Spike is getting QUITE talkative. I foresee a LOT of naps in his
near future.
What's with the fuzzy lens during the JAR/Adam scene? I can barely
focus on JAR's face (no big loss, but I'd just as soon reduce
eyestrain ...). I guess they are trying to soften the scene for
David Canary, but yeesh! They went a little overboard with the
petroleum jelly. They must have discovered how dirt-cheap it is at
Big Lots. I know this because I buy it there to seal up small
openings in my apt to keep ants out (or at least CORRAL them) during
the colder/wetter weather (they stay outside in the summer). It
works pretty well, too. There's are still a couple of them
PERFECTLY preserved from last winter in a couple of small globs on
the ceiling over my bathtub (there's a covered crawlspace opening
there so that the landlord can access my upstairs neighbor's
plumbing). They're like little tiny dinosaurs stuck in little tiny
tar pits. Hey, it beats spraying poison all over the place. I'd
wipe them off, but it was hard/precarious enough just getting the PJ
applied in that spot in the FIRST place and I might as well leave it
there for this season's invasions; plus I'm kind of fascinated about
just how long they'll stay preserved like that.
Anyway, back to the subject at hand, the fuzziness in the JAR/Adam
scenes is REALLY bad -- it's like petroleum jelly with a gauze
curtain stuck on top of it! I thought that, all things considered,
it was HILARIOUS when Adam couldn't see well enough to tell that one
of the other patrons at a nearby table was not a woman, as he had
thought. BWAHAHAHAHAAA!
The scenes on the same set with Ava and Jonathan aren't as fuzzy,
but they aren't as clear as they could be, either. Then Zach sits
down with JAR and the scene is STILL fuzzy. Maybe it's just a lousy
cameraperson or a broken camera. Then again, after Zach sits down
with JAR, Adam observes them, so maybe that's why it wasn't
corrected right away. By the end of the show, I decided to back up
and realized that the scenes with Greenlee and Aidan were a little
"soft", too -- not as bad as the JAR/Adam scenes, but not clear,
either. The switching between Greenlee and Kendall on the phone
made it VERY clear (so to speak) that it wasn't a uniform thing at
all. The scenes at Annie and Ryan's penthouse were downright SHARP,
in fact.
Hey, AMC -- pick a focus and STICK WITH IT! My eyeballs are getting
annoyed! It reminds me of yesterday when I was trying to watch "I,
Claudius", which I just rented (the British mini-series been around
for 31 years, but I've never seen it). The volume is UTTERLY
screwed up from one actor to another and I'm CONSTANTLY turning it
up and down and up and down and up and down just trying to figure
out what everyone is saying since it doesn't have closed-captions or
subtitles. I'm going to try it again with earbuds, but I'm afraid I
may do permanent damage trying to hear the various Romans speak in
some direction other than a microphone and then suddenly have Livia
(clearly from a theater background) blast my eardrums -- and that's
when she's simply speaking CALMLY. I tell ya, my senses are under
attack this weekend!
If Kendall wants to keep her "friendship" with Greenlee a secret,
why are they going to meet in a public park? Is Kendall going to
cry kidnap now or is she just trying to make sure someone in public
DOES see Greenlee fawning over Spike?
Annie tells Richie that she's never seen Ryan in such a rage. Well,
he DID warn her. He's not in NEARLY as much of a rage as he was
during his "fight club" stage. Then he inadvertently shoots Annie
in the belly. Nice going, Ryan. No really, NICE GOING! High-five!
Maybe THAT'll shut her up for a few days. Unfortunately, it will
REV Ryan up. It's hard to say at this point which prospect is worse
-- Annie and Ryan yammering at the same time or one or the other of
them SUPER-yammering BECAUSE the other one is temporarily muzzled.
Robin "may they both be struck mute at the trauma" Coutellier