Sign of life

[enemyofperfect]

Have you ever found yourself with just enough of a thing that you felt you ought to do something with it, but too little of it for anything you could think of to do? That seems to be where I am with energy at the moment. I wanted to start this paragraph with a concrete comparison -- one involving food preparation, maybe -- but I couldn't manage to think of one. You see what I mean.

It's a frustrating situation, but possibly a good one, if it means that I'm returning to the world of people who can occasionally do things. Because I do like to do things, occasionally; I tend to feel much happier about life when I do.

In the meantime, have some disorganized and spoilery and largely cranky thoughts about recent television. (Content note for the Almost Human one: I start out by saying there's an abusive relationship at the heart of the show, and I absolutely mean it.)

Elementary 2x13, "All in the Family":

I know some people were really happy with this episode, but I was really unhappy with this episode. :( :( :( I never blamed Sherlock for Marcus getting shot -- although I will happily label as blameworthy much of the behavior of Sherlock's that preceded that event -- but what I did blame him for was failing to apologize until he thought he'd found a way to fix it, as if what mattered most was Sherlock's mistake, not the hardship Marcus endured. (I'm harsh because I can all too easily believe that I'd do no better.) Sherlock was even less successful at getting over himself in "Internal Audit", and now, two episodes later, we learn that what's needed to mend the interpersonal rift is... for Sherlock to insult Marcus, accuse him of self-pity, and be more of an expert on Marcus's physical and emotional needs than Marcus himself? What the hell? P.S. Needs moar Joan.

Almost Human 1x08, "You Are Here":

This is a show about a robot in an abusive relationship, and I can be into that, because I enjoy pain. It hurts so much worse, though, when I have to wonder if the robot in question knows he's in an abusive relationship. Dorian, you get that Kennex's personal fondness for you doesn't mean that you're safe, right? I know you have to smile and laugh when you're around him, because that fondness is the closest thing to security you do have. But you realize he's still a ticking time bomb, right? Please tell me that you do. And maybe consider asking the MXs to loop you in on that revolution they might or might not be planning before your partner kills any more of them. ._.

Sleepy Hollow 1x11, "The Vessel":

Sleepy Hollow is basically my favorite show right now. Ichabod failing to sit down in skinny jeans! Jenny deliberately getting herself locked up so she couldn't hurt her sister! Irving desperately wanting Abbie & co. to stop him from giving up the bible to protect his family! Ichabod's big dramatic attempt at winning over the survivalists failing utterly, and Jenny's succeeding! And then I had just so many feelings about Abbie telling the demon to leave her sister alone, and their hug at the end, oh my gosh. I love that Jenny cares about Macey. I love that Ichabod cares about Abbie and Jenny reconciling. I flail about the amazingness that is the Irvings. This is an adorable ridiculous show, and it is not immune to moments of bullshit and fail, but I was wrong to laugh at the promos back before it aired, and I apologize.

Intelligence 1x02, I cannot be bothered to look up the name:

This show can be divided between that which annoys me and that which fails to interest me at all. My dad likes it, so I'll probably sit through one more episode if they don't cancel it before then, but I live in hope.

Person of Interest 3x13, "4C":

I think I accidentally started caring about this show again sometime before this episode aired, and that was such a terrible idea. D:

Comments

[hedda62]

Sharing your love for Sleepy Hollow! It's still ridiculous, but I don't care a bit because it's so human and crazy funny and adorably touching. *hugs them all*

And Intelligence, eh, nope.

[enemyofperfect]

"Human" is such a good word for what Sleepy Hollow is. (With apologies to the many robotic and other technically non-human characters I adore.)

I hadn't expected to like Person of Interest when it first started, either, so I hoped that Intelligence might surprise me, but -- yeah. Not so much, unfortunately.

[catharsis_logs]

Aw, I was worried about that for Almost Human. It's probably good that I've been lax in viewing it then?

Doing stuff is awesome. Doing any stuff is awesome. Being is awesome. *hugs*

[enemyofperfect]

Almost Human... *flail* I mean, I love Dorian, I think Dorian's amazing? And the way he is with Kennex actually makes a lot more sense if I look at the order in which the episodes were made, which is not the order in which they're airing -- I was really thrown by some of Dorian's reactions in the most recent episode, but now that I'm thinking about the fact that it was originally supposed to be the second episode, in which you'd expect his partnership with Kennex to still be very new and very fragile, then it makes perfect sense that he'd act the way he did. I do feel, though, that we have yet to meet a single human who understands that Dorian is a person and deserves the rights of a person, so... *hands*

Aww, you're awesome. *hugs back* I'm doing okay on the being part, fortunately, but the tiredness and unhappiness and random excessive guilt... yeah, it's not so fun. So thanks. <3

[erika]

It's a frustrating situation, but possibly a good one, if it means that I'm returning to the world of people who can occasionally do things. Because I do like to do things, occasionally; I tend to feel much happier about life when I do.

yes. i'm not sure i make sense to anyone but there i am, doing things, sometimes, when i can, but then the winter comes back and hits me in the head and says DO NOT DO THINGS, STARE AT WALLS and yeah. I don't like my living very much when that happens.

[enemyofperfect]

It's good to sometimes do things, when you can. And it's necessary not to, when you can't. But I like it so much better when there's good as well as necessity.

One of the things I thought about saying in response to your post before I gave up on words entirely was that I'm glad you [continue].

[felis]

Oh, hey, someone else who wasn't happy with that Sherlock/Bell reconciliation episode of Elementary! There was so much praise for it at the time that I was kind of wondering if I'd watched a different show, because I found Sherlock really obnoxious and Bell's point of view dismissed by both Sherlock and the narrative - and that after all the (already pretty clumsy) set-up for this arc. Interesting that you saw it the same way.

[enemyofperfect]

I found Sherlock really obnoxious and Bell's point of view dismissed by both Sherlock and the narrative

Yes! And it's not like stubborn arrogance and denial are out of character for Sherlock (although neither are insight and humility), but the way the show seemed to back him up frustrated me so much. Subsequent episodes have shown that at least Sherlock's pep talk didn't cure Bell overnight, but I still have issues with how this was handled.