White Collar and Fringe
White Collar, how are you so good to me?
This ep is kind of a blur due to the happy dolphin noises I kept making.
Oh my god so this was basically body swap only they can't actually do body swap on a show like this, it not being a magical universe, and so they do this. And done in a way that both gets the characters right, and services the fans.
Peter's whispery Neal!voice!
El and Neal, with the kiss on the cheek and the hugging and El's face, bweeeee. Yet she did not hate a single second of that, you can tell.
There's a moment late in the ep where Peter looks over at El and Neal together and they look completely stunning together and Peter's either jealous or going dry-mouthed as he contemplates a three-way or thinking, awww, I have the bestest wife and BFF IN THE WHOLE WORLD. :D
I loved every second of Mozzie and June coaching Peter.
Diana and Jones enjoyed all of these shenanigans possibly as much as I did. Hee! I loved how Diana wanted to play along so badly, oh please let me bring a file to him, please.
Neal getting to pull out the FBI badge and yell authoritatively. Oh yes, Neal enjoyed that.
I continue to like Sara a lot, she's smart and competent and given tiny nicks of vulnerability. Also Hilarie Burton's chemistry with Matt Bomer is smoking. UNF.
Tim DeKay is only allowed to wear black t-shirts from now on. The wardrobe department got a memo and everything, okay?
And that look Neal gave Peter and El before he walked away and went to have sweaty, stuck in a black-out heat-wave make-out with Sara. My canon reading and my fanon reading overlay each other like double vision, so Neal's all lonely and crushing on Peter and El and can't have that so he channels that into acting on his attraction to Sara. Wait, is that fanon or canon? I'm confused. ♥
Also really loved Fringe this past week but I wanted to wait until I could say something other than keysmashing and capslocking.
They seem to have retconned some things. I have a few theories on it. Maybe they realized too late they'd made Olivia too young in the earlier Jacksonville ep for the timeline to make sense with the plot. That bit of video we saw of wee traumatized Olivia after her PK incident, she looked 4 or 5? So they decided they could get away with changing the timeline since it was only a bit of video and I'm not sure the earlier ep specifically gave her ago.
Or Olivia was at the school in Jacksonville for several years, her pyrokinesis thing got triggered when she was very small, and Walter's been trying to re-trigger it ever since.
OH MY GOD WEE PETER. (Ah well, capslocking not out of my system after all). That scene on the ice was completely heartbreaking. That is my heart, shattering into a million tiny pieces.
Not nearly as much as how WEE OLIVIA TOTALLY BROKE ME WITH HER WEE OLIVIA FACES and how wonderful that casting was and the build up to the turning point moment, where I was starting to have a rage white-out at Walter, and then he stood up for Olivia and man, they just make me cry. Visual evidence for how awesomely they created wee Olivia here.
The wee Peter and wee Olivia stuff was so well done. From the promos I'd been expecting some shmaltzy MFEO destiny thing and...that's not at all what happened. They were both used but it's not like all the grownups got together and decided they had to be an OTP. If anything, it's like these two kids happened to find each other, and turned out to be a comfort for each other, and forces in multiple universe, and their own actions, continue to pull them apart the rest of their lives. The person they most want to be with is not the person they can be with, and Peter wanted Fauxlivia to be his Olivia so badly, he wound up doing things that made it more difficult, not easier, for him to have the Olivia he wanted. My take on that triangle is that Peter does genuinely care for and want Fauxlivia, because *she is an Olivia*. They aren't the same people, but they are. But the Olivia he first fell in love with, and is most in love with, the one who saves him over and over, and the "origin" (for lack of a better term) of that love is Olivia over here, not Olivia over there.
So Subject 13 sort of affirmed how the canon favors Peter/over here Olivia as the original and strongest pairing, while they haven't villainized Fauxlivia and they haven't ruled out the possibility of Peter choosing her due to all kinds of circumstances.
I dunno. I've been worried the show would get too soapy with its plot twists but they keep turning out eps like this and I think I believe what the showrunners have been saying about no, really, this is waaaaay way more complicated than it looks. I hope it doesn't get bogged down in the love triangle dynamics.
Also how much do I love that the show does shoutbacks like this? (And thank you, internets, because I was asleep at the wheel on that one).
