Thursday night TV liveblogging
ALL my TV right now is on Thursday night. (Okay, all but Top Chef. Which is recorded, and I'll get to soon...) Lately I've been watching everything on delay, but since the semester is over, I thought I'd treat myself to some live TV. Well, I couldn't watch Glee and PR at the same time. But I watched them in the same night, at least.
"Quinn texts and drives in every timeline Artie."
I don't know what else to say about this story. I like the AUness of it? I hate the idea that EVERYTHING depends on Artie? I'm glad it was short, in the end.
Burt and Kurt in NYC = ♥
Kurt and BLAINE in Rockefeller Center = <3<3<3<3<3
(Was that Rockefeller Center? I see ice skating in NYC and I assume.)
Noah and Jake putting their family together was really kind of adorable.
I honestly have nothing to say about the Sam & Brittany bit. Blah.
Well, okay. They both looked very pretty at their "wedding."
Sue's got a history of being a bit of a secret Santa. But I'm really not happy about the Marley-has-an-eating disorder storyline. She started out so self-assured, with her one self-esteem issue being her poverty. There's no reason to give her a self-image issue as well. It would have been so much more refreshing for her to have the mother she has, and maybe gets teased about it, but doesn't let it bother her, and it doesn't become a movie-of-the-week storyline. How subversive would that be?
The look on Sue's face when she predicted the scene in the auditorium was delicious. I need that on an icon.
Watching Kurt and Blaine be domestic in New York = perfection.
This is the first case that's felt a bit special.
It's not the show's fault, really, that it feels so much like a garden-variety police procedural most of the time (at least when it comes to the cases.) Every police procedural owes the bulk of its DNA to the ACD canon in the first place. Sherlock BBC avoids this problem in a couple of ways: 1. It's extremely stylish. The crisp visuals and the stylize use of text messages and other text on the screen make it look different from every other police procedural. 2. It's only done 6 mysteries in two seasons. Elementary, being a USian show on a USian schedule, has already done more mysteries in its half-season than Sherlock has done in its two.
Really good character and relationship development here. The conversation in the taxi after dinner with Watson's family was lovely. The conversation she has at the end about Joan's vocation gives us a lovely transition to her inevitable decision to stay working with Sherlock.
I didn't actually watch the last season of PR. I've been a faithful fan since season 1 (I nursed Cassie through the finale when Jay won, because I couldn't miss it), but it's been losing its focus ever since it moved to Lifetime. All-Stars, however, has been more enjoyable. Tim, Nina, and Michael aren't there phoning it in. As much as I love them, the new blood has been welcome.
Make a dress out of ornaments! Whee! Make sure it doesn't look like Christmas! Ha!
Anthony Ryan's was...eh. The white bits looked like paper. Expensive? Really?
Ivy's was okay, but really, really gold. Also puckery.
Uli's looked like elf-armor. All those silver leaves. Gorgeous.
Josh: Oh, god, no.
Emilio's was at least different from the rest of what was up there. Purple! Really stiff for that silhouette, though.
Laura Kathleen's beading was really pretty.
Casanova's was also just okay. Lots of people were playing to stay in, not win. Which probably means he's toast, actually. Yup.
Well, I'm glad he got to stick around longer this time. They treated him a lot better, instead of suggesting that everything he did was bad taste because it was informed by his background. One of my best friends at school is Puerto Rican, and that really pissed her off about his season.
Oh, Issac Mizrahi, shut up. Can we stop even suggesting that models look fat, like, ever?
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"Quinn texts and drives in every timeline Artie."
I don't know what else to say about this story. I like the AUness of it? I hate the idea that EVERYTHING depends on Artie? I'm glad it was short, in the end.
Burt and Kurt in NYC = ♥
Kurt and BLAINE in Rockefeller Center = <3<3<3<3<3
(Was that Rockefeller Center? I see ice skating in NYC and I assume.)
Noah and Jake putting their family together was really kind of adorable.
I honestly have nothing to say about the Sam & Brittany bit. Blah.
Well, okay. They both looked very pretty at their "wedding."
Sue's got a history of being a bit of a secret Santa. But I'm really not happy about the Marley-has-an-eating disorder storyline. She started out so self-assured, with her one self-esteem issue being her poverty. There's no reason to give her a self-image issue as well. It would have been so much more refreshing for her to have the mother she has, and maybe gets teased about it, but doesn't let it bother her, and it doesn't become a movie-of-the-week storyline. How subversive would that be?
The look on Sue's face when she predicted the scene in the auditorium was delicious. I need that on an icon.
Watching Kurt and Blaine be domestic in New York = perfection.
This is the first case that's felt a bit special.
It's not the show's fault, really, that it feels so much like a garden-variety police procedural most of the time (at least when it comes to the cases.) Every police procedural owes the bulk of its DNA to the ACD canon in the first place. Sherlock BBC avoids this problem in a couple of ways: 1. It's extremely stylish. The crisp visuals and the stylize use of text messages and other text on the screen make it look different from every other police procedural. 2. It's only done 6 mysteries in two seasons. Elementary, being a USian show on a USian schedule, has already done more mysteries in its half-season than Sherlock has done in its two.
Really good character and relationship development here. The conversation in the taxi after dinner with Watson's family was lovely. The conversation she has at the end about Joan's vocation gives us a lovely transition to her inevitable decision to stay working with Sherlock.
I didn't actually watch the last season of PR. I've been a faithful fan since season 1 (I nursed Cassie through the finale when Jay won, because I couldn't miss it), but it's been losing its focus ever since it moved to Lifetime. All-Stars, however, has been more enjoyable. Tim, Nina, and Michael aren't there phoning it in. As much as I love them, the new blood has been welcome.
Make a dress out of ornaments! Whee! Make sure it doesn't look like Christmas! Ha!
Anthony Ryan's was...eh. The white bits looked like paper. Expensive? Really?
Ivy's was okay, but really, really gold. Also puckery.
Uli's looked like elf-armor. All those silver leaves. Gorgeous.
Josh: Oh, god, no.
Emilio's was at least different from the rest of what was up there. Purple! Really stiff for that silhouette, though.
Laura Kathleen's beading was really pretty.
Casanova's was also just okay. Lots of people were playing to stay in, not win. Which probably means he's toast, actually. Yup.
Well, I'm glad he got to stick around longer this time. They treated him a lot better, instead of suggesting that everything he did was bad taste because it was informed by his background. One of my best friends at school is Puerto Rican, and that really pissed her off about his season.
Oh, Issac Mizrahi, shut up. Can we stop even suggesting that models look fat, like, ever?
Also posted at http://kouredios.dreamwidth.org/229694.html ; feel free to comment there if you so choose: add comment/
comments.