TeeVee
Not that I'm anywhere near current in general.
Beauty and the Beast 1.15-1.17:
-Wow, Vincent, those were some serious performance anxiety issues there. Also, I was under the impression that he and Alex were having sex? But I guess not.
-When did JT become a Catherine/Vincent shipper, anyway? I mean, he was all "When did I become Team Catherine"? when Vincent was waffling between her and Alex, but that was more "Catherine knows the score and Alex doesn't, and that's not cool, dude." Now he's a fullfledged shipper.
-HELLO THERE, SHIRTLESS JAI FROM COVERT AFFAIRS. But then you put a shirt on, and that was sad, even if those suits are quite nice for you. I hope Gabe doesn't end up a fullfledged antagonist? And I think/half hope that he's maybe a next-generation Vincent. (Based mostly on the hand trembling when he was talking about his mother. Alternatively, his mother was involved with and also killed by Muirfield, and he possibly thinks Vincent was involved.) Also, I may have shipped him some with Tess during their interview.
-I am tired of Joe and Evan. Evan has never been a favorite, but I felt he worked well in the first half of the season. The second half, though, he just feels off altogether, even though he's more integrated into the plot. Joe lost me forever when Tess said she'd spent her life fighting to not be The Girl for guys to protect, and then he said that wasn't her call. And then he literally tossed Catherine at a press conference with no warning or preparation, which really should have blown up in his face bigtime.
-BUT TESS. TESS FINALLY KNOWS. And I loved all her scenes with Vincent and Catherine. And she shot Vincent. Vincent, I like you, but I have to admit that Tess shooting you made me happy. (Many good relationships in my fictional life have started with women shooting or punching men. What can I say?)
-Now for Heather to find out. I mean, she's met Vincent, yes, but she doesn't KNOW about him. And really, as we recently learned, it'd probably be better for Vincent if she does know, because nothing gets in that girls way once she sets her mind on something. Sad at no Heather these eps.
-I feel that last scene in ep 17 was uncharacteristically careless for Vincent.
Elementary 1.19:
-Miss Hudson is kinda hot. Personally, I'm of the opinion that she was Sherlock's muse at some point. Make it happen, show. (I understand Sherlock made Irene Adler be a lesbian who was miraculously turned straight by Holmes's mighty wang or some such. This is a vast improvement.)
-Sherlock cleans his refrigerator out more often than I do. Admittedly, I don't have science experiments growing in mine. I'm pretty sure he's going to use Miss Hudson as an excuse to be even messier.
-Sherlock, Why are you bringing Joan a tiny shortsleeved shirt to wear in the middle of a blizzard? I mean, sure, layers exist, but really.
-My favorite bit of the episode though, was Sherlock pointing at Joan and being all "DON'T YOU KNOW YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO FINISH MY SENTENCES?" (Dude, no one can fathom your brain.)
-Clyde is an amazingly well behaved turtle.
-Poor Bell doesn't get paid nearly enough.
Revolution 1.11-1.13:
-I continue to admire the show's devotion to casting POC in all kinds of roles (not to mention the fact that I think we're at about half a dozen biracial pairings at this point, even if a couple are wives who we aren't likely to see a lot of), many of them important. I have less admiration for offing 2 rebel commander POCs in one episode
-Danny dying was no surprise, and while I would have much much rather it be Aaron, or even Jeremy or Monroe, at least it wasn't Nora. His death apparently inspiring Charlie and Rachel to devote themselves to taking down Monroe was about as eyeroll worthy as Maggie's death apparently inspiring Miles to decide not to leave Charlie. If you're going to use a character's death to motivate another, have it be something they aren't obviously going to do anyway. That said, I DO buy that his shooting down the chopper boosted rebel enrollment. When Jason said a lot of people were joinging up because of Danny, I'm pretty sure he meant people in his, Charlie and Danny's age range: 18-25~ year olds who only vaguely remember life before the blackout and who've either lived as part of Montoe's army, or contolled by it. To these people, a helicopter is along the lines of a dragon for us, and this figure who'se been an absolute power for most of their lives suddenly gets a superweapon, and this random kid shoots it down 5 minutes later. Thats going to be a wakeup call to people in the general age group, and you can bet the rebels are making sure everyone knows about it.
