One wedding and several funerals
Oct. 5th, 2011 10:18 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
captainsblogDoctor. Dexter. Strange beings, mysterious rules, and lots, lots of tools. I realized yesterday, Even the theme songs mash up. And I'm not the only one who noticed:
So it seems fitting that, as one season ends, the other begins.
Spoilers!
I wouldn't call the ending "cheap." But it was definitely on the order of an after-Christmas Special sale. We could've saved a lot of grief had we only known that Our Hero could resolve his timestreams merely by sending in a plastic blow-up doll of himself (hell, he HAD a plastic blow-up doll of himself back in the Ganger episodes). Plus, I get the bit, from the Teselecta's first appearance, about River having to be "family" in order for her to communicate with him inside the tin; yet isn't she already family, in some kind of genetic-codey-dee-enn-ayey way? More to the point, isn't the dude already married?
My head was spinning five minutes in with all the pre-RTD/Moff references I had no idea about (okay, even a few Nines and even Tens in there I rather missed, but I was touched by the send-off to the Brig once I got what it was).
The mashup London was lovely, Churchill was his usual smiley-sneery self, and how can you go wrong with a blue head in a box?
Didn't get the whole Rory/Amy dynamic. How can she recognize one and not the other? Meh- 'tall worked out. As for "The Question," I haven't read the thousands of writings which have surely been written in plain sight since the weekend, but is "Doctor WHO?" it?, or is that just an Abbotty-Costelloey joke? Beyond that, my second question about The Question is just how much HHGTG spoofing will go on in the story itself about it from here out. I definitely counted one "Don't Panic" remark in there somewhere. This may turn into a drinking game if I'm not careful.
::relativelyhappysigh:: Just 81 shopping days until Christmas. Wait- that means that on airdate, it was 84 days. Which was.... twice 42!
Off to sip. (Coffee, you pervs:P)
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Comings and goings and goings and comings- and one, quite possibly, too soon.
I wasn't quite sure why they were moving so much off the events of last season, starting this one with a full five-year retrospect, with the likes of Lumen reduced to mere seconds. When he came out of it and back into his present, I thought it was recapping one of the final scenes from last year (which, admittedly, I'm just as fuzzy on details about as I am with lots of past Doctor that I've seen), but it turned into more of a reaffirmation that he still is who he is.
Except he isn't. I saw it, and![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
shadowhuntress, for one, picked right up on it: Dex and Deb are significantly "off" in their dynamic. What's not obvious is how much is scripted, how much just comes from the awwwwkwarrrrrd of the situation between the two now-split actors, and, hang on to your knives, how much comes from MCH maybe not wanting to do this anymore*. I expect it's a combo platter to some extent. They're still eminently watchable, and I can't say they're changing the relationship (at least not as bluntly and monologuishly as they did Batista-Laguerta), but I think that Emmy-worthy performance level may have gone over the side of the boat already.
I also hope they'll get away from just how standalone and stand-pat this week's Special Guest Sluicing was. It-all fit too neatly for me into the time allotted: Dex enters fixed time-space in his past. Stereotypes present themselves in order of height and unpopularity. Vic introduces himself and leaves every single ounce of redemption in his SUV (likely parked in a handicapped space). Dex sets em up and, after a BJ, knocks em down. No loose ends, no consequences, nothing tying any of it to his past performances or to what's now and brilliantly starting to go on with Edward James Olmos. As that unfolds, it's inevitable the connections will become greater and, the story with it, better.
Still. Nitpicks aside, there might not have been a better line on the television this year so far, in its context, than "Hammer Time!"
*This link keeps breaking the whole post when I try to embed it; let's try it without fancy-dancy coding:
http://filmwatch.com/news/858489/dexter-stalemate-between-michael-c-hall-and-showtime-puts-shows-future-in-limbo
Gorgeous fall day here. And now, actual productivity!
So it seems fitting that, as one season ends, the other begins.
Spoilers!
I wouldn't call the ending "cheap." But it was definitely on the order of an after-Christmas Special sale. We could've saved a lot of grief had we only known that Our Hero could resolve his timestreams merely by sending in a plastic blow-up doll of himself (hell, he HAD a plastic blow-up doll of himself back in the Ganger episodes). Plus, I get the bit, from the Teselecta's first appearance, about River having to be "family" in order for her to communicate with him inside the tin; yet isn't she already family, in some kind of genetic-codey-dee-enn-ayey way? More to the point, isn't the dude already married?
My head was spinning five minutes in with all the pre-RTD/Moff references I had no idea about (okay, even a few Nines and even Tens in there I rather missed, but I was touched by the send-off to the Brig once I got what it was).
The mashup London was lovely, Churchill was his usual smiley-sneery self, and how can you go wrong with a blue head in a box?
Didn't get the whole Rory/Amy dynamic. How can she recognize one and not the other? Meh- 'tall worked out. As for "The Question," I haven't read the thousands of writings which have surely been written in plain sight since the weekend, but is "Doctor WHO?" it?, or is that just an Abbotty-Costelloey joke? Beyond that, my second question about The Question is just how much HHGTG spoofing will go on in the story itself about it from here out. I definitely counted one "Don't Panic" remark in there somewhere. This may turn into a drinking game if I'm not careful.
::relativelyhappysigh:: Just 81 shopping days until Christmas. Wait- that means that on airdate, it was 84 days. Which was.... twice 42!
Off to sip. (Coffee, you pervs:P)
----
Comings and goings and goings and comings- and one, quite possibly, too soon.
I wasn't quite sure why they were moving so much off the events of last season, starting this one with a full five-year retrospect, with the likes of Lumen reduced to mere seconds. When he came out of it and back into his present, I thought it was recapping one of the final scenes from last year (which, admittedly, I'm just as fuzzy on details about as I am with lots of past Doctor that I've seen), but it turned into more of a reaffirmation that he still is who he is.
Except he isn't. I saw it, and
shadowhuntress, for one, picked right up on it: Dex and Deb are significantly "off" in their dynamic. What's not obvious is how much is scripted, how much just comes from the awwwwkwarrrrrd of the situation between the two now-split actors, and, hang on to your knives, how much comes from MCH maybe not wanting to do this anymore*. I expect it's a combo platter to some extent. They're still eminently watchable, and I can't say they're changing the relationship (at least not as bluntly and monologuishly as they did Batista-Laguerta), but I think that Emmy-worthy performance level may have gone over the side of the boat already.I also hope they'll get away from just how standalone and stand-pat this week's Special Guest Sluicing was. It-all fit too neatly for me into the time allotted: Dex enters fixed time-space in his past. Stereotypes present themselves in order of height and unpopularity. Vic introduces himself and leaves every single ounce of redemption in his SUV (likely parked in a handicapped space). Dex sets em up and, after a BJ, knocks em down. No loose ends, no consequences, nothing tying any of it to his past performances or to what's now and brilliantly starting to go on with Edward James Olmos. As that unfolds, it's inevitable the connections will become greater and, the story with it, better.
Still. Nitpicks aside, there might not have been a better line on the television this year so far, in its context, than "Hammer Time!"
*This link keeps breaking the whole post when I try to embed it; let's try it without fancy-dancy coding:
http://filmwatch.com/news/858489/dexter-stalemate-between-michael-c-hall-and-showtime-puts-shows-future-in-limbo
Gorgeous fall day here. And now, actual productivity!