tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post6615568173623411405..comments2024-03-28T10:18:00.370-05:00Comments on Gentlemen of Leisure: Last Week in TV #7Austin Gortonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14281239771248780430noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-8728849257278439902012-11-09T14:42:13.518-06:002012-11-09T14:42:13.518-06:00@Teebore: Different guy. That's her co-worker,...<br>@Teebore: <i>Different guy. That's her co-worker, who was at the station with her in the first episode. Her boyfriend/husband/whatever left shortly before the US blockade went into effect.</i><br /><br />I thought that her co-worker <i>was</i> her boyfriend/husband/whatever — <i>i.e.</i>, the same bearded French guy with glasses all along — hence my confusion at him being there after he left when the episodes clearly didn't air out of order.<br /><br>Blamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07342343767763035991noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-85661944922015732452012-11-09T14:29:21.614-06:002012-11-09T14:29:21.614-06:00@Blam: His Storybrooke identity nodding to James W...@Blam: <i>His Storybrooke identity nodding to James Whale is a real head-twister when you think about it</i><br /><br />I try not to. :) <br /><br /><i>If what he's saying is more powerful than magic is science as we know it then, yeah, sorry, introducing magic to science to create a hybrid procedure is magic</i><br /><br />Agreed. <br /><br />*cough*<i>gratuitousnudity</i>*cough*<br /><br />Sideboob! <br /><br /><i>I feel like there was a way to have her get Danny within her sights without the total climax followed by frustrating return to status quo. </i><br /><br />That was my frustration with that episode in a nutshell. <br /><br /><i> I don't remember if we're supposed to know whether it's a reference to their Marine division or just something Monroe got for himself or whether it was a bond between Sebastian and Miles.</i><br /><br />I think we're not supposed to know what it's a reference to at that time, but I could totally see Miles having been the real power behind the throne, so to speak, at one point. <br /><br /><i>so it was probably Rosie the Riveter or the 19th Amendment.</i><br /><br />I would love to see what she came up with for a 19th Amendment costume...<br /><br /><i>What's Magic-Dirt Lady's boyfriend doing back? (Or is this a different guy?)</i><br /><br />Different guy. That's her co-worker, who was at the station with her in the first episode. Her boyfriend/husband/whatever left shortly before the US blockade went into effect. <br /><br /><i>COB: "Interrogative, Ma'am: Why is there a French girl on my boat?"</i><br /><br />French jokes are beyond cliche at this point, but I have to admit, I did enjoy some of Robert Patrick's in this episode, in large part, I'm sure, because of Robert Patrick. <br /><br />@Anne: <i>apparently we've gotten to the point where we really don't watch any of the same tv- other than Sunday cartoons and Walking Dead </i><br /><br />Sounds like you should be watching better TV. Now that <i>House</i> is gone, what's your excuse? ;)<br /><br />Seriously though, we've also got <i>Top Chef</i> and <i>Glee</i> again. <br /><br />Austin Gortonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14281239771248780430noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-69093449836546293482012-11-02T20:21:49.449-05:002012-11-02T20:21:49.449-05:00apparently we've gotten to the point where we ...apparently we've gotten to the point where we really don't watch any of the same tv- other than Sunday cartoons and Walking DeadAnne Ahiershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04695186823472404436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-41882911931751345982012-11-02T19:05:00.768-05:002012-11-02T19:05:00.768-05:0030 Rock: Unwindulax
