This week’s TV, the hella shallow thoughts:
The Vampire Diaries: “The Last Dance.” When Bonnie died, I was all, “OH NO YOU DIDN’T YOU M*****F*****! I QUIT!” But then she came back to life and I was all, “ ^_^ ^_^ ^_^ ^_^ ” Dear show, don’t do that to me again! Also, I wish I’d learned more about Klaus in the ’60s than, he was kinda sorta a Beatles fan. Really, that’s all there is to say about Klaus in that decade? I feel like I thought I was jumping into an ocean only to end up in an inflatable kiddie pool.
Nikita: “Into the Dark.” Owen, I fear, will not make it past this season. As for Alex, OMG, I love how she passed the MRI-scan lie-detector test. If anything, she is her father’s daughter. And I can’t wait for the next episode to see how Nikita explains Michael to her.
Smallville: “Kent.” Sell the farm to Oliver! I think the Oliver here could keep a balance between mining the farm for meteor rocks and keeping the land fertile. It’d be a nice bookend. And Connor is in Washington DC with Martha? But, only a few weeks after Clark enrolled him into Smallville High? Isn’t that too soon to let him settle into a sense of stability? And lots of others have pointed out that wasn’t the Fortress of Solitude over there under lockdown? Then how is it functional and waiting for Clark Luthor? (Wait, this is Smallville, this is Smallville, this is Smallville . . . )
Supernatural: “My Heart Will Go On.” Nothing about this episode that I didn’t already say in
my previous post but someone on my ff-list linked to
this New York Times article about the series. “It’s Milton as only the CW could interpret it” is my choice quote. But the article does make a point that the show really gets away with a lot of things that, if touched by other other shows, would cause shitstorm of controversy. Then again, who didn’t laugh at the black market for pieces of Moses’ staff?
A criticism I read of Flannery O’Connor pointed out that: If you’re not laughing at her characters, you’re missing the point; but if you’re not also horrified at her characters, you’re also missing the point. And SPN is like that. Last night, I raised an eyebrow when Castiel said to Fate, “You have no choice” (or something like that, it might have been, “You don’t have a choice,” potaetoe, potahtoh, blah blah). I raised an eyebrow and was all, “LOL, whut?” But there’s a more serious subtext there of trying to take away choice from Fate.
On the one hand, the show is under-rated. And I’m guilty of this; I didn’t start watching the show until the middle of S2 and that’s only because I got the S1 DVDs on clearance. “Oh, this show is still on and a huge chunk of fandom is still really into it. Maybe I should check it out.” But if being under-rated means keeping the haters away, okay, I guess that’s a fair trade-off.
Oh wait, I do have something shallow to say about last night’s episode: So, if the cover was a uni student researching genealogy, wouldn’t free-ride-to-Stanford Sam have been the better one for the job? instead of, you know, high-school-GED Dean? Just sayin’.