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Legend of Korra 1.4: That statue of Aang is going to crack me up every time I see it.
Does anyone know just how long a timeframe this episode is supposed to have covered?
Korra: Good creepmeter (or maybe just at picking up on Tenzen's Hate), very bad "Boy Likes You" meter.
I like Asami, but I do think they're going to have something be up with her. Or with her father. (Also, the scarf bit makes me wonder just how Korra managed to get it last week. Maybe he was REALLY distracted re: Bolin.)
And I suspect Mako had some encouragement to talk so much about Korra.
I really hope we get development on the Equalists soon outside of as antagonists. As has been discussed elsewhere, if conditions really are the way they describe it, then they have a legitimate beef, but we need more than their near-terrorist methods to get them. Amon is pretty legit scary, though. (someone else hug Korra. Not that there's anything wrong with hugs from Tenzen, but she needs more hugs.)
That task force dude (forget his name) might be lucky he walked out of Tenzen's suffering nothing worse than being trolled by one of his kids (I don't recall her having a problem with people having 3 ponytails before!) Also, I think there was a lot more going on there than just wanting the Avatar on his team for her power and the levereage and publicity. (I actually half wonder if he's Amon himself, despite being a bender. TBH, it wouldn't surprise me at all if we were to learn that Amon is a bender.)
So glad the newsreels appear to be permanent, and I like how the city politics are increasingly resembling the actual politics of the 20s.
I liked that flashback, but I really hope we don't have both Toph and Sokka (with Suki, Ty Lee and Mai also being potential casualties) dying in the same battle.
Missing 1.7: So, apparently this is being submitted for awards as a miniseries? If that means it's cancelled, I hope they actually hav an ending in mind. (Really, like a lot of this season's shows, it actually feels like it'd be better suited as a miniseries?)
So, I was really into this episode and happy with it (I mean, Becca was in the interrogation room the whole time, but she and Gina McKee's character were basically playing Alpha Wolf the whole time, so...), and then! The last 5 minutes! 2 of our 4 female characters are now dying/dead (not sure which in both cases) and a 3rd one just stabbed her boss in the gut. We are not impressed.
Though I do wonder if Becca being let out of the room actually is connected to Violet stabbing Gina McKee's character? I suspect Violet may have gone in intending to kill both of them but Becca was already gone. (Maybe Paul let her out?)
I ocntinue to enjoy the flashbacs of Becca and Paul being spyparents, and how the normal roles are pretty effectively genderswapped, but without it being shoved in our faces. And it finally managed to surprise me with Maxim shooting his mother.
I think we're meant to wonder about Paul more now since he showed Maxim his gun? But somehow, it all just makes me think it's less likely that Paul is evil. Part of it is that, you can emotionally deal (in terms of character and narrative) with your 2 main protagonists spending 10 years mourning a guy who had to fake his death and has been in deep cover since, but who has tried to help/watch over them, but but it's another thing altogether if he really his evil and is manipulating Becca to help build his evil empire. (Or whatever we're supposed to think he's doing.) Also, a lot is going to depend on how they're going to handle faking his death almost literally in front of his young child and leaving Michael alone in a foreign country with everyone he knows on another continent.
I'm hoping Giancarlo is faking giving up on Becca? Because, really, what actually happened (possibly sans assassin) really isn't something that I'd think would be a hard conclusion to jump to? Kind of sad to think that Millar and Giancarlo probably passed within a couple miles of him and Oksana twice. (Mostly sad for Oksana. NO FRIDGING! He already has one dead girlfriend who he's apparently forgot existed.) I also kind of wonder if Giancarlo has built up their previous relationship in his head? I don't doubt that Becca was (and largely still is) very fond of him but while I completely buy that he loves her, I get the feeling that it's more that she was frustrated and unhappy in her marriage at the time and he was there and nice and cute and had a huge thing for her.
Unrelated to the actual plot: I love how Becca's default response to people disagreeing with her is "You clearly have no children" and "You've clearly never been married." Her logic is so impeccable that no one could ever reasonably argue with her!
Nikita 1.19:
Even though Birkoff has grown on me a lot this season, I apparently still am not very interested in a focus on him. But this episode had a lot of really nice little character moments, both serious and important and light. Like Alex's "I will be nu!Birkoff!" moments. (Also, wow, what a change in her and Birkoff's interactions since even as recently as when she first strted hanging out with Team Nikita again fulltime after learning her mother was alive.) They really are playing whack-a-mole with Division lately, aren't they, though? (Surely Birkoff has something he can send Carla showing that Percy was offing Division agents recently?) And of course Nikita is sending Michael to probe Alex for state-of-mind info.
I'm glad Nikita and Birkoff finally talked about Carla, and also that we aren't dwelling onthe His Angst part of it like I feared we would at first.
And of course BANK HEISTS! I love fake!bank heists. Also, Alex really enjoys playing the "Spoiled naive rich girl glad she's rich again" role, doesn't she?
Person of Interest 1.19:
Hey there Fusco Jr.! Nice to get confirmation you exist. Also, nice that Fusco got to do something except look sad that he has to play dirty cop now that he wants to be a good cop. Do your best to survive the season, dude. (And I wonder what he made of the "Carter's guardian angel" bit? He knows that Carter is off limits and the Reese has a Thing of some sort there-everyone cop crushes on Carter?-but I'm not sure he knew that Reese had a habit of dangling people off rooftops over her.)
And Stanton is alive! Which I assumed all along, but I figured the end of this episode would be more like the last scene of the season. I'm thinking maybe she has the laptop (or at last the data from it) from Ordos? I doubt she left emptyhanded.
Looks like Jessica may really be dead, though. I SERIOUSLY hope we aren't headed towards "she didn't wait for The Hero and the guy she married instead ended up abusive/a criminal" because that's one seriously obnoxious narrative trope.
So, do we think Reese wanted Carter there for the POI at the beginning just so he could watch her arrest someone? Or is that his idea of a date? (Or both.) Unsurprisingly, I loved the bit where she fetched him from the hospital.
Reese was definitely back in the "But I don't WANT to save the victim" mindset he was in the serialrapist episode. It...would actually be interesting to see them end up with a few of those cases in a row?
Revenge 1.18:
No, Charlotte, don't hook up again with your icky ex! Or buy drugs from him using anything whatsoever to pay for it. (Declan, perjury is Wrong.)
But wow, tht was some timeskip there. Given how long he was looking for Amily, I'm thinking maybe Jack's feelings really did go past the "thought you were cute when we were kids" stage. Though they seem to be switching back to the Jack/Emanda/Daniel triangle, which...eeeeh.
I think I had accidentally spoiled myself for Emanda learning David was murdered? Or maybe I just assumed we'd have that. Loved her setting up Victoria's creepy flunkie. (I mean, I'm sure he's actually done way worse...)
Even though I still dislike how she's treating Charlotte, I'm liking seeing Victoria get really ruthless, and I like that she was basically a conartist before hooking up with Conrad.
I'm consistently surprised by how much Conrad inspires my "diiiiiieeeeeeee!" response every time he's onscreen, despite not raping or torturing anyone, or killing anyone i care about. (Sorry, David. I care about the women in your life a lot though? Particularly the one you never got to know.)
Once Upon A Time is back from hiatus, but one episode was a Rumples ep and both are apparently very heavy on August, so I don't have a lot of drive to watch them, though I'm sure I'll get to them this week. (My main interest in these episodes is to test my theory that August is Pinocchio who is the boy who found baby!Emma and was supposed to take care of her but didn't/couldn't and has found her again.