posts I meant to make before everything started coming back
As interminable as this summer hiatus has been, I am really enjoying watching my various reading lists get sucked into my favorite shows. Friends, Romans, new fans of BSG/Dollhouse/The Sopranos/the Buffyverse/The Originals, know that your impending emotional torment and general doom gives me such joy.
I did finish Six Feet Under and the finale was, as promised, perfect. I almost felt feelings; I had to watch an episode and a half of The Sopranos immediately to make it go away.
I watched the SoA season premiere. I haven't seen S6 yet but I did manage to stumble on the big spoiler a few months back and I don't know when it'll go up on Netflix, so.
Jax had started to lose me by the end of S5, though I can't remember why now - NO WAIT HE WAS MEAN TO ADRIANA WENDY, TSSSSSSS - but was able to re-engage very quickly this time. His not even trying to ask Gemma's patsy who'd given the supposed order....was irrational, and was irrational for nobody he was with to bring this up to him, but it was irrational in the way people are irrational, and this is one of those times when a little contrivance for the sake of the ~dramatic finish~ is probably the best move.
Though, there is a plausible in-universe explanation (there must always be, after all) in that…I wonder if Jax doesn’t smell something off about Gemma’s story on some level? Like, for her not to mention that she got such a good look at Tara’s killer until coincidentally running into him at a party which an actual hit man would know to avoid like the plague? Bizarre. And if that’s happening, then his lashing out destructively at everyone in the outside world becomes a lot more credible than “he read the script.”
I’m almost into The 100. I mean, I’m totally going to watch it and get into it, I just don’t have any particularly strong feelings yet. What I am really excited about is what the show means in terms of, what networks think there’s an audience for? This is what works best about TVD - hard-edged survivalism and an extremely morally questionable young female protagonist - interpreted by and for BSG fans. And, as much as I don’t mind them for a plot device on principle, it is really refreshing to see a love-polygon-free take on the subject matter.
Anyway, I procrastinated on this post for as long as I did because I meant to write about the True Blood finale, which I quite liked for reasons which started turning into a real post and therefore a ridiculous rewatch, so. Thoughts are, I hope, forthcoming.
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I did finish Six Feet Under and the finale was, as promised, perfect. I almost felt feelings; I had to watch an episode and a half of The Sopranos immediately to make it go away.
I watched the SoA season premiere. I haven't seen S6 yet but I did manage to stumble on the big spoiler a few months back and I don't know when it'll go up on Netflix, so.
Jax had started to lose me by the end of S5, though I can't remember why now - NO WAIT HE WAS MEAN TO ADRIANA WENDY, TSSSSSSS - but was able to re-engage very quickly this time. His not even trying to ask Gemma's patsy who'd given the supposed order....was irrational, and was irrational for nobody he was with to bring this up to him, but it was irrational in the way people are irrational, and this is one of those times when a little contrivance for the sake of the ~dramatic finish~ is probably the best move.
Though, there is a plausible in-universe explanation (there must always be, after all) in that…I wonder if Jax doesn’t smell something off about Gemma’s story on some level? Like, for her not to mention that she got such a good look at Tara’s killer until coincidentally running into him at a party which an actual hit man would know to avoid like the plague? Bizarre. And if that’s happening, then his lashing out destructively at everyone in the outside world becomes a lot more credible than “he read the script.”
I’m almost into The 100. I mean, I’m totally going to watch it and get into it, I just don’t have any particularly strong feelings yet. What I am really excited about is what the show means in terms of, what networks think there’s an audience for? This is what works best about TVD - hard-edged survivalism and an extremely morally questionable young female protagonist - interpreted by and for BSG fans. And, as much as I don’t mind them for a plot device on principle, it is really refreshing to see a love-polygon-free take on the subject matter.
Anyway, I procrastinated on this post for as long as I did because I meant to write about the True Blood finale, which I quite liked for reasons which started turning into a real post and therefore a ridiculous rewatch, so. Thoughts are, I hope, forthcoming.
This entry was originally posted at http://pocochina.dreamwidth.org/334785.html. Leave a comment here, or there using OpenID.