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I was shipping Karen/Foggy fairly hard at one point, but I gotta say, Marcy is awesome. I really like her now that we're getting a chance to spend some time with the character. Her idea of Foggy running for DA as protection is really clever. I'm glad the police officers (at least some of them) are going to support him.
I'm glad that Foggy tells Karen about Matt being alive.
I'm not sure what to make of Nadim telling Dex that he's being investigated. Are we supposed to see Nadim's loyalty to his fellow officers as a potential flaw? He seems ethically on the up and up until this moment, so I don't think it's supposed to indicate that he's corrupt. Maybe it's just supposed to indicate that he thinks Dex is a good guy. But he's clearly going to be the villain of the season and act as Fisk's puppet (or at least that's my take on the trajectory).
Matt going into the prison is just dumb. It's a closed environment. Anything goes wrong, and he's stuck there, which is pretty much what nearly happens. Still not getting how Fisk calls Matt at the prison. I get that the prison is largely under his control, but I guess this means the FBI monitoring him at the hotel are also in his employ. I do love the reveal that Fisk had himself shanked so he could get out.
Karen starting a fight, pulling a gun? Not good. :(
And, of course, the episode ends with a hurt Matt hurtling into the river in a car. Eeeeeep.
2. We started watching Umbrella Academy.
I am not bowled away yet. I am intrigued and will keep watching, but I'm not sold yet. I wonder if it's the pacing. This is a slower moving show than I've come to expect. Lots of silence, lots of scenes without dialogue, lots of scenes of characters alone. I don't dislike it; I'm just adjusting a bit.
The premise is really interesting (recap for my own benefit: in 1989, 43 women who weren't pregnant before suddenly gave birth; Sir Reginald Hargraves adopts seven of these children
#1 Luther (space): power strength?
#2 Diego (vigilante): power something to do with knives?
#3 Allison (actor): power to make statements come true or maybe control behavior?
#4 Klaus (addict): sees dead people
#5 (missing): portal hopper
#6 Ben (dead as kid): turns into Cthulhu
#7 Vanya: no powers)
So, mystery the first: did Hargraves (who seems like a horrible man who treated his children like science experiments, who made them compete with other, who gave them little affection, who had no problem endangering their lives, and who saw them as commodities to be bought) die a natural death, or did Diego kill him as Diego's possession of the monocle might suggest?
Mystery the second: just what did Vanya write in her tell-all that has made her persona non grata? I feel so sorry for her in the flashbacks, always dismissed and on the periphery.
Mystery the third: just how many of the 36 children Hargraves did not obtain are still living and have powers, and what caused them to be born?
Mystery the fourth: where has 5 actually been? He tells Vanya the world is about to end in 8 days. He says when he went forward into the future, the world had ended. But he also says he was gone for 45 years and mentions meeting a Dolores; he's also pursued by people he has to kill to escape and has a tracker in his arm. His story makes no sense.
Mysteries the fifth and sixth: mom is a robot? a talking ape?
The dancing scene is awesome. I love when it cuts away like they're in a doll house to show them all dancing alone.
I'm intrigued to see where it goes.
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Eight Cousins by Louisa May Alcott
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
So, it's a mixed bag. Lots of didactic messaging and gender essentialism and racist descriptions of Chinese people. However, Alcott is also ahead of her time in her disdain for the cult of invalidism, her insistence that smoking is bad for the health, her belief that girls should get plenty of physical exercise, and her belief that girls and boys should interact with each other regularly and learn from each other.
Despite the frequent sermonizing, I really like this book because Alcott draws the characters so well and makes me care about them. Now I just have to wonder which of her cousins Rosy grows up to marry. LOL
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I was shipping Karen/Foggy fairly hard at one point, but I gotta say, Marcy is awesome. I really like her now that we're getting a chance to spend some time with the character. Her idea of Foggy running for DA as protection is really clever. I'm glad the police officers (at least some of them) are going to support him.
I'm glad that Foggy tells Karen about Matt being alive.
I'm not sure what to make of Nadim telling Dex that he's being investigated. Are we supposed to see Nadim's loyalty to his fellow officers as a potential flaw? He seems ethically on the up and up until this moment, so I don't think it's supposed to indicate that he's corrupt. Maybe it's just supposed to indicate that he thinks Dex is a good guy. But he's clearly going to be the villain of the season and act as Fisk's puppet (or at least that's my take on the trajectory).
