{"id":2940,"date":"2015-01-31T19:49:32","date_gmt":"2015-01-31T18:49:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/?p=2940"},"modified":"2015-01-31T19:49:32","modified_gmt":"2015-01-31T18:49:32","slug":"mixed-media-saturday-31-january-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/2015\/01\/31\/mixed-media-saturday-31-january-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Mixed Media, Saturday 31 January 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last Mixed Media post <\/a> I said how much I was enjoying the start of season 2 of Arrow<\/i>. The rest of the season was just as good – a roller-coaster ride from start to finish. There was no “filler” where Oliver Queen just hunted some bad guys. Every<\/em> episode had something new and exciting to offer.<\/p>\n

After binge-watching my way through Arrow I needed something else to sink my teeth into, so I wolfed down season one of Broadchurch<\/i><\/a>. Very different from Arrow, but no less gripping and compulsively watchable. After that I jumped into Person of Interest<\/i><\/a>…and ground to a halt. I’d heard so many good things about it, but compared to Arrow<\/i> and Broadchurch<\/i> it’s really dull<\/em>. I’ve watched up to episode nine or ten, and so far it’s all villain-of-the-week stuff. A longer-term story arc involving the up-and-coming organized crime boss Elias is starting to take shape, but it’s moving at a glacial pace. The relationships between the characters aren’t changing or evolving at all. Maybe it gets better in later seasons, but I’m not sure if I’ll actually make it there.<\/p>\n

(Also: in the early episodes of Continuum<\/i> I found myself regularly annoyed by the crinimally fake depth-of-field effects applied in post-production. Blur for the sake of blur. Similarly, Jim Caviezel’s additional dialogue recording in PoI<\/i> is terrible<\/em>, and makes me grind my teeth whenever I hear another poorly edited cut.)<\/p>\n

On my trip to Edinburgh last week I watched Gone Girl<\/i><\/a> on the outbound flight, and Predestination<\/i><\/a> on the return leg. I love David Fincher’s films, and I had hoped to catch Gone Girl<\/i> in the cinema, but I didn’t quite make it. I haven’t read the book, but I knew the premiss. The first hour played out about as I had expected, but then it took a bunch of twists I hadn’t seen coming. The opening and closing shots are amazing bookends. Tony Zhou’s episode of Every Frame a Painting<\/i><\/a> on Fincher gave me a lot to think about while watching the film, too:<\/p>\n