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Sep. 30th, 2007 11:05 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
delgaI wasn't going to do one of these, but I happen to have some free time. So. You know. I'm still catching up with three weeks worth of Damages because of the new stuff, but I've finished all of Saving Grace which was made of many brilliant things, and which I'm glad to report there will be more of, huzz. I was watching Chuck but I didn't finish it and now I don't know where it is? Um. Yeah. And I was going to watch K-Ville but I lost that, too. I don't really know. I'm trying to mainline Friday Night Lights because, well, Kyle Chandler, and I've read some good fic. Also, giving Burn Notice another shot. I have all of Mad Men so far, but I haven't seen past episode 4 or 5. I'm still obsessed with the costumes. (And DeWitt's wigs. !)
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Bones, 3x01, The Widow's Son in the Windshield.
ZAAAAAAAAAACK!
Ahem.
Other people had commented on the new hairstyles and I was all set to be whatever until I saw them and, well. Oh dear.
Other than that, I really, really enjoyed the whole thing, minus Angela's insistence on talking down to Brennan. I loved seeing Zack again, I loved Hodgin's little Zack-love speech, I loved Booth's over-anxious need to have Brennan back in the field. I'm also more than a little in love with Camille. All good; looking forward to the next episode.
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I know I've already talked about this but I've watched it again since then and I kinda, sorta, really love this show and everyone in it. Also! Shepard's hair is cute again, yay. All they need to do now is get McGee to see a barber.
I actually felt ba for DiNozzo for the first time in a long time, and however irritating I find Ziva's sudden crush, I found her to be wonderfully sympathetic. And people taking DiNozzo's stuff! Like Ducky and the stapler! Fabulous.
I sill think that as a season closer/opener two-part, these two episodes (including the S4 finale, natch) were slow. They lacked the pace of previous season openers, even the one-shots like 2x01, See No Evil and 4x01, Shalom. I don't know if it's because of the self-contained nature of the La Grenouille plot (it's pretty Shepard-centric, but then, the same could be said of 4x21, Brothers in Arms, but that episode was damn pacy) or just the nature of the narrative, and the fact that not a lot happened. I still loved it, but I just don't think it's the strongest opener they could have had.
But, seriously. Jenny's hair is awesome.
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The Unit, 3x01, Pandemonium Part 1.
I always wondered when the Mariella (?) thing would come back to bite Jonas in the ass, though I didn't think it would be this way. (Mostly I was thinking of the surveillance tape of the two of them getting together.) I was disappointed by Hector but I like to think there's an ulterior motive there; I don't really have anything to say about Mack.
Again: the Colonel's wife is fucking cold. Seeing Bob and Charles butt heads was a great twist, and I really love that scene when Bob is in the body bag and he kills the CIA assassin. The body-dump at the end was fucking creepy.
The best, though, has to be Kim. Damn, that woman is awesome.
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I watched this last night and I knew the set-up was going to be weird because of Patinkin, and because of the recycled material from last season. I liked the plot, and I think I'd have liked it a hell of a lot more if it didn't have Gideon's baggage poured out over it. The suicide thing didn't come as a surprise considering the letter-format of the monologue/narrative, but it was still pretty chilling to see.
THEY TOOK HOTCH'S BADGE, WHAT THE FUCK. ! And Emily, poor Emily. GODDAMN.
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CSI: NY, 4x01, Can You Hear Me Now?
New credits! Shiny, although I prefer the previous music edit. Did I mention that I LOVED the season 3 finale? Because I really did.
I loved that moment between Mac and Stella when Mac first returns; it spoke volumes about their relationship, as did those moments across the episode when the two of them talked about Mac and his creepy phonecalls (which at first I found a little gimmicky, but by the end of the episode, I was pretty thoroughly freaked out). I'd forgotten how much I'd missed seeing them, and seeing the ensemble. Sheldon has hair! Flack is still awesome! Lindsay looks so damn hot, and I'm really warming to the relationship between her and Danny. I hope she gets more field time this season.
Mostly, I was really in love with Adam and Kendall. I hope it's played sweetly, and lightly, otherwise it'll get old, quick, but mostly it's a-okay for now.
The case! The case was wonderful, and so well executed. I thought it was well-paced, had a lot of great twists and was really well directed. Intense! And Stella coming across the perp at the end was a great throwback to all the things she's overcome since her attack at the end of season 2. I loved that whole interaction, and I really, really love her.
MAC. AND STELLA. D'AW. I love them. !!
