Watching Monday
May. 12th, 2014 08:30 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
brigdhGame of Thrones
Man, even the "previously ons" made me feel bad for Tyrion: all those people he's pissed off, all those people with reasons to betray him, or genuinely believe he killed Joffrey.
BRAAVOS YES AWESOME. I don't think Stannis actually traveled to Braavos in the books (I think? I don't remember it, anyway) but I approve of this change if just because I loved seeing Braavos and actually having a scene in the Iron Bank.
I guess the Asha (Yara? whatever) and Theon scene was vaguely useful for demonstrating Theon's level of brokenness, but it just feels like it was too short to be worthwhile and yet also much longer than it needed to be. A waste of time, basically, and way too similar to the Jon/Bran scene from last week. So many characters not quite connecting! Also, when Ramsay showed up shirtless and all bloody, were we supposed to infer he'd killed the woman he was having sex with, or what was that about? The Ramsay/Theon bathing scene was SO CREEPY JESUS. All of the Ramsay stuff is working for me much better this season; it seems actually terrifying rather than just gory.
Whoa, we are skipping way ahead on the Dany plotline, huh? Are we even going to do the whole betrayal thing? I don't see how they can't do it, so maybe they're somehow rearranging events so it happens for maximum end-of-season dramaticness. Also, I really need more focus on how her savior-attempts are failing, show, please. (Also, I totally thought that poor shepherd boy was getting eaten by the dragon. Glad he was not!)
The Small Council scene was pretty great, but I thought it was strange how causally they dropped in the detail that Jorah was spying on Dany. Varys/Oberyn was fantastic, though.
Ah, the trial scene was really fantastic, of course. In a painful, heart-breaking way. AND JAIME TRYING TO SAVE TYRION BY AGREEING TO LEAVE THE KINGSGUARD oh my heart. And Peter Dinklage is amazing and wonderful and so good.
OMG SHAE. I... had thought the show was going to play this scene much differently, given how much else about Shae's plotline they've changed. I'm not sure I really like it. I feel like I don't understand Shae's motivation here; in the book it's easy enough to say she was threatened, she was paid, but book!Shae is a very different character than show!Shae. They seem to have been playing it as all about her revenge for Tyrion calling her a whore, but that... just doesn't feel like enough, to me, given what we know about her. I really want some scenes about what's been happening to her – which of course is one of the benefits of the show, that we're not limited to a relatively few POVs. I don't know. I am dissatisfied with this at the moment.
Penny Dreadful
A really great first episode, if a little too given to melodrama (as is only appropriate, I suppose, given the title) and Extreme Closeups. I liked all the characters (even if I didn't quite learn all their names yet, so there's cowboy-dude and rich-dude), particularly Vanessa, and they have some awesomely creepy vampires. Also, I like how this show is distinguishing itself from HBO's gratuitous tits by the use of gratuitous corpse penis.
The Other Woman
The idea for this movie had so much potential! And yet the execution... really, don't bother. (Unless like me you just want to see a movie and are frustrated in your ambitions by Belle not yet showing near you.) Way too many offensive jokes, poop jokes, jokes about how dumb women are... etc. Also, no women I know would ever criticize another women's choice of body-hair. I'm not saying it's impossible, but it's depressing and enraging to watch. So not really what I look for in a comedy!
Man, even the "previously ons" made me feel bad for Tyrion: all those people he's pissed off, all those people with reasons to betray him, or genuinely believe he killed Joffrey.
BRAAVOS YES AWESOME. I don't think Stannis actually traveled to Braavos in the books (I think? I don't remember it, anyway) but I approve of this change if just because I loved seeing Braavos and actually having a scene in the Iron Bank.
I guess the Asha (Yara? whatever) and Theon scene was vaguely useful for demonstrating Theon's level of brokenness, but it just feels like it was too short to be worthwhile and yet also much longer than it needed to be. A waste of time, basically, and way too similar to the Jon/Bran scene from last week. So many characters not quite connecting! Also, when Ramsay showed up shirtless and all bloody, were we supposed to infer he'd killed the woman he was having sex with, or what was that about? The Ramsay/Theon bathing scene was SO CREEPY JESUS. All of the Ramsay stuff is working for me much better this season; it seems actually terrifying rather than just gory.
Whoa, we are skipping way ahead on the Dany plotline, huh? Are we even going to do the whole betrayal thing? I don't see how they can't do it, so maybe they're somehow rearranging events so it happens for maximum end-of-season dramaticness. Also, I really need more focus on how her savior-attempts are failing, show, please. (Also, I totally thought that poor shepherd boy was getting eaten by the dragon. Glad he was not!)
The Small Council scene was pretty great, but I thought it was strange how causally they dropped in the detail that Jorah was spying on Dany. Varys/Oberyn was fantastic, though.
Ah, the trial scene was really fantastic, of course. In a painful, heart-breaking way. AND JAIME TRYING TO SAVE TYRION BY AGREEING TO LEAVE THE KINGSGUARD oh my heart. And Peter Dinklage is amazing and wonderful and so good.
OMG SHAE. I... had thought the show was going to play this scene much differently, given how much else about Shae's plotline they've changed. I'm not sure I really like it. I feel like I don't understand Shae's motivation here; in the book it's easy enough to say she was threatened, she was paid, but book!Shae is a very different character than show!Shae. They seem to have been playing it as all about her revenge for Tyrion calling her a whore, but that... just doesn't feel like enough, to me, given what we know about her. I really want some scenes about what's been happening to her – which of course is one of the benefits of the show, that we're not limited to a relatively few POVs. I don't know. I am dissatisfied with this at the moment.
Penny Dreadful
A really great first episode, if a little too given to melodrama (as is only appropriate, I suppose, given the title) and Extreme Closeups. I liked all the characters (even if I didn't quite learn all their names yet, so there's cowboy-dude and rich-dude), particularly Vanessa, and they have some awesomely creepy vampires. Also, I like how this show is distinguishing itself from HBO's gratuitous tits by the use of gratuitous corpse penis.
The Other Woman
The idea for this movie had so much potential! And yet the execution... really, don't bother. (Unless like me you just want to see a movie and are frustrated in your ambitions by Belle not yet showing near you.) Way too many offensive jokes, poop jokes, jokes about how dumb women are... etc. Also, no women I know would ever criticize another women's choice of body-hair. I'm not saying it's impossible, but it's depressing and enraging to watch. So not really what I look for in a comedy!
