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potentiality_26For the remainder of this glorious day, I shall be caught up on Longmire. And then I won't. Most of the time, I'm glad I don't have to pay for cable, except... except every once in a while when I really want cable. Anyway, there are things I can do. I can get the season as it airs from itunes, I just have to decide if continuing to be up-to-date is worth $25 to me. It could be? I don't know. The cliffhanger wasn't as bad as I thought it would be.
See, I was sort semi-spoiled before I saw the finale, and I knew Henry was going to be arrested- but I heard and processed that information back when I still thought Henry had in fact killed that guy in Denver. It turns out he didn't, which is nice. Walt will find out who really did it, or somebody will, anyway. Now, don't get me wrong- I'm overjoyed that my beloved is innocent of this particular crime. But it does feel like a bit of a cop out. The whole thing doesn't sound very much like Henry to me.
Yay- Branch, you're not annoying when you're actually doing your job! Figures something bad would happen just when I starting to not hate that guy. I loved how well he and Walt worked together in the last episode- there were so many moments where any other guy in any other show would have taken Branch to task for some of the stuff he'd done, but you could just see Walt decide it wasn't worth it and move on. And it's good, because if he had yelled at him they probably would have lost all the ground they'd gained. I also liked Branch and Henry playing nice at the Red Pony.
However, I was unenthused by the drinking fountain story. It's not that I don't buy it- that's probably exactly what happened. But, see, in the books Walt will always off-handedly mention how he and Henry met in grade school and they had a fist fight next to the drinking fountain. What's so funny about it is that he mentions it like it needs no explanation. Like "he loosened a few of my teeth" and "therefore we have been best friends ever since" follow on each other naturally. Also, the implication of the story in the show didn't really work for me. Like Walt sort of magnanimously was friends with Henry even though Henry punched him when they first met. In the books, it's always put to you that Walt is the one following Henry around, the one who just feels so lucky to get to be around him. Walt sees himself as the sidekick. Now, sure, maybe Henry feels the same way, but without seeing Walt's version of it so often, it falls sort of flat for me. I guess at this point I should be used to the way the show reappropriates ideas from the books to have a completely different meaning, and I am used to it. I still get annoyed sometimes, though. I like the show so much, but I feel like no one told the writers: "If it ain't broke, don't fix it."
See, I was sort semi-spoiled before I saw the finale, and I knew Henry was going to be arrested- but I heard and processed that information back when I still thought Henry had in fact killed that guy in Denver. It turns out he didn't, which is nice. Walt will find out who really did it, or somebody will, anyway. Now, don't get me wrong- I'm overjoyed that my beloved is innocent of this particular crime. But it does feel like a bit of a cop out. The whole thing doesn't sound very much like Henry to me.
Yay- Branch, you're not annoying when you're actually doing your job! Figures something bad would happen just when I starting to not hate that guy. I loved how well he and Walt worked together in the last episode- there were so many moments where any other guy in any other show would have taken Branch to task for some of the stuff he'd done, but you could just see Walt decide it wasn't worth it and move on. And it's good, because if he had yelled at him they probably would have lost all the ground they'd gained. I also liked Branch and Henry playing nice at the Red Pony.
However, I was unenthused by the drinking fountain story. It's not that I don't buy it- that's probably exactly what happened. But, see, in the books Walt will always off-handedly mention how he and Henry met in grade school and they had a fist fight next to the drinking fountain. What's so funny about it is that he mentions it like it needs no explanation. Like "he loosened a few of my teeth" and "therefore we have been best friends ever since" follow on each other naturally. Also, the implication of the story in the show didn't really work for me. Like Walt sort of magnanimously was friends with Henry even though Henry punched him when they first met. In the books, it's always put to you that Walt is the one following Henry around, the one who just feels so lucky to get to be around him. Walt sees himself as the sidekick. Now, sure, maybe Henry feels the same way, but without seeing Walt's version of it so often, it falls sort of flat for me. I guess at this point I should be used to the way the show reappropriates ideas from the books to have a completely different meaning, and I am used to it. I still get annoyed sometimes, though. I like the show so much, but I feel like no one told the writers: "If it ain't broke, don't fix it."
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Date: 2014-06-02 09:52 pm (UTC)You're in the same boat as me, then. S3 is starting tonight, and netflix will probably take its sweet time getting it, hence my contemplation of getting via a more immediate means.
Most of my fics operate in a world where long-term plotlines are hand-waved as needed anyway, so I probably just need to let it go.