Brief observations on telly/movie stuff
Oct. 8th, 2014 02:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shapinglightIncludes mention of last week's Doctor Who, a brief, barely spoilery at all comment on episode three of Agents of SHIELD season 2, and something about the first Captain America film, which I've finally seen three years after it came out.
I've really nothing much to say about that DW episode. The whole 'the moon is really an egg' thing was so far beyond silly I don't even want to talk about it. I thought the best scene in the episode was the one at the end, where Clara had a go at the Doctor. Everything she said was true, of course, but the thing is, it was just as true of the Doctor's previous incarnation, or of any of them. It's just that Capaldi's very angry version is more open and honest about it and doesn't bother trying to hide it. Plus, him not being young and good looking now, people (ie. Clara) don't make excuses for him to themselves any more.
I do quite like Courtney. I hope she sticks around.
I was in London the weekend just gone, visiting K and Mr K, and they have Netflix, so I finally got around to watching Captain America, which I liked very much. Despite the name and the costume, they managed to make the character not jingoistic at all. Chris Evans was very good in the role, Tommy Lee Jones was great, and I liked Agent Carter enough to be interested in watching the upcoming TV series about her.
We could have gone on and watched Captain America: the Winter Soldier straight afterwards, but S wanted to see the football so we didn't. Oh well.
As for this week's AoS, it continues to be better than the first series, though every mention of events from the first series makes me remember how crap it was, which detracts from my enjoyment. Also, they really, seriously need to find stuff for Hunter and Triplett to do to make them both more interesting and less eye-candy.
Finally, it amused me no end to see that Hydra are so evil -so very, very evil -that their scientists actually wear black lab coats. :)
I've really nothing much to say about that DW episode. The whole 'the moon is really an egg' thing was so far beyond silly I don't even want to talk about it. I thought the best scene in the episode was the one at the end, where Clara had a go at the Doctor. Everything she said was true, of course, but the thing is, it was just as true of the Doctor's previous incarnation, or of any of them. It's just that Capaldi's very angry version is more open and honest about it and doesn't bother trying to hide it. Plus, him not being young and good looking now, people (ie. Clara) don't make excuses for him to themselves any more.
I do quite like Courtney. I hope she sticks around.
I was in London the weekend just gone, visiting K and Mr K, and they have Netflix, so I finally got around to watching Captain America, which I liked very much. Despite the name and the costume, they managed to make the character not jingoistic at all. Chris Evans was very good in the role, Tommy Lee Jones was great, and I liked Agent Carter enough to be interested in watching the upcoming TV series about her.
We could have gone on and watched Captain America: the Winter Soldier straight afterwards, but S wanted to see the football so we didn't. Oh well.
As for this week's AoS, it continues to be better than the first series, though every mention of events from the first series makes me remember how crap it was, which detracts from my enjoyment. Also, they really, seriously need to find stuff for Hunter and Triplett to do to make them both more interesting and less eye-candy.
Finally, it amused me no end to see that Hydra are so evil -so very, very evil -that their scientists actually wear black lab coats. :)