ndnickerson (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
ndnickerson) wrote2010-04-06 06:33 pm
ndnickerson) wrote2010-04-06 06:33 pm
Entry tags:
i'm with ghost david on this.
01. i saw revolutionary road this weekend. i was struck by:
-how much it felt like a play. closer was a play that really worked as a movie; revolutionary road is apparently based on a book but i was watching it with subtitles, and kate and leo's line deliveries and dramatic gestures did make it feel really play-like.
-how much leo's character was like pete campbell from mad men, only slightly less of a sociopath.
i'm of the opinion that if you like the movie, you'll love mad men. it has a lot of the same elements, the same ambiguity, but i feel that it's done better.
02. damages has really kicked it up a few notches, especially with last night's episode.
i didn't think ellen was adopted, before the ep, but it's an interesting twist, that she was almost given up for adoption by the people she's known as her family her whole life. then patty rejected her (giving her a speech that, i felt, was more about how patty feels other people perceive her than actually about ellen herself) and the D.A. dismissed her, telling her to "go home," and i thought, "well, at this point, she really doesn't have one."
i loved ghost david coming back for a little reflection (because i adore david as a character basically and he's awesome) and i loved malcolm and i was really sad that he got shot in the head at the end of the episode. i wanted to follow him around for a day. so mellow, and yet so morally ambiguous.
my favorite scenario about terry brook is that he got turned by wes somehow after terry brook was approached by arthur to be in the windmill group, and wes convinced terry to flatter frobisher (because frobisher eats that shit up) and ingratiate himself and then, by asking to get into frobisher's headspace, get frobisher to admit his complicity in david's death. hopefully on tape. because if terry's "i need to get inside you" (which, oh, shudder-worthy verbal gaffe) was just him being super method, eh. and then, once they get the evidence, wes can blow frobisher and all the surviving tobins away. because hello is marilyn tobin not a cold hard bitch, getting her own granddaughter hit. i don't even mind if wes comes over as raylan givens from justified, in fact that could be even more awesome.
i never liked alex benjamin either.
03. in fact, maybe it's time for us to talk justified. i've really enjoyed it so far, and the preview for tonight's ep looks like it is also going to be great. now i want to read some elmore leonard.
04. chuck!
because i've written it in fanfic so many times, i REALLY wanted more than the cut-away at the end of the ep. yes, i know, chuck is a family show, but the makeout scene in colonel was hotter. there was a lot i liked about the episode (being in paris! chuck has to shoot a guy! casey's back on the team! he used old-school flashes to figure out where shaw would be! guitar hero and fake johnnie walker black! sarah and chuck actually say that they love each other and it's not at gunpoint!), but then there's...
-at the beginning of the episode, i'm not quite sure what the hell was supposed to be going on or what really was going on, other than a perfect setup for chuck to look like an idiot when he came in to save sarah. did shaw arrange with the ring to have their huge base empty and the tape playing when they walked in so he could show sarah the tape in a non-suspicious way? so she'd get suspicious? and then he'd prove he was a good guy and then try to kill her a day later? what? i thought that he was taking her to his secret base, which would have been even more of a sign that shaw was possibly entirely off balance.
-sarah sent out a distress signal (unless shaw did? so that chuck would show up?), so i don't think it's wrong that chuck would show up with backup. i mean, yeah, the tank was overkill. but hilarious.
-morgan quitting the buy more just because chuck said he was part of the team was super overkill, though. morgan becoming part of team bartowski, while comedy gold? really makes me sorry for the federal government. i would say maybe he can become their computer guy, but he's not nerd herd. he's not even s1 chuck, because morgan doesn't have an intersect.
-i never get why villains don't just shoot their targets, instead of going through goldbergian contortion traps with them. this also feeds into "chuck has to save the literally helpless female and she rewards him with sex" trope that feels o so cliché. now i want to read the secret in the old attic because ned literally does that and there is no sex reward but it was so richly satisfying. here, though... it was a good setup for chuck to kill shaw, i will give them that, but here's to hoping that sarah gets to kick a lot more ass during the back six.
-shaw's turn to the dark side sure would have felt a lot more potent if we hadn't a) hated him from the beginning and b) suspected him of being a ring agent basically since he showed up.
-i feel like the ring is operating on a skeleton crew. but that elevator scene before shaw showed up was hilarious.
-now that chuck and sarah are an item, i definitely want them to make out as much as lois and clark did during the middle of season 3. like, pretty much constantly.
i am excited about next week, though. oh wait, three weeks from now. THREE WEEKS.
05. on sunday i just watched an old episode of community for the hell of it (it was the phys ed one). i do love that show, and i wish it would come back on, but apparently it's coming back the same week chuck is, which makes me sad. i can't wait until the DVD set comes out so i can get more people watching. =D
06. i would be so happy if scifi would air reruns of mst3k once a week like they used to. even on saturday mornings, like they used to. *sigh*
07. part 2 of the law & order: criminal intent season premiere tonight. i hope everyone currently alive stays alive and that there is more hugging and marriage-feigning tonight.