-Any doubt I had in the first half of the season that Tom abused Jason is gone now. I mean, the "I was hard on you to make you strong" is a pretty classic "I abused you for your own good" speech. But also look at how he turned and hung his head after he grabbed his father while protesting bombing the rebels. He KNEW he was about to get punched, though I don't think he realized he was going to snap. (And then froze up right after tackling Tom. I hope we see him and Charlie talking about their fathers at one point. Not something I normally say, but that could be an interesting conversation.)
-I am increasingly fearful that they are going to kill Julia. (I kind of...get why some people are annoyed with Jason on her behalf, but I'm not sure what choice he had. His father declared him dead, and then the damage that would be caused by Tom getting caught was already done by the time Jason got to camp. Proving himself to the rebels helped buy her safe haven if the opportunity arised, and potentilly saved lives. And I liked seeing that, even if he's hopelessly naive in someways, he does have some of his parents' deviousness in him.)
-Monroe is pretty much superfluous these days. I mean, dude isn't even torturing and killing people any more. It's like they're keeping him around to have a big shocking death again at the end of the season. (And...well, honestly, David Luons is a good actor and all, but regardless of what anyone might think of the characters, he's simply hugely overshadowed by both Giancarlo Espisito and Colm Feore both in general and in terms of villainous presence, and while people may like to woobify him and hope for redemption, I don't think there's any way they can believably redeem him save maybe by dying to save someone, and I'm not sure there are any characters who'd even be affected enough to feel bad for him if he did. I mean, I half think Jeremy's loyalty is only because he's miffed that Miles forgot to invite him to the "kill Monroe" party a few years back.)
-I am both delighted and saddened by how hard Charlie seems to be getting (And it seems several months have passed in these 3 episodes?). She still has her compassionate side, though, an hopefully it won't be overshadowed. I honestly think she's mostly on autopilot right now, though, rather like she was right after Ben died.
-I'm disappointed that Nora hasn't done a lot except be backup these episodes (but I am so glad it was her who tried to hold Charlie back after Danny was shot, and not Aaron like the previews showed). This seems to mostly be because they were trying to develop Charlie and Miles's relationships with Rachel while they could, though, so hopefully they'll give her more to do now.
-Rachel's near sociopathic pragamatism mixed with her need to fix everything is rather amazing to me. I love her to bits and am saddened that most of her scenes will now apparently be with Aaron for a while. (At least when her scenes were mostly with Monroe, they were INTERESTING. I feel the writers knows Aaron serves no actual purpose, but don't want to let go of him because he's the Above It All dude, or whatever.)
-So Miles and RAchel is pretty much a confirmed thing now? I've thought it for most of the series, but still don't know what I think about it. It pretty much depends on when and how they were a thing (and it seems to be pointing towards his being Charlie's biological father). There's also that whoel thing where he basically dragged her off in chains while she was begging for a promise that she'd be able to see her kids again, and i can't wait for Charlie to find out about that. (And admire RAchel for not throwing that in Miles or Charlie's faces.) Also, I was saddened by how REWARDING and reaffirming it was when Rachel asked Miles to back off when they were off to get weapons, and he immediately did, both physically and verbally, even though he obviously wanted to pursue the subject. And it's sad because something like that should be the normal and expected reaction, but usually in those scenes, she'll have to literally tear herself away when he doesn't, or the guy will hold her tighter and insist that they have to talk about it then.
-So, nanites control the power? I feel like I just fell into a 90s Marvel comic. (Kudos if you know which comic I'm referring to.) ALso, I was hoping they'd remember that turning off electricity would only turn off one source of power, not all the sources the blackout killed.
-There are way less flashbacks so far in this half of the season, and I'm ok with that.
