and I'll wait for good until I find a love worth mine
Work is busy, but some teevee updates:
Almost Human
The plot of this episode is kind of a yawner - Die Hard with some Star Wars references ("It was a boring conversation anyway." I STILL QUOTE THIS ALL THE TIME.) but it had some great lines: "You've been shot. Your head's full of bubblegum. You can't do this alone." I hoped it would be more like the s1 Fringe episode "Safe" - the one where they vibrate through the bank vault walls to pull a heist, but I guess it's too early for full-on Fringe weirdness? I really hope they get there soon, though. I am all for it.
Also, I realize that they are shuffling the episode order around but I am much happier with Kennex being less gruff and assholish. I mean, he's still gruff and assholish, but at least he invited Dorian out for noodles at the end and is accepting him as a partner. He needs to get more to do. Karl Urban can do a lot more! Michael Ealy is adorable. And Lili Taylor needs way more to do. So does Minka Kelly, and in her case, something that is not a romance with Kennex. (Otoh, I could totally ship him with Maldonado, and OT3 her with him and Dorian.) Also, the show is straight up slashbait. As it were. "You put your finger in my coffee." "You want me to put it somewhere else?" So I don't love it yet, but it's a relatively enjoyable show to have on while I check tumblr and answer comments.
Sleepy Hollow: Sanctuary
I really love the Jenny/Irving thing - she steals his guns! he's not sure he likes her yet! - and I am all aboard that train ship but I don't think it really belonged in this episode, despite the most tenuous of connections to the purported theme of fathers and children that the ep might have been going for. (As you can maybe guess, I don't think that theme really worked at all, if that is what they were going for.) It was too much of a tonal change between the haunted house stuff, and also not a great intro for Irving's ex, and then it just disappeared in the last third of the show. I did like Jenny's conversation with Amandla Stenberg, though. I sense awesome mentoring opportunities here. Also! "For one night we put away the weirdness and act like normal people?" "For one night." Aw.
The haunted house stuff was so dark it was like watching s1 SPN, and also I don't really care about the horror stuff? I did love that evil is so sneaky that it GROWS ROOTS inside the hex perimeter so it can become an EVIL ENT and get to Katrina and Ichabod's son. And I guess Ichabod works out his desire for vengeance by chopping it up, but why didn't they just set the place on FIRE. (I guess instead of a person with a hammer seeing every problem as a nail, I just want to SET FIRE to every problem. Let's be real - it works in most cases!)
I am still not feeling Katrina, and her awful hair in the first flashbacks in this ep didn't help, but it's nice that she's being given other things to do than exposit, even if this week it was to give birth. I don't love that so far her major contributions - aside from actually saving Ichabod so he could wake up in the future - include being a prize for the horseman last week and giving birth this week, but I live in hope that eventually we'll get some badass witchery out of it.
I also like that Abbie and Jenny are descended from the lady of the house. I also loved Abbie and Ichabod drinking rum (But WHY is the rum gone?) and making their own found family. Aw, heart.
Also, can I just say, I really hate the AV Club redesign. Also, disqus. What a terrible commenting system.
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Almost Human
The plot of this episode is kind of a yawner - Die Hard with some Star Wars references ("It was a boring conversation anyway." I STILL QUOTE THIS ALL THE TIME.) but it had some great lines: "You've been shot. Your head's full of bubblegum. You can't do this alone." I hoped it would be more like the s1 Fringe episode "Safe" - the one where they vibrate through the bank vault walls to pull a heist, but I guess it's too early for full-on Fringe weirdness? I really hope they get there soon, though. I am all for it.
Also, I realize that they are shuffling the episode order around but I am much happier with Kennex being less gruff and assholish. I mean, he's still gruff and assholish, but at least he invited Dorian out for noodles at the end and is accepting him as a partner. He needs to get more to do. Karl Urban can do a lot more! Michael Ealy is adorable. And Lili Taylor needs way more to do. So does Minka Kelly, and in her case, something that is not a romance with Kennex. (Otoh, I could totally ship him with Maldonado, and OT3 her with him and Dorian.) Also, the show is straight up slashbait. As it were. "You put your finger in my coffee." "You want me to put it somewhere else?" So I don't love it yet, but it's a relatively enjoyable show to have on while I check tumblr and answer comments.
Sleepy Hollow: Sanctuary
I really love the Jenny/Irving thing - she steals his guns! he's not sure he likes her yet! - and I am all aboard that train ship but I don't think it really belonged in this episode, despite the most tenuous of connections to the purported theme of fathers and children that the ep might have been going for. (As you can maybe guess, I don't think that theme really worked at all, if that is what they were going for.) It was too much of a tonal change between the haunted house stuff, and also not a great intro for Irving's ex, and then it just disappeared in the last third of the show. I did like Jenny's conversation with Amandla Stenberg, though. I sense awesome mentoring opportunities here. Also! "For one night we put away the weirdness and act like normal people?" "For one night." Aw.
The haunted house stuff was so dark it was like watching s1 SPN, and also I don't really care about the horror stuff? I did love that evil is so sneaky that it GROWS ROOTS inside the hex perimeter so it can become an EVIL ENT and get to Katrina and Ichabod's son. And I guess Ichabod works out his desire for vengeance by chopping it up, but why didn't they just set the place on FIRE. (I guess instead of a person with a hammer seeing every problem as a nail, I just want to SET FIRE to every problem. Let's be real - it works in most cases!)
I am still not feeling Katrina, and her awful hair in the first flashbacks in this ep didn't help, but it's nice that she's being given other things to do than exposit, even if this week it was to give birth. I don't love that so far her major contributions - aside from actually saving Ichabod so he could wake up in the future - include being a prize for the horseman last week and giving birth this week, but I live in hope that eventually we'll get some badass witchery out of it.
I also like that Abbie and Jenny are descended from the lady of the house. I also loved Abbie and Ichabod drinking rum (But WHY is the rum gone?) and making their own found family. Aw, heart.
Also, can I just say, I really hate the AV Club redesign. Also, disqus. What a terrible commenting system.
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people have commented there.