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I'm watching Due South (finally). For those of you living in different parts of the internets to me, and so don't know what I'm talking about: a Clark Kentish do-gooding, perfect mountie moves to Chicago after being just too damn perfect up in the far North of Canada. Previously, he tracked men 400 km through storms on a dogsled. He has a deaf, lip-reading wolf named Deifenbaker. He now hangs around a Chicago police detective, Ray, solving minor crimes (only one murder so far, and that was not really about solving it) while assuming everyone is a nice guy. And he's haunted by his equally perfect mountie father, who was a rubbish father.
It is so. utterly. delightful.
In one episode, namely this one (2x17 - Red, White or Blue) there has been:
- a nightmare revolving around Royal Canadian Mounted Policemen riding in formation.
- a conversation/argument perfectly synced between Fraser (the mountie) and Ray (the cop best friend) while they are not actually talking to each other, just before both are synchronistically kidnapped by people wearing skin masks to look like the other.
- correcting the facts of the delusional monologuing maniac who's holding people hostage.
- a continuation/actualisation of the argument while attached to a bomb which will blow if their combined heart beat exceeds 200.
- a bomb coded to the colours assigned to virtues.
- a very calm acceptance of being on fire (by Fraser) while sliding down elevator wires.
- semaphore spelling mistakes.
- semaphore *flirting*.
They also do such wonderful things as completely insignificant coincidence (having the Important List Everyone's Looking For have it's own passive plot, which leads back to where they all expect to find it in the first place). Oh, and things like Fraser being presumed dead, but actually... something happened. So he's not dead. But how that happened is not important ("How did you survive?" "That's not important. We need to..."), so they just assume the deus ex machina that is him being back where he started.
Did I mention the semaphore flirting?
It is so. utterly. delightful.
In one episode, namely this one (2x17 - Red, White or Blue) there has been:
- a nightmare revolving around Royal Canadian Mounted Policemen riding in formation.
- a conversation/argument perfectly synced between Fraser (the mountie) and Ray (the cop best friend) while they are not actually talking to each other, just before both are synchronistically kidnapped by people wearing skin masks to look like the other.
- correcting the facts of the delusional monologuing maniac who's holding people hostage.
- a continuation/actualisation of the argument while attached to a bomb which will blow if their combined heart beat exceeds 200.
- a bomb coded to the colours assigned to virtues.
- a very calm acceptance of being on fire (by Fraser) while sliding down elevator wires.
- semaphore spelling mistakes.
- semaphore *flirting*.
They also do such wonderful things as completely insignificant coincidence (having the Important List Everyone's Looking For have it's own passive plot, which leads back to where they all expect to find it in the first place). Oh, and things like Fraser being presumed dead, but actually... something happened. So he's not dead. But how that happened is not important ("How did you survive?" "That's not important. We need to..."), so they just assume the deus ex machina that is him being back where he started.
Did I mention the semaphore flirting?