Revenge 3.1
While everyone else was watching Sherlock, I was catching up with Revenge (I would have missed the first five minutes if I'd started watching Sherlock live). The main take-out from the show is how little I actually remember of the last season.
They seem to be trying to hearken back to the first season. When we first saw Emily. probably in a wedding dress, apologising on a boat, I thought it was because she'd been thinking about doing her Celine Dion impersonation. And then she got shot. How very dramatic.
Nice to have her return the favour of welcoming him out of jail for Nolan and comment on it. I have high hopes of Nolan’s new pad, especially as it’s so conveniently placed for the beach house and Greyson Manor.
I was not disappointed that Emily moved so decisively to rid herself of Ashley. I enjoyed Emily and Victoria’s polite fencing match, even more than Victoria and Conrad’s, leading up to the two of them devenporting Ashley at the airport, again a callback to season 1.
Oh Jack, drinking heavily isn’t a great way to parent Carl. Also, I will wait upon you meeting Nolan to see whether that breaks you a little. (More seriously, I might allow myself to have more serious Jack/Emily feels if it wasn’t scaffalded by the rest of the show. So, I wrinkled my brow at him claiming that he understood. Having it be about him playing her and her giving away how much she cared - although I don't think he's as devoid of feeling as he thinks he is, because he's angry - made more sense.
This episode seemed to be promising to get somewhere very quickly over ‘the summer’ even before the ultimatum. But is it meant to be the final season, because if not, at most, I can see them offing one regular character - not one of the ones I find most annoying - and maybe a couple of the new ones if they don’t impress. I sincerely doubt that Emily will die of those gunshot wounds (or maybe Emily Thorne might if it were the very end, but Amanda Clarke could live, probably under a new name.)
So, hot new half-brother, Victoria being forced to show her upset to Emily, a new French old flame for Daniel, the fringe not making Charlotte’s threats that much more frightening and, ugh, Aiden. (I don’t even remember whether he would really want to destroy Emily/Amanda, that’s how much I erased him from my brain. And apparently most of the backstabbings, double crossings and reasons for the ambiguous looks exchanged on this show, which is telling.)
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They seem to be trying to hearken back to the first season. When we first saw Emily. probably in a wedding dress, apologising on a boat, I thought it was because she'd been thinking about doing her Celine Dion impersonation. And then she got shot. How very dramatic.
Nice to have her return the favour of welcoming him out of jail for Nolan and comment on it. I have high hopes of Nolan’s new pad, especially as it’s so conveniently placed for the beach house and Greyson Manor.
I was not disappointed that Emily moved so decisively to rid herself of Ashley. I enjoyed Emily and Victoria’s polite fencing match, even more than Victoria and Conrad’s, leading up to the two of them devenporting Ashley at the airport, again a callback to season 1.
Oh Jack, drinking heavily isn’t a great way to parent Carl. Also, I will wait upon you meeting Nolan to see whether that breaks you a little. (More seriously, I might allow myself to have more serious Jack/Emily feels if it wasn’t scaffalded by the rest of the show. So, I wrinkled my brow at him claiming that he understood. Having it be about him playing her and her giving away how much she cared - although I don't think he's as devoid of feeling as he thinks he is, because he's angry - made more sense.
This episode seemed to be promising to get somewhere very quickly over ‘the summer’ even before the ultimatum. But is it meant to be the final season, because if not, at most, I can see them offing one regular character - not one of the ones I find most annoying - and maybe a couple of the new ones if they don’t impress. I sincerely doubt that Emily will die of those gunshot wounds (or maybe Emily Thorne might if it were the very end, but Amanda Clarke could live, probably under a new name.)
So, hot new half-brother, Victoria being forced to show her upset to Emily, a new French old flame for Daniel, the fringe not making Charlotte’s threats that much more frightening and, ugh, Aiden. (I don’t even remember whether he would really want to destroy Emily/Amanda, that’s how much I erased him from my brain. And apparently most of the backstabbings, double crossings and reasons for the ambiguous looks exchanged on this show, which is telling.)
This entry was originally posted at http://shallowness.dreamwidth.org/91726.html.