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ariadnes_string) wrote2011-05-17 10:57 am
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Why are you dressed like a ninja? (and other thoughts random thoughts about H50 1.24)
Oh dear, I think this is why I usually post something right after the episode finishes. Because then I don't feel like I have to respond to anyone else's opinions--nor do I know how unpopular my own opinions are...
Oh well, I quite liked the episode, though it was a return to full-on early season ridiculousness--and to crazy-motherfucker!Steve (not BAMF!Steve, just crazy-motherfucker!Steve)--but with added angst. EW recently called him a talking surfboard (to which I thought, yeah, but that's one surfboard I'd like to ride)--but here he was a walking surfboard with soul.
But, ridiculous maguffins FTW, huh? When Jenna said she'd figured out what the key was for, I was sure she was going to say it was for an eighteenth-century music box stolen by the Nazis, and she had some contacts in the FBI's White Collar division she could call. Because seriously, it approached that level of "huh"? A bureau? (a word that AOL seemed to have strange difficulty with). It was, as Danny thankfully pointed out, as if someone had been watching too many episodes of Antique Road Show.
Otherwise, however, I spent the episode loving Jenna. Her little reactions of "huh, I didn't realize y'all were quite that crazy" every time some new piece of the season was recapped for her were gold. And necessary, since Danny, who had been playing that role, was waist-deep in the Great Grimpen Mire of Angst and WTF-ery this time.
(if anyone had an icon of Jenna making that face, please point me towards it!).
I can't get quite as upset about the adultery as many people are. It's not right, it's not cool. But it happens. All the time. To good people making bad decisions as much as to conniving amoral people. I'd actually wager that it happens more often, and with less severe consequences then, say, ninja-ing your way into the homes of elected officials, or setting off grenades in small, locally owned businesses. (and no, I'm not saying that out of some kind of "who's less immoral" wank--I'm just saying it).
Okay--enough unpopular opinions. Otherwise: I agree that Steve was hot as hell in his I'm-taking-people-down-with-my-thighs-again angst; I also agree that the insta-pregnancy plotline was annoying--and a narrative corner I can't quite imagine the writers getting out of without recourse to the lovely conspiracy theories I've seen this morning; and, yeah, no way did Chin flip on Steve or anyone else--the guy's middle name (heck, his first name) is loyalty--he's just working the inside.
Oh--and the eggs. Steve hates the way Danny makes eggs (though he's been pretending to like them). Danny has been making eggs for Steve every weekend, right?
Oh well, I quite liked the episode, though it was a return to full-on early season ridiculousness--and to crazy-motherfucker!Steve (not BAMF!Steve, just crazy-motherfucker!Steve)--but with added angst. EW recently called him a talking surfboard (to which I thought, yeah, but that's one surfboard I'd like to ride)--but here he was a walking surfboard with soul.
But, ridiculous maguffins FTW, huh? When Jenna said she'd figured out what the key was for, I was sure she was going to say it was for an eighteenth-century music box stolen by the Nazis, and she had some contacts in the FBI's White Collar division she could call. Because seriously, it approached that level of "huh"? A bureau? (a word that AOL seemed to have strange difficulty with). It was, as Danny thankfully pointed out, as if someone had been watching too many episodes of Antique Road Show.
Otherwise, however, I spent the episode loving Jenna. Her little reactions of "huh, I didn't realize y'all were quite that crazy" every time some new piece of the season was recapped for her were gold. And necessary, since Danny, who had been playing that role, was waist-deep in the Great Grimpen Mire of Angst and WTF-ery this time.
(if anyone had an icon of Jenna making that face, please point me towards it!).
I can't get quite as upset about the adultery as many people are. It's not right, it's not cool. But it happens. All the time. To good people making bad decisions as much as to conniving amoral people. I'd actually wager that it happens more often, and with less severe consequences then, say, ninja-ing your way into the homes of elected officials, or setting off grenades in small, locally owned businesses. (and no, I'm not saying that out of some kind of "who's less immoral" wank--I'm just saying it).
Okay--enough unpopular opinions. Otherwise: I agree that Steve was hot as hell in his I'm-taking-people-down-with-my-thighs-again angst; I also agree that the insta-pregnancy plotline was annoying--and a narrative corner I can't quite imagine the writers getting out of without recourse to the lovely conspiracy theories I've seen this morning; and, yeah, no way did Chin flip on Steve or anyone else--the guy's middle name (heck, his first name) is loyalty--he's just working the inside.
Oh--and the eggs. Steve hates the way Danny makes eggs (though he's been pretending to like them). Danny has been making eggs for Steve every weekend, right?
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I saw the upset about the adultery not so much about whether it was bad (because yes, yes it is), but because it felt to many people out of character for Danny to be an adulterer. Although I can see the self-justification he might have used, that it wasn't "really" adultery because she was his wife originally in the first place.
Rachel has no self-justification at all, but I don't know her well enough to know if adultery seems OOC for her or not. Obviously not, because she's doing it now, but how did she strike you before this ep--adulterous or not?
I also agree with you that Steve is listening to his emotions rather than his brain this ep, and is totally crazyMF!Steve.
also with the HUH? about the bureau. what a thing to be a Clue?
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