Still here
I haven't posted for a while but no I haven't vanished, I just took a step away for RL was busy and I wasn't in the mood for LJ. Yeah it's that feeling of being disconnected again. But
sister_luck managed to lure me back online. ;- )
I watched my tv shows though.
I liked mature James/Sawyer and actually I didn't dislike the new point of view on the quadrangle of doom and the nice echo played "for her". Once upon a time, Jack saved Ben for Kate because she begged him, because she loved Sawyer...this time James did something for Juliet. Does it mean that Juliet actually loves Jack?
Also for the first time Kate moved me. I knew her coming back had to do with Aron but I didn't expect that it was about looking for Claire. It took a boy to get her learn unselfisness.
I enjoyed Hugo and Miles commenting on the time travel issue, playing the viewers' part, how Miles' explanation made sense and how Hugo finally pointed out what could have been a plot hole -Ben didn't seem to remember Sayid when he met him while he was still pretending to be Henry Gale- or not. Enters Mr Richard Alert who tells us that Ben would be saved but the price is that he would not recall anything and would lose his innocence for ever. I smelled a deus ex-machina there, but I liked the line about losing innocence. Etymologically, innocent means harmless. I wouldn't say that Ben is evil but if there's something that Ben has become, it's indeed harmful. It's also interesting to think that our heroes (Sayid first but also Jack, Juliet, James and Kate), because of the choices they made, not only have "prepared" the fall of the Dharma ville and its people (those whom Juliet and James have come to care about) whom Ben will kill, but also have set up their own torments in the hands of Ben. So yes perhaps that time travel stuff is a good way to carry on the characters study.
BTW Richard Alpert is definitely the mystery with a big M.
The ending with Locke put a smile on my face. I'm still worryig about the Hume family.
I have also seen the two last episodes of Dollhouse and the Terminator:The Sarah Connor Chronicles ones.
"Echoes" didn't impress me much although I really liked Mr Dominic giving up his gun because it was so heavy and looking for forgiveness. I didn't find the Adelle/Topher duet that funny for instance, and the reveal about Caroline's past was sort of disappointing. And yes Joss still draws his inspiration from Lewis Carroll and couldn't help turning ED into a new sort of Alice. I prefered the references in BTVS(especially in "Restless") but I guess it fits in the Dollhouse theme. By the way the threat-line about sending anyone into the attic begins to sound like the one of the Red Queen always demanding heads to be cut off. This time white rabbits were in cage, but Echo's fantasy-engagement, her Lolita-like outfit and her name made the reference obvious. I liked the ending showing Adelle as a true predator, hiring the guy who had killed his friend and who nothing to lose left...except his self.
"Needs" was much better in my opinion, even though I wasn't fond of the "rude awakening scene"and how Echo had to mention "lab rat" just to point out she really was in Caroline mode. Let's give the Actives what they need. It sounded like something Joss used to say about the fans, that he would not give them what they wanted but what they needed. And it turned out to be quite cruel a game. Methinks Joss also plays on the viewers' complicity here, because we knew the whole thing was a test, we knew that Adelle was monitoring the fake great escape. Of course when Echo kept her gun trained on Adelle things seem to be going wrong. A little earlier Adelle had seemed genuinely surprised to see Echo still in the house. Cruel Joss let us believe that the dolls could beat the system and reverse the situation. But it was in the script too. Isn't it funny that this was probably the most scripted "engagement" Echo, Victor, Sierra and November ever had while they were supposed to be themselves for once? The scene in which Echo collapsed just after she seemed to have freed them all, and the three others switched onto sleep mode as well, was beautifully done.
Above all I loved the final twist revealing that the soooooo nice Doctor Sanders was the mastermind behind the test. Beware of sweet girls with scarred faces! Hell is paved with good intentions and it was quite depressing to see Echo, November, Sierra and Victor dehumanized again, empty and robot-like eventually..
I liked the serious way Tahmoh played the dream scene with Caroline and Mellie. It reminded me of Xander's dream in "Restless" when he was in the ice-cream truck, especially how he just pointed out "I'm talking to my demon!" when he got disturbed by gigglings. Of course Paul's awakening recalled the one that Spike had at the end of "Out of My Mind".
Paul will never be Helo(and Tahmoh will probably forever be Helo for me and many other BSG fans) but he is growing on me, yet I think that my favourite character is definitely Victor. The actor is really good. I mean, he is credible in any role he has to play, whether he is in a blank state, or as dollin love, ro as himself, or through any programmed persona. It never turns out to be the same character; unlike ED, he is different everytime.
I was so happy to see Charlie again in "To the Lighthouse" and so sad with the ending. Why do they always have to kill Dean Winters (yes Rescue Me I'm looking at you!)? Sarah showing him her lump freaked me out (probbaly because I was having breast worries myself at the time but this is TMI, sorry). The lump turned out to be a transmitting thingy, implanted into her breast a few episodes ago while she was held and drugged by the man whom she thought she had killed. Ah the irony of her being the biggest threat for John while she was wary of both Derek and Cameron after the Jessie stuff. Otherwise, I don't remember much from the episode so I guess it wasn't that great.
