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Undercovers 1x03 ‘Devices’
This show is still cute. It’s a very light and fluffy sort of show.
• I love the Sam/Leo/Steven trio and I’m glad that Leo’s here to stay. I can see myself becoming OT3 about the Bloom’s and their boyfriend. They just really had that vibe this episode. I loved the scene of the three of them changing to infiltrate the summit. It’s one of the things that hit OT3 buttons for me. Another OT3 moment was actually the Steven/Leo conversation at the Bloom house.
• One issue I had was Sam’s dress. It was a very nice and sexy dress (I loved the colour) but this was a business summit and the dress wasn’t really appropriate. Why the hell couldn’t she have been wearing a business suit just like the guys? Pants, jacket and button-up – she could still look nice but also look professional instead of like she was going to a party. Why does she have to be so overtly sexy? This annoys me (though it’s certainly not specific to this show, unfortunately).
• I do not buy them finding Nasir’s husband alive; that was a little too fluffy even for this show and even with Kruger’s apparent inability to kill someone.
• I liked that Hoyt was shown to be a competent spy but I’m not sold on the character yet.
• I like Shaw a lot and I love his abrasive/exasperated interactions with Sam and Steven. I think they’re a lot of fun. He’s perfect.
• What this show is desperately missing though is another female spy. The Bloom’s work with Leo and Hoyt and Shaw but our only female reoccurring so far is Sam’s somewhat ditzy sister Lizzy. I want a kickass female spy who works with the Blooms in a Leo/Hoyt way and with whom Sam can be BFF with.
Haven 1x12 ‘Resurfacing’
• When James was saying that ‘it took everything I had’ it sounded like he was implying that it was he who was causing him to be visible again and yet it seems obvious that it was Audrey who was doing it. Also I wasn’t very certain whether he was dying or if he was just returning to his too fast state permanently? If it’s the latter wouldn’t Audrey be able to at some latter point help him again?
• I guess we now know why the chief and Audrey’s FBI boss wanted her in Haven though we’ve certainly had hints before. For whatever reason she seems to be able to help those afflicted, just like her mother. Or I’m also entertaining the possibility that Audrey is Lucy. Anyway, it appears that Audrey is afflicted as well. I think it would have been a much better end to the episode to have had Audrey save James, for her to bring him back the way Lucy did when he was a child and for the first time to actively use her ‘abilities’ to save someone. Plus what’s going to happen to Michael who has James same affliction if she can’t help James? It just would have worked better.
• I hope we see more of Tracy and that she and Audrey become friends. I always think Audrey needs more friends, especially girl friends.
• ... I was writing my thoughts as I watched so the reveal that Audrey has the exact scar on her foot to match the injury James explained he gave Lucy left me a bit gobsmacked. Before this episode I hadn’t ever considered the possibility that Audrey could be Lucy. But while watching this one and seeing Audrey interacting with James it just occurred to me as an interesting possibility. I love that I called it like that. I definitely was not expecting the episode to end with it being a real possibility! I think it could be really cool depending on what they do with it.
Damn – this is a summer shows and after what’s sure to be a cliff-hanger episode on Friday there will be nothing new for like ten months. That sucks.
Fringe 3x02 ‘The Box’
This was a good episode and it was nice to be back in ‘our’ blue universe with the rest of our characters.
• Red Olivia having Newton helping her with handy files on the people in Olivia’s life and books on the differences between the universes, plus video of Olivia to watch, all goes a long way towards believability in her getting away with her deception. But only to a point. There is clearly something very different between this Olivia and the ‘real’ one (AT is doing an amazing job) and there is only so much time I’m willing to suspend disbelief that Peter (or anyone else, but especially Peter) won’t figure it out. Red Olivia is just too different from Blue Olivia that even if she got all the details right something would still be off. I mean throughout this episode Olivia was very much in the background, she and Broyles didn’t even have one conversation instead it was Broyles and Peter leading everything, and while that was more noticeable to the audience I can’t imagine that the other characters didn’t note it either.
Still she is doing a pretty good job and Red Olivia remains awesome. I loved her asserting her being in charge to Newton and I loved her saving Peter (and the way that she just took off running into the tunnel). Though it’s clear that Walternate needs Peter and Walter for something I like to think Olivia saved Peter because she likes him as well.
