Body of Proof: "Society Hill"
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icepixie...Hmm. I am unsure exactly how to feel about this episode. There were little germs of things that could've been really great, but they never really developed them. (Much like the show as a whole has been going so far. Dear ABC: Please renew this show and replace all the writers with better ones!)
But before any of that, allow me to SQUEE HEARTILY for a moment over how very well this show is playing to my narrative kinks. Ahahahaha, I loved how NO ONE at the party believed that Megan and Peter were just colleagues. No one! Not even her mom! Well, I guess she probably figured it out when Megan ambushed the old dude. Still. In my headcanon, a large chunk of their dinner conversation at the end rested on how Megan should really start dating again, and Peter is very attractive, and obviously they share some common interests if they work together and really, how about it?
And then he asked her out!
...Okay, even I can't quite convince myself that "out to a bar with almost the entire cast" is a date, per se, but awwww, he "just want[s] to hang out with [her]"! He wants to be her friend! Because that doesn't line up very neatly with a plot thread or anything, oh, no.
Speaking of that scene, what the hell was she about to do to his face before she stopped herself? I can't decide if it looked more like she was going to kiss him or pinch his cheeks. Either way, it was pretty adorable.
Circling back to the party before I move on to the rest of the episode, I'm kind of in love with the way Megan was totally okay with letting everyone assume she and Peter were together. I've never heard "colleague" sound so much like a very different word. And poor Peter was kind of like, "Do I play along? Will I find a scalpel in a very unpleasant place if I do? ...Is there some possibility that I would enjoy that? Um. Can we just talk to the suspect now, please?" Awwwww.
Anyway. The rest of the episode, which was significantly less squeeful. The ham-handed attempts at feminism were eye-roll inducing. Show, seriously, almost half your cast is made up of very cool women who are smart and professional and In Charge, and one of them is already getting basically all the character development. I promise, you were doing okay on this front. Unfortunately, the plot of this one kind of blew it. Either have the guts to make a statement about how women in power are viewed or don't, but don't give us a simple mystery where every single suspect's motive was basically, "she's a pain in the ass," and, "I wanted to win that writing contest," and then shoehorn in some Grrrl Power rhetoric and expect us to think you're really progressive for it.
That was dropped ball the first. Dropped ball the second was Megan and her mother. I know Megan's mom is coming back in future episodes, so we might not be done with this plotline, but there were interesting things that could've been developed. Why does Megan resent her privileged childhood?* (If she does, why does she still dress like she's a part of it?) If her mother really did ignore her after her accident because Megan's loss of standing embarrassed her (and we only really have Megan's side on that, so maybe she did, maybe she didn't), that is fascinating, and needs to be delved into. And how much did her social status as a neurosurgeon matter to Megan, anyway? Obviously she was embarrassed to be thought of as a mortician.
This could, possibly, have been dealt with in the "truce" dinner at the end, but we got absolutely no dialogue for it. Instead, the time was used to have Megan walk to the restaurant with the song of the week playing in the background. Writers, pleeeeeease don't get into the habit of letting the Random Annoying Pop Songs you end each episode with speak for you, because largely they have nothing to do with the show. Honestly, between this and the ones that end practically every episode of Castle, I wonder if ABC has some kind of ownership in a music label, and has someone from that end chose a song to stick at the end of each episode of every scripted show the network runs, whether it fits the show or not. Much as I do in fact like Ingrid Michaelson, she does not need to be on the soundtrack to this show, dear god.
Still, I want to know more about whether in fact everyone dropped Megan after her accident, or if she was just so depressed and angry that she cut everyone off. Probably it was a combination of both. I sort of doubt that she's never had friends, as her mother accuses her of; I think, rather, her mother hasn't known her well enough to know her friends.
One more bad thing, then I'll get to the good: Kate's personal life. I am totally spoiled for exactly what's going on there, and I am SO NOT HAPPY. OH MY GOD. I THINK THIS SHOW IS RUN BY MORONS. On the other hand, Kate was sort of cute with her little secrets.
So. Good stuff! I cringed when Megan started accompanying Bud to the magazine office (show, please just give us some kind of handwavey acknowledgment of the fact that this is so out of line for a regular medical examiner. Say she has some kind of special dispensation from someone higher up in the chain of command. I beg you); however, I liked that the rest of the investigation focused on reasonably medical-ish stuff, like the amber flecks in the businessman's eyes and those of his son.
