Dear H50 Writers
So tonight's the premiere of the second season of H50. It's been entirely too long an off season for the show, as far as I'm concerned. (In my brain, at least. I do realize that writers need time to, you know, write the show. Even if write may be too generous a term for a show that doesn't pay particularly close attention to plot and such.)
I am entirely spoiler free, except for one casting spoiler which reccea, who knows me well, made sure I knew. I plan to stay spoiler free until 10 pm tonight, so I may be scarce online. It's not like I have work to do today or anything. (Today is one of my ten hour days. Not counting the work emails I've already answered this morning.
Reccea, who's known my fannish self for a very long time, knows me well-enough to know that I would have spent the entire summer worrying over whether Rachel Madow's clone Jenna Kaye was coming back or not, so she sent me a behind the scenes photo of Larisa on set.
My TiVo has been cleared of several of last season's shows (Castle and Chuck) to make room for new seasons. Castle's supposed to come out tomorrow along with H50, so I forsee a trip to the store to pick those up.
Here's hoping the premiere doesn't suck. Given some developments in the finale, I'm worried that may be setting the bar too high.
One last non-spoilery tidbit in honor of premiere day:
I think the costumer of the show ought to win some kind of award. As I rewatched during the summer, it became clear to me that the costumer of the show went to practically Herculean lengths to make sure you had to be watching very closely to notice that Scott Caan looks smaller than Alex O'Loughlin. I mean, sure, obviously Alex is a lot taller. But Scott's built with a lot more muscle. It was only on second watch that I noticed that part of the reason that Danny's in ties and button down shirts is that if you put him in short sleeves, it's a lot harder to overlook the size of Scott's biceps as compared with Alex's.
I've read enough to know that not every SEAL is built like a linebacker in the NFL, but I can see why the characterization would seem weird to people if the Newark cop looked like he could successfully arm wrestle the Navy SEAL, you know?
There. Now the rest of you can't unsee that either so you can boggle along with me.
Of course, probably everybody else noticed this, and I'm just the one being late to the party.
Happy H50 season two day! Here's wishing us an evening filled with Chin looking like he wants to smack the backs of the heads of his coworkers, a Kono who kicks ass when the bad guys least expect it, a Danny who still sounds like Newark despite being several thousand miles away, a live Rachel (I have such low bars, television writers! take note!), a certain other character not magically developing male pronouns to go with her ex, a Kamekona who gets to do more than be comic relief, a non-sucky new governor, and a Steve who has not raided the 1980s sweater department again.
I am entirely spoiler free, except for one casting spoiler which reccea, who knows me well, made sure I knew. I plan to stay spoiler free until 10 pm tonight, so I may be scarce online. It's not like I have work to do today or anything. (Today is one of my ten hour days. Not counting the work emails I've already answered this morning.
Reccea, who's known my fannish self for a very long time, knows me well-enough to know that I would have spent the entire summer worrying over whether Rachel Madow's clone Jenna Kaye was coming back or not, so she sent me a behind the scenes photo of Larisa on set.
My TiVo has been cleared of several of last season's shows (Castle and Chuck) to make room for new seasons. Castle's supposed to come out tomorrow along with H50, so I forsee a trip to the store to pick those up.
Here's hoping the premiere doesn't suck. Given some developments in the finale, I'm worried that may be setting the bar too high.
One last non-spoilery tidbit in honor of premiere day:
I think the costumer of the show ought to win some kind of award. As I rewatched during the summer, it became clear to me that the costumer of the show went to practically Herculean lengths to make sure you had to be watching very closely to notice that Scott Caan looks smaller than Alex O'Loughlin. I mean, sure, obviously Alex is a lot taller. But Scott's built with a lot more muscle. It was only on second watch that I noticed that part of the reason that Danny's in ties and button down shirts is that if you put him in short sleeves, it's a lot harder to overlook the size of Scott's biceps as compared with Alex's.
I've read enough to know that not every SEAL is built like a linebacker in the NFL, but I can see why the characterization would seem weird to people if the Newark cop looked like he could successfully arm wrestle the Navy SEAL, you know?
There. Now the rest of you can't unsee that either so you can boggle along with me.
Of course, probably everybody else noticed this, and I'm just the one being late to the party.
Happy H50 season two day! Here's wishing us an evening filled with Chin looking like he wants to smack the backs of the heads of his coworkers, a Kono who kicks ass when the bad guys least expect it, a Danny who still sounds like Newark despite being several thousand miles away, a live Rachel (I have such low bars, television writers! take note!), a certain other character not magically developing male pronouns to go with her ex, a Kamekona who gets to do more than be comic relief, a non-sucky new governor, and a Steve who has not raided the 1980s sweater department again.