Beauty and the Beast 1.15-1.17:
-Wow, Vincent, those were some serious performance anxiety issues there. Also, I was under the impression that he and Alex were having sex? But I guess not.
-When did JT become a Catherine/Vincent shipper, anyway? I mean, he was all "When did I become Team Catherine"? when Vincent was waffling between her and Alex, but that was more "Catherine knows the score and Alex doesn't, and that's not cool, dude." Now he's a fullfledged shipper.
-HELLO THERE, SHIRTLESS JAI FROM COVERT AFFAIRS. But then you put a shirt on, and that was sad, even if those suits are quite nice for you. I hope Gabe doesn't end up a fullfledged antagonist? And I think/half hope that he's maybe a next-generation Vincent. (Based mostly on the hand trembling when he was talking about his mother. Alternatively, his mother was involved with and also killed by Muirfield, and he possibly thinks Vincent was involved.) Also, I may have shipped him some with Tess during their interview.
-I am tired of Joe and Evan. Evan has never been a favorite, but I felt he worked well in the first half of the season. The second half, though, he just feels off altogether, even though he's more integrated into the plot. Joe lost me forever when Tess said she'd spent her life fighting to not be The Girl for guys to protect, and then he said that wasn't her call. And then he literally tossed Catherine at a press conference with no warning or preparation, which really should have blown up in his face bigtime.
-BUT TESS. TESS FINALLY KNOWS. And I loved all her scenes with Vincent and Catherine. And she shot Vincent. Vincent, I like you, but I have to admit that Tess shooting you made me happy. (Many good relationships in my fictional life have started with women shooting or punching men. What can I say?)
-Now for Heather to find out. I mean, she's met Vincent, yes, but she doesn't KNOW about him. And really, as we recently learned, it'd probably be better for Vincent if she does know, because nothing gets in that girls way once she sets her mind on something. Sad at no Heather these eps.
-I feel that last scene in ep 17 was uncharacteristically careless for Vincent.
Elementary 1.19:
-Miss Hudson is kinda hot. Personally, I'm of the opinion that she was Sherlock's muse at some point. Make it happen, show. (I understand Sherlock made Irene Adler be a lesbian who was miraculously turned straight by Holmes's mighty wang or some such. This is a vast improvement.)
-Sherlock cleans his refrigerator out more often than I do. Admittedly, I don't have science experiments growing in mine. I'm pretty sure he's going to use Miss Hudson as an excuse to be even messier.
-Sherlock, Why are you bringing Joan a tiny shortsleeved shirt to wear in the middle of a blizzard? I mean, sure, layers exist, but really.
-My favorite bit of the episode though, was Sherlock pointing at Joan and being all "DON'T YOU KNOW YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO FINISH MY SENTENCES?" (Dude, no one can fathom your brain.)
-Clyde is an amazingly well behaved turtle.
-Poor Bell doesn't get paid nearly enough.
Revolution 1.11-1.13:
-I continue to admire the show's devotion to casting POC in all kinds of roles (not to mention the fact that I think we're at about half a dozen biracial pairings at this point, even if a couple are wives who we aren't likely to see a lot of), many of them important. I have less admiration for offing 2 rebel commander POCs in one episode
-Danny dying was no surprise, and while I would have much much rather it be Aaron, or even Jeremy or Monroe, at least it wasn't Nora. His death apparently inspiring Charlie and Rachel to devote themselves to taking down Monroe was about as eyeroll worthy as Maggie's death apparently inspiring Miles to decide not to leave Charlie. If you're going to use a character's death to motivate another, have it be something they aren't obviously going to do anyway. That said, I DO buy that his shooting down the chopper boosted rebel enrollment. When Jason said a lot of people were joinging up because of Danny, I'm pretty sure he meant people in his, Charlie and Danny's age range: 18-25~ year olds who only vaguely remember life before the blackout and who've either lived as part of Montoe's army, or contolled by it. To these people, a helicopter is along the lines of a dragon for us, and this figure who'se been an absolute power for most of their lives suddenly gets a superweapon, and this random kid shoots it down 5 minutes later. Thats going to be a wakeup call to people in the general age group, and you can bet the rebels are making sure everyone knows about it.
