the smallest cheese box I've ever seen
I have actually watched the TV for more than, like, ten minutes this weekend, as a treat to myself, omg. So this is an unabashed geek post for a Sunday night. :)
Psych is still one of my very favourites. JULES! Who is a bit messed in the head from the previous finale, but not shown as pathetic for being so and also EVERYONE at the PD coming to see her and trying to tempt her back is really adorable. I love Jules. She is fantastic.
I was less yay about the Chinese gangsters plot. I read the @psychwrites twitter and they say their main motivation with the Karate Kid thing was getting Shawn into a dojo so that he can be beat up by a six year old girl in a gi. Which, don't get me wrong, is an ambition I can entirely get behind! But I don't think that makes me feel any better about the let's-bring-in-the-Asians-for-a-special-episode-about-how-they're-violent implications. I think Psych can and has done better.
On the other hand, Gus is still also AWESOME LIKE ANYTHING, and I did like their assistant dude and the fact he wasn't involved in the Chinese gangs and that there was at least some attempted explanation for why they hired him beyond 'the episode required a Chinese dude'. I hope he stays in it, at least a little bit.
I liked White Collar but I have two concerns:
1. Surely they have ramped up the love and OT3ness now to the point where only actual snogging or drastic let down can result, right?
2. WHAT THE HELL ENDING NEXT EPISODE SOON PLEASE.
And that's about it. It is a daft show, but it is pleasing.
My main fandom love this weekend, however, has gone to Pushing Daisies, which I have now seen, er, six episodes of. HI.
Seriously THIS SHOW IS SO CUTE AND BEAUTIFUL AND ALSO SILLY AND KIND OF MORBID AND I LOVE IT. It is like a very gorgeously illustrated book of fairy tales about a pie maker, except with some sex and lots of tragedy, death, and jokes. Which is, apparently, my cup of tea. My current top things:
- Chuck. I can totally imagine some of the fandom hates her, but I think she's adorable and I love her outfits and the fact she could be overly cutesie and schmoopy but actually she does get annoyed, she does admit that the whole not-being-able-to-touch-your-boyfriend thing is a problem, and also she is the only murdered person who's come out of death fighting. I kind of love that: she is the sort who will ask if they have any last requests, but if she's being murdered she will try to bash you in the head with a coffin. ♥
- Emerson Cod, who KNITS. I mean, big black dude knitting could be done as a one-shot joke but no, he genuinely knits, he has a DRAWER FULL OF SOCKS and also knitted vests and GUN COSIES and it is STRESS RELIEF. Love that. It makes up quite a bit for him being the money-focussed one, which I think could otherwise come off as skeevy but (at least to me) doesn't.
- The fact Emerson got to get flirty with a black woman who isn't the killer! I totally thought she was just because she was the black wife and that is the way these things go, but nope, she is alive and flirty and pretty awesome and NOT EVIL. Oh yes. As is the Asian wife! (Also, I love that two of the four wives in that episode aren't white.)
- I like Chuck/Ned. I mean, it is very deliberately hitting the 'they are in t00by love but can NEVER TOUCH' thing pretty hard, but it's weirdly cute. They dance in bee suits! And she kisses him through shrink wrap! Awww! And they have a weirdly kinky glove thing in the car! It is done adorably enough - particularly the way Emerson is always there for their conversations and HATES THIS, ahahah - that I don't think I even care that they haven't actually got any logical rules for what constitutes touching or not. (Like, surely all Chuck has to do is wear sleeves, or he can wear gloves, and then he can at least catch her, right?)
- The fact Olive isn't evil despite not liking Chuck. Like, most shows she'd be the bad guy, or Ned would be Torn Between Two Loves or whatever, but here Olive is just unlucky, and she kind of hates Chuck because of it but hasn't actually taken that out on Chuck at all. Also, the jockey thing is totally hysterical, mostly because Kristin Chenoweth is like two feet tall. *loves*
Oh and have I gone on about how it is just gorgeous to look at? I love the colours, I love the way they frame things, I just love looking at it. It's fabulous. I can't wait to watch the rest.
