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Dec. 15th, 2009 09:43 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
damkiannaSo, I watched the newest (at least, I think it was the newest) ep of The Closer last night.
I had really mixed feelings at the outset, but I think overall more things ended up being right than wrong - I'm not sure, though, it still hasn't totally settled yet. Obviously the beginning was not my favorite part; the first thirty seconds were good, with Flynn being all jealous, and then it went downhill pretty fast after that. The DA's explanation for why they couldn't put Andrews on the stand as a woman was ... not very strong, but I read it as at least partly an acknowledgement that a jury might not be able to get past their own transfail, which may well be true.
Having Andrews start crying in Brenda's office was not my favorite of the choices available, but I liked watching her yell at Provenza for hurting her feelings, and I think it was very good that they had her make such a distinction between sexual orientation and gender identification - that line to Provenza about how "you didn't mind that I was a lesbian when I was a guy" struck me as pretty good. I also liked that Andrews dressing up as a man for the final interview was labeled "going undercover"; I was less fond of Provenza's reaction to seeing her looking like a man ("There's the George I remember"). However, the ending - "ladies first" - seemed to me to be making it clear that Provenza had finally learned to treat Andrews' female gender identity as valid even when she was wearing men's clothing and had just slammed a perp into a wall, which seemed like a good way to end it.
I liked that Andrews was such a big part of the episode - she even performed half of the final set of "closing" interviews. It was a shame that she had to do it dressed like a man, though. I was especially leery because of the whole VB-returns thing on F_W, and the attendant pronoun fail that is thankfully mostly over now; but I think the ending at least partially made up for the obnoxious parts of the beginning. I don't know, I'll have to let it percolate a little more.
In academic news, the World Lit final on Thursday went by without much of a hitch. I'm terrible at writing essays by hand, I get so tense I have to shake my hand out every few words or else I can barely write, but I think I managed okay. Then there was nothing until yesterday afternoon, which was the Cog-Neuro exam. I ... probably should have studied for that a little bit more than I did, but I think it turned out all right. This afternoon is Audiology, for which I plan to "study" by making myself a paper diagram of an audiometer and practicing in my room. Fortunately, I can do that without feeling like an idiot, because B finished her last exam and left for home yesterday afternoon. (I know this makes me a horrible person, but: \o/!)
So. Paper audiometer. Right.
I had really mixed feelings at the outset, but I think overall more things ended up being right than wrong - I'm not sure, though, it still hasn't totally settled yet. Obviously the beginning was not my favorite part; the first thirty seconds were good, with Flynn being all jealous, and then it went downhill pretty fast after that. The DA's explanation for why they couldn't put Andrews on the stand as a woman was ... not very strong, but I read it as at least partly an acknowledgement that a jury might not be able to get past their own transfail, which may well be true.
Having Andrews start crying in Brenda's office was not my favorite of the choices available, but I liked watching her yell at Provenza for hurting her feelings, and I think it was very good that they had her make such a distinction between sexual orientation and gender identification - that line to Provenza about how "you didn't mind that I was a lesbian when I was a guy" struck me as pretty good. I also liked that Andrews dressing up as a man for the final interview was labeled "going undercover"; I was less fond of Provenza's reaction to seeing her looking like a man ("There's the George I remember"). However, the ending - "ladies first" - seemed to me to be making it clear that Provenza had finally learned to treat Andrews' female gender identity as valid even when she was wearing men's clothing and had just slammed a perp into a wall, which seemed like a good way to end it.
I liked that Andrews was such a big part of the episode - she even performed half of the final set of "closing" interviews. It was a shame that she had to do it dressed like a man, though. I was especially leery because of the whole VB-returns thing on F_W, and the attendant pronoun fail that is thankfully mostly over now; but I think the ending at least partially made up for the obnoxious parts of the beginning. I don't know, I'll have to let it percolate a little more.
In academic news, the World Lit final on Thursday went by without much of a hitch. I'm terrible at writing essays by hand, I get so tense I have to shake my hand out every few words or else I can barely write, but I think I managed okay. Then there was nothing until yesterday afternoon, which was the Cog-Neuro exam. I ... probably should have studied for that a little bit more than I did, but I think it turned out all right. This afternoon is Audiology, for which I plan to "study" by making myself a paper diagram of an audiometer and practicing in my room. Fortunately, I can do that without feeling like an idiot, because B finished her last exam and left for home yesterday afternoon. (I know this makes me a horrible person, but: \o/!)
So. Paper audiometer. Right.