Are you with me?
LAWYER AND DETECTIVE SPIES NOW? IT WOULD APPEAR SO.
The actual episode: I'm a little sad that it was nearly development-for-development as the original Lennie episode. I mean. In some degrees, aren't they all? But yeah. I want to care about Brooks, and I do! I do. But. I couldn't not see Lennie motherfucking Briscoe. Sorry. He was, you know, THE MAN. (I feel like this might also highlight a fundamental flaw in the adaptation of Law & Order.)
All right, so the fact that we got relatively, um, no follow-up to that whole JAMES ASKS ALESHA TO COME ICE SKATING WITH HIS KID ON THE WEEKEND thing was - okay, I can only conclude that that was the resolution to their season arc (which, by the way, CANADA IS STILL WITHHOLDING)? I mean, sure, there was their mutual lolarious OH BITCH PLEASE reaction to the guy accusing Alesha of exchanging ~sexual favors~ for job promotion, but.
CANADA. GIVE ME 1X108-1X11. I'M 90% SURE IT INVOLVES: FALLOUT FROM 1X07; ALESHA AND JAMES SLEEPING TOGETHER; ALESHA AND JAMES PANICKING THAT THEY CAN SLEEP TOGETHER AND STILL WORK FUNCTIONALLY; ALESHA AND JAMES VAGUELY DATING; ALESHA AND JAMES ULTIMATELY DATING BECAUSE IN 1X12 THERE IS, AS WE'VE MENTIONED, DATES TO GO ICE SKATING WITH HIS KID.
Canada. Come on. We can go to the mall and EVERYTHING.
Well, I mean, there was that, and also he knows by the glint in her eye, and they argued in the wig room (is that what it's called? I DON'T KNOW) - and now, I'm not going to lie, I'm sort of terrified for next series. I am! Not, you know, not terrified terrified, but. JAMES IS STARTING TO GET RIGHTEOUS AND RECKLESSLY INDEPENDENT. Jack McCoy Theory of Lawyers says that never, ever ends well.
Other things: lololololololololololol they are all spies. Juliet (JULIET!!! I had a heart attack seeing Anna Chancellor's name in the credits) is a defense attorney now, and the Home Secretary has given up politics and the headache of Harry Pearce to be a bent copper(?!), and also MATT SUCKS AT BEING A COVERT SPY IN A PARKING GARAGE. (Tom, Adam, or Ros would have chewed him out but good for that, btw.) Also, I spent a good five minutes during this wondering if my off-hand remark last week that Brooks and Natalie seem to have ~history~ would come to fruition, that I'm almost kind of sad when it didn't come true.
(I truly hope one of these unseen Canadian episodes includes a story line where Harriet Walter's character is BAD ASS AND DEFINED, because - I feel like I think she's great only because she's Harriet Walter and was Deep Throat in that one Spooks episode with the ten-minute Adam ditching ten bazillion MI-6 people sequence... and not because her character has any definition. Like, Van Buren rarely gets episodes on original Law & Order, yes, it's true, but there's enough stuff in the earlier seasons to sort of let you... coast, I guess. Like she has entire damned STORYLINE in Season 8 [lol, who doesn't?], and she accidentally [?] shot this kids trying to rob her at the ATM, and also - technically speaking, she was the one person that Claire spent the most time with on the last day of her life, and when you sort of think about it, Lennie aside waaaaaaaassssssssss kind of the last person who saw her alive. YEAH. YEAH.)*
SO ANYWAY. PERSPECTIVE.
* Oh, crap. I feel a whole lot of L&O meta coming up, hang onto something, would you?
In conclusion: "If aliens don't descend from the skies in the next five seconds..." WHAT'S FUNNY IS HE'S TALKING TO MARTHA JONES.
For the record: if you're wondering, "WAIT. ITV hasn't aired these?" Someone in Canada is awesome. Do your research.
The actual episode: I'm a little sad that it was nearly development-for-development as the original Lennie episode. I mean. In some degrees, aren't they all? But yeah. I want to care about Brooks, and I do! I do. But. I couldn't not see Lennie motherfucking Briscoe. Sorry. He was, you know, THE MAN. (I feel like this might also highlight a fundamental flaw in the adaptation of Law & Order.)
All right, so the fact that we got relatively, um, no follow-up to that whole JAMES ASKS ALESHA TO COME ICE SKATING WITH HIS KID ON THE WEEKEND thing was - okay, I can only conclude that that was the resolution to their season arc (which, by the way, CANADA IS STILL WITHHOLDING)? I mean, sure, there was their mutual lolarious OH BITCH PLEASE reaction to the guy accusing Alesha of exchanging ~sexual favors~ for job promotion, but.
CANADA. GIVE ME 1X108-1X11. I'M 90% SURE IT INVOLVES: FALLOUT FROM 1X07; ALESHA AND JAMES SLEEPING TOGETHER; ALESHA AND JAMES PANICKING THAT THEY CAN SLEEP TOGETHER AND STILL WORK FUNCTIONALLY; ALESHA AND JAMES VAGUELY DATING; ALESHA AND JAMES ULTIMATELY DATING BECAUSE IN 1X12 THERE IS, AS WE'VE MENTIONED, DATES TO GO ICE SKATING WITH HIS KID.
Canada. Come on. We can go to the mall and EVERYTHING.
Well, I mean, there was that, and also he knows by the glint in her eye, and they argued in the wig room (is that what it's called? I DON'T KNOW) - and now, I'm not going to lie, I'm sort of terrified for next series. I am! Not, you know, not terrified terrified, but. JAMES IS STARTING TO GET RIGHTEOUS AND RECKLESSLY INDEPENDENT. Jack McCoy Theory of Lawyers says that never, ever ends well.
Other things: lololololololololololol they are all spies. Juliet (JULIET!!! I had a heart attack seeing Anna Chancellor's name in the credits) is a defense attorney now, and the Home Secretary has given up politics and the headache of Harry Pearce to be a bent copper(?!), and also MATT SUCKS AT BEING A COVERT SPY IN A PARKING GARAGE. (Tom, Adam, or Ros would have chewed him out but good for that, btw.) Also, I spent a good five minutes during this wondering if my off-hand remark last week that Brooks and Natalie seem to have ~history~ would come to fruition, that I'm almost kind of sad when it didn't come true.
(I truly hope one of these unseen Canadian episodes includes a story line where Harriet Walter's character is BAD ASS AND DEFINED, because - I feel like I think she's great only because she's Harriet Walter and was Deep Throat in that one Spooks episode with the ten-minute Adam ditching ten bazillion MI-6 people sequence... and not because her character has any definition. Like, Van Buren rarely gets episodes on original Law & Order, yes, it's true, but there's enough stuff in the earlier seasons to sort of let you... coast, I guess. Like she has entire damned STORYLINE in Season 8 [lol, who doesn't?], and she accidentally [?] shot this kids trying to rob her at the ATM, and also - technically speaking, she was the one person that Claire spent the most time with on the last day of her life, and when you sort of think about it, Lennie aside waaaaaaaassssssssss kind of the last person who saw her alive. YEAH. YEAH.)*
SO ANYWAY. PERSPECTIVE.
* Oh, crap. I feel a whole lot of L&O meta coming up, hang onto something, would you?
In conclusion: "If aliens don't descend from the skies in the next five seconds..." WHAT'S FUNNY IS HE'S TALKING TO MARTHA JONES.
For the record: if you're wondering, "WAIT. ITV hasn't aired these?" Someone in Canada is awesome. Do your research.