I like that they called it a ...<br><b><i>30 Rock</i>: Unwindulax</b><br /><br />I like that they called it a Jimmy Buffett rip-off straight out of the gate.<br /><br />Alec Baldwin has been looking pretty good this season, but his hair in this episode was unbelievably, distractingly brown.<br /><br />Jack: "I needed to unite the room around a common enemy and Ed Bagley Jr. was unavailable because the sail on his car broke."<br /><br /><b><i>Parks and Recreation</i>: Halloween Surprise</b><br /><br />Leslie dressing as Rosie the Riveter is brilliant. Of course she can't go as Hilary Clinton for meta reasons, and Doris Kearns Goodwin is hard to pull off, so it was probably Rosie the Riveter or the 19th Amendment.<br /><br /><i>It was a terrific bit of acting on the part of both Poehler and Scott, and a wonderfully sweet moment. </i><br /><br />That it was.<br /><br />April: "Shhhhhh..."<br /><br />Perd Hapley's book: <i>The Thing About Me Is, I'm Perd Hapley</i><br /><br /><b><i>Last Resort</i>: Skeleton Crew</b><br /><br />I'm with you that this was another confoundingly solid episode, particularly in terms of how the chaos of the outside world is being sketched, but I have questions.<br /><br />What's Magic-Dirt Lady's boyfriend doing back? (Or is this a different guy?)<br /><br />Am I really supposed to believe that the NATO crew didn't think to mention that those batteries were overdue to be changed?<br /><br />How does Bruce Davison get on a primetime network TV drama playing a respected admiral without somebody trimming his eyebrows?<br /><br /><i>I also gained a ton of respect for both Jesse Schram's character and the writers for making it clear from very early on that she isn't buying what her lawyer friend is selling. </i><br /><br />Me too.<br /><br />COB: "Interrogative, Ma'am: Why is there a French girl on my boat?"<br /><br>Blamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07342343767763035991noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-76202217093635447772012-11-02T19:03:01.856-05:002012-11-02T19:03:01.856-05:00Revolution: Sex and Drugs
*cough*gratuitousnudity...<br><b><i>Revolution</i>: Sex and Drugs</b><br /><br /><i>*cough*</i>gratuitousnudity<i>*cough*</i><br /><br />Yes, I've caught up with <i>Revolution</i>. A lingering cold left me more useless than usual last week so I had time to burn through some TV. <br /><br />I did read your intervening entries on the show but decided not to comment in past posts. My only specific comment about previous eps is that the last one was a major bummer in terms of having our heroes catch up to the train only to neither stop it nor rescue Danny nor even surreptitiously ride it to its destination. They got aboard, then got thrown off. You can't bring the opposing sides or the seekers and object or whatever face-to-face just to separate them again, especially with no loss and no real gain. I appreciate that Charlie got a greater resolve out of it, but I feel like there was a way to have her get Danny within her sights without the total climax followed by frustrating return to status quo. <br /><br /><i>even though, despite what TV and movies have taught us, I'm pretty sure a bullet from that gun at that range would have shredded his flask</i><br /><br />Well, I'm considering it a victory that he was even breathing hard due to the impact. On the other hand I really wish that there had been a character savvy enough to call him Flask Gordon and confuse the hell out of Charlie.<br /><br />So I had this theory forming as I mini-marathon'd the show that perhaps Miles was initially the power behind what became the Monroe Republic but Monroe made a better face for it or Miles just had no stomach for the politics. This is partly drawn from Miles being so much more active than Sebastian in the flashbacks of them together but largely, I admit, from the lingering shots of the M sigil that I feel practically beg us to consider whether the M didn't stand for "Miles" or "Matheson" rather than "Monroe" — although we did see Monroe, at least, with a tattoo of it in the earliest flashback of them on base; I don't remember if we're supposed to know whether it's a reference to their Marine division or just something Monroe got for himself or whether it was a bond between Sebastian and Miles.<br /><br>Blamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07342343767763035991noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-14524397167973164272012-11-02T19:00:19.251-05:002012-11-02T19:00:19.251-05:00I love Halloween on TV because all the costumes ar...<br><i>I love Halloween on TV because all the costumes are unrealistically elaborate and everyone can trick-or-treat in temperate, not-near-freezing weather</i><br /><br />Ha! You're right on both counts. It sucked so bad having a great costume (or any costume, really) and needing to wear a coat on top of it.