Watching Tuesday
Feb. 3rd, 2015 04:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
brigdhSleepy Hollow
2.15
Overall, I really liked this episode. Lots of adorable bonding moments between the characters, lot of Ichabod vs the 21st Century, and the Monster of the Week was fine and historically ridiculous (which I approve of). I'm interested in Henry and Frank's plots, though I'm not entirely sure where either of them is going, but it looks like it could be good.
Not gonna lie, the image of Katrina struggling to levitate a flower made me laugh, given how weak and inconsistent her powers have been over the season. But then she actually got to be effective for the rest of the episode! That was great.
So, Katrina's family was at Salem? Does that now make her a rich Quaker farmer Puritan? I'm not opposed to any of these individually, but I do wish they could pick one background for her and stick to it. Or explain that, as a witch spy, she frequently takes off and puts on backgrounds as a disguise! That would also make sense. I also need some consistency about the Ichabod/Katrina relationship. Their breakup was such a huge plotpoint, but apparently they've quietly gotten back together offscreen? To the point where they're looking for a house? Again: stay together, break up, I'm fine with either, I just wish the show could have a consistent emotional storyline.
Farscape
1.20-1.21 ("The Hidden Memory" and "Bone to Be Wild")
Baby Moya! OMG, I love baby Moya, and the whole twist with him having weapons, and Aeryn's connection with him. I also really liked Aeryn's scene with Crais, which showed how much she's changed since the beginning of the show. Also Gilina died, oops, but nonetheless Crichton is surprisingly upbeat in the next episode, despite it seeming to take place about five minutes later. I liked the whole "you eat people!"/"No, you eat people!" plot, although it seems ridiculous to me that eating passengers is actually the only way to solve this problem. Surely your food replicators can make calcium (or wherever they get food from. Buy it? Hunt animals somewhere else? However it happens, calcium is not that hard to get). Still, the ending was a nice twist.
I also saw a theatrical performance of Let the Right One In which was great, incredibly creepy and compelling. I hadn't thought it was a story that would translate well to stage, but it really worked. I've only seen this and the original movie, but I was reading the Wikipedia page on the other versions (the novel and the American movie), and I was struck by how the different tellings have each shifted the emphasis of the story, some making it a relatively hopeful lovestory and some about fatalistic horror. And it's neat that the basic version of the plot really allows for either reading.
2.15
Not gonna lie, the image of Katrina struggling to levitate a flower made me laugh, given how weak and inconsistent her powers have been over the season. But then she actually got to be effective for the rest of the episode! That was great.
So, Katrina's family was at Salem? Does that now make her a rich Quaker farmer Puritan? I'm not opposed to any of these individually, but I do wish they could pick one background for her and stick to it. Or explain that, as a witch spy, she frequently takes off and puts on backgrounds as a disguise! That would also make sense. I also need some consistency about the Ichabod/Katrina relationship. Their breakup was such a huge plotpoint, but apparently they've quietly gotten back together offscreen? To the point where they're looking for a house? Again: stay together, break up, I'm fine with either, I just wish the show could have a consistent emotional storyline.
Farscape
1.20-1.21 ("The Hidden Memory" and "Bone to Be Wild")
Baby Moya! OMG, I love baby Moya, and the whole twist with him having weapons, and Aeryn's connection with him. I also really liked Aeryn's scene with Crais, which showed how much she's changed since the beginning of the show. Also Gilina died, oops, but nonetheless Crichton is surprisingly upbeat in the next episode, despite it seeming to take place about five minutes later. I liked the whole "you eat people!"/"No, you eat people!" plot, although it seems ridiculous to me that eating passengers is actually the only way to solve this problem. Surely your food replicators can make calcium (or wherever they get food from. Buy it? Hunt animals somewhere else? However it happens, calcium is not that hard to get). Still, the ending was a nice twist.
I also saw a theatrical performance of Let the Right One In which was great, incredibly creepy and compelling. I hadn't thought it was a story that would translate well to stage, but it really worked. I've only seen this and the original movie, but I was reading the Wikipedia page on the other versions (the novel and the American movie), and I was struck by how the different tellings have each shifted the emphasis of the story, some making it a relatively hopeful lovestory and some about fatalistic horror. And it's neat that the basic version of the plot really allows for either reading.
