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lizzy_copycat) wrote2006-10-21 01:30 am
lizzy_copycat) wrote2006-10-21 01:30 am
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it's all about pheromones
It's Friday night and my television week is over. It would've been over two days ago, really, but I only just got around to watching Gilmore Girls now. Everything from now until Monday when I watch Sunday night's Without a Trace (with whatever excitement I can muster) is just filler.
The shocker is Bones was actually the show I enjoyed the most this week. (a mid-season one episode.) I can think of several reasons for this: 1) There are no expectations of greatness: This is just a silly crime show with a very very casual relationship to actual science. It's more about the characters than what actually happens, and even the characters I don't care too much about. 2) The awesome shocking post-opening credit (or possibly pre-opening credits, I can't remember) scene where Bones had been beaten up oh so badly. The effect of that was just so incredibly good that I didn't really care that the rest of the episode was about voodoo and stupid. Those two-three seconds of "Oh! What the fuck?!" made it totally worth it. And it's still funny, in that way where you can't really tell if the show is mocking itself or all the other shows it's trying to mimic. There are more reasons, but moving on, now.
It wasn't a BAD episode, because even when VM is bad, it's okay, mostly. And Weevil was back, and that makes up for a lot. Just not the Logan/Veronica thing. I used to like Logan. I did. I used to want him with Veronica. But that was when he was mean to her. And while Duncan was around. Possibly, because I'm slow on the uptake with these things, and tend not to notice for a while when I've stopped liking something, I wanted them together a little longer than that. But all of this season? No. The other episodes it didn't bother me so much, because... well, I don't know why, really, but I just frowned in a disapproving way and moved on.
This week, however, I realized that it isn't so much that I don't want them as a couple anymore, it's that I don't like Logan anymore. He should just go to TJ and not come back. The whole 'bad boy reformed but not really' doesn't do anything for me, except annoy the hell out of me. Is it that he's actually schizophrenic or is there some deep logic behind it that I don't see? Either way, it doesn't agree with me much at all.
And that last scene? I threw up in my mouth a little.
The missing playbook plotline? At first I was just so relieved Piz didn't want to play tag-along detective that I didn't really pay attention, but after that it was okay. Not the most interesting mystery Veronica ever had to solve, and the guy annoyed me a little, but whatever.
I really wished Weevil could have kept his job with Keith. His clothes were awful and not really funny to me, but I would have loved that. But why did I have this complete deja-vu feeling about his stake-out?
And those feminists are starting to bug me. Sure, it's awful and all that, and we need to build up the story, but still. Whatever happens later, I'm siding with the frat boys on this one. (If I'm wrong, I'll probably pretend I never said that, but I don't think they're responsible, so for now that's how I feel.)
Despite everything I am about to say, it actually wasn't such a bad episode. Probably because I expect nothing, so I can't be disappointed.
Response to the opening scene: WTF? There was just nothing elegant about this way of skipping six weeks. They never rocked at that, because they pretty much always end things on a cliffhanger-y note, and September begins where May ended. But this was particularly poorly done. "No, we don't really want to have to bother with all that beginning-of-a-new-relationship and setting-things-up stuff, so we just have Lorelai make a phone call and then skip to six weeks later. And then we have everyone else pretend as if no time has gone by at all. No thank you.
Part of me thinks it would be a good idea if Luke simply disappeared. Completely and with no further mention. One day it would just be someone else in the diner, which would now be called "Pete's" or whatever, and everyone would pretend as if it had always been like that. It's bad enough that there are completely separate storylines for Rory and Lorelai, but if they have to keep up with a third storyline for Luke, it will be a complete mess. Taylor had it right when he divided Stars Hollow into blue and pink bows.
Last week I was wondering where April had gone. She caused all this trouble and then she disappeared. Very stupid. Well, the return of April was even stupider. I like April, even if I can't for the life of me remember which Nickelodeon show she used to be on, and she's not really to blame, but all the same. The Mother of April (who makes a very bad Lorelai-lookalike) made such a fuss about Luke dating last season and threw a complete fit when Lorelai helped with April's party, but now April is trying to play matchmaker for Luke. What? So he can date, but only if it's casual? She doesn't want her daughter to become attached to Lorelai, so Luke should have a constant stream of girlfriends moving in and out of April's life so she won't have time to get attached to any of them. That sounds very healthy and responsible.
I liked it that Rory wasn't just sitting around waiting for Logan to call but actually had fun without him (Mopey!Rory gets on my nerves). I'm not a fan of her company, though. Speaking of which, where did I see the girl on the left before? (screencap from Gilmore Girls dot ORG)
IS that Gia from VM or does she just look like her? Whoever it is, she has no respect for the popcorn.
Like Martin on WaT, Chris should let his hair grow a little. It might make me like him more.
