Remington Steele 2x07, The Good Wife 4x10
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quarter_to_fiveThe Good Wife - I like that Nick is gone (phew) but the raid on Eli and the campaign feels unearned. Like the photo was something to take Lana out of the picture with Kalinda, and then, well, it had to be something, so it might as well be Eli. OTOH, it gives us Diane being all "go to hell," so i'll take it.
Remington Steele - Love Among the Steele:
- Woah, 80's flashback technique is terrible, though the silent movie homage redeemed it somewhat.
- What the hell was that black(ish?)-shiny-poofy-jacket-shirt-thing Laura wears at some point? I would totally grab that at some give-take market and wear it without a second thought, which must mean it's truly hideous.
- Meta! "Someone always shoots at us when we're kissing," lol.
- Laura likes running about and having Steele chasing her. Metaphor much?
- Everyone else has sex. People who are not 'supposed' to have sex - unmarried elderly couples - and sex that is not supposed to be had - adultery, doctor-patient. Everyone turns out to be much more liberal about these things than expected ...except Laura, basically? (Interesting that nothing seems to have come very far in terms of sex in thirty years - the episode pretty much worked for me as intended, I think - the balance of permisivness/prudery, good sex/bad sex is more or less unchanged to an American show shot today, that I notices, just less graphic in terms of whats actually on display.)
- Speaking of, so, um...what is going on with the no sex thing? On the one hand, it's a running gag that they always get interrupted. On the other hand, it's a seriously character/relashionship thing that Laura doesn't want to go there yet, and they flip between the two from episode to episode, and sometimes in the same episode. (And is this influenced by the kind of quasi-prudishness that still turns up in romance novels today, where it just so happens that despite pages and pages of sex scenes including graphic descriptions of more or less everything one person can do to another's body sexually (without special equipment) there somehow won't be, you know, that penile-vaginal penetration thing until the last sex scene, and often as not, until someone's put a ring on it? (Finger. I mean finger.))
In short, i'm really not sure how to read Laura's reluctance to move forward here - are the viewers supposed to see her getting tangled up in her own insecurity and not doing what she admits she wants to, or hanging back for really very legitimate reasons?
- Excellent wacky car plot. It is a very pretty car.
Remington Steele - Love Among the Steele:
- Woah, 80's flashback technique is terrible, though the silent movie homage redeemed it somewhat.
- What the hell was that black(ish?)-shiny-poofy-jacket-shirt-thing Laura wears at some point? I would totally grab that at some give-take market and wear it without a second thought, which must mean it's truly hideous.
- Meta! "Someone always shoots at us when we're kissing," lol.
- Laura likes running about and having Steele chasing her. Metaphor much?
- Everyone else has sex. People who are not 'supposed' to have sex - unmarried elderly couples - and sex that is not supposed to be had - adultery, doctor-patient. Everyone turns out to be much more liberal about these things than expected ...except Laura, basically? (Interesting that nothing seems to have come very far in terms of sex in thirty years - the episode pretty much worked for me as intended, I think - the balance of permisivness/prudery, good sex/bad sex is more or less unchanged to an American show shot today, that I notices, just less graphic in terms of whats actually on display.)
- Speaking of, so, um...what is going on with the no sex thing? On the one hand, it's a running gag that they always get interrupted. On the other hand, it's a seriously character/relashionship thing that Laura doesn't want to go there yet, and they flip between the two from episode to episode, and sometimes in the same episode. (And is this influenced by the kind of quasi-prudishness that still turns up in romance novels today, where it just so happens that despite pages and pages of sex scenes including graphic descriptions of more or less everything one person can do to another's body sexually (without special equipment) there somehow won't be, you know, that penile-vaginal penetration thing until the last sex scene, and often as not, until someone's put a ring on it? (Finger. I mean finger.))
In short, i'm really not sure how to read Laura's reluctance to move forward here - are the viewers supposed to see her getting tangled up in her own insecurity and not doing what she admits she wants to, or hanging back for really very legitimate reasons?
- Excellent wacky car plot. It is a very pretty car.
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Date: 2012-12-04 04:18 pm (UTC)