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sff: The Bletchley Circle 2x1+2x2
It's baaaack, yay.
I liked how this one started with Jean.
I mean. After the SURPRISE PAUL MCGANN IN MY BLETCHLEY.
Because it starts with Jean (and Alice). Jean bringing them all back together, working at the case because it makes no sense to her. I liked that a lot.
I also liked Alice and how she wasn't willing to fight until she'd been convinced of the truth--that it wasn't her daughter who'd killed him. I actually liked that brief moment of utter terror and horror in her eyes at the end of the first part, when she realizes that there is no hope for her at all.
Alice's daughter was pretty amazing in her own way.
I liked how it was built on things that happened Long Ago.
There is a conversation--several--between Millie and Susan that made me ache for them both, but also made me sort of all right with where they were going with the two of them (I refuse to believe it isn't intended as the two of them being lovers--or almost lovers--ffs, Millie wanted her to run away with her, but Susan stepped back into convention rather than step out).
I am glad that Susan finally told her husband, and I sort of love that his response was to realize she was a hero. Also glad they're working on their marriage (they couldn't have always been as stilted as they are now. There must have been something there, once). I'm not sure running away from it all will fix things, but I think they're both in the right place to start again.
Lucy joined Scotland Yard! Eee. Only a typist, of course (because sexism). But she'll be brilliant at it, I think. And I'm hoping that her male friend won't turn into a love interest/become a hindrance.
Millie and her German translations was also amazingly hilarious. Oh, Millie. I hope she gets her security clearance fixed.
It looks like they're setting it up for Alice to take Susan's place over the next two episodes. So, we'll see how that goes. I quite liked Alice, so I'm good with it.
Finally, though, can I just say that I wouldn't tell Ronald Merrick anything, and I was quite on tenterhooks when Susan spilled the beans to him. (I'm sorry, Tim Pigott-Smith, but Ronald Merrick WAS my formative memory of you, and it's always stayed that way, even with the pretty fop in Masque of Mandragora)
I liked how this one started with Jean.
I mean. After the SURPRISE PAUL MCGANN IN MY BLETCHLEY.
Because it starts with Jean (and Alice). Jean bringing them all back together, working at the case because it makes no sense to her. I liked that a lot.
I also liked Alice and how she wasn't willing to fight until she'd been convinced of the truth--that it wasn't her daughter who'd killed him. I actually liked that brief moment of utter terror and horror in her eyes at the end of the first part, when she realizes that there is no hope for her at all.
Alice's daughter was pretty amazing in her own way.
I liked how it was built on things that happened Long Ago.
There is a conversation--several--between Millie and Susan that made me ache for them both, but also made me sort of all right with where they were going with the two of them (I refuse to believe it isn't intended as the two of them being lovers--or almost lovers--ffs, Millie wanted her to run away with her, but Susan stepped back into convention rather than step out).
I am glad that Susan finally told her husband, and I sort of love that his response was to realize she was a hero. Also glad they're working on their marriage (they couldn't have always been as stilted as they are now. There must have been something there, once). I'm not sure running away from it all will fix things, but I think they're both in the right place to start again.
Lucy joined Scotland Yard! Eee. Only a typist, of course (because sexism). But she'll be brilliant at it, I think. And I'm hoping that her male friend won't turn into a love interest/become a hindrance.
Millie and her German translations was also amazingly hilarious. Oh, Millie. I hope she gets her security clearance fixed.
It looks like they're setting it up for Alice to take Susan's place over the next two episodes. So, we'll see how that goes. I quite liked Alice, so I'm good with it.
Finally, though, can I just say that I wouldn't tell Ronald Merrick anything, and I was quite on tenterhooks when Susan spilled the beans to him. (I'm sorry, Tim Pigott-Smith, but Ronald Merrick WAS my formative memory of you, and it's always stayed that way, even with the pretty fop in Masque of Mandragora)