Less mammoth TV post
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shallownessOr TV from Thursday to Friday with some catching up involved.
Brooklyn Nine-nine 6.6
A change in style for an this episode with a focus on a Peralta and Diaz case. (I felt smug for thinking they should have checked the vent.) Rosa’s hair was a cool/ridiculous take on the wig thing. Entertaining enough with Jake’s increased craziness and the CSI guy, and Amy’s response made them get away with what, on the face of it, could have been an icky scene in the bedroom.
I forgot to mention when discussing the first half of the Timeless special how much I enjoyed Goran Visnjic speaking Spanish. It’s not quite Goran Visnjic speaking Croatian, but still.
Timeless Special: The Miracle of Christmas Part 2
This continued to be turbocharged fanservice. I liked Lucy dispensing with the fake name in the past. I had problems with Rufus having to explain shipping to her – mainly the examples he came up with. But, of course, once she’d decided to save the pregnant lady, she’d decided to save her and no-one was going to stand against her, however much Wyatt grumbled. And least of all him. Er, how did he not hear Lucy screaming his name because she thought he was dead? A newborn’s lungs aren’t that powerful!
Well played, Agent Christopher, and once again Emma wasn’t Rittenhouse enough for Rittenhouse. I sort of would have liked what Lucy did bring back her sister, but her decision to give it up as proof of growth and what she’d learned (and maybe the realisation that she couldn’t tempt fate – she had Rufus and Wyatt) worked in a two-hour special. They totally would have pulled a season arc out of it, even recasting the actress, if they’d had time.
I wonder shouldn’t Christopher be with her actual family on Christmas, but told myself it wasn’t real Christmas yet.
There was a ‘step forward, ladies’ theme, with Lucy referencing the ladies she’d met to her students and not getting round to the guys of history. And after the ovary-tickling of helping deliver a baby girl, Wyatt being father to her two girls (it’s sweet that you called one of them Flynn, but that’s a weird name) and that her big moment yay was getting tenure (for an idiosyncratic syllabus), but I loved that Wyatt’s eyes lit up for her, and Lucy and Jiya grew their hair out/got hair extensions, before leading to the Big Scene with Flynn (why weren’t Wyatt and Rufus affected by being in their timeline?) I snerked at the use of ‘Time after time’ and was buoyed by the smart girl designing a time machine (even if it’s probably bad). So, the show went ‘uplifiting women yay!’ enough that one didn’t think about the plot-holes.
I mean, I would have preferred this to play out over a longer period so that there was time to breathe e.g. Lucy’s declaration in the church straight after the Rufus/Jiya and more time to ponder things like Wyatt’s suggestion that ‘future’ Lucy and Beaded!Wyatt were actually motivated by their own relationship. But this really was a gift to the fans of a way to tie up loose ends, and when so many shows haven’t had that, it’s not fair to compare it to, say, The Peacekeeper Wars.
The Bletchley Circle San Fransisco 2.2
So, it was two groups whose messages crossed wires that lead to the beating, and it wasn’t homophobia. As it happened, the gay men’s society was started by a Communist, but that was almost by the way, but the fact that the drugs gang involved a lot of police (or two or three that we saw) was more important.
I started believing Detective Bill when he denied he’d dobbed Edward in to the other cops, but I really believed him when they saw him at the mill. It just seemed like too much evidence for it to be him.
I still don’t get who was ordering the classified guy to give out the clients’ names and addresses.
In an episode about gay and lesbian people living in an atmosphere of fear, an emotionally charge Hayley came out to Iris and got even more wound up when Iris suggested she stayed silent. This is all very dramatic as far as it goes, what irked me was – I possibly paraphrase – that Hayley was so insistent on claiming her lesbian identity that she seemed to dismiss everything else about her, namely that’s she’s smart, amazing at fixing things, a responsible grown-up, kind and willing to fight for hers. In a show where Iris is struggling so hard to prove that her identity is more than wife and mother, however important they are to her, it felt reductive.
Further proof that the show took its eye on the ball in dealing with ‘ishoos’: I rolled my eyes at the so-called heroism of Rusty. Respect for getting involved, which so far most of his fellow society members hadn’t, even though they were in danger, but I’ve got far more respect for the smaller women who launched themselves with whatever was to hand at bigger men with guns (as Iris, Millie and Hayley did) than someone who picked up a gun and shot someone in the leg. I mean, the incapacitation was appreciated, as was Archie’s assistance, but the ladies are meant to be the heroes of this show, no? They’re the ones who crack the codes and do something about it.
Having said that, I was glad to see Archie return. I like him and might suggest that he’s less pushy about his masculinity and authority than certain cops, who have been better developed as characters.
