I'm not necessarily proud of this, but
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shallownessRevenge 2.06 Illusion
A third (or possibly less) was made up of DRAMA, a third was me getting annoyed at how they were trying to milk or point out how dramatic those dramatic moments had been and a third was me wondering if the writers could spend a little less time on the big moments and thinking about how secondary characters to them might really react to them. For instance, I spent most of the wedding wondering why most of the guests weren’t whispering about Charlotte’s absence and wondering why Jack didn’t even blink at His Good Friends Nolan and Emily choosing the Greysons remarriage over his bar opening. (Was he even planning the engagement then?)
So, the upshot that is in trying to set up Mason, but getting a kick of setting up Conrad along the way, Emily got the Initiative involved (which will probably involve Very Bad Things for some people) (oops?) and Mason made the Emily-Amanda connection... (Oops.)
They’re hinting that they’re going to give Ashley depth and a backstory. Pffft. (Unless if it turns out to be cool, but I doubt it will.)
I thought Emily would kick Mr Bond out when she did – I am sure she will take him back when she hears about the engagement, which I am also sure will not go all the way to a long and happy marriage, given that the conversation started with a kid!Emily reference. Plus Jack’s going to lost the bar/be bankrupt quite soon, isn’t he?
Alas, Mrs Gordon Murphy, yes, he is dead. However, the conversation at the beach with Emily was interesting, as were the multi-edged conversations with Victoria, so once you’ve decided to channel your emotions, I am sure that will be interesting.
And yet, all told, I felt that not a lot happened and there was padding, even though there were a kajillion blind spots about potentially interesting scenes – Charlotte is not caring about Amanda this week, for some reason etc etc etc.
Conrad and Victoria (excellent eye make-up) and his helpless, underlying love-hate for her and her distaste for him is still compelling, even if it isn’t quite as compelling as the writers seem to think it is.
In other news, I watched The Last Leg last night, for reasons you can guess at – I’ve never done more than dip in and out of it, and it hasn’t had a chance to get over my impression that it’s too blokey for me. I thought they handled the thing that made we watch it as well as they could have, but what I really wanted to say was that Jack Dee very much wasn’t on the same wavelength as the regulars.
Also, note to self, The Mentalist is back on five on Friday. I would still prefer it if they’d just wait and aired the whole thing in one block – is The Mentalist really the kind of show people rush out and download illegally, five?
A third (or possibly less) was made up of DRAMA, a third was me getting annoyed at how they were trying to milk or point out how dramatic those dramatic moments had been and a third was me wondering if the writers could spend a little less time on the big moments and thinking about how secondary characters to them might really react to them. For instance, I spent most of the wedding wondering why most of the guests weren’t whispering about Charlotte’s absence and wondering why Jack didn’t even blink at His Good Friends Nolan and Emily choosing the Greysons remarriage over his bar opening. (Was he even planning the engagement then?)
So, the upshot that is in trying to set up Mason, but getting a kick of setting up Conrad along the way, Emily got the Initiative involved (which will probably involve Very Bad Things for some people) (oops?) and Mason made the Emily-Amanda connection... (Oops.)
They’re hinting that they’re going to give Ashley depth and a backstory. Pffft. (Unless if it turns out to be cool, but I doubt it will.)
I thought Emily would kick Mr Bond out when she did – I am sure she will take him back when she hears about the engagement, which I am also sure will not go all the way to a long and happy marriage, given that the conversation started with a kid!Emily reference. Plus Jack’s going to lost the bar/be bankrupt quite soon, isn’t he?
Alas, Mrs Gordon Murphy, yes, he is dead. However, the conversation at the beach with Emily was interesting, as were the multi-edged conversations with Victoria, so once you’ve decided to channel your emotions, I am sure that will be interesting.
And yet, all told, I felt that not a lot happened and there was padding, even though there were a kajillion blind spots about potentially interesting scenes – Charlotte is not caring about Amanda this week, for some reason etc etc etc.
Conrad and Victoria (excellent eye make-up) and his helpless, underlying love-hate for her and her distaste for him is still compelling, even if it isn’t quite as compelling as the writers seem to think it is.
In other news, I watched The Last Leg last night, for reasons you can guess at – I’ve never done more than dip in and out of it, and it hasn’t had a chance to get over my impression that it’s too blokey for me. I thought they handled the thing that made we watch it as well as they could have, but what I really wanted to say was that Jack Dee very much wasn’t on the same wavelength as the regulars.
Also, note to self, The Mentalist is back on five on Friday. I would still prefer it if they’d just wait and aired the whole thing in one block – is The Mentalist really the kind of show people rush out and download illegally, five?
