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more thoughts on Missing
The show really feeds my need for revenge. I've always known I had a vicious streak, but getting to watch Nicole beat the crap out of someone, or Jess knee-cap a guy? Um, yes. It makes me gleeful, ridiculously so.
That said, the show does have its issues.
a) I'm pretty sure they wouldn't know correct FBI procedure if it smacked them over the head.
b) It's a little bit obsessed with "women having lives = women having men in said lives"--not all the time, but some. It's not as bad as Rizzoli & Isles, though. Possibly because they're very case-focused.
c) When I can figure out your plot... well, it's not that bad, I suppose?
d) Some cheap emotional manipulation, though they do manage not too have a ton of Women in Peril plots.
On the plus side, I've managed nearly two and a half seasons and I have yet to see a woman actually threatened with rape (there's been perverse stuff, like one woman picking up a stalker for ten minutes, but no actual "woman is cornered by a man who has the power to rape her") -- there have been many women in bad situations, and in peril, but... there hasn't been the implication of rape. I can't even put a finger on it--maybe it's camera angles? Dialog? Body language? Sigh. Whatever it is, it's the same thing Chase had--bad things happen, but not that.
HOWEVER.
e) there have been men threatened with rape, and this goes back to a, because Nicole likes to point out that jail is not all funtimes. So, not a plus for the show.
I loved Brooke and Sunny, and I miss them both--I miss Jess's family, too. But the first season was a very different animal to the second and third. They're not better or worse than each other. They're just different.
That said? I would like to be Nicole Scott when I grow up (flaws and all). She is confident and insane and incredible and rash and puts her ass on the line again and again. She's the classic "strong woman who doesn't share her feelings" except that she does, because she and Jess bond (they are partners, to the hilt, and they have each others' backs and, and--JESS TOOK A BULLET FOR HER ONCE, OK? so awesome). But she's also changing--no one stays the same, as she says in one of the episodes. I love that she's had this journey, even if I wish there'd be a little more of the insanity back. <3
Antonio is a nice dude, and I don't really have much to say outside of the parts where there are occasional Awkward Conversations between him and Pollock. The two men having scenes together always throws me out a little (even if it makes the show a little more balanced). Antonio also is a decent hacker, but don't tell the DoJ that.
Speaking of Pollock... He's sort of an asshole, and I don't think the writers really knew what to do with him in the second season--he was a bit wishy-washy? Like, one instant, being one thing, the next, something else. And it wasn't just "we're making him complicated" it was more "we need him to be this to move the plot along".
There are times when I don't like Pollock. Times when I really loathe him and find him despicable. And then there are times when I practically draw hearts on him on my screen.
Shockingly, those are the times he's being a vindictive sociopath. */somewhat embarrassed*
Like. The time he had a wife-beating suspect in his office and told the man that he'd shoot him through the lungs and then arrest him for breaking the restraining order against him. And when the man pointed out it didn't apply in DC (as he was from Chicago), Pollock said by the time that was argued out in court, the man would be dead, anyway. Having drowned in his own blood.
I mentioned the vindictiveness? yeah.
And then there's Jess.
Jess is my girl. I get her on so many levels, it's scary. Then again, she's grown so much--from naive newbie, to confident agent. She's still learning, though, still finding her stride and her place in the world. And her visions are changing. They were dreams in the first season, then more waking dreams in the second. Now they're... they're like things she's stepping into and interacting with--she's lucky everyone around her knows about them or they'd think she was a crazy person.
But she also loves her family and Nicole, and kicks ass, and is all Nancy Drew, and makes me flaily on a regular basis. <3
And adding a new spin to the show is a new agent, fresh from Quantico. She's perky and eager, and gets under my skin with how perfect she is--but that's the point. Jess is my girl, and Janey Cooper is there to get under her skin. And I love her for it, even when I want to go "ARGH" about it. Because she's also brilliant and good at her job, and, AND, she's doing what she's always wanted to do--work with Antonio in forensics. She's also a team player.
She gets under Jess's skin because Jess is never certain that she makes the grade to be an agent. Sure, she has visions, but she's riding Nicole's coat-tails to good detective work. If you look at it that way, at least. I think Jess is a decent agent, and will get better--she's just started, after all. Nicole's been at it for years.