I missed Sam, but I liked Bud better than usual this time around. It's nice that he's thawed a bit towards Megan (I guess it helps that she sewed up his jacket--although I think the original filming order, that hasn't happened yet). The, "Promise me when you tell him that, it'll make sense," was funny, and I liked them bonding-through-bitching over the difficulty of pinpointing time and cause of death. Her barging into the interview room and Bud turning to the one-way mirror to give Peter the fisheye for not stopping her was pretty hilarious too.
Kate has a specialty! And it's bones, teeth, and hair. Very interesting. I like when she gets involved in the cases rather than spending her day administrating. And Curtis's specialty is bugs. Awww. His song was cute for about five seconds, then it became about as annoying to me as it was to Ethan.
I question whether the quartet of Bud, Peter, Ethan, and Curtis would be so thrilled at hanging out together (does Bud even KNOW Ethan and Curtis?), but whatever, that was pretty amusing. Perhaps one day we will get a scene with all of them and the girls at the bar!
* Peter was obviously very uncomfortable at the party. Presumably his background is nothing like Megan's. Potential conflict? Potential storyline for the future? Heh, they really are a gender-reversed Beckett and Castle. Who were themselves a gender-reversed Booth and Brennan. Oh, TV-land, such a shallow well of creativity you draw from.
But before any of that, allow me to SQUEE HEARTILY for a moment over how very well this show is playing to my narrative kinks. Ahahahaha, I loved how NO ONE at the party believed that Megan and Peter were just colleagues. No one! Not even her mom! Well, I guess she probably figured it out when Megan ambushed the old dude. Still. In my headcanon, a large chunk of their dinner conversation at the end rested on how Megan should really start dating again, and Peter is very attractive, and obviously they share some common interests if they work together and really, how about it?
And then he asked her out!
...Okay, even I can't quite convince myself that "out to a bar with almost the entire cast" is a date, per se, but awwww, he "just want[s] to hang out with [her]"! He wants to be her friend! Because that doesn't line up very neatly with a plot thread or anything, oh, no.
Speaking of that scene, what the hell was she about to do to his face before she stopped herself? I can't decide if it looked more like she was going to kiss him or pinch his cheeks. Either way, it was pretty adorable.
Circling back to the party before I move on to the rest of the episode, I'm kind of in love with the way Megan was totally okay with letting everyone assume she and Peter were together. I've never heard "colleague" sound so much like a very different word. And poor Peter was kind of like, "Do I play along? Will I find a scalpel in a very unpleasant place if I do? ...Is there some possibility that I would enjoy that? Um. Can we just talk to the suspect now, please?" Awwwww.
Anyway. The rest of the episode, which was significantly less squeeful. The ham-handed attempts at feminism were eye-roll inducing. Show, seriously, almost half your cast is made up of very cool women who are smart and professional and In Charge, and one of them is already getting basically all the character development. I promise, you were doing okay on this front. Unfortunately, the plot of this one kind of blew it. Either have the guts to make a statement about how women in power are viewed or don't, but don't give us a simple mystery where every single suspect's motive was basically, "she's a pain in the ass," and, "I wanted to win that writing contest," and then shoehorn in some Grrrl Power rhetoric and expect us to think you're really progressive for it.
That was dropped ball the first. Dropped ball the second was Megan and her mother. I know Megan's mom is coming back in future episodes, so we might not be done with this plotline, but there were interesting things that could've been developed. Why does Megan resent her privileged childhood?* (If she does, why does she still dress like she's a part of it?) If her mother really did ignore her after her accident because Megan's loss of standing embarrassed her (and we only really have Megan's side on that, so maybe she did, maybe she didn't), that is fascinating, and needs to be delved into. And how much did her social status as a neurosurgeon matter to Megan, anyway? Obviously she was embarrassed to be thought of as a mortician.
This could, possibly, have been dealt with in the "truce" dinner at the end, but we got absolutely no dialogue for it. Instead, the time was used to have Megan walk to the restaurant with the song of the week playing in the background. Writers, pleeeeeease don't get into the habit of letting the Random Annoying Pop Songs you end each episode with speak for you, because largely they have nothing to do with the show. Honestly, between this and the ones that end practically every episode of Castle, I wonder if ABC has some kind of ownership in a music label, and has someone from that end chose a song to stick at the end of each episode of every scripted show the network runs, whether it fits the show or not. Much as I do in fact like Ingrid Michaelson, she does not need to be on the soundtrack to this show, dear god.
