Watching Monday

[brigdh]

Sleepy Hollow
2.07
I don't hate the demon pregnancy trope as much as other people do, so I didn't hate this episode quite as much as seems to be common. I mean, it's not a great trope! I just can deal with it.

I didn't like Crane's jealousy of Katrina - it's completely reasonable for him to have trust issues given all the revelations in their relationship, but assuming Katrina's been sleeping with the Headless Horseman is not cool, dude. His "let's put it to a vote" was also a dick move. Also, this episode had a sad and noticeable lack of Jenny. If nothing else, why wouldn't they call her to stay with Katrina while Crane and Abbie raided the Hellfire Club's headquarters? The Aurora borealis thing was even weirder than this show's usual history/science macguffins.

The voting scene was pretty adorable, and I was amused by Crane's rage at some zoning law (OF COURSE HE WOULD BE THE ONE PERSON ON EARTH WHO CARES ABOUT ZONING LAWS) and his happiness at getting the sticker. The Hellfire Club as actual Armageddonists instead of the 18th century equivalent of rich frat boys is never-endingly hilarious to me.

In incredibly petty news, I am really into Crane's haircut this season. His hair is so curly and fluffy! Also Katrina is really hot in jeans.

Farscape
1.01-1.04
Or, well, I should say 01-04 according to Netflix, which I've just realized is apparently not the order they're meant to be watched. What is up with shows doing that? Anyway, I watched the pilot, "Exodus from Genesis", "Back and Back and Back to the Future", and "Throne for a Loss".

So far it's a perfectly pleasant show but I'm not yet captured. I think mostly because I don't like Crichton that much; he's such a boring, standard hero. I did like the drug power gauntlet things in "Throne for a Loss"! The whole "character acts much more aggressively than normal" is very appealingly iddy and should totally be a trope in more fanfic.

Comments

[egelantier.livejournal.com]

season 1 is mostly for establishing the baseline for characters; then the narrative starts to... reassemble them, especially (but not only) chrichton.

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

I figured it was something like that! I'm definitely going to keep watching.

[ranalore.livejournal.com]

I feel like Crichton does get more interesting once he gets a little more established in S1 and his quirks come out, and I liked that he was a thinking hero actually shown to think. That said, what makes Farscape one of my favorite shows of all time is that Shit Goes Down, and everybody gets fucked up, and gets to deal with being fucked up, as a result.

[lady-ganesh.livejournal.com]

^ This. It's kind of funny to think what the first impression of Crichton can be versus what's to come.

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

I do like the idea of a scientist hero! And I figure every show deserves some time to develop its characters and world. But I'm looking forward to all these twists and fucked-up-ness people are foretelling! :D

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

With characters like that, it's fun to go back and rewatch the beginning too! I was rewatching Buffy recently, and Wesley changes so much from his first appearance to his last that seeing the beginning again was amazing.

[ranalore.livejournal.com]

I don't think it's too spoilery to say that, after everything that happens, revisiting the S1 characterization of...well, everybody is kind of its own special acid trip.

[ranalore.livejournal.com]

It will definitely be interesting to hear your thoughts. *G*

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

I'll be sure to keep posting as I watch!