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chicks before sticks! what I don't even know
Every time Eastwick is rubbish I am resignedly unsurprised, and every time it is good I am deeply confused. Mind you, by "good" I mean "I want to fall over with joy because I want to ship all the women on this show," but that is a rare enough pleasure that I am sticking to it.
I may have ended the episode with my hands pressed joyfully over my mouth because Joanna and Kat love one another? I was actually wildly delighted by the way they handled the entire thing: last week's preview had me dreading everything, but that's mostly because the preview was Penny doing the "that bitch!" song and dance, and I didn't really mind Penny doing it. I've decided on reading her as going through the best friend motions, because Joanna really is the most important person in her life, and therefore of course as being protective when Joanna's hurt (but also -- really, going through set motions, because physical attraction to Jamie aside I think we have enough text for me to say it's entirely possible that Penny's in love with Joanna).
Meanwhile Kat handled the entire thing beautifully; she apologized to Joanna, and kept her cool around Penny, and also rebuffed Will, who by the way I genuinely dislike now. He was cute when he was being awkward back at Joanna, but even though his "Joanna and I never even went out, so it's not as though she has some prior claim on my affections" reasoning is not actually bad reasoning, he was still being kind of a selfish dick. And despite the fact that "Chicks before sticks" sounds basically as dumb as "Bros before hos," I am secretly delighted to have a female equivalent and Kat just threw it out there. And then Will missed the point. Go put out fires or something, Will! Or, wait, don't. WHY DOESN'T KAT JUST DO IT WITH THE RAIN. That was pretty epic.
Incidentally, for the first time I wasn't hiding behind my hands a little at how Joanna always makes bad decisions. She didn't make bad decisions! She had telekinesis and nearly escaped the terrifying preacher man who, incidentally, TERRIFIES ME; maybe the moral of the show is that men are either [a] teenagers, [b] dead, or [c] evil. (If you're Gus, you're all three!) Josh? Teenager (adorable adorable teenager of whom I approve). Chad? Dead.
Which, speaking of, I am really glad that we didn't have an entire episode of Chad being amazingly wonderful in order to destroy our souls when he dies. Last episode he was amazing, and he's been a sweet if mildly shallow person the whole series, so his death is less blatant manipulation than plot. Someone had to be Roxie's friend and die under a statue. This delights me in the sense that the rules are actually consistent: Roxie cut herself, so even if she remembers with the tomatoes, she'll do it with the bread. Roxie sees the beginning of Gus assaulting Mia, but not some horrific aftermath, so her saving Mia then doesn't doom Mia to the same later on. Roxie sees a funeral, someone's going to have a funeral. Happily Roxie sees Jamie doing creepy kidnapping things, but she doesn't actually see him kill her. (I am, I admit, deeply nervous about that bit where he stabs her now.)
And lastly we have Darryl who is neither a teenager nor dead. I am still kind of nervous about him being evil, because someone who saves girls from getting raped and helps people divorce abusive husbands and tells the women to actually use their goddamn power is not someone I want to be evil. On the other hand, typing this right now, it suddenly came to me that Roxie is damn well capable of being angry without being told by a man that it's okay, and Kat is obviously able to stand up for herself against Raymond and uses her friends as her real supports, and Joanna -- well, hell, telling men what to do has gotten her into trouble and this new telekinesis thing, which Darryl neglected to mention, seems a lot more helpful. I think I am perfectly happy with a show wherein Darryl ie I suppose the patriarchy is trying to use their powers to his own ends but they all have each other and their own damn agenda and their own damn agency. I'm not 100% sure the show is going there, but if it is, I am all for it.
...Good god. I'm not watching this show for Paul Gross.
I may have ended the episode with my hands pressed joyfully over my mouth because Joanna and Kat love one another? I was actually wildly delighted by the way they handled the entire thing: last week's preview had me dreading everything, but that's mostly because the preview was Penny doing the "that bitch!" song and dance, and I didn't really mind Penny doing it. I've decided on reading her as going through the best friend motions, because Joanna really is the most important person in her life, and therefore of course as being protective when Joanna's hurt (but also -- really, going through set motions, because physical attraction to Jamie aside I think we have enough text for me to say it's entirely possible that Penny's in love with Joanna).
Meanwhile Kat handled the entire thing beautifully; she apologized to Joanna, and kept her cool around Penny, and also rebuffed Will, who by the way I genuinely dislike now. He was cute when he was being awkward back at Joanna, but even though his "Joanna and I never even went out, so it's not as though she has some prior claim on my affections" reasoning is not actually bad reasoning, he was still being kind of a selfish dick. And despite the fact that "Chicks before sticks" sounds basically as dumb as "Bros before hos," I am secretly delighted to have a female equivalent and Kat just threw it out there. And then Will missed the point. Go put out fires or something, Will! Or, wait, don't. WHY DOESN'T KAT JUST DO IT WITH THE RAIN. That was pretty epic.