Still, I want to know more about whether in fact everyone dropped Megan after her accident, or if she was just so depressed and angry that she cut everyone off. Probably it was a combination of both. I sort of doubt that she's never had friends, as her mother accuses her of; I think, rather, her mother hasn't known her well enough to know her friends.
One more bad thing, then I'll get to the good: Kate's personal life. I am totally spoiled for exactly what's going on there, and I am SO NOT HAPPY. OH MY GOD. I THINK THIS SHOW IS RUN BY MORONS. On the other hand, Kate was sort of cute with her little secrets.
So. Good stuff! I cringed when Megan started accompanying Bud to the magazine office (show, please just give us some kind of handwavey acknowledgment of the fact that this is so out of line for a regular medical examiner. Say she has some kind of special dispensation from someone higher up in the chain of command. I beg you); however, I liked that the rest of the investigation focused on reasonably medical-ish stuff, like the amber flecks in the businessman's eyes and those of his son.
I missed Sam, but I liked Bud better than usual this time around. It's nice that he's thawed a bit towards Megan (I guess it helps that she sewed up his jacket--although I think the original filming order, that hasn't happened yet). The, "Promise me when you tell him that, it'll make sense," was funny, and I liked them bonding-through-bitching over the difficulty of pinpointing time and cause of death. Her barging into the interview room and Bud turning to the one-way mirror to give Peter the fisheye for not stopping her was pretty hilarious too.
Kate has a specialty! And it's bones, teeth, and hair. Very interesting. I like when she gets involved in the cases rather than spending her day administrating. And Curtis's specialty is bugs. Awww. His song was cute for about five seconds, then it became about as annoying to me as it was to Ethan.
I question whether the quartet of Bud, Peter, Ethan, and Curtis would be so thrilled at hanging out together (does Bud even KNOW Ethan and Curtis?), but whatever, that was pretty amusing. Perhaps one day we will get a scene with all of them and the girls at the bar!
* Peter was obviously very uncomfortable at the party. Presumably his background is nothing like Megan's. Potential conflict? Potential storyline for the future? Heh, they really are a gender-reversed Beckett and Castle. Who were themselves a gender-reversed Booth and Brennan. Oh, TV-land, such a shallow well of creativity you draw from.
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Date: 2011-04-27 06:16 am (UTC)I thought of you throughout because Peter and Megan was adorable, although I really think Megan was just using him at the party and letting people assume he was a COLLEAGUE-WINK-WINK so they wouldn't ask her about her husband / mention their second cousin who's really quite nice once you get to know him and could use a lovely woman like you. ETC. Megan is kind of selfish, you must admit, and she doesn't really think about how things might come across, so I can totally see Peter getting a little sucked in by all this and then asking her to hang out and I HAVE A LOT OF FEELINGGGGS about this pairing and how I want to like them and am almost there but not quite. (PETER/KATE? CAN I HAVE THAT SINCE MEGAN/MEGAN IS KIND OF HER OWN OTP? I COULD GO WITH THAT.)
I LOVE SO FUCKING HARD THAT THEY ALL GO HANG OUT TOGETHER. LOLZ. And the way Peter asks her it's like they all do it all the time, and I'm just giddy at the idea of Kate hanging out with the lab rats. And Bud! Presumably if they all hang out together every now and again (it totally sounded like a regular thing which gives me ENDLESS JOY, haha, even though it makes no sense that Ethan would be so terrified of Kate if they all party together). And when they hang out, Kate and Sam probably sit back and watch everybody and smirk to each other about their shared superiority.
BUD <3. I like the way he squabbles with Megan. It's got a kids-at-the-playground feeling which I enjoy.
UGH KAAAATE WHY ARE YOU SO CUTE WHEN YOU'RE FORWARDING A MORONIC PLOTLINE. BECAUSE SHE WAS SO CUTE, SHE ALMOST SOLD ME ON IT. Uhhnnnnggg. Let's pretend this is a different guy and she just sleeps around a lot, so we can appreciate the cute without wanting the world to end. Also, my imaginary headship between Kate and the Mayor got more complicated when the Mayor got A WIFE in an offhanded comment.
