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ariadnes_string) wrote2010-09-29 09:21 am
ariadnes_string) wrote2010-09-29 09:21 am
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a day late and extremely short episode reations: Merlin 3.03; HI 5-0 1.02.
Um, the Hawaii 5-0 one might have gotten a bit long. And there's a snippet of cracky porn at the end. Guess that means I like the show :)
Merlin 3.03
In which gold was licked and much scenery was chewed. I watched it with my five-year-old, and we agreed that we enjoy the episodes with sword-fighting much more.
Hawaii 5-0 1.02
Dang, if I didn't like this episode better than the first one.
I completely approve of the way they've upgraded Steve McGarrett from flinty-eyed lummox to crazy motherfucker. Who waves his gun around in front of little kids without even noticing. Excellent character development, that.
I also completely approve of the way they've upgraded Steve and Danny from slabs of muscled beefcake to slabs of muscled beefcake who bicker constantly with each other the way my Nanny did with the other ladies at the Jewish Assisted Living Home. Such (adorable) kibitzers, nu'?
I mean, it was like you could actually see Alex O'Loughlin thawing under Scott Caan's influence--his little moment of fake-toking was actually loose.
And I did like that they had an actual fight about the merits of fear of death as an interrogation technique. Setting up the conflict between them as military vs. civilian methods of law enforcement seems like a good way to go.
Speaking of torture, though, I know it's kind of sick, but I have to take a minute to express my love of the finger-in-the-bullet-hole trope. Nothing says "crazy motherfucker" in quite the same way. It produced one of my favorite moments in all SPN canon, and I liked it almost as much here.
Grace Park and Daniel Dae Kim continued to be awesome (though, yeah, I hope the "rescuing Kona" thing doesn't get overused). DDK's "excuse me ladies" might have been the best line of the night.
All this, and wee!Sam too! Colin Ford is so great--do you think they might add him to the Governor's Task Force now?
Though I don't think Apple should advertise "being able to watch your father be shot at and kidnapped" as one of the advantages of video-chat on the new iphone4.
They might want to think about adding "allows you to run a fingerprint smeared in blood through the national databases, however.
I'm eagerly awaiting all the bicker!slash that should come out of the show. For example:
Steve: What? What is that? You call that a blow job?
Danny (coming up for air): What? I'll have you know I have 87 blow jobs under my belt back in Jersey (so to speak). And in the rest of the world? This is how you give head.
Steve: Not in Hawaii, it isn't. Not in 110 degree weather.
Danny. Oh really?
Steve: Really. Here, shift over.
Danny: *sigh*
*grunt* "ow" "move your leg" *more sighs*
--a short time later---
Danny: Oh. Oh. Oooooh.
Steve (swallowing and coming up for air): Hey, watch it. Do not drool on my sheets. Seriously. Who does that? Who drools on a person's sheets? Sheesh. Have a napkin.
Okay--happy work day, people!
Merlin 3.03
In which gold was licked and much scenery was chewed. I watched it with my five-year-old, and we agreed that we enjoy the episodes with sword-fighting much more.
Hawaii 5-0 1.02
Dang, if I didn't like this episode better than the first one.
I completely approve of the way they've upgraded Steve McGarrett from flinty-eyed lummox to crazy motherfucker. Who waves his gun around in front of little kids without even noticing. Excellent character development, that.
I also completely approve of the way they've upgraded Steve and Danny from slabs of muscled beefcake to slabs of muscled beefcake who bicker constantly with each other the way my Nanny did with the other ladies at the Jewish Assisted Living Home. Such (adorable) kibitzers, nu'?
I mean, it was like you could actually see Alex O'Loughlin thawing under Scott Caan's influence--his little moment of fake-toking was actually loose.
And I did like that they had an actual fight about the merits of fear of death as an interrogation technique. Setting up the conflict between them as military vs. civilian methods of law enforcement seems like a good way to go.
Speaking of torture, though, I know it's kind of sick, but I have to take a minute to express my love of the finger-in-the-bullet-hole trope. Nothing says "crazy motherfucker" in quite the same way. It produced one of my favorite moments in all SPN canon, and I liked it almost as much here.
Grace Park and Daniel Dae Kim continued to be awesome (though, yeah, I hope the "rescuing Kona" thing doesn't get overused). DDK's "excuse me ladies" might have been the best line of the night.
All this, and wee!Sam too! Colin Ford is so great--do you think they might add him to the Governor's Task Force now?
Though I don't think Apple should advertise "being able to watch your father be shot at and kidnapped" as one of the advantages of video-chat on the new iphone4.
They might want to think about adding "allows you to run a fingerprint smeared in blood through the national databases, however.
I'm eagerly awaiting all the bicker!slash that should come out of the show. For example:
Steve: What? What is that? You call that a blow job?
Danny (coming up for air): What? I'll have you know I have 87 blow jobs under my belt back in Jersey (so to speak). And in the rest of the world? This is how you give head.
Steve: Not in Hawaii, it isn't. Not in 110 degree weather.
Danny. Oh really?
Steve: Really. Here, shift over.
Danny: *sigh*
*grunt* "ow" "move your leg" *more sighs*
--a short time later---
Danny: Oh. Oh. Oooooh.
Steve (swallowing and coming up for air): Hey, watch it. Do not drool on my sheets. Seriously. Who does that? Who drools on a person's sheets? Sheesh. Have a napkin.
Okay--happy work day, people!