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shadowkat1. Saw Elementary - but still way behind everyone else. This happens with DVR-ing tv shows - I save up to about five-six episodes, and finally realize, okay, you either should watch these episodes or delete them. That's what happened last weekend with The Walking Dead. I am so far behind that in attempting to discuss the two episodes that I just watched, with my mother - she was confused. And thought she hadn't seen it. No she had, just didn't remember it.
Mother: I haven't seen that one yet.
Me: You probably did.
Mother: Isn't it cool how he is training Watson to be a detective.
Me: What? No that hasn't yet.
Mother: It hasn't?
Me: It's the episode with the drug-dealer? And Watson is still pretending to be his sober companion? She hasn't told him otherwise...although now I'm guessing she does?
Mother: Yep, she did a while ago.
Me: I'm behind, okay. This is before the Valentine's Day episode - we're still in January.
(Trust my mother to spoil me. She does this all the time. She has ruined more books and movies for me.)
It was a rather good episode - the drug dealer tells Holmes he was better on drugs and he's lost his edge without them. (Which reminded me of Gregory House's dilemma and 99% percent Solution - (a film about Holms and Freud).) Holmes is helping his former drug dealer, much to Watson's chagrin, find his missing daughter. Instead of taking the dealer's cocaine. Holmes calls his father and requests a million dollar loan to help rescue the daughter, then tells the dealer that what he did and that it's just too dangerous to be around the dealer much longer, and once this case is resolved - this is goodbye. He also gets very angry at the dealer for telling him that he needs cocaine or heroine to be brilliant. It's a great character study, and excellent commentary on how people market drugs. I was rather impressed.
Also happy that they did it differently.
The best thing about Elementary is the characters. Unlike the Brit version, this one feels more character driven than plot driven. EW says it is more plodding, but to be fair it has to come out on a weekly basis as opposed to once in a blue moon. Agree and disagree. Agree that it has to have more episodes, disagree that it is more plodding. There were episodes of Moffat's Sherlock that I found plodding and convoluted. Also the characters aren't as likable for some reason.
2. Mileage varies. Occasionally things bewilder me. Oddly it never bewildered me that people loved Buffy/Angel or Bangle - I understood that (well up until the comics at any rate, people who liked the relationship in the comics (post the Twilight reveal - the villain in the comics, not to be confused with the Stephanie Meyer series of the same name (which I am willing to bet money was NOT a coincidence on the comic book writers part) - do bewilder me, and some of them seem to be ahem... batshit crazy? But then so does the comic book fandom...so the less said on that topic the better.)
* ApparentlyWhingina Regina from Once Upon a Time is stealing the show and a fan/critical EW favorite? I don't understand this. She's so campy and one-dimensional. I keep expecting her to twirl her moustache, and cackle fiendishly. Rumplestilskin - yes, I get why people love him, same with Hook, and various other characters. But Whiny Regina who preens?
* Also Gone Girl is insanely popular. As are similar books. I'm half-tempted to borrow it from a library to see what all the fuss is about. I refuse to buy it, for the same reasons I refuse to buy the Twilight novels. And other people, I'm guessing, refuse to buy 50 Shades of Grey. It's the principle of the thing. ;-) (And well the fact that I grew to despise the writer when she wrote for EW - a Roger Ebert - she wasn't. EW isn't exactly known for its stellar writing staff. The was Premier...which I miss.)
Maybe I should just try a sample? Also is it just me or is our current culture obsessed with stories about irredeemably nasty people? What is up with that? Is it a sort of repressed sadistic urge or something? I constantly feel this need to wash my brain out with something light and fluffy.
4. Mad Men season premiere was plodding. The twists not all that twisty, and I found it rather dull at different points. The best bits were either about Peggy or John Slattery's character.
I'm not a huge fan of Don Draper, Meghan, and Betty Draper Francis - which has been a problem since the show begun. I tend to find these character's stories a tad dull and repetitive. Of the three - Don is admittedly the most interesting, because he's always in the midst of an identity crisis - stuck between the man he created or reinvented himself as, and the man he actually was or is. Both Meghan and Betty know both exist. But neither seemed to understand the struggle. Both Meghan and Betty strike me as somewhat narcissistic personalities - which is actual perfect for Don Draper.
