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gategrrlI don't know if anyone on my flist watches Medium anymore, but, what the heck.
Last night's episode was disappointing to say the least. The scripts for this show have been progressively showing Alison breaking down further and futher and losing that cool control of herself in the face of her visions. There aren't any supporting character development beats that help the character change. It also doesn't help that the focus of the series seems to be changing from down-to-earth (no pun intended) crimes and personal foibles, to more far-out and perposterous plots and so forth.
The episode from a couple of weeks ago, with Captain Push, was interesting, as well as brutal, but the week after and this week's were...well, how many times are they going to have Alison taken over by a person who doesn't know they're dead? It's already happened once before.
I still love the family interaction -- oh yeah. I'll have to rewatch the more recent shows, but I've noticed that the actor who plays Joe, the Husband, is RARELY in the same shots with the kids, unless he has some direct interaction with them. It's noticable, especially in this last episode. They'll cut away from him but leave his voice talking as the camera pans over to Alison/PA. When I saw the extras on the season one DVDs, it was evident that he wasn't used to working with kids, nor did he particularly seem to enjoy working with them, and these kids in particular are on the ball and very much scene stealers. They are pros. If the actor isn't dealing well with the child actors, who are half the show, along with him, well, it's starting to affect the show, at least for me.
Anyone else have opinions?
Last night's episode was disappointing to say the least. The scripts for this show have been progressively showing Alison breaking down further and futher and losing that cool control of herself in the face of her visions. There aren't any supporting character development beats that help the character change. It also doesn't help that the focus of the series seems to be changing from down-to-earth (no pun intended) crimes and personal foibles, to more far-out and perposterous plots and so forth.
The episode from a couple of weeks ago, with Captain Push, was interesting, as well as brutal, but the week after and this week's were...well, how many times are they going to have Alison taken over by a person who doesn't know they're dead? It's already happened once before.
I still love the family interaction -- oh yeah. I'll have to rewatch the more recent shows, but I've noticed that the actor who plays Joe, the Husband, is RARELY in the same shots with the kids, unless he has some direct interaction with them. It's noticable, especially in this last episode. They'll cut away from him but leave his voice talking as the camera pans over to Alison/PA. When I saw the extras on the season one DVDs, it was evident that he wasn't used to working with kids, nor did he particularly seem to enjoy working with them, and these kids in particular are on the ball and very much scene stealers. They are pros. If the actor isn't dealing well with the child actors, who are half the show, along with him, well, it's starting to affect the show, at least for me.
Anyone else have opinions?
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Date: 2007-02-22 07:41 pm (UTC)Maybe it's just that Patricia Arquette is NOT convincing as emotional/weepy. It comes off as really excruciating to me most of the time, and makes me think she cannot act.
I hadn't noticed less kid time with Joe, but I will now. ;)
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Date: 2007-02-22 09:59 pm (UTC)PA is okay, to me: although this season they're requiring her to emote, and it's just not working well. I don't think the scripts are as good. I think they might be writing the scripts up in order to compete with - Ghost Whisperer maybe? I don't know.
And lately, her dreams, although not giving her all the answers at the time, like in the Dead Zone, they are more exact and even less loosey-goosey than they used to be. I wish the writers would stick more to the type of show they initially developed; that show felt more intimate, more chilling, and you wondered how does this woman deal with seeing all these things all the time?