I have to love Megan's mom, because she's Joanna Cassidy, and because she's so perfect as the woman who would have created Megan, you know? And it suddenly makes a lot more sense why Megan can't figure out how to relate to Lacey. I really don't know if Megan's fall from grace embarrassed her mom, because I think Megan probably projected her own embarrassment onto everyone around her.
And can I get a big hearty WHAAAAAAT for next week's previews? JESUS this show is fishing in shallow plot waters. Is it a television LAW that Megan has to have an even more tragical past where her father died under mysterious circumstances and that's why she cares about dead people and the truth?? I mean, it's not like she chose this profession as her first choice.
Maybe I should just stop watching TV after the pilot and imagine the rest of the episodes in my head. >_<
ILU FOR PROBABLY UNDERSTANDING 90% OF WHAT I JUST BABBLED.
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Date: 2011-04-27 06:52 pm (UTC)Awww, yay!
I really think Megan was just using him at the party and letting people assume he was a COLLEAGUE-WINK-WINK so they wouldn't ask her about her husband / mention their second cousin who's really quite nice once you get to know him and could use a lovely woman like you. ETC.
Welllll, yes, there is that. I thought of that after I posted, and it is a very sound theory. She is definitely the type to do that very thing.
I can totally see Peter getting a little sucked in by all this and then asking her to hang out
AWWWWWWWW! So Peter's mental monologue could've actually gone like, "If she's not contradicting these people who are assuming we're a couple, does that mean she likes me? Does it mean that if I ask her out, which I've kind of been wanting to do but have been afraid of, she won't shank me with a medical implement? OMG DOES THAT MEAN SHE WANTS TO SLEEP WITH ME PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE?"
That might be EVEN MORE ADORABLE.
and I HAVE A LOT OF FEELINGGGGS about this pairing and how I want to like them and am almost there but not quite
FEEEEEEEEEEELINGS are good! :D
(PETER/KATE? CAN I HAVE THAT SINCE MEGAN/MEGAN IS KIND OF HER OWN OTP? I COULD GO WITH THAT.)
I HAVE BEEN CONTEMPLATING THAT OF LATE MYSELF. Mostly because they're both blond and about the same height and basically look very well-matched.
I too sort of love the idea of everyone partying together, although yes, it doesn't make very much sense. Also, Bud and Sam would probably prefer their police buddies over the ME crew, although maybe Sam wouldn't. (I...am sort of kind of maybe considering Megan/Sam? Sam seems to like her. Hmmm.)
Let's pretend this is a different guy and she just sleeps around a lot, so we can appreciate the cute without wanting the world to end.
That sounds like an excellent idea, because she was really was very cute, and I would love for her to have a boy/girlfriend WHO IS NOT MEGAN'S EX.
she's so perfect as the woman who would have created Megan, you know?
She is, isn't she? Dana Delany did say that we'd understand why Megan is such a spectacular failure at mothering once we met her mom.
I really don't know if Megan's fall from grace embarrassed her mom, because I think Megan probably projected her own embarrassment onto everyone around her.
Yes, this is definitely true. I think Megan pretty much projects her ENTIRE EMOTIONAL SPECTRUM onto everyone around her. Although I think it would really interesting if it were true.
Re: Preview: OMG, I know. I was expecting something like that after reading the IMDB summary, but oooooooof. And they're going to have a flashback, which is even worse.
I mean, it's not like she chose this profession as her first choice.
Seriously! Although in my head, I've fanwanked that she had some kind of history with pathology before going into neurosurgery, because although they did at least give her three years between her accident and getting hired by Kate to school herself in and get certified as an ME, seriously, there had to be a reason she didn't just go into a neurology-related profession that didn't require she be a surgeon.
(I keep trying to make this aspect of her character, as well as the whole acting-like-a-cop thing, work in my head. I wish they'd give us a real handwavey kind of reason rather than me having to fanwank so much.)
Maybe I should just stop watching TV after the pilot and imagine the rest of the episodes in my head.
You might've had better luck with this one, yes! I'm still hoping they dump almost all the writers after this season and get a better crop for S2. (If there is an S2. But the ratings have been decent, and ABC hasn't launched a new drama since Castle, so it's looking good!)
