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osprey_archer1. I gave Land Girls a try, because television show about women in World War II! Yay! But none of the characters grabbed me in the first episode, and when I saw that the second episode (and possibly the rest of the first season) where going to revolve around an accidental pregnancy I bailed. Accidental pregnancies are not my cup of tea. Has anyone seen this show? Does it suddenly become marvelous later on?
2. I also watched the Christmas special at the beginning of season 3 of Call the Midwife, and was underwhelmed. Underwhelmed is not something I'm used to feeling about Call the Midwife. Timothy's polio seemed predictable and pat in a way that I don't expect from Call the Midwife episodes: I knew it would happen the moment that the doctor commented that polio vaccination had been delayed over the hols. Hmmmm. WHO DO YOU THINK WILL GET POLIO? There's only one child character well-developed enough for it to really tug at the heartstrings!
3. I also watched Princess Jellyfish, about which I had mixed feelings. (Nothing seems to be pleasing me right now. >.<) It's about a house of young otaku women who call themselves the Sisterhood, and I like the fact that, despite having failed in societal terms - they don't have boyfriends or husbands; most of them don't have jobs - they have managed to create happy lives together as part of the sisterhood.
On the other hand, I wasn't thrilled about the opposition the show set up between the shy and virginal otakus and the bad girl businesswoman who wants to buy their house as part of a redevelopment scheme - or about the obligatory "She took her glasses off and she was gorgeous!" scene, where the Sisterhood members get all dolled up and, of course, it turns out that if they brushed their hair and stopped wearing sweatpants all the time, they would be super pretty. They even save their house through a fashion show!
4. I am all caught up on season 6 of Castle! And I'm glad of glad that I wasn't all caught up on Castle before season 7 started, because if I had come up to the season six finale without being previously spoiled, only to watch Castle and Becket's wedding (which we have spent ALL SEASON planning) get ruined in the final two minutes, I might have broken something.
I also wasn't very happy with the penultimate episode - as much as I enjoyed the scene where Becket killed three hit men while drugged and tied to a chair, the scene also kind of epitomized everything wrong with the episode, because after she killed them it was like they disappeared into the void. HELLO, there are three not even slightly hidden bodies with Becket's DNA all over them! SURELY THIS IS SOMETHING THAT MIGHT HAVE CONSEQUENCES.
And speaking of dead bodies, who killed the guy at the beginning of the episode? You know, the one Becket was framed for murdering? PART OF THIS EPISODE SHOULD INVOLVE PROVING HER INNOCENCE. I think the show writers knew that the viewers would all assume Becket's innocence, and therefore forgot that they needed to prove it in the eyes of the law in the show, too. It's just so sloppy.
And sadly it probably doesn't even meant that Castle's conspiracy plot is over, because undoubtedly Castle's abduction and amnesia will somehow turn out to be linked back to the now-disgraced Senator Bracken too. Probably he's just a small fry in an EVEN BIGGER plot. Which I will assume is masterminded by Hydra until further notice, because otherwise the way that the conspiracy is taking over all of Castle will just drive me up the wall.
2. I also watched the Christmas special at the beginning of season 3 of Call the Midwife, and was underwhelmed. Underwhelmed is not something I'm used to feeling about Call the Midwife. Timothy's polio seemed predictable and pat in a way that I don't expect from Call the Midwife episodes: I knew it would happen the moment that the doctor commented that polio vaccination had been delayed over the hols. Hmmmm. WHO DO YOU THINK WILL GET POLIO? There's only one child character well-developed enough for it to really tug at the heartstrings!
3. I also watched Princess Jellyfish, about which I had mixed feelings. (Nothing seems to be pleasing me right now. >.<) It's about a house of young otaku women who call themselves the Sisterhood, and I like the fact that, despite having failed in societal terms - they don't have boyfriends or husbands; most of them don't have jobs - they have managed to create happy lives together as part of the sisterhood.
On the other hand, I wasn't thrilled about the opposition the show set up between the shy and virginal otakus and the bad girl businesswoman who wants to buy their house as part of a redevelopment scheme - or about the obligatory "She took her glasses off and she was gorgeous!" scene, where the Sisterhood members get all dolled up and, of course, it turns out that if they brushed their hair and stopped wearing sweatpants all the time, they would be super pretty. They even save their house through a fashion show!
4. I am all caught up on season 6 of Castle! And I'm glad of glad that I wasn't all caught up on Castle before season 7 started, because if I had come up to the season six finale without being previously spoiled, only to watch Castle and Becket's wedding (which we have spent ALL SEASON planning) get ruined in the final two minutes, I might have broken something.
I also wasn't very happy with the penultimate episode - as much as I enjoyed the scene where Becket killed three hit men while drugged and tied to a chair, the scene also kind of epitomized everything wrong with the episode, because after she killed them it was like they disappeared into the void. HELLO, there are three not even slightly hidden bodies with Becket's DNA all over them! SURELY THIS IS SOMETHING THAT MIGHT HAVE CONSEQUENCES.
And speaking of dead bodies, who killed the guy at the beginning of the episode? You know, the one Becket was framed for murdering? PART OF THIS EPISODE SHOULD INVOLVE PROVING HER INNOCENCE. I think the show writers knew that the viewers would all assume Becket's innocence, and therefore forgot that they needed to prove it in the eyes of the law in the show, too. It's just so sloppy.
And sadly it probably doesn't even meant that Castle's conspiracy plot is over, because undoubtedly Castle's abduction and amnesia will somehow turn out to be linked back to the now-disgraced Senator Bracken too. Probably he's just a small fry in an EVEN BIGGER plot. Which I will assume is masterminded by Hydra until further notice, because otherwise the way that the conspiracy is taking over all of Castle will just drive me up the wall.
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Date: 2014-10-20 03:10 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-10-20 03:30 am (UTC)But the abduction/amnesia angle means that even the standalone episodes are now infested with driblets of conspiracy plot. It's sneaking in everywhere!
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Date: 2014-10-20 03:31 am (UTC)Thank GOD.
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