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Mar. 6th, 2020 10:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shadowkat1. Ugh, I meant to work on my novel tonight and got distracted by social media (Twitter and FB). And then got irritated by it. I need to take a hiatus from it (well except for the GH fan board which is a lovely place). Also I really do not like Twitter. It's basically people yelling at each other twenty-four/seven. Outside of the Dali Lama, I don't really like anyone. I feel like I'm back in high school.
(As an aside, really glad this wasn't available when I was in high school - I'm not sure I'd have survived. My niece is on snapchat, apparently no one in college or high school does Twitter or FB any longer - they all do snapchat. That's hilarious.
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Eh, they appear to still be pushing the Dex/Grey ship, and have killed the Hoffman/Dex ship. I'm annoyed. I preferred the Hoffman/Dex to Grey/Dex, although not fond of either.
I did however like tonight's episode in spite of myself. A little disappointed...the story thread feels a bit...cliche. But, I like Dex and found her interactions with both the guy from Afghanistan and Sue Lynn Blackbird interesting.
The rest of it felt rather boilerplate to me, unfortunately.
(As an aside, really glad this wasn't available when I was in high school - I'm not sure I'd have survived. My niece is on snapchat, apparently no one in college or high school does Twitter or FB any longer - they all do snapchat. That's hilarious.
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Eh, they appear to still be pushing the Dex/Grey ship, and have killed the Hoffman/Dex ship. I'm annoyed. I preferred the Hoffman/Dex to Grey/Dex, although not fond of either.
I did however like tonight's episode in spite of myself. A little disappointed...the story thread feels a bit...cliche. But, I like Dex and found her interactions with both the guy from Afghanistan and Sue Lynn Blackbird interesting.
The rest of it felt rather boilerplate to me, unfortunately.
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Date: 2020-03-08 03:53 am (UTC)Although I thought Grey's statement about not wanting to deal with Dex's baggage and fighting her ghosts, made sense. And was sensible of him. He has his own problems. Ansel can help her better than he can, which he realized when she said if Ansel was here - it would never have gotten this far. Having responsibility for Ansel is what keeps her from going off the rails. It grounds her.
I'm of two or three minds about the Afghanistan plotline. It did feel like the "network TV drama" version of the war, but they did show how Dex's mental agility made her valuable as an interrogator. I don't really like the idea of a big military conspiracy saving Dex from the moral consequences of her decision; OTOH, the prospect of Dex and Sue Lynn teaming up to take down the bad guys is very appealing.
Yeah, that's pretty much my take on it as well. I'm waiting to see how it plays out. But, I'd have preferred that they didn't let Dex off the hook that easily. I get that they want to make her sympathetic, but it felt like a cop out. I honestly thought she tortured the woman, but she stopped them from doing it - and believes that resulted in her OTP's death?
The other things in the episode worked for me - the Ansel story, the Hoffman/partner bonding, and the Sue Lynn discussion. And I'm not quite sure what they are doing with the Afghanistan story...yet.