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shallownessI was tired and spaced on Thursday, when I watched B99, so all I will say is I am thankful that the show continues to raise its game for its Thanksgiving episodes.
A phrase in the Guardian review of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, describing it as anti-fan-fiction crystallises my problem with the book and why I won’t be seeing the movie.
On Sunday night, I chose to watch Agents of SHIELD over the Baftas – the thing that swung it was that with AoS, I’d get to bed earlier. I saw a few glimpses of the frocks and results in the ad breaks.
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They can drag out May and Morse hunting down Ward for several episodes, if they like, as they were dynamite. Oh, and especially if Fitz is their back up, as I enjoy his relationship with Bobbi (I also like Fitz-Daisy but have we had any scenes between them yet this season?)
At the start of the episode, I was ‘meh’ about Andrew surviving, but Melinda was still furious with Hunter anyway. The fact that Coulson (appeared to have) saved Andrew was delicious, and even if Coulson was mainly focused on whether May was back on his team, I was reading all kinds of subtext into it. I can play the long game with Philinda. Even after we got the relative bonding between Coulson and whatshername (it was never established if the break-in was real or not). I still snickered over Daisy not liking her father figure’s potential new girlfriend. The ‘professionals’ & ‘found family’ dynamic is rich ground.
Also entertaining - Daisy and Mac’s reactions to Hunter, on the comeback trail after failing to catch Ward. And who can blame them as he flipped between terrible and decent ideas?
The big reveal about Andrew was a good one in that it put everything he’s done, from refusing to let Inhumans join Daisy’s team to pushing Melinda away, in a new light. I would like to know why he’s such a superspecial Inhuman.
Daisy expecting Coulson to go postal at ACTU central? Naive. For one thing, he’d probably like to be allowed back out of there. I daresay there’s going to be lots of fighting over what they’re going to do about it. It's not justifiable, although it will be rich of SHIELD people to go, like I did, 'and to whom are you accountable for taking this unilateral decision with people's lives? Nobody. You just thought it was a good idea because you're seeing it a certain way, which the season 2 Inhumans, at least, would refute'.
I was glad of the Daisy/Linc moment, especially because he is just paranoid enough, while she hopes and trusts. I probably shouldn’t get too invested in the relationship, though.
A good dose of ‘shut up, Hunter’ as leaving someone stranded on a remote desert planet is utterly unfair, even if studly Will has kyboshed Fitz’s hopes for a romance with Jemma.
Powers Booth has such a great voice for eeeevil doings. Ward is a bit of a petulant manager.
But this show could just send Bobbi and Melinda off on all the missions. Them nattering away in Mandarin! I actually think that ‘not fighting’ first is a perfectly viable tactic from a spy, even if Melinda took it as cowardice. I know the point was whether Bobbi felt herself to be field ready, but May could have examined whether she had her rage under control. Anyway, having Bobbi of the reduced lung capacity have to fight in a swimming pool was good. Having the bad guy sneer and call her ‘girl’ was deftly handled by her showing she was a woman who could beat him and, now that I think about it, made ‘Experience’ a better kiss-off line than I thought it was. I don’t remember if we’ve seen the batons go electric before, or if that was another upgrade of Fitz’s.
Gotham s2 ep 5 Scarification
So, this was trundling along nicely, Theo and Tabitha weren’t being dull as they conversed about her handling the criminal activities, if she couldn’t be too bored (lampshade?) to bother, while he publicly ran his campaign. Penguin fretted about his mother, and Lee mocked the ‘Strike Force’ title. Sure, the Strike Force forcefully striking men in their pants and vests (why?) and Gordon getting played by Gallivan wasn’t all that, BUT Selina got development. She got Bechdel passing development! They remembered the protection of other girls element. I was delighted to see her being a friend of a dark-haired girl instead of a rival to a blonde.
The girl they’d cast for Bridget was interesting, her young voice belying her features, almost. I liked that for all she and Selina talked about ‘when we were kids’ that they were treated as kids, that there was no sexualisation – the ‘brothers’ were creepy enough, and that their mothers got a good mention. That one of them put up with abuse to have a family, that one of them didn’t to be all alone. Or she said she didn’t, but Penguin and Butch were using her, even if she was getting paid.