Friday's episode was really good for several reasons. First off I just loved the way they killed Derek. I know this must sound harsh, and it doesnt' mean I didn't like Derek as a character, but it was a clean death which is always something I like on tv. Quick, shocking like a blow, and at the same time just ordinary if you think of all the people that are easily terminated by a terminator. It's the way death strikes, even regular characters (like Joyce or Anya in BTVS, or like youknowwho in Serenity). A real death. Besides it made sense after everything. Same with Sarah being arrested.
John and Cameron had to end up together, alone. Fake siblings that they are, mirroring John-Henry/Savannah pairing. In a way Cameron was to Sarah what Savannah is to Catherine Weaver, a fake daughter necessary for the protection and therefore the survival of the favoured son, until she's seen as a possible threat that is no longer needed. I also enjoyed the John-Henry/Savannah scenes, and John figuring out that Savannah's friend was not the old Cromartie and his getting pissed at Ellison-btw I'm with Cameron on this one! The potential relationship between John and Savannah is intriguing. It's John who saved her when John-Henry could not. I just knew the scene in which they met at the shrink's office was foreshadowing something.
In Sarah's heart Charlie's death echoed Kyle's whose last place the episode opens with; Derek approved of the place which kinda sounds like last wishes now. He has always be meant to follow his baby brother, in the past, in John Connor's cricle, in the ground. Sometimes a death foreshadows another one and sometimes a brother hides another one. A few episodes ago Derek explained that he had killed the man who was like a brother to him, the guy who confessed to him that everything was his fault since he made Skynet (I don't remember his name but he was the chess guy). The reference to Abel and Cain appears in the title of this episode but it has also been the leitmotiv of the season. Now John-Henry is wondering about his brother, the one who might have made him killed Savannah, the one who sent a terminator to kill Savannah. Is it just a super-computer, the soon-to-become skynet? Perhaps a brother is hiding another brother again. What if John Connor is actually the true brother John-Henry is meant to find someday?
Also this reminded me that Cromartie and Skynet didn't always agree before. After all Skynet sent a terminator to kill Ellison and took his place but Cromartie saved him, wanting to follow his own plan. He did disobey. Perhaps John-Henry is more like Cromartie than we think. The war between the machines have already begun the day John Connor reprogrammed a T888, and it's getting more and more obvious.
I liked Catherine Weaver's answer when John-Henry asked whether if was Abel or Cain. It was typical!
Now I'm going to bed...
sister_luck managed to lure me back online. ;- )
I watched my tv shows though.
I liked mature James/Sawyer and actually I didn't dislike the new point of view on the quadrangle of doom and the nice echo played "for her". Once upon a time, Jack saved Ben for Kate because she begged him, because she loved Sawyer...this time James did something for Juliet. Does it mean that Juliet actually loves Jack?
Also for the first time Kate moved me. I knew her coming back had to do with Aron but I didn't expect that it was about looking for Claire. It took a boy to get her learn unselfisness.
I enjoyed Hugo and Miles commenting on the time travel issue, playing the viewers' part, how Miles' explanation made sense and how Hugo finally pointed out what could have been a plot hole -Ben didn't seem to remember Sayid when he met him while he was still pretending to be Henry Gale- or not. Enters Mr Richard Alert who tells us that Ben would be saved but the price is that he would not recall anything and would lose his innocence for ever. I smelled a deus ex-machina there, but I liked the line about losing innocence. Etymologically, innocent means harmless. I wouldn't say that Ben is evil but if there's something that Ben has become, it's indeed harmful. It's also interesting to think that our heroes (Sayid first but also Jack, Juliet, James and Kate), because of the choices they made, not only have "prepared" the fall of the Dharma ville and its people (those whom Juliet and James have come to care about) whom Ben will kill, but also have set up their own torments in the hands of Ben. So yes perhaps that time travel stuff is a good way to carry on the characters study.
BTW Richard Alpert is definitely the mystery with a big M.
The ending with Locke put a smile on my face. I'm still worryig about the Hume family.
I have also seen the two last episodes of Dollhouse and the Terminator:The Sarah Connor Chronicles ones.
"Echoes" didn't impress me much although I really liked Mr Dominic giving up his gun because it was so heavy and looking for forgiveness. I didn't find the Adelle/Topher duet that funny for instance, and the reveal about Caroline's past was sort of disappointing. And yes Joss still draws his inspiration from Lewis Carroll and couldn't help turning ED into a new sort of Alice. I prefered the references in BTVS(especially in "Restless") but I guess it fits in the Dollhouse theme. By the way the threat-line about sending anyone into the attic begins to sound like the one of the Red Queen always demanding heads to be cut off. This time white rabbits were in cage, but Echo's fantasy-engagement, her Lolita-like outfit and her name made the reference obvious. I liked the ending showing Adelle as a true predator, hiring the guy who had killed his friend and who nothing to lose left...except his self.
