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ariadnes_stringSo, I have watched the first four episodes of season two of Game of Thrones and I have learned two things:
1. HBO likes boobs
2. Richard Madden somehow upped his hotness quotient greatly since season one. Or maybe everyone just looks hotter with a giant CGI wolf following them around.
I think that might be it for me, though. I don'tentirely blame HBO. This is just the point--the rise of the Theon Greyjoy plot arc--at which I lost interest in the books. The gratuitous sour grimness perhaps? The increasing ratio of torture scenes? YMMV, obviously.
I am also up to date with Grimm, though I haven't posted on it for a while. I clicked on the Grimm tag on tumblr the other day, and was dismayed to find if not shipping wars, at least shipping skirmishes. I think you all know how I feel about that.
That I adore Rosalee, and love her chemistry with Monroe and would be very happy to see them together. And I've always loved Juliette.
I enjoyed the Sebastian Roche episode enormously, and hope we see more of Ian sometime. I don't usually like world conspiracy plots, but I love the idea of the two sides struggling over Nick and his Grimm powers, and Nick having to make his way through that moral minefield. I loved Monroe being his usual excellent egg self and telling Ian, "We're all equal, isn't that what we're fighting for." It's the Grimm ethos.
I'm not usually this self-indulgent, but I kinda want to write a soppy, h/c AU coda for the ep in which Ian is laid up a lot longer with his bullet wound and Monroe and Rosalee have to deal with it (and their feelings).
And I think I've mentioned how much I've been enjoying Awake? It's like someone turned Freud's essay on "Mourning and Melancholia" into a TV series.
It reminds me of Life on Mars more than something like Lost, because it features someone stuck in a world that seems real, but is also hyper-symbolic in a dream-like, id-like way (except that it doesn't feature anything as creepy as the little BBC girl--yet). I like the way Michael has to chew everything over with two shrinks (I particularly like B.D. Wong as the mean shrink, the kind of shrink who looks you in the face and says, "you know your marriage is in trouble, don't you?"). I like the episodes when Michael kind of starts to lose it best.
The only thing I don't much like is Hannah, the wife. Most of the characters (two shrinks, two partners, the police captain, the son) are well cast and quite well developed, but the wife has no particular attributes (we don't even know if she has a job) It kind of sucks that even a TV show that is willing to have strong, middle-aged female characters played by people like Laura Innes and Cherry Jones, still feels that someone like Jason Isaacs (who looks 49 and great) could only be married to someone who looks like Barbie--you have to think hard to imagine she's old enough to have a sixteen-year-old son.
1. HBO likes boobs
2. Richard Madden somehow upped his hotness quotient greatly since season one. Or maybe everyone just looks hotter with a giant CGI wolf following them around.
I think that might be it for me, though. I don't
I am also up to date with Grimm, though I haven't posted on it for a while. I clicked on the Grimm tag on tumblr the other day, and was dismayed to find if not shipping wars, at least shipping skirmishes. I think you all know how I feel about that.
That I adore Rosalee, and love her chemistry with Monroe and would be very happy to see them together. And I've always loved Juliette.
I enjoyed the Sebastian Roche episode enormously, and hope we see more of Ian sometime. I don't usually like world conspiracy plots, but I love the idea of the two sides struggling over Nick and his Grimm powers, and Nick having to make his way through that moral minefield. I loved Monroe being his usual excellent egg self and telling Ian, "We're all equal, isn't that what we're fighting for." It's the Grimm ethos.
I'm not usually this self-indulgent, but I kinda want to write a soppy, h/c AU coda for the ep in which Ian is laid up a lot longer with his bullet wound and Monroe and Rosalee have to deal with it (and their feelings).
And I think I've mentioned how much I've been enjoying Awake? It's like someone turned Freud's essay on "Mourning and Melancholia" into a TV series.
It reminds me of Life on Mars more than something like Lost, because it features someone stuck in a world that seems real, but is also hyper-symbolic in a dream-like, id-like way (except that it doesn't feature anything as creepy as the little BBC girl--yet). I like the way Michael has to chew everything over with two shrinks (I particularly like B.D. Wong as the mean shrink, the kind of shrink who looks you in the face and says, "you know your marriage is in trouble, don't you?"). I like the episodes when Michael kind of starts to lose it best.
The only thing I don't much like is Hannah, the wife. Most of the characters (two shrinks, two partners, the police captain, the son) are well cast and quite well developed, but the wife has no particular attributes (we don't even know if she has a job) It kind of sucks that even a TV show that is willing to have strong, middle-aged female characters played by people like Laura Innes and Cherry Jones, still feels that someone like Jason Isaacs (who looks 49 and great) could only be married to someone who looks like Barbie--you have to think hard to imagine she's old enough to have a sixteen-year-old son.
