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shallowness) wrote2015-04-15 07:53 am
shallowness) wrote2015-04-15 07:53 am
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The Mentalist 7.9 Copper Bullet
So the Rio Bravo thing was tied up, which meant a nice, if incomplete, look at the team dynamics. I had a lot of sympathy for Vega as Team Season 6 turned into Fort Sneaky and Cunning for Abbot and she was left patrolling on the outside, not knowing what was going on. I thought she was going to break Wylie, who is useless at secrets and soft about her, but no, it was through Cho that she got in. As she said, if she’s a member of the team, she’s all in, and she wanted to help Abbott. She is an adult and she has some idea of what Jane’s like by now. I read the conversation about Cho feeling responsible for her as a possible recurrence of the threatened triangle, but given later developments, I think that says more about how I read mentor/mentee relationships than what was going on.
Vega’s method of delaying Petersen (i.e. ramming his car) was typical of her. Is someone going to help her with paying for the damage to her car? I love how much the writers and we know this character (oh for that to have been true of Kim). It was also fun that she had to follow Petersen around when she’d arrested him the last time they’d met, so he should remember her. Loved her attempted disguises and being sneaky at the senator’s offices, even if the last was particularly unrealistic.
Lisbon was awesome over the cat, and the pictures of the cat plus the money were great. And I was amused that she knew how Jane knew the password.
I also loved that the episode picked up Lisbon and Jane’s conversation/argument over last week’s protective!Jane problem. And came back to it when it was shelved by the need to save Abbot and his wife. Of course, the issue is that Jane can’t imagine losing Lisbon, for understandable reasons and they need to work through that. He’s also got to work against his understandable need to protect himself emotionally (too late) by not opening up to her, something she can empathise with to some degree. We ended with them working on it – actually, the ending felt like a chapter (the Abbott chapter?) closing, but there are a few episodes left, right?
So I can tick off the return of some of Jane’s past associates from my wishlist, although I was expecting Jane to do something about the gun, instead of the more elaborate ruse, and I didn’t recognise the fake aide, but their conversations about Jane moving on, not messing up this new relationship with Lisbon and their totally calling ‘the brunette’s’ feelings for Jane from when they met her were nice.
I really like how, in heels (?) Mrs Abbott is taller than Mr Abbott. And then came the emotional suckerpunch and wish that I didn’t know I wanted of Abbott anointing Cho as the next unit leader. That’s perfect. Of course, he has seniority in the FBI over Lisbon, and with everyone else pairing off to dance, it’s a nice place for his character to go.
I don’t think the show will poke into Lisbon’s feelings or consider whether they’re slightly more complicated than being happy for Cho, because her main plot is her relationship with Patrick now, but it should be acknowledged that Jane and the choices she made for him did ruin her career. She’s only an FBI agent and a valued member of the team (but not someone Abbott considered for promotion) because Jane insisted. She’d been demoted from ‘the Boss’ at the CBI because of Jane. She’s come back from that, and the show has been looking at how she used ‘the job’ to run from her brothers, but only qua Lisbon as a law officer, not in terms of her authority in the system. And really, Jane has impaired Cho’s judgment almost as much as Lisbon’s over the years. (Note Jane’s tortured justification for fellow vigilante killer Abbott as a good man over corrupt Peterson and what they’d do to bring him down.)
I suspect all that is not being examined because of the romance.
Ah well, WYLIE’S FACE when Vega asked him to dance.
UPDATED WISHLIST
1, Lisbon and Jane kissing in the lift. It’s not the CBI lift, but it’ll do
2, Jane being ready to take off the wedding ring – if the end involves Lisbon leaving the FBI with him, it has to be a two-way gesture street (explicitly raised as a sign of him moving on from Angela so there's progress)
3, The Lisbon family OR Jane’s carny past OR both
4, Van Pelt and Rigsby, maybe in a return to California
5, Any trope they’ve failed to do (they’ve been working the fake!relationship trope hard)
So the Rio Bravo thing was tied up, which meant a nice, if incomplete, look at the team dynamics. I had a lot of sympathy for Vega as Team Season 6 turned into Fort Sneaky and Cunning for Abbot and she was left patrolling on the outside, not knowing what was going on. I thought she was going to break Wylie, who is useless at secrets and soft about her, but no, it was through Cho that she got in. As she said, if she’s a member of the team, she’s all in, and she wanted to help Abbott. She is an adult and she has some idea of what Jane’s like by now. I read the conversation about Cho feeling responsible for her as a possible recurrence of the threatened triangle, but given later developments, I think that says more about how I read mentor/mentee relationships than what was going on.
Vega’s method of delaying Petersen (i.e. ramming his car) was typical of her. Is someone going to help her with paying for the damage to her car? I love how much the writers and we know this character (oh for that to have been true of Kim). It was also fun that she had to follow Petersen around when she’d arrested him the last time they’d met, so he should remember her. Loved her attempted disguises and being sneaky at the senator’s offices, even if the last was particularly unrealistic.
Lisbon was awesome over the cat, and the pictures of the cat plus the money were great. And I was amused that she knew how Jane knew the password.
I also loved that the episode picked up Lisbon and Jane’s conversation/argument over last week’s protective!Jane problem. And came back to it when it was shelved by the need to save Abbot and his wife. Of course, the issue is that Jane can’t imagine losing Lisbon, for understandable reasons and they need to work through that. He’s also got to work against his understandable need to protect himself emotionally (too late) by not opening up to her, something she can empathise with to some degree. We ended with them working on it – actually, the ending felt like a chapter (the Abbott chapter?) closing, but there are a few episodes left, right?
So I can tick off the return of some of Jane’s past associates from my wishlist, although I was expecting Jane to do something about the gun, instead of the more elaborate ruse, and I didn’t recognise the fake aide, but their conversations about Jane moving on, not messing up this new relationship with Lisbon and their totally calling ‘the brunette’s’ feelings for Jane from when they met her were nice.
I really like how, in heels (?) Mrs Abbott is taller than Mr Abbott. And then came the emotional suckerpunch and wish that I didn’t know I wanted of Abbott anointing Cho as the next unit leader. That’s perfect. Of course, he has seniority in the FBI over Lisbon, and with everyone else pairing off to dance, it’s a nice place for his character to go.
I don’t think the show will poke into Lisbon’s feelings or consider whether they’re slightly more complicated than being happy for Cho, because her main plot is her relationship with Patrick now, but it should be acknowledged that Jane and the choices she made for him did ruin her career. She’s only an FBI agent and a valued member of the team (but not someone Abbott considered for promotion) because Jane insisted. She’d been demoted from ‘the Boss’ at the CBI because of Jane. She’s come back from that, and the show has been looking at how she used ‘the job’ to run from her brothers, but only qua Lisbon as a law officer, not in terms of her authority in the system. And really, Jane has impaired Cho’s judgment almost as much as Lisbon’s over the years. (Note Jane’s tortured justification for fellow vigilante killer Abbott as a good man over corrupt Peterson and what they’d do to bring him down.)
I suspect all that is not being examined because of the romance.
Ah well, WYLIE’S FACE when Vega asked him to dance.
UPDATED WISHLIST
1, Lisbon and Jane kissing in the lift. It’s not the CBI lift, but it’ll do
2, Jane being ready to take off the wedding ring – if the end involves Lisbon leaving the FBI with him, it has to be a two-way gesture street (explicitly raised as a sign of him moving on from Angela so there's progress)
4, Van Pelt and Rigsby, maybe in a return to California
5, Any trope they’ve failed to do (they’ve been working the fake!relationship trope hard)