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[delga]

Apparently I spent this week being mostly underwhelmed?

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CSI: NY, 5x03, Turbulence

Oh gosh, this episode was totally boring until Stella turned up, which could be incredibly biased but is actually just fact because up until that point you had a rather dull piece of script set in an aeroplane. Ugh, disastrous.

But then Stella was swinging a bat! Danny and Flack were...discovering stuffed pandas? And Sid was discussing the Mile High Club with Lindsay. See? Magical.

Okay, so this episode was really standard-fare, but unlike last week, there wasn't much that was compelling about the case. There were lots of twists and turns - he's an air marshall! He's not an air marshall! He's trying to steal lots of money! - which should have piqued my interest except... guys, this is a prime example of how to make a fascinating crime as dull as ditch water: put together a bunch of people that you have no connection to and don't give a shit about.

The only thing that really saved this episode was the fact that the main cast is so endearing. Sheldon and Adam are darling, Lindsay is quietly violent (stabbing!), and like I said, Stella is damn fierce. And then, of course, there's Don: Either I'm allergic to half-naked women, or there's a cat in here. Oh, you'd best hope it's a cat, buddy. I liked how he interacted with Nelly's character, and I hope that the CI angle produces more engaging episodes down the line.

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Bones, 4x07, The He in the She

This week's intern was less annoying than last week's, and yet: still annoying.

In other news: I thought this episode was okay, all things considered. I think a lot of shows discuss religion in quite a skewed way - religious crazies, ohnoes! - but Bones continues to appreciate that that's not generally the case. And of course, Brennan's scepticism makes up the other half. The dialogue made the episode for me (as it usually does), and the plot was interesting enough. I continue to find Cam extremely likeable, and continue to want to give Hodgins one hell of a hug. Oh gosh, he's still so sad.

Do these people believe in DNA? Sometimes Brennan's dialogue is fantastically and unassumingly sharp. I have to admit: I laughed.

Two things to round off: Antony and the Johnsons(!), and always swim with a partner. Oh my.

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Private Practice, 2x02, Equal & Opposite

First off: Charlotte's hair cut is fierce.

Secondly: this episode was 20x better than the season premiere. All of the cases were interesting (whereas last week I only cared about the boy who hadn't been told he had HIV), and I loved the way the chaos of the clinic was compounded by the chaos of the people in it, which is supposed to be a general theme, but the two don't always gel. The story with the father and son was one of those grey areas in medical ethics which really stung; the incest storyline was more about people's relationships (trust, mistrust, distrust) than it was the actual incest, which was a surprisingly different take on the matter, and (I think) well-handled for what it was.

I liked how Cooper and Violet's friendship started to climb again; I thought that was going to be more of the same, but actually Cooper came out and was solid about it, and Violet was quietly grateful. I know people aren't big on Charlotte's character, and I can she that she's a bit harpy-like, but I like her edge and I like her insecurity, and I like how that plays in to her relationship with Cooper, and in turn with his relationship with Violet. Because ironically, Charlotte and Violet have those two things in common: insecurities and Cooper.

Addison's phone message was a lovely point - the low when she's so desperate to talk to Naomi, and then the turnaround when she realises that she's coming off a little strange. And then, compounded with the meeting where everyone backs away from the commerciality of the clinic, the emotional tone of the episode went from being bitter to being, I don't know, more charged. A definite improvement on the premiere which was about stasis. Stasis is all and well, but absolute standstill does ntohing for the narrative, and it was poorly handled last week. This week was about trying to move, and getting stuck in the mud, or hitting walls, and that's stasis, too, but of a different kind. That's more inertia, and that's what you can build narrative out of. And, my god, I have been away from university for too long. Ignore me: I liked the episode.

To conclude: someone's covered Here's Where the Story Ends?! How did I not know this?

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Supernatural, 4x04, Metamorphosis

Anything that involves eating in a negative way is automatically a turn-off for me, and some of the most benign scenes in this episode were so gross. Yeuch.

