[tv] thoughts | "when you're challenged by the truth..."
Firstly: Ahem...! (new otp)
Secondly, I have watched some television in the last couple of days. I thought I would make a post about it because I'm supposed to be writing a results presentation for my thesis so, you know... I've just washed my car for the first time in about five years, chatting about television sounds like the next item on my list of Very Important Things To Do Before Writing My Presentation.
THE GOOD WIFE
FAVOURITE LINE: "I think Will and Diane are getting it on..."
CANON CARY/KALINDA SMEXY TIMES! Boom! Thank you very much. It's really the only thing I have to talk about from this episode, and I've already discussed most of my thoughts with mrsfjl66, but I want to see what others are thinking, if they're thinking anything at all...
The Cary/Kalinda 'thing' seems like a train wreck waiting to happen. Likely, a train wreck that will occur somewhere deep inside Cary's superior vena cava. While I am a fan of their utter dysfunction, the fact that I'm a fan of Cary first and foremost means I'm a liiiittle wary of Kalinda's motivations with regard to this tryst. And I'm a little unsure how to interpret parts of what happened this episode. Did she only hook up with him because Will and Diane ordered her to get information out of him and she knew that'd be the easiest way to do it? Why did she default to the assumption that he lied to her? What does this say, if anything, about her own current headspace? If she can no longer 'read' Cary, what's getting in her way? Is it her feelings for him? Is it her inability to comprehend his feelings for her? Is it inconsistent/poor/sloppy characterisation**?
I ask all these questions of Kalinda only because I have no real clue what the answers are. Similar questions could be asked of Cary, but the answers to those are bleeding obvious and he makes approximately zero bones about them. Cary is head over heels for her and has been for seasons. Ain't nothing changed here, even if he would like to think that it has (ie. his insistence that they can't trust each other, despite the fact that Cary absolutely told her the truth - as he knew it - this episode, even though he didn't have to).
Kalinda's incorrect assumption was probably the most interesting part of their exchange. The second most interesting part, for me, was the fact that the scene of them in bed cut immediately to Kalinda reporting back to Will and Diane. Was that to emphasise her allegiance? To reiterate the fact that she was only using Cary for information? What was the purpose of that scene cut? AM I OVER THINKING THINGS?? Given I cared very little for the non Cary/Kalinda parts of the episode, this is quite possible!
** I don't really 'get' where Kalinda is being taken as a character at this point. She's asked to investigate some information given to LG by Cary and she decides the best way to do this is to sleep with him? Surely the best way to investigate information given to you by someone is to investigate the information, not the person? Kalinda's incorrect assumption that he was lying is proof of this. Was this just so they could include a (post?) sex scene without actually having to write any build up? IDGI.
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TRUE DETECTIVE
I don't really know what to say about this one. I think the show completely fizzled out after a really solid and intriguing beginning. And maybe I just read too much into it at the start? Maybe it was never meant to be about anything other than the evolving bromance between two white dudes. Pardon me, though, if I find that disappointing. The crime storyline was certainly interesting and engaging but nothing more than most crime procedurals can produce. The two leads were... white dudes. And I guess they were meant to be, what? Different? Unusual? Atypical? But I didn't really find either of them to be anything of the sort, and that's the problem when your lead characters are of the same ilk as 99.9% of lead characters ever written, ever. Maybe I just wanted more than the show was ever intending to deliver? WHO KNOWS. Anyway, the back half of the season fell utterly flat to me. Even the line delivery from Harrelson and, even moreso, McConaughey really, really started to grate by the end.
My favourite things were definitely the non-linear story telling, which, sadly, was largely abandoned in the latter half of the season, and the cinematography.
I also haaaated the last... ten or so minutes of the finale in general? It dragged on SOOOOO much that, at one point, I was mucking about on facebook in an alternate tab. Instead, I choose to believe this is how it concluded...
TEEN WOLF
Right. So. Let me just take a moment here because...
B E S T E P I S O D E S I N C E 'T H E G I R L W H O K N E W T O O M U C H'
FLAAAAAAIL!!!!!
It completely baffles me how the same people who created last week's SNOOZEFEST (and, well, most of the episodes in season three b to date) can also create THIS PIECE OF AMAZINGNESS. What a fan-bloody-tastic forty two minutes of television. Seriously. I don't even need to tell you which parts were the best parts because ALL THE PARTS WERE THE BEST PARTS!!
THINGS I DID NOT KNOW I NEEDED UNTIL THE GODS INTERVENED AND GAVE THEM TO ME ANYWAY:
one | Allison and Kira and WEAPONS. Together. In the same scene.
two | Psychotic!Isaac. Mmm. Yes. I think he does evil eyes even better than Stiles, tbh. /Isaac bias.
three | Derek/Chris. WHAT EVEN WAS THAT? AND HOW DO WE MAKE IT STAY? URGH, why are there 459897 Derek/Stiles edits on Tumblr and NOT A SINGLE DECENT DEREK/CHRIS ONE?! WHYYYY??!!!
Also, things I've appreciated before and was very glad to see again? Peter. Scott & Lydia. Yes. Lydia in general. Whole episodes where she doesn't appear AT ALL need to DIAF. She was incredible this episode. Gah.
credit | paullwalkers
I'm trying to keep something of a wrap on my expectations for next week due to being burned by the season three a finale but, THINGS ARE LOOKING UP, OKAY?!
