Eric talks about tv shows.

[alas_a_llama]

Arrow has been very - Arrowish. I'm enjoying it! But I probably couldn't tell you precisely why if pressed.

Walter and Diggle and Laurel are all excellent, though. Walter is probably my favourite character in the show, though, because I have a gigantic soft spot for somber, taciturn but amicable intellectuals. Diggle I liked at the very beginning and has only grown on me more since then. Laurel I wasn't keen on in the first episode, but man has she grown on me.

(You're too good for Ollie, Laurel.)

I like Moira, Thea, Joanna and Quentin too, but not as much as Walter, Diggle and Laurel. Although if they gave Joanna a bigger role, she'd definitely be up there.

Ollie is - hilarious? I don't necessarily like him, although he pings off my tendencies towards doting big-brotherishness when he's around Thea, but I'm not sure if we're even supposed to like him, to be honest. Ollie's major flaw, after all, his archetypal, tragic flaw that bears him down, is every single thing about him ever.

(I don't dislike him either. He's just - really, really funny.)





Elementary has been interesting! And has aligned up closely with my watching Game of Shadows out of order and playing Testament of Sherlock Holmes, so I'm on something of a Holmes kick right now.

It's interesting to see how all the various adaptations treat Holmes' hyper-observationyness, and how they treat his reaction to other people's reactions. On the latter count, Elementary!Sherlock is probably closest to canon: He's really, really vain about it, and you can see that he gets kind of shyly pleased when people praise him - which is something Doyle notes as early as A Study in Scarlet. There's a line somewhere where Watson thinks that Holmes reacts to praise of his abilities in much the same way that a teenage girl would react to being called beautiful.

But none of the adaptations really err especially close to canon when it comes to his hyperobservationynessthing: Ritchie!Holmes portrays it as an almost physical strain - count how many times in the two films put together that Holmes acts like he has the mother of all headaches, or is just plain outright exhausted. Moffat!Holmes portrays it as being nearly constantly about two steps off exploding with sheer rage at the rest of the world - which is probably my least favourite take, but is no less apt than the other two. Elementary!Holmes, though, comes off in general as quite childlike, with the associated wonder: There was a moment in the most recent episode where he asks Watson if she's still cross with him, and I was struck momentarily by just how kind of childlike that moment was.

And you also have stuff like Gregson trying to gently reassure him that he'll send him some cold cases to keep him occupied, and then just despairing when he's ignored. It's an interesting take on it. Ponderings.

Watson is awesome. I do wish they'd stop referring to her as 'disgraced', though. Disgraced would be if she was actually struck off - making a mistake and being suspended for a couple of months does not disgrace make.





Covert Affairs is - very thingy. Stuff.

Innit.

Um. Hm. I'm engaged but not enjoying it - it's the kind of 'steady spiral down to an inevitable tragedy that is always two steps off being averted but never will be because the personalities at play' plot that I hate. I don't like them, I don't enjoy them, they just bother me.

So there's that.




Once Upon a Time is good, lately. I'm much preferring this series to the last one. I like the focus on Rumple and Regina - although fandom vexes me with how quick it is to forgive Rumple for just about anything.

Cora and Hook are - people. Cora makes a very effective villain, I think, and I'd like to see more of her. Hook is - not very interesting? He very distantly reminds me of Atton, so I'm moderately engaged by him, but in general he's not all that much to write home about.

The Red Room development is interesting. It'll be interesting to see where they go with that.

Comments

[lienne]

Where are you in Covert Affairs? I stopped watching in I think mid-s2 and it didn't seem like it was doing that plot at that point. But maybe I was just missing it.

Elementary is my favourite. /snuggles it forever

[stuck_mynock]

Replying with pup journal, because I'm lazy.

Covert Affairs I'm up to date on. I have no idea what series that constitutes, though. Three, maybe? Idek, man, possibly four. The plot didn't kick in until after s2, though.

[nonbird]

Also replying with pup journal, because I'm also lazy: Damn! That makes me sad. I've been meaning to catch up on CA but now maybe I won't. (I don't like that plot either.)