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shallowness) wrote2013-03-24 08:08 am
shallowness) wrote2013-03-24 08:08 am
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Shows about ladies making songs and videos
Nashville 1.7 the episode’s title was Something Blues
Yay Rayna for turning up at Juliette’s beautiful house and insisting they co-wrote a song and reining hasty Juliette back in. The song/performance was an excellent closer. Also, Juliette, you asked Rayna to take the gloves off. You should have known you couldn’t take the unvarnished truth – I thought both women (or artistes as I’m sure they’d prefer to be described) handled Marshall badly, especially Juliette, because Rayna has the experience to know how far she can go.
Meanwhile, of course, Juliette holds herself in lower regard than her Surprisingly Tattooed Boyfriend does. He is sweet, but he so shouldn’t marry her. However, if he gets her to see that she deserves pink flowers and needs and can get more than sex to make her feel better (and thus treats other people better and makes better music), good on them for as long as it lasts. I feel he's one of the weaker written supporting characters.
Avery/Scarlett/Gunnar/the other two women developed perfectly. Unsurprisingly, but what's wrong with that? Gunnar turned into a cartoon at the sight of Scarlett in that dress, dancing with another man and letting him kiss her. I didn’t like the take on Ring of Fire at all. I would like to read a lot into Scarlett keeping the taxi there while she visited Avery. And I tend to think publishing company girl has too much respect for herself and nous to accept Gunnar’s (reawakened) feelings for Scarlett. When she tells him this, he’ll be surprised.
Teddy still seems surprised at his father in law’s Machiavelian ways and what getting to be Mayor requires. He is an idiot. Rayna’s sister is far more in the know than she pretends to be around Rayna.
Liam has a nascent drinking problem. And I've forgotten whatever else I wanted to say about the episode.
Nashville gets its own tag now, y'all.
The Lizzie Bennet Diaries. I can't explain very well why I haven't watched this sooner.
Rewatching from Care Package on. I skipped the filler-y Jane and Lydia Halloween thing, which I wonder if they put up to drag out the tension about Lizzie and Darcy’s encounter. Anyway, I rewatched Staff Spirit wondering what Darcy could conceivably have overheard, given how wound up and loud Lizzie was getting, but a cut and a lack of names – and his being focused on what he had to say – makes all right.
I still haven’t caught the name of the guy Lydia was mumbling about.
“What videos?” Will he have Googled and watched them by the next time? When will Charlotte (not to mention Jane) catch up with them? I may have over-praised the actor in my raptures last time, but any nerves worked performance-wise, given where Darcy was at.
New stuff.
Sensible Jane wearing a hat! Poor Jane sharing her heartbreak and Lydia not really being in a place to hear it, so Jane had to put on her happy face. FEELINGS. Mainly for Jane.
Oh, Charlotte and your inklings and your gently but firmly suggesting Lizzie was wrong and your going (because it’ll be filmed so you can see what happened anyway) and telling him off about Jane – which he deserves. And of course he watched it and ‘robot’ and ‘Newsie’ and aww. And yes, Lizzie fixates. Plus his stiff but heartfelt apology. She lost me with the bitching about hand-written letters (well, maybe I’ll side with her on the wax seal) but I am on the side of hand-written letters. And he wrote it because he couldn't say it, because she might make him lose his temper again, and she's made him lose control already. But when she realises she’s wrong, she realises she’s wrong...
Aww, Jane. A much smaller aww, Lydia – the almost automatic and unthinking emotional blackmail had a kernel of truth. She does feel alone, but she has terrible coping mechanisms.
I always wonder about the placement of question and answer vids. Like here, the first questions are did she make it home and is that her room? Otherwise they were good questions. The List of Why Lizzie Bennet is Perpetually Single is acquiring Rules of Acquisition status in my head. Also, there has to be a Lydia Bennet goes got to Greendal Community College out there. And fics about the girls putting on one of Lizzie’s plays.
Ep 62, aha, the letter was always going to be challenging for the format (book readers feel smug y/y). But thinking about it, Lizzie’s decision to keep all the secrets (which I can understand on the videos and perhaps by this point nothing important happens to her that isn’t reported or shown in her diaries is going to come back to haunt her. Again, saying that because of the book.)
Was that a more assertive Charlotte, I wondered, as she became the voice of the viewer? Was it the suit? Nope, turned out to be Darcy’s favourable report. The impace of watching all the videos on Darcy’s perception of Jane/Bing (that’s one portmanteau I’m no adopting) is interesting. But he’s really probably not allowing for his influence on Bing. Or that what Bing wants and needs (beyond someone loving and commited) isn't quite the same as what Darcy needs. Ditto Lizzy. And already, Lizzie is making good on her declamation that her worldview has changed. Her little face when she realised Darcy had gone! Well, Darcy and Fitz, but beyond wondering why the latter didn’t contact her, I doubt she’s thinking of him. But what else was Darcy going to do when he’d got the message so loudly and clearly? There was the apology about his presence making things awkward and difficult for her on her visit!
Lydia’s POV of the whole Darcy thing was amusing, although not really revelatory. Well, it was never going to be that insightful.
