White Collar, "Countdown" and meme!
Aug. 12th, 2011 01:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ariadnes_stringLate to the party, as usual, but I finally watched the mid-season finale of White Collar last night.
Let's do the not-so-shallow stuff first for once.
First, I'll join everyone else in applauding Tim DeKay's acting in that final scene. I've rarely seen anyone look so realistically devastated on camera.
I thought it was amazing how the season, overall, used the division between Neal and Peter, their mutual distrust and lying, not to distance them from one another, but to make their bond more intense and compelling. Well done. And ouch.
It was interesting that the two most affecting scenes of this part of the season (and maybe of any season)--the last scene of this episode and Neal in the Burkes' darkened bedroom talking to Peter on the phone--both took place in the Burkes' house. One of them in the hitherto unseen upstairs bedroom. It seemed symbolize the ways in which the show was quite literally moving deeper--penetrating further--into the characters' inner lives.
Okay, shallow:
Speaking of symbolic, where's my picspam of Neal jumping off things/flying through the air? He leaps onto that awning in "Free Fall," swings through the air in "Point Blank" and now does his parachuting thing in "Countdown." I'm sure one could write a lovely meta on what it means about when and how he's willing to take risks and cut ties, but also it just looks pretty.
Was anyone else thinking that if Neal's suit had been cut a little narrower he would have been in serious danger of doing himself an injury? Not that I was complaining. That's some lean silhouette.
OMG, Diana and the guns! There's fic already, right?
I had a little self-satisfied thrill about Agent Kremer calling Peter "Petey," since I'd used that nickname in a fic. But I kind of loved that whole scene (note how worried he was about Neal's comfort on the Burkes' house).
Finally, a canon question for those you who are better with this stuff than I am: how long have Peter and Elizabeth been married?
I saw this meme ontopaz119's journal and thought I'd throw it out there:
Pick one of my fics, and I'll give you three details that didn't make it into the fic. Background canon, deleted scenes, or a look into the future. My choice, but if you have a specific question you can ask it in your request.
(I actually just updated this list, or it's all on AO3)
Happy weekend everyone!
Let's do the not-so-shallow stuff first for once.
First, I'll join everyone else in applauding Tim DeKay's acting in that final scene. I've rarely seen anyone look so realistically devastated on camera.
I thought it was amazing how the season, overall, used the division between Neal and Peter, their mutual distrust and lying, not to distance them from one another, but to make their bond more intense and compelling. Well done. And ouch.
It was interesting that the two most affecting scenes of this part of the season (and maybe of any season)--the last scene of this episode and Neal in the Burkes' darkened bedroom talking to Peter on the phone--both took place in the Burkes' house. One of them in the hitherto unseen upstairs bedroom. It seemed symbolize the ways in which the show was quite literally moving deeper--penetrating further--into the characters' inner lives.
Okay, shallow:
Speaking of symbolic, where's my picspam of Neal jumping off things/flying through the air? He leaps onto that awning in "Free Fall," swings through the air in "Point Blank" and now does his parachuting thing in "Countdown." I'm sure one could write a lovely meta on what it means about when and how he's willing to take risks and cut ties, but also it just looks pretty.
Was anyone else thinking that if Neal's suit had been cut a little narrower he would have been in serious danger of doing himself an injury? Not that I was complaining. That's some lean silhouette.
OMG, Diana and the guns! There's fic already, right?
I had a little self-satisfied thrill about Agent Kremer calling Peter "Petey," since I'd used that nickname in a fic. But I kind of loved that whole scene (note how worried he was about Neal's comfort on the Burkes' house).
Finally, a canon question for those you who are better with this stuff than I am: how long have Peter and Elizabeth been married?
I saw this meme on
topaz119's journal and thought I'd throw it out there:Pick one of my fics, and I'll give you three details that didn't make it into the fic. Background canon, deleted scenes, or a look into the future. My choice, but if you have a specific question you can ask it in your request.
(I actually just updated this list, or it's all on AO3)
Happy weekend everyone!
