And suddenly summer's arrived here
RE: American Idol results: yay! I am looking forward to next week.
Ashes to Ashes Although I've been watching the shows throughout, but by the time A2A had come out I disengaged myself from being too invested quite early on. It was more of a process than an event, but that was where I was coming from with the finale. I was interested, I jumped, laughed and covered my eyes a few times (they blew up the Quattro!), but I wasn't invested to the point of nearly falling off the edge of the sofa. It also broadly played out how I thought it would - thanks to fandom's pointers - re the identity of the body in the shallow grave and the show itself had foreshadowed the return of Nelson pretty clearly (appreciated, and I liked that he had the role he did - he always had a something that Luigi didn't). So, Gene is Davy Jones was what I kept thinking, perhaps because Keeley Hawes had a look of Keira Knightley in one scene.
I am not convinced that it all hangs together from the very beginning (Mrs Hunt? And while going to the pub after a job as the final ceremony for passing is apposite and the white light reminded me of Dead Like ME, why didn't it work thusly in LoM). It didn't manage to match Life on Mars's chirpiest suicide ending ever, but it resolved Alex's Molly or Gene dilemma with a third choice. It never explicitly explained Jim, although with the lift going downwards and some of the acting choices (at times, matching Jack Nicholson and Jim Carrey in the Batman movies), I assume demonic agent or Gene's black-hat equivalent or something. Never mind.
It was funny, there were lots of lovely call backs, from seeing Molly and realising how little we'd seen her as Gene's ghost had haunted Alex to 'Life on Mars' playing at the end, to 'Heroes' and the credit sequence, where Shaz got listed as a DC, which made me cheer, because yay! Shaz and oh my darling, coming from the mid nineties? Although really it was Ray and Chris he'd kept with him for so long.
I've praised Mays and Hawes's acring of late, but Gleinster pulled off a blinder, his face as Alex was digging, the little look at Alex when Keats was lying outside the pub, the anger (justified seeing as Alex walked out on Gene IN HER OWN HOME). So, it mostly worked, provided some excellent moments and decent closure - though it raises interesting questions about Sam and Annie (oh Annie, you were killed too, my lovely)'s journeys. Goodbye then, Gene Hunt and team.
Perhaps in a generation, someone will revisit the idea. And it may be set in Birmingham in the nineties.
Because I'd watched that live, I watched The Mentalist on DemandFive
2.14 Blood In, Blood Out
It was fine and I'm glad Cho got his own episode and we met his pretty girlfriend (may I suggest talking to her a little more to accompany the beating up of people who hurt her?) and no episode involving Jane will ever be dull (my 'Well done, Jane' remarks were 50/50 sarky/genuine, but Lisbon's best bit was having been absent for most of the investigation (apart from the yay!Lisbon and Van Pelt interviewing together) so she could both Colombo and Chinese Wall the nasty non-murderer into not getting Cho sacked. Second best bit was possibly Cho 'acting', otherwise not much to get excited about. Cho works better for me as a counterpoint than a focal point.
Ashes to Ashes Although I've been watching the shows throughout, but by the time A2A had come out I disengaged myself from being too invested quite early on. It was more of a process than an event, but that was where I was coming from with the finale. I was interested, I jumped, laughed and covered my eyes a few times (they blew up the Quattro!), but I wasn't invested to the point of nearly falling off the edge of the sofa. It also broadly played out how I thought it would - thanks to fandom's pointers - re the identity of the body in the shallow grave and the show itself had foreshadowed the return of Nelson pretty clearly (appreciated, and I liked that he had the role he did - he always had a something that Luigi didn't). So, Gene is Davy Jones was what I kept thinking, perhaps because Keeley Hawes had a look of Keira Knightley in one scene.
I am not convinced that it all hangs together from the very beginning (Mrs Hunt? And while going to the pub after a job as the final ceremony for passing is apposite and the white light reminded me of Dead Like ME, why didn't it work thusly in LoM). It didn't manage to match Life on Mars's chirpiest suicide ending ever, but it resolved Alex's Molly or Gene dilemma with a third choice. It never explicitly explained Jim, although with the lift going downwards and some of the acting choices (at times, matching Jack Nicholson and Jim Carrey in the Batman movies), I assume demonic agent or Gene's black-hat equivalent or something. Never mind.
It was funny, there were lots of lovely call backs, from seeing Molly and realising how little we'd seen her as Gene's ghost had haunted Alex to 'Life on Mars' playing at the end, to 'Heroes' and the credit sequence, where Shaz got listed as a DC, which made me cheer, because yay! Shaz and oh my darling, coming from the mid nineties? Although really it was Ray and Chris he'd kept with him for so long.
I've praised Mays and Hawes's acring of late, but Gleinster pulled off a blinder, his face as Alex was digging, the little look at Alex when Keats was lying outside the pub, the anger (justified seeing as Alex walked out on Gene IN HER OWN HOME). So, it mostly worked, provided some excellent moments and decent closure - though it raises interesting questions about Sam and Annie (oh Annie, you were killed too, my lovely)'s journeys. Goodbye then, Gene Hunt and team.
Perhaps in a generation, someone will revisit the idea. And it may be set in Birmingham in the nineties.
Because I'd watched that live, I watched The Mentalist on DemandFive
2.14 Blood In, Blood Out
It was fine and I'm glad Cho got his own episode and we met his pretty girlfriend (may I suggest talking to her a little more to accompany the beating up of people who hurt her?) and no episode involving Jane will ever be dull (my 'Well done, Jane' remarks were 50/50 sarky/genuine, but Lisbon's best bit was having been absent for most of the investigation (apart from the yay!Lisbon and Van Pelt interviewing together) so she could both Colombo and Chinese Wall the nasty non-murderer into not getting Cho sacked. Second best bit was possibly Cho 'acting', otherwise not much to get excited about. Cho works better for me as a counterpoint than a focal point.