Leonore
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Post by Leonore on Jul 31, 2011 23:27:30 GMT -5
If you like season 8 you must be right up there with Mother Teresa. ;D I guess Mother Teresa and I will be watching on August 29th! Check out Techguy's episode listings for August. Four of the Season 8 episodes are being shown: Faithfully, Folie A Deux, Family Values, and Lady's Man. ;D USA still can't get them in the right order though...Arrrrrrrgh!
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kacesq
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Post by kacesq on Aug 1, 2011 5:23:45 GMT -5
Hmmm....least favorite? Well, I'll thrown in a Logan eppy first - I never liked Renewal; didn't care for the whole Kelli Williams subplot.
As for G/E eppies, you can throw in both Great Barrier and Grow because I felt the NW arc should've ended with A Person of Interest. Great Barrier was just horrible and I agree with alliehalliwell about how NW was handled in Grow, being the "savior" of the little girl.
I hate, hate, hate Untethered. I don't think I can ever watch that episode again. For a show and an actor that disdained "soap" that eppy was such bad soap. I don't consider that a traditional CI episode, though - if I went with the more traditional episode, I hated Semi-Detached. I didn't like anyone in that - not the perp, not Fisher Stevens, not Nelda's ex-husband. Blech.
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Post by maherjunkie on Aug 1, 2011 11:51:03 GMT -5
To me they are like Sex and the City without Big. Blech.
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Post by skittles4me on Aug 1, 2011 16:35:59 GMT -5
Logan/Wheeler: 30 and Assassin.
Goren/Eames: Maledictus and Magnificat: Wrongful Life was quite suckish too.
Nichols/Wheeler: Only liked Passion. The rest were meh.
Nichols/Stevens: Didn't mind Delicate. All the rest were Ugh.
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Post by emr on Aug 2, 2011 0:35:48 GMT -5
I am one of the lurkers of this site...I always check in but never contribute until now. I never liked Proud Flesh either until this summer when I watched Rupert Murdoch and son testify. Murdoch has always been on my list Evil-Doers without any real facts. I checked him out and was amazed by what I found out.
RP has two sons from a first (or second?) marriage, the first was groomed to takeover the family empire but when he proved disappointing, son #1 w. as sacrificed (not literally as in the PF), son #2 takes over. All of this happens after Murdoch marries a much younger Asian women who was once the nanny of someone else. She breaks up that marriage and marries him only to divorce him when Murdoch is available. Murdoch has two daughters with this woman. There is a question of whether these daughters will inherit as equals when Murdoch dies. The daughters were born in 2001 and 2003,
Eery, spooky and totally weird. This episode was from S5(2005), enough time for this to become known and folded into a script? I think so. I don't know if it makes it a better episode for others but knowing this backstory gives me more respect for the writers intent.
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Post by maherjunkie on Aug 2, 2011 10:35:30 GMT -5
You didn't like Assasin?? Why woman, why??!
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Post by skittles4me on Aug 2, 2011 11:50:40 GMT -5
Hey MJ... I actually don't remember specifically why I don't like Assassin.... I'll have to watch it again. I think I just didn't like the main character lady. I also didn't feel much sympathy for the guy who was poisoned or his gf in 30. In Maledictus the thought of that little boy poisoning his mom and Magnificat- the scene when the dad shows the mom the empty bedroom..... just tears my heart out. I can't stand to watch those again. Kacesq, I didn't mind Renewal, after all, we DO get to see Eames throw her 98 pound 5'2" self over that counter! ( check out the gif at the end of this Lovely Kathryn blog post.) Also, Cagney and Lacey, I mean, Wheeler and Eames take down that perp. GIRL POWER! LOL But Logan's story did seem a bit out of place and the ghost at the window at the end??? Very un-LOCI. I liked Proud Flesh! It wasn't my very favorite, but it had a lot of fun moments: Eames saying "He died with his freak on" Bobby eyeballing the dominatrix Eames eye roll in the cafeteria line when Larry said "They're guests" Eames explaining SST to Deakins "The family jewels" The ex Mrs. S.: "The kinkiest Trip ever got was muting the sports channel during sex" and "That family runs on denial" Bobby digging into that candy dish and Jonas saying "Help yourself detective" Professor L.: "This story of yours is-it's Kafkaesque" Eames: " That would make you the bug, Larry. You know what I like to do with bugs? I like to watch my partner squash them!" Bobby asks a shop owner a question in Chinese. Shop owner: (in Chinese) You speak Chinese like my little dog. Translator: She said.... Bobby: (embarrassed) I know. I got it. Eames: (amused) So did I!
