The problem, I think, is that most of the television I've been watching lately isn't worth talking about. For a good part of the last year or so, that's exactly what I've needed--the more brainless, the better! I'm starting to miss good, thinky TV, though, and I suspect that soon enough I'll be tapping my fingers impatiently: where is my shiny, new
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So Cam and Elliot....yeah. Brain dead now.
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Oh, I would LOVE that! I do agree with you that the character development has been lacking in S3, compared to 1&2. I desperately want the Nate/Sophie arc to progress more than it has. I do like it that they're taking it slow, and showing that they still have a lot of issues to work out, but it's too slow. I also desperately wish that we would see some growth in the Elliot/Hardison relationship, because the unrelenting arguing banter is starting to wear a bit thin. And get annoying.
One of the more frequent women writers (name escapes me at the moment) left this season, so I wonder if that's the cause. But many of the really good S1&2 eps were written by some combination of Devlin/Rogers/third guy (really bad with names today), so what's up with them, I wonder. I've also read that there were many N/S scenes that were written but never made it to screen.
I still love my show, though! I just hope the last 3 eps in Dec return to awesome!
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It seems, though, like the final arc, being arc-y (or at least it's supposed to be, right?), is likely to take heed of that sort of thing a little better than some of the stand-alones have done. I hope so, anyway!
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As for the "Kissed a Girl" ep, I thought the show was definitely trying to have some cake and eat it too. Flirt with the almost-textual relationship of Maura and Jane, but then still deny it at the same time.
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But you're absolutely right that that's what all or most pairings on TV explore. I mean Rizzoli and Isles and Peter and Neal (from White Collar) are pretty similar in the amount of almost-slash they engage in. For that matter, I haven't seen anyone get upset about it on White Collar, instead they seem to relish it. So that's a kind of interesting distinction.
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I'd be willing to bet this is a way to write him out of the show
He's not back in S3. Why couldn't they have promoted Reynolds, or transferred him to another position or city? Of course Reynolds wasn't that interesting, because they never bothered to develop his character. :-\ Or rather, each cast member got One Special Episode to themselves, and that's it. Sigh.
Everyone's underused. Where's Torres? Or Loker? Other fans are bitching about (the lack of) Cal/Gillian, but the problems with the show run deeper than that. :-( It started off well enough. And then...
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Ah, well that answers that, then. In that case, they'll probably kill him; that way Cal can have something else to make All About Him.
I think I'd have let Ben and Gillian both get fed up with Cal and run off together.
Of course Reynolds wasn't that interesting, because they never bothered to develop his character. :-\ Or rather, each cast member got One Special Episode to themselves, and that's it.Indeed. :( And has poor Loker ever had his One Special Episode? I mean, I love pretty much everyone else better than Loker, to be honest, but he's possibly the most underused and underdeveloped character of them all. I admit I watch this show with Gillian-colored glasses, so she's my primary benchmark for whether I, personally, am satisfied with the show. But they're doing such a terrible job with everyone who isn't Cal, and if I were in it primarily for Loker, Torres, or Reynolds, I'd have bailed long ago, I think ( ... )
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where Jane is married and pregnant and Maura has this fun UST-filled relationship with a Catholic priest
Jane married and pregnant makes me want to RUN AWAY SCREAMING, in an I-know-this-is-illogical-but-I'm-personally-offended kind of way. On the other hand, I have a total THING for UST-filled relationships with Catholic priests, so they could definitely incorporate that into the show if they wanted to!
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