I think that the storytelling in The Killing is as murky as the atmosphere.
Poor Buffy. Your life resists all things average.
Willow ,'First Date'
Cable Drama: Still Waiting for the Cable Guy to Show Up with the Thread Name...
To be determined... (but it's definitely [NAFDA])
sumi - Jun 20, 2011 9:50:43 am PDT #8125 of 11999
Art Crawl!!!
le nubian - Jun 20, 2011 10:27:48 am PDT #8126 of 11999
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
ooh snap.
Barb - Jun 20, 2011 11:19:16 am PDT #8127 of 11999
“Not dead yet!”
I haven't watched it since I went to NY about a month ago. I thought I'd be all impatient to get back to it and I really... wasn't.
Also, I'm irrationally annoyed by the depiction of Seattle weather and the sloppy cutaways from mildly overcast wide angle shots of the city skyline to closeup scenes taking place moments later where it's inevitably pouring rain.
sumi - Jun 20, 2011 12:59:13 pm PDT #8128 of 11999
Art Crawl!!!
From Twitter:
eeshmu Aisha Muharrar
I hope next season of The Killing is just Linden planning her wedding. She's totally moved on and is on a slow hunt for a cupcake tower.
Hee.
-t - Jun 20, 2011 1:01:37 pm PDT #8129 of 11999
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Heh, good one.
Morgana - Jun 20, 2011 2:46:38 pm PDT #8130 of 11999
"I make mistakes, but I am on the side of Good," the Golux said, "by accident and happenchance.” – The 13 Clocks, James Thurber
Just plot twist after plot twist doesn't add up to a good plot.
That was my rationale for abandoning Lost.
le nubian - Jun 22, 2011 6:36:55 am PDT #8131 of 11999
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
So, the critical response is still negative. With Mo Ryan coming in really and truly pissed. I missed this a few days ago:
lisah - Jun 22, 2011 6:43:45 am PDT #8132 of 11999
Punishingly Intricate
Wow, she expresses my thoughts about the show EXACTLY! I gave up on it a couple of eps in, though, and only saw the last few eps cuz Bob was watching. And yelling at the tv. SO disappointing.
§ ita § - Jun 22, 2011 6:59:17 am PDT #8133 of 11999
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Wow, Mo is mad. Real mad. I'm impressed.
-t - Jun 22, 2011 7:15:00 am PDT #8134 of 11999
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
This paragraph
One thing. Just one thing. The one thing the finale needed to do was tell me who killed Rosie Larsen. That's all I think many fans wanted at this point. Most of the other things I'd once liked about the show -- the performances, the atmosphere, etc -- had dissipated in a haze of boring red herrings and sludgy misdirects, so I was hanging on for that one bit of resolution.
is me. But I am not as mad as she is about the finale. I'll probably watch at least the first episode of the next season. In which I am pretty sure that final twist will be revealed to be not quite as earth-shattering as it's made out to be. Yeah, Holden faked evidence but I wouldn't be surprised if that was just because he "knows" Richmond is guilty. That seems totally in character.
What made me the most frutrated about the finale was that they had that car impounded for almost two weeks and no one looked checked the mileage and fuel tank against the log? That's just sloppy.