Monday Night TV
OMG, this photo of a miniature horse. It has little horse sneakers. Little VELCRO horse sneakers.
ETA: Further research suggests that because this is a guide horse and goes in malls and other places with slick floors, it requires shoes to avoid slipping on the tiles. And also to be ridiculously cute.
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Warehouse 13
For some reason, I just couldn't pay much attention to this one. Maybe Eddie McClintock's man-boobs were just too distracting (and not in a good way). I didn't really care for Fargo last time he appeared, and while the concept of the W13 video game from hell was cool, in execution...eh. The subplot with Artie, Steve, and Southern Sally was also fairly dull, although I'm very intrigued by the robot bugs the evil organization released in the Warehouse at the end. I guess that's for the finale.
I did enjoy the teensy little shout-out to HG when Pete complained about how there was another evil British writer to deal with. Aww.
Rizzoli & Isles
On the other hand, this episode was the best one the show has ever done. LOVE! Ahhhh, that teaser scene. Maura and Jane are SO MARRIED. I've seen married couples who acted less married than they do! Eeee. And the ending, with the in-laws meeting each other? Because that was totally what it was. Guuuuuuyz, will you please just give up this pretension that you are nothing more than friends? Because it's really obvious you're not. Anyway, I liked the mothers and daughters bonding. Awww.
One half of a pairing getting emotionally walloped and the other half getting all protective of them is one of my narrative kinks, so I ate that aspect of the episode up with a spoon. Loved Jane's attempts to cheer Maura up, and how when that didn't work, she went straight to the source and confronted her mother. I even liked how they resolved that, because "Oh, she's busy and she has her own life and I don't want to interfere" is a pretty believable thought process, especially if Constance was raised that way herself and perhaps has a bit of a self-confidence deficit.
Even the plot was decent this time! It tied into the whole mother/child theme, and even if that scene on the porch was a tad forced, I appreciated what they were trying to do. (I also called the son as a.) the son and b.) the killer as soon as he came into view, but hey. Can't have everything.)
Plus there was Korsak saving a birdie! Well, trying to save a birdie. Maura sneakily replacing it with one from the pet store was hilarious, especially when she was all, "I didn't lie to your mother, Jane, I just didn't tell her exactly what 'I'll take care of it' entailed." Oh, and I'm calling Korsak having a heart attack in the season finale right now, with all those anvils they were dropping, and probably it spurring Angie to act as nursemaid and then wind up going out with him. Which is faintly horrifying, but this show makes a bit of a specialty out of that.
And EVERYONE WAS IN COSTUME! BWAHAHAHA! And of course Maura was fascinated by Revolutionary War history, because whenever we need someone to know about an esoteric topic, Maura's there for us. Also, I adored Jane complaining about how she wanted to join the re-enactors when she was younger, but gave it up when they wouldn't let her be a Minuteman. Oh, JANE. Never change. Also, right on with your bitching about women's treatment in the period, and the poor undergrad serving tea. GIANT WTF there. Not only did the idea of undergrads as TAs make me laugh--really? Did no one involved in this show go to college and notice that grad students are the slave labor TAs?*--but...no, I'm pretty sure making your TA act as your domestic servant is going to get you a talking-to from a dean or three.
Anyway, leaving academia, also much love for Korsak and Frost insisting Jane go to her girlfriend's Maura's mother's installation. Awww. I want Jane and Maura to get married and have their wedding party consist of Korsak, Frost, and Frankie. I know it'll never happen on the show, but it totally features in my personal canon.
Maura making jokes. Awwwwwwwwwww. And Jane wearing her black boots under the eighteenth-century dress. Good choice, my friend.
I think that's it. Good show, guys! More like this, plz?
* Heh, speaking of which, they could've capitalized on the whole domestic slave/grad school slave thing if they'd made the girls grad students, but noooo...
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comments over there.
ETA: Further research suggests that because this is a guide horse and goes in malls and other places with slick floors, it requires shoes to avoid slipping on the tiles. And also to be ridiculously cute.
*
Warehouse 13
For some reason, I just couldn't pay much attention to this one. Maybe Eddie McClintock's man-boobs were just too distracting (and not in a good way). I didn't really care for Fargo last time he appeared, and while the concept of the W13 video game from hell was cool, in execution...eh. The subplot with Artie, Steve, and Southern Sally was also fairly dull, although I'm very intrigued by the robot bugs the evil organization released in the Warehouse at the end. I guess that's for the finale.
I did enjoy the teensy little shout-out to HG when Pete complained about how there was another evil British writer to deal with. Aww.
Rizzoli & Isles
On the other hand, this episode was the best one the show has ever done. LOVE! Ahhhh, that teaser scene. Maura and Jane are SO MARRIED. I've seen married couples who acted less married than they do! Eeee. And the ending, with the in-laws meeting each other? Because that was totally what it was. Guuuuuuyz, will you please just give up this pretension that you are nothing more than friends? Because it's really obvious you're not. Anyway, I liked the mothers and daughters bonding. Awww.
One half of a pairing getting emotionally walloped and the other half getting all protective of them is one of my narrative kinks, so I ate that aspect of the episode up with a spoon. Loved Jane's attempts to cheer Maura up, and how when that didn't work, she went straight to the source and confronted her mother. I even liked how they resolved that, because "Oh, she's busy and she has her own life and I don't want to interfere" is a pretty believable thought process, especially if Constance was raised that way herself and perhaps has a bit of a self-confidence deficit.
Even the plot was decent this time! It tied into the whole mother/child theme, and even if that scene on the porch was a tad forced, I appreciated what they were trying to do. (I also called the son as a.) the son and b.) the killer as soon as he came into view, but hey. Can't have everything.)
Plus there was Korsak saving a birdie! Well, trying to save a birdie. Maura sneakily replacing it with one from the pet store was hilarious, especially when she was all, "I didn't lie to your mother, Jane, I just didn't tell her exactly what 'I'll take care of it' entailed." Oh, and I'm calling Korsak having a heart attack in the season finale right now, with all those anvils they were dropping, and probably it spurring Angie to act as nursemaid and then wind up going out with him. Which is faintly horrifying, but this show makes a bit of a specialty out of that.
And EVERYONE WAS IN COSTUME! BWAHAHAHA! And of course Maura was fascinated by Revolutionary War history, because whenever we need someone to know about an esoteric topic, Maura's there for us. Also, I adored Jane complaining about how she wanted to join the re-enactors when she was younger, but gave it up when they wouldn't let her be a Minuteman. Oh, JANE. Never change. Also, right on with your bitching about women's treatment in the period, and the poor undergrad serving tea. GIANT WTF there. Not only did the idea of undergrads as TAs make me laugh--really? Did no one involved in this show go to college and notice that grad students are the slave labor TAs?*--but...no, I'm pretty sure making your TA act as your domestic servant is going to get you a talking-to from a dean or three.
Anyway, leaving academia, also much love for Korsak and Frost insisting Jane go to her girlfriend's Maura's mother's installation. Awww. I want Jane and Maura to get married and have their wedding party consist of Korsak, Frost, and Frankie. I know it'll never happen on the show, but it totally features in my personal canon.
Maura making jokes. Awwwwwwwwwww. And Jane wearing her black boots under the eighteenth-century dress. Good choice, my friend.
I think that's it. Good show, guys! More like this, plz?
* Heh, speaking of which, they could've capitalized on the whole domestic slave/grad school slave thing if they'd made the girls grad students, but noooo...
This entry was originally posted at http://icepixie.dreamwidth.org/800621.html. It has
comments over there.