Dresden Files disc 3
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beccaelizabethThe Other Dick
aka the one with Claudia Black
... that dress at the end is mostly made of cleavage.
I approve.
*ahem*
ANYways... I watched most of this with the sound off because her accent was distracting me.
Aside from that is a nice enough story.
Second chances again.
they have a theme and work it.
What About Bob
ooooh...
We see exactly what happened with Harry's uncle - something between self defence and accident and, well, vengeance murder, really. Right mess, that is.
And we find out more about Bob. He's such a sweetheart! Lost love, and he still thinks of just the one person. And then when he gets what he wanted he throws it away for Harry! And they have tearful 'don't die!' moment. Which as we know is what slash is made of.
I love that little embarrassed moment when he turns ghosty again. Like, oops, broke the guy code and looked dumb, lalala, moving on.
And then that bit with Murphy! When she finds out, and she's all "can't be in your world" and he's all "You have to help me help" and we've seen how guilty he feels and everything and... it's just so good.
The whole thing was excellent - except for one moment that makes Harry look like a bit of an arse, when he's like "Well, I guess you're dead" about the girl he just slept with but he makes it sound funny. Yeah she stole Bob, but that could at least have had a bit of angst in it. But then again, when it doesn't, we get characterisation, just the sort that makes you want to slap him.
The FX when the girl burned up were awesome.
I stopped keeping count of the guys vs girls in jeopardy or turning out evil. I feel like it's still pretty well balanced. Loads of jeopardy, loads of turning evil, and loads of secretly turning out to be good.
I love Bob in the TV show, I really really do. In the books he could be the magic equivalent of a computer, but in the TV show he's definitely a people, and what a character!
Things that go Bump
ooooooh, shiny!
I am rendered incoherent by the cool of that.
Characters! In a box! Shrinking!
In the screenwriting book it said that making a script all on already sets is about budget, but really, when it's done well? It can be very, very good indeed. Because there's no running around to distract, so there's just a bunch of characters being pulled together in a story.
I love that it was a detective story, I love that everyone was in character, I wonder how Murphy managed to be in character given the way it turned out, but I love it anyway... I just, I love this episode and I want to hug it and watch it all over again.
We get so much character stuff out of it! Everyone gets a great moment or three. And it all follows logically. *And* it's entirely possible to figure it out if you know the rules of the 'verse. Love it!
Also, they made a Dragon! How cool is that?
And the question he didn't quite ask Ancient Mai? Also cool. Very.
Now I want to go right on and watch the next episode, yet also want to keep it for later and ration it, for I know it's the last episode.
Why does cool TV get cancelled? It had a Theme and a way of doing things and a bunch of characters and... it had all the stuff TV needs!
... possibly not including ratings. I don't know.
meh.
aka the one with Claudia Black
... that dress at the end is mostly made of cleavage.
I approve.
*ahem*
ANYways... I watched most of this with the sound off because her accent was distracting me.
Aside from that is a nice enough story.
Second chances again.
they have a theme and work it.
What About Bob
ooooh...
We see exactly what happened with Harry's uncle - something between self defence and accident and, well, vengeance murder, really. Right mess, that is.
And we find out more about Bob. He's such a sweetheart! Lost love, and he still thinks of just the one person. And then when he gets what he wanted he throws it away for Harry! And they have tearful 'don't die!' moment. Which as we know is what slash is made of.
I love that little embarrassed moment when he turns ghosty again. Like, oops, broke the guy code and looked dumb, lalala, moving on.
And then that bit with Murphy! When she finds out, and she's all "can't be in your world" and he's all "You have to help me help" and we've seen how guilty he feels and everything and... it's just so good.
The whole thing was excellent - except for one moment that makes Harry look like a bit of an arse, when he's like "Well, I guess you're dead" about the girl he just slept with but he makes it sound funny. Yeah she stole Bob, but that could at least have had a bit of angst in it. But then again, when it doesn't, we get characterisation, just the sort that makes you want to slap him.
The FX when the girl burned up were awesome.
I stopped keeping count of the guys vs girls in jeopardy or turning out evil. I feel like it's still pretty well balanced. Loads of jeopardy, loads of turning evil, and loads of secretly turning out to be good.
I love Bob in the TV show, I really really do. In the books he could be the magic equivalent of a computer, but in the TV show he's definitely a people, and what a character!
Things that go Bump
ooooooh, shiny!
I am rendered incoherent by the cool of that.
Characters! In a box! Shrinking!
In the screenwriting book it said that making a script all on already sets is about budget, but really, when it's done well? It can be very, very good indeed. Because there's no running around to distract, so there's just a bunch of characters being pulled together in a story.
I love that it was a detective story, I love that everyone was in character, I wonder how Murphy managed to be in character given the way it turned out, but I love it anyway... I just, I love this episode and I want to hug it and watch it all over again.
We get so much character stuff out of it! Everyone gets a great moment or three. And it all follows logically. *And* it's entirely possible to figure it out if you know the rules of the 'verse. Love it!
Also, they made a Dragon! How cool is that?
And the question he didn't quite ask Ancient Mai? Also cool. Very.
Now I want to go right on and watch the next episode, yet also want to keep it for later and ration it, for I know it's the last episode.
Why does cool TV get cancelled? It had a Theme and a way of doing things and a bunch of characters and... it had all the stuff TV needs!
... possibly not including ratings. I don't know.
meh.