Noughts and Crosses episode 4
Mar. 28th, 2020 08:44 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shallownessI’ve decided I don’t like how each episode starts with a zippy, cross-cutting montage – straight after a zippy ‘previously’ section. But then, I also think that this genius premise maybe needed more detailed world-building.
We got a couple of glimpses of a global view e.g. the Prime Minister’s suggestion that Albion was as much of an outlier if not a pariah as apartheid-era South Africa was. (I spent a lot of time over-thinking the use of the French ‘coup’ before that.) Someone is going to get a job in the United Nations equivalent while Kemal carries on his dangerous path. Meanwhile, we got an Indian character, or character of Indian descent, to add an an interesting angle.
It’s also getting some very decent acting, particularly from the older actors – Patterson loving being Machiavellian while a failboat at personal issues.
As his mother termed him, Jude continued to be an idiot. It was so obvious that he was disposable to Dawn in that he hadn’t even given his ickle footsoldier instructions about not returning to the terrorists’ hang-out after carrying out an act of terrorism. Duh. Although the fact that the police had an indistinct picture of him, had his brother and father in their custody and failed to suspect or investigate Jude means that the MacGregors might as well divulge secrets when visiting prison. It’s a rubbish police state on a functional level. After everything, Jude continued to have an attitude.
Meanwhile, Callum called Sephie a tourist; I think I preferred the description princess. While my response to the news item was, ‘Oh, they named the Cross medics who were killed, but not the Noughts cleaner’, she decided to drop her boyfriend in it to Daddy. Self-righteously. Naively. And then the poor little girl was SHOCKED at the police brutality and that Callum wanted to put the cooler on their relationship. However his innate decency/feelings for her/her working the off-shoulder look at his father’s trial, which is A CHOICE worked. Little idiots.
I did like the wordless scene between the two mothers where Jasmine realised Sephie and Callum were an item. Jasmine paying for the lawyer of the man who claimed he’d planted a bomb at the hospital she was in…was something. Well, it was definitely a chicken way of dealing with her marriage.
Still, I did like what we saw of the legal world, as it was well thought through, with a variation of the British solicitor/barrister divide and the African concept of a council of elders. Ooh, might as well add that forget the earrings, this episode was about the headgarb.
Meggie wa fairly rubbish at blackmail, although with the revelation that Yarrow was biracial (shouldn’t have been surprised), even with a supine media, as we’ve seen, surely that is top blackmail material that someone less noble could make proper use of.
Lakan returned like a bad smell – it is such a closed circle of characters, which is part of the reason it’s hard to believe in – dobbing his ex in. Sephie has plenty of reason to want her sister off him.
Brooklyn Nine-Nine is back on UK TV. On at the same slot as this, of course, but I look forwar to catching up with it this week. I feel the need for its silliness.
We got a couple of glimpses of a global view e.g. the Prime Minister’s suggestion that Albion was as much of an outlier if not a pariah as apartheid-era South Africa was. (I spent a lot of time over-thinking the use of the French ‘coup’ before that.) Someone is going to get a job in the United Nations equivalent while Kemal carries on his dangerous path. Meanwhile, we got an Indian character, or character of Indian descent, to add an an interesting angle.
It’s also getting some very decent acting, particularly from the older actors – Patterson loving being Machiavellian while a failboat at personal issues.
As his mother termed him, Jude continued to be an idiot. It was so obvious that he was disposable to Dawn in that he hadn’t even given his ickle footsoldier instructions about not returning to the terrorists’ hang-out after carrying out an act of terrorism. Duh. Although the fact that the police had an indistinct picture of him, had his brother and father in their custody and failed to suspect or investigate Jude means that the MacGregors might as well divulge secrets when visiting prison. It’s a rubbish police state on a functional level. After everything, Jude continued to have an attitude.
Meanwhile, Callum called Sephie a tourist; I think I preferred the description princess. While my response to the news item was, ‘Oh, they named the Cross medics who were killed, but not the Noughts cleaner’, she decided to drop her boyfriend in it to Daddy. Self-righteously. Naively. And then the poor little girl was SHOCKED at the police brutality and that Callum wanted to put the cooler on their relationship. However his innate decency/feelings for her/her working the off-shoulder look at his father’s trial, which is A CHOICE worked. Little idiots.
I did like the wordless scene between the two mothers where Jasmine realised Sephie and Callum were an item. Jasmine paying for the lawyer of the man who claimed he’d planted a bomb at the hospital she was in…was something. Well, it was definitely a chicken way of dealing with her marriage.
Still, I did like what we saw of the legal world, as it was well thought through, with a variation of the British solicitor/barrister divide and the African concept of a council of elders. Ooh, might as well add that forget the earrings, this episode was about the headgarb.
Meggie wa fairly rubbish at blackmail, although with the revelation that Yarrow was biracial (shouldn’t have been surprised), even with a supine media, as we’ve seen, surely that is top blackmail material that someone less noble could make proper use of.
Lakan returned like a bad smell – it is such a closed circle of characters, which is part of the reason it’s hard to believe in – dobbing his ex in. Sephie has plenty of reason to want her sister off him.
Brooklyn Nine-Nine is back on UK TV. On at the same slot as this, of course, but I look forwar to catching up with it this week. I feel the need for its silliness.