ILU FOR PROBABLY UNDERSTANDING 90% OF WHAT I JUST BABBLED.
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Date: 2011-04-27 09:41 pm (UTC)Yes, poor thing. She doesn't have the "I wonder how this will land for the other person?" filter in anything she does.
"OMG DOES THAT MEAN SHE WANTS TO SLEEP WITH ME PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE?"
HAHAHA. Actually, I think you've just hit the nail on the head for why I'm not sold on this ship - it doesn't ping me enough that he really wants to fuck her. I buy it emotionally and romantically, but not really sexually. I'm working on that, though. FOR YOUUU.
Mostly because they're both blond and about the same height and basically look very well-matched.
LOOKING PRETTY IS NOT INSIGNIFICANT! They really haven't had that many moments together so it's hard to get a ship vibe from anything EXCEPT the pretty, but I get the "it could work" feeling, because they're both similarly stable & serious about their jobs but with a work/life balance. Or so they seem.
I too sort of love the idea of everyone partying together, although yes, it doesn't make very much sense. Also, Bud and Sam would probably prefer their police buddies over the ME crew
Yeah, I wonder if this was the first time Bud was invited since Sam was out of town and Peter thought to invite him? Or maybe it's just that Peter is a do-gooder and knows all about Bud's home life and wants to bring him out partying with the guys. IDK!
I got so committed to my fanon of Sam/Sam's Husband that I actually haven't thought about her as a romantic pairing possibility AT ALL. I will open my mind here!
I would love for her to have a boy/girlfriend WHO IS NOT MEGAN'S EX.
UGHHHNNNGGG I KNOW. She was so cute!! And I LOVE that she has a work/life balance SO HARD and she should have tons of guys and girls and just REALLY, REALLY, ALL WE KNOW OF THIS GUY IS THAT HE'S KIND OF A DOUCHE. If the show had made aaaaany effort to make him sympathetic, then I might be sliiiiightly less opposed. But really, WTF are they trying to do here, set up a TOTALLY UNNECESSARY competition between Kate & Megan? And if the relationship continues, is it going to be about Kate Being Lacey's Step-Mom? I DON'T EVEN KNOW, MAKE IT STOPPP.
Plus I'm writing fanfic about Kate Meets The Ex For The First Time And Then She And Megan Go Drinking and DAMMIT I FEEL RUSHED RIGHT NOW TO GET THAT COMPLETE before it's completely trashed for the dumbest reason alive.
I think Megan pretty much projects her ENTIRE EMOTIONAL SPECTRUM onto everyone around her. Although I think it would really interesting if it were true.
LOL. She really does! Oh, Megs, I love you. And I think it was probably also true in the case of Ma Hunt, because even if she wasn't embarrassed by Megan's accident and the respectful way she closed her practice (which she probably was), I'm sure Megan was a hot mess afterwards. I get the feeling this isn't the first time she acted out at a society ball.
I actually really liked Megan's explanation that the inquest into her patient's death was what got her on this kick. I think that could have been enough on its own. And it's just her personality that she goes bonkers and chases down suspects on her own.
And about her acting like a cop, I wonder if some of it is the "FIRE ME" attitude she copped at Kate in the pilot. She acts like she doesn't care about this career, so The Truth is the only thing that matters. Watch her get suspended once and suddenly I bet she cares a little more about crossing over the line. (I'd like to see her get suspended now for something. Ooooh.)
I LOVE THIS SHOWWWWWW for the potential it has and continues to squander. LOL.
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Date: 2011-04-27 11:19 pm (UTC)She doesn't have the "I wonder how this will land for the other person?" filter in anything she does.
Noooooope. Not at all.
Actually, I think you've just hit the nail on the head for why I'm not sold on this ship - it doesn't ping me enough that he really wants to fuck her. I buy it emotionally and romantically, but not really sexually.
