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Do Shapeshifters dream of Electric Sheep?
Oct. 21st, 2010 12:32 pm( Fringe: 3x04 - Do Shapeshifters dream of Electric Sheep? )
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Watching The Mentalist has made me really nostalgic for Life and I've been watching Life season 1 and it is a fantastic as I remember it being. This show ♥
I'm once again struck how hopeful this show is. So many bad and tragic things happened to Crews and Reese and even to the people around them but still it remains so hopeful in the face of all the tragedy.
And really, that is the heart of the whole series it's not about the quirky crime scenes and this is why most of the season 2 episodes didn't work for me. I loved it when the show made an effort to look real, I loved the police station set because it felt real. Season 2 police station had a sort of... glossy feel to it. The show really worked for me when everything was grounded and not so fantastic.
I will always love the showrunner for giving us an ending that felt emotionally right for the series but I can't forget what a mess the Conspiracy turned out to be especially when Rand & Co., made the Conspiracy so convuluted just because they were holding on to their cards and hoping for a third season.
( Wherein I discuss Life the Series and the Conspiracy. )
Back to The Mentalist... I really am over Patrick Jane. In the realm of quirky partners with kickass cop partners. Jane ranks fifth in likability factor for me, he is sunshine and curls but he is also very much a bastard just the way he handles interviews with mourning people turns me off. Patrick Jane can do anything he wants and he'll still win the day without any repurcussions but brief slaps to the wrists and I feel like he has such contempt for people (save for a few around him... and sometimes, not even then) that it's hard for me to relate to his Manpain.
On the other hand, there's Richard Castle who is kind of a bastard too but who has such genuine joy and respect for the women around him that I can't really hold a grudge against him.
I'll try to keep watching The Mentalist but if I don't see any real consequences to his actions I don't think I can stick around to watch the Patrick Jane show despite how much I adore Lisbon and Cho.
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I haven't seen a whole episode of Glee since the pilot, I've only looked at the Music Vids but I've now seen some season 2 episodes and came away with this impressions:
a) Except for Mike Chang, John Stamos' character and New Blond Kid I want to punch almost all the male characters in the show particularly Will and Finn.
b) I really like the idea of Rachel and Kurt as buddies.
c) I like Quinn, I love Santana's snark and wish that Mercedes and Santana really do become Top Bitches of the School.
d) Wow. Heather Morris is a fantastic dancer!
e) Yep, I still want to punch Will.
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Watching The Mentalist has made me really nostalgic for Life and I've been watching Life season 1 and it is a fantastic as I remember it being. This show ♥
I'm once again struck how hopeful this show is. So many bad and tragic things happened to Crews and Reese and even to the people around them but still it remains so hopeful in the face of all the tragedy.
And really, that is the heart of the whole series it's not about the quirky crime scenes and this is why most of the season 2 episodes didn't work for me. I loved it when the show made an effort to look real, I loved the police station set because it felt real. Season 2 police station had a sort of... glossy feel to it. The show really worked for me when everything was grounded and not so fantastic.
I will always love the showrunner for giving us an ending that felt emotionally right for the series but I can't forget what a mess the Conspiracy turned out to be especially when Rand & Co., made the Conspiracy so convuluted just because they were holding on to their cards and hoping for a third season.
( Wherein I discuss Life the Series and the Conspiracy. )
Back to The Mentalist... I really am over Patrick Jane. In the realm of quirky partners with kickass cop partners. Jane ranks fifth in likability factor for me, he is sunshine and curls but he is also very much a bastard just the way he handles interviews with mourning people turns me off. Patrick Jane can do anything he wants and he'll still win the day without any repurcussions but brief slaps to the wrists and I feel like he has such contempt for people (save for a few around him... and sometimes, not even then) that it's hard for me to relate to his Manpain.
On the other hand, there's Richard Castle who is kind of a bastard too but who has such genuine joy and respect for the women around him that I can't really hold a grudge against him.
I'll try to keep watching The Mentalist but if I don't see any real consequences to his actions I don't think I can stick around to watch the Patrick Jane show despite how much I adore Lisbon and Cho.
--
I haven't seen a whole episode of Glee since the pilot, I've only looked at the Music Vids but I've now seen some season 2 episodes and came away with this impressions:
a) Except for Mike Chang, John Stamos' character and New Blond Kid I want to punch almost all the male characters in the show particularly Will and Finn.
b) I really like the idea of Rachel and Kurt as buddies.
c) I like Quinn, I love Santana's snark and wish that Mercedes and Santana really do become Top Bitches of the School.
d) Wow. Heather Morris is a fantastic dancer!
e) Yep, I still want to punch Will.