They clearly advanced the show by about two-three years - everyone looks older, hair styles have clearly changed, and it appears to be the late 60s. With the mutton-chop side-burns, the caterpillar moustaches, and the Jackie Bobs. The best thing about Mad Men is the style.
Mother: I haven't seen that one yet.
Me: You probably did.
Mother: Isn't it cool how he is training Watson to be a detective.
Me: What? No that hasn't yet.
Mother: It hasn't?
Me: It's the episode with the drug-dealer? And Watson is still pretending to be his sober companion? She hasn't told him otherwise...although now I'm guessing she does?
Mother: Yep, she did a while ago.
Me: I'm behind, okay. This is before the Valentine's Day episode - we're still in January.
(Trust my mother to spoil me. She does this all the time. She has ruined more books and movies for me.)
It was a rather good episode - the drug dealer tells Holmes he was better on drugs and he's lost his edge without them. (Which reminded me of Gregory House's dilemma and 99% percent Solution - (a film about Holms and Freud).) Holmes is helping his former drug dealer, much to Watson's chagrin, find his missing daughter. Instead of taking the dealer's cocaine. Holmes calls his father and requests a million dollar loan to help rescue the daughter, then tells the dealer that what he did and that it's just too dangerous to be around the dealer much longer, and once this case is resolved - this is goodbye. He also gets very angry at the dealer for telling him that he needs cocaine or heroine to be brilliant. It's a great character study, and excellent commentary on how people market drugs. I was rather impressed.
Also happy that they did it differently.
The best thing about Elementary is the characters. Unlike the Brit version, this one feels more character driven than plot driven. EW says it is more plodding, but to be fair it has to come out on a weekly basis as opposed to once in a blue moon. Agree and disagree. Agree that it has to have more episodes, disagree that it is more plodding. There were episodes of Moffat's Sherlock that I found plodding and convoluted. Also the characters aren't as likable for some reason.
2. Mileage varies. Occasionally things bewilder me. Oddly it never bewildered me that people loved Buffy/Angel or Bangle - I understood that (well up until the comics at any rate, people who liked the relationship in the comics (post the Twilight reveal - the villain in the comics, not to be confused with the Stephanie Meyer series of the same name (which I am willing to bet money was NOT a coincidence on the comic book writers part) - do bewilder me, and some of them seem to be ahem... batshit crazy? But then so does the comic book fandom...so the less said on that topic the better.)
* Apparently
* Also Gone Girl is insanely popular. As are similar books. I'm half-tempted to borrow it from a library to see what all the fuss is about. I refuse to buy it, for the same reasons I refuse to buy the Twilight novels. And other people, I'm guessing, refuse to buy 50 Shades of Grey. It's the principle of the thing. ;-) (And well the fact that I grew to despise the writer when she wrote for EW - a Roger Ebert - she wasn't. EW isn't exactly known for its stellar writing staff. The was Premier...which I miss.)
Maybe I should just try a sample? Also is it just me or is our current culture obsessed with stories about irredeemably nasty people? What is up with that? Is it a sort of repressed sadistic urge or something? I constantly feel this need to wash my brain out with something light and fluffy.
4. Mad Men season premiere was plodding. The twists not all that twisty, and I found it rather dull at different points. The best bits were either about Peggy or John Slattery's character.
I'm not a huge fan of Don Draper, Meghan, and Betty Draper Francis - which has been a problem since the show begun. I tend to find these character's stories a tad dull and repetitive. Of the three - Don is admittedly the most interesting, because he's always in the midst of an identity crisis - stuck between the man he created or reinvented himself as, and the man he actually was or is. Both Meghan and Betty know both exist. But neither seemed to understand the struggle. Both Meghan and Betty strike me as somewhat narcissistic personalities - which is actual perfect for Don Draper.
They clearly advanced the show by about two-three years - everyone looks older, hair styles have clearly changed, and it appears to be the late 60s. With the mutton-chop side-burns, the caterpillar moustaches, and the Jackie Bobs. The best thing about Mad Men is the style.
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Date: 2013-04-13 11:49 pm (UTC)In fact I think Sherlock shows more respect for Watson in Elementary than in the Moffitt version (not that I hate 'Sherlock' I find it pretty interesting too).