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Jul. 8th, 2005 01:01 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccaelizabethDead Like Me 2-14
Rube's backstory filled in.
I liked him being mysterious.
I liked 'in my experience, the death of a child doesn't break up a marriage' (quoted a bit wrong I think), because the 'in my experience' hinted at volumes. I liked that he had a really old picture in his wallet. That was enough to know, you know? Stuff happened, and it was a long time ago.
This time, we get flashbacks.
Also, he just called his natural daughter 'peanut'. Which is wrong. Okay, so it emphasises the familial way he treats George, but he called her peanut because it is a funny, pee head, because she just got hit in the head with a toilet seat. A pun. That obviously doesn't apply to his daughter.
Also, while I'm criticising backstory, putting that lady on the Titanic is just sloppy. What are the odds that someone would die some famous way? Blah.
Also also, what is the big difficulty with Mason finding a house? Mason was the one who found *George* a house. *Twice*. When she was newly grim. And he successfully made money a bunch of times before. And he's been a reaper for long and long and long and got the hang of it. I just don't buy that he'd be in enough difficulty to make this particular kind of mess of it.
the stuff with the dog burial bugs me. take it too seriously much? It bugs me mostly in conjunction with the pet reaper kid, because it puts pet deaths right up there with people deaths and I call that wrong.
I kind of liked the 'where gravelings come from' twist, but it puts death back into the 'evil' category, instead of being something that just kind of happens. I don't like that part. I mean the idea that an unauthorised kill makes a graveling, that part is interesting, but the evil bloke=evil graveling part is... also interesting but in a different way.
The thing with the two deaths and one without a post-it? "Death is non-transferable". She shouldn't be *able* to take the other guy, or else when George tried to quit early on that should have been possible. This is bad continuity and doesnt fit the rules as previously established.
Also it makes it twisty in new ways. If gravelings can upset the cosmic order, surely the correct response is to get rid of gravelings. If they are just a manifestation of the order of things, as they have previously appeared to be while enforcing the rules and handing out punishment for transgressions like Roxy and George did last year, then they shouldn't be gotten rid of. This new guy, not acting like an agent of order.
ALSO also, gravelings can only be seen out the corner of your eye. George's ability to see them straight on is anomalous, and part of what drew her to the crazy guy last year. They were the only two.
Except now Mason and Daisy can see Graveling!Ray, looking at him straight on. Which is against the rules.
I feel like the rules have been screwed up in many different ways here.
The hell?
Rube just talked to Rosie while she was still alive.
Reapers *CANT DO THAT*. If they try to talk to their family the lose their memories! When George tried to tell a memory she lost it before she could start! If he started singing like that, to tell her, he would lose the memory! And if that was the point, that would be kind of poignant and sweet, but it wouldn't *work* because he'd forget before he could sing!
Dammit, George's whole story would be different if it were possible to do what they just wrote Rube to do.
That utterly fucked up the moment. Totally.
Besides which, you don't learn anything from it. There is no lesson there. Its just a weepy moment. Useless. And ineffective.
I dislike this.
I'm actually no longer fed up it was cancelled.
Sorry, but this is screwed up. And the light touch and humanity I adored from the 1st season sort of dribbled out and isn't there any more.
What the fuck is up with this 'hiding' voiceover? Rube wasn't hiding from his kid. He *loved* his kid. But he couldn't be near her and remember her. Thats the basic rule of this universe.
...she can destroy gravelings?
Oh hell.
Talk about changing the direction.
Guess what she'll do with her new improved superpowers?
Try and save lives?
Talk about twisting the show all to hell.
I'm angry. I dislike this very very much.
I liked the dead guy = graveling thing until I thought about it. Now I dislike it a lot. Especially if the solution to it is to do the 'pop the soul' shiny and then have the thing turn to dust. Because obviously bad people don't have souls. Like hell. All kinds of people have souls. Like the crack house murderers in the very first ep, doesn't matter if they were bad, they still got souls. This whole graveling thing shouldn't work this way.
This show has just gone all wrong.
On the other hand the random shuffle that keeps turning itself back on just skipped to the songvid 'Ghost', which is vaguely amusing, because connections.
