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selenakHm, this week's Good Wife episode was... weirdly bland? For this show, I mean. At least the case of the week was, but I think it spilled over somewhat, though there were some scenes that made me glad I watched anyway.
First of all, I kept waiting for twist that would somehow make all these clunkily obvious tales - Will pisses off the judge of the case! Old chum of Peter's threatens Eli's territory! - into something else, but it didn't come. Well, I suppose you could say that the juror telling Alicia that they all saw the judge's bias but that it didn't matter was the twist, but still. Also, in theory Will trying to use boys' club privilege only to have it explode in his face should have been more entertaining than it was in this practice. Also, it's nice for Kalinda to make Will raise her salary, but the Blake storyline also still feels weirdly obvious and missing a twist to make it worthy of the show. And you know, by the time we got to the last scene with Alicia and the juror it occured to me that Alicia basically had been irrelevant to this episode. The case of the week thing had been about Will and the judge going mano a mano, not about Alicia doing her stuff, getting into Blake's face was just an adjunct of the Blake-Kalinda storyline, and giving Eli advice as part of Eli's. Where is Alicia's storyline, show? One that's not about unresolved feelings for Will? I miss it.
What I did like: see, I told you Diane (or Will) would want to rehire Cary if the firm splits. Doesn't surprise me that Diane went for it, and that Cary basically would have said yes if circumstances hadn't changed. He is good at his job, and he had liked working for that team, very much so. Also the Diane and Will "Groundhog Day" (he) scenes were great and reminded me again that I have the most use for Will Gardner in scenes with Diane. Masterfully played on both an acting and a character level; you could see neither trusted the other and was lying in the first one, and yet they did so in their professional way, and in the second, you could see the difference when Will really laid the cards on the table and Diane responded accordingly. I'm mostly happy that they're now both scheming together intead of against each other.
Mostly, not completley, because making new character Bond the villain seems like the easy way out. And since fandom has made me more alert to these things: it also has the two white partners going up against the black one. Well. Maybe there will be another twist altogether.
Lastly: the client of the week gets my vote for dullest client of the week this season, and was the facial expression reader supposed to be funny, the comic relief or something? Because he wasn't.
In other news, I see there is a brand new ds9_rewatch community! Which makes me happy. Though I only have a few s1 eps on video (whereas I have seasons 2-7 on dvd), so I won't be able to join the debates for a while yet other than by memory. Recording my other beloved space station, I see that Making Light has started a B5 rewatch and done the first episode. It was the dawn of the third age of mankind... how I love both my space station shows, I can't tell you. Never saw the point of playing them out against each other instead of rejoicing we got both. (Mind you, everytime starts on a B5 watch or rewatch I'm intrigued anew how differently we see the show. Centauri (and Narn) philes like yours truly write quite differently focused reviews from Sheridan/Delenn-OTPlers write differently focused reviews from Ivanova-centric watchers (and Ivanova centric fans are probably divided between Susan/Talia and Susan/Marcus fen). Also, the Corps is Mother, the Corps is Father, this week's sublimal message brought to you courtesy of this weeks b5_revisited episode and thinking yet again Walter Koenig was ever so good in that part and if you've only seen him as Chekov, you don't know his abilities as an actor at all. But anyway, back to DS9. The station needs you, oh flist! Join up!
First of all, I kept waiting for twist that would somehow make all these clunkily obvious tales - Will pisses off the judge of the case! Old chum of Peter's threatens Eli's territory! - into something else, but it didn't come. Well, I suppose you could say that the juror telling Alicia that they all saw the judge's bias but that it didn't matter was the twist, but still. Also, in theory Will trying to use boys' club privilege only to have it explode in his face should have been more entertaining than it was in this practice. Also, it's nice for Kalinda to make Will raise her salary, but the Blake storyline also still feels weirdly obvious and missing a twist to make it worthy of the show. And you know, by the time we got to the last scene with Alicia and the juror it occured to me that Alicia basically had been irrelevant to this episode. The case of the week thing had been about Will and the judge going mano a mano, not about Alicia doing her stuff, getting into Blake's face was just an adjunct of the Blake-Kalinda storyline, and giving Eli advice as part of Eli's. Where is Alicia's storyline, show? One that's not about unresolved feelings for Will? I miss it.
What I did like: see, I told you Diane (or Will) would want to rehire Cary if the firm splits. Doesn't surprise me that Diane went for it, and that Cary basically would have said yes if circumstances hadn't changed. He is good at his job, and he had liked working for that team, very much so. Also the Diane and Will "Groundhog Day" (he) scenes were great and reminded me again that I have the most use for Will Gardner in scenes with Diane. Masterfully played on both an acting and a character level; you could see neither trusted the other and was lying in the first one, and yet they did so in their professional way, and in the second, you could see the difference when Will really laid the cards on the table and Diane responded accordingly. I'm mostly happy that they're now both scheming together intead of against each other.