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Grey's Anatomy, 4x01, A Change Is Gonna Come.
That scene where Cristina and Alec are on their own together was the best scene in the whole episode. That's really all I have to say. It was a good episode, I enjoyed it, it was comfortable. I wish the Chief would stop trying to control people's lives, too, but whatever. That one scene just stole the show.
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I really didn't have high expectations for this episode. I was pretty firmly convinced Sara was going to be dead within the first few minutes and then my whole love affair with this show was going to come crushingly to an end (not just because there was no Sara, but because I would have had issue with having to follow the last quarter of her life, and then being expected to follow the narrative from then on out without feeling resentment to the rest of the plot&cast). But! But.
WOW. THAT WAS AMAZING.
That was just so good. Not just because she lived but because the whole execution of the plot was really well done. If Nick and Sofia had found her, and she'd died, I would have been able to deal with that because Sara-fucking-Sidle was not a victim. She fought, and she fought so fucking hard. The two flashbacks - with Gil and Nick - were brilliant, and Catherine, for once, was not a pain in the backside. Then there was Brass! Brass kicking ass! Aw. I loved it. The composition of the plot, the direction, the narrative was just seamless. I loved it, guys, and I still love this show. I wouldn't be too disappointed to have it end any time soon, but I'm pretty firmly entrenched and I'm sticking with it. LOVED IT.
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Stargate: Atlantis, 4x01, Adrift.
I've been ignoring this fandom like the plague because there are a lot of bad vibes there right now, and because some of the spoilers that have leaked their way to my ears have made me sad. That said: wow. I-- wow. I loved this episode. It was pretty high-octane stuff, the emotional core was there, I loved all of the cast (but could have done with seeing LORNE) and I kind of want to pet Zelenka A LOT. And Teyla! I love Teyla a lot, and, though this sounds dumb, I loved how much dialogue she got this episode. Even Elizabeth and Doctor Kaylee made me happy. But mostly just Zelenka.
Sheppard being adamant about not wanting to turn on the nanites in Elizabeth's bloodstream? I have never loved his character more than in that moment because that's got to be the toughest decision ever, and even though I don't want Elizabeth to die, I think it says something about their working relationship that Sheppard could do that, and that - I believe - Elizabeth would want him to do that, and trust him to make that decision. (Shallow: I still covet her hair.)
Also: I like Sam Carter. So sue me. I didn't like the idea of the cast shift, but I was damn pleased to see her, which made me realise how much I missed seeing her. Shrug. I like her.
I look forward to seeing more. I know they won't be able to maintain the pace, and I know eventually stuff is going to happen to make me HURT and CRY like a child. But that's the nature of the narrative. I'm ready to see where it takes us.
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I don't think anyone is going to be surprised by my LOVING THIS. Don's guilt complex, Charlie and Amita feeling like a real couple, David's passive aggression (and his ISSUES of which there are many), his not believing Colby until that last moment, Megan's struggle, MEGAN'S HAIR, Larry (!), COLBY GRANGER (and, jebus crisps, Bruno has got some arms on him).
The line of the episode goes to Granger. "I really hate owing you." And then, naturally, Duane coming to his aid again, and just the tragic nature of that relationship where Colby owes him, is actually really lying to him, and Duane really, really needing Colby's friendship to the extent that it gets him killed. That's just brutal. That's possibly even more brutal than David's trust issues. By the way, someone somewhere said that it was good that it was David who doubted Colby, and Don who wanted to trust him. I agree, but I have two comments. One: David's trust was broken, and we know from Contenders that you cannot barter with David's trust. You cannot play with it. Two: Colby trusts Don. That scene in the train has the second-best line, and again it's Colby. You don't trust me, but I am trusting you. And as ridiculous as it sounds, that's the moment where Don turns because, as Charlie points out, Don has one hell of a fucking ego, and his personal issues in the previous season have all been about how superfluous he is - whether or not he is making an impact, whether or not he is needed. Colby says to him, straight-up, I need you and that's what Don needed to hear. Don believed Colby from that moment on, not because he doesn't like to believe that he's wrong, but because regardless of his frustration with Colby post-The Mole, that frustration was less about an apparent betrayal by Granger and more a comment on what kind of leader Don perceives himself to be if he can't even get his people on the same side. The whole thing is an ego trip. But Don is not stupid, as Charlie says: he works with what he knows. And he knows there's innocence in Colby. (By the way, if you thought Colby was guilty, well, you've basically forgotten TPTB silent promise: things work out. It's a show built on good feeling, guys. My personal worry at the end of the previous season was that Dylan Bruno was actually leaving, and thus that TPTB had broken that promise to us.)