Better Living with Collins and Collins 1...what was that? I'll tell you, it was one of the things that the show does that I wish it would either do more of or drop.
Yay Rayna for turning up at Juliette’s beautiful house and insisting they co-wrote a song and reining hasty Juliette back in. The song/performance was an excellent closer. Also, Juliette, you asked Rayna to take the gloves off. You should have known you couldn’t take the unvarnished truth – I thought both women (or artistes as I’m sure they’d prefer to be described) handled Marshall badly, especially Juliette, because Rayna has the experience to know how far she can go.
Meanwhile, of course, Juliette holds herself in lower regard than her Surprisingly Tattooed Boyfriend does. He is sweet, but he so shouldn’t marry her. However, if he gets her to see that she deserves pink flowers and needs and can get more than sex to make her feel better (and thus treats other people better and makes better music), good on them for as long as it lasts. I feel he's one of the weaker written supporting characters.
Avery/Scarlett/Gunnar/the other two women developed perfectly. Unsurprisingly, but what's wrong with that? Gunnar turned into a cartoon at the sight of Scarlett in that dress, dancing with another man and letting him kiss her. I didn’t like the take on Ring of Fire at all. I would like to read a lot into Scarlett keeping the taxi there while she visited Avery. And I tend to think publishing company girl has too much respect for herself and nous to accept Gunnar’s (reawakened) feelings for Scarlett. When she tells him this, he’ll be surprised.
Teddy still seems surprised at his father in law’s Machiavelian ways and what getting to be Mayor requires. He is an idiot. Rayna’s sister is far more in the know than she pretends to be around Rayna.
Liam has a nascent drinking problem. And I've forgotten whatever else I wanted to say about the episode.
Nashville gets its own tag now, y'all.
The Lizzie Bennet Diaries. I can't explain very well why I haven't watched this sooner.
Rewatching from Care Package on. I skipped the filler-y Jane and Lydia Halloween thing, which I wonder if they put up to drag out the tension about Lizzie and Darcy’s encounter. Anyway, I rewatched Staff Spirit wondering what Darcy could conceivably have overheard, given how wound up and loud Lizzie was getting, but a cut and a lack of names – and his being focused on what he had to say – makes all right.
I still haven’t caught the name of the guy Lydia was mumbling about.
“What videos?” Will he have Googled and watched them by the next time? When will Charlotte (not to mention Jane) catch up with them? I may have over-praised the actor in my raptures last time, but any nerves worked performance-wise, given where Darcy was at.
New stuff.
Sensible Jane wearing a hat! Poor Jane sharing her heartbreak and Lydia not really being in a place to hear it, so Jane had to put on her happy face. FEELINGS. Mainly for Jane.
Oh, Charlotte and your inklings and your gently but firmly suggesting Lizzie was wrong and your going (because it’ll be filmed so you can see what happened anyway) and telling him off about Jane – which he deserves. And of course he watched it and ‘robot’ and ‘Newsie’ and aww. And yes, Lizzie fixates. Plus his stiff but heartfelt apology. She lost me with the bitching about hand-written letters (well, maybe I’ll side with her on the wax seal) but I am on the side of hand-written letters. And he wrote it because he couldn't say it, because she might make him lose his temper again, and she's made him lose control already. But when she realises she’s wrong, she realises she’s wrong...
Aww, Jane. A much smaller aww, Lydia – the almost automatic and unthinking emotional blackmail had a kernel of truth. She does feel alone, but she has terrible coping mechanisms.
I always wonder about the placement of question and answer vids. Like here, the first questions are did she make it home and is that her room? Otherwise they were good questions. The List of Why Lizzie Bennet is Perpetually Single is acquiring Rules of Acquisition status in my head. Also, there has to be a Lydia Bennet goes got to Greendal Community College out there. And fics about the girls putting on one of Lizzie’s plays.
Ep 62, aha, the letter was always going to be challenging for the format (book readers feel smug y/y). But thinking about it, Lizzie’s decision to keep all the secrets (which I can understand on the videos and perhaps by this point nothing important happens to her that isn’t reported or shown in her diaries is going to come back to haunt her. Again, saying that because of the book.)
Was that a more assertive Charlotte, I wondered, as she became the voice of the viewer? Was it the suit? Nope, turned out to be Darcy’s favourable report. The impace of watching all the videos on Darcy’s perception of Jane/Bing (that’s one portmanteau I’m no adopting) is interesting. But he’s really probably not allowing for his influence on Bing. Or that what Bing wants and needs (beyond someone loving and commited) isn't quite the same as what Darcy needs. Ditto Lizzy. And already, Lizzie is making good on her declamation that her worldview has changed. Her little face when she realised Darcy had gone! Well, Darcy and Fitz, but beyond wondering why the latter didn’t contact her, I doubt she’s thinking of him. But what else was Darcy going to do when he’d got the message so loudly and clearly? There was the apology about his presence making things awkward and difficult for her on her visit!
Lydia’s POV of the whole Darcy thing was amusing, although not really revelatory. Well, it was never going to be that insightful.
Better Living with Collins and Collins 1...what was that? I'll tell you, it was one of the things that the show does that I wish it would either do more of or drop.