Amazing and detailed TV thoughts
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bofoddityI have a meme to respond to, and will do that. But first, pointless thoughts!
House
- Okay, so I initially wasn't convinced on the Foreman/Thirteen-relationship because.. well, it came out of nowhere. I didn't have much interest in them when they were building the relationship up, aside from being lost in THIRTEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEN wail, but now that they're actually together I love them to death. She's happy! He's happy! They're themselves and that causes a little friction between them but they overcome it! I love watching them be happy and I want it to continue it for a while.
Also, I've seen people discuss the similarities between the Foreman/Thirteen and House/Stacy, and after this episode I'm pretty sure that it's intentional. House's advice helped Thirteen to deal with her anger at Foreman's intervention with her trial - the intervention which House aided in the first place, by the way - so instead of starting to crash and burn, Foreman and Thirteen patched things up. Now House is throwing new difficulties in their way. To work out his own issues with relationships? I think it makes sense!
- Pre-Rachel, I was disappointed with the House/Cuddy-relationship because of the way Cuddy has been toned down (though that has been going on for a while now). I'm still not into it, but I find it more interesting now that there's a third person involved. I also enjoy the Wilson/Cuddy-interaction a lot. A triangle on the way? I'm not sure how to feel about that.
eta: On further contemplation, it's House's increased jerk-assness towards Cuddy I have problems with. I get he's supposed to be an emotionally stunted jerk, but still..
- I like the new team as a team, and I'm starting to like Kutner and Taub more as characters than as random sources of lulz. I really liked how Kutner stood up for the Foreteen. He and Thirteen make such nice pair of friends.
- At politedissent.com's review of this episode there were a lot of complaints about the religious side of this episode and how House, the sworn atheist was forced to acknowledge the possibility that maybe God had something to do with the patient of the week getting better. I wasn't entirely comfortable with that either, but I did love POTW's struggles with his faith and how he found it again, and I think I was a little teary when his supposed victim came by to ask for his forgiveness.
Lost
A pretty generic episode, but it was all right. I like how the plot keeps moving in this show these days.
- WTF PENDULUM OF DOOM. I need to check an episode summary to find out exactly what they said about the island because I was so distracted by the pendulum. And wondering when it would knock poor Desmond out. WAY TO CARE ABOUT CANON. SELF.
- Ever since S4, I haven't felt quite as much for Jack as I used to. In this episode, that emotion started to return. I was also vaguely interested in the Jate-dysfunction, but not enough. I so do not look forward to the quadrangle really taking off.
- Theories I've seen: Aaron is with Claire's mother. Ben staged Sayid's capture. Ben was lured into a trap by Widmore and paid for that. Hurley got a visit from Charlie and that's why he had the guitar case. (Which makes sense: Hurley is posing as Charlie, Sayid as Kate.. and I'm not sure about the rest. My memory is sucky.)
- I loved how Hurley was the only one to try to keep innocent people from getting involved. Too bad he has to hang around with a gang of shitholes.
- My guess is that the time has moved on the island. The only reason I say this because I hope that Juliet and Sawyer are getting it on. I HAVE MY SHALLOW NEEDS OKAY.
Important correction: Except that they're back in the days of Dharma. That's why we saw Daniel hang around with Dharma people in that one earlier episode. HONESTLY COULD ANYBODY BE SLOWER THAN ME. *head-desk*
- Speaking of shallow, Frank was looking good. Rawr!
- Speaking more of shallow, I was wondering why I found Sayid's marshall so goddamn hot. The answer is, because I saw her before as goddamn hot Gaia on Rome. I approve Lost's track of using actors from awesome HBO-shows.
Smallville
So, there has been a lot of unhappiness about the last two episodes of the show. I went ahead and spoiled myself, so I thought I was prepared for the badness. I wasn't entirely, so I'll keep things short.
- My biggest problem with these episodes was that they didn't feel like Smallville at all. The first one was directed by Allison Mack, and since it was her first directing job that might have affected it, but the second episode? It was actually worse! It's like the entire direction of Lana's story arc took this sharp direction and headed for the woods, and took the rest of the show with it.
- Clark and Lana didn't work as individual characters much to me at all, but as far as Clark/Lana went, I had no trouble weeping for them inside. That last kiss was everything my OTPs are made of, and I did love the two of them as heroes as they decided to do the awful right thing. I don't have much coherent thoughts about this, but that's the sum of my feelings.
- But: I think it's perfectly valid and possible to have loved somebody in the past and still have feelings for this somebody and still love another person just as much and even more. I do wish that Clark and Lois were closer to epic than they are in the canon at the moment, but I don't think Clark loving Lana makes it impossible for him to eventually find his epic love with Lois. The show needs to work on it, but I don't think Clark/Lois has been negated by these Clark/Lana-developments.
