Back to catching-up on my TV
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shallownessI know, I am watching too many shows, but a couple of them are drawing to a close, so I can either start watching new ones like Jane the Virgin, or open my ST DS9 season 2 DVDs.
The Mentalist 7.11 Byzantium
Don’t go out in a car to make out at the start of a show about solving murders, kids!
Of course the team needed Jane and of course Jane went to the Grand Canyon. I did like that the terms of his deal were remembered, so he couldn’t just walk, but had to be brought back. I'm not sure what I think about them not dealing with it explicitly, because it's one thing Abbott authorising that, but would Cho?
The Cho-Lisbon dynamic and preparing to do without Abbott was fluttering around interestingly in the background, but the foreground was about losing Vega. Crying inside!Wylie (oh, sweetie!) and Cho who held Vega in his arms as she died. I was glad the Ranger and Abbott acted so sensibly about the fact that he needed to see a counsellor.
Does Jane run because when he talks about stuff with Lisbon, she asks him to do reasonable stuff for their relationship to flourish and he can’t deny her? I sense a pattern there.
But you’ve basically got a team of people who are reeling, if not unravelling – and they had to deal with ‘a psychic’. I was with Lisbon and Jane on their take on the boy psychic, (the name Gabriel made me think of Gabriel Gray AKA Sylar) especially as he was manipulating poor Wylie. Speaking of, I remain unconvinced that his motivation for keeping current with the guns and wanting to help out in the field (by ignoring Cho’s commands) has nothing to do with Vega. I'm not sure if it's the best thing for him, and the show's always made great play of Jane not being an agent, but taking the broader view, with it being the last three episodes, it makes sense, of sorts, as a development for the character.
So, just as we were left to wonder what Gabriel was up to and what he really knew, plus how much his sister who’d apparently dragged him along to the FBI and the lawyer were involved (and ha! another lawyer who knew enough to stop them from illegally detaining someone just because Jane said they should, even if he clearly called the media in) – the show pulls out a serial killer pulling a Red John on a media-courting, arrogant fraud. Ouch. Bravo, whoever thought of dealing with this as a way of ending the show, because by making it about Jane and his choices now, they can kind of have the ghost of Red John cake too.
Just as Jane had found a nice sunkissed place with a dalmation on his vision quest or whatever it was too. Baker and Tunney played the repressed feelings well in the scene before they found the bodies.
One double-bill to go, and that will be it. SHOW!
Before that, I will probably post some more The Mentalist fic.
A little bit later then, I watched B99 2.15 Windbreaker City
I started laughing properly at Hitchcock and Scully high-fiving. Jake worrying over Sophia not answering his text, the ridiculous ‘catharting’ and Santiago trying to pump people up with her ‘Nine nine’ began to accumulate chuckles. Okay, it didn’t all grow to Community’s PAINTBALL!!! heights, but watching these oddballs do paintball had its moments. (As did Gina-Holt).
However, Peralta really needs to let go a little of the Die Hard fannishness. Or a lot. That would be fine.
And I called Rosa’s dinner with the parents being about introducing Marcus to them.
The Mentalist 7.11 Byzantium
Don’t go out in a car to make out at the start of a show about solving murders, kids!
Of course the team needed Jane and of course Jane went to the Grand Canyon. I did like that the terms of his deal were remembered, so he couldn’t just walk, but had to be brought back. I'm not sure what I think about them not dealing with it explicitly, because it's one thing Abbott authorising that, but would Cho?
The Cho-Lisbon dynamic and preparing to do without Abbott was fluttering around interestingly in the background, but the foreground was about losing Vega. Crying inside!Wylie (oh, sweetie!) and Cho who held Vega in his arms as she died. I was glad the Ranger and Abbott acted so sensibly about the fact that he needed to see a counsellor.
Does Jane run because when he talks about stuff with Lisbon, she asks him to do reasonable stuff for their relationship to flourish and he can’t deny her? I sense a pattern there.
But you’ve basically got a team of people who are reeling, if not unravelling – and they had to deal with ‘a psychic’. I was with Lisbon and Jane on their take on the boy psychic, (the name Gabriel made me think of Gabriel Gray AKA Sylar) especially as he was manipulating poor Wylie. Speaking of, I remain unconvinced that his motivation for keeping current with the guns and wanting to help out in the field (by ignoring Cho’s commands) has nothing to do with Vega. I'm not sure if it's the best thing for him, and the show's always made great play of Jane not being an agent, but taking the broader view, with it being the last three episodes, it makes sense, of sorts, as a development for the character.
So, just as we were left to wonder what Gabriel was up to and what he really knew, plus how much his sister who’d apparently dragged him along to the FBI and the lawyer were involved (and ha! another lawyer who knew enough to stop them from illegally detaining someone just because Jane said they should, even if he clearly called the media in) – the show pulls out a serial killer pulling a Red John on a media-courting, arrogant fraud. Ouch. Bravo, whoever thought of dealing with this as a way of ending the show, because by making it about Jane and his choices now, they can kind of have the ghost of Red John cake too.
Just as Jane had found a nice sunkissed place with a dalmation on his vision quest or whatever it was too. Baker and Tunney played the repressed feelings well in the scene before they found the bodies.
One double-bill to go, and that will be it. SHOW!
Before that, I will probably post some more The Mentalist fic.
A little bit later then, I watched B99 2.15 Windbreaker City
I started laughing properly at Hitchcock and Scully high-fiving. Jake worrying over Sophia not answering his text, the ridiculous ‘catharting’ and Santiago trying to pump people up with her ‘Nine nine’ began to accumulate chuckles. Okay, it didn’t all grow to Community’s PAINTBALL!!! heights, but watching these oddballs do paintball had its moments. (As did Gina-Holt).
However, Peralta really needs to let go a little of the Die Hard fannishness. Or a lot. That would be fine.
And I called Rosa’s dinner with the parents being about introducing Marcus to them.
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Date: 2015-04-29 07:03 am (UTC)And mmmm, Grand Canyon! Runaway Jane has taste. :)
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Date: 2015-04-30 06:20 am (UTC)With the qualifier that we've established that I have a memory like a sieve about The Mentalist, I don't think it was anything specific, just that The Lift, like The Sofa, The Bullpen and The Boss's Office was an important location in CBI. So important they kept a version in the FBI office. The lift was the location of a lot of UST (or tension, anyway) between Jane and Lisbon, so I think I just decided that that tension should be solved there by kissing. Hence it became a thing.
I've been trying to think if lifts are especially meaningful to me - if there was a couple in a lift somewhere that I imprinted on - but I don't think there is beyond it being a contained, but usually moving, space, where two people can be alone for a while.
ETA: I think Lisbon was additionally cross that he went to the Grand Canyon without her, as part of his 'just go' life plan.
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Date: 2015-05-01 07:11 am (UTC)