The Good Wife/Person of Interest
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shallownessThe Good Wife 6.14 Mind’s Eye
Watched the first half live on Thursday night, then had to stop, then rewatched the first half and watched the rest on catch-up last night.
Especially the first time around, I wasn’t sold on using this device to carry a whole episode, partly because it may have been overused by the show already. I can understand the appeal, and not just to the writers of having a character ‘write’ imaginary scenarios, but of having Alicia’s subconscious work various, er, particulars out about her life. But I was certainly starting to wonder if Alicia’d taken the no good, bad and wrong cough medicine or if she was really ill as it all got weirder. (In the second viewing, it’s clear that this isn’t happening in real time – there are jumps.) I was honestly expecting the end of the episode to be Alicia postponing the interview.
I was amused by Marissa often being the voice of reason in Alicia’s imagination and by Peter’s ‘you know we don’t talk like this, right?’ It was only on the second viewing that I picked up on the credit card advert voiceover sounding like Will.
That whole segment about the power of music was about as subtle as pneumatic drills.
I was very anti Alicia going to the hospital, with her terrifying voice, but I’d forgotten that Louis had asked her to be there for his wife.
(Richard Dawkins? Were they building up to the stiffness by making so many people in Alicia’s imagination be stiff? Again, overused device.)
Zach’s make-up was grim, although the moment where he missed her phone call made my breath catch so much more than truth vs. hypocrisy. Let alone that line about finding her voice that the Kings should have resisted so hard. In fact, I think my feelings about that line are probably coloured by most of the episode.
Shipwise, even if Alicia seems to have decided she wants to sleep with Jon, what about Finn turning up in that mind of hers too? (We will not mention what I suspect was a male mannequin standing in for Will.)
So I decided to treat myself with Person of Interest 3.6 Mors Praematura
I am glad there was no messing and that Finch knew something was up with Shaw (of course she’s punctual) and set Reese on it. Root convinced Shaw quite quickly, but with Shaw’s antagonism towards her, Root’s crazy about the Machine and both of their enjoyment of the thrill of the mission, it was lots of fun to be with them.
(A thank you from Reese would be nice, Fuscoe, but is it likely? No, it is not.)
Aww, Reese is worried about Finch being the one with the NotW, but he had Bear and hacker nous...I cackled so hard at the rescue. Also, the actor playing the NotW is on Agents of SHIELD, so I had to do some readjustment there.
So, some developments with this season’s conspiracy – who are thinking of themselves as some kind of revolutionaries – being behind all this.
Reese is a marshmallow, letting Sloan come along – although I did think that the fact that he knew his foster brother might be more of a help in finding the book that contained the key for the code than his superspecial finding skills.
I clapped my hands with glee at the revelation that the foster bro was still alive and the ladies’ mission was intertwined with the gents. (Oh, Machine!)
I enjoyed Root having to recount/brag about her previous hacking adventures to assure Jason of her bona fides.
Shaw’s boots look cool and sensible. I cackled at her punching Root, who was, frankly, being cocky. And she had warned Root that their truce would only last as long as the mission did (which Finch’s final words brought back to mind. I’m not sure whether Root or Finch is right about how the Machine will take Root’s current detainment.)
So we know a little more about Collier and his organisation, and that the Machine doesn’t like them. Jason is ‘necessary’ so presumably he’s coming back. Finch and Reese know about as much as we do, then about Vigilance. (The American revolution stuff will lose me. Hopefully they’ll continue to shoot everyone so prettily that I’ll have eye candy.)
In the much less interesting strand, blah, blah, Carter owns Latski, and the kid doesn’t realise the full iniquity of HR. (You might have to bury a friend you killed on their orders.) She the clue about HR and the Russians, which I’m sure will lead somewhere too.
Watched the first half live on Thursday night, then had to stop, then rewatched the first half and watched the rest on catch-up last night.
Especially the first time around, I wasn’t sold on using this device to carry a whole episode, partly because it may have been overused by the show already. I can understand the appeal, and not just to the writers of having a character ‘write’ imaginary scenarios, but of having Alicia’s subconscious work various, er, particulars out about her life. But I was certainly starting to wonder if Alicia’d taken the no good, bad and wrong cough medicine or if she was really ill as it all got weirder. (In the second viewing, it’s clear that this isn’t happening in real time – there are jumps.) I was honestly expecting the end of the episode to be Alicia postponing the interview.
I was amused by Marissa often being the voice of reason in Alicia’s imagination and by Peter’s ‘you know we don’t talk like this, right?’ It was only on the second viewing that I picked up on the credit card advert voiceover sounding like Will.
That whole segment about the power of music was about as subtle as pneumatic drills.
I was very anti Alicia going to the hospital, with her terrifying voice, but I’d forgotten that Louis had asked her to be there for his wife.
(Richard Dawkins? Were they building up to the stiffness by making so many people in Alicia’s imagination be stiff? Again, overused device.)
Zach’s make-up was grim, although the moment where he missed her phone call made my breath catch so much more than truth vs. hypocrisy. Let alone that line about finding her voice that the Kings should have resisted so hard. In fact, I think my feelings about that line are probably coloured by most of the episode.
Shipwise, even if Alicia seems to have decided she wants to sleep with Jon, what about Finn turning up in that mind of hers too? (We will not mention what I suspect was a male mannequin standing in for Will.)
So I decided to treat myself with Person of Interest 3.6 Mors Praematura
I am glad there was no messing and that Finch knew something was up with Shaw (of course she’s punctual) and set Reese on it. Root convinced Shaw quite quickly, but with Shaw’s antagonism towards her, Root’s crazy about the Machine and both of their enjoyment of the thrill of the mission, it was lots of fun to be with them.
(A thank you from Reese would be nice, Fuscoe, but is it likely? No, it is not.)
Aww, Reese is worried about Finch being the one with the NotW, but he had Bear and hacker nous...I cackled so hard at the rescue. Also, the actor playing the NotW is on Agents of SHIELD, so I had to do some readjustment there.
So, some developments with this season’s conspiracy – who are thinking of themselves as some kind of revolutionaries – being behind all this.
Reese is a marshmallow, letting Sloan come along – although I did think that the fact that he knew his foster brother might be more of a help in finding the book that contained the key for the code than his superspecial finding skills.
I clapped my hands with glee at the revelation that the foster bro was still alive and the ladies’ mission was intertwined with the gents. (Oh, Machine!)
I enjoyed Root having to recount/brag about her previous hacking adventures to assure Jason of her bona fides.
Shaw’s boots look cool and sensible. I cackled at her punching Root, who was, frankly, being cocky. And she had warned Root that their truce would only last as long as the mission did (which Finch’s final words brought back to mind. I’m not sure whether Root or Finch is right about how the Machine will take Root’s current detainment.)
So we know a little more about Collier and his organisation, and that the Machine doesn’t like them. Jason is ‘necessary’ so presumably he’s coming back. Finch and Reese know about as much as we do, then about Vigilance. (The American revolution stuff will lose me. Hopefully they’ll continue to shoot everyone so prettily that I’ll have eye candy.)
In the much less interesting strand, blah, blah, Carter owns Latski, and the kid doesn’t realise the full iniquity of HR. (You might have to bury a friend you killed on their orders.) She the clue about HR and the Russians, which I’m sure will lead somewhere too.