Mostly, not completley, because making new character Bond the villain seems like the easy way out. And since fandom has made me more alert to these things: it also has the two white partners going up against the black one. Well. Maybe there will be another twist altogether.
Lastly: the client of the week gets my vote for dullest client of the week this season, and was the facial expression reader supposed to be funny, the comic relief or something? Because he wasn't.
In other news, I see there is a brand new ds9_rewatch community! Which makes me happy. Though I only have a few s1 eps on video (whereas I have seasons 2-7 on dvd), so I won't be able to join the debates for a while yet other than by memory. Recording my other beloved space station, I see that Making Light has started a B5 rewatch and done the first episode. It was the dawn of the third age of mankind... how I love both my space station shows, I can't tell you. Never saw the point of playing them out against each other instead of rejoicing we got both. (Mind you, everytime starts on a B5 watch or rewatch I'm intrigued anew how differently we see the show. Centauri (and Narn) philes like yours truly write quite differently focused reviews from Sheridan/Delenn-OTPlers write differently focused reviews from Ivanova-centric watchers (and Ivanova centric fans are probably divided between Susan/Talia and Susan/Marcus fen). Also, the Corps is Mother, the Corps is Father, this week's sublimal message brought to you courtesy of this weeks b5_revisited episode and thinking yet again Walter Koenig was ever so good in that part and if you've only seen him as Chekov, you don't know his abilities as an actor at all. But anyway, back to DS9. The station needs you, oh flist! Join up!
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Date: 2011-01-20 01:18 am (UTC)I kept waiting for more Alicia, but the show seemed to be going, wait these other people. The scene of Peter with his mother and then the camera drawing back to her putting down her pen, alone broke my heart. Alicia now has her career besides Peter, and she had - it was just - I understand very much why he would do that, but it was still cruel.
The very last moment, I was waiting for something. That the jury consultant had been working with the jury, that it was all nastier or convulated but they just went for that bam of a simple reply: he was guilty. The facts of the case, no the emotions or how much you like or didn't like someone, but only the fact that he'd killed his father. It was a swift yank of the house of cards everyone was building the whole episode, with subtle gaming and manipulation and known lying.
I liked it, but then again I watched V afterwards which is like drinking koolaid after a glass of wine.
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Date: 2011-01-20 04:17 pm (UTC)Is V worth watching?
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Date: 2011-01-20 05:32 pm (UTC)Zen, the Italian cop show, is very satisfying watching. It is essentially a non-magical AU of Pratchett's Vimes in Rome.
I greatly enjoyed the four Just William episodes recently aired, and I don't know why Modern Family gets the attention when The Middle is about a million times better and truer.
I cant think of any new scifi I love at the moment. V is just - it's appalling. It makes me hope that my beloved Alien Nation and Max Headroom never get remade, or at least not like this.
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Date: 2011-01-21 06:21 am (UTC)Delenn: is crucial for the beginning of the Earth/Minbari war (she both gives the initial "kill them all!" order and casts the deciding vote); she later reconsiders and the longer the war goes on regrets but doesn't really do anything until the capture of Sinclair at the battle of the line. The identification of Sinclair as Valen and Delenn's instant use of this to persuade the Grey Council to end the war by surrendering (despite the fact they were winning) follows.
Londo: is crucial for the beginning of the second Narn/Centauri war (obviously). Later reconsiders and the more time passes the more there are regrets, but he doesn't really do anything (re: Narn, not in general) until the capture of G'Kar and G'Kar's arrival at Cartagia's court. This results in an alliance with G'Kar and Londo, after Cartagia's death, giving the order for the Centauri to withdraw from Narn, despite the fact that they had won and the resistance there was well and truly broken.
Delenn: keeps her guilt a secret, and her penance (if becoming half-human is that, which I think Delenn thinks it is) public. Has closest relationship with former enemy John Sheridan (though he never finds out just what she did).
Londo: has his guilt out in the open in second half of s2/early s3 at the latest (i.e. that he's a major player in the Narn/Centauri war and thus also majorly responsible is known to everyone). Atones in secret (if you count accepting the keeper in recognition that it was majorly his own decisions that led to this point where his planet is held hostage). Has closest relationship with former enemy G'Kar (who knows exactly what Londo did in full extent after the mindrape of Dust to Dust).
(You could go on to their relationships to their respective aids, but their blood guilt and the way it is handled, as well as Londo/G'Kar and Sheridan/Delenn are the major points.)