(I'm on a break from cleaning the house.)
I won't mention what bit of pop culture inspired this, in case of spoiling anyone, but can you rec any stories (books or films especially) that deal with clones from a female perspective? Ideally, it's be a female character(s) written by women.
Anyway, Chuck. I literally face palmed twice. One of those times them may have been the patented Ridiculous Intro of Sarah as an Object. (The cover was no excuse, seeing as they do the slo mo/pop video thing all the time). And I was tamping at the cancellation of Jake 2.0 by the end, which says something. I don't often go there. The usual complaints seemed magnified, and this in an episode where I genuinely felt for Morgan and Sarah, enjoyed Levi's delivery and liked YS's performance. But the best bits were easily Casey snarking on Sarah.
I think they wasted an opportunity by going in this direction at this speed with Jill's plot-line - but in an episode where they went for the obvious so many times, why should I be surprised? As Jill and Chuck made a nauseating couple, Sarah won sympathy points. All told, considering I got the Vogon reference, I still feel like the wrong type of person to be watching this.
Ugly Betty I enjoyed this a lot. I liked the heart underneath the breezy, silly campitude. I mean, they get in a few 'Look it's Lindsay Logan' asides (the pathos of never being as good as you were in the Disney/tween movies, uh, junior high and high school, the page six/rehab thing) but it was about Betty coming to terms with her past (or not) and not being part of the in-crowd, and Justin doing something similar was almost enough to get me over the fact that as his voice is mostly broken, auditioning for Billy Elliot was stupid. No, wait, it was the actual dance off that made me embrace the ridiculousness. The short kid didn't get it because he was better than you, boys, he got it because he was the appropriate age.
I also liked the blind date reveal, even if the humanised Wilhelmina was a bit weird. Never mind, she'll be back to scheming soon. And I loved the dig of her not getting Valenine's day at Mode at all. Puppies!? I really do heart the Daniel-Betty alliance too much, I mean, there he was disappointed that she was a Bad Assistant because Kimmie outmaneuvered her, and there he was, insensitively making Kimmie associate editor and she was blathering at him about stuff instead of talking to him, but, BUT every time there's a team Betty and Daniel moment, I'm cheering quite loudly (it's the whole latent fairyline storyline: even though, rationally, they don't match, in Daniel's myriad weaknesses and Betty's dangling future possibilities. I'm sort of not quite shipping them.)
ANYway, fun. Again.
Anyway, Chuck. I literally face palmed twice. One of those times them may have been the patented Ridiculous Intro of Sarah as an Object. (The cover was no excuse, seeing as they do the slo mo/pop video thing all the time). And I was tamping at the cancellation of Jake 2.0 by the end, which says something. I don't often go there. The usual complaints seemed magnified, and this in an episode where I genuinely felt for Morgan and Sarah, enjoyed Levi's delivery and liked YS's performance. But the best bits were easily Casey snarking on Sarah.
I think they wasted an opportunity by going in this direction at this speed with Jill's plot-line - but in an episode where they went for the obvious so many times, why should I be surprised? As Jill and Chuck made a nauseating couple, Sarah won sympathy points. All told, considering I got the Vogon reference, I still feel like the wrong type of person to be watching this.
Ugly Betty I enjoyed this a lot. I liked the heart underneath the breezy, silly campitude. I mean, they get in a few 'Look it's Lindsay Logan' asides (the pathos of never being as good as you were in the Disney/tween movies, uh, junior high and high school, the page six/rehab thing) but it was about Betty coming to terms with her past (or not) and not being part of the in-crowd, and Justin doing something similar was almost enough to get me over the fact that as his voice is mostly broken, auditioning for Billy Elliot was stupid. No, wait, it was the actual dance off that made me embrace the ridiculousness. The short kid didn't get it because he was better than you, boys, he got it because he was the appropriate age.
I also liked the blind date reveal, even if the humanised Wilhelmina was a bit weird. Never mind, she'll be back to scheming soon. And I loved the dig of her not getting Valenine's day at Mode at all. Puppies!? I really do heart the Daniel-Betty alliance too much, I mean, there he was disappointed that she was a Bad Assistant because Kimmie outmaneuvered her, and there he was, insensitively making Kimmie associate editor and she was blathering at him about stuff instead of talking to him, but, BUT every time there's a team Betty and Daniel moment, I'm cheering quite loudly (it's the whole latent fairyline storyline: even though, rationally, they don't match, in Daniel's myriad weaknesses and Betty's dangling future possibilities. I'm sort of not quite shipping them.)
ANYway, fun. Again.