Writing and TV
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shallownessI posted Normalcy on Thursday night (Gotham, Bruce/Selina, post 4.01, PG, 1,064 words). The almost impossible idea of Bruce and Selina going to see a movie together entwined with the idea of Bruce putting on masks in the episode came together for me. I wrote a structurally complete draft before seeing episode 2, but it needed some editing, and during that process it crossed the 1,000 word mark. I’d have liked a beta reader for the tone – it was the dark place Bruce was in post 4.04 that made me okay with posting it. I chose ‘Normalcy’ as the title, because normality is the real word for the state of being normal, to reinforce the central point that Bruce and Selina aren’t anywhere close to normal.
Timeless 2.5 The Kennedy Curse
This started off as fun and got a little darker, but it was a nice shake-up for the main action to happen in the now (and it really was the now, the date mentioned was a month ago, so we’re closer to the American airdate than I’d grasped.) Watching the team lose young JFK and have to retrieve him, while he wandered around 2018 California, was fun. It must also be fun (if terrifying) to be cast as a younger version of a very famous historical figure – the actor went big on the accent.
I was glad that Jiya and Agent whatshername tried to get Lucy to talk about the ramifications of the last couple of episodes, instead of utterly repressing them.
Such a bad idea for her emotional wellbeing for Lucy to volunteer to go along with Wyatt and Jessica, although fun to watch the awkwardness that ensued, especially as Lucy was not the most put together we’ve ever seen her. Part of it is Lucy being a control freak who doesn’t believe that anyone can do a mission as well as she can. I liked that Jessica helped a fair bit and her perspective on the Lucy/Wyatt dynamic and MO (Lucy slipping Wyatt the paperclip and coolly waiting for him to free himself and find the car and them!) was fun. However, Jessica got to see Wyatt’s face (not Lucy’s) when he was worried about her and gave himself away. Still, even if Jessica’s Wyatt had been unfaithful with no extenuating time travel/widower circumstances (ouch) I thought she was cowardly in just wanting to disappear on him. I felt for Lucy in having to make the big speech to convince Jessica to give Wyatt another chance. Whatever she’s telling herself, that’s got to hurt.
And of course Wyatt’s final conversation with Lucy would not be the sort of thing a wife, in any circs, who was trying to give her husband and their marriage a second chance would want to hear him telling another woman.
I enjoyed what little we saw of snarky Flynn, grumbling about being left behind and what he had to do, but I don’t know what to make of the final scene. If I knew more of the first season, I would be surer of my ground.
Anyway, we had more mother-daughter woes, as both of them remembered John’s ill-health, and Ma had her little battle for Nicholas’s approval. I guess the other Whatshername chose not to kill Lucy in self-preservation (in-universe), because Wyatt would have shot her if she’d killed Lucy, which says something about her commitment to Rittenhouse as her reputation starts to tarnish. There was also a mother-to-mother talk, which covered threats and ended with a reminder of how oppressive Rittenhouse is.
Finding out about world war two, the early loss of so many sibs and his own death – poor kid - and after all that JFK still got killed, somewhere else. With Rufus and Jiya bringing in questions about how much history can be changed and the question of a higher power/God, if the show isn’t cancelled again, I wonder if it will end on a big old reset to our timeline.
B99 5.11 The Favor
Ooh, ENDING, because it’s one thing the cops’ lives getting ruined (e.g. Jake and Rosa being put in jail), but Kevin is an innocent (kof, I may have been watching Charmed reruns).
Gina’s return means three storylines. Lots of inappropriate yet apt Charles in the main one, Gina adjusting to parental juggling in the other – and a good deployment of Hitchcock and Scully throughout – but my favourite was of course Amy and Rosa and the forms. Oh, Amy Santiago, you adorable nerd, you.
Timeless 2.5 The Kennedy Curse
This started off as fun and got a little darker, but it was a nice shake-up for the main action to happen in the now (and it really was the now, the date mentioned was a month ago, so we’re closer to the American airdate than I’d grasped.) Watching the team lose young JFK and have to retrieve him, while he wandered around 2018 California, was fun. It must also be fun (if terrifying) to be cast as a younger version of a very famous historical figure – the actor went big on the accent.
I was glad that Jiya and Agent whatshername tried to get Lucy to talk about the ramifications of the last couple of episodes, instead of utterly repressing them.
Such a bad idea for her emotional wellbeing for Lucy to volunteer to go along with Wyatt and Jessica, although fun to watch the awkwardness that ensued, especially as Lucy was not the most put together we’ve ever seen her. Part of it is Lucy being a control freak who doesn’t believe that anyone can do a mission as well as she can. I liked that Jessica helped a fair bit and her perspective on the Lucy/Wyatt dynamic and MO (Lucy slipping Wyatt the paperclip and coolly waiting for him to free himself and find the car and them!) was fun. However, Jessica got to see Wyatt’s face (not Lucy’s) when he was worried about her and gave himself away. Still, even if Jessica’s Wyatt had been unfaithful with no extenuating time travel/widower circumstances (ouch) I thought she was cowardly in just wanting to disappear on him. I felt for Lucy in having to make the big speech to convince Jessica to give Wyatt another chance. Whatever she’s telling herself, that’s got to hurt.
And of course Wyatt’s final conversation with Lucy would not be the sort of thing a wife, in any circs, who was trying to give her husband and their marriage a second chance would want to hear him telling another woman.
I enjoyed what little we saw of snarky Flynn, grumbling about being left behind and what he had to do, but I don’t know what to make of the final scene. If I knew more of the first season, I would be surer of my ground.
Anyway, we had more mother-daughter woes, as both of them remembered John’s ill-health, and Ma had her little battle for Nicholas’s approval. I guess the other Whatshername chose not to kill Lucy in self-preservation (in-universe), because Wyatt would have shot her if she’d killed Lucy, which says something about her commitment to Rittenhouse as her reputation starts to tarnish. There was also a mother-to-mother talk, which covered threats and ended with a reminder of how oppressive Rittenhouse is.
Finding out about world war two, the early loss of so many sibs and his own death – poor kid - and after all that JFK still got killed, somewhere else. With Rufus and Jiya bringing in questions about how much history can be changed and the question of a higher power/God, if the show isn’t cancelled again, I wonder if it will end on a big old reset to our timeline.
B99 5.11 The Favor
Ooh, ENDING, because it’s one thing the cops’ lives getting ruined (e.g. Jake and Rosa being put in jail), but Kevin is an innocent (kof, I may have been watching Charmed reruns).
Gina’s return means three storylines. Lots of inappropriate yet apt Charles in the main one, Gina adjusting to parental juggling in the other – and a good deployment of Hitchcock and Scully throughout – but my favourite was of course Amy and Rosa and the forms. Oh, Amy Santiago, you adorable nerd, you.
