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Jan. 12th, 2017 01:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
geebsWhat's with all the TV nowadays? So in addition to the plethora of normal shows I watch, I just said I was watching that one season of Bunheads, but now tumblr has convinced me to watch the new One Day at a Time and Sweet/Vicious. Well, its surprising I haven't been watching Sweet/Vicious already, as it seems like the kinda show that would be up my alley. As for ODaaT, it sounded like the reviews were pretty good, and then I heard the daughter was a lesbian, and you know me and my weird lesbian thing. Like I wouldn't call it a fetish, because that makes it sound like its a sexual thing, but its not, because its not like when I reblog gifsets on tumblr I'm being all, "2 chyx kissing, HOTT!" I just ship it.
I dunno if its because I've watched too much TV, but het relationships have gotten rather boring and there's more compelling stuff going on in the LGBT arena. I mean, there are still het couples I ship, but I've noticed a lot of times on shows, they don't even try. Like often times, the only reason the show presents to "ship" a couple is merely that they're the main guy and girl and they lack any sort of chemistry.
But I digress, regardless of that, the pilot for One Day at a Time was pretty good. They tackled a bunch of different issues (some I wasn't even expecting) in really good ways, so I'm sold.
TV commentary:
Frequency- But... it was self defense! Not talking about Raimy shooting Deacon Joe, because yeah, she definitely just executed him in cold blood. No, we find out what Moreno has on Satch. So they were responding to a domestic, a location they'd been to multiple times before. They find the kid unconscious, and the pregnant wife badly beaten. The husband, who did it, showed back up, and Satch chases him to the roof.
Now, the guy attacks Satch pretty bad. Like he even attacks Satch with a big-ass pipe, which is definitely assaulting a police officer with a deadly weapon. So its not like this guy was going quietly. Now, at one point Satch gets control back, and the guy is all, "I told that bitch not to get pregnant again!" And its not like Satch is so angry like Raimy was and just tosses the guy off the roof. The dude headbutts him and goes for his weapon, and its clear this guy is trying to kill Satch. They wrestle around some more and Satch ends up tossing the guy off the roof.
As I said, this guy was bigger, enraged, and if Satch hadn't thrown him off the roof, he would prolly be dead. So in this case it was definite self defense. But they act like when Moreno says to claim it was self defense, like its a lie. I guess since Moreno is a crooked a-hole, he could've spun it like it wasn't and blackmailed Satch that way, but Satch is all, "Sometimes I regret what I did!" And I'm baffled because what's there to regret?! You almost died!
Anyways, back to the Sullivans. So Raimy is pretty much effed, and Frank is close to being screwed too- the guy who hit him was drunk and drove off, but he ended up going into an ER and claims he t-boned a unmarked cop car and saw a body jump out of the trunk. So the police are doing an inventory of the cars to track down the issue.
I have to call shenanigans on the long time it takes for the time line to change to save Raimy from jail and bring Deacon Joe back to life, because its not like Frank did something in the intervening time to change the course of things. Joe is alive again because they never found the wife's body, so there was no manhunt, so there was no reason for him to hide and get a burner which Meghan would use to call Raimy and lead her to the cabin and thus find Meghan's body and chase after Joe and kill him in anger over all the people he killed.
Though I'm confused about why Raimy didn't go in the house the first time to (not) find the body, but whatever. Anyways, Deacon Joe moved the body because of the money Frank stole, which spooked him because the cops would be sniffing around his house because it was the mayor's church and he wanted the issue looked into immediately. But yeah, the time line should have changed after the accident and he got away, because the church would've always been looking for the money. I mean, I guess they had to wait for Frank to hear about it when he snuck in the house to try and kill Joe again, but otherwise that was always the way the timeline was going at this point.
The other thing I call shenanigans on is Julie's switcheroo of the cars and Satch being all suspicious of Frank. So when the lady cop is doing the car inventory, Frank says he returned it, they should find it in the motor pool. Obviously it isn't, because its wrecked. And Frank has some injuries, so Satch is suspicious. So Julie called her cousin to fix it and switch the cars out in the garage so Satch would see its there and not wrecked. Which, sure, the car he sees looks fine. But that doesn't negate the lie of Frank returning the car! He should still wonder why Frank has the car in his garage and not returned!
Despite Julie covering for him, she's still concerned about the fact that he is trying to murder the Nightingale. She says if he does this, he won't be the guy she married. Like she's fine with him doing what it takes to hold Nightingale for now (which involves Frank planting the stolen money, but more on that later), but it sounds like she wants him to find another way. Heh, she tells him to think of Raimy, and he struggles not to say, "Its Raimy who told me to do this in the first place!"
At this point, they really should just bring her in all this. I mean, they're flying blind anyways, so their worry of too many variables changing is moot. Like isn't it better for her to know so they can control her actions and thus make it harder for her to unknowingly blunder the timeline? Like they're worried her knowing will cause her to act in ways to change things. But their actions already influence her, which could change the timeline. They know Frank already has to watch his actions, so why not bring her in so she can watch hers?
In any case, Raimy figures out Meghan is still alive, but since Raimy knows a bunch of stuff she shouldn't, Joe is prolly freaked out and will think Meghan talked and thus take her to the cabin again to question her. So Raimy goes up there, though she notices she's being followed. She has the plates run, and its a Rosie Perkins, so who knows what that development is about.
