you've been telling people things you shouldn't be
I went to bed earlier than usual last night so I didn't catch Teen Wolf. I did watch Sunday night's The Good Wife, though (I thought it would be a repeat because the Golden Globes were on). Outside the cut, I will just say I didn't think the use of Springsteen's music really worked. If only because there is no character on this show that has ever made me think of "The Ghost of Tom Joad." I am just saying. And the music on this show usually works. (All week, I have occasionally caught myself humming "Thicky Trick," for example.) Anyway.
Cary evening the score against Kalinda might have been my favorite part of the episode, except for the part where Peter and Will have their little tete-a-tete and I'm pretty sure Will was telling the truth and Peter was not, even though they made Will out to be a liar (again) earlier in the episode regarding the two jurors who were talking to each other.
I will always be fond of Will because Josh Charles, but Diane really needs to get the choke chain on him before he ruins everything. He's letting his anger totally spin out of control and he's going to self-destruct pretty spectacularly soon.
I thought JM did a great job making Alicia angry and devastated when talking to Peter about the video, but good lord, Alicia, "Just fix this!" is not the best instruction to give a guy who has been shady forever if you want him to do it in an above-board manner. I'd like to think better of you Alicia, but I feel like you know what you were doing! I liked the parallel with Eli telling Moody "Do whatever it takes." Have none of them ever heard of Thomas Becket? "WILL NO ONE RID ME OF THIS MEDDLESOME PRIEST?" IT DOESN'T END WELL, GUYS. (Well, at least not for Becket. *snerk*) I am guessing the writers meant this resonance intentionally. I hope so, anyway.
Appearances by Geneva and Matan were also a highlight of the episode. And Jack Bristow, I mean, Victor Garber. He wasn't really used well - any of the judges on the show could have been there - but hopefully he'll be back with his own special set of quirks at some point. His bailiff was pretty funny though.
I also watched Sleepy Hollow. Man, this was like an episode of Supernatural, except all the women survived! And so did most of the POC - I think Morales survived and only the priest bought it, and dude, why did he not bless and salt EVERY DOOR AND WINDOW in that place? COME ON, FATHER. STEP UP YOUR DEMON-FIGHTING GAME. Oh, that's right, you can't. Because some stupid demon snapped your neck. *shakes head sadly*
Now that both Macey and Mrs. Irving are in the know, hopefully we will get about 98% less cliched interactions between Irving and Mrs. Irving. I wouldn't mind seeing them patch it up and become a badass cop/lawyer demon hunting team, even though I totally ship Irving/Jenny. I am kind of amused that the show has made the two male leads so enmeshed with their wives that shipping them is difficult (for me). Even though one of the wives is stuck in purgatory and has spent most of the 13 episodes as the exposition witch. (I want to like Katrina; I really do. But so far it hasn't really taken. Sigh. I'm guessing, since she's listed as a main character, she'll be freed from purgatory into the future, but maybe my early spec that she'll just be released to go into the light will happen instead, when the writers realize the character isn't really clicking with the audience.)
I guess shady blond policeman wasn't really shady, just dumb. WHY WOULD YOU BREAK THE SALT LINE? Sure, it's a wacky superstition that makes no sense, but better safe than dead, am I right? And I thought he was going to be a Hessian spy but now he just dead. Which, okay, doesn't preclude him being a Hessian spy, but if some undead cop is going to be hanging around, I want it to be Undead John Cho, not this generic dude.
I also don't know why, after realizing that the formerly possessed people had memory lapses and missing time that Irving didn't immediately tell all the cops to report to him ASAP if they experienced those symptoms. Oh, show, I will try not to think too much about your plotholes while you are careening towards your climax.
I liked the reveal that Jenny had been possessed by the demon repeatedly and that that was the explanation for a lot of her behavior - that she was trying to protect Abbie when she was able - and I was SO HAPPY to see Abbie hug her at the end. SISTERHUGS YAY. I also liked that they called her and asked permission to see the video once they realized she was the girl Corbin was attempting to exorcise. Also yay Clancy Brown! Did he also do the demon voice? Plus the lock-picking banter! And Jenny with her BAMF ride to the rescue (though why she didn't just ask for the demon-trapping lantern - BEN FRANKLIN'S DEMON-TRAPPING FRENCH LANTERN, no less - since the militia leader dude said he could never tell her no, I don't even know.) I just like how badass both Mills sisters get to be.
