1) YAY QUEER CHARACTERS! \o/ Really was *so* pleased by this. I really liked the way the queerness was incidental - like, the doctor and the spouse could have been any gender each and the plot would have run the same - this is exactly what I want to see more of in TV (well, queer main characters would be nice too, but I do like this just: 'meh, queerness happens, whatever' approach too)
Apparently some pressure group in the USA called 'A Million Moms' or something protested about this episode on the basis that it made queer people look normal... I... don't even....
2) I admit I felt a little bit like 'oh god, another recurring villain' but then I'm not that fond of the current recurring villains (apart from Root) and Wesley is much cooler (and hotter, ahem) than Elias or the HR crew.
3) He does really only have one voice register...
4) I liked Leon Tao more this time around. And he makes a good comic relief whilst having actual skills, which I like.
5) See, I think Finch's hospital phobia and a dislike of the 'squishy' would be two different things? I mean, I don't know, but I feel like his hospital phobia would be related to either his own time as a patient (pain, powerlessness) or visiting another he cared about (at some point in the not-yet-disclosed backstory). Patients and visitors don't tend to see much ick at hospitals. So I read his hospital phobia that way, and his 'ewwww, blood!' thing more as a self-deprecating sort of joke, although he also doesn't seem to like blood (not I think, because he's scared but because it's messy)
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Re: 2x07, "Critical"
Date: 2014-04-02 04:23 pm (UTC)Apparently some pressure group in the USA called 'A Million Moms' or something protested about this episode on the basis that it made queer people look normal... I... don't even....
2) I admit I felt a little bit like 'oh god, another recurring villain' but then I'm not that fond of the current recurring villains (apart from Root) and Wesley is much cooler (and hotter, ahem) than Elias or the HR crew.
3) He does really only have one voice register...
4) I liked Leon Tao more this time around. And he makes a good comic relief whilst having actual skills, which I like.
5) See, I think Finch's hospital phobia and a dislike of the 'squishy' would be two different things? I mean, I don't know, but I feel like his hospital phobia would be related to either his own time as a patient (pain, powerlessness) or visiting another he cared about (at some point in the not-yet-disclosed backstory). Patients and visitors don't tend to see much ick at hospitals. So I read his hospital phobia that way, and his 'ewwww, blood!' thing more as a self-deprecating sort of joke, although he also doesn't seem to like blood (not I think, because he's scared but because it's messy)