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shallowness) wrote2015-03-28 08:27 am
shallowness) wrote2015-03-28 08:27 am
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My Friday night TV watching
Agents of SHIELD 2.11 Aftershocks
...with most people seeming to blame themselves in their grief after losing Tripp, and Jemma joining Mac on the anti-alien side. Meanwhile Skye’s face became more and more vulnerable – I wanted someone to give her a hug long, long before she asked for one (from team!Mom May). I am glad that Fitz (someone! And an entirely logical someone given what he’d been through) was able to do so and offer her hope, especially given what daddy dear was saying.
Hunter’s American accent was quite shonky. Probably not helped by acting opposite someone with an RP accent.
The show is becoming even more Coulson/May, although the second they both got shot, I knew it was a set up. Quite a ruthless plan, that.
Raina looked so alien and cool. I loved the practical details about the pain that her thorns were causing her. Although the opening teleportation was nothing new (and why wasn’t Skye’s mother speaking Chinese of some variety with the other man?) the forcefield rescue was striking.
So, Bobbi and Mac are maybe interested in what Fury left behind? I refuse to speculate on everything else (HYDRA, increased(?) alien interaction or how it’ll fit in with what goes on at the movies.
The Musketeers 2.10 Trial and Punishment
Lots of intensity, but it felt unbalanced that our heroes all survived mostly intact – although it was reassuring to know that the third series will be on a war footing, it meant that Aramis was a monk for less than two days. I find myself presuming that Milady will be back in some way, and wondering who the big bad will be next season.
Rochefort really was a big bad all of this episode and the past few. I suppose that having all four of the Musketeers (and Constance!) have a part in his death/execution was fair, even if I remain a bit unconvinced that D’Artagnan should have been the one to deliver the final blows. Utterly monstrous – and with the echo of the attempted rape and his twistedness about love, his scenes with Anne were thoroughly gripping, while you felt his lack of sympathy when he took Louis’s son away from him. Of course, he was just a tool like Marguerite. Full-hilt villainy.
The opening scene suffered the same issues as the Le May execution – battling memories of Wolf Hall. So my thinking process was ‘they can’t kill off Constance, surely there’s going to be a Daring Rescue, my that’s a floral cloak, Rochefort.’ Cue Dramatic Rescue. I loved Constance for this episode. It’s like changing clothes helped calm her after what must have been pretty traumatic. I loved her argument that she was coming too and D’Artagnan had to take it, and then she was an Honorary Musketeer – the quip about bringing men along with her to Vargas deserved an A* - loyal to her Queen. It felt a little deflating to see her return to domesticity, taking care of Nameless. But the wedding and how she was as a Musketeer’s wife was lovely – we needed some romantic HEA, and Constance and D’Artagnan were the most likely route.
Poor Nameless. He was the one I was most worried about once Constance was safe. I loved how his cries replaced the peacocks. Gage was outstanding at Louis’s response to the possibility that his son wasn’t his.
But the only one to fall was Marguerite. Like Louis, a pawn you felt sorry for as Rochefort carried on inexorably with his plots. As the fact that Aramis had used her to get close to the baby came out, and thus what Rochefort had been blackmailing her with became public (the way that all the courtiers outside the room seemed to know was a bit hard to believe. It’s not like the case was being streamed live. Maybe they were ALL listening in through spy-holes) it became too much.
I don’t know that Aramis ever really shouldered that burden, though. I think it was more the Vow and what Porthos said last week about the best service to Anne being disclaiming paternity. I have vague memories of the character becoming an ecclesiastic figure in the stories, so that would have been a nice touch had it stuck a bit longer. Although the image of the musketeers racing to resoldier him was a good one, it might have served the overall story better to end with them sundered for that to sink in.
Poor Porthos. He’d had so much fun setting up his ambush of Vargas. They need to give him more to do in the next series.
Oh, Anne. Most of what she got to go around Rochefort was great.
Minister of War seems a better job for Treville. He couldn’t refuse, not when Louis’s council was decimated, Anne’s return to favour, despite all the smiles, was on such a shaky basis. And turning on Spain was so Louis – and although Rochefort was acting for himself by the end, it makes sense.
By the way, I really liked how Vargas worked in all of this, despite only being introduced now.
Captain Athos, eh. Never mind him, what about his missus. I loved her rescue, as we must indeed call it, of Aramis. Now while I totally buy her deciding after all that had happened to leave for England, I don’t think they’d built up to her speech to Athos at all. One line from Aramis about not taking death so lightly wouldn’t be enough to interact with all we’ve seen to bring out this feeling of heaviness/guilt she talked about. In fact, it left me thinking she was basically telling Athos what he wanted to hear to make him come with her, instead of making me take it on face value. And then he couldn’t make his Last Minute Dash in time, or that was my impression.
She’ll be back, though, WON’T SHE?
As ever, lots of gorgeousness in the background.
