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shallowness) wrote2016-04-08 08:01 am
shallowness) wrote2016-04-08 08:01 am
Entry tags:
- home fires,
- scorpion,
- tv,
- uk
Silence the bells and launch the rocket
Home Fires series 2 episode 1
It opened by slowly catching us up with everyone, although some characters got more attention than others. Dunkirk has happened and the big thing in the village is that Czech soldiers have arrived and Italy has gone to war, so there’s suddenly a convenient Italian lady in the village, who has been there for 19 years, but not last season. Also I don’t remember the Thomas in the camp who was keen on Laura.
The probably anachronistic dialogue and attitudes I do remember (though they did manage not to have all our WI heroines have the approved contemporary take on everything), but also the fancy camera shots and the beautiful countryside.
Miriam Brindley still has a bee in her bonnet, and I am not as sympathetic to her plight as the show would like.
Sarah’s house guest is back on the base to carry on tempting her by staring at her like he’d give her the moon while Vicar Adam is a prisoner of war, which is a triangle I’m invested in, but from a story POV having the absent husband/tempted wife/nice soldier play out with Pat/the horrible Bob/Captain Marek too seems a bit lazy. And fast-moving. Sadly, we learn, Bob was only partially blown up.
During the build up to it, I was regretting that the big meeting wasn’t a WI one, but for the whole village, but it worked out well, with Sarah getting to do her speech, with her sister’s support and Jenny’s revengeful spite in spilling Claire and Spencer’s news getting baffled. I think Mrs Barden has her eye on her as the next member of the WI.
Obviously, I want to know what Alison has agreed to – can they make Patriotic Accounting exciting?
And then they crammed in even moar drama into the last scene, cleverly making it a non-war-related tragedy and shaking up the driving force of the WI/village/show.
Scorpion
ITV2 took this opportunity to go back in time and air 2.15 Da Bomb (which they hadn’t shown when it was due to air), which I’d read the recap of and seen clips of, which lessened its impact and was a step back in time in terms of a few developments. But I hadn’t realised how much the episode tipped a hat to Speed, which is always to be appreciated, and I got a range of Paige reaction shots at Walter having a first date with a Linda and not Paige, Linda turning up to their lair with a bomb vest on, Walter handling Linda’s fear badly and Walter deciding to put his life at risk to help save Linda’s. I also caught the way Ralph’s face lit up at the end when Walter said what he was going to do with the residual foam, which was sweet. I’d seen the way that Walter looked at Paige when she started off the takeout order by enquiring about his dietary needs fine before. I think that critics are right about the writers not explaining why Waige has stuttered at this point in proceedings.
Walter made it All About Him that Linda was scathing about him when she had been drugged and woke up with a bomb vest on that they didn’t seem to be able to defuse.
Happy was great. I also saw the five-second ‘You buying’ interaction that spawned a flurry of Quintis fics.
I obviously had no idea what the backstory was with the bald guy Cabe had an amusing fight with.
Here's hoping to get to see 2.18 next week.
It opened by slowly catching us up with everyone, although some characters got more attention than others. Dunkirk has happened and the big thing in the village is that Czech soldiers have arrived and Italy has gone to war, so there’s suddenly a convenient Italian lady in the village, who has been there for 19 years, but not last season. Also I don’t remember the Thomas in the camp who was keen on Laura.
The probably anachronistic dialogue and attitudes I do remember (though they did manage not to have all our WI heroines have the approved contemporary take on everything), but also the fancy camera shots and the beautiful countryside.
Miriam Brindley still has a bee in her bonnet, and I am not as sympathetic to her plight as the show would like.
Sarah’s house guest is back on the base to carry on tempting her by staring at her like he’d give her the moon while Vicar Adam is a prisoner of war, which is a triangle I’m invested in, but from a story POV having the absent husband/tempted wife/nice soldier play out with Pat/the horrible Bob/Captain Marek too seems a bit lazy. And fast-moving. Sadly, we learn, Bob was only partially blown up.
During the build up to it, I was regretting that the big meeting wasn’t a WI one, but for the whole village, but it worked out well, with Sarah getting to do her speech, with her sister’s support and Jenny’s revengeful spite in spilling Claire and Spencer’s news getting baffled. I think Mrs Barden has her eye on her as the next member of the WI.
Obviously, I want to know what Alison has agreed to – can they make Patriotic Accounting exciting?
And then they crammed in even moar drama into the last scene, cleverly making it a non-war-related tragedy and shaking up the driving force of the WI/village/show.
Scorpion
ITV2 took this opportunity to go back in time and air 2.15 Da Bomb (which they hadn’t shown when it was due to air), which I’d read the recap of and seen clips of, which lessened its impact and was a step back in time in terms of a few developments. But I hadn’t realised how much the episode tipped a hat to Speed, which is always to be appreciated, and I got a range of Paige reaction shots at Walter having a first date with a Linda and not Paige, Linda turning up to their lair with a bomb vest on, Walter handling Linda’s fear badly and Walter deciding to put his life at risk to help save Linda’s. I also caught the way Ralph’s face lit up at the end when Walter said what he was going to do with the residual foam, which was sweet. I’d seen the way that Walter looked at Paige when she started off the takeout order by enquiring about his dietary needs fine before. I think that critics are right about the writers not explaining why Waige has stuttered at this point in proceedings.
Walter made it All About Him that Linda was scathing about him when she had been drugged and woke up with a bomb vest on that they didn’t seem to be able to defuse.
Happy was great. I also saw the five-second ‘You buying’ interaction that spawned a flurry of Quintis fics.
I obviously had no idea what the backstory was with the bald guy Cabe had an amusing fight with.
Here's hoping to get to see 2.18 next week.