- In fact, what I'm actually much angrier about is what they did to Oliver. Okay, so Oliver is all daaaaaaaaaaaaaark and Batman in this show. So he doesn't exactly have Clark's moral spine. So he can be a little indifferent and uncaring. None of these things mean that he's the most fitting candidate for a murderer. None of those things mean that he would duck responsibility for his own shitty actions, even if the person taking a blame is already a villain. Character assassination, pure and simple.
- I'm all into dark and villainous Lex. The guy in these episodes resembled that Lex, but didn't get even nearly close enough.
- I did love the Tess/Lana-interaction, but the Tess-scenes didn't really get to me, as much as I love her.
- I liked Toyman.
Before this, I thought this was overall pretty solid and entertaining season, but after these two episodes I honestly don't think I can say that anymore. Hopefully the show will change my mind.
And finally, Whedon's new.. thing. NOT POSITIVE AT AL.
Dollhouse
Simple reaction:
EW EW EW EW EW EW EW EW EW EW EW EW EW EW EW EW EW EW EW EW EW EW EW EW EW EW EW EW EW EW EW EW EW EW EW EW EW EW EW EW EW EW EW EW EW EW EW EW EW EW EW EW EW EW EW EW EW EW EW EW EW EW EW EW EW EW EW EW EW EW EW EW EW EW EW EW EW EW EW EW JOSS WHY
In more words:
- So, maybe this entire show comes off as a fetish because it's intended to. It probably even is. But it's a different thing to follow fetishization from the outside than participate in this, and this felt more like participating. Nice that Joss still gets off to Asians, girly child-women and sort-of-lesbian-but-not-really-lesbianism.
- That Topher guy made me feel sleazy just by stepping into the screen. If he's supposed to be some kind of Joss-avatar as some have suggested, EVEN MORE EW OH MY GOD.
- I'm curious about Amy Acker's character and how she fits into all of this.
- I've had trouble buying Eliza's acting in any other role than Faith, and that hasn't changed so far. There were moments when I felt for her, but so far I'm not feeling a lot.
- I love Takmoh Penikett on BSG. I found his appearances in Smallville laughable. In this one I thought he was really fucking hot. What gives?
House
- Okay, so I initially wasn't convinced on the Foreman/Thirteen-relationship because.. well, it came out of nowhere. I didn't have much interest in them when they were building the relationship up, aside from being lost in THIRTEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEN wail, but now that they're actually together I love them to death. She's happy! He's happy! They're themselves and that causes a little friction between them but they overcome it! I love watching them be happy and I want it to continue it for a while.
Also, I've seen people discuss the similarities between the Foreman/Thirteen and House/Stacy, and after this episode I'm pretty sure that it's intentional. House's advice helped Thirteen to deal with her anger at Foreman's intervention with her trial - the intervention which House aided in the first place, by the way - so instead of starting to crash and burn, Foreman and Thirteen patched things up. Now House is throwing new difficulties in their way. To work out his own issues with relationships? I think it makes sense!
- Pre-Rachel, I was disappointed with the House/Cuddy-relationship because of the way Cuddy has been toned down (though that has been going on for a while now). I'm still not into it, but I find it more interesting now that there's a third person involved. I also enjoy the Wilson/Cuddy-interaction a lot. A triangle on the way? I'm not sure how to feel about that.
eta: On further contemplation, it's House's increased jerk-assness towards Cuddy I have problems with. I get he's supposed to be an emotionally stunted jerk, but still..
- I like the new team as a team, and I'm starting to like Kutner and Taub more as characters than as random sources of lulz. I really liked how Kutner stood up for the Foreteen. He and Thirteen make such nice pair of friends.
- At politedissent.com's review of this episode there were a lot of complaints about the religious side of this episode and how House, the sworn atheist was forced to acknowledge the possibility that maybe God had something to do with the patient of the week getting better. I wasn't entirely comfortable with that either, but I did love POTW's struggles with his faith and how he found it again, and I think I was a little teary when his supposed victim came by to ask for his forgiveness.
Lost
A pretty generic episode, but it was all right. I like how the plot keeps moving in this show these days.
- WTF PENDULUM OF DOOM. I need to check an episode summary to find out exactly what they said about the island because I was so distracted by the pendulum. And wondering when it would knock poor Desmond out. WAY TO CARE ABOUT CANON. SELF.