How Selina perked up at the thought of Fish loving her! How I wish we’d been able to see a bit more of that on screen!
I also really liked Bridget being resourceful and creating her own suit, old sewing machine and all. It could be taken as as much as a nod forward to another suit as Gallavan calling Gordon a symbol of hope.
Poor girl, though. It seemed like the ‘entryman’ did all the work in this so-called team. And I thought that her dropping the eyeball would lead to more ramifications – that they needed it for a safe in every location. Anyway, her ‘family’ left her in the lurch, a frightened kid with a devastating weapon.
As the cop was one of the bland strike force (the only one who stands out for me is the lady), although it was a horrible way to go, tackling someone they should have pegged as a young girl or boy with a flame-thrower like that probably wasn’t something they taught at the Academy. Has Bridget crossed a line? She acted out of fear, there, but she had started enjoying being an arsonist.
I imagine ‘home’ means somewhere different to her and Selina. Will be interesting to see what happens next there (but when is Ivy going to return?)
I snickered at The Merc being like a wholesaler for weapons, down to the messages over the tannoy.
So, it was all trundling along well, until we had the scene with the Wayne knife in Penguin’s candlelight lair. I liked the antiquest lady, partly because there was a hint of Oswald’s mother there, but it felt like we’d stepped into a wholly different genre, where cursed blades and two hundred year old blood feuds are the norm. The flashback was just so odd.
And then the final scene, which my head could rationalise as this show being unable to go for League of Shadows because they’re on Arrow. Also, even if they bring in Barbara as a Kane descendent, Bruce isn’t going to die, so I can't say there's that much tension, Bruce and Jim are just going to be awfully disappointed, is all, and, frankly, Theo can go, despite old loyalty to James Frain, because ARVIN SLOAN. Ron Rifkin can just about sell me on a fervent mentor on a mission involving historical artefacts that leaves destruction in its wake turning up on this show.
A phrase in the Guardian review of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, describing it as anti-fan-fiction crystallises my problem with the book and why I won’t be seeing the movie.
On Sunday night, I chose to watch Agents of SHIELD over the Baftas – the thing that swung it was that with AoS, I’d get to bed earlier. I saw a few glimpses of the frocks and results in the ad breaks.
3.6 Among Us Hide...
They can drag out May and Morse hunting down Ward for several episodes, if they like, as they were dynamite. Oh, and especially if Fitz is their back up, as I enjoy his relationship with Bobbi (I also like Fitz-Daisy but have we had any scenes between them yet this season?)
At the start of the episode, I was ‘meh’ about Andrew surviving, but Melinda was still furious with Hunter anyway. The fact that Coulson (appeared to have) saved Andrew was delicious, and even if Coulson was mainly focused on whether May was back on his team, I was reading all kinds of subtext into it. I can play the long game with Philinda. Even after we got the relative bonding between Coulson and whatshername (it was never established if the break-in was real or not). I still snickered over Daisy not liking her father figure’s potential new girlfriend. The ‘professionals’ & ‘found family’ dynamic is rich ground.
Also entertaining - Daisy and Mac’s reactions to Hunter, on the comeback trail after failing to catch Ward. And who can blame them as he flipped between terrible and decent ideas?
The big reveal about Andrew was a good one in that it put everything he’s done, from refusing to let Inhumans join Daisy’s team to pushing Melinda away, in a new light. I would like to know why he’s such a superspecial Inhuman.
Daisy expecting Coulson to go postal at ACTU central? Naive. For one thing, he’d probably like to be allowed back out of there. I daresay there’s going to be lots of fighting over what they’re going to do about it. It's not justifiable, although it will be rich of SHIELD people to go, like I did, 'and to whom are you accountable for taking this unilateral decision with people's lives? Nobody. You just thought it was a good idea because you're seeing it a certain way, which the season 2 Inhumans, at least, would refute'.