"Needs" was much better in my opinion, even though I wasn't fond of the "rude awakening scene"and how Echo had to mention "lab rat" just to point out she really was in Caroline mode. Let's give the Actives what they need. It sounded like something Joss used to say about the fans, that he would not give them what they wanted but what they needed. And it turned out to be quite cruel a game. Methinks Joss also plays on the viewers' complicity here, because we knew the whole thing was a test, we knew that Adelle was monitoring the fake great escape. Of course when Echo kept her gun trained on Adelle things seem to be going wrong. A little earlier Adelle had seemed genuinely surprised to see Echo still in the house. Cruel Joss let us believe that the dolls could beat the system and reverse the situation. But it was in the script too. Isn't it funny that this was probably the most scripted "engagement" Echo, Victor, Sierra and November ever had while they were supposed to be themselves for once? The scene in which Echo collapsed just after she seemed to have freed them all, and the three others switched onto sleep mode as well, was beautifully done.
Above all I loved the final twist revealing that the soooooo nice Doctor Sanders was the mastermind behind the test. Beware of sweet girls with scarred faces! Hell is paved with good intentions and it was quite depressing to see Echo, November, Sierra and Victor dehumanized again, empty and robot-like eventually..
I liked the serious way Tahmoh played the dream scene with Caroline and Mellie. It reminded me of Xander's dream in "Restless" when he was in the ice-cream truck, especially how he just pointed out "I'm talking to my demon!" when he got disturbed by gigglings. Of course Paul's awakening recalled the one that Spike had at the end of "Out of My Mind".
Paul will never be Helo(and Tahmoh will probably forever be Helo for me and many other BSG fans) but he is growing on me, yet I think that my favourite character is definitely Victor. The actor is really good. I mean, he is credible in any role he has to play, whether he is in a blank state, or as dollin love, ro as himself, or through any programmed persona. It never turns out to be the same character; unlike ED, he is different everytime.
I was so happy to see Charlie again in "To the Lighthouse" and so sad with the ending. Why do they always have to kill Dean Winters (yes Rescue Me I'm looking at you!)? Sarah showing him her lump freaked me out (probbaly because I was having breast worries myself at the time but this is TMI, sorry). The lump turned out to be a transmitting thingy, implanted into her breast a few episodes ago while she was held and drugged by the man whom she thought she had killed. Ah the irony of her being the biggest threat for John while she was wary of both Derek and Cameron after the Jessie stuff. Otherwise, I don't remember much from the episode so I guess it wasn't that great.
Friday's episode was really good for several reasons. First off I just loved the way they killed Derek. I know this must sound harsh, and it doesnt' mean I didn't like Derek as a character, but it was a clean death which is always something I like on tv. Quick, shocking like a blow, and at the same time just ordinary if you think of all the people that are easily terminated by a terminator. It's the way death strikes, even regular characters (like Joyce or Anya in BTVS, or like youknowwho in Serenity). A real death. Besides it made sense after everything. Same with Sarah being arrested.
John and Cameron had to end up together, alone. Fake siblings that they are, mirroring John-Henry/Savannah pairing. In a way Cameron was to Sarah what Savannah is to Catherine Weaver, a fake daughter necessary for the protection and therefore the survival of the favoured son, until she's seen as a possible threat that is no longer needed. I also enjoyed the John-Henry/Savannah scenes, and John figuring out that Savannah's friend was not the old Cromartie and his getting pissed at Ellison-btw I'm with Cameron on this one! The potential relationship between John and Savannah is intriguing. It's John who saved her when John-Henry could not. I just knew the scene in which they met at the shrink's office was foreshadowing something.
In Sarah's heart Charlie's death echoed Kyle's whose last place the episode opens with; Derek approved of the place which kinda sounds like last wishes now. He has always be meant to follow his baby brother, in the past, in John Connor's cricle, in the ground. Sometimes a death foreshadows another one and sometimes a brother hides another one. A few episodes ago Derek explained that he had killed the man who was like a brother to him, the guy who confessed to him that everything was his fault since he made Skynet (I don't remember his name but he was the chess guy). The reference to Abel and Cain appears in the title of this episode but it has also been the leitmotiv of the season. Now John-Henry is wondering about his brother, the one who might have made him killed Savannah, the one who sent a terminator to kill Savannah. Is it just a super-computer, the soon-to-become skynet? Perhaps a brother is hiding another brother again. What if John Connor is actually the true brother John-Henry is meant to find someday?
Also this reminded me that Cromartie and Skynet didn't always agree before. After all Skynet sent a terminator to kill Ellison and took his place but Cromartie saved him, wanting to follow his own plan. He did disobey. Perhaps John-Henry is more like Cromartie than we think. The war between the machines have already begun the day John Connor reprogrammed a T888, and it's getting more and more obvious.
I liked Catherine Weaver's answer when John-Henry asked whether if was Abel or Cain. It was typical!
Now I'm going to bed...