Ivy Poisons
Jul. 7th, 2018 07:51 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shallownessIt’s been a busy, hot and discombobulating week, so I hope to relax and reorient myself over the weekend.
At the start of the week, I posted a ficlet A Job for Kit (The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society. Universal. Juliet Ashton/Dawsey Adams, Kit McKenna. 913 words. Summary: Juliet and Dawsey are forced to have a certain conversation with Kit.) It was awaiting one last read through for a while, as I kept being waylaid by writing fic responding to Gotham. I wanted to explore how Juliet becoming pregnant would affect them, this little family that comes together in different ways in the book and movie. Typically, it became Dawsey’s POV, but it was vital that Juliet kept on writing.
I watched Gotham 4.13 A Beautiful Darkness
Entertaining in spots, although overall, I felt like we were shifting a bit too visibly to a new phase, although the tussle of wills between Jim and Sofia was a continuation, and there were callbacks to longstanding stuff.
Ivy mark 3 got the most supervillaining to do after previously skulking around on the sidelines. Again, they brazened out the change of actress – seed, stalk, bloom. I questioned Selina’s decision making: Ivy poisoned you, gave you the antidote and you think a crime spree with her would be fun? Oh, SELINA.
With her ability to make everyone her slaves and the killing nails, Ivy having Lazarus Water (was the M in project M MiracleGro?) feels like A Lot of Power. I mean, Jim getting his GCPD back and not brainwashed was nice, but the idea of them being capable of bringing her in as is is ridiculous.
Ageing Ivy up (well, yes, the actress playing her) again led to the slightly icky optics as she kinda seduced Bruce.
So, moving on to the hallucination! I’d been mumbling that it was long past time that we saw Siddig again if he was in the credits, so I enjoyed him and Bruce’s psyche’s fears - the faceless Bruce coming across another Bruce again in a Great Gatsbyesque milieu, SAS!Alfred and the Bat! Who did the voice? They needed flares to differentiate it from the normal show shenanigans.
I enjoyed watching Jerome (oh, just let him be Red John the Joker) wind up misery guts Oswald, even if the mime stuff was not funny until violence ensued. As ever, the bits I found funny in this show were well dodgy. But I felt that Penguin made quite a leap from Victor siding with Sofia to automatically telling her where Martin is.
I feel that the Ed and Oswald reunion would have been more disappointing to those who are invested in their relationship, although at least Oswald now knows about the Riddler-in-Ed situation and I’m sure it’ll lead to more interaction.
Babs had nice sardonic cameos.
And two of Jim’s other exes met up, reminding us they have another connection between them.
A bit disjointed, then, although we’re looking forward to what Jerome has planned.
At the start of the week, I posted a ficlet A Job for Kit (The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society. Universal. Juliet Ashton/Dawsey Adams, Kit McKenna. 913 words. Summary: Juliet and Dawsey are forced to have a certain conversation with Kit.) It was awaiting one last read through for a while, as I kept being waylaid by writing fic responding to Gotham. I wanted to explore how Juliet becoming pregnant would affect them, this little family that comes together in different ways in the book and movie. Typically, it became Dawsey’s POV, but it was vital that Juliet kept on writing.
I watched Gotham 4.13 A Beautiful Darkness
Entertaining in spots, although overall, I felt like we were shifting a bit too visibly to a new phase, although the tussle of wills between Jim and Sofia was a continuation, and there were callbacks to longstanding stuff.
Ivy mark 3 got the most supervillaining to do after previously skulking around on the sidelines. Again, they brazened out the change of actress – seed, stalk, bloom. I questioned Selina’s decision making: Ivy poisoned you, gave you the antidote and you think a crime spree with her would be fun? Oh, SELINA.
With her ability to make everyone her slaves and the killing nails, Ivy having Lazarus Water (was the M in project M MiracleGro?) feels like A Lot of Power. I mean, Jim getting his GCPD back and not brainwashed was nice, but the idea of them being capable of bringing her in as is is ridiculous.
Ageing Ivy up (well, yes, the actress playing her) again led to the slightly icky optics as she kinda seduced Bruce.
So, moving on to the hallucination! I’d been mumbling that it was long past time that we saw Siddig again if he was in the credits, so I enjoyed him and Bruce’s psyche’s fears - the faceless Bruce coming across another Bruce again in a Great Gatsbyesque milieu, SAS!Alfred and the Bat! Who did the voice? They needed flares to differentiate it from the normal show shenanigans.
I enjoyed watching Jerome (oh, just let him be Red John the Joker) wind up misery guts Oswald, even if the mime stuff was not funny until violence ensued. As ever, the bits I found funny in this show were well dodgy. But I felt that Penguin made quite a leap from Victor siding with Sofia to automatically telling her where Martin is.
I feel that the Ed and Oswald reunion would have been more disappointing to those who are invested in their relationship, although at least Oswald now knows about the Riddler-in-Ed situation and I’m sure it’ll lead to more interaction.
Babs had nice sardonic cameos.
And two of Jim’s other exes met up, reminding us they have another connection between them.
A bit disjointed, then, although we’re looking forward to what Jerome has planned.
