Ep notes
Kill me. Kill me now. I am too idiotic to live.
So I come home from a long day at work, and my little brother accosts me. "I know what you're thinking," he says.
"Nachos for dinner?" I say.
"Uh, no. But I know what else you're thinking."
"New eps of CSI and Without a Trace?"
Here it becomes apparent which demographic my bro belongs to: "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire," he replies. "Midnight premiere!"
Which explains why I'm awake at 3:30 on a work night. I figure since it's only three hours till I have to go in again, might as well write some ep reactions. May also include notes on the movie.
CSI
- Nice recap. They organized the explanation of the evidence in a clear and understandable way. Impressive, given the complexity of the crime scene.
- Sara vs. Sophia: Meow!
- Yeesh, Nick. *fondles razor* (*ouch--not a good idea to fondle a razor...*)
- Long-suffering Grissom! Loved the way he conveys sorely tried patience whenever Hodges is around, and the part where he tells Sara to take over with the gun-throwing? Priceless.
- At the end, is that the same widow who attacked the grieving parents of one of the slain shooters? There's a lot that could have accounted for her change, like time to process her grief and a better understanding of the circumstances, but it still made me blink, and I wonder if that's part of why that last scene didn't affect me as much as I thought it should.
- They lingered on Sophia's sense of guilt. And it was good. Why can't they do the same for Danny in WaT?
Next episode might be funny. I so love the dramatic range of this show.
WaT
- Everything I complain about in this section is redeemed by cute!Martin sleeping on the couch.
- Martin got to babysit the parents. Yay for us, b/c he gets screentime. But not so yay for him, b/c he's probably being kept out of the action as he recuperates from the shooting. Continuity again? Or did he just draw the lucky straw? The world may never know.
- The kid's being held at an abandoned warehouse? Could they have tried to be LESS original? Seriously, the writers phoned it in this time. Shallow kid, clueless parents, simple case, hackneyed drama.
- On a related note: this ep was geared toward a target audience of, well, parents. The advertising billed it as a TV event every parent should see, a really dramatic episode that could put that audience into the what-if frame of mind. What if my child went missing? Nothing wrong with that. Problem is, they needed to take it beyond that, go deeper into the idea and bring the audience out the other side. I never got the sense of growth from the parents (and certainly not the kid) that I tend to see in the other cases. The parents are worried, stressed out, alternately arguing and coming together, etc. Surprise. They tell a few deep emotional secrets to each other, and are really happy to find their kid at the end. If you're reading this and it worked for you, all to the good. But it came out flat to me. I felt disconnected with these characters. Maybe b/c I'm not a parent I just couldn't relate? Would be interesting to know how reactions went based on whether people belonged to that target audience.
- The father: "When Sean was born..." Me: "Please don't flash back to that!"
- Waiting... waiting... waiting... Oy. Not the most exciting ep.
- We get to see Martin speak briefly with Danny. Yay.
- Nice tag, with Martin and Jack. The case ends happily for the parents, but the job never ends for the FBI agents. Also liked the short conversation between the dad and Martin, about what it must be like to work in this field. Martin's so expressive, even when he's silent.
- Funny how distant the agents all are with the parents. I never noticed that before, the way they try to stay detached from people on their cases, but now I think back, they do it all the time.
- need... slash subtext.... *dies*
- I would like to suggest to slash writers out there that they tell the the other side of the story, pref. from Danny and Martin's pov.
- Even though I didn't find the execution of this ep to be that good, I've gotta commend the spirit of experimentation behind it. It's cool to try new things, and switching around the pov could have been a great idea. And you learn things even from the failures. Here, I hope the writers learn how essential the recurring chars are to the show. We really needed more of them this week.
Probably I have more to say, but I'm more focused on trying to decide if I should risk sleeping past my alarm or just stay up through my first shift this morning. Hm.
P.S. The nachos were delish.
So I come home from a long day at work, and my little brother accosts me. "I know what you're thinking," he says.
"Nachos for dinner?" I say.
"Uh, no. But I know what else you're thinking."
"New eps of CSI and Without a Trace?"
Here it becomes apparent which demographic my bro belongs to: "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire," he replies. "Midnight premiere!"
Which explains why I'm awake at 3:30 on a work night. I figure since it's only three hours till I have to go in again, might as well write some ep reactions. May also include notes on the movie.
CSI
- Nice recap. They organized the explanation of the evidence in a clear and understandable way. Impressive, given the complexity of the crime scene.
- Sara vs. Sophia: Meow!
- Yeesh, Nick. *fondles razor* (*ouch--not a good idea to fondle a razor...*)
- Long-suffering Grissom! Loved the way he conveys sorely tried patience whenever Hodges is around, and the part where he tells Sara to take over with the gun-throwing? Priceless.
- At the end, is that the same widow who attacked the grieving parents of one of the slain shooters? There's a lot that could have accounted for her change, like time to process her grief and a better understanding of the circumstances, but it still made me blink, and I wonder if that's part of why that last scene didn't affect me as much as I thought it should.
- They lingered on Sophia's sense of guilt. And it was good. Why can't they do the same for Danny in WaT?
Next episode might be funny. I so love the dramatic range of this show.
WaT
- Everything I complain about in this section is redeemed by cute!Martin sleeping on the couch.
- Martin got to babysit the parents. Yay for us, b/c he gets screentime. But not so yay for him, b/c he's probably being kept out of the action as he recuperates from the shooting. Continuity again? Or did he just draw the lucky straw? The world may never know.
- The kid's being held at an abandoned warehouse? Could they have tried to be LESS original? Seriously, the writers phoned it in this time. Shallow kid, clueless parents, simple case, hackneyed drama.
- On a related note: this ep was geared toward a target audience of, well, parents. The advertising billed it as a TV event every parent should see, a really dramatic episode that could put that audience into the what-if frame of mind. What if my child went missing? Nothing wrong with that. Problem is, they needed to take it beyond that, go deeper into the idea and bring the audience out the other side. I never got the sense of growth from the parents (and certainly not the kid) that I tend to see in the other cases. The parents are worried, stressed out, alternately arguing and coming together, etc. Surprise. They tell a few deep emotional secrets to each other, and are really happy to find their kid at the end. If you're reading this and it worked for you, all to the good. But it came out flat to me. I felt disconnected with these characters. Maybe b/c I'm not a parent I just couldn't relate? Would be interesting to know how reactions went based on whether people belonged to that target audience.
- The father: "When Sean was born..." Me: "Please don't flash back to that!"
- Waiting... waiting... waiting... Oy. Not the most exciting ep.
- We get to see Martin speak briefly with Danny. Yay.
- Nice tag, with Martin and Jack. The case ends happily for the parents, but the job never ends for the FBI agents. Also liked the short conversation between the dad and Martin, about what it must be like to work in this field. Martin's so expressive, even when he's silent.
- Funny how distant the agents all are with the parents. I never noticed that before, the way they try to stay detached from people on their cases, but now I think back, they do it all the time.
- need... slash subtext.... *dies*
- I would like to suggest to slash writers out there that they tell the the other side of the story, pref. from Danny and Martin's pov.
- Even though I didn't find the execution of this ep to be that good, I've gotta commend the spirit of experimentation behind it. It's cool to try new things, and switching around the pov could have been a great idea. And you learn things even from the failures. Here, I hope the writers learn how essential the recurring chars are to the show. We really needed more of them this week.
Probably I have more to say, but I'm more focused on trying to decide if I should risk sleeping past my alarm or just stay up through my first shift this morning. Hm.
P.S. The nachos were delish.