random: Justified, season one

[themonkeytwin]

Recently needing some escapist brain-candy, and, as a result of some comments with bitterlimetwist, having a Timothy Olyphant jones (although Timothy Olyphant alone is enough for that sort of thing to occur), I succumbed to watching the back half of Justified S1. Following my less-than-enamoured response to the pilot, my desultory watching of episodes got me to

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[bitterlimetwist]

I feel like I need to apologize for saying the second half was any good. :) Wow.

I will perhaps attempt a counter-argument later. [chores...blah]

Still, do you have any idea how excited I was to see this post? So, yay! [Except for the part where I feel like I had a hand in TORTURING YOU. Forgive me? :)]

[themonkeytwin]

Oh, don't worry too much. I think it'll grow on me. The more as I can see it as an entity separate from Deadwood.... I'm getting there. And, really, Timothy takes us a loooong way in this kind of endeavour. So ... well, alright, I forgive you. :)

I'm glad you're excited for the post, anyway! And I look forward to your counter-arguments. Honestly, the more I mull over this show, the more I'm likely to like it. Still, the final judgement awaits season two. Here's to them not completely screwing it up!

[bitterlimetwist]

This isn't so much a counter-argument as, uh, my 2 cents. Anyway, you seem to be coming around to it on your own

[themonkeytwin]

Oh, I didn't get the sense they were being malicious about hillbillies; more a kind of "they may be rednecks, but they're OUR damn rednecks!" kind of attitude to it. It was actually one of the strengths I felt it had in the first place, that even though they're showing these less-than-admirable characters of the region with all their flaws front-and-centre, they're doing it with affection and humour and compassion. Although I didn't really say that outright, so that's my bad.

I also didn't have a problem with the idea that the Crowder boys could be as ruthless and brutal as the Miami cartels, but with the way it was shown. That level of violence up until that point was communicated through someone telling the story, not visually, and it was jarring to suddenly switch gears in the finale. It felt gratuitous. For the effect, it would have played just as well just seeing Boyd's reaction. But that was a minor thing, really. I was watching the season hoping Boyd's conversion was real (because that's more interesting, and because, frankly

[bitterlimetwist]

"I'm warming to him. Slowly. I'm okay with it taking a while"

It took me a while to warm up to Sam. Sometimes slow is good. :)

"Argh, Bo's nose. It was so ... rubbery! I couldn't concentrate on anything else while it was onscreen."

OMG YES. His nose had to die.