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[oyceter]

I watched ep. 6 before all the others, just to see if my annoyance with Crews would lessen or not.

Summary: not as annoyed as I was with the first two episodes, but fans may still want to avoid.

This is still my complicated knitting show, which means I put it on when I want something to listen to, but not something I care so much about that I can't concentrate on whatever hard knitting thing I'm doing. Um, sorry vonnie_k and coffeeandink!

While the show started to catch my interest around eps. 7-9, I did pay a little less attention to knitting, but the final two episodes annoyed me enough to put the show back on probation.

Reese continues to be awesome. I also do enjoy her banter with Crews, largely because she is just as annoyed with his stupid philosophizing as me. Um, ok, probably less so.

I did, however, discover that my high levels of annoyance with "Zen" aphorisms is not limited to the cultural appropriation part, although that does contribute a great deal (as someone who got "Wax on, wax off," spouted at her at times, I have very limited patience with anything even remotely resembling Eastern mysticism). Physics professor who spouted similar "It is there, yet it is not there" type stuff also made me want to hit him over the head with Buddhist priests and atom splitters. Argh! People! I don't even know a lot of science, and even I know that that application of the Heisenberg uncertainty principle is WRONG! It is about the observation of particles so small that photons hitting them make them move, ergo causing the uncertainty of their position! Not about horses on lawns. And stop being annoyingly profound!

*ahem*

Anyway! I am sad there isn't more Reese. Reese makes all things better. In fact, the reason why I was more interested in the episodes before the endgame was because they started drawing Reese and her family history in! I care very little about Crews, sadly.

Unfortunately, this is why I didn't enjoy the wrap-up of the arc very much. It was all Crews going around and being action guy, me sitting on the sofa thinking that surely the police aren't allowed to do things like that and in the real world he would get served with the equivalent of a court martial or something and also breaking his settlement, and Reese getting stuck with a snake. Literally.

I really wish they had been able to tie in Reese's plot with Crews, but instead, I felt she got shoved aside for all his stuff.

Of course, I am also biased.

Sooo... possibly keeping this as complicated knitting show, as the regular case files are relatively interesting, but I continue to roll my eyes at the philosophy stuff. Oh, also show? I am irritated at the entire Zen master episode.

Ok, I just reread, and I sound more hostile than I actually felt. So, for accuracy: first two episodes and last two or three episodes, ARGH! Middle episodes, fairly enjoyable. Episodes starring Dani Reese in any way: awesomesauce.

Comments

[yhlee.livejournal.com]

You're going to hate me, but...

It is about the observation of particles so small that photons hitting them make them move, ergo causing the uncertainty of their position!

...that's not actually quite accurate. Read orzelc. ;-) The uncertainty is inherent.