• Red Olivia not having a photographic memory is interesting. Isn’t that something you’re born with instead of a skill you cultivate (like sharpshooting)?
• I really think that her Achilles heel is going to be Rachel and Ella and I am really happy that we’re, presumably, going to get to see her meeting them. Considering how Olivia left things with Rachel, Rachel should be anxious about her sister too.
• I’m assuming the bit at the end of the last episode happened directly before this episode but if so Peter and Olivia in that scene feels a little off. It seems clear that they’re moving their relationship at a slow pace and that scene on the building steps felt very intimate. I wonder if that might not be a flash into the future a bit?
• Peter’s relationship with Walter feels a lot more – pleasant, open, and responsive – than I was expecting? I mean watching them interact they feel very similar to last season before the truth came out. There may be less affection on Peter’s part but he still talks to his father the same way and I was expecting a lot more distance and tension between them then we actually see. I hear what I was expecting when Peter confides in Olivia so I guess it’s just that Peter is impressively good at being patient and pleasant with Walter despite his feelings?
• Peter calling his biological father ‘Walternate’ feels a bit bizarre. Also bizarre is him making no mention of his mother in all his talk about the other universe or his father.
• So pieces of the device are found in both universes – so either there was travel between the two long before Walter or there is a third universe (the Observer’s?) and they’re the ones who have planted the device (and now I am getting Contact flashes). I wonder if the whole point is that the two universes are supposed to work together to build the device which will in turn save them both?
• William Bell having left Walter Massive Dynamic was something I was half expecting and when it actually happened I wasn’t exactly pleased. To be honestly it annoyed me. It was Nina who was Bell’s right hand, who ran the company... and more than anyone including Walter she should have had a share. It should have been half and half at the least. Seriously, this is reminding me of say Alan’s will on GH and the stupidity of that. Nina gets a letter and a memento of their personal relationship but no acknowledgment of her place in the company and how integral she has been in running it? Fuck that. I’m feeling offended on her behalf. In fact the more I think about it the more it’s pissing me off.
This show is still cute. It’s a very light and fluffy sort of show.
• I love the Sam/Leo/Steven trio and I’m glad that Leo’s here to stay. I can see myself becoming OT3 about the Bloom’s and their boyfriend. They just really had that vibe this episode. I loved the scene of the three of them changing to infiltrate the summit. It’s one of the things that hit OT3 buttons for me. Another OT3 moment was actually the Steven/Leo conversation at the Bloom house.
• One issue I had was Sam’s dress. It was a very nice and sexy dress (I loved the colour) but this was a business summit and the dress wasn’t really appropriate. Why the hell couldn’t she have been wearing a business suit just like the guys? Pants, jacket and button-up – she could still look nice but also look professional instead of like she was going to a party. Why does she have to be so overtly sexy? This annoys me (though it’s certainly not specific to this show, unfortunately).
• I do not buy them finding Nasir’s husband alive; that was a little too fluffy even for this show and even with Kruger’s apparent inability to kill someone.
• I liked that Hoyt was shown to be a competent spy but I’m not sold on the character yet.
• I like Shaw a lot and I love his abrasive/exasperated interactions with Sam and Steven. I think they’re a lot of fun. He’s perfect.
• What this show is desperately missing though is another female spy. The Bloom’s work with Leo and Hoyt and Shaw but our only female reoccurring so far is Sam’s somewhat ditzy sister Lizzy. I want a kickass female spy who works with the Blooms in a Leo/Hoyt way and with whom Sam can be BFF with.
Haven 1x12 ‘Resurfacing’
• When James was saying that ‘it took everything I had’ it sounded like he was implying that it was he who was causing him to be visible again and yet it seems obvious that it was Audrey who was doing it. Also I wasn’t very certain whether he was dying or if he was just returning to his too fast state permanently? If it’s the latter wouldn’t Audrey be able to at some latter point help him again?