Incidentally, for the first time I wasn't hiding behind my hands a little at how Joanna always makes bad decisions. She didn't make bad decisions! She had telekinesis and nearly escaped the terrifying preacher man who, incidentally, TERRIFIES ME; maybe the moral of the show is that men are either [a] teenagers, [b] dead, or [c] evil. (If you're Gus, you're all three!) Josh? Teenager (adorable adorable teenager of whom I approve). Chad? Dead.
Which, speaking of, I am really glad that we didn't have an entire episode of Chad being amazingly wonderful in order to destroy our souls when he dies. Last episode he was amazing, and he's been a sweet if mildly shallow person the whole series, so his death is less blatant manipulation than plot. Someone had to be Roxie's friend and die under a statue. This delights me in the sense that the rules are actually consistent: Roxie cut herself, so even if she remembers with the tomatoes, she'll do it with the bread. Roxie sees the beginning of Gus assaulting Mia, but not some horrific aftermath, so her saving Mia then doesn't doom Mia to the same later on. Roxie sees a funeral, someone's going to have a funeral. Happily Roxie sees Jamie doing creepy kidnapping things, but she doesn't actually see him kill her. (I am, I admit, deeply nervous about that bit where he stabs her now.)
And lastly we have Darryl who is neither a teenager nor dead. I am still kind of nervous about him being evil, because someone who saves girls from getting raped and helps people divorce abusive husbands and tells the women to actually use their goddamn power is not someone I want to be evil. On the other hand, typing this right now, it suddenly came to me that Roxie is damn well capable of being angry without being told by a man that it's okay, and Kat is obviously able to stand up for herself against Raymond and uses her friends as her real supports, and Joanna -- well, hell, telling men what to do has gotten her into trouble and this new telekinesis thing, which Darryl neglected to mention, seems a lot more helpful. I think I am perfectly happy with a show wherein Darryl ie I suppose the patriarchy is trying to use their powers to his own ends but they all have each other and their own damn agenda and their own damn agency. I'm not 100% sure the show is going there, but if it is, I am all for it.
...Good god. I'm not watching this show for Paul Gross.
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This episode Darryl really squicked me hard over Bun--that physically threatening way he was with her was either rape or murder or both, until Mia turned up. And how much do I LOVE that women in this show are looking out for each other, having complex relationships with each other, and men can be shallow and boring and poorly written for once, yes?
Anyhow, this ep made me incredibly gleeful. Go Show!
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fedslksd Darryl. I have the sneaking suspicion that he is not squicking me even half as hard as he should because I still have all these Fraser & Geoffrey filters (it is the CRK problem! he'll occasionally be an irredeemable creeper and I'll have ... Kowalski & Duck &c filters on, confusing me) but I just. I don't know what he was intending to do with Bun, but I really, really don't want to, either.
I may be running around in circles of joy because they killed the boyfriend to further a main female character's emotional plotline. And I was fond of Chad but, let's face it, eye candy. I think we're in some freakish mirror universe of, yes, complex female relationships and boring shallow often poorly-written men, and I really like it here.
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I know! I was trying to figure out if the Kat/Joanna/Penny triangle could be satisfactorily solved with happiness ensuing all around, and... I don't have an answer for that.
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1. IAW your squeeage
2. I think PFG is actually better as a meanie, cause his "courtliness" is a creepy way to engender trust from these women who he's clearly intending to fuck over big. (My bet is he encourages them to develop their powers so he can manipulate those powers to his ends.)
3. How mich do I love Mia's line to Darryl "You've stepped out of a 70s porno!"
4. RAIN! Elemental control is verrrrrry sexy. I imagine making love to Kat in a gentle warm whirlwind of dandelion heads and milkweed pods.
5. Bun is important even as she's has impaired cognition. Old lady powers! YAY
* And if you want creepy, check out MURDER MOST LIKELY (unfortunately I have a 14th gen VCR dub that's barely watchable, where PFG plays anti-Fraser, an RCMP undercover agent gone totally wrong.
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Re: 2: I think you're right! I just need to adjust my brain. Or alternately hide in a corner and rewatch Slings & Arrows.
Re: 4: Ohhh Kat. I approve of your imaginary love-making, which I think is accurate and awesome.
Re: 5: I am so pleased with what they are doing with Bun! Whether or not she's faking her memory loss, she's smart, and her plotline intrigues me, and yay. :D
Re: Murder Most Likely, see re: 2 and how I will be hiding in a corner rewatching S&A. Although now I'm intrigued! Aiee.
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