<br /><br /><b><i>Once Upon a Time</i>: The Doctor</b><br /><br />I got it when he said that the procedure was "experimental". His Storybrooke identity nodding to James Whale is a <i>real</i> head-twister when you think about it, because the curse would have to know that Whale had directed the 1931 <i>Frankenstein</i> as opposed to just consider a synonym or character trait like Ruby / Red and Archie Hopper / Jiminy Cricket. <br /><br />The fact that his world was black-&-white was awesome. One potential nitpick is that Mary Shelley's Victor Frankenstein was renamed Henry Frankenstein in the 1931 Universal film — which like the Universal <i>Dracula</i> movie was actually adapted more directly from a stage play based on the book than the book itself, although I don't recall if the play used Victor or Henry — so the Whale name and the stagey laboratory setting mix allusions a bit. Despite Universal having merged with NBC, however, I would <i>love</i> it if some licensing detente could be reached such that the trademarked Universal Monsters versions of the characters could be fairly explicitly referenced and, as you say, all be shown to reside in that realm.<br /><br />One more potential nitpick, I guess, whether meta with script or in-story with character I'm not sure, is that I gotta disagree with Victor. It was magic. If what he's saying is more powerful than magic is science as we know it then, yeah, sorry, introducing magic to science to create a hybrid procedure is magic. And if the way science works in his realm is more fantastic than it does in ours then it's just basically a different kind of magic, too (at least from our perspective, so maybe he gets a pass there).<br /><br>Blamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07342343767763035991noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-73941440028125985312012-11-02T16:13:59.900-05:002012-11-02T16:13:59.900-05:00@Mock: Neither I nor my wife get why....clue us in...@Mock: <i>Neither I nor my wife get why....clue us in?</i><br /><br />James Whale was the director of the original Universal <i>Frankenstein</i> in 1931 (as well as <i>Bride of Frankenstein</i>).<br /><br />I didn't make the connection (nor never would have) until the episode starting hinting that he might be Frankenstein. <br /><br /><i>My wife also thinks Baelfire will end up being Henry's father.... </i><br /><br />I've seen that idea discussed in a few places. I could see it (at this point, Henry's father has to be SOMEBODY, so unless it's going to be a new mystery character they haven't introduced yet, Baelfire seems a logical choice. And it adds some thematic resonance to everything). Austin Gortonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14281239771248780430noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-23007038116816442682012-11-02T16:03:42.973-05:002012-11-02T16:03:42.973-05:00Dr. Whale is Dr. Frankenstein (clever naming, by t...<b> Dr. Whale is Dr. Frankenstein (clever naming, by the way)</b><br /><br />Neither I nor my wife get why....clue us in?<br /><br /><b>Maybe time just works differently in each realm? </b><br /><br />That's what we've been thinking. My son and I keep talking about making a character chart and timelines to keep things straight.<br /><br />My wife also thinks Baelfire will end up being Henry's father....MOCK!https://www.blogger.com/profile/02854497329647596811noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-461501881248837432012-11-02T11:59:34.275-05:002012-11-02T11:59:34.275-05:00@Matt: Even when he's not the funniest thing ...@Matt: <i> Even when he's not the funniest thing in whatever he's in, somehow he's always my favorite thing in whatever he's in. If that makes any sense...</i><br /><br />Ha! I follow you. I did enjoy both him and Amy Sedaris. I should have mentioned them both. <br /><br />Austin Gortonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14281239771248780430noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-48001471368567447622012-11-02T11:32:21.105-05:002012-11-02T11:32:21.105-05:00"And the idea that Kellen Lutz is Lutz's ..."<b>And the idea that Kellen Lutz is Lutz's nephew was amusing.</b>"<br /><br />Wikipedia thinks this is true, but since I can't find anything else about it with a Google search, I'm inclined to think it's fake info.<br /><br />Also -- no mention of Gary Cole's appearance? Even when he's not the funniest thing in whatever he's in, somehow he's always my favorite thing in whatever he's in. If that makes any sense...<br /><br />"<b>Of all the boxes of boyfriend stuff Ann had, there wasn't a box for poor forgotten Mark.</b>"<br /><br />He really is forgotten, too. I forgot he was ever on the show till you mentioned him just now.Matthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14580725636327122073noreply@blogger.com