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Weekly update
Feb. 7th, 2013 01:24 pmBack again after the flu last week, flist. Why have I been so sick this year? Together, the better half and I have been sick five times since Christmas, which seems a little much, even for this time of year.
On the plus side, I've been watching a lot of Netflix while I've been in bed. I've now been through all seven seasons of Prime Suspect, which remains one of the most compelling mysteries I've ever seen. In addition to loving Jane Tennison, which I imagine most folks do, I adore the way they convey the positives and negatives of the teamwork aspect of detective work; important things happen without the main characters, and often again the main character's wishes. Not everyone works toward the same goal, and the small slights (both to Jane and, realistically, perpetuated by her onto the next generation, especially the women) are meaningful and stinging. On the downside: Tennison was modeled after the UK's first DCI, who was a lesbian. In this version, she's very definitely not.
I'm also following the final episodes of Lewis, which is coming to an end after this, its seventh season. The end of a series always gets me a bit sentimental. I got into Lewis because I loved Morse, which I watched religiously the semester I spent in London when I was in college in the 1990s. My roommates and I had BritRail passes, and we'd go away every weekend, only to rush home to watch Morse on Sunday nights. Lewis continues the architecture porn of the original (no hassling witnesses on ugly housing estates on this show), while promoting the young sidekick and giving him his own bagman to guide. It's comforting to see life progressing like that, and they did an excellent job of aging the sunny, pragmatic Lewis and providing a new foil in Hathaway, the young sergeant whose intellectualism mirrors Morse's in interesting ways. They've flirted for years with the idea that Lewis might get together with his dry-humored medical examiner (why are medical examiners always dry-humored?), and then, ( spoilers! ) I'll be sad to see it end. I'm crossing my fingers that they don't supply a female love interest for Hathaway, whom they more-or-less described as bisexual in an early episode. (I know, I know, he can get together with whomever he'd like, he's lovely, but the cynical part of me says hell will freeze over before he gets a boyfriend.)
Anyone else watching Lewis end? Any hopes for this last half-episode?
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On the plus side, I've been watching a lot of Netflix while I've been in bed. I've now been through all seven seasons of Prime Suspect, which remains one of the most compelling mysteries I've ever seen. In addition to loving Jane Tennison, which I imagine most folks do, I adore the way they convey the positives and negatives of the teamwork aspect of detective work; important things happen without the main characters, and often again the main character's wishes. Not everyone works toward the same goal, and the small slights (both to Jane and, realistically, perpetuated by her onto the next generation, especially the women) are meaningful and stinging. On the downside: Tennison was modeled after the UK's first DCI, who was a lesbian. In this version, she's very definitely not.
I'm also following the final episodes of Lewis, which is coming to an end after this, its seventh season. The end of a series always gets me a bit sentimental. I got into Lewis because I loved Morse, which I watched religiously the semester I spent in London when I was in college in the 1990s. My roommates and I had BritRail passes, and we'd go away every weekend, only to rush home to watch Morse on Sunday nights. Lewis continues the architecture porn of the original (no hassling witnesses on ugly housing estates on this show), while promoting the young sidekick and giving him his own bagman to guide. It's comforting to see life progressing like that, and they did an excellent job of aging the sunny, pragmatic Lewis and providing a new foil in Hathaway, the young sergeant whose intellectualism mirrors Morse's in interesting ways. They've flirted for years with the idea that Lewis might get together with his dry-humored medical examiner (why are medical examiners always dry-humored?), and then, ( spoilers! ) I'll be sad to see it end. I'm crossing my fingers that they don't supply a female love interest for Hathaway, whom they more-or-less described as bisexual in an early episode. (I know, I know, he can get together with whomever he'd like, he's lovely, but the cynical part of me says hell will freeze over before he gets a boyfriend.)
Anyone else watching Lewis end? Any hopes for this last half-episode?
In fannish news, I've signed up for
hp_beholder again, and I'm excited for the sixth annual event. Does anyone else have a hard time coming up with a sign-up submission? I'm flexible to the point of being hard to match or write for, I suspect. Today's your last day to sign up, so hurry on over!