So, a lot of this was gripping, but I am not sure about all the pay-offs from what happened, either structurally or emotionally, I think.
...with most people seeming to blame themselves in their grief after losing Tripp, and Jemma joining Mac on the anti-alien side. Meanwhile Skye’s face became more and more vulnerable – I wanted someone to give her a hug long, long before she asked for one (from team!Mom May). I am glad that Fitz (someone! And an entirely logical someone given what he’d been through) was able to do so and offer her hope, especially given what daddy dear was saying.
Hunter’s American accent was quite shonky. Probably not helped by acting opposite someone with an RP accent.
The show is becoming even more Coulson/May, although the second they both got shot, I knew it was a set up. Quite a ruthless plan, that.
Raina looked so alien and cool. I loved the practical details about the pain that her thorns were causing her. Although the opening teleportation was nothing new (and why wasn’t Skye’s mother speaking Chinese of some variety with the other man?) the forcefield rescue was striking.
So, Bobbi and Mac are maybe interested in what Fury left behind? I refuse to speculate on everything else (HYDRA, increased(?) alien interaction or how it’ll fit in with what goes on at the movies.
The Musketeers 2.10 Trial and Punishment
Lots of intensity, but it felt unbalanced that our heroes all survived mostly intact – although it was reassuring to know that the third series will be on a war footing, it meant that Aramis was a monk for less than two days. I find myself presuming that Milady will be back in some way, and wondering who the big bad will be next season.
Rochefort really was a big bad all of this episode and the past few. I suppose that having all four of the Musketeers (and Constance!) have a part in his death/execution was fair, even if I remain a bit unconvinced that D’Artagnan should have been the one to deliver the final blows. Utterly monstrous – and with the echo of the attempted rape and his twistedness about love, his scenes with Anne were thoroughly gripping, while you felt his lack of sympathy when he took Louis’s son away from him. Of course, he was just a tool like Marguerite. Full-hilt villainy.
The opening scene suffered the same issues as the Le May execution – battling memories of Wolf Hall. So my thinking process was ‘they can’t kill off Constance, surely there’s going to be a Daring Rescue, my that’s a floral cloak, Rochefort.’ Cue Dramatic Rescue. I loved Constance for this episode. It’s like changing clothes helped calm her after what must have been pretty traumatic. I loved her argument that she was coming too and D’Artagnan had to take it, and then she was an Honorary Musketeer – the quip about bringing men along with her to Vargas deserved an A* - loyal to her Queen. It felt a little deflating to see her return to domesticity, taking care of Nameless. But the wedding and how she was as a Musketeer’s wife was lovely – we needed some romantic HEA, and Constance and D’Artagnan were the most likely route.
Poor Nameless. He was the one I was most worried about once Constance was safe. I loved how his cries replaced the peacocks. Gage was outstanding at Louis’s response to the possibility that his son wasn’t his.
But the only one to fall was Marguerite. Like Louis, a pawn you felt sorry for as Rochefort carried on inexorably with his plots. As the fact that Aramis had used her to get close to the baby came out, and thus what Rochefort had been blackmailing her with became public (the way that all the courtiers outside the room seemed to know was a bit hard to believe. It’s not like the case was being streamed live. Maybe they were ALL listening in through spy-holes) it became too much.
I don’t know that Aramis ever really shouldered that burden, though. I think it was more the Vow and what Porthos said last week about the best service to Anne being disclaiming paternity. I have vague memories of the character becoming an ecclesiastic figure in the stories, so that would have been a nice touch had it stuck a bit longer. Although the image of the musketeers racing to resoldier him was a good one, it might have served the overall story better to end with them sundered for that to sink in.
Poor Porthos. He’d had so much fun setting up his ambush of Vargas. They need to give him more to do in the next series.
Oh, Anne. Most of what she got to go around Rochefort was great.
Minister of War seems a better job for Treville. He couldn’t refuse, not when Louis’s council was decimated, Anne’s return to favour, despite all the smiles, was on such a shaky basis. And turning on Spain was so Louis – and although Rochefort was acting for himself by the end, it makes sense.
By the way, I really liked how Vargas worked in all of this, despite only being introduced now.
Captain Athos, eh. Never mind him, what about his missus. I loved her rescue, as we must indeed call it, of Aramis. Now while I totally buy her deciding after all that had happened to leave for England, I don’t think they’d built up to her speech to Athos at all. One line from Aramis about not taking death so lightly wouldn’t be enough to interact with all we’ve seen to bring out this feeling of heaviness/guilt she talked about. In fact, it left me thinking she was basically telling Athos what he wanted to hear to make him come with her, instead of making me take it on face value. And then he couldn’t make his Last Minute Dash in time, or that was my impression.
She’ll be back, though, WON’T SHE?
As ever, lots of gorgeousness in the background.
So, a lot of this was gripping, but I am not sure about all the pay-offs from what happened, either structurally or emotionally, I think.