TV I watched...on Sunday
Jul. 11th, 2018 06:41 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shallownessI was going to say that this week is less busy than last week, but on reflection, it's busy to a different pattern.
Poldark 4.4
DRAMA!
Well, obviously, given the show, but still. Sarah’s plight and demise got to me, especially how it affected Dwight (who was looking good all episode, something about the hair, U think). Ross was a good friend, and of course, the similarity to losing Julia, from Dwight taking Sarah to The Cliffside to, more seriously, carrying her tiny coffin, added resonance. Plus there was the fact that the doctor couldn’t save his own child, even as he was called to save others, even managing historical CPR.
The horror of Morwenna’s position didn’t play out as strongly as I thought it would from the previous ep’s taster, possibly because the other doctor showed some scruples for a quack, and Dr Ennys gave Whitworth a lot of plain speaking. I mean, it seems eminently sane not to want to have sex with Whitworth to me. The only women we know do it willingly enough are doing it for cash.
But Rowella’s poor husband!
And of course, the tragedy is that George and Elizabeth pushed the wrong sister into marrying Whitworth. And that Drake has now, a few months later, decided to move on/submit to his sister’s matchmaking wiles. I don’t think I’d clocked that Rosina was her of the gammy leg. I expect that to be complicated, although I’m glad Geoffrey Charles recognises his virtues (which were begging for comparison with George and his ‘blacksmith’s son/grandson’ complex).
Poor Sam, as Emma CAME ALL THE WAY BACK FROM TAHITI to tell him she’s marrying someone else, who she doesn’t love but she thinks she’s better suited to. Way to give a guy a confusing message when he’s just been a hero, Emma.
The mine got flooded. Apart from understanding Zacky’s franticness over his son (?) this was more interesting in its ramifications, as Ross blamed himself a bit and used it as an excuse to stay in London with Demelza and children (so much interaction!) and away from obeying Falmouth’s commands.
The state of Ross and Demelza was promising, although he was like ‘we’re all fixed now’ in one breath and ‘are your tears for Hugh?’ the next, so, no, they’re not fully fixed. Caroline sowed the idea of going to London (and a viewing audience went ‘Yesss, take our heroine to London.’) in her head, and Ross was ambivalent about it, saying ‘later’ and possibly meaning ‘never’.
And Caroline has terrible coping mechanisms.
Agents of SHIELD 5.19 The One Who Will Save Us All
In which Gravitonium!Talbot being a bad idea was explored. I may have snarked about Brexit every time ‘negotiations’ were mentioned, and I may have seen the The Donald parallels (the inversion of the taking the knee by the ‘kneeling’ business. Oh, show), but mainly he looked like Ming the Merciless and took to such power as intemperately as you’d expect him to. They discussed Thanos a lot and I got to snark a bit more about how I don’t expect gravitonium to play any role in helping Earth’s actual mightiest heroes save the day. It gets even more ridiculous when you think of the casting spoiler that links this show to Captain Marvel.
I am suggesting now that the best way to get at Talbot is to use his son. Don’t know yet how they’ll do it powers-wise. I expect we’re going to see that footage of Daisy striding purposefully (but not to destroy the world) again.
For every step they all take seems to be drawing them closer to the future they’re trying to avoid. Poor lambs, there don’t seem to be many moments for stopping and seeing the bigger picture. (Except Mack, I agreed with him so hard in the conversation with Fitz, where he pointed out the lines that they’ve crossed.)
What came out is how compromised most of them are. Daisy can stop being all self-righteous and fighty with Yo-Yo (heh to May stepping in and bringing some order) when she is planning on fusing her dead mother’s DNA with the centipede technology to save Coulson. I don’t think May knows the details of the plan, I don’t think she’s asking too hard – as per Simmons. But May has outlined her ‘Coulson brings all the pieces together’ maxim to Yo-Yo, who holds just as fast to ‘Coulson has to die’. I liked the ambiguity of whether it’s her robot hands or Ruby’s blood on said hands that makes Mack pull away from her.
Having said that, I’m taking points away from Mack for going patrolling on his own to check the aliens were dead. What did he think was oing to happen?
We FINALLY met Papa Kasius. I feel like the actor should be familiar. How Talbot didn’t see that he put the green alien on a platter for him, I know not (distracted by the voices in his head/his ego). But then the show isn’t exactly stealthy. And he has Daisy!!!
Deke and Daisy continued to be entertaining because he’s crushing so hard and so awkwardly and she’s so unaware. He should have pushed the real culprits, Coulson and Mack, under the bus, not Fitz. (Fitz tried to high five him when the grandson managed to fix the wiring while Fitz was faffing about. Aww.) She was stressed (AS YOU WOULD BE HAVING DUG UP YOUR MOTHER’S SKELETON TO TRY TO SAVE YOUR FATHER FIGURE who by the way has been whisked up to an alien warship by an unbalanced, powered up man who now has two more voices in his head). So his attempt to tell her how he felt was stymied, especially as she put him in the ‘as annoying as your grandfather’ corner.
I chortled over the revisionist history of Daisy/Linc – I mean, yes, he died to save her and she’ll carry that, but hadn’t Linc dumped her when he died? Also, I saw her flirting with Reyes, and Linc is as nothing to the epic epicness of her relationship with Ward. I would love to see Deke hearing about all that (I suppose budget will not give us the return of Ghost Rider). But there is still hope for him, because even among the awkward bumbling, he was nice to her and she appreciated him coming along.
The team’s ‘plan’ was more about turning the Zephyr into a spaceship because they’d got the idea from the future wheeee! than what they were going to do with Gravitonium!Talbot and/or the aliens. So, that ended up with May and Coulson enslaved and Daisy abducted – probably for more non-consensual experimentation.
