On the TV Front
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katikatConstantine 102+103: Ep 1 was good. Eps 2 and 3? Not so much. Pretty much what Supernatural had done 10 years ago. It exudes a feeling of "been there, done that." And I know that the Constantine comic book predates SPN. It doesn't matter. Everything this show's doing right now, SPN has already done 3 or 4 times on TV. I will continue watching it but I get why the ratings are so very low (1.0 demo last week).
Elementary 301+302: I have a problem with this series that's getting more and more pronounced as it continues: Joan doesn't need Sherlock. She has never needed him in any way or shape or form. I think it all started at the beginning, when he wasn't anything but a client for her, she was paid to be there. She didn't need anything from him. And even now, she doesn't need his friendship, his advice or his company, she made that known loud and clear. There's no give-n-take in their relationship. Joan has become a Watson-Sherlock amalgam and Sherlock's literally not needed anymore because she's now the doctor AND the detective. Sherlock has become redundant. It makes me wonder why they hadn't simply cast Lucy Liu as a Shirley Joan Holmes-Watson outright. Because that's what she is. Also, I feel sorry for Kitty. She's the painful fifth wheel. Sherlock's treating her the same way 10 treated Martha - by endlessly reminding her she's the "lesser" model by shoving the "perfect" model down her throat at every opportunity. No wonder the show's tanking in the ratings this season.
NCIS:LA 606: Another episode in which nothing at all made sense, Callen behaved deranged and OOC and Kensi and Deeks seemed to be on a completely different show. Are the writers even trying these days?
Scorpion 107: I know that many people are put off by Walter's stand-offish attitude but that's exactly why I love him. He isn't aloof to be an asshole, that's simply how his experience molded him. In this episode, you could see in the flashbacks that he used to be a sweet, open, smiling kid. It was Cabe's betrayal that made him into... this. And that's why I like Walter so much!
Elementary 301+302: I have a problem with this series that's getting more and more pronounced as it continues: Joan doesn't need Sherlock. She has never needed him in any way or shape or form. I think it all started at the beginning, when he wasn't anything but a client for her, she was paid to be there. She didn't need anything from him. And even now, she doesn't need his friendship, his advice or his company, she made that known loud and clear. There's no give-n-take in their relationship. Joan has become a Watson-Sherlock amalgam and Sherlock's literally not needed anymore because she's now the doctor AND the detective. Sherlock has become redundant. It makes me wonder why they hadn't simply cast Lucy Liu as a Shirley Joan Holmes-Watson outright. Because that's what she is. Also, I feel sorry for Kitty. She's the painful fifth wheel. Sherlock's treating her the same way 10 treated Martha - by endlessly reminding her she's the "lesser" model by shoving the "perfect" model down her throat at every opportunity. No wonder the show's tanking in the ratings this season.
NCIS:LA 606: Another episode in which nothing at all made sense, Callen behaved deranged and OOC and Kensi and Deeks seemed to be on a completely different show. Are the writers even trying these days?
Scorpion 107: I know that many people are put off by Walter's stand-offish attitude but that's exactly why I love him. He isn't aloof to be an asshole, that's simply how his experience molded him. In this episode, you could see in the flashbacks that he used to be a sweet, open, smiling kid. It was Cabe's betrayal that made him into... this. And that's why I like Walter so much!
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Date: 2014-11-09 10:54 pm (UTC)Then every other episode is all about them being emotional. Walter goes and breaks coffee mugs and tackles the hacker guy in the biohacking ep. He gets in an argument with Toby when he's (Walter's) in jail and he's disappointed that Toby can't get him out. He resets the phone hacker to keep dancing with Paige. He sneaks around behind Paige's back to find ammo to use against Ralph's father, to keep him out of the picture...
It just gets to a point where I'd really like them to stop pretending they have an UNemotional character and realize that what they truly have is an emotionally IMMATURE character, and just run with it. It'll work just fine.
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Date: 2014-11-10 11:48 pm (UTC)I mean, with Walter, you can see that his aloofness started when Cabe betrayed him. In that moment, he started losing himself in his numbers and keeping company with other geniuses, solely. His reactions have always been slightly off, nobody "normal" hacks into NASA to get a poster! But it was managable. After Cabe? Not so much. He still has all these emotions and they run really deep but he learned how to lock them away. And he can't UNlock them wwithout help. And when it gets too much, they break through. And he breaks stuff. And he gets lost in his memories. It's the opposite of him getting lost in his fugue state of numbers, like he had done with Mark Collins. That was his reaction to a similarly "abnormal" genius. His bursts of emotions are his reactions to "normal" people.