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The Flash: Fast Enough
I thought this had some really great scenes in it - Barry with his three dads, Barry and his mom, Cisco and Thawne/Wells (ThWells?), everything Victor Garber did or said, even when it didn't really make sense (I kept waiting for him to call Eddie an unknown variable, but he never did) - and Grant Gustin is ridiculously charming and also great at crying, but overall I'm left with a big "huh."
Because it seems like such a weird way to take the story - I get that Barry is going to make the terrible decision (it is ALWAYS a terrible decision to change the past; has the Terminator franchise taught us NOTHING?), so the fact that they spent so much time with him gearing up for it - even though it gave us the lovely moments with Joe and with Henry - just felt like running in place. Especially since he goes back and his older self tells him not to do it! There's clearly a story there of the time Barry tried!
I admit, I was really hoping he'd go back at the halfway point of the episode and we'd come back from the commercial break in the new timeline. I wanted some wacky Fringe timeline fuckery!
Which hopefully we'll get at the start of next season? Because Eddie killing himself was super dumb (though super obvious once he reconciled with Iris). I mean, technically he's not changing the past, he's changing the future, except if Thawne isn't ever born, he can't come back to kill Nora Allen etc. etc. So has the timeline been rewritten? Or diverged into a completely new path? I mean, if (when) Barry can close the black hole open above Central City, will he come back to find a whole different life waiting? Anyway, what I mean is, he causes the timeline to break, thus opening up the black hole, etc. etc. Oh, Eddie, you went out a hero but you weren't the brightest bulb in the lamp.
I wonder if Rip Hunter is sitting somewhere in the future shaking his fist and yelling about Thawne really screwing the pooch this time before Thawne is suddenly extinguished from existence.
And speaking of Rip Hunter, not only did we get a mention of him, I wonder if this is going to be the Watsonian reason the new team is formed - if Barry et al. screwing the timeline necessitates them flying around patching things up (I mean, I know they said their main antagonist is Vandal Savage, but this seems like a perfect way to introduce the new team). Also, I did really like Jay Garrick's helmet getting flung out of the wormhole.
I just thought they made some curiously conservative choices for a season finale.
iZombie: Mr. Berserk
Oh, Liv!
I want about twenty million words of Ravi comforting Liv after this episode, and then the two of them slowly falling in love. *cough*
Anyway! LIV, YOU HAVE TO TELL MAJOR THE TRUTH. LET HIM HEAR IT FROM A SYMPATHETIC ZOMBIE FIRST. TOO LATE NOW THOUGH. I get her point about how Major might respond, but it would also let him know that there are other people working on bringing Blaine down, which might temper his response a little. (I also wanted Clive to find out. I guess I am super tired of secret identity shenanigans - they always make Our Heroes look like assholes and I find it distasteful and also boring. We've seen this story a million times and it's always annoying. Leave it for characters where it works, e.g., Batman.)
Also, I was expecting more from the lieutenant! I thought he might decide to talk with Liv about their both being zombies and about how to get out from under Blaine's blackmail, but he didn't. (I also don't know why Liv hasn't said anything - didn't she see him get shot and not bleed?)
I did really like how the case of the week was really part of the arc, though given that Sebastian was licking Liv's blood, I don't know why she didn't expect him to be zombiefied. Though I suppose the trail of blood in the water was pretty convincing too.
I feel like this show is gearing up for a really excellent final few episodes and I am excited!
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Wednesday reading meme:
What I've just finished
Pen Pal by Francesca Forrest, which is an absolutely lovely epistolary story with a fable-like feel to it. Em, who lives in the floating village of Mermaid's Hands, sends out a message in a bottle that gets found by Kaya, who is a political prisoner in an unnamed country in the South Pacific. They start up a correspondence that changes both their lives. It's vivid and thoughtful and melancholy.
What I'm reading now
I'm just rereading The Raven Cycle again. sometimes I can't help myself. I'm noticing even more things this time around though, which is good.
What I'm reading next
I do not know!
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I have to leave in a few minutes to go to a meeting and ugh. I'm not feeling it at all.