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Post by maculae on Aug 2, 2011 15:53:27 GMT -5
I think the only criteria for me would be whether or not I'd watch the episode again. There are very few episodes that I wouldn't rewatch because despite bad stories they would have good acting.
Most of season 8 was a stinker for me. From bad storylines to phoned in performances. While I watched it in the intentional order, I still hated it. Walon Green didn't know WTH he was writing. He didn't know how to structure a proper CI story and he didn't know the characters. VDO seemed like he didn't want to be there. I could go on. But I think that's too easy a season to hate.
I wasn't a fan of Untethered mainly because of the 2nd half. I did enjoy the 1st half. I may be the only person that thinks that VDO went WAY over the top on the slab and it's just awkward to watch. It wasn't a clunker of an episode by any means, and by all rights, was captivating storywise and also important to Goren's arc.
The Goldblum episode in S9 where he went to London was so weird and so bad, I had no clue why I was watching it in the first place. Same with their "Twilight" episode. In fact, while S8 was good to him, most his S9 episodes except his last one, were dire. I always felt bad for him though, he got the crappy G/E showrunner from S8, he was becoming the lead of the show that had just dumped much loved characters and he was partnered with someone with no personality at all. He didn't stand a chance.
I think the only reason I don't dislike Proud Flesh despite it being lackluster, was because the actors they hired spoke Mandarin fluently. In Chinoiserie NONE of the main characters that were supposedly from China spoke Canto or Mandarin well. The entire premise of Chinoiserie was based on what the woman was screaming in the streets. I had no clue what in the world she was saying. Heck, I'd say that no one understood her initially because she wasn't saying anything in any real language. It drove me crazy. But I loved Goren's antics in that episode, so I didn't dislike it either.
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kacesq
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Post by kacesq on Aug 2, 2011 19:45:43 GMT -5
You are not the only person! I find the 2nd half of Untethered to be unwatchable primarily for those slab scenes.
Skittles, I don't like Maledictus and Magnificat for the same reasons. They're two eppies I haven't rewatched dozens of times...My intense dislike of Renewal's Kelli Williams subplot meant that I completely blocked out the Eames/Wheeler action, lol. I may need to rewatch that eppy again now that I have it on DVD and FFd the Logan stuff. Which hurts me, because I love me some Mike Logan.
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Post by maherjunkie on Aug 6, 2011 8:37:38 GMT -5
I find the subplot more believable than the actual story. That is one multitasking perp! I also find it hard to believe that Logan would arrest Julian knowing that he couldn't have much on him. Let Logan have Holly! The man is in deep need of female contact, preferably on a more meaningful level.
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Post by DonnaJo on Aug 7, 2011 6:28:13 GMT -5
May I join both of you? I, too, must fast forward through most of the second half of "Untethered" because I find VDO's acting - particularly in the slab room - cringeworthy.
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Post by skittles4me on Aug 7, 2011 20:00:36 GMT -5
May I join both of you? I, too, must fast forward through most of the second half of "Untethered" because I find VDO's acting - particularly in the slab room - cringeworthy. Me too! Me too! Add me to that list!
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Post by Moonbeam on Aug 7, 2011 20:51:58 GMT -5
Well, I'm not sure VDO's acting was cringeworthy, just that it was so out of character and different for Goren.
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