So Gracepoint. Seriously?
I hope you don't think that I just come over for the spells and everything. I mean, I really like just talking and hanging out with you and stuff.
Willow ,'First Date'
Procedurals 1: Anything You Say Can and Will Be Used Against You.
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msbelle - Dec 11, 2014 5:26:21 pm PST #11006 of 11831
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
Typo Boy - Dec 11, 2014 9:02:16 pm PST #11007 of 11831
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
I always liked the Beckett/Castle interactions. Thought it at its best with banter and him expasperating her and she outcompeting him.
POssibly related: I mildly rec Mysteries of Laura. Fun, nothing special but fun. OK comedy, OK mysteries, really good acting.
Frankenbuddha - Dec 12, 2014 7:42:02 am PST #11008 of 11831
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
So Gracepoint. Seriously?
Right. Let's make it an even more depressing ending without really changing anything else.
Had you seen Broadchurch, msbelle?
JenP - Dec 12, 2014 8:26:36 am PST #11009 of 11831
I wish I hadn't caught only the very last episode of Broadchurch, because then I could watch it from the beginning without knowing the ending, and I could have watched Gracepoint the same way.
I think the twist(s) detracted from the ending and diluted the impact. Trying to think how I'd feel if I didn't have the Broadchurch info. I'm not sure, and I guess we can't really do a compare and contrast here.
In other, related news -- Series 2 of Broadchurch is supposed to start airing in January if my brief googling is true. Cool.
brenda m - Dec 12, 2014 9:58:00 am PST #11010 of 11831
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
More depressing?
msbelle - Dec 12, 2014 2:53:13 pm PST #11011 of 11831
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
I had not seen Broadchurch.
erikaj - Dec 12, 2014 4:00:57 pm PST #11012 of 11831
Always Anti-fascist!
I think it's cute too, TB. Kind of in a retro way, but I would have watched "White Collar" when I was thirteen too so I mean that in a fond way.(of course, in those days, I wouldn't have been quite comfotrable with that whole "Pretty. Want." feeling I have about Bomer sometimes, nor quite understood why it was a lost cause) Maybe Critics are too jaded, or always looking for that decade-defining show, which "Laura" clearly is not, but I don't feel like my time is defiled by looking at it or anything
Juliebird - Dec 12, 2014 4:08:07 pm PST #11013 of 11831
I am the fly who dreams of the spider
I stopped watching Gracepoint about four eps in because of time and it just wasn't as good as Broadchurch. But I watched the final ep and I liked the culprit(s) better, somehow. And of course, if you're going to remake a show and change the villain, why would you try to make it less horrible at the reveal? It was going to have to be on an equal level of horrible, except now a good portion of their audience has already seen that Horrible, so you need a new one, of equal or greater value. Or really great writers to make the intrigue even greater in some Machiavellian way. Like Detective Miller having done it.
Fucking Millers.
JenP - Dec 13, 2014 4:48:19 am PST #11014 of 11831
What did you think of the ending, msbelle? Did you have anyone picked as the killer? Did you feel like it was out of left field?
msbelle - Dec 13, 2014 6:27:52 am PST #11015 of 11831
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
Out of left field, the meeting stuff anyway. The actual killer part I had thought since ep 1 or 2.