I can understand that! Sexual attraction in general is such an abstract concept to me, though, that it doesn't make a big difference in how I perceive pairings. To make a crummy analogy, you know how people who are red/green colorblind can still understand traffic lights because one of the bulbs is always going to be brighter than the others? That's kind of how sexual chemistry between characters I ship works for me. I can tell that, say, Maddie and David on Moonlighting had UST that blazed way hotter than Megan and Peter's does, but it impacts my perception of a ship so little that it's easily overridden by the emotional/romantic/intellectual connections I see existing or developing between them. (Heh, and it helps that Peter is constantly giving her these adoring little looks. Possibly he's just adoring her brain, but then again, it's kind of all the same to me.)
(Also, that had basically nothing to do with your particular comment. I just felt like babbling a bit.)
I'm working on that, though. FOR YOUUU.
Awwwwww! ♥ ♥ ♥
LOOKING PRETTY IS NOT INSIGNIFICANT!
Hee! The pretty is sort of the only thing drawing me to the pairing right now, largely because we haven't seen them interact much. But that could change!
Or maybe it's just that Peter is a do-gooder and knows all about Bud's home life and wants to bring him out partying with the guys. IDK!
Awww, I like that idea! He does seem to be kind of the mom of the team. I can imagine him inviting Bud because he wanted to be a do-gooder.
I got so committed to my fanon of Sam/Sam's Husband that I actually haven't thought about her as a romantic pairing possibility AT ALL. I will open my mind here!
I like your fanon better, actually, but more femslash is never bad, y/y?
REALLY, REALLY, ALL WE KNOW OF THIS GUY IS THAT HE'S KIND OF A DOUCHE
Exactly! I do hope we get more on him, because there has GOT to be more to the story of why Megan apparently didn't even get visitation rights in the custody battle. And I feel like if their marriage fell apart just because they didn't spend enough time together, he wouldn't be so hateful and bitter, but rather just...regretful? Annoyed? Like, if they weren't around each other much, I'm not sure what Megan could've done to piss him off SO MUCH.
Plus I'm writing fanfic about Kate Meets The Ex For The First Time And Then She And Megan Go Drinking and DAMMIT I FEEL RUSHED RIGHT NOW TO GET THAT COMPLETE before it's completely trashed for the dumbest reason alive.
Yeah, that does suck. But I'm sure your fic will be awesome even if it does get jossed. :)
I get the feeling this isn't the first time she acted out at a society ball.
Ohhhhhh, yeah. It sounds like there's a history there. Maybe she had a debutant ball that went horribly awry?
I actually really liked Megan's explanation that the inquest into her patient's death was what got her on this kick.
I like that as well.
I think that could have been enough on its own.
I guess in TV Land it is. It's just that, uh, I did a lot of research on pathology when X-Files was still on *whistles innocently*, and I can't get out of my mind how very different the disciplines are and how much re-training Megan would've had to go through.
I desperately need to follow the "drink more, think less" mantra on this show. Too bad I don't drink.
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Date: 2011-04-27 11:20 pm (UTC)Ooooh. I hadn't thought of that. Yeah, I could definitely see that as an explanation.
Watch her get suspended once and suddenly I bet she cares a little more about crossing over the line. (I'd like to see her get suspended now for something. Ooooh.)
THAT WOULD BE AWESOME. Show, are you listening?
I LOVE THIS SHOWWWWWW for the potential it has and continues to squander. LOL.
I know! It really is squandering an amazing amount of potential, isn't it? I think that's why I keep writing epic posts when they air an episode, because the urge to find the writers and rip scripts out of their hands and revise them because EVEN I COULD DO SO MUCH BETTER, DAMMIT, is so very strong. Also it makes it easy to fic if I'm not intimidated by the show itself. ;)
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Date: 2011-05-01 01:43 am (UTC)IMMINENT CHEEK-PINCHING. (And perhaps another clue of How Megan Is Not Good At Maternal.)
Either have the guts to make a statement about how women in power are viewed or don't, but don't give us a simple mystery where every single suspect's motive was basically, "she's a pain in the ass," and, "I wanted to win that writing contest," and then shoehorn in some Grrrl Power rhetoric and expect us to think you're really progressive for it.
Yeah, Making A Point about how Powerful Women =/= Bitches is one thing, but trying to make that point about a victim of the week that you aren't really putting any effort into making sympathetic... no.
Why does Megan resent her privileged childhood?* (If she does, why does she still dress like she's a part of it?)
And why does she attempt to buy her own child $1100 pumpkin-tutu bags? WHYYYYYYY???