Ichabod in skinny jeans! Hilarity! Way to nod at the fact that his clothes probably need serious cleaning and also make him stand out/look odd, but still have him wearing them. (Though I stand by my assertion that there is someone - probably many many someones - in the vicinity who could make replicas out of newer, cleaner material. They're forty minutes from New York City on MetroNorth, for pete's sake! And I'm sure there are Revolutionary War reenactors and cosplay enthusiasts WITHIN WESTCHESTER COUNTY.)
I'm not sure what they're doing with the survivalists but at least they didn't appear to be racist? Again, as with the Freemasons, not usually a group that the good guys side with, you know?
I did laugh at Ichabod's allowance that there were worries about the second amendment, even though it was totally anachronistic for him to say that and even though if there were worries about it being used for perverse intentions, those worries were probably not about public safety.
Lastly, I found the reveal of the DATE to be kind of hilarious. Um, guys, people can write down dates from the future, and it's not like he knew he was going to die on December 14 (OR DID HE?), though I also wouldn't mind finding out that GEORGE WASHINGTON FAKED HIS DEATH or something. (AND HE'S STILL ALIVE TODAY. OR ZOMBIE GEORGE WASHINGTON. GHOSTLY GEORGE WASHINGTON? Or like King Arthur, he's ready to rise when his country needs him. I mean, there's no end of batshittery they can accomplish with this. Especially considering that there was an attempt to steal his body in the 1830s, and then he was moved to a new tomb and they threw away the key!) The internet tells me his funeral was on December 18, so maybe he was just telling people when he wanted to be buried. Obviously, the show is going to do something extremely wacky with this, and I will be on board for it, but I think it wasn't the best note to end the episode on.
So that was most enjoyable. I'm going to be so sad when it's not on my teevee anymore. But next season is apparently going to run uninterrupted, so that should be cool.
Lastly, have a link: A True Trans Soul Rebel: One night with Against Me! front woman Laura Jane Grace before the release of the band's remarkable new album.. At least the reporter is "[...] keenly aware that [he is] the latest in a long line of heterosexual bros who have asked Grace to explain what it's like to be transsexual." He still asks unfortunate invasive questions but he doesn't misgender her.
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Cary evening the score against Kalinda might have been my favorite part of the episode, except for the part where Peter and Will have their little tete-a-tete and I'm pretty sure Will was telling the truth and Peter was not, even though they made Will out to be a liar (again) earlier in the episode regarding the two jurors who were talking to each other.
I will always be fond of Will because Josh Charles, but Diane really needs to get the choke chain on him before he ruins everything. He's letting his anger totally spin out of control and he's going to self-destruct pretty spectacularly soon.
I thought JM did a great job making Alicia angry and devastated when talking to Peter about the video, but good lord, Alicia, "Just fix this!" is not the best instruction to give a guy who has been shady forever if you want him to do it in an above-board manner. I'd like to think better of you Alicia, but I feel like you know what you were doing! I liked the parallel with Eli telling Moody "Do whatever it takes." Have none of them ever heard of Thomas Becket? "WILL NO ONE RID ME OF THIS MEDDLESOME PRIEST?" IT DOESN'T END WELL, GUYS. (Well, at least not for Becket. *snerk*) I am guessing the writers meant this resonance intentionally. I hope so, anyway.
Appearances by Geneva and Matan were also a highlight of the episode. And Jack Bristow, I mean, Victor Garber. He wasn't really used well - any of the judges on the show could have been there - but hopefully he'll be back with his own special set of quirks at some point. His bailiff was pretty funny though.
