This was my Monday night TV
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shallownessRevenge 4.15 Bait
Emily contemplates just being for two seconds, but cover-up duty calls....Phew.
Louise and Nolan as a marriage is !?!? to me, but she really needed Nolan to tell her what had come up to stop him coming along to Italy. Lymond stuck the knife into an open wound. She just wants to belong to someone.
I thought Natalie’s background would be something else – and it could still be, of course, but the reveal that she’d married grandpa Greyson deserved a well played in the battle with Victoria.
Well, Jack wasn’t going to play nice with Officer Ben after everything.
Cue a flashback to wee!Emily cuteness and sentimental sea glass. But Jack’s relationship with David has been better developed than his with Emily this season, and so when he said he was going to do what he should have done, I presumed it would be ‘leave with Carl’, although, given Carl, I wouldn’t suggest leaving Haiti. Anyway, enter the idea of the boat.
And Natalie so decided to befriend David because she knew he’d been Victoria’s, however she spins it later.
So Jack is in no mood to trust Emily, understandable, but he also wanted to use the sea glass to rekindle his former inseparableness with Wee!Amanda... I’m a shipper, but I’m not a contortionist.
Speaking of contortions, there’s keeping Lymond around too. I don’t know why they’re bothering as both Louise and their OTT mother are more charismatic. I suppose it’s for the Victoria/younger man dynamic.
And then there was an ad break and various ads just froze on my laptop, repeatedly.
Yay, Louise got to be in on a bit of the action! The twists about the assistant might matter more if we’d seen her before this episode. I blame my frustration at the ads for not realising what Jack’s attempt to guilt Margiaux rather than directly confronting her meant. But I did work out that it was the charm bracelet that wiped her computer before they showed that that was the case, which meant that they used Carl. (Er, wasn’t Jack’s visit to Officer Ben’s where he saw the kissing an impulsive act?)
And then we had the Jack declaration, and Emily not being able to accept because of gratitude, but mainly because of her identity struggles. Okay, and because she, as who she is now, isn’t in love with him. But he’s not going to wait for her. (Yes, right.)
Ooh, Ellie Bartowski is turning up!
Gotham 1.20 Under the Knife
Amount I cared about nearly everything not involving Selina and Bruce – not very much. I mean, I recognised the overlapping and the mirroring – how could I not when some of it was so unsubtle? Certainly I cared more about Moroni threatening Oswald in his very weakest spot than trying to do a chivalrous thing (oh the hidebound attitudes of this show, so less cute than the production’s nods to the past) putting Edward on the path to supervillainy.
But I loved that we followed up on Bruce and Selina and what happened in the last episode. Her rationale or explanation for killing Reggie made sense, although I remain convinced that what I said about her doing what Bruce couldn’t/didn’t want to played it’s part. And there she was with the knife, protecting Bruce again – and showing that she is used to the streets.
So there was this whole marvellous jumble of Bruce, at least, wrestling with what she’d done, still needing her help for the next step, young love, a transformation for the ball scene (every time Selina whined about the heels, I loved her more – although she can’t have worn the heels she held up or she’d have towered over him) where they were comedy gold. I was so sad for Alfred that he was stuck in a car and not in the ballroom with popcorn, because everyone watching them be cute and dancing terribly, although all spiffed up WAS adorable. Though I am sure he’d have noticed the rather obvious pickpocketing.
PS Selina, I think you’re lying when you say you don’t care that you killed a man. I think you’re repressing, big time.
But the implications of the different things they’re willing to do and directions they’ll take are fascinating.
Emily contemplates just being for two seconds, but cover-up duty calls....Phew.
Louise and Nolan as a marriage is !?!? to me, but she really needed Nolan to tell her what had come up to stop him coming along to Italy. Lymond stuck the knife into an open wound. She just wants to belong to someone.
I thought Natalie’s background would be something else – and it could still be, of course, but the reveal that she’d married grandpa Greyson deserved a well played in the battle with Victoria.
Well, Jack wasn’t going to play nice with Officer Ben after everything.
Cue a flashback to wee!Emily cuteness and sentimental sea glass. But Jack’s relationship with David has been better developed than his with Emily this season, and so when he said he was going to do what he should have done, I presumed it would be ‘leave with Carl’, although, given Carl, I wouldn’t suggest leaving Haiti. Anyway, enter the idea of the boat.
And Natalie so decided to befriend David because she knew he’d been Victoria’s, however she spins it later.
So Jack is in no mood to trust Emily, understandable, but he also wanted to use the sea glass to rekindle his former inseparableness with Wee!Amanda... I’m a shipper, but I’m not a contortionist.
Speaking of contortions, there’s keeping Lymond around too. I don’t know why they’re bothering as both Louise and their OTT mother are more charismatic. I suppose it’s for the Victoria/younger man dynamic.
And then there was an ad break and various ads just froze on my laptop, repeatedly.
Yay, Louise got to be in on a bit of the action! The twists about the assistant might matter more if we’d seen her before this episode. I blame my frustration at the ads for not realising what Jack’s attempt to guilt Margiaux rather than directly confronting her meant. But I did work out that it was the charm bracelet that wiped her computer before they showed that that was the case, which meant that they used Carl. (Er, wasn’t Jack’s visit to Officer Ben’s where he saw the kissing an impulsive act?)
And then we had the Jack declaration, and Emily not being able to accept because of gratitude, but mainly because of her identity struggles. Okay, and because she, as who she is now, isn’t in love with him. But he’s not going to wait for her. (Yes, right.)
Ooh, Ellie Bartowski is turning up!
Gotham 1.20 Under the Knife
Amount I cared about nearly everything not involving Selina and Bruce – not very much. I mean, I recognised the overlapping and the mirroring – how could I not when some of it was so unsubtle? Certainly I cared more about Moroni threatening Oswald in his very weakest spot than trying to do a chivalrous thing (oh the hidebound attitudes of this show, so less cute than the production’s nods to the past) putting Edward on the path to supervillainy.
But I loved that we followed up on Bruce and Selina and what happened in the last episode. Her rationale or explanation for killing Reggie made sense, although I remain convinced that what I said about her doing what Bruce couldn’t/didn’t want to played it’s part. And there she was with the knife, protecting Bruce again – and showing that she is used to the streets.
So there was this whole marvellous jumble of Bruce, at least, wrestling with what she’d done, still needing her help for the next step, young love, a transformation for the ball scene (every time Selina whined about the heels, I loved her more – although she can’t have worn the heels she held up or she’d have towered over him) where they were comedy gold. I was so sad for Alfred that he was stuck in a car and not in the ballroom with popcorn, because everyone watching them be cute and dancing terribly, although all spiffed up WAS adorable. Though I am sure he’d have noticed the rather obvious pickpocketing.
PS Selina, I think you’re lying when you say you don’t care that you killed a man. I think you’re repressing, big time.
But the implications of the different things they’re willing to do and directions they’ll take are fascinating.
