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jedi_of_urth) wrote2017-05-28 07:32 pm
jedi_of_urth) wrote2017-05-28 07:32 pm
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Broadchurch, a few thoughts
So I finally decided to take some time and watch Broadchurch. It’s been in and out of my queue since the first season and I finally decided that to stave off the part of me that kind of wants to rewatch Doctor Who, I’d watch Broadchurch instead. I powered through it in like a week and I do have some thoughts.
Season 2 is easily the best. S1 never quite found the balance between the mystery and the drama and a lot of the twists just came out of nowhere; s3 was so concerned with being About Something that it lost something in the remix and a lot of the subplots felt really tacked or and/or didn’t go anywhere. S2 did something I wish more dramas did and show that solving the crime isn’t really the end of things; and the mystery it was still solving was much more interesting story.
So we have David Tennent, Arthur Darville, Eve Myles, James D’Arcy, and at least a few more actors that kind of looked familiar but I could never work out why. And Chibnall is in charge, at least he’s fairly good at something, it never seemed to be DW. Oh British Actor Bingo, never change.
This has been a reminder that David Tennent is indeed a very good actor. It has actually been a while since I watched anything he was in, so the reminder didn’t go unnoticed.
But seriously, *this* is why we had half a season without Rip Hunter this season? Paul was already a barely necessary character in s2 (debatably wasn’t exactly necessary in s1 but did at least have a point) and in s3 he’s basically been relegated to at most three scenes an episode, usually complaining about the fact that no one pays attention to him. It starts to feel like Darville himself is complaining that he could be playing a time-traveling space cowboy super hero, making googly eyes at his ex-assassin first officer but he’s stuck in this forgotten little town where no one needs or cares about him anymore.
I cannot decide if I ship Hardy and Miller or not. I’m simultaneously at about six different points on the ship scale; I kind of think I should ship them more, and kind of think I should ship them less; I do kind of want to ship them, but I also kind of don’t want to see their relationship like that; sometimes I think the show was hinting it might be a thing, but a lot of the time I thought it clearly wasn’t. I am more than okay with the show never putting them together, but whether I ship it isn’t always the same as whether I want canon to go there, and I can’t even make up my mind on what I wanted just for me. I was fully against the idea in s1, I was glad she was apparently happily married so it wouldn’t be a thing...and then that didn’t hold as a reason not to ship the leads anymore.
If I’m been doing thoughts as I went I definitely would have more, and on a lot more characters, but these were kind of the big ones.
Season 2 is easily the best. S1 never quite found the balance between the mystery and the drama and a lot of the twists just came out of nowhere; s3 was so concerned with being About Something that it lost something in the remix and a lot of the subplots felt really tacked or and/or didn’t go anywhere. S2 did something I wish more dramas did and show that solving the crime isn’t really the end of things; and the mystery it was still solving was much more interesting story.
So we have David Tennent, Arthur Darville, Eve Myles, James D’Arcy, and at least a few more actors that kind of looked familiar but I could never work out why. And Chibnall is in charge, at least he’s fairly good at something, it never seemed to be DW. Oh British Actor Bingo, never change.
This has been a reminder that David Tennent is indeed a very good actor. It has actually been a while since I watched anything he was in, so the reminder didn’t go unnoticed.
But seriously, *this* is why we had half a season without Rip Hunter this season? Paul was already a barely necessary character in s2 (debatably wasn’t exactly necessary in s1 but did at least have a point) and in s3 he’s basically been relegated to at most three scenes an episode, usually complaining about the fact that no one pays attention to him. It starts to feel like Darville himself is complaining that he could be playing a time-traveling space cowboy super hero, making googly eyes at his ex-assassin first officer but he’s stuck in this forgotten little town where no one needs or cares about him anymore.
I cannot decide if I ship Hardy and Miller or not. I’m simultaneously at about six different points on the ship scale; I kind of think I should ship them more, and kind of think I should ship them less; I do kind of want to ship them, but I also kind of don’t want to see their relationship like that; sometimes I think the show was hinting it might be a thing, but a lot of the time I thought it clearly wasn’t. I am more than okay with the show never putting them together, but whether I ship it isn’t always the same as whether I want canon to go there, and I can’t even make up my mind on what I wanted just for me. I was fully against the idea in s1, I was glad she was apparently happily married so it wouldn’t be a thing...and then that didn’t hold as a reason not to ship the leads anymore.
If I’m been doing thoughts as I went I definitely would have more, and on a lot more characters, but these were kind of the big ones.