Anyways, we see Deacon Joe at the cabin menacing Meghan. But we also flip back to the past, where Frank successfully frames Joe for the theft. When we return to the present, when Raimy gets to the cabin, its now empty. She runs outside when she hears Meghan screaming, and goes to find her cradling her brother's body, that is bleeding. Now, was there a timeline change from the last scene after Deacon Joe gets arrested in the past, or was this where that scene was heading regardless?
I dunno if its because I've watched too much TV, but het relationships have gotten rather boring and there's more compelling stuff going on in the LGBT arena. I mean, there are still het couples I ship, but I've noticed a lot of times on shows, they don't even try. Like often times, the only reason the show presents to "ship" a couple is merely that they're the main guy and girl and they lack any sort of chemistry.
But I digress, regardless of that, the pilot for One Day at a Time was pretty good. They tackled a bunch of different issues (some I wasn't even expecting) in really good ways, so I'm sold.
TV commentary:
Frequency- But... it was self defense! Not talking about Raimy shooting Deacon Joe, because yeah, she definitely just executed him in cold blood. No, we find out what Moreno has on Satch. So they were responding to a domestic, a location they'd been to multiple times before. They find the kid unconscious, and the pregnant wife badly beaten. The husband, who did it, showed back up, and Satch chases him to the roof.
Now, the guy attacks Satch pretty bad. Like he even attacks Satch with a big-ass pipe, which is definitely assaulting a police officer with a deadly weapon. So its not like this guy was going quietly. Now, at one point Satch gets control back, and the guy is all, "I told that bitch not to get pregnant again!" And its not like Satch is so angry like Raimy was and just tosses the guy off the roof. The dude headbutts him and goes for his weapon, and its clear this guy is trying to kill Satch. They wrestle around some more and Satch ends up tossing the guy off the roof.
As I said, this guy was bigger, enraged, and if Satch hadn't thrown him off the roof, he would prolly be dead. So in this case it was definite self defense. But they act like when Moreno says to claim it was self defense, like its a lie. I guess since Moreno is a crooked a-hole, he could've spun it like it wasn't and blackmailed Satch that way, but Satch is all, "Sometimes I regret what I did!" And I'm baffled because what's there to regret?! You almost died!
Anyways, back to the Sullivans. So Raimy is pretty much effed, and Frank is close to being screwed too- the guy who hit him was drunk and drove off, but he ended up going into an ER and claims he t-boned a unmarked cop car and saw a body jump out of the trunk. So the police are doing an inventory of the cars to track down the issue.
I have to call shenanigans on the long time it takes for the time line to change to save Raimy from jail and bring Deacon Joe back to life, because its not like Frank did something in the intervening time to change the course of things. Joe is alive again because they never found the wife's body, so there was no manhunt, so there was no reason for him to hide and get a burner which Meghan would use to call Raimy and lead her to the cabin and thus find Meghan's body and chase after Joe and kill him in anger over all the people he killed.
Though I'm confused about why Raimy didn't go in the house the first time to (not) find the body, but whatever. Anyways, Deacon Joe moved the body because of the money Frank stole, which spooked him because the cops would be sniffing around his house because it was the mayor's church and he wanted the issue looked into immediately. But yeah, the time line should have changed after the accident and he got away, because the church would've always been looking for the money. I mean, I guess they had to wait for Frank to hear about it when he snuck in the house to try and kill Joe again, but otherwise that was always the way the timeline was going at this point.
The other thing I call shenanigans on is Julie's switcheroo of the cars and Satch being all suspicious of Frank. So when the lady cop is doing the car inventory, Frank says he returned it, they should find it in the motor pool. Obviously it isn't, because its wrecked. And Frank has some injuries, so Satch is suspicious. So Julie called her cousin to fix it and switch the cars out in the garage so Satch would see its there and not wrecked. Which, sure, the car he sees looks fine. But that doesn't negate the lie of Frank returning the car! He should still wonder why Frank has the car in his garage and not returned!
Despite Julie covering for him, she's still concerned about the fact that he is trying to murder the Nightingale. She says if he does this, he won't be the guy she married. Like she's fine with him doing what it takes to hold Nightingale for now (which involves Frank planting the stolen money, but more on that later), but it sounds like she wants him to find another way. Heh, she tells him to think of Raimy, and he struggles not to say, "Its Raimy who told me to do this in the first place!"
At this point, they really should just bring her in all this. I mean, they're flying blind anyways, so their worry of too many variables changing is moot. Like isn't it better for her to know so they can control her actions and thus make it harder for her to unknowingly blunder the timeline? Like they're worried her knowing will cause her to act in ways to change things. But their actions already influence her, which could change the timeline. They know Frank already has to watch his actions, so why not bring her in so she can watch hers?
In any case, Raimy figures out Meghan is still alive, but since Raimy knows a bunch of stuff she shouldn't, Joe is prolly freaked out and will think Meghan talked and thus take her to the cabin again to question her. So Raimy goes up there, though she notices she's being followed. She has the plates run, and its a Rosie Perkins, so who knows what that development is about.
Anyways, we see Deacon Joe at the cabin menacing Meghan. But we also flip back to the past, where Frank successfully frames Joe for the theft. When we return to the present, when Raimy gets to the cabin, its now empty. She runs outside when she hears Meghan screaming, and goes to find her cradling her brother's body, that is bleeding. Now, was there a timeline change from the last scene after Deacon Joe gets arrested in the past, or was this where that scene was heading regardless?
