Revenge Reboot
Sep. 30th, 2014 09:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shadowkatWell, I'll say this much for Revenge - it's solved its pacing issues. Moving quickly plot-wise. A lot happened in the first episode, and in the preview - even more is going to happen. In other words, not as frustrating as it was in the prior seasons.
Any thoughts of getting a face-lift jump out the window every time Madeline Stowe appears on screen. Plastic surgery was not her friend. Her eyes look weird. Actually, been noticing this with a lot of male and female actors - who have had face-lifts.
While I enjoy Revenge, I wish every single character in the cast wasn't concerned with or in love with Charlotte. What is it with tv series and the annoying, somewhat whiny, troubled sibling trope? All the characters in the cast want to save the troubled sibling, or they are ignoring the troubled sibling. While the audience is not so quietly beginning to root for the troubled sibling to fall off a cliff. A very high cliff.
[This happened with Dawn in the latter seasons of Buffy, although I actually sort of liked Dawn - Dawn was 14-16 years of age and being raised by a distant vampire slayer who was busy shagging a vampire...and spent the summer with a robot, a vampire baby-sitter, and two witches, while her sister was dead. She sort of earned the right to whine. Charlotte...not so much. Granted her parents are evil, her brother is a self-absorbed ass, her boyfriend was blown up, she was kidnapped by her sister and tortured, but hey...that all happened in her 20s. And besides she was annoying and whiny prior to that.]
* Curious to know what David Clark's agenda is.
* What the heck does Victoria mean by...Emily having read her intentions wrong? Honey, you put Amanda in juvie and destroyed her life? Take some responsibility for it. My problem with Victoria is she doesn't believe she did anything wrong. No, it's all Emily's fault. Makes the character impossible to like and irredeemable. You can't be redeemed if you don't feel any remorse and you blame everyone else for your actions.
* However, Vicki is right when she says that Emily's desire for revenge destroyed herself. I think that's true. The story does depict the hollowness of revenge. Emily got a hollow victory. Lost everything she cared about in the process. And now sits in an empty house staring at the home she'd once shared with Aidan.
Nancy - the character that Emily attempts to help, tells Emily that holding onto the hate didn't bring back the man she loved, it solved nothing. It just hurt her more.
She was tired of feeling the hate.
* Ugh Charlotte. She hates Emily and Jack (well, they did kidnap her and destroy her life, but other than that...), who for some reason are invested in helping her (because she's family or they feel guilty or both). Personally, I think they should let Charlotte self-destruct.
* I miss Aidan. Wish they'd killed Daniel instead. Or Charlotte.
* Nolan surprisingly decided to feed Margot enough information to enable her to motivate Daniel into saving his sister, and Margot into saving Daniel from himself.
Indicting her brother in the process...
* At the end Vicki escapes the asylum, only to go confront Emily and get kidnapped by David Clark. Vicki? You should have stayed put. With any luck David Clark will kill off Vicki, but since Madeline Stowe is the lead, I somehow doubt it.
Next week - we have confrontations between Vickie and David, and Charlotte and Emily.
This season is moving fast.
Any thoughts of getting a face-lift jump out the window every time Madeline Stowe appears on screen. Plastic surgery was not her friend. Her eyes look weird. Actually, been noticing this with a lot of male and female actors - who have had face-lifts.
While I enjoy Revenge, I wish every single character in the cast wasn't concerned with or in love with Charlotte. What is it with tv series and the annoying, somewhat whiny, troubled sibling trope? All the characters in the cast want to save the troubled sibling, or they are ignoring the troubled sibling. While the audience is not so quietly beginning to root for the troubled sibling to fall off a cliff. A very high cliff.
[This happened with Dawn in the latter seasons of Buffy, although I actually sort of liked Dawn - Dawn was 14-16 years of age and being raised by a distant vampire slayer who was busy shagging a vampire...and spent the summer with a robot, a vampire baby-sitter, and two witches, while her sister was dead. She sort of earned the right to whine. Charlotte...not so much. Granted her parents are evil, her brother is a self-absorbed ass, her boyfriend was blown up, she was kidnapped by her sister and tortured, but hey...that all happened in her 20s. And besides she was annoying and whiny prior to that.]
* Curious to know what David Clark's agenda is.
* What the heck does Victoria mean by...Emily having read her intentions wrong? Honey, you put Amanda in juvie and destroyed her life? Take some responsibility for it. My problem with Victoria is she doesn't believe she did anything wrong. No, it's all Emily's fault. Makes the character impossible to like and irredeemable. You can't be redeemed if you don't feel any remorse and you blame everyone else for your actions.
* However, Vicki is right when she says that Emily's desire for revenge destroyed herself. I think that's true. The story does depict the hollowness of revenge. Emily got a hollow victory. Lost everything she cared about in the process. And now sits in an empty house staring at the home she'd once shared with Aidan.
Nancy - the character that Emily attempts to help, tells Emily that holding onto the hate didn't bring back the man she loved, it solved nothing. It just hurt her more.
She was tired of feeling the hate.
* Ugh Charlotte. She hates Emily and Jack (well, they did kidnap her and destroy her life, but other than that...), who for some reason are invested in helping her (because she's family or they feel guilty or both). Personally, I think they should let Charlotte self-destruct.
* I miss Aidan. Wish they'd killed Daniel instead. Or Charlotte.
* Nolan surprisingly decided to feed Margot enough information to enable her to motivate Daniel into saving his sister, and Margot into saving Daniel from himself.
Indicting her brother in the process...
* At the end Vicki escapes the asylum, only to go confront Emily and get kidnapped by David Clark. Vicki? You should have stayed put. With any luck David Clark will kill off Vicki, but since Madeline Stowe is the lead, I somehow doubt it.
Next week - we have confrontations between Vickie and David, and Charlotte and Emily.
This season is moving fast.