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shallowness) wrote2018-08-09 07:42 am
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Catch-up post
A few days ago, I posted Don’t Get Your Cloak in A Twist (MCU/The Incredibles. PG. 410 words. Crack.) It was written in response to a ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
comment_fic) prompt around the time of the build-up to The Incredibles 2’s release here. I’ve always wanted to write Sky High/The Incredibles crossovers. Anyway, this was fun to write, I let it rest while I was distracted by writing Gotham fic before the final polish and post, and I justified the use of omniscient narrator brackets because it was crack.
This is the TV I have caught up on of late.
Brooklyn Nine-Nine
5.19 Bachelor/ette Party
Funny. Nice to see Kylie back, Amy being ribbed for being so dull and her one secret spiralling, and Hitchcock and Scully tagging along – the fact that it was the result of a Jake/Amy bet made total sense. Ditto Charles planning Jake’s bachelor party for so long and getting it so wrong and Holt letting loose. (Big example of a word meaning something entirely different on this side of the Atlantic, though.)
I liked the turnaround on the overly complicated bachelor party, while Amy’s ex was appropriately ghastly. Her moment of triumph when she broke the rules for herself was slightly undercut by the realisation that it was a trouser suit not a dress (probably a conscious choice by wardrobe because of the fall off the bar). (Although if I’m being picky, she shouldn’t have planted her face on Jake’s chest right where the wound was with no response, because drunk or not, OUCH.) I also wondered what level of drunk Amy was.
Things like the picture of Jake and Amy with Charles in the foreground and Gina trying not to say mean things were also fun.
5.20 Show Me Going
Why couldn’t the good-looking cop who told Jake and Charles that the legend (another one) wasn’t going to be running their taskforce hang around?
It looked as if we were going to get Santiago torn between old and new loyalties, but the show went a little serious on us. Not that everyone’s coping mechanisms as Rosa was in danger weren’t funny.
Particularly Scully and Hitchcock’s fight and Amy versus the toilet. I squeaked at Jake driving off after Holt had appealed for help, but they made it that he was going for pizza, and the ep ended on lots of hugs.
5.21 White Whale
Yay! Competent Diaz and Santiago taking on a cold case together. Cue a flashback!wig and what was surely a much practiced handshake, and total sympathy on my part for Santiago hating the grammatical errors.
I hope Charles never finds out Jake didn’t choose him to help with the wedding tasks. He’d be so hurt. Obviously, Jake choosing Terry made total sense, but I couldn’t quite believe all the tasks Amy had left undone until that point. But the whole concept of a groom gut (or internalised Amy voice?) was worth a laugh.
Gina and Boyle’s ‘whisper campaign’ push was funny. Also, a terrible idea. Hold rightly rejected it. I’m not entirely sure what to make of the treatment of old people in this ep – as it popped up in two strands – but I did feel the self-declared progressives deserved an eye-roll for harping on about their opponent’s age when they would have been horrified if either had mentioned gender, sexuality or race. (I know, it’s a comedy, but that seemed like a blindspot to me. Possibly not one to the writers??? The butt of the jokes re older people in the other strand was Amy, and Evelyn helped them get the collar.) Obviously, by taking the high ground, both of them proved they’d make good commissioners, but she couldn’t recall her message.
This arc would have been a nice ending for Holt if the show had stayed cancelled, but as it is, they’re going to separate him from the precinct, next season, which is never good, although there’s an episode to go in which ‘the straight white guy (age undetermined?)’ might get it.
Anyway, despite Rosa’s understandable beef with Amy, that was good work – until Santiago jumped from that roof and injured herself. !!! This was another episode with a lot of revelations about Rosa, mainly her past.
And Terry was right about Jake’s prospects as a husband. Although the wedding budget should be shot after repaying him for smashing the two windows of the car. Also, I spotted Terry’s gloves when feeding Hitchcock and Scully (wise move. Did they wear gloves too, because I feel that would be necessary?)
Poldark 4.6
Interesting developments like Sam turning into Demelza, Rosina maybe having a little heroine in her after all, and Demelza getting to go to London.
For that to happen, Ross had to come back to Cornwall, mainly because he finally realised that Geoffrey Charles (who was generally annoying) shouldn’t be left to drink and carouse underage in That London. He was slightly aided by a Caroline who was more in favour of returning home and the Prime Minister dispensing gnomic advice.
Meanwhile Demelza had to deal with George trying to bring down Ross by proxy. Vague memories of the whole Northern Rock crash helped me understand the banking stuff. Demelza followed her conscience; I thought she should have paid her miners first, but that scene where she divvied up Falmouth’s money into bags and chivvied nearly everyone to deposit at Pascoe’s was glorious.
Meanwhile nice Pascoe turned out to have a daughter named Joan who had married a spendthrift idiot name St John who was related to Ross but has never been mentioned before. Whatever. Watching George and his uncle be bankers was fun.
Not fun = where Morwenna was at. Her mind had moved from the child who’s been taken away from her (as far as I know) to the unborn one growing inside her, so she wasn’t really moving on from her dark places, and Drake got no joy from trying again. Aww. Elizabeth was also pregnant and I couldn’t care less about her plot to use it to make the last pregnancy seem kosher. Because it wasn’t. And not telling George Ross had dropped Geoffrey Charles off was stupid, because all the servants saw him, and she might be happy with her life, but her husband will have people killed or their reputations and banks trashed to get at Ross. But apparently she doesn’t need drugs to help her cope with that truth now.
Ahem. Caroline and Dwight continued to talk in the way they do, and Caroline was more upfront about what she wanted, whereas Ross finally realised he was on to a good thing again – although Demelza would be better at persuading people, yes. I liked his joy at the fireworks their miners had rigged up, even though he’d seen such London splendours.
