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shallowness) wrote2013-12-06 07:54 am
shallowness) wrote2013-12-06 07:54 am
The Mentalist/Person of Interest
I watched The Mentalist live
I thought the PI was familiar, but only realised while watching the previously clip that it was Parker from Leverage! Also, I had got the Red John suspects mixed up and thought that that man/relative from Jane’s past was one of them. I know that’s incoherent, but I know who I mean. That's why I was blathering about an episode about Jane's past.
6.6 Fire and Brimstone
Called that we were going to go back in time to explain how we got to the opening of the episode – don’t think the trope added that much to anything, even if they tried really hard to make the countdown to Thursday night matter, except admiration at Tunney and Baker’s playing.
I enjoy Bret Stiles more than I probably should, but although I bought him intuiting that Grace had got married, had she really changed that much towards him since last they spoke? And while Stiles was entertained by Jane, Jane basically pulled his 'get all the suspects in the room' stunt. At least Poirot knows who did it when he does that. I discounted Stiles on the basis that he’s too busy to be Red John and angry!Ray because he seems too obvious, so I wasn’t surprised at the tattoo reveal, although I never thought the tattoo was that significant. And it turns out that it’s a FoRJ thing, which doesn’t meant that any of the five isn’t Red John. Or someone else, because this show is about mind games. Feh and faugh.
I refuse to get worked up about who shot who and the building getting blown up, either. Apart from bruises and emotional pain, it’s not like Lisbon got hurt. By the way, my preferred version of Lisbon would have had Cho or someone following her and Jane on the way to Malibu down Greenscreen Lane. Because I didn’t entirely buy Lisbon giving Jane her blessing to kill RJ and I don’t think he did either. Ha! You hadn’t corrupted her. Although I will concede that protecting Jane is now more important that upholding the law to her by now. The point about it being too dangerous for Jane is valid, even though he uses guns now, he doesn’t use them as much as at least two of his suspects.
But the sunset scene was clearly Jane playing Lisbon – interesting that it was platonic but with a lot of feeling.
If this is the Red John endgame, and I’m not convinced that all will be resolved in the next episode, it’s competing with a lot of speculation and a lot of fic that I’ve read over the years that’s more interested in Jane using the team to help him more to bring Red John down and what the cost of that will be and how his choices will affect him/them. There’s also a part of me that’s frankly in disbelief that they’re dealing with Red John now, finally and truly. What will they do for the rest of the season, devolve into cases of the week with no arc?
Caught up on POI 2.6 The High Road
I only very recently discovered that Michael Emerson who plays Finch, is married to Carrie Preston, who plays Grace, so I was delighted that she returned, to show the Machine learning human behaviour/proving that not all people are bad/finding a lady for Finch. Aww, Machine.
In the present day, John and Zoe posing as a married couple in suburbia with the strangely adorable Bear? Pure delight. I like how the odd rehabilitation of that dog is working more than I thought I would, for what it says about Reese and Finch as much as anything.
I basically want to read the fic about all the Zoe scenes that we didn’t get to see – her full response to ‘the proposal’ and how Reese talked her into it, what happened after poker and how she talked her way out of the building where the heist was taking place. I’d also like to read about her feelings about Connie - it was interesting that she fitted in better than Reese – but didn’t she come from the suburbs? She got to be a witness to the Reese-Finch dynamic at work and totally help in her own way. Speaking of – Zoe and Carter met!
I loved the episode and what it did with the tropes and what it showed us about Reese, Finch, the kind of men they are and aren’t and the kind of relationships they can’t have and do/did have. There were far more emotional ways in than in than with the Irish mob enforcer story two episodes ago. But I still want a Zoe’s take on it fic.
And finally, the sound of the suburbs...is the blues.
I thought the PI was familiar, but only realised while watching the previously clip that it was Parker from Leverage! Also, I had got the Red John suspects mixed up and thought that that man/relative from Jane’s past was one of them. I know that’s incoherent, but I know who I mean. That's why I was blathering about an episode about Jane's past.
6.6 Fire and Brimstone
Called that we were going to go back in time to explain how we got to the opening of the episode – don’t think the trope added that much to anything, even if they tried really hard to make the countdown to Thursday night matter, except admiration at Tunney and Baker’s playing.
I enjoy Bret Stiles more than I probably should, but although I bought him intuiting that Grace had got married, had she really changed that much towards him since last they spoke? And while Stiles was entertained by Jane, Jane basically pulled his 'get all the suspects in the room' stunt. At least Poirot knows who did it when he does that. I discounted Stiles on the basis that he’s too busy to be Red John and angry!Ray because he seems too obvious, so I wasn’t surprised at the tattoo reveal, although I never thought the tattoo was that significant. And it turns out that it’s a FoRJ thing, which doesn’t meant that any of the five isn’t Red John. Or someone else, because this show is about mind games. Feh and faugh.
I refuse to get worked up about who shot who and the building getting blown up, either. Apart from bruises and emotional pain, it’s not like Lisbon got hurt. By the way, my preferred version of Lisbon would have had Cho or someone following her and Jane on the way to Malibu down Greenscreen Lane. Because I didn’t entirely buy Lisbon giving Jane her blessing to kill RJ and I don’t think he did either. Ha! You hadn’t corrupted her. Although I will concede that protecting Jane is now more important that upholding the law to her by now. The point about it being too dangerous for Jane is valid, even though he uses guns now, he doesn’t use them as much as at least two of his suspects.
But the sunset scene was clearly Jane playing Lisbon – interesting that it was platonic but with a lot of feeling.
If this is the Red John endgame, and I’m not convinced that all will be resolved in the next episode, it’s competing with a lot of speculation and a lot of fic that I’ve read over the years that’s more interested in Jane using the team to help him more to bring Red John down and what the cost of that will be and how his choices will affect him/them. There’s also a part of me that’s frankly in disbelief that they’re dealing with Red John now, finally and truly. What will they do for the rest of the season, devolve into cases of the week with no arc?
Caught up on POI 2.6 The High Road
I only very recently discovered that Michael Emerson who plays Finch, is married to Carrie Preston, who plays Grace, so I was delighted that she returned, to show the Machine learning human behaviour/proving that not all people are bad/finding a lady for Finch. Aww, Machine.
In the present day, John and Zoe posing as a married couple in suburbia with the strangely adorable Bear? Pure delight. I like how the odd rehabilitation of that dog is working more than I thought I would, for what it says about Reese and Finch as much as anything.
I basically want to read the fic about all the Zoe scenes that we didn’t get to see – her full response to ‘the proposal’ and how Reese talked her into it, what happened after poker and how she talked her way out of the building where the heist was taking place. I’d also like to read about her feelings about Connie - it was interesting that she fitted in better than Reese – but didn’t she come from the suburbs? She got to be a witness to the Reese-Finch dynamic at work and totally help in her own way. Speaking of – Zoe and Carter met!
I loved the episode and what it did with the tropes and what it showed us about Reese, Finch, the kind of men they are and aren’t and the kind of relationships they can’t have and do/did have. There were far more emotional ways in than in than with the Irish mob enforcer story two episodes ago. But I still want a Zoe’s take on it fic.
And finally, the sound of the suburbs...is the blues.