As for Megan, she's confused, yes, but essentially, she wants to believe in the good in people, and now more than ever because whatever happened with the DOJ really shook her. Having Colby's reveal so close after that shook her confidence in people, and I think this is the first step to her real repair because if she can believe in the people around her, maybe she can believe in the bigger picture. Megan's life is about repair, and I think that her arc is a lot about how she breaks and repairs - leaving home, falling down, getting clean, staying clean. From the seer to Crystal Hoyle to the DOJ, she's trying to stay on her feet. And I think she'll manage it because her character is all about ploughing through debris, shaking yourself clean. I think the issue this time is that she normally uses the comfort of other people (friendships, verbal support), the comfort of a network and that's broken, so naturally it's going to take longer this time. Dear TPTB, please to not be fucking this up. PLEASE.
Alan, thankfully, was not an ass. Seeing Amita, Charlie and Larry together was so nice, and I hope Larry gets pulled back soon because it's frustrating having to deal with that repeatedly.
The direction was typically fantastic, especially at the scene of Colby's escape where the camera pans across Don, Megan and David in a circle. There needs to be a greater use of that swing technique because there are a lot of cast members in this show, and that's an effective way to maintain the pace of a conversation/exposition scene. They've been lacking across the third season, and I've missed their innovativeness. Everything else was just gorgeously shot and coloured. I really, really loved the scene at the train station. I really, really loved the cut-throughs in the opening with Don at the screens, Colby, David in the bust-ins. I loved that montage. It was brilliant, it said so much in such a short span of time.
DID I MENTION I SORT OF LOVED THIS? Because: yeah.
By the way: the math was ass.
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I have yet to finish Private Practice. So far, so good, though. Have you guys been watching Weeds and/or Californication? The latter continues to engage me for reasons unknown, but the former is SO GOOD. Really. I say this every year so I hope some of you are listeing: watch Weeds. You won't regret it.
- beware: talking lots about nothing.,
- boo hoo poor meredith.,
- do i have a meta tag? idk.,
- emily prentiss: talk dirty to me.,
- i hate charles eppes: true story.,
- keep your wings off my nephew!,
- m is really fucking obsessed with ncis.,
- m watches way too much tv.,
- phalanges! dancing phalanges!,
- spaceship under the sea? really?,
- stella bonasera is my religion.,
- the unit.,
- this show is tagless.,
- whooo are you? who who? who who?,
- why y'all gotta be fucked up & shit?
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Date: 2007-09-30 12:50 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-09-30 04:15 pm (UTC)It's a high standard which I hope the rest of the season will maintain. Mostly, though, I'm interested in how Janus List/Trust Metric will change the flow of narrative in the show. That's what's got me buzzed.
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Date: 2007-10-01 06:57 pm (UTC)CSI:NY made me squeal at several moments. Danny getting the condom spray shoved in his pocket by Lindsay LOLOLOL. Them in general being cute together, lets hope they don't get all gimpy with that ship or I'll murder someone. Mac/Stella, FTW is all I'm going to say on the issue.
CSI for me was only to see whether Jorja Fox had signed another contract etc. But the show impressed me for once. I loved how she was found and the whole general execution of the show just generally won for me.
NCIS could have been alot better. It still brought the win but I think the whole frog story has been deeply slow and annoying.
4x01 Adrift [SGA]
Date: 2007-10-03 06:18 pm (UTC)Anyways, the funniest part of the episode was of course McKay. To me, he lightened up the episode which was a relief. But all through the episode I had this panicky feeling regarding Dr. Weir and the future episodes. I'm liking their new doctor and also kind of curious as to how Sheppard will act towards Sam in the beginning. But at the moment, I doubt I'll download every episode of the 4th season. It all depends on the spoilers.
Btw, what do you mean by I still covet her hair?
Re: 4x01 Adrift [SGA]
Date: 2007-10-03 06:24 pm (UTC)Hahaha, I LOVE Weir's hair. I spent most of season 3 ending my episode reviews with "and I want Elizabeth's hair". I still do, lol.
Re: 4x01 Adrift [SGA]
Date: 2007-10-05 06:11 am (UTC)Good thing it all "came back" at the end of the episode then...
And yes, tomorrow it's time to watch the second episode of the season. I'm nervous as hell but hopefully we'll get some more answers this time around.