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shallowness) wrote2020-04-15 11:30 am
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"Is that birdsong I hear?"
Caught up with Noughts + Crosses 1.6
I was confused during the opening attack, even though I can see what’s going on better on my laptop. Was Jude trying to restrain a kamikaze Callum or vice-versa? I was amused by how indignant the LMers were that a police force they knew full well were brutally violent towards Noughts had injured to death someone involved in a violent attack on property and persons. I’m not saying it was right, but it was hardly unexpected. Neither was how willing the press was to roll over and only tell the official, Cross-favouring story.
Yarrow hung around pointlessly for a bit.
Loved the unspoken ‘Did you have the talk with your child?’ between Meggie and Jasmine, and the resigned. ‘Well, it looks like we’re going to have to have another talk with Sephy.’ Though of course it was Meggie who went and did the mothering.
Jude dropped Callum in it – although Cal’s claim that the Hadleys had great security was worth a derisory snort given how often he’d circumvented it. The Judas kiss from Cal to Sephy was a bit sad, because she was all trusting.
The lady police officer seemed very competent and no-nonsense (until Lacan ran out on her and she…didn’t notice). Minerva is extremely naïve about Lacan and everything.
The worst bit was Jasmine letting rip at Meggie. Oh, she wasn’t entirely wrong about what Callum had become, and speaking from hurt, but then thinking she could order Meggie to stay and hear more bad stuff about her sons? I’d have respected Meggie more if she’d walked into police custody and waited there, but I suppose that would be to overcome decades of deference.
It was a little funny how much of a struggle Kemal had over giving up being PM. How had he found Yarrow, who I thought was on his way to an airport or port? Yarrow had to be one of the many people telling Kemal he didn’t get it.
I respected Sephy for makinj an attempt to escape and fashioning a weapon, using it and waiting for the best moment to inform Callum of her pregnancy. She was also clear-eyed about Dawn’s plans for her.
Unlike Jude. Dawn’s line about the penny slowly dropping was worthy of applause, because Jude was immensely stupid unti he couldn’t shoot the woman in his brother’s arms in cold blood and finally saw Dawn for the controlling psychopath he was. I guess the fug of testosterone wafted away a bit. Poor little Jude-y, keepin dragging family members into his favourite thing and getting overshadowed because they were better at reluctant terrorism than him. Frankly,, I don’t care if neither Jude or Dawn walked away from their fighr.
So, being a babydaddy wipes away complicity in everything lonely, sad and angry Cal has been complicit in? Okay, then. (His look was ‘auditioning for a Twilight remake’ all this episode. I think they’re better off leaving the country, myself, than going to the countryside, but what do I know? Oh, that he should ditch that phone. Wonder if the viewer numbers will justify more.
If so, I doubt whoever is PM will relinquish power to Kemal. Jasmine regained her moral compass towards the end.
We were in emotional potboiler territory, really, with family bonds and themes winning over in this series-closer. Oh, and apparently Africa is a country (wot, like a federalised superstate?).
I was confused during the opening attack, even though I can see what’s going on better on my laptop. Was Jude trying to restrain a kamikaze Callum or vice-versa? I was amused by how indignant the LMers were that a police force they knew full well were brutally violent towards Noughts had injured to death someone involved in a violent attack on property and persons. I’m not saying it was right, but it was hardly unexpected. Neither was how willing the press was to roll over and only tell the official, Cross-favouring story.
Yarrow hung around pointlessly for a bit.
Loved the unspoken ‘Did you have the talk with your child?’ between Meggie and Jasmine, and the resigned. ‘Well, it looks like we’re going to have to have another talk with Sephy.’ Though of course it was Meggie who went and did the mothering.
Jude dropped Callum in it – although Cal’s claim that the Hadleys had great security was worth a derisory snort given how often he’d circumvented it. The Judas kiss from Cal to Sephy was a bit sad, because she was all trusting.
The lady police officer seemed very competent and no-nonsense (until Lacan ran out on her and she…didn’t notice). Minerva is extremely naïve about Lacan and everything.
The worst bit was Jasmine letting rip at Meggie. Oh, she wasn’t entirely wrong about what Callum had become, and speaking from hurt, but then thinking she could order Meggie to stay and hear more bad stuff about her sons? I’d have respected Meggie more if she’d walked into police custody and waited there, but I suppose that would be to overcome decades of deference.
It was a little funny how much of a struggle Kemal had over giving up being PM. How had he found Yarrow, who I thought was on his way to an airport or port? Yarrow had to be one of the many people telling Kemal he didn’t get it.
I respected Sephy for makinj an attempt to escape and fashioning a weapon, using it and waiting for the best moment to inform Callum of her pregnancy. She was also clear-eyed about Dawn’s plans for her.
Unlike Jude. Dawn’s line about the penny slowly dropping was worthy of applause, because Jude was immensely stupid unti he couldn’t shoot the woman in his brother’s arms in cold blood and finally saw Dawn for the controlling psychopath he was. I guess the fug of testosterone wafted away a bit. Poor little Jude-y, keepin dragging family members into his favourite thing and getting overshadowed because they were better at reluctant terrorism than him. Frankly,, I don’t care if neither Jude or Dawn walked away from their fighr.
So, being a babydaddy wipes away complicity in everything lonely, sad and angry Cal has been complicit in? Okay, then. (His look was ‘auditioning for a Twilight remake’ all this episode. I think they’re better off leaving the country, myself, than going to the countryside, but what do I know? Oh, that he should ditch that phone. Wonder if the viewer numbers will justify more.
If so, I doubt whoever is PM will relinquish power to Kemal. Jasmine regained her moral compass towards the end.
We were in emotional potboiler territory, really, with family bonds and themes winning over in this series-closer. Oh, and apparently Africa is a country (wot, like a federalised superstate?).