scales fell from Saul's eyes, and he could see again
The natural order of things has been disrupted. Instead of watching this (drunk) then vaguely handwaving at it and going, "Next week! Next week, I promise, I'll talk," I... watched it live? Sober? Then again, just now (after a brief drunk-and-it's-understandable 12-hour interlude) (this reads like I drink a lot. I mean, I do, but I don't? Timing?
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"Yeah."
Heeeee, I think it says terrible things about me that that was my favorite thing in the episode, but it was? How do you deal with evil setting up shop in the basement? FILL HIS OFFICE WITH BICYCLES. WHERE ARE THE GOATS?
(My friend at the football game today remarked that Keats looks like the Verizon guy, and he does, and now I can't unsee it.)
Anyway, it occurs to me that they've had about six different 'tempter' figures across the two shows, and I've never liked any of them until now, because Keats is just TAKING THE HATE TO ELEVEN. It seems kind of...personal, with Keats, in that he so desperately hates Gene, and I'll be curious to see if that has some sort of cause or something? Keats scares the crap out of me, too. Dinging that little bicycle bell? *shudder* At the same time, I like him. I'M SORRY, I DO, HE'S INTERESTING.
I also realized during this episode that Gene gives people essentially what they want, but it's Alex who does the work to get them to stick around long enough to get it, by talking to people, and listening, and generally caring. If we get Chris' moment next week, and Alex's after that...who's going to be the one to talk Alex out of whatever Keats decides to manipulate her into doing? And what does that say about Alex's place in this world/waystation/construct/whatever?
SHAZ SAW THE STARS. THE WORLD IS DISAPPEARING.
Um, I thought the political stuff in this episode was amusing as hell. Also, ALEX AND RAY. OMG. SO ADORABLE.
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THIS. THIS. THIS. It's sort of hard to tell if he's just - is he simply the universe's deadliest personification of Why We Hate Gene Hunt, or does he have an actual axe to grind with the man? (This is why I think Keats might be the dead ghost copper? Once upon a time, Gene killed Keats in another life, and all of this is PUNISHMENT?)
Gene gives people what they want; Alex does the actual work. Artemis, goddess of the hunt; them, those two, the bloody unbreakable team. Things that would not surprise me: the people that Keats "works for" orchestrated events to kill Sam Tyler, because Gene killing his "other" triggers consequences [I AM BASICALLY STEALING THE PLOT OF LOST RIGHT NOW.] But then they got scared shitless when Alex arrived because that bond was even harder to break (he! saved! her! as! a! kid!) so they've been spending the last 3 years trying to undo it. HADES AND PERSEPHONE, except that only Hades/Gene knows what's what. Only he knows that they live in a world where it doesn't matter if you've sinned; it just matters what you do afterward. Yeah. THERE WE GO. THAT IS MY THEORY.
Bikes in Keats' office = nope. Sorry. Universes do not exist where this is not a West Wing joke.
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