a signpost and reaction to two episodes
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shallownessI've been updating the page linking to fills for my prompts at the Three Sentence Fiction ficathon because lovely people have been writing gorgeous fics. And lovely and talented people have been writing other stuff there too. (And what Dreamwidth asks of me to prove that I'm not a spambot is much less anxiety-inducing than other websites demand.)
I watched The Mindy Project pilot, for the show has arrived in the UK. Didn’t laugh much, but smiled; I only really cringed during the date. I think maybe the character of Mindy is about sympathetic enough to keep me onboard I was glad we got to see her suiting up and doing her job eventually. But okay, the snarky (also obnoxious, but I like that a lot of them are) Danny and their bickering may keep me in. They were both dishing as well as taking it. I see more mileage in Mindy’s assistants than her thing for Hugh Grant types. I know within the show that the project is Mindy ‘improving herself’ but really it’s Kaling transferring the much maligned modern romcom to sitcom form in a self-aware way (and inevitably showing up issues to do with race). I’m not ideologically opposed to that. (But I’m pretentious, apparently and wondering why I've not tried the first name/surname division with Miranda Hart.)
I miscalculated with Person of Interest and thought I was only an episode behind. I was, in fact, two. Now I'm back to being behind on one.
1.18 Identity Theft
Initially, my response was well done Number of the Week for having a low digital footprint. Then, when the two people with one identity dilemma was revealed, I fell for the opening credits having shown girl!Jordan – well done, show. And then Harold was taken with her. The book store looked a bit like one they’ve featured before, but I was willing to be swayed by him bonding with a lady over Kafka, even as I thought it was early in the episode and it would be more interesting if she wasn’t just a damsel in distress. So, I was prepped to be suspicious of her a second before the boys.
And then we had Harold on Ecstasy, which was very entertaining. And by the end, emotional, given that Reese didn’t take advantage of his state to get information. He’s still got his own sense of honour, whatever the FBI thinks. But Nathan!? That’s a perfect reveal for this episode. And I’m so glad that, unlike The Mentalist, demand five doesn’t cut this show off before the end. I also think the song played towards the end helped with the mood.
But the most emotional moment for me was still from Fuscoe, understanding what the man in prison was going through, torn between being the bad cop Reese is forcing him to be and the good cop Reese started to help him to be.
Meanwhile, the man from the Orange ads is now making things difficult for Carter. Surely he must have been suspicious about her being so noncommittal. She knows Reese isn’t up to what the FBI suspects, but...how long can she be in that holding pattern, though?
The meandering exposition line was hilarious, given that we had a burst of that from Finch at the start of the episode. But oh, this show gives me just enough and then a little bit more than I expected.
I watched The Mindy Project pilot, for the show has arrived in the UK. Didn’t laugh much, but smiled; I only really cringed during the date. I think maybe the character of Mindy is about sympathetic enough to keep me onboard I was glad we got to see her suiting up and doing her job eventually. But okay, the snarky (also obnoxious, but I like that a lot of them are) Danny and their bickering may keep me in. They were both dishing as well as taking it. I see more mileage in Mindy’s assistants than her thing for Hugh Grant types. I know within the show that the project is Mindy ‘improving herself’ but really it’s Kaling transferring the much maligned modern romcom to sitcom form in a self-aware way (and inevitably showing up issues to do with race). I’m not ideologically opposed to that. (But I’m pretentious, apparently and wondering why I've not tried the first name/surname division with Miranda Hart.)
I miscalculated with Person of Interest and thought I was only an episode behind. I was, in fact, two. Now I'm back to being behind on one.
1.18 Identity Theft
Initially, my response was well done Number of the Week for having a low digital footprint. Then, when the two people with one identity dilemma was revealed, I fell for the opening credits having shown girl!Jordan – well done, show. And then Harold was taken with her. The book store looked a bit like one they’ve featured before, but I was willing to be swayed by him bonding with a lady over Kafka, even as I thought it was early in the episode and it would be more interesting if she wasn’t just a damsel in distress. So, I was prepped to be suspicious of her a second before the boys.
And then we had Harold on Ecstasy, which was very entertaining. And by the end, emotional, given that Reese didn’t take advantage of his state to get information. He’s still got his own sense of honour, whatever the FBI thinks. But Nathan!? That’s a perfect reveal for this episode. And I’m so glad that, unlike The Mentalist, demand five doesn’t cut this show off before the end. I also think the song played towards the end helped with the mood.
But the most emotional moment for me was still from Fuscoe, understanding what the man in prison was going through, torn between being the bad cop Reese is forcing him to be and the good cop Reese started to help him to be.
Meanwhile, the man from the Orange ads is now making things difficult for Carter. Surely he must have been suspicious about her being so noncommittal. She knows Reese isn’t up to what the FBI suspects, but...how long can she be in that holding pattern, though?
The meandering exposition line was hilarious, given that we had a burst of that from Finch at the start of the episode. But oh, this show gives me just enough and then a little bit more than I expected.