This ep is kind of a blur due to the happy dolphin noises I kept making.
Oh my god so this was basically body swap only they can't actually do body swap on a show like this, it not being a magical universe, and so they do this. And done in a way that both gets the characters right, and services the fans.
Peter's whispery Neal!voice!
El and Neal, with the kiss on the cheek and the hugging and El's face, bweeeee. Yet she did not hate a single second of that, you can tell.
There's a moment late in the ep where Peter looks over at El and Neal together and they look completely stunning together and Peter's either jealous or going dry-mouthed as he contemplates a three-way or thinking, awww, I have the bestest wife and BFF IN THE WHOLE WORLD. :D
I loved every second of Mozzie and June coaching Peter.
Diana and Jones enjoyed all of these shenanigans possibly as much as I did. Hee! I loved how Diana wanted to play along so badly, oh please let me bring a file to him, please.
Neal getting to pull out the FBI badge and yell authoritatively. Oh yes, Neal enjoyed that.
I continue to like Sara a lot, she's smart and competent and given tiny nicks of vulnerability. Also Hilarie Burton's chemistry with Matt Bomer is smoking. UNF.
Tim DeKay is only allowed to wear black t-shirts from now on. The wardrobe department got a memo and everything, okay?
And that look Neal gave Peter and El before he walked away and went to have sweaty, stuck in a black-out heat-wave make-out with Sara. My canon reading and my fanon reading overlay each other like double vision, so Neal's all lonely and crushing on Peter and El and can't have that so he channels that into acting on his attraction to Sara. Wait, is that fanon or canon? I'm confused. ♥
Also really loved Fringe this past week but I wanted to wait until I could say something other than keysmashing and capslocking.
They seem to have retconned some things. I have a few theories on it. Maybe they realized too late they'd made Olivia too young in the earlier Jacksonville ep for the timeline to make sense with the plot. That bit of video we saw of wee traumatized Olivia after her PK incident, she looked 4 or 5? So they decided they could get away with changing the timeline since it was only a bit of video and I'm not sure the earlier ep specifically gave her ago.
Or Olivia was at the school in Jacksonville for several years, her pyrokinesis thing got triggered when she was very small, and Walter's been trying to re-trigger it ever since.
OH MY GOD WEE PETER. (Ah well, capslocking not out of my system after all). That scene on the ice was completely heartbreaking. That is my heart, shattering into a million tiny pieces.
Not nearly as much as how WEE OLIVIA TOTALLY BROKE ME WITH HER WEE OLIVIA FACES and how wonderful that casting was and the build up to the turning point moment, where I was starting to have a rage white-out at Walter, and then he stood up for Olivia and man, they just make me cry. Visual evidence for how awesomely they created wee Olivia here.
The wee Peter and wee Olivia stuff was so well done. From the promos I'd been expecting some shmaltzy MFEO destiny thing and...that's not at all what happened. They were both used but it's not like all the grownups got together and decided they had to be an OTP. If anything, it's like these two kids happened to find each other, and turned out to be a comfort for each other, and forces in multiple universe, and their own actions, continue to pull them apart the rest of their lives. The person they most want to be with is not the person they can be with, and Peter wanted Fauxlivia to be his Olivia so badly, he wound up doing things that made it more difficult, not easier, for him to have the Olivia he wanted. My take on that triangle is that Peter does genuinely care for and want Fauxlivia, because *she is an Olivia*. They aren't the same people, but they are. But the Olivia he first fell in love with, and is most in love with, the one who saves him over and over, and the "origin" (for lack of a better term) of that love is Olivia over here, not Olivia over there.
So Subject 13 sort of affirmed how the canon favors Peter/over here Olivia as the original and strongest pairing, while they haven't villainized Fauxlivia and they haven't ruled out the possibility of Peter choosing her due to all kinds of circumstances.
I dunno. I've been worried the show would get too soapy with its plot twists but they keep turning out eps like this and I think I believe what the showrunners have been saying about no, really, this is waaaaay way more complicated than it looks. I hope it doesn't get bogged down in the love triangle dynamics.
Also how much do I love that the show does shoutbacks like this? (And thank you, internets, because I was asleep at the wheel on that one).