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tv_talk2023-09-07 06:55 pm
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Justified City Primeval
Also spoilers for probably all of Justified. I binge watched this via Hulu over the last few months. I think this is show is a good blend of procedural and character show, because there are definite arcs, and it's mostly serialized. I'm not usually a procedural watcher but this went down easy and I was usually ready to run on to the next episode.
I could figure out pretty early on that Raylan and Boyd were going to be a draw for viewers. When Carol Johnson deemed Raylan's relationship to Boyd to be a love story, the writers were clearly poking fun at the audience who saw the friends to enemies story to be just that.
I do think, shippiness or not, that it forms an interesting core for the show. There is a lot of tension there between people who understand each other well and neither of whom is a fool -- however obvious their weaknesses. But the show had various good characters who came and went throughout the seasons. And I was surprised it had a 6 season run, as I remember hearing about it but not that much before I tried it out.
There was a very slashy confrontation between Raylan and Boyd in season 6 episode 8 which definitely seemed ripped from too much knowledge of fanfiction. It was understandable why the writers decided to separate Boyd and Ava in the final season. Besides creating more tension, it led to more interwoven storylines and a "keep you guessing" finale, as well as bringing everything full circle to the first episodes of S1. But it was also convenient for the shippers.
I was fine with the epilogue. I imagine that the ending scene was a way of offering shippers a bit of a bone, while at the same time saying more about how Raylan didn't trust anyone else to deliver the news and see that Boyd bought it.
The new season in Detroit had interesting points -- much more of a focus on the single case than in past seasons for obvious reasons. I saw Clement as another take on Boyd, one that was less intellectual but more psychopathic. Clement was a talker and his obsession with music might be seen as similar to Boyd's desire for a stage. But Sandy was less interesting than Ava.
So in a way this was a re-run with less depth to it. Even the issues of Raylan's inability to prioritize his personal life when it came to his work were the same, showing that his time near his daughter had not resulted in a closer relationship or probably much time together.
The ending with Boyd's escape certainly suggested that City Primeval won't be the last of Justified. And if they're going to go that route I wish we'd seen something a little different in this story which seemed in many ways a pale echo of Justified as a whole. We could have seen an entirely different type of story told. But aside from the setting or characters, there was a lot here that was the same.
I could figure out pretty early on that Raylan and Boyd were going to be a draw for viewers. When Carol Johnson deemed Raylan's relationship to Boyd to be a love story, the writers were clearly poking fun at the audience who saw the friends to enemies story to be just that.
I do think, shippiness or not, that it forms an interesting core for the show. There is a lot of tension there between people who understand each other well and neither of whom is a fool -- however obvious their weaknesses. But the show had various good characters who came and went throughout the seasons. And I was surprised it had a 6 season run, as I remember hearing about it but not that much before I tried it out.
There was a very slashy confrontation between Raylan and Boyd in season 6 episode 8 which definitely seemed ripped from too much knowledge of fanfiction. It was understandable why the writers decided to separate Boyd and Ava in the final season. Besides creating more tension, it led to more interwoven storylines and a "keep you guessing" finale, as well as bringing everything full circle to the first episodes of S1. But it was also convenient for the shippers.
I was fine with the epilogue. I imagine that the ending scene was a way of offering shippers a bit of a bone, while at the same time saying more about how Raylan didn't trust anyone else to deliver the news and see that Boyd bought it.
The new season in Detroit had interesting points -- much more of a focus on the single case than in past seasons for obvious reasons. I saw Clement as another take on Boyd, one that was less intellectual but more psychopathic. Clement was a talker and his obsession with music might be seen as similar to Boyd's desire for a stage. But Sandy was less interesting than Ava.
So in a way this was a re-run with less depth to it. Even the issues of Raylan's inability to prioritize his personal life when it came to his work were the same, showing that his time near his daughter had not resulted in a closer relationship or probably much time together.
The ending with Boyd's escape certainly suggested that City Primeval won't be the last of Justified. And if they're going to go that route I wish we'd seen something a little different in this story which seemed in many ways a pale echo of Justified as a whole. We could have seen an entirely different type of story told. But aside from the setting or characters, there was a lot here that was the same.