Galileo, Galileo
May. 3rd, 2011 10:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
swatkatIf you haven't read this already: Pull Your Little Arrows Out by hibernate, Legend of the Seeker, Cara/Kahlan, "Sharing a bed is really the only rational option." Featuring dirty rhyming, ~powerful magic, menacing cows and a lot of feelings.
Oh Seeker fandom, you bring me so much joy. *happy sigh*
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Fringe 3.21 (3.22 promo under cut)
I'm withholding judgment until the finale. That's basically it, guys, because I'm a bundle of whine right now and I'm not sure that's a very rational response when I have only watched one half of a two-parter and an intentionally overblown promo. But there was something about this episode - the somewhat choppy editing, too many things happening together and Sam Weiss' ~man of mystery schtick (which I'm really really tired of) - that made me apprehensive, and the Fox movie-style trailer just added to that apprehension:
You know what is wrong with this promo? Olivia. WHERE IS OLIVIA???
I'm being melodramatic, even more so because the narrative in 3.21 did a couple of great things:
a. Reassured us about Olivia's significance in the narrative (IMMENSE); and the nature of her role - she's the crowbar, she pries open the machine with her mind while Peter surrenders himself to the machine like a prisoner, bound by both hands (I also enjoyed the circularity of walking up to the machine hand in hand, echoing the flashback episode).
b. Played up, FINALLY, Olivia's SUPERPOWERS. Because she's a SUPERHERO DAMMIT and there just isn't enough of it on this show.
c. Reassured us that yes, Olivia is broken, and that she's loved just the way she is, she's not going to be fixed. The Walter&Olivia scene had to be the loveliest scene the two of them have shared so far. Because while Walter is responsible for a lot of Olivia's damage - "Be a better man than your father"; Peter's fathers are not nice men - he is also perhaps the only person who understands what it truly means to be broken, who discovers beauty in the oddest things. That's why he can look at Olivia and tell her how special she is.
BUT. The promo. Agent Bishop. It brings back all my fears about the show trying to turn Peter into a Manly Man of Action, and I'm afraid that's not going to be assuaged before the next episode.
So. Yeah. Withholding judgment. WHY IS IT NOT FRINGE-DAY YET?
hibernate, Legend of the Seeker, Cara/Kahlan, "Sharing a bed is really the only rational option." Featuring dirty rhyming, ~powerful magic, menacing cows and a lot of feelings. Oh Seeker fandom, you bring me so much joy. *happy sigh*
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Fringe 3.21 (3.22 promo under cut)
I'm withholding judgment until the finale. That's basically it, guys, because I'm a bundle of whine right now and I'm not sure that's a very rational response when I have only watched one half of a two-parter and an intentionally overblown promo. But there was something about this episode - the somewhat choppy editing, too many things happening together and Sam Weiss' ~man of mystery schtick (which I'm really really tired of) - that made me apprehensive, and the Fox movie-style trailer just added to that apprehension:
You know what is wrong with this promo? Olivia. WHERE IS OLIVIA???
I'm being melodramatic, even more so because the narrative in 3.21 did a couple of great things:
a. Reassured us about Olivia's significance in the narrative (IMMENSE); and the nature of her role - she's the crowbar, she pries open the machine with her mind while Peter surrenders himself to the machine like a prisoner, bound by both hands (I also enjoyed the circularity of walking up to the machine hand in hand, echoing the flashback episode).
b. Played up, FINALLY, Olivia's SUPERPOWERS. Because she's a SUPERHERO DAMMIT and there just isn't enough of it on this show.
c. Reassured us that yes, Olivia is broken, and that she's loved just the way she is, she's not going to be fixed. The Walter&Olivia scene had to be the loveliest scene the two of them have shared so far. Because while Walter is responsible for a lot of Olivia's damage - "Be a better man than your father"; Peter's fathers are not nice men - he is also perhaps the only person who understands what it truly means to be broken, who discovers beauty in the oddest things. That's why he can look at Olivia and tell her how special she is.
BUT. The promo. Agent Bishop. It brings back all my fears about the show trying to turn Peter into a Manly Man of Action, and I'm afraid that's not going to be assuaged before the next episode.
So. Yeah. Withholding judgment. WHY IS IT NOT FRINGE-DAY YET?
