Bruce and wee!Selina meeting would be like.)
Having shown us more of Wayne Manor, mainly from the outside, as she stalked his province, it looks like next week he’s going to her turf. Setting aside my Selina/Bruce tendencies, I think it’s a good tactic in terms of the actors, because she might improve from hanging around with him. I saw glimmerings of it in this episode, although she’s certainly not good enough to improve the lines she’s got as yet.
Also the best baddie, still, was Oswald. (RUN AWAY, LIZA, and RUN AWAY GOOD, not like Barbara’s version of running away.) Silly Fish, underestimating Penguin. (Ohhhhhh. Suddenly getting that nomenclature. Feeling stupid.)
Amidst the glimpses of Edward, the proto Riddler, we were introduced to Harvey Dent. I’ll be honest, I thought someone else had been cast in the part, but I could see why they chose this guy in the transformation scene, which must have been the audition scene, although he was dialled up to 10 the whole episode, and then zoomed up to 15 for the same amount of seconds. Looking ahead, though, I’m not sure that having nearly ALL the supervillains be a decade-or-more older than Bruce makes sense. I know that they want them to have some relationship with Jim (because some aspects of Jim’s relationship with Bruce are hilarious, even if it’s mediated through Alfred) but it’s noticeable that the only contemporaries to the future Bat are Cat and Poison Ivy (girls, if I have to spell it out, although at least they’re his age and not babies.)
Jim did stuff, like be understandably rude and disrespectful to the Mayor, but apart from bringing Arkham Asylum into the game, who cares?
I also cracked open my DS9 DVD boxset last night. SO GOOD. I won’t get into it now, maybe I’ll do a DVD by DVD thing like with Buffy, but I geeked out happily.