Other stuff:
I did the re-read post for The Silent Speaker over at milk-and-orchids. \geeking!/
Psych is still one of my very favourites. JULES! Who is a bit messed in the head from the previous finale, but not shown as pathetic for being so and also EVERYONE at the PD coming to see her and trying to tempt her back is really adorable. I love Jules. She is fantastic.
I was less yay about the Chinese gangsters plot. I read the @psychwrites twitter and they say their main motivation with the Karate Kid thing was getting Shawn into a dojo so that he can be beat up by a six year old girl in a gi. Which, don't get me wrong, is an ambition I can entirely get behind! But I don't think that makes me feel any better about the let's-bring-in-the-Asians-for-a-special-episode-about-how-they're-violent implications. I think Psych can and has done better.
On the other hand, Gus is still also AWESOME LIKE ANYTHING, and I did like their assistant dude and the fact he wasn't involved in the Chinese gangs and that there was at least some attempted explanation for why they hired him beyond 'the episode required a Chinese dude'. I hope he stays in it, at least a little bit.
I liked White Collar but I have two concerns:
1. Surely they have ramped up the love and OT3ness now to the point where only actual snogging or drastic let down can result, right?
2. WHAT THE HELL ENDING NEXT EPISODE SOON PLEASE.
And that's about it. It is a daft show, but it is pleasing.
My main fandom love this weekend, however, has gone to Pushing Daisies, which I have now seen, er, six episodes of. HI.
Seriously THIS SHOW IS SO CUTE AND BEAUTIFUL AND ALSO SILLY AND KIND OF MORBID AND I LOVE IT. It is like a very gorgeously illustrated book of fairy tales about a pie maker, except with some sex and lots of tragedy, death, and jokes. Which is, apparently, my cup of tea. My current top things:
- Chuck. I can totally imagine some of the fandom hates her, but I think she's adorable and I love her outfits and the fact she could be overly cutesie and schmoopy but actually she does get annoyed, she does admit that the whole not-being-able-to-touch-your-boyfriend thing is a problem, and also she is the only murdered person who's come out of death fighting. I kind of love that: she is the sort who will ask if they have any last requests, but if she's being murdered she will try to bash you in the head with a coffin. ♥
- Emerson Cod, who KNITS. I mean, big black dude knitting could be done as a one-shot joke but no, he genuinely knits, he has a DRAWER FULL OF SOCKS and also knitted vests and GUN COSIES and it is STRESS RELIEF. Love that. It makes up quite a bit for him being the money-focussed one, which I think could otherwise come off as skeevy but (at least to me) doesn't.
- The fact Emerson got to get flirty with a black woman who isn't the killer! I totally thought she was just because she was the black wife and that is the way these things go, but nope, she is alive and flirty and pretty awesome and NOT EVIL. Oh yes. As is the Asian wife! (Also, I love that two of the four wives in that episode aren't white.)
- I like Chuck/Ned. I mean, it is very deliberately hitting the 'they are in t00by love but can NEVER TOUCH' thing pretty hard, but it's weirdly cute. They dance in bee suits! And she kisses him through shrink wrap! Awww! And they have a weirdly kinky glove thing in the car! It is done adorably enough - particularly the way Emerson is always there for their conversations and HATES THIS, ahahah - that I don't think I even care that they haven't actually got any logical rules for what constitutes touching or not. (Like, surely all Chuck has to do is wear sleeves, or he can wear gloves, and then he can at least catch her, right?)
- The fact Olive isn't evil despite not liking Chuck. Like, most shows she'd be the bad guy, or Ned would be Torn Between Two Loves or whatever, but here Olive is just unlucky, and she kind of hates Chuck because of it but hasn't actually taken that out on Chuck at all. Also, the jockey thing is totally hysterical, mostly because Kristin Chenoweth is like two feet tall. *loves*
Oh and have I gone on about how it is just gorgeous to look at? I love the colours, I love the way they frame things, I just love looking at it. It's fabulous. I can't wait to watch the rest.
Other stuff:
I did the re-read post for The Silent Speaker over at milk-and-orchids. \geeking!/