a day late and extremely short episode reations: Merlin 3.13; H50 1.11

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In which I am completely sappy.

And which are even briefer than usual, because I always forget that December is the perfect shitstorm of familial and professional obligations...

This was my day:

Comments

[destina]

Steve McGarrett has really become the soulful flinty-eyed lummox there ever was, hasn't he?

*dies* Why yes. Yes I believe he has! What an excellent way to put that. *g* I think this is my favorite of all the eps this season, because I don't care about the plot (there was a plot?) but there was ABUNDANT character stuff in this one, and that's what I love.

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It's true, the character stuff was just lovely--and ran the gamut, too--from the hysterical bit with the door to the extremely touching "I got this one" you talked about in your post. These guys....

Plus more stuff about Chin and Kono's lives too!

[azziria]

I found myself having to watch this epi of H5-0 twice already, once to follow the plot and once to just mindlessly admire the hotness that is Steve McGarrett being all soulful...

And Merlin delivered pretty much everything that I want from a season finale. The Beeb had promised us a game-changer, and they delivered in a way that was both heartwrenching and believably in character.

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IKR? I have it downloaded to watch again for precisely that reason--Steve/Alex is turning out to be way, way more compelling (and compellingly hot) than I would have thought from the pilot--

And, yeah, you summed up my feelings about Merlin perfectly there!

[tailoredshirt]

I watch pretty much nothing but police procedurals, so I kind of loved this episode for the serial killer plot. Also, yes, Steve half-naked, spear fishing with Chin, was lovely. It seems like we got little bits of characterization for everyone, which was nice. I kind of want Kono to be a lesbian...well, bisexual. We haven't seen Ben since that one episode, so I still hold on to hope. I wish we got to see more of her personal life.

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I know, the little snippets of Kono's life are tantalizing. I read somewhere that GP had actually asked the producers to cast another woman regular so that she wouldn't be the only chick in the boys' club--so maybe they'll see the wisdom of that, and we can at least have femslash to look forward to!

I was glad everybody got their little bit of characterization!