I also watched Sleepy Hollow. Man, this was like an episode of Supernatural, except all the women survived! And so did most of the POC - I think Morales survived and only the priest bought it, and dude, why did he not bless and salt EVERY DOOR AND WINDOW in that place? COME ON, FATHER. STEP UP YOUR DEMON-FIGHTING GAME. Oh, that's right, you can't. Because some stupid demon snapped your neck. *shakes head sadly*
Now that both Macey and Mrs. Irving are in the know, hopefully we will get about 98% less cliched interactions between Irving and Mrs. Irving. I wouldn't mind seeing them patch it up and become a badass cop/lawyer demon hunting team, even though I totally ship Irving/Jenny. I am kind of amused that the show has made the two male leads so enmeshed with their wives that shipping them is difficult (for me). Even though one of the wives is stuck in purgatory and has spent most of the 13 episodes as the exposition witch. (I want to like Katrina; I really do. But so far it hasn't really taken. Sigh. I'm guessing, since she's listed as a main character, she'll be freed from purgatory into the future, but maybe my early spec that she'll just be released to go into the light will happen instead, when the writers realize the character isn't really clicking with the audience.)
I guess shady blond policeman wasn't really shady, just dumb. WHY WOULD YOU BREAK THE SALT LINE? Sure, it's a wacky superstition that makes no sense, but better safe than dead, am I right? And I thought he was going to be a Hessian spy but now he just dead. Which, okay, doesn't preclude him being a Hessian spy, but if some undead cop is going to be hanging around, I want it to be Undead John Cho, not this generic dude.
I also don't know why, after realizing that the formerly possessed people had memory lapses and missing time that Irving didn't immediately tell all the cops to report to him ASAP if they experienced those symptoms. Oh, show, I will try not to think too much about your plotholes while you are careening towards your climax.
I liked the reveal that Jenny had been possessed by the demon repeatedly and that that was the explanation for a lot of her behavior - that she was trying to protect Abbie when she was able - and I was SO HAPPY to see Abbie hug her at the end. SISTERHUGS YAY. I also liked that they called her and asked permission to see the video once they realized she was the girl Corbin was attempting to exorcise. Also yay Clancy Brown! Did he also do the demon voice? Plus the lock-picking banter! And Jenny with her BAMF ride to the rescue (though why she didn't just ask for the demon-trapping lantern - BEN FRANKLIN'S DEMON-TRAPPING FRENCH LANTERN, no less - since the militia leader dude said he could never tell her no, I don't even know.) I just like how badass both Mills sisters get to be.
Ichabod in skinny jeans! Hilarity! Way to nod at the fact that his clothes probably need serious cleaning and also make him stand out/look odd, but still have him wearing them. (Though I stand by my assertion that there is someone - probably many many someones - in the vicinity who could make replicas out of newer, cleaner material. They're forty minutes from New York City on MetroNorth, for pete's sake! And I'm sure there are Revolutionary War reenactors and cosplay enthusiasts WITHIN WESTCHESTER COUNTY.)
I'm not sure what they're doing with the survivalists but at least they didn't appear to be racist? Again, as with the Freemasons, not usually a group that the good guys side with, you know?
I did laugh at Ichabod's allowance that there were worries about the second amendment, even though it was totally anachronistic for him to say that and even though if there were worries about it being used for perverse intentions, those worries were probably not about public safety.
Lastly, I found the reveal of the DATE to be kind of hilarious. Um, guys, people can write down dates from the future, and it's not like he knew he was going to die on December 14 (OR DID HE?), though I also wouldn't mind finding out that GEORGE WASHINGTON FAKED HIS DEATH or something. (AND HE'S STILL ALIVE TODAY. OR ZOMBIE GEORGE WASHINGTON. GHOSTLY GEORGE WASHINGTON? Or like King Arthur, he's ready to rise when his country needs him. I mean, there's no end of batshittery they can accomplish with this. Especially considering that there was an attempt to steal his body in the 1830s, and then he was moved to a new tomb and they threw away the key!) The internet tells me his funeral was on December 18, so maybe he was just telling people when he wanted to be buried. Obviously, the show is going to do something extremely wacky with this, and I will be on board for it, but I think it wasn't the best note to end the episode on.
So that was most enjoyable. I'm going to be so sad when it's not on my teevee anymore. But next season is apparently going to run uninterrupted, so that should be cool.
Lastly, have a link: A True Trans Soul Rebel: One night with Against Me! front woman Laura Jane Grace before the release of the band's remarkable new album.. At least the reporter is "[...] keenly aware that [he is] the latest in a long line of heterosexual bros who have asked Grace to explain what it's like to be transsexual." He still asks unfortunate invasive questions but he doesn't misgender her.
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