Secondly, I have watched some television in the last couple of days. I thought I would make a post about it because I'm supposed to be writing a results presentation for my thesis so, you know... I've just washed my car for the first time in about five years, chatting about television sounds like the next item on my list of Very Important Things To Do Before Writing My Presentation.
THE GOOD WIFE
FAVOURITE LINE: "I think Will and Diane are getting it on..."
CANON CARY/KALINDA SMEXY TIMES! Boom! Thank you very much. It's really the only thing I have to talk about from this episode, and I've already discussed most of my thoughts with mrsfjl66, but I want to see what others are thinking, if they're thinking anything at all...
The Cary/Kalinda 'thing' seems like a train wreck waiting to happen. Likely, a train wreck that will occur somewhere deep inside Cary's superior vena cava. While I am a fan of their utter dysfunction, the fact that I'm a fan of Cary first and foremost means I'm a liiiittle wary of Kalinda's motivations with regard to this tryst. And I'm a little unsure how to interpret parts of what happened this episode. Did she only hook up with him because Will and Diane ordered her to get information out of him and she knew that'd be the easiest way to do it? Why did she default to the assumption that he lied to her? What does this say, if anything, about her own current headspace? If she can no longer 'read' Cary, what's getting in her way? Is it her feelings for him? Is it her inability to comprehend his feelings for her? Is it inconsistent/poor/sloppy characterisation**?
I ask all these questions of Kalinda only because I have no real clue what the answers are. Similar questions could be asked of Cary, but the answers to those are bleeding obvious and he makes approximately zero bones about them. Cary is head over heels for her and has been for seasons. Ain't nothing changed here, even if he would like to think that it has (ie. his insistence that they can't trust each other, despite the fact that Cary absolutely told her the truth - as he knew it - this episode, even though he didn't have to).
Kalinda's incorrect assumption was probably the most interesting part of their exchange. The second most interesting part, for me, was the fact that the scene of them in bed cut immediately to Kalinda reporting back to Will and Diane. Was that to emphasise her allegiance? To reiterate the fact that she was only using Cary for information? What was the purpose of that scene cut? AM I OVER THINKING THINGS?? Given I cared very little for the non Cary/Kalinda parts of the episode, this is quite possible!
** I don't really 'get' where Kalinda is being taken as a character at this point. She's asked to investigate some information given to LG by Cary and she decides the best way to do this is to sleep with him? Surely the best way to investigate information given to you by someone is to investigate the information, not the person? Kalinda's incorrect assumption that he was lying is proof of this. Was this just so they could include a (post?) sex scene without actually having to write any build up? IDGI.
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Click to viewTRUE DETECTIVE
I don't really know what to say about this one. I think the show completely fizzled out after a really solid and intriguing beginning. And maybe I just read too much into it at the start? Maybe it was never meant to be about anything other than the evolving bromance between two white dudes. Pardon me, though, if I find that disappointing. The crime storyline was certainly interesting and engaging but nothing more than most crime procedurals can produce. The two leads were... white dudes. And I guess they were meant to be, what? Different? Unusual? Atypical? But I didn't really find either of them to be anything of the sort, and that's the problem when your lead characters are of the same ilk as 99.9% of lead characters ever written, ever. Maybe I just wanted more than the show was ever intending to deliver? WHO KNOWS. Anyway, the back half of the season fell utterly flat to me. Even the line delivery from Harrelson and, even moreso, McConaughey really, really started to grate by the end.
My favourite things were definitely the non-linear story telling, which, sadly, was largely abandoned in the latter half of the season, and the cinematography.
I also haaaated the last... ten or so minutes of the finale in general? It dragged on SOOOOO much that, at one point, I was mucking about on facebook in an alternate tab. Instead, I choose to believe this is how it concluded...
TEEN WOLF
Right. So. Let me just take a moment here because...
B E S T E P I S O D E S I N C E 'T H E G I R L W H O K N E W T O O M U C H'
FLAAAAAAIL!!!!!
It completely baffles me how the same people who created last week's SNOOZEFEST (and, well, most of the episodes in season three b to date) can also create THIS PIECE OF AMAZINGNESS. What a fan-bloody-tastic forty two minutes of television. Seriously. I don't even need to tell you which parts were the best parts because ALL THE PARTS WERE THE BEST PARTS!!
THINGS I DID NOT KNOW I NEEDED UNTIL THE GODS INTERVENED AND GAVE THEM TO ME ANYWAY:
one | Allison and Kira and WEAPONS. Together. In the same scene.
two | Psychotic!Isaac. Mmm. Yes. I think he does evil eyes even better than Stiles, tbh. /Isaac bias.
three | Derek/Chris. WHAT EVEN WAS THAT? AND HOW DO WE MAKE IT STAY? URGH, why are there 459897 Derek/Stiles edits on Tumblr and NOT A SINGLE DECENT DEREK/CHRIS ONE?! WHYYYY??!!!
Also, things I've appreciated before and was very glad to see again? Peter. Scott & Lydia. Yes. Lydia in general. Whole episodes where she doesn't appear AT ALL need to DIAF. She was incredible this episode. Gah.
credit | paullwalkers
I'm trying to keep something of a wrap on my expectations for next week due to being burned by the season three a finale but, THINGS ARE LOOKING UP, OKAY?!