I was glad of the Daisy/Linc moment, especially because he is just paranoid enough, while she hopes and trusts. I probably shouldn’t get too invested in the relationship, though.
A good dose of ‘shut up, Hunter’ as leaving someone stranded on a remote desert planet is utterly unfair, even if studly Will has kyboshed Fitz’s hopes for a romance with Jemma.
Powers Booth has such a great voice for eeeevil doings. Ward is a bit of a petulant manager.
But this show could just send Bobbi and Melinda off on all the missions. Them nattering away in Mandarin! I actually think that ‘not fighting’ first is a perfectly viable tactic from a spy, even if Melinda took it as cowardice. I know the point was whether Bobbi felt herself to be field ready, but May could have examined whether she had her rage under control. Anyway, having Bobbi of the reduced lung capacity have to fight in a swimming pool was good. Having the bad guy sneer and call her ‘girl’ was deftly handled by her showing she was a woman who could beat him and, now that I think about it, made ‘Experience’ a better kiss-off line than I thought it was. I don’t remember if we’ve seen the batons go electric before, or if that was another upgrade of Fitz’s.
Gotham s2 ep 5 Scarification
So, this was trundling along nicely, Theo and Tabitha weren’t being dull as they conversed about her handling the criminal activities, if she couldn’t be too bored (lampshade?) to bother, while he publicly ran his campaign. Penguin fretted about his mother, and Lee mocked the ‘Strike Force’ title. Sure, the Strike Force forcefully striking men in their pants and vests (why?) and Gordon getting played by Gallivan wasn’t all that, BUT Selina got development. She got Bechdel passing development! They remembered the protection of other girls element. I was delighted to see her being a friend of a dark-haired girl instead of a rival to a blonde.
The girl they’d cast for Bridget was interesting, her young voice belying her features, almost. I liked that for all she and Selina talked about ‘when we were kids’ that they were treated as kids, that there was no sexualisation – the ‘brothers’ were creepy enough, and that their mothers got a good mention. That one of them put up with abuse to have a family, that one of them didn’t to be all alone. Or she said she didn’t, but Penguin and Butch were using her, even if she was getting paid.
How Selina perked up at the thought of Fish loving her! How I wish we’d been able to see a bit more of that on screen!
I also really liked Bridget being resourceful and creating her own suit, old sewing machine and all. It could be taken as as much as a nod forward to another suit as Gallavan calling Gordon a symbol of hope.
Poor girl, though. It seemed like the ‘entryman’ did all the work in this so-called team. And I thought that her dropping the eyeball would lead to more ramifications – that they needed it for a safe in every location. Anyway, her ‘family’ left her in the lurch, a frightened kid with a devastating weapon.
As the cop was one of the bland strike force (the only one who stands out for me is the lady), although it was a horrible way to go, tackling someone they should have pegged as a young girl or boy with a flame-thrower like that probably wasn’t something they taught at the Academy. Has Bridget crossed a line? She acted out of fear, there, but she had started enjoying being an arsonist.
I imagine ‘home’ means somewhere different to her and Selina. Will be interesting to see what happens next there (but when is Ivy going to return?)
I snickered at The Merc being like a wholesaler for weapons, down to the messages over the tannoy.
So, it was all trundling along well, until we had the scene with the Wayne knife in Penguin’s candlelight lair. I liked the antiquest lady, partly because there was a hint of Oswald’s mother there, but it felt like we’d stepped into a wholly different genre, where cursed blades and two hundred year old blood feuds are the norm. The flashback was just so odd.
And then the final scene, which my head could rationalise as this show being unable to go for League of Shadows because they’re on Arrow. Also, even if they bring in Barbara as a Kane descendent, Bruce isn’t going to die, so I can't say there's that much tension, Bruce and Jim are just going to be awfully disappointed, is all, and, frankly, Theo can go, despite old loyalty to James Frain, because ARVIN SLOAN. Ron Rifkin can just about sell me on a fervent mentor on a mission involving historical artefacts that leaves destruction in its wake turning up on this show.