And then the clips from the next episode jumped up and down on all my joy at Demelza-going-to-London. First time she left the kids behind!!
comment_fic) prompt around the time of the build-up to The Incredibles 2’s release here. I’ve always wanted to write Sky High/The Incredibles crossovers. Anyway, this was fun to write, I let it rest while I was distracted by writing Gotham fic before the final polish and post, and I justified the use of omniscient narrator brackets because it was crack. This is the TV I have caught up on of late.
Brooklyn Nine-Nine
5.19 Bachelor/ette Party
Funny. Nice to see Kylie back, Amy being ribbed for being so dull and her one secret spiralling, and Hitchcock and Scully tagging along – the fact that it was the result of a Jake/Amy bet made total sense. Ditto Charles planning Jake’s bachelor party for so long and getting it so wrong and Holt letting loose. (Big example of a word meaning something entirely different on this side of the Atlantic, though.)
I liked the turnaround on the overly complicated bachelor party, while Amy’s ex was appropriately ghastly. Her moment of triumph when she broke the rules for herself was slightly undercut by the realisation that it was a trouser suit not a dress (probably a conscious choice by wardrobe because of the fall off the bar). (Although if I’m being picky, she shouldn’t have planted her face on Jake’s chest right where the wound was with no response, because drunk or not, OUCH.) I also wondered what level of drunk Amy was.
Things like the picture of Jake and Amy with Charles in the foreground and Gina trying not to say mean things were also fun.
5.20 Show Me Going
Why couldn’t the good-looking cop who told Jake and Charles that the legend (another one) wasn’t going to be running their taskforce hang around?
It looked as if we were going to get Santiago torn between old and new loyalties, but the show went a little serious on us. Not that everyone’s coping mechanisms as Rosa was in danger weren’t funny.
Particularly Scully and Hitchcock’s fight and Amy versus the toilet. I squeaked at Jake driving off after Holt had appealed for help, but they made it that he was going for pizza, and the ep ended on lots of hugs.
5.21 White Whale
Yay! Competent Diaz and Santiago taking on a cold case together. Cue a flashback!wig and what was surely a much practiced handshake, and total sympathy on my part for Santiago hating the grammatical errors.
I hope Charles never finds out Jake didn’t choose him to help with the wedding tasks. He’d be so hurt. Obviously, Jake choosing Terry made total sense, but I couldn’t quite believe all the tasks Amy had left undone until that point. But the whole concept of a groom gut (or internalised Amy voice?) was worth a laugh.
Gina and Boyle’s ‘whisper campaign’ push was funny. Also, a terrible idea. Hold rightly rejected it. I’m not entirely sure what to make of the treatment of old people in this ep – as it popped up in two strands – but I did feel the self-declared progressives deserved an eye-roll for harping on about their opponent’s age when they would have been horrified if either had mentioned gender, sexuality or race. (I know, it’s a comedy, but that seemed like a blindspot to me. Possibly not one to the writers??? The butt of the jokes re older people in the other strand was Amy, and Evelyn helped them get the collar.) Obviously, by taking the high ground, both of them proved they’d make good commissioners, but she couldn’t recall her message.
This arc would have been a nice ending for Holt if the show had stayed cancelled, but as it is, they’re going to separate him from the precinct, next season, which is never good, although there’s an episode to go in which ‘the straight white guy (age undetermined?)’ might get it.
Anyway, despite Rosa’s understandable beef with Amy, that was good work – until Santiago jumped from that roof and injured herself. !!! This was another episode with a lot of revelations about Rosa, mainly her past.
And Terry was right about Jake’s prospects as a husband. Although the wedding budget should be shot after repaying him for smashing the two windows of the car. Also, I spotted Terry’s gloves when feeding Hitchcock and Scully (wise move. Did they wear gloves too, because I feel that would be necessary?)
Poldark 4.6
Interesting developments like Sam turning into Demelza, Rosina maybe having a little heroine in her after all, and Demelza getting to go to London.
For that to happen, Ross had to come back to Cornwall, mainly because he finally realised that Geoffrey Charles (who was generally annoying) shouldn’t be left to drink and carouse underage in That London. He was slightly aided by a Caroline who was more in favour of returning home and the Prime Minister dispensing gnomic advice.
Meanwhile Demelza had to deal with George trying to bring down Ross by proxy. Vague memories of the whole Northern Rock crash helped me understand the banking stuff. Demelza followed her conscience; I thought she should have paid her miners first, but that scene where she divvied up Falmouth’s money into bags and chivvied nearly everyone to deposit at Pascoe’s was glorious.
Meanwhile nice Pascoe turned out to have a daughter named Joan who had married a spendthrift idiot name St John who was related to Ross but has never been mentioned before. Whatever. Watching George and his uncle be bankers was fun.
Not fun = where Morwenna was at. Her mind had moved from the child who’s been taken away from her (as far as I know) to the unborn one growing inside her, so she wasn’t really moving on from her dark places, and Drake got no joy from trying again. Aww. Elizabeth was also pregnant and I couldn’t care less about her plot to use it to make the last pregnancy seem kosher. Because it wasn’t. And not telling George Ross had dropped Geoffrey Charles off was stupid, because all the servants saw him, and she might be happy with her life, but her husband will have people killed or their reputations and banks trashed to get at Ross. But apparently she doesn’t need drugs to help her cope with that truth now.
Ahem. Caroline and Dwight continued to talk in the way they do, and Caroline was more upfront about what she wanted, whereas Ross finally realised he was on to a good thing again – although Demelza would be better at persuading people, yes. I liked his joy at the fireworks their miners had rigged up, even though he’d seen such London splendours.
And then the clips from the next episode jumped up and down on all my joy at Demelza-going-to-London. First time she left the kids behind!!