Matt going into the prison is just dumb. It's a closed environment. Anything goes wrong, and he's stuck there, which is pretty much what nearly happens. Still not getting how Fisk calls Matt at the prison. I get that the prison is largely under his control, but I guess this means the FBI monitoring him at the hotel are also in his employ. I do love the reveal that Fisk had himself shanked so he could get out.
Karen starting a fight, pulling a gun? Not good. :(
And, of course, the episode ends with a hurt Matt hurtling into the river in a car. Eeeeeep.
2. We started watching Umbrella Academy.
I am not bowled away yet. I am intrigued and will keep watching, but I'm not sold yet. I wonder if it's the pacing. This is a slower moving show than I've come to expect. Lots of silence, lots of scenes without dialogue, lots of scenes of characters alone. I don't dislike it; I'm just adjusting a bit.
The premise is really interesting (recap for my own benefit: in 1989, 43 women who weren't pregnant before suddenly gave birth; Sir Reginald Hargraves adopts seven of these children
#1 Luther (space): power strength?
#2 Diego (vigilante): power something to do with knives?
#3 Allison (actor): power to make statements come true or maybe control behavior?
#4 Klaus (addict): sees dead people
#5 (missing): portal hopper
#6 Ben (dead as kid): turns into Cthulhu
#7 Vanya: no powers)
So, mystery the first: did Hargraves (who seems like a horrible man who treated his children like science experiments, who made them compete with other, who gave them little affection, who had no problem endangering their lives, and who saw them as commodities to be bought) die a natural death, or did Diego kill him as Diego's possession of the monocle might suggest?
Mystery the second: just what did Vanya write in her tell-all that has made her persona non grata? I feel so sorry for her in the flashbacks, always dismissed and on the periphery.
Mystery the third: just how many of the 36 children Hargraves did not obtain are still living and have powers, and what caused them to be born?
Mystery the fourth: where has 5 actually been? He tells Vanya the world is about to end in 8 days. He says when he went forward into the future, the world had ended. But he also says he was gone for 45 years and mentions meeting a Dolores; he's also pursued by people he has to kill to escape and has a tracker in his arm. His story makes no sense.
Mysteries the fifth and sixth: mom is a robot? a talking ape?
The dancing scene is awesome. I love when it cuts away like they're in a doll house to show them all dancing alone.
I'm intrigued to see where it goes.
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Eight Cousins by Louisa May AlcottMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
So, it's a mixed bag. Lots of didactic messaging and gender essentialism and racist descriptions of Chinese people. However, Alcott is also ahead of her time in her disdain for the cult of invalidism, her insistence that smoking is bad for the health, her belief that girls should get plenty of physical exercise, and her belief that girls and boys should interact with each other regularly and learn from each other.
Despite the frequent sermonizing, I really like this book because Alcott draws the characters so well and makes me care about them. Now I just have to wonder which of her cousins Rosy grows up to marry. LOL
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They're the most dynamic and humorous which is always a win for me.
Josh is completely bored with Vanya, but I'm reserving judgement just yet.
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Ha! I only ever read the sequel, A Rose In Bloom. I don't think our library had this one. (And yet, I still couldn't tell you which one she marries -- I don't remember enough about it! :-)
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Marcy totally is like the Harmony (Angel) of the show. I wound up liking her a lot.
....I read and reread those Alcott books as a kid and if you shone a bright lamp in my face I could not tell you who Rosy marries. Not Dan? That's all I got.
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I DID remember Charlie, tho.
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OMFG. No wonder I repressed that!
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Her insistence that reading in the sun causes permanent eye damage is a little WTF.
I did like where she gets digs in at sensation writers writing stories for boys at the time; they are not edifying,
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I bet after two episodes I can predict the way the fandom falls:
Five and Klaus are the most popular
Diego and Allison are the next popular
Luther and Vanya are the least liked but have fierce defenders.
How'd I do? LOL
At this point, I am still reserving judgement, but if Luther and Vanya don't do something else pretty soon, I will probably end up bored with them, too.
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Ballet Shoes is on my list of books every girl should read - okay it's not a formal list but it's in my head. The Secret Garden is on there too.
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She is definitely a sermonizer, but as someone who has been subjected to a great deal of sermonizing, I can't object to most of her messages which emphasize kindness and industry. The gender essentialism gets wearying, but that's just a product of the times. She's very forward thinking in terms of education for women and etc.
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At 10, I would have reacted much the same as you did. LOL
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