I could have done without the sexualized ~vampire~ scenes, but that's TV for you.
wildcat said:
The scene of the ritual with Estelle being absolutely extatic, if not to say orgasmic – major EEK! :wtf:
Disgusting. Provoking jealousy? I'm not convinced, but what do I know? :shifty:
oh me too, it was wildly unrealistic (i feel i can back this up if necessary!) and it really bothered me. i had been hoping when they said what those scenes were about it'd be a bit less sexualised and a bit more... well, something else, but it wasn't.
Too bad, I just could imagine kind of remarks Adam would make on this case.
same!
Opening scene – real winter in NY – beautiful! Trees in the snow, white branches, rays of pale winter sun. Was it really filmed it in NY?
Some of it?
On the second glance, when Stella and Don walk through the park following the photos trail there seemed to be too many green-leaved trees, and later, when they talked to concierge, in the background there was a big green bush with huge red flowers – not quite winter NY scenery. :guffaw:
well spotted. i doubt it was all done there, apart from the odd bit and some stock footage, and i believe there were pics on belga a while ago from that scene which had crew standing around in shorts and stuff so i think it's safe to say it wasn't....
The scene with Mac confronting the victim’s father in the hotel was a bit strange – I would not expect neither the detective being kind of aggressive from the start, nor this discussion happening in the hall (as opposed to being arranged at the precinct or somewhere private).
i dunno - i thought it worked that way. i think if he'd arranged for the dad to come to the precinct there would've been questions/suspicion/something from the mother that could've compromised the interview, and also i think it was better to catch the dad off guard - a prearranged interview would've given him chances to prepare what to say, mac needed the questions to get more honest answers than that. also i don't think he thought the dad actually did it and so maybe bringing him in for interrogation would've been too formal, when in fact he just wanted help and co-operation.
i *really* liked how aggressive it was as well - we've seen a few times that mac has a healthy disdain for (a) people who care more about keeping their own secrets than someone's death and (b) parents/other relations who put their own interests first in trying to find killers, and i think he's been aggressive in those situations before. add to that the fact that he clearly didn't get what it was all about, i think it made perfect sense. he was just trying to get answers and the dad seemed like a slippery kind of fella who'd worm his way out of things, so for me the (a) aggressive and (b) surprise/impromptu nature of the interview made sense in terms of catching the guy off guard and getting him to be less rehearsed.
mac had some good lines at that point too, "we're going to be here a while, might as well get comfortable" - and my personal favourite "photographs your daughter took of people at a ........ *insert look of confused disdain* ...party.":lol:
- You are working in the bloodbank during the day, slashing wrists by night. Are you bloodthirsty? :lol:
- I am deeply disturbed …. by Estelle’s death.
- You ARE deeply disturbed. – I’ll give you that much. :guffaw:
haha yeah those lines were good - although the first one bothered me a bit in that it wasn't really slashing was it? it was far too controlled! i guess it's just an expression though. [/pedantic]
it never came up how he got his hands on the ankh and how he afterwards was able to return it to the "haven" – he was not even the member of the cult.
yeah, that was odd, i wish they'd explained that.
The last scene with the girl’s father in the park also was a bit stunted. The father thanked Mac for coming – that implies he asked him to come. What for? – They didn’t even talk.
Mac approached, gave him the photos and left right away, without even sitting down, without saying anything. Huh? Run out of time? :lol:
yeah that was really weird. maybe they really did run out of time? it would've made more sense if mac had said "thanks for coming" and then given the dad the photos, because having it the other way around made it sound like the dad had some reason to have asked mac there when in fact the only exchange of info/anything came from mac. wow that paragraph reads well...:wtf:
Cold weather triggers aches and pains in people who have chronic injuries (or like me, PsArthritis).
yeah, me too - owwww. i had a similar flash of recognition/sympathy at that line!
Just a thought though, has anyone notice that Flack seems rougher these days? Early seasons he was very much sarcastic with suspects, but now it seems much darker, more venom behind his words, and he's alot rougher both emotionally and physically with suspects.....
maybe it's fall out from angell dying etc? although mac managed to get him pretty much back on track perhaps he's kept some of his disillusionment?
i don't have much to say really that hasn't already been said - i did like that there was a lot of mac (haha, i like being predictable!), i really liked his little scene with sid, the "eh??" looks he gave sid when sid said vampires, and when he asked sid how he knew, were great
(hmm how many times can i say "sid" in one sentence?!)
the parents' accents bothered me - they were a little bit iffy on the english side. they sounded ok most of the time but quite a few times there was a distinct transatlantic thing going on (especially with the dad). of course it might have been that they had been living in the us a while and had picked up a bit of the accent but given that they mentioned a flight, and were staying in a hotel, i think them coming from the uk seems more plausible. i dunno, it just bothered me a bit.
one thing i reaaally liked about this ep was how beautiful they made NY look (even if it wasn't real!), the visual element of this ep was just great, it was very atmospheric, they used some lovely photos as the vic's pics, and snow always lends itself well to beautiful shots. i thought the opening and closing sequences were a tad contrived (and the opening one a little bit long) but otherwise i quite liked them, it was an effective device. and i also loved the wide shot of mac about to interrogate the boyfriend, with him standing in the shadows (i want to start singing the stones now...!:lol:
) at the back - it fit really well with the photographic nature of the ep, and also with the vampire theme, especially with the way it was lit and stuff. very cool.
i'm not sure what grade to give, i enjoyed it but there were one or two little blips that bothered me... hmm i'll plump for a B+