• I guess we now know why the chief and Audrey’s FBI boss wanted her in Haven though we’ve certainly had hints before. For whatever reason she seems to be able to help those afflicted, just like her mother. Or I’m also entertaining the possibility that Audrey is Lucy. Anyway, it appears that Audrey is afflicted as well. I think it would have been a much better end to the episode to have had Audrey save James, for her to bring him back the way Lucy did when he was a child and for the first time to actively use her ‘abilities’ to save someone. Plus what’s going to happen to Michael who has James same affliction if she can’t help James? It just would have worked better.
• I hope we see more of Tracy and that she and Audrey become friends. I always think Audrey needs more friends, especially girl friends.
• ... I was writing my thoughts as I watched so the reveal that Audrey has the exact scar on her foot to match the injury James explained he gave Lucy left me a bit gobsmacked. Before this episode I hadn’t ever considered the possibility that Audrey could be Lucy. But while watching this one and seeing Audrey interacting with James it just occurred to me as an interesting possibility. I love that I called it like that. I definitely was not expecting the episode to end with it being a real possibility! I think it could be really cool depending on what they do with it.
Damn – this is a summer shows and after what’s sure to be a cliff-hanger episode on Friday there will be nothing new for like ten months. That sucks.
Fringe 3x02 ‘The Box’
This was a good episode and it was nice to be back in ‘our’ blue universe with the rest of our characters.
• Red Olivia having Newton helping her with handy files on the people in Olivia’s life and books on the differences between the universes, plus video of Olivia to watch, all goes a long way towards believability in her getting away with her deception. But only to a point. There is clearly something very different between this Olivia and the ‘real’ one (AT is doing an amazing job) and there is only so much time I’m willing to suspend disbelief that Peter (or anyone else, but especially Peter) won’t figure it out. Red Olivia is just too different from Blue Olivia that even if she got all the details right something would still be off. I mean throughout this episode Olivia was very much in the background, she and Broyles didn’t even have one conversation instead it was Broyles and Peter leading everything, and while that was more noticeable to the audience I can’t imagine that the other characters didn’t note it either.
Still she is doing a pretty good job and Red Olivia remains awesome. I loved her asserting her being in charge to Newton and I loved her saving Peter (and the way that she just took off running into the tunnel). Though it’s clear that Walternate needs Peter and Walter for something I like to think Olivia saved Peter because she likes him as well.
• Red Olivia not having a photographic memory is interesting. Isn’t that something you’re born with instead of a skill you cultivate (like sharpshooting)?
• I really think that her Achilles heel is going to be Rachel and Ella and I am really happy that we’re, presumably, going to get to see her meeting them. Considering how Olivia left things with Rachel, Rachel should be anxious about her sister too.
• I’m assuming the bit at the end of the last episode happened directly before this episode but if so Peter and Olivia in that scene feels a little off. It seems clear that they’re moving their relationship at a slow pace and that scene on the building steps felt very intimate. I wonder if that might not be a flash into the future a bit?
• Peter’s relationship with Walter feels a lot more – pleasant, open, and responsive – than I was expecting? I mean watching them interact they feel very similar to last season before the truth came out. There may be less affection on Peter’s part but he still talks to his father the same way and I was expecting a lot more distance and tension between them then we actually see. I hear what I was expecting when Peter confides in Olivia so I guess it’s just that Peter is impressively good at being patient and pleasant with Walter despite his feelings?
• Peter calling his biological father ‘Walternate’ feels a bit bizarre. Also bizarre is him making no mention of his mother in all his talk about the other universe or his father.
• So pieces of the device are found in both universes – so either there was travel between the two long before Walter or there is a third universe (the Observer’s?) and they’re the ones who have planted the device (and now I am getting Contact flashes). I wonder if the whole point is that the two universes are supposed to work together to build the device which will in turn save them both?
• William Bell having left Walter Massive Dynamic was something I was half expecting and when it actually happened I wasn’t exactly pleased. To be honestly it annoyed me. It was Nina who was Bell’s right hand, who ran the company... and more than anyone including Walter she should have had a share. It should have been half and half at the least. Seriously, this is reminding me of say Alan’s will on GH and the stupidity of that. Nina gets a letter and a memento of their personal relationship but no acknowledgment of her place in the company and how integral she has been in running it? Fuck that. I’m feeling offended on her behalf. In fact the more I think about it the more it’s pissing me off.