They referred to the same legal technicality on Criminal Intent just now as they did in one of the old episodes of WaT I watched earlier today. It takes very little to amuse me this late at night.
The shocker is Bones was actually the show I enjoyed the most this week. (a mid-season one episode.) I can think of several reasons for this: 1) There are no expectations of greatness: This is just a silly crime show with a very very casual relationship to actual science. It's more about the characters than what actually happens, and even the characters I don't care too much about. 2) The awesome shocking post-opening credit (or possibly pre-opening credits, I can't remember) scene where Bones had been beaten up oh so badly. The effect of that was just so incredibly good that I didn't really care that the rest of the episode was about voodoo and stupid. Those two-three seconds of "Oh! What the fuck?!" made it totally worth it. And it's still funny, in that way where you can't really tell if the show is mocking itself or all the other shows it's trying to mimic. There are more reasons, but moving on, now.
It wasn't a BAD episode, because even when VM is bad, it's okay, mostly. And Weevil was back, and that makes up for a lot. Just not the Logan/Veronica thing. I used to like Logan. I did. I used to want him with Veronica. But that was when he was mean to her. And while Duncan was around. Possibly, because I'm slow on the uptake with these things, and tend not to notice for a while when I've stopped liking something, I wanted them together a little longer than that. But all of this season? No. The other episodes it didn't bother me so much, because... well, I don't know why, really, but I just frowned in a disapproving way and moved on.
This week, however, I realized that it isn't so much that I don't want them as a couple anymore, it's that I don't like Logan anymore. He should just go to TJ and not come back. The whole 'bad boy reformed but not really' doesn't do anything for me, except annoy the hell out of me. Is it that he's actually schizophrenic or is there some deep logic behind it that I don't see? Either way, it doesn't agree with me much at all.
And that last scene? I threw up in my mouth a little.
The missing playbook plotline? At first I was just so relieved Piz didn't want to play tag-along detective that I didn't really pay attention, but after that it was okay. Not the most interesting mystery Veronica ever had to solve, and the guy annoyed me a little, but whatever.
I really wished Weevil could have kept his job with Keith. His clothes were awful and not really funny to me, but I would have loved that. But why did I have this complete deja-vu feeling about his stake-out?
And those feminists are starting to bug me. Sure, it's awful and all that, and we need to build up the story, but still. Whatever happens later, I'm siding with the frat boys on this one. (If I'm wrong, I'll probably pretend I never said that, but I don't think they're responsible, so for now that's how I feel.)
Despite everything I am about to say, it actually wasn't such a bad episode. Probably because I expect nothing, so I can't be disappointed.
Response to the opening scene: WTF? There was just nothing elegant about this way of skipping six weeks. They never rocked at that, because they pretty much always end things on a cliffhanger-y note, and September begins where May ended. But this was particularly poorly done. "No, we don't really want to have to bother with all that beginning-of-a-new-relationship and setting-things-up stuff, so we just have Lorelai make a phone call and then skip to six weeks later. And then we have everyone else pretend as if no time has gone by at all. No thank you.
Part of me thinks it would be a good idea if Luke simply disappeared. Completely and with no further mention. One day it would just be someone else in the diner, which would now be called "Pete's" or whatever, and everyone would pretend as if it had always been like that. It's bad enough that there are completely separate storylines for Rory and Lorelai, but if they have to keep up with a third storyline for Luke, it will be a complete mess. Taylor had it right when he divided Stars Hollow into blue and pink bows.
Last week I was wondering where April had gone. She caused all this trouble and then she disappeared. Very stupid. Well, the return of April was even stupider. I like April, even if I can't for the life of me remember which Nickelodeon show she used to be on, and she's not really to blame, but all the same. The Mother of April (who makes a very bad Lorelai-lookalike) made such a fuss about Luke dating last season and threw a complete fit when Lorelai helped with April's party, but now April is trying to play matchmaker for Luke. What? So he can date, but only if it's casual? She doesn't want her daughter to become attached to Lorelai, so Luke should have a constant stream of girlfriends moving in and out of April's life so she won't have time to get attached to any of them. That sounds very healthy and responsible.
I liked it that Rory wasn't just sitting around waiting for Logan to call but actually had fun without him (Mopey!Rory gets on my nerves). I'm not a fan of her company, though. Speaking of which, where did I see the girl on the left before? (screencap from Gilmore Girls dot ORG)
IS that Gia from VM or does she just look like her? Whoever it is, she has no respect for the popcorn.
Like Martin on WaT, Chris should let his hair grow a little. It might make me like him more.
They referred to the same legal technicality on Criminal Intent just now as they did in one of the old episodes of WaT I watched earlier today. It takes very little to amuse me this late at night.