- Ever since S4, I haven't felt quite as much for Jack as I used to. In this episode, that emotion started to return. I was also vaguely interested in the Jate-dysfunction, but not enough. I so do not look forward to the quadrangle really taking off.
- Theories I've seen: Aaron is with Claire's mother. Ben staged Sayid's capture. Ben was lured into a trap by Widmore and paid for that. Hurley got a visit from Charlie and that's why he had the guitar case. (Which makes sense: Hurley is posing as Charlie, Sayid as Kate.. and I'm not sure about the rest. My memory is sucky.)
- I loved how Hurley was the only one to try to keep innocent people from getting involved. Too bad he has to hang around with a gang of shitholes.
- My guess is that the time has moved on the island. The only reason I say this because I hope that Juliet and Sawyer are getting it on. I HAVE MY SHALLOW NEEDS OKAY.
Important correction: Except that they're back in the days of Dharma. That's why we saw Daniel hang around with Dharma people in that one earlier episode. HONESTLY COULD ANYBODY BE SLOWER THAN ME. *head-desk*
- Speaking of shallow, Frank was looking good. Rawr!
- Speaking more of shallow, I was wondering why I found Sayid's marshall so goddamn hot. The answer is, because I saw her before as goddamn hot Gaia on Rome. I approve Lost's track of using actors from awesome HBO-shows.
Smallville
So, there has been a lot of unhappiness about the last two episodes of the show. I went ahead and spoiled myself, so I thought I was prepared for the badness. I wasn't entirely, so I'll keep things short.
- My biggest problem with these episodes was that they didn't feel like Smallville at all. The first one was directed by Allison Mack, and since it was her first directing job that might have affected it, but the second episode? It was actually worse! It's like the entire direction of Lana's story arc took this sharp direction and headed for the woods, and took the rest of the show with it.
- Clark and Lana didn't work as individual characters much to me at all, but as far as Clark/Lana went, I had no trouble weeping for them inside. That last kiss was everything my OTPs are made of, and I did love the two of them as heroes as they decided to do the awful right thing. I don't have much coherent thoughts about this, but that's the sum of my feelings.
- But: I think it's perfectly valid and possible to have loved somebody in the past and still have feelings for this somebody and still love another person just as much and even more. I do wish that Clark and Lois were closer to epic than they are in the canon at the moment, but I don't think Clark loving Lana makes it impossible for him to eventually find his epic love with Lois. The show needs to work on it, but I don't think Clark/Lois has been negated by these Clark/Lana-developments.
- In fact, what I'm actually much angrier about is what they did to Oliver. Okay, so Oliver is all daaaaaaaaaaaaaark and Batman in this show. So he doesn't exactly have Clark's moral spine. So he can be a little indifferent and uncaring. None of these things mean that he's the most fitting candidate for a murderer. None of those things mean that he would duck responsibility for his own shitty actions, even if the person taking a blame is already a villain. Character assassination, pure and simple.
- I'm all into dark and villainous Lex. The guy in these episodes resembled that Lex, but didn't get even nearly close enough.
- I did love the Tess/Lana-interaction, but the Tess-scenes didn't really get to me, as much as I love her.
- I liked Toyman.
Before this, I thought this was overall pretty solid and entertaining season, but after these two episodes I honestly don't think I can say that anymore. Hopefully the show will change my mind.
And finally, Whedon's new.. thing. NOT POSITIVE AT AL.
Dollhouse
Simple reaction:
EW EW EW EW EW EW EW EW EW EW EW EW EW EW EW EW EW EW EW EW EW EW EW EW EW EW EW EW EW EW EW EW EW EW EW EW EW EW EW EW EW EW EW EW EW EW EW EW EW EW EW EW EW EW EW EW EW EW EW EW EW EW EW EW EW EW EW EW EW EW EW EW EW EW EW EW EW EW EW EW JOSS WHY
In more words:
- So, maybe this entire show comes off as a fetish because it's intended to. It probably even is. But it's a different thing to follow fetishization from the outside than participate in this, and this felt more like participating. Nice that Joss still gets off to Asians, girly child-women and sort-of-lesbian-but-not-really-lesbianism.
- That Topher guy made me feel sleazy just by stepping into the screen. If he's supposed to be some kind of Joss-avatar as some have suggested, EVEN MORE EW OH MY GOD.
- I'm curious about Amy Acker's character and how she fits into all of this.
- I've had trouble buying Eliza's acting in any other role than Faith, and that hasn't changed so far. There were moments when I felt for her, but so far I'm not feeling a lot.
- I love Takmoh Penikett on BSG. I found his appearances in Smallville laughable. In this one I thought he was really fucking hot. What gives?
