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You know, it was a really good episode (especially when compared to the snoozefest I watched yesterday, a.k.a. Marvel's Agents of ZZZZzzzzzzzz), and everybody was on their A game, there was only a few minutes of Laurel, Thea dialed down the annoying factor from 10 to, oh, 8.5 and I liked it. But I am so pissed off right now. Of all the people to be killed off, Moira Queen? Come on.
Arrow, I'm going to need you to go to your room and THINK ABOUT WHAT YOU'VE DONE.
At this point, I just want Slade Wilson gone. Fuck off, asshole. You had one fucking job, getting the worst actress on tv right now off our screens, but nooooooo, you just dropped by to have a fucking chat. Mirakuru, Shmirakuru, don't care.
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In the novel, she’s a very masculine character, who has had years of steroid abuse and is a lesbian, and it was unclear to me in the novel whether she was either transgender or a lesbian as a result of those horrible abuses and that horrible childhood and [beat.] that’s not how transgenderism or homosexuality works. So I didn’t want to contribute to that misconception of what it is to be transgender or a gay woman.
Thank you, ApathyMonger, and thank you, Bryan Fuller. Thank you so very, very much.
See, the reason I only started watching Hannibal about a month ago (when I inhaled an entire season in 3 days) was that, after loving Red Dragon (book and Manhunter movie) and Silence of the Lambs (book and movie) I absolutely loathed and despised Hannibal the novel. I hated it so much that after taking it with me on a trip to London to read on the plane, I left it in my hotel room on purpose. I have never watched the movie and I don't think I ever will. I considered it such bullshit, full of over the top, almost cartoonish characters, and it did the unforgivable: it explained Hannibal Lecter and tried to somehow create reasons for the way he is. Hannibal only works if you consider him a force of nature (we've often said that there's no way he could physically accomplish the things he does in the time available to him, so why try to explain him?).
Ugh. I don't even want to think about that crappy piece of shit. So I love that Fuller is fixing what he can, and making it all so incredibly stylish and stylised and many other adjectives I can't think of right now (that sling she was wearing! was that black leather? OMG).
This episode? I don't really know, I found it slightly disjointed but I'm fine with it, though I'd love to know what happened to Chilton and Miriam Lass.
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And just like that, I hate Thea again.
And Laurel is . . . not so bad. At least she listened to what her dad was telling her, even when she realised that the masked woman in black whose nose and mouth looked exactly like her sister's was, in fact, her sister. I mean, for fuck's sake Laurel. She doesn't even wear a hood to shadow her face a bit. How could you NOT see it? Could it BE any more obvious (I'm going through a Friends marathon right now, and it''s made me want to open an account on some forum, call myself Janice and respond to crazy news with: Oh. My. God!)?
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I'm hoping the following things are discussed and/or uncovered to make the FBI realize Chilton could not be the Ripper. Some have already been mentioned, I'm just consolidating for my own benefit.
He can't digest animal protein. This should be confirm-able via autopsy.
Does he have human traces in his stool?
How did Miriam survive while he was in the hospital after the Gideon encounter
Is he even physically able to do any of what we saw in his house. Again, his physical limitations are confirm-able. Just because he was moving around better this episode doesn't mean he could be physically fit enough to do all that was done in his house, or with any of the other recent murders.
Check out his whereabouts during all the murders. Just because he's been involved in the case the longest doesn't mean he wasn't out of state, or at a conference, or out of the country, etc during some of those times.
I was so frustrated at Jack during this episode, and at anyone with half a brain - yes, I mean you, Sassy Science Twosome. You let me down this week, dudebros. He walks with a cane, for fuck's sake. What the fuck is wrong with you? And Jack, the fuck? You seriously think that the Chesapeake Ripper, the guy who managed to keep an FBI trainee hidden for two years, and who managed to graft a politician into a tree overnight and plant him into a parking lot unseen, is really going to be caught running in the snow and blubbering? HAVE YOU LEARNT NOTHING FROM WILL?
And I feel really sorry for Miriam etc, but I kind of rolled my eyes during most of her segments. Because she's written as another dumb woman, who never bothered to even leave a fricking note on her bedside table or something. "I found out that the victim saw a Dr. Lecter once - probably nothing, but I thought I'd go there just in case, LOL!" And now she's been brainwashed into carrying out a hit on Chilton, yawn. I seriously hope Jack was pretending to believe her, playing the double bluff for Alana's benefit, as he realised that all that Alana knows, Hannibal knows. Otherwise he's too stupid for words.
