Watching Monday
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"The First Contact Job": Dust mites! "Manda-da-biles!" "Winner chooses our next date!" OMG SO CUTE. "It's a very distinctive static." AHAHAHAHAHA. "Two good old boys, behind the wheel, chasing down bad guys in Lucille!" Oh my god, this is beyond cute, Eliot and Hardison singing! HA ELIOT ASKING FOR AN ORANGE SODA. HE LEARNED HOW TO BE A GEEK FROM HARDISON. Hahaha, Hardison and Parker are totally Men in Black. "Candlelit picnic nuder the stars"! Awww, Hardison is such a romantic.
Game of Thrones
I'm not sure what's going on with this Cersei/Margaery scene. Obviously someone is playing someone, but I can't really figure out what either of their motivations are. Or why Cersei suddenly seems so nice – not even minding Margaery calling her sister!
I like that we're getting to the point where Dany's trope is starting to fall apart, but nothing much really happened in this scene.
Aw, apparently the show is skipping Littlefinger's and Sansa's whole visit to the Fingers. I liked that part, especially as a way of getting an insight into Littlefinger's background and motivations. But Lysa is awesomely creepy, and her "wedding night screams" were hilarious. The second scene with the lemon-cakes was wonderful, in a scary, scary way. Poor Sansa.
I looooved this Oberyn scene: finally he is not in a brothel! Also: poetry! The Sand Snakes! The Water Gardens! I also really liked Cersei here; it's nice to see other dimensions of her than just plotting.
Brienne and Pod are awesome, of course; Jon and Bran are sort of boring. I did like the terrible implications of Bran using Hodor to kill someone, and I do like that the women at Craster's Keep get more agency and a better ending.
Overall, though, it was very much a midseason episode: setting up pieces without anything of much importance occurring.
Only Lovers Left Alive
This was a charming movie. That's really the only word for it. There's only the barest outline of a plot, and nothing much happens, but it's very enjoyable to watch nonetheless. Adam is a rock'n'roll Hamlet, sulking and mopey and vaguely suicidal, cynical in a self-centered sort of way; Eve is sweet and optimistic and happy; Ava is a petulant, bratty younger sister. Together, theyfight crime are vampires! Also, so is Christopher Marlowe, for some reason. I really enjoyed it.
"The First Contact Job": Dust mites! "Manda-da-biles!" "Winner chooses our next date!" OMG SO CUTE. "It's a very distinctive static." AHAHAHAHAHA. "Two good old boys, behind the wheel, chasing down bad guys in Lucille!" Oh my god, this is beyond cute, Eliot and Hardison singing! HA ELIOT ASKING FOR AN ORANGE SODA. HE LEARNED HOW TO BE A GEEK FROM HARDISON. Hahaha, Hardison and Parker are totally Men in Black. "Candlelit picnic nuder the stars"! Awww, Hardison is such a romantic.
Game of Thrones
I'm not sure what's going on with this Cersei/Margaery scene. Obviously someone is playing someone, but I can't really figure out what either of their motivations are. Or why Cersei suddenly seems so nice – not even minding Margaery calling her sister!
I like that we're getting to the point where Dany's trope is starting to fall apart, but nothing much really happened in this scene.
Aw, apparently the show is skipping Littlefinger's and Sansa's whole visit to the Fingers. I liked that part, especially as a way of getting an insight into Littlefinger's background and motivations. But Lysa is awesomely creepy, and her "wedding night screams" were hilarious. The second scene with the lemon-cakes was wonderful, in a scary, scary way. Poor Sansa.
I looooved this Oberyn scene: finally he is not in a brothel! Also: poetry! The Sand Snakes! The Water Gardens! I also really liked Cersei here; it's nice to see other dimensions of her than just plotting.
Brienne and Pod are awesome, of course; Jon and Bran are sort of boring. I did like the terrible implications of Bran using Hodor to kill someone, and I do like that the women at Craster's Keep get more agency and a better ending.
Overall, though, it was very much a midseason episode: setting up pieces without anything of much importance occurring.
Only Lovers Left Alive
This was a charming movie. That's really the only word for it. There's only the barest outline of a plot, and nothing much happens, but it's very enjoyable to watch nonetheless. Adam is a rock'n'roll Hamlet, sulking and mopey and vaguely suicidal, cynical in a self-centered sort of way; Eve is sweet and optimistic and happy; Ava is a petulant, bratty younger sister. Together, they
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Date: 2014-05-06 12:43 am (UTC)I loved the Cersei/Oberyn scene! And the Cersei/Margaery scene, although I felt that Cersei did mind Margaery calling her sister but there wasn't a good way for her to say anything. (Also, I kind of want Oberyn and Margaery to interact, seriously.) Brienne and Pod were great! Poor Sansa, indeed. I loved that the women at Craster's keep were like "lol no why the fuck should we trust you?" to Jon, because really, why should they?
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Date: 2014-05-06 06:43 pm (UTC)I just wasn't sure why Cersei didn't directly protest Margaery calling her sister, since she'd been willing to do so before. I've seen people speculate that she's trying to get Margaery on her side since Margaery's father is a judge in Tyrion's trial, but I don't know, it just doesn't seem like Cersei's style to me.
Oh man, Oberyn and Margaery should TOTALLY interact, that would be fascinating! And yeah, I really loved that the women didn't trust Jon.