Also Hale and her anger are dead.
Poldark 4.4
DRAMA!
Well, obviously, given the show, but still. Sarah’s plight and demise got to me, especially how it affected Dwight (who was looking good all episode, something about the hair, U think). Ross was a good friend, and of course, the similarity to losing Julia, from Dwight taking Sarah to The Cliffside to, more seriously, carrying her tiny coffin, added resonance. Plus there was the fact that the doctor couldn’t save his own child, even as he was called to save others, even managing historical CPR.
The horror of Morwenna’s position didn’t play out as strongly as I thought it would from the previous ep’s taster, possibly because the other doctor showed some scruples for a quack, and Dr Ennys gave Whitworth a lot of plain speaking. I mean, it seems eminently sane not to want to have sex with Whitworth to me. The only women we know do it willingly enough are doing it for cash.
But Rowella’s poor husband!
And of course, the tragedy is that George and Elizabeth pushed the wrong sister into marrying Whitworth. And that Drake has now, a few months later, decided to move on/submit to his sister’s matchmaking wiles. I don’t think I’d clocked that Rosina was her of the gammy leg. I expect that to be complicated, although I’m glad Geoffrey Charles recognises his virtues (which were begging for comparison with George and his ‘blacksmith’s son/grandson’ complex).
Poor Sam, as Emma CAME ALL THE WAY BACK FROM TAHITI to tell him she’s marrying someone else, who she doesn’t love but she thinks she’s better suited to. Way to give a guy a confusing message when he’s just been a hero, Emma.
The mine got flooded. Apart from understanding Zacky’s franticness over his son (?) this was more interesting in its ramifications, as Ross blamed himself a bit and used it as an excuse to stay in London with Demelza and children (so much interaction!) and away from obeying Falmouth’s commands.
The state of Ross and Demelza was promising, although he was like ‘we’re all fixed now’ in one breath and ‘are your tears for Hugh?’ the next, so, no, they’re not fully fixed. Caroline sowed the idea of going to London (and a viewing audience went ‘Yesss, take our heroine to London.’) in her head, and Ross was ambivalent about it, saying ‘later’ and possibly meaning ‘never’.
And Caroline has terrible coping mechanisms.
Agents of SHIELD 5.19 The One Who Will Save Us All
In which Gravitonium!Talbot being a bad idea was explored. I may have snarked about Brexit every time ‘negotiations’ were mentioned, and I may have seen the The Donald parallels (the inversion of the taking the knee by the ‘kneeling’ business. Oh, show), but mainly he looked like Ming the Merciless and took to such power as intemperately as you’d expect him to. They discussed Thanos a lot and I got to snark a bit more about how I don’t expect gravitonium to play any role in helping Earth’s actual mightiest heroes save the day. It gets even more ridiculous when you think of the casting spoiler that links this show to Captain Marvel.
I am suggesting now that the best way to get at Talbot is to use his son. Don’t know yet how they’ll do it powers-wise. I expect we’re going to see that footage of Daisy striding purposefully (but not to destroy the world) again.
For every step they all take seems to be drawing them closer to the future they’re trying to avoid. Poor lambs, there don’t seem to be many moments for stopping and seeing the bigger picture. (Except Mack, I agreed with him so hard in the conversation with Fitz, where he pointed out the lines that they’ve crossed.)
What came out is how compromised most of them are. Daisy can stop being all self-righteous and fighty with Yo-Yo (heh to May stepping in and bringing some order) when she is planning on fusing her dead mother’s DNA with the centipede technology to save Coulson. I don’t think May knows the details of the plan, I don’t think she’s asking too hard – as per Simmons. But May has outlined her ‘Coulson brings all the pieces together’ maxim to Yo-Yo, who holds just as fast to ‘Coulson has to die’. I liked the ambiguity of whether it’s her robot hands or Ruby’s blood on said hands that makes Mack pull away from her.
Having said that, I’m taking points away from Mack for going patrolling on his own to check the aliens were dead. What did he think was oing to happen?
We FINALLY met Papa Kasius. I feel like the actor should be familiar. How Talbot didn’t see that he put the green alien on a platter for him, I know not (distracted by the voices in his head/his ego). But then the show isn’t exactly stealthy. And he has Daisy!!!
Deke and Daisy continued to be entertaining because he’s crushing so hard and so awkwardly and she’s so unaware. He should have pushed the real culprits, Coulson and Mack, under the bus, not Fitz. (Fitz tried to high five him when the grandson managed to fix the wiring while Fitz was faffing about. Aww.) She was stressed (AS YOU WOULD BE HAVING DUG UP YOUR MOTHER’S SKELETON TO TRY TO SAVE YOUR FATHER FIGURE who by the way has been whisked up to an alien warship by an unbalanced, powered up man who now has two more voices in his head). So his attempt to tell her how he felt was stymied, especially as she put him in the ‘as annoying as your grandfather’ corner.
I chortled over the revisionist history of Daisy/Linc – I mean, yes, he died to save her and she’ll carry that, but hadn’t Linc dumped her when he died? Also, I saw her flirting with Reyes, and Linc is as nothing to the epic epicness of her relationship with Ward. I would love to see Deke hearing about all that (I suppose budget will not give us the return of Ghost Rider). But there is still hope for him, because even among the awkward bumbling, he was nice to her and she appreciated him coming along.
The team’s ‘plan’ was more about turning the Zephyr into a spaceship because they’d got the idea from the future wheeee! than what they were going to do with Gravitonium!Talbot and/or the aliens. So, that ended up with May and Coulson enslaved and Daisy abducted – probably for more non-consensual experimentation.
Also Hale and her anger are dead.