Brr, no wonder Jack attacks Hannibal so violently in the scene we saw at the beginning of the season. The contempt he feels for the FBI was almost palpable in the way he killed the agents.
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I really enjoyed her as Ruby on Supernatural, and I'm pretty baffled as to why things are going so poorly.
I can honestly say that I loved her as Ruby 1.0 on Supernatural (much, much more than Genevieve) - as proof I present this scene, which I watch every time I need to see Dean and Sam being beaten up by a girl: http://youtu.be/nrJj-H13qJo (lately, I've really needed it. A lot). She was awesome.
What has changed?
This is my opinion: Since then, Cassidy has lost too much weight, and injected too much shit into her face. I referenced the Joey scene from friends for the same reason - she can't even make the horrified expressions he makes while trying to divide 232 by 13, because her face don't work no more. So she darts her eyes around like that's going to show great emotion. Newsflash, lady: it doesn't. Neither does bobbing your head around like one of those dashboard dolls, which used to be Marg Helgenberger's goto gesture for great emotions. I mention the weight not to be mean, or jealous, or a hater, but for a simple reason: as an actor, her body and her face are her canvas AND her paint. She had a certain physicality as Ruby that you realised when she was angry, or afraid, or really angry; you believed that she could treat Dean like her personal chew toy. Now she looks like a porcelain doll, or Brunette Lawyer Barbie, NEW! with eye movement.
Will it make any sort of difference to her role and where it's headed? I doubt that VERY much. I speak from the bitter experience of having to put up with the same thing with Erica Durance in Smallville, who was even worse - At least KC's eyes still show SOME emotion, compared to Busty McDeadeyes there. And they made her Lois fricking Lane, a much more, IMO, iconic character than Dinah Lance: yes, I prefer a woman who does things for herself, but Lois Lane is much more well known. And they kept Erica Durance, in spite of the fact that a screentest must have shown that she wasn't going to work out in the role.
So yeah - I still love Arrow, but Laurel is just a dead weight. In my opinion.
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Oh man, that last scene with Slade! Watch out everyone, Katie Cassidy is ACTING! No-one will be admitted during the EYE-DARTING SCENE!
Looks like she took Joey Tribbiani's soap opera acting class:
Okay, let's say I've just gotten bad news, well all I do there is try and divide 232 by 13 . . . . And that's how it's done.-
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Halfway through the episode I was about to post a furious call to arms, for all of us to converge on CBS carrying flaming torches and pitchforks: I thought they'd killed off Officer Mitchell. Oh yeah, that would have been a dealbreaker for me - seriously fuck D.B., fuck Obvious Perp, aka, Ms Botox McCollagenlips, fuck stupid kid with the stupid deathwish, especially fuck Morgan Brody, who seems to have mislaid her annoying lip gloss and replaced it with annoying dark red lipstick - is she auditioning for a role in a 30s movie or what?
Even fuck Greg, at this point - sorry dude, but I'm shallow with my tv guys, and the way you're so skinny nowadays, and that weird bullet-proof thing they gave you to wear, you look like the Stay-Puft Man went on a diet. I live for my infrequent sightings of Mitch, who's the only one actually doing his job in that place. Don't let them make you ride a desk, Mitch! You stay alive, no matter what occurs! I WILL FIND YOU!
And what happened to Sara's hair? The hell? Only Morgan can have good hair now?
The episode itself? Oh, lord. What I got from that was that you can walk into any police station in the U.S. with two loaded guns. Not being American myself, I'm sure that's true. Also, yes, the kid was reaching for the St Christopher's medal. And the SWAT team were supposed to know this, how exactly? You know what would have been a better idea, D.B.? Throwing the gun out first, making braintrust there take off his jacket and t-shirt, and come out bare-chested, so that the officers could SEE that he's unarmed. I really loved D.B. at first, but sometimes he's written like his parents smoked too much pot during his conception and gestation.
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S14.E21: Kitty
in CSI: Crime Scene Investigation [V]
Even before I did a little research about this episode, I thought Fee Fi Fo Fum, I smell the blood of a Backdoor Pilot aka, RUN! Don't look back! Now that Shue has been so "successful" on CSI, Arquette's trying her luck with tv! Will she be as annoying as our beloved Finn? Ask again later.
I actually didn't mind the rest, though Brass seems to be losing it, Greg was blink and you'll miss it, and Hodges was ritually humiliated- actually, I don't think I liked it that much.
Did Arquette actually say that a man wouldn't be professional about investigating porn? Huh? Though I admit, I was working on a tricky Candy Crush level at the same time.
Oh, CSI. Why can't I quit you.