-Any doubt I had in the first half of the season that Tom abused Jason is gone now. I mean, the "I was hard on you to make you strong" is a pretty classic "I abused you for your own good" speech. But also look at how he turned and hung his head after he grabbed his father while protesting bombing the rebels. He KNEW he was about to get punched, though I don't think he realized he was going to snap. (And then froze up right after tackling Tom. I hope we see him and Charlie talking about their fathers at one point. Not something I normally say, but that could be an interesting conversation.)
-I am increasingly fearful that they are going to kill Julia. (I kind of...get why some people are annoyed with Jason on her behalf, but I'm not sure what choice he had. His father declared him dead, and then the damage that would be caused by Tom getting caught was already done by the time Jason got to camp. Proving himself to the rebels helped buy her safe haven if the opportunity arised, and potentilly saved lives. And I liked seeing that, even if he's hopelessly naive in someways, he does have some of his parents' deviousness in him.)
-Monroe is pretty much superfluous these days. I mean, dude isn't even torturing and killing people any more. It's like they're keeping him around to have a big shocking death again at the end of the season. (And...well, honestly, David Luons is a good actor and all, but regardless of what anyone might think of the characters, he's simply hugely overshadowed by both Giancarlo Espisito and Colm Feore both in general and in terms of villainous presence, and while people may like to woobify him and hope for redemption, I don't think there's any way they can believably redeem him save maybe by dying to save someone, and I'm not sure there are any characters who'd even be affected enough to feel bad for him if he did. I mean, I half think Jeremy's loyalty is only because he's miffed that Miles forgot to invite him to the "kill Monroe" party a few years back.)
-I am both delighted and saddened by how hard Charlie seems to be getting (And it seems several months have passed in these 3 episodes?). She still has her compassionate side, though, an hopefully it won't be overshadowed. I honestly think she's mostly on autopilot right now, though, rather like she was right after Ben died.
-I'm disappointed that Nora hasn't done a lot except be backup these episodes (but I am so glad it was her who tried to hold Charlie back after Danny was shot, and not Aaron like the previews showed). This seems to mostly be because they were trying to develop Charlie and Miles's relationships with Rachel while they could, though, so hopefully they'll give her more to do now.
-Rachel's near sociopathic pragamatism mixed with her need to fix everything is rather amazing to me. I love her to bits and am saddened that most of her scenes will now apparently be with Aaron for a while. (At least when her scenes were mostly with Monroe, they were INTERESTING. I feel the writers knows Aaron serves no actual purpose, but don't want to let go of him because he's the Above It All dude, or whatever.)
-So Miles and RAchel is pretty much a confirmed thing now? I've thought it for most of the series, but still don't know what I think about it. It pretty much depends on when and how they were a thing (and it seems to be pointing towards his being Charlie's biological father). There's also that whoel thing where he basically dragged her off in chains while she was begging for a promise that she'd be able to see her kids again, and i can't wait for Charlie to find out about that. (And admire RAchel for not throwing that in Miles or Charlie's faces.) Also, I was saddened by how REWARDING and reaffirming it was when Rachel asked Miles to back off when they were off to get weapons, and he immediately did, both physically and verbally, even though he obviously wanted to pursue the subject. And it's sad because something like that should be the normal and expected reaction, but usually in those scenes, she'll have to literally tear herself away when he doesn't, or the guy will hold her tighter and insist that they have to talk about it then.
-So, nanites control the power? I feel like I just fell into a 90s Marvel comic. (Kudos if you know which comic I'm referring to.) ALso, I was hoping they'd remember that turning off electricity would only turn off one source of power, not all the sources the blackout killed.
-There are way less flashbacks so far in this half of the season, and I'm ok with that.