<3 her, too. MY TEAM THEY ARE THE BESTEST.
I am now too distracted to keep rambling.
That said, the show does have its issues.
a) I'm pretty sure they wouldn't know correct FBI procedure if it smacked them over the head.
b) It's a little bit obsessed with "women having lives = women having men in said lives"--not all the time, but some. It's not as bad as Rizzoli & Isles, though. Possibly because they're very case-focused.
c) When I can figure out your plot... well, it's not that bad, I suppose?
d) Some cheap emotional manipulation, though they do manage not too have a ton of Women in Peril plots.
On the plus side, I've managed nearly two and a half seasons and I have yet to see a woman actually threatened with rape (there's been perverse stuff, like one woman picking up a stalker for ten minutes, but no actual "woman is cornered by a man who has the power to rape her") -- there have been many women in bad situations, and in peril, but... there hasn't been the implication of rape. I can't even put a finger on it--maybe it's camera angles? Dialog? Body language? Sigh. Whatever it is, it's the same thing Chase had--bad things happen, but not that.
HOWEVER.
e) there have been men threatened with rape, and this goes back to a, because Nicole likes to point out that jail is not all funtimes. So, not a plus for the show.
I loved Brooke and Sunny, and I miss them both--I miss Jess's family, too. But the first season was a very different animal to the second and third. They're not better or worse than each other. They're just different.
That said? I would like to be Nicole Scott when I grow up (flaws and all). She is confident and insane and incredible and rash and puts her ass on the line again and again. She's the classic "strong woman who doesn't share her feelings" except that she does, because she and Jess bond (they are partners, to the hilt, and they have each others' backs and, and--JESS TOOK A BULLET FOR HER ONCE, OK? so awesome). But she's also changing--no one stays the same, as she says in one of the episodes. I love that she's had this journey, even if I wish there'd be a little more of the insanity back. <3
Antonio is a nice dude, and I don't really have much to say outside of the parts where there are occasional Awkward Conversations between him and Pollock. The two men having scenes together always throws me out a little (even if it makes the show a little more balanced). Antonio also is a decent hacker, but don't tell the DoJ that.
Speaking of Pollock... He's sort of an asshole, and I don't think the writers really knew what to do with him in the second season--he was a bit wishy-washy? Like, one instant, being one thing, the next, something else. And it wasn't just "we're making him complicated" it was more "we need him to be this to move the plot along".
There are times when I don't like Pollock. Times when I really loathe him and find him despicable. And then there are times when I practically draw hearts on him on my screen.
Shockingly, those are the times he's being a vindictive sociopath. */somewhat embarrassed*
Like. The time he had a wife-beating suspect in his office and told the man that he'd shoot him through the lungs and then arrest him for breaking the restraining order against him. And when the man pointed out it didn't apply in DC (as he was from Chicago), Pollock said by the time that was argued out in court, the man would be dead, anyway. Having drowned in his own blood.
I mentioned the vindictiveness? yeah.
And then there's Jess.
Jess is my girl. I get her on so many levels, it's scary. Then again, she's grown so much--from naive newbie, to confident agent. She's still learning, though, still finding her stride and her place in the world. And her visions are changing. They were dreams in the first season, then more waking dreams in the second. Now they're... they're like things she's stepping into and interacting with--she's lucky everyone around her knows about them or they'd think she was a crazy person.
But she also loves her family and Nicole, and kicks ass, and is all Nancy Drew, and makes me flaily on a regular basis. <3
And adding a new spin to the show is a new agent, fresh from Quantico. She's perky and eager, and gets under my skin with how perfect she is--but that's the point. Jess is my girl, and Janey Cooper is there to get under her skin. And I love her for it, even when I want to go "ARGH" about it. Because she's also brilliant and good at her job, and, AND, she's doing what she's always wanted to do--work with Antonio in forensics. She's also a team player.
She gets under Jess's skin because Jess is never certain that she makes the grade to be an agent. Sure, she has visions, but she's riding Nicole's coat-tails to good detective work. If you look at it that way, at least. I think Jess is a decent agent, and will get better--she's just started, after all. Nicole's been at it for years.
<3 her, too. MY TEAM THEY ARE THE BESTEST.
I am now too distracted to keep rambling.
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