-how much it felt like a play. closer was a play that really worked as a movie; revolutionary road is apparently based on a book but i was watching it with subtitles, and kate and leo's line deliveries and dramatic gestures did make it feel really play-like.
-how much leo's character was like pete campbell from mad men, only slightly less of a sociopath.
i'm of the opinion that if you like the movie, you'll love mad men. it has a lot of the same elements, the same ambiguity, but i feel that it's done better.
02. damages has really kicked it up a few notches, especially with last night's episode.
i didn't think ellen was adopted, before the ep, but it's an interesting twist, that she was almost given up for adoption by the people she's known as her family her whole life. then patty rejected her (giving her a speech that, i felt, was more about how patty feels other people perceive her than actually about ellen herself) and the D.A. dismissed her, telling her to "go home," and i thought, "well, at this point, she really doesn't have one."
i loved ghost david coming back for a little reflection (because i adore david as a character basically and he's awesome) and i loved malcolm and i was really sad that he got shot in the head at the end of the episode. i wanted to follow him around for a day. so mellow, and yet so morally ambiguous.
my favorite scenario about terry brook is that he got turned by wes somehow after terry brook was approached by arthur to be in the windmill group, and wes convinced terry to flatter frobisher (because frobisher eats that shit up) and ingratiate himself and then, by asking to get into frobisher's headspace, get frobisher to admit his complicity in david's death. hopefully on tape. because if terry's "i need to get inside you" (which, oh, shudder-worthy verbal gaffe) was just him being super method, eh. and then, once they get the evidence, wes can blow frobisher and all the surviving tobins away. because hello is marilyn tobin not a cold hard bitch, getting her own granddaughter hit. i don't even mind if wes comes over as raylan givens from justified, in fact that could be even more awesome.
i never liked alex benjamin either.
03. in fact, maybe it's time for us to talk justified. i've really enjoyed it so far, and the preview for tonight's ep looks like it is also going to be great. now i want to read some elmore leonard.
04. chuck!
because i've written it in fanfic so many times, i REALLY wanted more than the cut-away at the end of the ep. yes, i know, chuck is a family show, but the makeout scene in colonel was hotter. there was a lot i liked about the episode (being in paris! chuck has to shoot a guy! casey's back on the team! he used old-school flashes to figure out where shaw would be! guitar hero and fake johnnie walker black! sarah and chuck actually say that they love each other and it's not at gunpoint!), but then there's...
-at the beginning of the episode, i'm not quite sure what the hell was supposed to be going on or what really was going on, other than a perfect setup for chuck to look like an idiot when he came in to save sarah. did shaw arrange with the ring to have their huge base empty and the tape playing when they walked in so he could show sarah the tape in a non-suspicious way? so she'd get suspicious? and then he'd prove he was a good guy and then try to kill her a day later? what? i thought that he was taking her to his secret base, which would have been even more of a sign that shaw was possibly entirely off balance.
-sarah sent out a distress signal (unless shaw did? so that chuck would show up?), so i don't think it's wrong that chuck would show up with backup. i mean, yeah, the tank was overkill. but hilarious.
-morgan quitting the buy more just because chuck said he was part of the team was super overkill, though. morgan becoming part of team bartowski, while comedy gold? really makes me sorry for the federal government. i would say maybe he can become their computer guy, but he's not nerd herd. he's not even s1 chuck, because morgan doesn't have an intersect.
-i never get why villains don't just shoot their targets, instead of going through goldbergian contortion traps with them. this also feeds into "chuck has to save the literally helpless female and she rewards him with sex" trope that feels o so cliché. now i want to read the secret in the old attic because ned literally does that and there is no sex reward but it was so richly satisfying. here, though... it was a good setup for chuck to kill shaw, i will give them that, but here's to hoping that sarah gets to kick a lot more ass during the back six.
-shaw's turn to the dark side sure would have felt a lot more potent if we hadn't a) hated him from the beginning and b) suspected him of being a ring agent basically since he showed up.
-i feel like the ring is operating on a skeleton crew. but that elevator scene before shaw showed up was hilarious.
-now that chuck and sarah are an item, i definitely want them to make out as much as lois and clark did during the middle of season 3. like, pretty much constantly.
i am excited about next week, though. oh wait, three weeks from now. THREE WEEKS.
05. on sunday i just watched an old episode of community for the hell of it (it was the phys ed one). i do love that show, and i wish it would come back on, but apparently it's coming back the same week chuck is, which makes me sad. i can't wait until the DVD set comes out so i can get more people watching. =D
06. i would be so happy if scifi would air reruns of mst3k once a week like they used to. even on saturday mornings, like they used to. *sigh*
07. part 2 of the law & order: criminal intent season premiere tonight. i hope everyone currently alive stays alive and that there is more hugging and marriage-feigning tonight.