Rube's backstory filled in.
I liked him being mysterious.
I liked 'in my experience, the death of a child doesn't break up a marriage' (quoted a bit wrong I think), because the 'in my experience' hinted at volumes. I liked that he had a really old picture in his wallet. That was enough to know, you know? Stuff happened, and it was a long time ago.
This time, we get flashbacks.
Also, he just called his natural daughter 'peanut'. Which is wrong. Okay, so it emphasises the familial way he treats George, but he called her peanut because it is a funny, pee head, because she just got hit in the head with a toilet seat. A pun. That obviously doesn't apply to his daughter.
Also, while I'm criticising backstory, putting that lady on the Titanic is just sloppy. What are the odds that someone would die some famous way? Blah.
Also also, what is the big difficulty with Mason finding a house? Mason was the one who found *George* a house. *Twice*. When she was newly grim. And he successfully made money a bunch of times before. And he's been a reaper for long and long and long and got the hang of it. I just don't buy that he'd be in enough difficulty to make this particular kind of mess of it.
the stuff with the dog burial bugs me. take it too seriously much? It bugs me mostly in conjunction with the pet reaper kid, because it puts pet deaths right up there with people deaths and I call that wrong.
I kind of liked the 'where gravelings come from' twist, but it puts death back into the 'evil' category, instead of being something that just kind of happens. I don't like that part. I mean the idea that an unauthorised kill makes a graveling, that part is interesting, but the evil bloke=evil graveling part is... also interesting but in a different way.
The thing with the two deaths and one without a post-it? "Death is non-transferable". She shouldn't be *able* to take the other guy, or else when George tried to quit early on that should have been possible. This is bad continuity and doesnt fit the rules as previously established.
Also it makes it twisty in new ways. If gravelings can upset the cosmic order, surely the correct response is to get rid of gravelings. If they are just a manifestation of the order of things, as they have previously appeared to be while enforcing the rules and handing out punishment for transgressions like Roxy and George did last year, then they shouldn't be gotten rid of. This new guy, not acting like an agent of order.
ALSO also, gravelings can only be seen out the corner of your eye. George's ability to see them straight on is anomalous, and part of what drew her to the crazy guy last year. They were the only two.
Except now Mason and Daisy can see Graveling!Ray, looking at him straight on. Which is against the rules.
I feel like the rules have been screwed up in many different ways here.
The hell?
Rube just talked to Rosie while she was still alive.
Reapers *CANT DO THAT*. If they try to talk to their family the lose their memories! When George tried to tell a memory she lost it before she could start! If he started singing like that, to tell her, he would lose the memory! And if that was the point, that would be kind of poignant and sweet, but it wouldn't *work* because he'd forget before he could sing!
Dammit, George's whole story would be different if it were possible to do what they just wrote Rube to do.
That utterly fucked up the moment. Totally.
Besides which, you don't learn anything from it. There is no lesson there. Its just a weepy moment. Useless. And ineffective.
I dislike this.
I'm actually no longer fed up it was cancelled.
Sorry, but this is screwed up. And the light touch and humanity I adored from the 1st season sort of dribbled out and isn't there any more.
What the fuck is up with this 'hiding' voiceover? Rube wasn't hiding from his kid. He *loved* his kid. But he couldn't be near her and remember her. Thats the basic rule of this universe.
...she can destroy gravelings?
Oh hell.
Talk about changing the direction.
Guess what she'll do with her new improved superpowers?
Try and save lives?
Talk about twisting the show all to hell.
I'm angry. I dislike this very very much.
I liked the dead guy = graveling thing until I thought about it. Now I dislike it a lot. Especially if the solution to it is to do the 'pop the soul' shiny and then have the thing turn to dust. Because obviously bad people don't have souls. Like hell. All kinds of people have souls. Like the crack house murderers in the very first ep, doesn't matter if they were bad, they still got souls. This whole graveling thing shouldn't work this way.
This show has just gone all wrong.
On the other hand the random shuffle that keeps turning itself back on just skipped to the songvid 'Ghost', which is vaguely amusing, because connections.