Spoilery H50 Season Finale Thoughts
You know, apparently, when it comes to this series, I have very little self control. I don't know why it's hit me like this, but it has. So, unlike me (everybody raise your hand if you're now worried I'm a pod person because y'all know how I feel about spoilers), I watched the extended trailer and a scene I saw on a comm.
Which means that I spent the whole day going "Just please let them not shoot the governor."
It's kind of like being a Red Sox fan prior to 2004.
Ahem.
Okay, so here's the thing.
1. I am annoyed that they decided to invent--and by invent I mean that the sudden Chin/Laura Hills thing felt about as plausible as the instant double wedding plot device at the end of many, many of Shakespeare's comedies--the Kelley/Hills romance. At the moment that happened I though to myself "And Lo, it has been prophesied that she will be dead."
2. On the other hand, it was strangely satisfying to me that they then brought Jenna Kaye in to look at the remnants of the car.
3. However, this does kind of point our really obviously the show's hinky race issues. (Hey, we killed the tertiary woman of color character to make room for the white tertiary woman character.)
4. I think I've run out of hands. Still no male pronouns applied to Jenna's fiancee.
Anybody in fandom got a brilliant idea for a campaign we can run to convince the network to make her canonically lesbian? Oh, never mind. They'd just screw it up. I'm just saying.
5. I am really, really not pleased about the Rachel is pregnant part. Mostly because I trust television shows to handle pregnancy precisely as far as I can throw them.
6. Also, I could live my entire life without another show or film using the cheap pathos bit where a kid looks up at the camera with googly eyes and we're all supposed to melt.
7. Why on earth did Danny actually think Steve would go home?
8. I don't know. I think I'm out of points.
Here's what I do know.
I know that the look Steve gave Danny as Steve got shoved into the back of the cop car kind of broke me a little.
I suspect Chin is a lot smarter and more loyal than Danny is at present giving him credit for. I will make loco moko from scratch if it doesn't turn out that him seeing the burned money made him realize that Five-0 needed a person inside HPD and that the best way for him to help was to "go back" to them.
Steve is the worst SEAL in the history of ever. I mean, I know there wouldn't be a plot without some of this stuff, but seriously people. Like he wouldn't have his own stash for emergencies? I know we needed to see an old Mercury and all, but really? A Special Forces guy without cash, alternate IDs, and firepower that isn't registered? Also, I know we're supposed to read him as a hot head, and I love me some deranged Alex, and I'd buy him going in alone, but how could he not see this plot coming when I saw (most of it) coming.
Okay, I didn't see the governor being complicit--which almost made including her in the body count not totally heinous--but I did see Wo Fat waiting for Steve to do something rash and end up framed.
And now I'm going to go collapse in bed as I failed to get work done this evening thanks to H50 finale anticipation.