In the annals of the Empire, did it look this gray / before the fall?

[sdwolfpup]

Ah, Decemberists. Your new, more politically-minded stuff just constantly depresses me, even as I admire the song.

Speaking of my beloved band, have some news! They've started mixing their new record, Hazards of Love, which means the hard part of recording the tracks is done. \o/ They're also releasing "Always a Bridesmaid: A Singles Series

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[danceswithwords]

The clown car joke was SO CHEAP but I still laughed SO HARD. I am an easy, easy sell.

I could see it coming a mile away when they started pulling the clown bodies out of the car, but it was so macabre and awful that it was delightful. There's something to be said for such a cartoonish show setting an episode in an actual circus and then running with it; I especially liked how mean the clowns were.

I'm also inordinately pleased with the way Emerson's love of pop-up books wasn't a throwaway quirk, but something he's using to try to find his daughter, and the fact that the mother wasn't very good at expressing emotion in conventional ways, but her distress still got treated seriously.

[sdwolfpup]

I saw it when they had the car in the lake, it seemed totally obvious, but knowing it was coming didn't make it any less funny.

There's something to be said for such a cartoonish show setting an episode in an actual circus

Yes! It's funny, actually, because I had the thought, when they first were wandering around the circus grounds, that it seems impossible to make the show brighter and more colorful enough to make a circus stand out on it.

[asta77]

I hate clowns so I found the line of corpses hysterical. :)

[spectralbovine]

The clown car joke was SO CHEAP but I still laughed SO HARD.
ME TOO. Since I really wanted them to go there because WHAT OTHER SHOW WOULD GO THERE, AM I RIGHT?

[sdwolfpup]

The one with the really long legs! COMEDY GOLD.

[spectralbovine]

I think that clown car gag may have pushed my "really like" into "love." I was having trouble really falling for this show, but I may be doing it now.

[asta77]

I felt last night's Pushing Daisies was off as well. I'm glad to know it wasn't just me. :) I also agree with you that it's refreshing to see two adults deal with their relationship in an adult manner by talking about what's bothering and working to come up with a resolution. The starting fresh each morning is a too cutesy for me, but it's a small quibble.

I want an icon of stern Emerson at his desk with the words "Love It". :) That cracked me up as much as the clown corpses. For the record, I hate clowns, so, yeah, I enjoyed that. And I'm glad he's opening up to Ned about his missing daughter. He needs someone to talk to about it even though he'll never admit it. I do feel the season is about finding what you need. Emerson finding his daughter. Ned and Chuck finding a way to be apart, yet together. Lily and Vivian finding a life for themselves without Chuck and, possibly, without each other.

[sdwolfpup]

I want an icon of stern Emerson at his desk with the words "Love It".

YES. Me too! That's actually the bit that made me laugh the hardest last night. I've been saying it 'LOVE IT' to AHH all morning.

I also hate clowns. They're creepy! And off-putting.

[cerebel]

You know, Mariel annoyed me so much by the end of the show that I had a hard time really, really liking Tom/Mariel. Fichtner is amazing, as always, and his half of it was perfect, but lord god, I swear that woman had two, maybe three expressions total and she spent the predominant amount of time on "anxious".

There were parts of Invasion I loved, but the melodrama I think got to be a little too much for me. If it had gone on, I hear that Larkin would have gone missing (appearing later, having lost the baby) and Tom's dead wife would turn out to not only be not dead but also be Szura's boss.

Also, it irritated me that Russell (who seemed like he should have been the main character) was passive rather than active. He never did anything. Most of the characters in that show did nothing but react, and since the aliens didn't actually have much of a plan, there wasn't much to react to.

[sdwolfpup]

Mariel won me over pretty much right away, and once I love a character, I tend to stay stuck on them forever. I did get tired of the long, slow looks all the time at the end, but her relationship with her children really engaged me, so I could give her a pass.

I hear that Larkin would have gone missing (appearing later, having lost the baby) and Tom's dead wife would turn out to not only be not dead but also be Szura's boss.

...ok, now I'm glad it got canceled because WHAT.

Russell was definitely not the main character, which I wish had been made more explicit at the beginning of the show, because I waited a long time for him to be the main character before I realized it was Tom. I think that's because the show probably didn't realize it was Tom until about halfway through, when they realized they had Fichtner on their hands. Heh.

[cerebel]

He was the main character in the beginning of the show. It followed him and his emotional POV. But he was so passive that the show kept leaning on Tom to drive the plot. Thing is, we were never in Tom's emotional point of view because we didn't figure out until the end what that point of view was. We didn't know if he was aware, unaware, partially aware, scheming with the bad guys (a la dropping a load of weapons into the water and SERIOUSLY he didn't have ANY idea what Szura was going to do with that?), or just an innocent dude trying to stay afloat. Turned out he was a mix of all of them, but I felt like that just made him inconsistent.

But yeah. I still have this tendency to want to crossover Invasion with. Like. EVERYTHING. Because seeing Tom Underlay and Alex Mahone interact in my fic was just hysterical.

[nicole_anell]

SFU had some great ads, the "Feeling Good" one was my favorite. You've seen the season five trailer too, right? (Hearing that song still gets me a little misty-eyed.)

[sdwolfpup]

Yeah, I saw that one, too, and the song got me! Oh, Fishers.