Addicted

[chani]

I couldn't sing "I am not an addict" along with Q'Choice because I do have  a few addictions...I'm addicted to chocolate, to coke (check out the spelling twice before going on....) and to certain American series. BTVS was probablly my biggest tvaddiction hence the pile of DVDs in my living room and this LJ. But I have new ones now...Nip/Tuck and The Shield. I'm an outlaw again. I've downloaded the first episode of  Nip/Tuck s 3 because the finale of season 2 was so cliffhangsty (yes I know I'm making up a word!) and I couldn't wait until we get the new season on the French cable!

I'll review the first season of The Shield soon, but here's my take on Nip/Tuck premiere.

 

I must say I was a bit disappointed first with the dream sequence...I was afraid that everything may have been a dream including the carver attacking Christian, but fortunately they didn't go that path. Christian has really been assaulted and injured, wearing his scar as a stigmata.

Not sure that the rape thing was that subtle. It's like Christian who was a molested child keeps going on his sacrificial/penitential road. Passion, Christian is thy name!

 I'm still convinced that Julia may have been behind the mask. The condom was a red herring. It would be funny, in a dark humour kind of way, if Christian who was able to notice Ava's artificial vagina, could be fooled by a strap-on!

Ok maybe it's just me and my twisted mind. But there's a reason we don't know who the carver is yet...they are saving the truth for later.

The story about the obese woman, who was literally stuck on her couch in front of her television (yes they dared that metaphor !),  was well done even though the whole situation was completely unbelievable (as if the police would have called a plastic surgeon and the hospital would have let him do the surgery!). It was more painful than grotesque at the end of the day. I especially liked the special touch brought by her husband.

The episode actually gave us 3 variations on the theme of the couple. And every couple was dysfonctional and showing a weak man and a dependent woman. The first man kept his wife stuck on the couch, completely dependent on him, both physically and psychologically. The second one (Sean) refused to sign the divorse papers, trying to keep a wife that was no longer his, while said wife (Julia) refused to be stuck in his life but actually couldn't really move on. Emotionally dependent we could say.

As for the third example we got a traumatized Christian proposing Kimber without really wanting it, her complaining about his lack of hard-on and refusing the proposal while remaining dependent and coming back to him over and over. 

The solution was of course sexual....a threesome! That scene reminded me of Julia's comatose dream of an alternative life, except that this time Kimber played the "wife". That was actually pretty conformist. Kimber was portrayed here as sexually dependent.

Is the new sexually agressive brunette a second Ava? The character was quite obvious and seems less interesting. Unless she's actually the carver. There's something in the way her hair comes around her face when she's in profile...it's like she's wearing a veil or a cowl...

Yes I want the carver to be a woman!

I still like Christian very much, not only because Julian McMahon is hotter and hotter, but also because of the character's charisma, and I mean "charisma" in its first meaning which is a religious one. I don't think that the writers named him Christian by chance.

You can see this at the beginning of the episode after Christian has talked to Sean about his dream. He told Sean then that he wasn't like him and that *he* felt things. Later during the surgery, he made the fat woman feel better (just like he did in earlier seasons with the mature woman who looked for warmth and tenderness). Christian is not dark at all. On the contrary.

By the way we kind of saw his resurrection during that episode.

Comments

[candlelightfrot.livejournal.com]

[frenchani.livejournal.com]

I guess you have to watch the show to understand...

Did I sound like a sick person?

[candlelightfrot.livejournal.com]

Oh no! Sowwy, I was just fooling around there.... ;~)

Lynn

hey!

[(Anonymous)]

where are you downloading from? email me. *embrassez-vous* is that close to "smooch"? ;-.)

Re: hey!

[frenchani.livejournal.com]

Whom am I supposed to email?

Theresa? Is that you?