I felt back for the... ruguru? guy, because here's a guy who is trying to live his life and then suddenly is beset upon by illness which ruins his life. That's basically what happened to him, and that's horrible. Also: cannabalism and burning flesh. Didn't need that.

This is obviously one of the season's baddie-of-the-week episodes, which is to be expected because it's all been mytharc up to this point. I was pretty bored by all the boy emo that was floating around, but that's a general issue with me, and not necessarily an issue with the show. It turns out that I just don't care about Sam (unless he devolves into pure evil, in which case I'll probably be more invested. I don't know what that is). The episode was really passive after the maelstrom that came by last week, so it's not a bad episode: I just didn't care.

Ironically, when this show first started, I prefered the week-to-week episodes, and was really bored by the mytharc. And now look at me.

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Grey's Anatomy, 5x03, Here Comes the Flood

I like Meredith Grey. I do. I've always liked her. I still like her. But I'm finding her to be a bit much right now. Mostly because I feel like Cristina is falling back into an uneven space and Meredith isn't reciprocating on the person front. I really loved that scene where Cristina goes to see Amy Madigan (whoop whoop!) and she says, it must be really hard to lose Meredith to Derek. Because there's truth there, too.

I also really liked Izzie offering the apartment to Cristina (heh, oh Izzie - that went terribly); and I loved Meredith telling Derek not to be so passive aggressive. I felt like that balanced (obliquely) with Callie telling Erica that she needs to share herself with more than one person. So, some nice mirroring there.

I'm beginning to be less irritated by Izzie - when she goes to Alex about the apartment, she's really sort of darling. I hope she gets to be happier soon, because she's much nicer when she's not wrecked. And she's been wrecked for a while.

I'm glad that George finally got to sit his exam; Bailey is still the fiercest surgeon around; Lexie's memory is a beautiful thing, and I hope that Mark Sloan is actually a real teacher to her at some point in the future. I liked the individual cases this week, and I liked aspects of the running plots, but, I don't know, I felt like the major and minor plots weren't in sync, and so the rhythm of the episode was off. What I mean is that thinking back, I liked various parts of it, but overall I was still bored. Which, again, is a shame. I think it's because these stories are all the same, and they don't feel like they're moving anywhere. And I want the cast to go back to having a little kickass in their mediocre.

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Wonderfully, I finished typing the above and new Life arrived. Impeccable timing!

Comments

[asemic.livejournal.com]

Anything that involves eating in a negative way is automatically a turn-off for me...

Watching anyone eat is a squick for me. This was the first time I ever ever had to walk away from this show in disgust. Oh god, it was nauseating.

When I flipped back on I was hit with this sudden realization: Padalecki cannot act to save his life. He was always tolerable, but now he's bad.

[delgaserasca.livejournal.com]

All the sound-effects made it worse, too. Ugh.

I was hit with this sudden realization: Padalecki cannot act to save his life
Ha, I feel vindicated. I thought I was being harsh because I hate the character. Apparently not.

[asemic.livejournal.com]

No. I think someone needs to tell him that screwing up his face and going cross-eyed is not acting.

[powerof3.livejournal.com]

I love anything that has to do with Mac. This ep of CSI:NY was wonderful for me. ;)

I just started watching Supernatural, and I was so skeeved by the guy eating. I had to ask my friend if it was always this gross. I just can't handle people shoveling food in their mouth like that. And he ate Travis. Poor Travis. I felt so bad for him, and the boys are going to have to deal with the baby rugaru in 20 years time, too. Oh, boys.

[delgaserasca.livejournal.com]

...he's in every episode, lols. It didn't feel Mac-centric to me, just convenient.

I was ironing at the time, and had to stop. I spent a lot of the episode with my fingers in my ears and my eyes averted, haha.

[noorie.livejournal.com]

unrelated but re an earlier discussion of ours, some BH news (somewhat spoilery...):
http://evildrem.livejournal.com/210712.html

[delgaserasca.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I saw that this morning. Epic woeface.