I wonder if ABC has some kind of ownership in a music label, and has someone from that end chose a song to stick at the end of each episode of every scripted show the network runs, whether it fits the show or not.
Maybe peddling music at the audience is the only revenue that's keeping scripted tv afloat? Noooooooooooooooo every network is now the CW noooooooooo!!!
(show, please just give us some kind of handwavey acknowledgment of the fact that this is so out of line for a regular medical examiner. Say she has some kind of special dispensation from someone higher up in the chain of command. I beg you)
STOP IT WITH YOUR CRAZY DREAMS!
however, I liked that the rest of the investigation focused on reasonably medical-ish stuff, like the amber flecks in the businessman's eyes and those of his son.
Um, I questioned how a surprise snapshot of a moving target resulted in a) enough detail to pick out eye flecks, and b) not a giant blur altogether. Wait, wait, MORE VODKA, STAT!
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Date: 2011-05-01 03:02 am (UTC)PINCHY PINCHY PINCHY!
(And perhaps another clue of How Megan Is Not Good At Maternal.)
Or perhaps at friendship and/or romance...
Yeah, Making A Point about how Powerful Women =/= Bitches is one thing, but trying to make that point about a victim of the week that you aren't really putting any effort into making sympathetic... no.
If they'd related it better to Megan and/or Kate it might've worked better, but definitely not as they did it. And poor Peter. I cringed when those ridiculously scripted lines came out of his mouth.
And why does she attempt to buy her own child $1100 pumpkin-tutu bags? WHYYYYYYY???
I DON'T KNOOOOOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWW!!!
Maybe peddling music at the audience is the only revenue that's keeping scripted tv afloat?
At this point, very possibly. :(
STOP IT WITH YOUR CRAZY DREAMS!
I CAN'T HELP MYSELF!
Um, I questioned how a surprise snapshot of a moving target resulted in a) enough detail to pick out eye flecks, and b) not a giant blur altogether. Wait, wait, MORE VODKA, STAT!
Well, he did use the flash. My camera's pretty good with moving targets when the light is good or I'm using the flash. But yes, more vodka is definitely necessary.
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Date: 2011-05-02 03:29 am (UTC)Now I'm imagining a different reason why all her friends dumped her after her accident: "MEGAN WE'RE SORRY ABOUT YOUR KILLING PATIENTS AND ALL BUT WE REALLY CANNOT TOLERATE THIS CHEEK-PINCHING, GRIEF-PROMPTED OR NO."
Well, he did use the flash. My camera's pretty good with moving targets when the light is good or I'm using the flash.
Flash! That's another thing! "You can see in this photo that the suspect has glowing red eyes! And here is a photo of another person-of-interest, who COINCIDENTALLY also has glowing red eyes??? THEY ARE TOTALLY RELATED."
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Date: 2011-05-02 07:06 pm (UTC)Bwahahahahaha! "Megan, I'm a surgeon too, and I promise I will cut your fingers off if you try to pinch my cheeks again."
Flash! That's another thing! "You can see in this photo that the suspect has glowing red eyes! And here is a photo of another person-of-interest, who COINCIDENTALLY also has glowing red eyes??? THEY ARE TOTALLY RELATED."
But...but...but... OKAY, FINE, IT WAS COMPLETELY IMPOSSIBLE. (Although I must point out that my new camera is decent at avoiding red-eye. But Megan's camera was a tiny little point and shoot that's probably bad at it.)
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Date: 2011-05-03 04:43 am (UTC)"I'm sorry to say, Megan, but this paresthesia thing is FINGER KARMA."
But Megan's camera was a tiny little point and shoot that's probably bad at it.
SHUT UP IT'S TOTALLY A SPECIAL-ISSUE MEDICAL EXAMINER HIGH-TECH RECORDER DESIGNED SPECIFICALLY FOR STALKING SUSPECTS AND THEIR EYEBALLS DON'T CRITICIIIIIIIIIIZE.
(Oh no, I have no alcohol in my apartment this week! However will I watch tv??)
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Date: 2011-05-03 10:03 pm (UTC)"God has done this to show you the ERROR OF YOUR WAYS."
Oh no, I have no alcohol in my apartment this week! However will I watch tv??
Oh noes! Quick, make a run for the vodka! Um, FYI, you'll need it for Castle. And I'm sure for this show too.