I think there are inherent problems in having a giant "I must find my wife's killer," "I must find out who framed me," or "I must prevent the apocalypse" storyline. If the writers don't go resolve those after a couple of years, they taint the storyline. They have to get to happily ever after, and then figure out what the prince and princess did next. I would have been much happier if Jane had killed Red John in a way that was shown to be self-defense, and then he found a new reason to keep working with the police. I also like there to be a hope for people to get better, but they're leaving him emotionally stuck.
Oh, yeah, baby, it's snakalicious in here.
Xander ,'Empty Places'
Procedurals 1: Anything You Say Can and Will Be Used Against You.
This thread is for procedural TV, shows where the primary idea is to figure out the case. [NAFDA]
Ginger - Dec 16, 2011 12:33:23 pm PST #8533 of 11831
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
brenda m - Dec 16, 2011 12:41:42 pm PST #8534 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
Yes. As they were getting to that point in the story I was curious about where they would go with giving Jane new motivation to work with the police. And, not so much.
aurelia - Dec 16, 2011 5:50:35 pm PST #8535 of 11831
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
Prime Suspect had some good lines. "There's no murders in Norwegia. Just the occasional raised voice." "Our people dug the Erie Canal. Of course they can dig a hole through some sheet-rock."
It was interesting to hear Mark Sheppard doing an American accent.
§ ita § - Dec 16, 2011 6:38:58 pm PST #8536 of 11831
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Ugh, this episode of The Mentalist is irritating.
Starting off from Lisbon getting so teary and panicky when Jane was being resuscitated.
le nubian - Dec 16, 2011 6:42:29 pm PST #8537 of 11831
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
you haven't even finished it yet!
billytea - Dec 21, 2011 2:32:19 pm PST #8538 of 11831
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
I've been rewatching my DVDs of Life. I hadn't realised that Garret Dillahunt played Roman Nevikov. Very different performance from Raising Hope.
-t - Dec 21, 2011 2:46:21 pm PST #8539 of 11831
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Right? He was playing a lot of Russian gangsters there for a while.
Vonnie K - Dec 21, 2011 2:57:21 pm PST #8540 of 11831
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
Not to mention his dual evil roles in Deadwood, one banal, and the other really fucking scary.
As a matter of fact, I got so used to him playing bad guys, seeing him in Raising Hope initially gave me massive tonal dissonance.
Sheryl - Dec 21, 2011 3:08:25 pm PST #8541 of 11831
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
He was also in The Sarah Connor Chronicles as a terminator.
-t - Dec 21, 2011 3:46:20 pm PST #8542 of 11831
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
As a matter of fact, I got so used to him playing bad guys, seeing him in Raising Hope initially gave me massive tonal dissonance.
That made me enjoy him even more in Raising Hope, somehow. And I didn't realize that was him in either role in Deadwood. Huh.