With Millie and Jean having survived deportation, don’t they need to try to get jobs or leave to stay or something?
Brooklyn Nine-nine 6.6
A change in style for an this episode with a focus on a Peralta and Diaz case. (I felt smug for thinking they should have checked the vent.) Rosa’s hair was a cool/ridiculous take on the wig thing. Entertaining enough with Jake’s increased craziness and the CSI guy, and Amy’s response made them get away with what, on the face of it, could have been an icky scene in the bedroom.
I forgot to mention when discussing the first half of the Timeless special how much I enjoyed Goran Visnjic speaking Spanish. It’s not quite Goran Visnjic speaking Croatian, but still.
Timeless Special: The Miracle of Christmas Part 2
This continued to be turbocharged fanservice. I liked Lucy dispensing with the fake name in the past. I had problems with Rufus having to explain shipping to her – mainly the examples he came up with. But, of course, once she’d decided to save the pregnant lady, she’d decided to save her and no-one was going to stand against her, however much Wyatt grumbled. And least of all him. Er, how did he not hear Lucy screaming his name because she thought he was dead? A newborn’s lungs aren’t that powerful!
Well played, Agent Christopher, and once again Emma wasn’t Rittenhouse enough for Rittenhouse. I sort of would have liked what Lucy did bring back her sister, but her decision to give it up as proof of growth and what she’d learned (and maybe the realisation that she couldn’t tempt fate – she had Rufus and Wyatt) worked in a two-hour special. They totally would have pulled a season arc out of it, even recasting the actress, if they’d had time.
I wonder shouldn’t Christopher be with her actual family on Christmas, but told myself it wasn’t real Christmas yet.
There was a ‘step forward, ladies’ theme, with Lucy referencing the ladies she’d met to her students and not getting round to the guys of history. And after the ovary-tickling of helping deliver a baby girl, Wyatt being father to her two girls (it’s sweet that you called one of them Flynn, but that’s a weird name) and that her big moment yay was getting tenure (for an idiosyncratic syllabus), but I loved that Wyatt’s eyes lit up for her, and Lucy and Jiya grew their hair out/got hair extensions, before leading to the Big Scene with Flynn (why weren’t Wyatt and Rufus affected by being in their timeline?) I snerked at the use of ‘Time after time’ and was buoyed by the smart girl designing a time machine (even if it’s probably bad). So, the show went ‘uplifiting women yay!’ enough that one didn’t think about the plot-holes.
I mean, I would have preferred this to play out over a longer period so that there was time to breathe e.g. Lucy’s declaration in the church straight after the Rufus/Jiya and more time to ponder things like Wyatt’s suggestion that ‘future’ Lucy and Beaded!Wyatt were actually motivated by their own relationship. But this really was a gift to the fans of a way to tie up loose ends, and when so many shows haven’t had that, it’s not fair to compare it to, say, The Peacekeeper Wars.
The Bletchley Circle San Fransisco 2.2
So, it was two groups whose messages crossed wires that lead to the beating, and it wasn’t homophobia. As it happened, the gay men’s society was started by a Communist, but that was almost by the way, but the fact that the drugs gang involved a lot of police (or two or three that we saw) was more important.
I started believing Detective Bill when he denied he’d dobbed Edward in to the other cops, but I really believed him when they saw him at the mill. It just seemed like too much evidence for it to be him.
I still don’t get who was ordering the classified guy to give out the clients’ names and addresses.
In an episode about gay and lesbian people living in an atmosphere of fear, an emotionally charge Hayley came out to Iris and got even more wound up when Iris suggested she stayed silent. This is all very dramatic as far as it goes, what irked me was – I possibly paraphrase – that Hayley was so insistent on claiming her lesbian identity that she seemed to dismiss everything else about her, namely that’s she’s smart, amazing at fixing things, a responsible grown-up, kind and willing to fight for hers. In a show where Iris is struggling so hard to prove that her identity is more than wife and mother, however important they are to her, it felt reductive.
Further proof that the show took its eye on the ball in dealing with ‘ishoos’: I rolled my eyes at the so-called heroism of Rusty. Respect for getting involved, which so far most of his fellow society members hadn’t, even though they were in danger, but I’ve got far more respect for the smaller women who launched themselves with whatever was to hand at bigger men with guns (as Iris, Millie and Hayley did) than someone who picked up a gun and shot someone in the leg. I mean, the incapacitation was appreciated, as was Archie’s assistance, but the ladies are meant to be the heroes of this show, no? They’re the ones who crack the codes and do something about it.
Having said that, I was glad to see Archie return. I like him and might suggest that he’s less pushy about his masculinity and authority than certain cops, who have been better developed as characters.
With Millie and Jean having survived deportation, don’t they need to try to get jobs or leave to stay or something?
