Cops and revengers
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shallownessB99 1.19 Tactical Village
Ooh, a paintball episode with a Star Wars reference, brave.
Actually, by ‘brave’ I mean slightly foolish, because while I was amused (touched even, at Jake’s actual feelings for Amy being picked up by Charles) at their shenanigans, Rosa’s rage, Holt’s app addiction and the cure for it, this wasn’t an epic episode. But it was entertaining.
Revenge 3.21 Impetus
Well, fair play to Javier for spotting that Charlotte was gone. Conrad needed the message and Victoria then needed him to tell her she was missing (although I suppose that having her fiancée felled by helicopter would be a good excuse for being distracted), while Daniel still didn’t know for most of the episode.
And while all the stuff going on was quite big – the big question of what Emily would do when she became Amanda again and the smaller question of the investigation into Pascal’s death or what Victoria was suspecting now, not to mention, as everyone else said at some point, what it meant for Emily to cross this line with Charlotte (for both half-sisters), I still didn’t believe Emily was going to get her revenge.
So I was mildly surprised that she got Conrad.
As I’ve always enjoyed Henry Czerny’s performance, I enjoyed him turning on Charlotte. (Who, sorry, Ems, is stupid and naive).
But there’s still Victoria and he wishes he was redeemable Daniel (do not want him using Margiaux to save him/give him a redeemed arc just like that either, I think he’s gone too far, and unless if they face up to Emily’s part in taking him down that path and work a lot harder, no). For the next episode, Victoria knows who Emily is, but isn’t telling and Emily has the ring to chew over, and I wonder if we’re quite done with Conrad.
Meanwhile the triangle drags on. Of course, I got excited at Aiden essentially telling Jack he was giving up on Emily and reminding Jack that he still loves her. (Which duh. There is still a little part of me that melted at Jack being the boy who sifted through sand for her.) But he was lying to Jack to get him to be motivated or something? Eh? Was it a machismo thing, or just structural?
Plus the detective will be returning. Er, okay.
So this episode was better than I hoped. I was mildly surprised that Conrad didn’t wriggle away, although there’s apparently another season, when I really think the story would be much better told if we all knew when the end date was and then Emily could have her revenge and they could deal properly with the aftermath. (It doesn’t have The Mentalist’s capacity for adaptation. It could have a spin-off where Emily and maybe Aiden and Nolan could drop in and help someone else get their revenge, but they sort of shut off the revengers’ network too early.)
Ooh, a paintball episode with a Star Wars reference, brave.
Actually, by ‘brave’ I mean slightly foolish, because while I was amused (touched even, at Jake’s actual feelings for Amy being picked up by Charles) at their shenanigans, Rosa’s rage, Holt’s app addiction and the cure for it, this wasn’t an epic episode. But it was entertaining.
Revenge 3.21 Impetus
Well, fair play to Javier for spotting that Charlotte was gone. Conrad needed the message and Victoria then needed him to tell her she was missing (although I suppose that having her fiancée felled by helicopter would be a good excuse for being distracted), while Daniel still didn’t know for most of the episode.
And while all the stuff going on was quite big – the big question of what Emily would do when she became Amanda again and the smaller question of the investigation into Pascal’s death or what Victoria was suspecting now, not to mention, as everyone else said at some point, what it meant for Emily to cross this line with Charlotte (for both half-sisters), I still didn’t believe Emily was going to get her revenge.
So I was mildly surprised that she got Conrad.
As I’ve always enjoyed Henry Czerny’s performance, I enjoyed him turning on Charlotte. (Who, sorry, Ems, is stupid and naive).
But there’s still Victoria and he wishes he was redeemable Daniel (do not want him using Margiaux to save him/give him a redeemed arc just like that either, I think he’s gone too far, and unless if they face up to Emily’s part in taking him down that path and work a lot harder, no). For the next episode, Victoria knows who Emily is, but isn’t telling and Emily has the ring to chew over, and I wonder if we’re quite done with Conrad.
Meanwhile the triangle drags on. Of course, I got excited at Aiden essentially telling Jack he was giving up on Emily and reminding Jack that he still loves her. (Which duh. There is still a little part of me that melted at Jack being the boy who sifted through sand for her.) But he was lying to Jack to get him to be motivated or something? Eh? Was it a machismo thing, or just structural?
Plus the detective will be returning. Er, okay.
So this episode was better than I hoped. I was mildly surprised that Conrad didn’t wriggle away, although there’s apparently another season, when I really think the story would be much better told if we all knew when the end date was and then Emily could have her revenge and they could deal properly with the aftermath. (It doesn’t have The Mentalist’s capacity for adaptation. It could have a spin-off where Emily and maybe Aiden and Nolan could drop in and help someone else get their revenge, but they sort of shut off the revengers’ network too early.)
