Pushing Daisies: "Bittersweets"
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icepixieI admit, over the last two less-than-stellar episodes, my adoration for this show had been waning a bit. But with this episode, my adorkable-yet-snarky show is back in fine form, although perhaps with a few plotholes (more on that later). I love this show!
Aside from the murder case, I kind of liked the idea of competition for the pie shop, or at least the focus on the business side of things. Sometimes I do wonder how they manage to find time to run a business, what with all the murders they're always solving. (Then again, I suppose the reward money is where most of Ned & Co's funding comes from, rather than the shop...)
- Awww, Ned has a friend! But not for long.
- Ned and Chuck are going to send me into insulin shock one day. But I'll love every minute of it. (The boyfriend/girlfriend convo was SO CUTE.)
- And heh, just as it gets too treacley, the father thing comes up.
- "The meaning of 'nothing' was...'I never told you I inadvertently killed your father.'"
- So, in a town or city that looks, you know, not huge, how are they finding all these murders? Is there a crime wave sweeping the city?
- OMG, Alfredo is adorable! Awwwwwwwww! And Olive's, "Eh, forget it," cracked me right up. Poor, oblivious Olive.
- Dude, Chuck, lose the Lennon glasses. And also the sixties hair. Gah. (Ned could lose that errant curl on his forehead, too.)
- *snerk* at the whole "truth isn't like puppies, you can't pick the one you want" thing
- Molly Shannon's a bit odd-looking as a blonde.
- "Pie Ho." Heh.
- "Of course, that'd be a different universe, and something else would probably suck." Can we have a book of philosophy written by Olive?
- Eeep, health inspector!
- Now Olive knows about the dead fruit. Slowly but surely, she's inching her way towards finding out Ned's secret...
- "Well, this can't end well."
- LOVElovelove Olive and Chuck palling around and being all cat burglery. Even when Olive's still kinda pissed. But, love their growing friendship; female friendship is not generally featured in the stuff I watch, more's the pity, and they're doing it marvelously here. (...Um, anyone written any femslash? I could so see that, too.)
- "We may have set loose some inappropriate vermin."
- Oh, dear. Poor, red-handed Ned.
- Are there commercials, like, every three seconds? (Although I heard another song by the Weepies in an Old Navy commercial. Yay for exposure! ...I wonder if hearing several songs I like in commercials lately means I'm getting old?)
- "Nancy Shrew"
- "I like my way better--cut the sucker open." Yay, morgue dude! And heh, Chuck seemed entirely too interested in that autopsy.
- The gun baked into the pie had me on the FLOOR. Oh, Olive.
- I did enjoy seeing the rest of the Scooby Gang operating without their wunderkind, Ned, for a while. It was interesting and worked quite well, actually, the whole Olive-in-the-trunk thing notwithstanding...
- So the murderer was...unexpected. I kind of get the feeling this one was cut to fit in an hour, and perhaps there used to be more investigating and/or clues pointing to the health inspector, rather than deus ex narrator solving the crime for us.
- "Which is to say--go, lying. Or at least, yay for not telling the truth."
- Ohhhhh, poor Olive! *sniff* He'll be back! (You know, if the show comes back after the next and last episode...please-oh-please...)
- "You're my phantom limb." Now there's an endearment.
- DUN DUN DUN DUN! Oh, ever-truthful Ned. Poor, poor Ned.
- Next week (well, two weeks from now) looks awesome. It's also the last one they have in the can. *sob* Please end soon, writers' strike. Not before you get what you want and deserve, but soon.
Aside from the murder case, I kind of liked the idea of competition for the pie shop, or at least the focus on the business side of things. Sometimes I do wonder how they manage to find time to run a business, what with all the murders they're always solving. (Then again, I suppose the reward money is where most of Ned & Co's funding comes from, rather than the shop...)
- Awww, Ned has a friend! But not for long.
- Ned and Chuck are going to send me into insulin shock one day. But I'll love every minute of it. (The boyfriend/girlfriend convo was SO CUTE.)
- And heh, just as it gets too treacley, the father thing comes up.
- "The meaning of 'nothing' was...'I never told you I inadvertently killed your father.'"
- So, in a town or city that looks, you know, not huge, how are they finding all these murders? Is there a crime wave sweeping the city?
- OMG, Alfredo is adorable! Awwwwwwwww! And Olive's, "Eh, forget it," cracked me right up. Poor, oblivious Olive.
- Dude, Chuck, lose the Lennon glasses. And also the sixties hair. Gah. (Ned could lose that errant curl on his forehead, too.)
- *snerk* at the whole "truth isn't like puppies, you can't pick the one you want" thing
- Molly Shannon's a bit odd-looking as a blonde.
- "Pie Ho." Heh.
- "Of course, that'd be a different universe, and something else would probably suck." Can we have a book of philosophy written by Olive?
- Eeep, health inspector!
- Now Olive knows about the dead fruit. Slowly but surely, she's inching her way towards finding out Ned's secret...
- "Well, this can't end well."
- LOVElovelove Olive and Chuck palling around and being all cat burglery. Even when Olive's still kinda pissed. But, love their growing friendship; female friendship is not generally featured in the stuff I watch, more's the pity, and they're doing it marvelously here. (...Um, anyone written any femslash? I could so see that, too.)
- "We may have set loose some inappropriate vermin."
- Oh, dear. Poor, red-handed Ned.
