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ladybug_archiveFinally got some sleep. It waited until around 3 AM to hit me like a ton of bricks. So I was able to enjoy The Lawyers and sooo much adorable, precious Joseph!
Today I recorded a Joseph movie (Meteor 1979, which I know has bad reviews, but it looks like a nice movie from my initial skim-through and it seems that Joseph survives, so that's all I care about) and am going to record a Simon one next hour. It's Tony Rome, which I didn't like four years ago or so, but I did like Simon in it and he has a big part, so it seems like a good idea to record the movie when it's on (and uncut, wheee).
And I am so totally hyped up from seeing The Man from U.N.C.L.E. movie trailer! It just came out today and is up on YouTube. Henry Cavill seems to be doing an excellent job capturing Robert Vaughn's speech pattern. He was definitely making me laugh, just like Robert always does. And the fellow playing Illya, Armie Hammer, seems to be doing a good job at pulling off that accent. I'm still really looking forward to this and am hopeful it's going to be good (even though it is billed as a comedy).
I'm very glad to still be excited for the movie, especially since I'm not as enthused with Gotham lately. I half-wondered if my distress over this week's episode resulted in the Insomnia Day of Doom, but I wasn't even consciously thinking about the episode and I did sleep for those 40 minutes instead of just lying awake thinking, which is what usually happens if something I've watched is keeping me awake.
I really loved the show before the hiatus. And I still love some things about it and will probably keep watching for a little while, anyway. But I haven't been as impressed ever since it came off of hiatus, and the last couple of episodes have been a lot more gory and graphic and gross than the show had been up to that point. I said before that I'd be okay with kids watching the show. But I wouldn't want kids to see the last couple of episodes, oh gosh.
I really don't like how the show seems to be following the comic book trend where every villain has to be downright disgusting. The recent comic book Riddler is homicidal, which I don't like one bit. The 1960's Riddler was sadistic, partially for laughs, but this is a whole other ballgame. 1960's Robin said that the Riddler wouldn't just murder people for the heck of it, and it seems like the recent comic book Riddler murders all over the place. He even apparently killed his own daughter. No, just no.
Thankfully, Gotham's Edward Nygma isn't anywhere like that yet, but I was repulsed by the way he decided to try to get the medical examiner out. The ME was a crook and an incompetent jerk and should have been booted out, but Edward decided to try to see to it by putting body parts in his locker and making it look like he was stealing body parts. Grossss. Plus, I have to wonder if Edward was just taking them from one room and putting them in the locker, or if Edward himself had been stealing them and had them at home and that's why he had them to put in the locker. Hopefully the former, but either way, not cool. And I also wonder why there wasn't more of an investigation into why the things were in the locker, instead of just kicking the ME out because of it. Maybe the captain was just looking for an excuse, any excuse, since she knew he was a crook.
I was absolutely appalled by Jonathan Crane's father and his sickening reasons for killing people, albeit I did feel some level of sympathy when it revealed his backstory and made it pretty clear the man was absolutely insane because of his grief and guilt over not braving his fear to save his wife. But still, that storyline was very gross and gory, especially in this week's episode. In addition to that, Fish Mooney is a prisoner in some mysterious, awful place and graphically stabbed a guy in the neck to take control of the prisoners. It was shown up close, too, and not from a distance. And then the episode ended with a poor woman prisoner being thrown back in and exclaiming that their captors took her eyes, while she looks up and shows this. I had to look away.
So all in all, not happy with the two-episode Scarecrow arc. If the show keeps going down that gory path, I most likely will drop it.
Today I recorded a Joseph movie (Meteor 1979, which I know has bad reviews, but it looks like a nice movie from my initial skim-through and it seems that Joseph survives, so that's all I care about) and am going to record a Simon one next hour. It's Tony Rome, which I didn't like four years ago or so, but I did like Simon in it and he has a big part, so it seems like a good idea to record the movie when it's on (and uncut, wheee).
And I am so totally hyped up from seeing The Man from U.N.C.L.E. movie trailer! It just came out today and is up on YouTube. Henry Cavill seems to be doing an excellent job capturing Robert Vaughn's speech pattern. He was definitely making me laugh, just like Robert always does. And the fellow playing Illya, Armie Hammer, seems to be doing a good job at pulling off that accent. I'm still really looking forward to this and am hopeful it's going to be good (even though it is billed as a comedy).
I'm very glad to still be excited for the movie, especially since I'm not as enthused with Gotham lately. I half-wondered if my distress over this week's episode resulted in the Insomnia Day of Doom, but I wasn't even consciously thinking about the episode and I did sleep for those 40 minutes instead of just lying awake thinking, which is what usually happens if something I've watched is keeping me awake.
I really loved the show before the hiatus. And I still love some things about it and will probably keep watching for a little while, anyway. But I haven't been as impressed ever since it came off of hiatus, and the last couple of episodes have been a lot more gory and graphic and gross than the show had been up to that point. I said before that I'd be okay with kids watching the show. But I wouldn't want kids to see the last couple of episodes, oh gosh.
I really don't like how the show seems to be following the comic book trend where every villain has to be downright disgusting. The recent comic book Riddler is homicidal, which I don't like one bit. The 1960's Riddler was sadistic, partially for laughs, but this is a whole other ballgame. 1960's Robin said that the Riddler wouldn't just murder people for the heck of it, and it seems like the recent comic book Riddler murders all over the place. He even apparently killed his own daughter. No, just no.
Thankfully, Gotham's Edward Nygma isn't anywhere like that yet, but I was repulsed by the way he decided to try to get the medical examiner out. The ME was a crook and an incompetent jerk and should have been booted out, but Edward decided to try to see to it by putting body parts in his locker and making it look like he was stealing body parts. Grossss. Plus, I have to wonder if Edward was just taking them from one room and putting them in the locker, or if Edward himself had been stealing them and had them at home and that's why he had them to put in the locker. Hopefully the former, but either way, not cool. And I also wonder why there wasn't more of an investigation into why the things were in the locker, instead of just kicking the ME out because of it. Maybe the captain was just looking for an excuse, any excuse, since she knew he was a crook.
I was absolutely appalled by Jonathan Crane's father and his sickening reasons for killing people, albeit I did feel some level of sympathy when it revealed his backstory and made it pretty clear the man was absolutely insane because of his grief and guilt over not braving his fear to save his wife. But still, that storyline was very gross and gory, especially in this week's episode. In addition to that, Fish Mooney is a prisoner in some mysterious, awful place and graphically stabbed a guy in the neck to take control of the prisoners. It was shown up close, too, and not from a distance. And then the episode ended with a poor woman prisoner being thrown back in and exclaiming that their captors took her eyes, while she looks up and shows this. I had to look away.
So all in all, not happy with the two-episode Scarecrow arc. If the show keeps going down that gory path, I most likely will drop it.