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I thought this had some really great scenes in it - Barry with his three dads, Barry and his mom, Cisco and Thawne/Wells (ThWells?), everything Victor Garber did or said, even when it didn't really make sense (I kept waiting for him to call Eddie an unknown variable, but he never did) - and Grant Gustin is ridiculously charming and also great at crying, but overall I'm left with a big "huh."
Because it seems like such a weird way to take the story - I get that Barry is going to make the terrible decision (it is ALWAYS a terrible decision to change the past; has the Terminator franchise taught us NOTHING?), so the fact that they spent so much time with him gearing up for it - even though it gave us the lovely moments with Joe and with Henry - just felt like running in place. Especially since he goes back and his older self tells him not to do it! There's clearly a story there of the time Barry tried!
I admit, I was really hoping he'd go back at the halfway point of the episode and we'd come back from the commercial break in the new timeline. I wanted some wacky Fringe timeline fuckery!
Which hopefully we'll get at the start of next season? Because Eddie killing himself was super dumb (though super obvious once he reconciled with Iris). I mean, technically he's not changing the past, he's changing the future, except if Thawne isn't ever born, he can't come back to kill Nora Allen etc. etc. So has the timeline been rewritten? Or diverged into a completely new path? I mean, if (when) Barry can close the black hole open above Central City, will he come back to find a whole different life waiting? Anyway, what I mean is, he causes the timeline to break, thus opening up the black hole, etc. etc. Oh, Eddie, you went out a hero but you weren't the brightest bulb in the lamp.
I wonder if Rip Hunter is sitting somewhere in the future shaking his fist and yelling about Thawne really screwing the pooch this time before Thawne is suddenly extinguished from existence.
And speaking of Rip Hunter, not only did we get a mention of him, I wonder if this is going to be the Watsonian reason the new team is formed - if Barry et al. screwing the timeline necessitates them flying around patching things up (I mean, I know they said their main antagonist is Vandal Savage, but this seems like a perfect way to introduce the new team). Also, I did really like Jay Garrick's helmet getting flung out of the wormhole.
I just thought they made some curiously conservative choices for a season finale.
iZombie: Mr. Berserk
Oh, Liv!
I want about twenty million words of Ravi comforting Liv after this episode, and then the two of them slowly falling in love. *cough*
Anyway! LIV, YOU HAVE TO TELL MAJOR THE TRUTH. LET HIM HEAR IT FROM A SYMPATHETIC ZOMBIE FIRST. TOO LATE NOW THOUGH. I get her point about how Major might respond, but it would also let him know that there are other people working on bringing Blaine down, which might temper his response a little. (I also wanted Clive to find out. I guess I am super tired of secret identity shenanigans - they always make Our Heroes look like assholes and I find it distasteful and also boring. We've seen this story a million times and it's always annoying. Leave it for characters where it works, e.g., Batman.)
Also, I was expecting more from the lieutenant! I thought he might decide to talk with Liv about their both being zombies and about how to get out from under Blaine's blackmail, but he didn't. (I also don't know why Liv hasn't said anything - didn't she see him get shot and not bleed?)
I did really like how the case of the week was really part of the arc, though given that Sebastian was licking Liv's blood, I don't know why she didn't expect him to be zombiefied. Though I suppose the trail of blood in the water was pretty convincing too.
I feel like this show is gearing up for a really excellent final few episodes and I am excited!
***
Wednesday reading meme:
What I've just finished
Pen Pal by Francesca Forrest, which is an absolutely lovely epistolary story with a fable-like feel to it. Em, who lives in the floating village of Mermaid's Hands, sends out a message in a bottle that gets found by Kaya, who is a political prisoner in an unnamed country in the South Pacific. They start up a correspondence that changes both their lives. It's vivid and thoughtful and melancholy.
What I'm reading now
I'm just rereading The Raven Cycle again. sometimes I can't help myself. I'm noticing even more things this time around though, which is good.
What I'm reading next
I do not know!
***
I have to leave in a few minutes to go to a meeting and ugh. I'm not feeling it at all.
***
This entry at DW: http://musesfool.dreamwidth.org/750517.html.
people have commented there.