H50 117 - Powa Maka Moana
Well, they clearly didn't attempt to top last week's episode. Still, it had good stuff.
Stuff I liked:
Steve, Danny and Steve's car. So how exactly did that work? Did Steve call him up and went, "hey Danno, nice weather, wanna go take a ride in my dad's old car? I know this great spot." What I want to know is if Steve packed a picnic. He seems like a picnic outing kind of guy.
Kamekona. He could be played for laughs, but I never get the feeling we are supposed to laugh at him. He is just an oddball.
Steve and things that go boom. Somewhere there's a prosecutor who got another 5-0 case on their desk and is reaching for the booze because every lawyer worth their salt is going to get the case thrown out of court on technicalities, like, oh hey, search warrant, what search warrant? I want that fic, btw. Too bad last episode's prosecutor was federal. I liked her. Can she come back?
Kono. Jumping escalators and kicking that guy in the face? What? No, seriously, before she was a pro surfer she trained to be an circus artist or gymnast or something, right? Can there be a circus AU? Please. With Chin having some precision knife throwing act with a side order of death-defying battshittery on a bike? Kono doing what no human should do on a trapeze. Steve making things go boom in creative ways. And sometimes Steve, Kono and Chin team up for a special show that needs some serious insurance coverage. And Danny can be the manager who has a secret bottle of whiskey in a drawer of his desk and a stash of aspirin for when the three propose new stunts to him. Seriously, someone write me that fic. I'll cheerlead.
Chin and Kono at the bar. I like seeing them do stuff instead of being exposition guys. Also, Chin, why so touchy about your age? The whole escalator thing! Chin's look when Kono came up with the runner: priceless. And then Kono's wink. They are so, so great. Also, the bartender was cute.
I forgot Kono's credit card ad spoof. "Passing out with cocktail olives up your nose: priceless." Ahaha.
Also! I forgot Steve's running jump-dive into the trolley car. *gapes* What? Yeah, I'm totally in it for the plot.
Stuff we learned:
We got a time mark: it's been six months since Steve started working on the car (came back to the island).
Steve stores grenades in the Camaro.
Danny's protestations about Steve's methods are pretty much only pro-forma at this point. It's not penetrating Steve's skull anyway. He's like, what, it works. Talk to me about my MO when it stops working, okay. Can I have fic about that, too? About Steve's methods not working and getting someone hurt instead, most probably Danny. Please?
Kamekona does sumo.
Do not want:
The plot was utterly predictable, but I don't watch this for the plot and suspense and who-did-it.
How the kids on the boat and at the bar were shot. The guys were partying, the girls were sexy while partying. Do not need gratuitous female-butts-in-bikini shots, thanks.
Dead kid. Gratuitous upping the drama. *yawn* Ray Wise was wasted as I-know-better-than-you dad.
Nick Lachey (sp?). Ouch, you call that acting?
The end. What's with the overblown melodrama and mood music? All's well that ends well. You remember the dead kid, right?
In conclusion: nice character moments, forgettable plot.
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Stuff I liked:
Steve, Danny and Steve's car. So how exactly did that work? Did Steve call him up and went, "hey Danno, nice weather, wanna go take a ride in my dad's old car? I know this great spot." What I want to know is if Steve packed a picnic. He seems like a picnic outing kind of guy.
Kamekona. He could be played for laughs, but I never get the feeling we are supposed to laugh at him. He is just an oddball.
Steve and things that go boom. Somewhere there's a prosecutor who got another 5-0 case on their desk and is reaching for the booze because every lawyer worth their salt is going to get the case thrown out of court on technicalities, like, oh hey, search warrant, what search warrant? I want that fic, btw. Too bad last episode's prosecutor was federal. I liked her. Can she come back?
Kono. Jumping escalators and kicking that guy in the face? What? No, seriously, before she was a pro surfer she trained to be an circus artist or gymnast or something, right? Can there be a circus AU? Please. With Chin having some precision knife throwing act with a side order of death-defying battshittery on a bike? Kono doing what no human should do on a trapeze. Steve making things go boom in creative ways. And sometimes Steve, Kono and Chin team up for a special show that needs some serious insurance coverage. And Danny can be the manager who has a secret bottle of whiskey in a drawer of his desk and a stash of aspirin for when the three propose new stunts to him. Seriously, someone write me that fic. I'll cheerlead.
Chin and Kono at the bar. I like seeing them do stuff instead of being exposition guys. Also, Chin, why so touchy about your age? The whole escalator thing! Chin's look when Kono came up with the runner: priceless. And then Kono's wink. They are so, so great. Also, the bartender was cute.
I forgot Kono's credit card ad spoof. "Passing out with cocktail olives up your nose: priceless." Ahaha.
Also! I forgot Steve's running jump-dive into the trolley car. *gapes* What? Yeah, I'm totally in it for the plot.
Stuff we learned:
We got a time mark: it's been six months since Steve started working on the car (came back to the island).
Steve stores grenades in the Camaro.
Danny's protestations about Steve's methods are pretty much only pro-forma at this point. It's not penetrating Steve's skull anyway. He's like, what, it works. Talk to me about my MO when it stops working, okay. Can I have fic about that, too? About Steve's methods not working and getting someone hurt instead, most probably Danny. Please?
Kamekona does sumo.
Do not want:
The plot was utterly predictable, but I don't watch this for the plot and suspense and who-did-it.
How the kids on the boat and at the bar were shot. The guys were partying, the girls were sexy while partying. Do not need gratuitous female-butts-in-bikini shots, thanks.
Dead kid. Gratuitous upping the drama. *yawn* Ray Wise was wasted as I-know-better-than-you dad.
Nick Lachey (sp?). Ouch, you call that acting?
The end. What's with the overblown melodrama and mood music? All's well that ends well. You remember the dead kid, right?
In conclusion: nice character moments, forgettable plot.
Originally posted at Dreamwidth. | Comments so far:
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