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I wanted to start posting more regularly this year, but I usually post about TV, and I find myself watching very little TV lately--and I honestly feel like it is better for my mental health. (I appreciate the quietness in my house at night, and I'm also listening to a lot more music, and I feel like I am calmer and like I have more brainspace, or something). But it makes me feel like a bad fangirl.
But I haven't given TV up entirely. I really liked this week's Good Wife, for example.
I am really wondering if they are setting things up to have Alicia leave Lockhart-Gardner? I really really empathized with her sense of betrayal when she found out 5 associates were offered partnership and basically the firm was using it to fundraise, because it completely removed her sense of accomplishment at being made partner. And while I can't see her every joining Canning's firm--that man is SUCH a sleazy sleazeball, OMG--I still wonder what him giving her his card was all about. I mean, it's far from the first time he asked her to work for him, so I'm wondering at the repetition.
On the other hand, if she really invests $600,000 in the firm (OUCH), I guess she won't be leaving soon. And I really loved it that Peter offered to put up the $ for her. I don't really want them to get back together, but I do love the friends-with-benefits relationship they're having at the moment; it seems to suit them both.
My favorite moment of the episode, though, was when she came out as an atheist. That was SO Alicia, and yet not, at the same time. We so seldom see her control actually slip, so it was interesting that she basically told the truth out of anger/rebellion, after being the dutiful liar mouthpiece for the firm in court.
Meanwhile, I am very excited that Cary also made partner, because I like the fact that he and Alicia are now back on equal ground. And while I thought the whole Chumhum prenup scenario was kind of awful (allowing David Lee to display his Machiavellian manipulation skills--I can't decide if he's sleazier than Canning or just equally sleazy), I loved how Cary really got to show how good he is at working with people. And really, any Cary scenes are good scenes for me--Matt Czuchry is really too beautiful, especially when he's smiling. I also love that it was probably his conversation with Nathan Lane that got Nathan Lane back on L&G's side in the bankruptcy hearing. Their friendship was my favorite part of that whole storyline, and I'll be sad if it's going away.
At any rate, the fact that Cary and Alicia are now partners is going to do interesting things to future storylines, or at least I hope it will.
I also went and saw "Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters" last weekend with![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
rsadelle, and while I went in with low expectations, it was even more hilariously awful than I was anticipating.
Things I hated:
--The equation of evil with ugliness
--The gore factor. There was some truly gory violence
--The general witch-hunting vibe. I mean, yes, it was in the title, and yes, by the end of the film we realize there are some good witches, but I guess I didn't realize how offensive I would find it--especially the whole section at the beginning where we are told through faux-medieval art of the careers of Hansel and Gretel from childhood to adulthood, where most of the witches were drawn to look very similar to anti-Semitic medieval portraits of Jews. It pissed me off.
Things I liked:
--The steampunk aesthetic. (Is it still steampunk when it's really the 17th c. rather than the 19th?) The "missing children on milk bottles" thing was hilarious, as were most of the guns, and Hansel's timer watch
--The troll. (I wanted Gretel/Edward more than Hansel/Gretel)
--The Jimmy Olsen character (though I would have rather they fridged him than the good witch)
Things that made me go WTF???
--Hansel's diabetes. Why was that in there? I could not figure out what that was doing there, narratively. I mean, I knew his reliance on insulin would interrupt a fight, but other than that I could not figure out the point
--Why Hansel and Gretel's mom didn't, I don't know, warn them in advance before sending them out into the forest? Give them advice on how to cope in a forest? Have a contingency plan? Leave them a note just in case?
Things that would have improved this film:
--Not fridging the good witch
--If Famke Janssen had actually turned out to be Hansel and Gretel's mom
--Plot and/or character development
But I haven't given TV up entirely. I really liked this week's Good Wife, for example.
I am really wondering if they are setting things up to have Alicia leave Lockhart-Gardner? I really really empathized with her sense of betrayal when she found out 5 associates were offered partnership and basically the firm was using it to fundraise, because it completely removed her sense of accomplishment at being made partner. And while I can't see her every joining Canning's firm--that man is SUCH a sleazy sleazeball, OMG--I still wonder what him giving her his card was all about. I mean, it's far from the first time he asked her to work for him, so I'm wondering at the repetition.
On the other hand, if she really invests $600,000 in the firm (OUCH), I guess she won't be leaving soon. And I really loved it that Peter offered to put up the $ for her. I don't really want them to get back together, but I do love the friends-with-benefits relationship they're having at the moment; it seems to suit them both.
My favorite moment of the episode, though, was when she came out as an atheist. That was SO Alicia, and yet not, at the same time. We so seldom see her control actually slip, so it was interesting that she basically told the truth out of anger/rebellion, after being the dutiful
Meanwhile, I am very excited that Cary also made partner, because I like the fact that he and Alicia are now back on equal ground. And while I thought the whole Chumhum prenup scenario was kind of awful (allowing David Lee to display his Machiavellian manipulation skills--I can't decide if he's sleazier than Canning or just equally sleazy), I loved how Cary really got to show how good he is at working with people. And really, any Cary scenes are good scenes for me--Matt Czuchry is really too beautiful, especially when he's smiling. I also love that it was probably his conversation with Nathan Lane that got Nathan Lane back on L&G's side in the bankruptcy hearing. Their friendship was my favorite part of that whole storyline, and I'll be sad if it's going away.
At any rate, the fact that Cary and Alicia are now partners is going to do interesting things to future storylines, or at least I hope it will.
I also went and saw "Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters" last weekend with
rsadelle, and while I went in with low expectations, it was even more hilariously awful than I was anticipating. Things I hated:
--The equation of evil with ugliness
--The gore factor. There was some truly gory violence
--The general witch-hunting vibe. I mean, yes, it was in the title, and yes, by the end of the film we realize there are some good witches, but I guess I didn't realize how offensive I would find it--especially the whole section at the beginning where we are told through faux-medieval art of the careers of Hansel and Gretel from childhood to adulthood, where most of the witches were drawn to look very similar to anti-Semitic medieval portraits of Jews. It pissed me off.
Things I liked:
--The steampunk aesthetic. (Is it still steampunk when it's really the 17th c. rather than the 19th?) The "missing children on milk bottles" thing was hilarious, as were most of the guns, and Hansel's timer watch
--The troll. (I wanted Gretel/Edward more than Hansel/Gretel)
--The Jimmy Olsen character (though I would have rather they fridged him than the good witch)
Things that made me go WTF???
--Hansel's diabetes. Why was that in there? I could not figure out what that was doing there, narratively. I mean, I knew his reliance on insulin would interrupt a fight, but other than that I could not figure out the point
--Why Hansel and Gretel's mom didn't, I don't know, warn them in advance before sending them out into the forest? Give them advice on how to cope in a forest? Have a contingency plan? Leave them a note just in case?
Things that would have improved this film:
--Not fridging the good witch
--If Famke Janssen had actually turned out to be Hansel and Gretel's mom
--Plot and/or character development