- Are there commercials, like, every three seconds? (Although I heard another song by the Weepies in an Old Navy commercial. Yay for exposure! ...I wonder if hearing several songs I like in commercials lately means I'm getting old?)
- "Nancy Shrew"
- "I like my way better--cut the sucker open." Yay, morgue dude! And heh, Chuck seemed entirely too interested in that autopsy.
- The gun baked into the pie had me on the FLOOR. Oh, Olive.
- I did enjoy seeing the rest of the Scooby Gang operating without their wunderkind, Ned, for a while. It was interesting and worked quite well, actually, the whole Olive-in-the-trunk thing notwithstanding...
- So the murderer was...unexpected. I kind of get the feeling this one was cut to fit in an hour, and perhaps there used to be more investigating and/or clues pointing to the health inspector, rather than deus ex narrator solving the crime for us.
- "Which is to say--go, lying. Or at least, yay for not telling the truth."
- Ohhhhh, poor Olive! *sniff* He'll be back! (You know, if the show comes back after the next and last episode...please-oh-please...)
- "You're my phantom limb." Now there's an endearment.
- DUN DUN DUN DUN! Oh, ever-truthful Ned. Poor, poor Ned.
- Next week (well, two weeks from now) looks awesome. It's also the last one they have in the can. *sob* Please end soon, writers' strike. Not before you get what you want and deserve, but soon.
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Date: 2007-11-29 06:34 am (UTC)The leaves thing at the beginning made me question the "rules" of Ned's gift, b/c if everything that was once dead comes to life when he touches it, what about food? Does he always have to touch it twice before eating? Plot holes indeed.
This definitely felt like it could've been spread over two episodes. There was a lot going on and like you, narrator ex machina.
*hopes and prays the producer people give the writers their due so my show can still live*
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Date: 2007-11-30 03:58 am (UTC)Alfredo melted my heart. I liked him all right before--we didn't have much to go on, so I didn't exactly love him, but I thought he was quite interesting--but that was awesome. And adorable as hell.
what about food? Does he always have to touch it twice before eating?
Hmmm. That...might be interesting. He seemed to do okay with the chocolates and candy in this episode, not to mention the taffy, but that's all been processed pretty heavily. Perhaps that makes a difference?
(Then again, there are a lot of nagging questions like that about his gift...I try to just ignore them and chant "it's a fairy tale, it's a fairy tale...")
This definitely felt like it could've been spread over two episodes. There was a lot going on and like you, narrator ex machina.
I'm kind of thinking this one was rushed to be done before the strike started...
*hopes and prays the producer people give the writers their due so my show can still live*
Amen.
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Date: 2007-11-30 04:25 am (UTC)I loved Headgear Kid! So awkward!
Ned and Chuck are going to send me into insulin shock one day. But I'll love every minute of it.
Blerrrrrrrg. I mean, awwwwwwwwww! Hehehe.
Is there a crime wave sweeping the city?
They're on a Hellmouth.
Dude, Chuck, lose the Lennon glasses.
I'd thought they were a Wicked reference?
Ned could lose that errant curl on his forehead, too.
Hate to say it, but he could use a haircut in general. Although this scene (http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/654/pdepisode170418oh6.jpg) made me think, "Oh, so *that's* how David Tennant got his hair to look like that in DW! The makeup team just put him in a gel-filled wind tunnel."
"Pie Ho." Heh.
Hehehehe.
Are there commercials, like, every three seconds?
Watching them online has made me realize that there aren't many commercials in the first half of the show, when things are still building themselves up, because you might get bored and change the channel or wander off. But then in the last half, when they've got you all suspenseful, they cram in a commercial every five minutes because they figure they've got you hooked now. Eeeeeevil.
I kind of get the feeling this one was cut to fit in an hour, and perhaps there used to be more investigating and/or clues pointing to the health inspector, rather than deus ex narrator solving the crime for us.
Um, yeah, I coulda sworn there was gonna be a "to be continued" slapped on the end there, because the pacing was all off for a one-episode plot. Boo, commercials. Some more.
You know, if the show comes back after the next and last episode...please-oh-please..
Noooooo! What if they don't pay the writers and Alfredo is gone FOREVERRRRRR???
Oh, ever-truthful Ned. Poor, poor Ned.
Yay! Took him long enough.
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Date: 2007-12-01 03:17 am (UTC)I don't think you're wrong.
I'd thought they were a Wicked reference?
Huh?
Hate to say it, but he could use a haircut in general.
Yep. I kind of liked his hair when it was really short in the pilot.
this scene
...That's an image I really want to erase from my brain.
"Oh, so *that's* how David Tennant got his hair to look like that in DW! The makeup team just put him in a gel-filled wind tunnel."
Heh.
Watching them online has made me realize that there aren't many commercials in the first half of the show, when things are still building themselves up, because you might get bored and change the channel or wander off. But then in the last half, when they've got you all suspenseful, they cram in a commercial every five minutes because they figure they've got you hooked now. Eeeeeevil.
Yeah, I did kind of notice that the other night. Mostly because I had to pee during the first half.
Um, yeah, I coulda sworn there was gonna be a "to be continued" slapped on the end there, because the pacing was all off for a one-episode plot. Boo, commercials. Some more.
Ya-huh. Although I get the impression the blame for this one lies in the writers' strike more than anything else...
Noooooo! What if they don't pay the writers and Alfredo is gone FOREVERRRRRR???
Nooooooooooooooo!
Yay! Took him long enough.
Yup.