Perception
Sep. 3rd, 2013 11:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
arduinnaI have a whole long thing in my head going into the things I like about TNT's shows, the things I used to like about Perception, and the way Perception has annoyed me this season -- minor enough to let me keep watching, right up till the end of the season.
But it's 11:47 and now this is stuck in my head as the thing I want to post today, so I will be very brief and say:
I can't bring myself to watch the final ep. I stuck it out through their really frustrating handling of Daniel's schizophrenia ("Hey, responsibly committing myself when I realized I'd lost complete control worked! I'm on meds now, and my life is good, I'm happy, I'm in a relationship, all of which happened offscreen for several months. Oh but wait, side effects of the drugs. I must go off them instantly! And now here it is the second episode, and I'm back exactly where I was last season as though nothing had ever changed, except I'm lying to my girlfriend about it." Seriously, I was so pissed. I completely get that the show wants to use his hallucinations as a vehicle for crime-solving. I think that's cool! But jfc, don't tell us he was happy offscreen but now he can't be. Just leave him off the damn meds completely!)
... ahem. Anyway, so I sucked it up and got through that, and have suffered through all of the Kate storyline with her skeevy ex-husband who wants her back, and gritted my teeth through Daniel and the ex posturing at each other and jockeying for best-Kate-owning-position. Which would probably annoy me a lot more if I cared about Kate at all, but I don't, because she's mostly a cipher to me, even with the ex-husband storyline.
But then in the second to last episode, out of nowhere she goes completely off the rails, and shoots someone, while Daniel and the ex run around white-knighting to try to save her from herself. And the last episode is all about her facing charges while the two of them (Donnie, that's the ex's name) try to clear her name.
And a) wow how much do I not want this to be about two guys working to save the woman (who is a perfectly capable FBI agent, or so we're told), but b) and way more important: wtf, why is this happening, and why am I supposed to care?
When Brenda went off the rails in The Closer, it had been building up for years. It was part of her characterization from day one, and we got to see how different things affected her, and how her actions put this or that in motion. It made sense, and I was massively invested in the outcome.
This? This is just cheap, stock manipulation, and I'm so annoyed with myself for giving the season a chance after I was so put off by the first two episodes.
And I'm ten times more frustrated because dammit, TNT usually does women pretty well, so there's actual real characterization involved. Bah.
And now it's 11:59 and I'm just gonna hit post, even though I could spend hours reworking this to something more coherent. Here, have incoherent reaction.
But it's 11:47 and now this is stuck in my head as the thing I want to post today, so I will be very brief and say:
I can't bring myself to watch the final ep. I stuck it out through their really frustrating handling of Daniel's schizophrenia ("Hey, responsibly committing myself when I realized I'd lost complete control worked! I'm on meds now, and my life is good, I'm happy, I'm in a relationship, all of which happened offscreen for several months. Oh but wait, side effects of the drugs. I must go off them instantly! And now here it is the second episode, and I'm back exactly where I was last season as though nothing had ever changed, except I'm lying to my girlfriend about it." Seriously, I was so pissed. I completely get that the show wants to use his hallucinations as a vehicle for crime-solving. I think that's cool! But jfc, don't tell us he was happy offscreen but now he can't be. Just leave him off the damn meds completely!)
... ahem. Anyway, so I sucked it up and got through that, and have suffered through all of the Kate storyline with her skeevy ex-husband who wants her back, and gritted my teeth through Daniel and the ex posturing at each other and jockeying for best-Kate-owning-position. Which would probably annoy me a lot more if I cared about Kate at all, but I don't, because she's mostly a cipher to me, even with the ex-husband storyline.
But then in the second to last episode, out of nowhere she goes completely off the rails, and shoots someone, while Daniel and the ex run around white-knighting to try to save her from herself. And the last episode is all about her facing charges while the two of them (Donnie, that's the ex's name) try to clear her name.
And a) wow how much do I not want this to be about two guys working to save the woman (who is a perfectly capable FBI agent, or so we're told), but b) and way more important: wtf, why is this happening, and why am I supposed to care?
When Brenda went off the rails in The Closer, it had been building up for years. It was part of her characterization from day one, and we got to see how different things affected her, and how her actions put this or that in motion. It made sense, and I was massively invested in the outcome.
This? This is just cheap, stock manipulation, and I'm so annoyed with myself for giving the season a chance after I was so put off by the first two episodes.
And I'm ten times more frustrated because dammit, TNT usually does women pretty well, so there's actual real characterization involved. Bah.
And now it's 11:59 and I'm just gonna hit post, even though I could spend hours reworking this to something more coherent. Here, have incoherent reaction.
