A long overdue reviews post
So, Over the last month or so I've read a large number of books, watched come TV shows and watched some movies. None of which I've actually posted about. Since this goes against my New Year resolution post, I'm going to try and blitz them all now.
Books
So, a year or so ago, tahariel lent me Urban Shaman. I liked it well enough but didn't read any more of the series. While in the US I was in a used bookstore and there was the next one in the series. I thought what the hell and bought it and the fourth one (my first stop in San Francisco was, in all honesty, a Borders so I could get the third one. I blasted through these books.
I kind of love this series now. Joanie is obviously awesome. I like how she grows. She learns and she remembers. And, most importantly, she takes responsibility for her actions, even those ones done accidently or because she didn't know any better. I love heroines who aren't morons; who don't think they can go it alone and who realise that they have friends/allies whether they like it or not.
Thor is growing on me and I was even a little sad when he and Joanie broke up, although I totally get why it had to happen.
The idea of Morrison riding with the Wild Hunt is all kinds of awesome and I totally cheered and laughed at the same time.
I have to admit though, that my favourite character, without a doubt is Billy. Him and his family are awesome. Even his stick in the mud brother, Brad.
Now all I have to do is buy Demon Hunts, which, as far as I can tell, means getting it the next time I buy something from Amazon.com. I can't believe I forgot to buy it while I was in the US. Idiot.
Okay, so the premise for this is hilarious:
A strange novel for strange young people.
Young Samuel Johnson and his dachshund Boswell are trying to show initiative by trick-or-treating a full three days before Hallowe'en. Which is how they come to witness strange goings-on at 666 Crowley Avenue.
The Abernathys don't mean any harm by their flirtation with Satanism. But it just happens to coincide with a malfunction in the Large Hadron Collider that creates a gap in the universe. A gap in which there is a pair of enormous gates. The gates to Hell. And there are some pretty terrifying beings just itching to get out . . .
Can Samuel persuade anyone to take this seriously? Can he harness the power of science to save the world as we know it?
I know this is technically a children's book, but I promise that it's brilliant. His footnotes are a thing of beauty (similar to those of Jasper Fforde) and I laughed through, well, all of it. My friend I was staying with in the US was so intrigued by what I was enjoying so much that I had to leave the book with her so she could read it too.
So I love her Ink trilogy - Inkheart, Inkspell and Inkdeath, in case you were wondering. They are so well written, that even translated, they flow beautifully.
Reckless was strange because, while the story was an intriguing, the writing kept on distracting me. I just couldn't stay involved in the story for very long. I wish it had been better written (or translated, I guess) because I liked the story.
There is so obviously a sequel on its way. I have to admit that I will probably only read it if we get a proof of it.
This was kind of brilliant. I love big, thick books full of political intrigue, sword fighting and magic. This was the book that got me through lots of lining up at ComicCon.
I immediately ordered the next one in the series as soon as I got back to work. Of course, I've not actually managed to get round to reading it yet.
And according to my friend at work I shouldn't get too attached to any one character. People die a lot in these books, apparently.
So, the first book in this series - The Looking Glass Wars is amazing and definitely one of my all time favourites. It's so clever and imaginative and I love it.
This...wasn't quite as great. Don't get me wrong, I loved it but just not as much as the the previous two.
The Mad Hatter is still my favourite character and I love Molly.
I swear, though, that some of the flare from the first book got lost in the writing of the second and third.
Although I do wonder if I'd change my mind if I read all the books straight after each other. I might find a day to do that - maybe over Christmas. Maybe.
I'm not as fond of these books as I am her Rachel Morgan series, but they are still fun.
It was a fun read, although it was woefully obvious that the hacker was going to end up being the other kid.
I love these books. You don't need to think to read them and they are fun, and damn, but do they remind me of the South. Which, you know, makes sense, what with them being set in the South, but it still makes me laugh and kind of wish I was still in NC.
Okay, so this is a bloody brilliant book. Possibly my favourite book of the year so far. Or at least definitely in my top five.
Basically dragons exist (so, similar to Naomi Novik's books) but they hibernated from the middle ages until the end of the Second World War, when they got woken up by the Nuclear bombs dropped on Japan. Then there was a slight war until it was decided that the Dragons would be given some territory, people would have the rest and there would be borders and the two species wouldn't bother each other.
Then there is a seventeen year old girl, Kay, who is a total tomboy and one day she's out climbing rocks by the border and she slips and falls into a river but is saved by a dragon.
Kay and the dragon - Artegal - then become friends (very How to Train Your Dragon - I mean, they even learn to fly together and those were possibly my favourite parts of the book - much like the movie, you really get a sense of how freaking awesome flying with a dragon would be) and teach each other about the others culture.
While this is going on, there is unrest in the dragon/human relations. There is a belligerent military (obviously not based on reality at all *coughs*) who, after 60 years, have decided that dragons aren't really all that dangerous and try to provoke the dragons to see what they would do if the military decided they wanted a bit more territory.
Of course, people don't understand the dragons because neither species has spoken since the peace agreement. Humans know next to nothing about dragons, only what they have from old myths and legends and stuff that has been, more or less, made up.
Kay and Artegal see what is happening and want to stop any senseless war because people and dragons dying for no good reason kind of sucks.
I loved the portrayal of Kay and Jon's romance. There is a lot of confusion and hesitation as they go from friends to something a little bit more. Her best friend, Tam, was also awesome. And I loved that both of them were prepared to trust Kay once they found out about Artegal and help them try to stop the war.
The use of the media in this was pretty damn neat and the use of the virgin sacrifice was a clever twist and made me laugh.
There is very little teenage rebellion which was kind of refreshing and I loved her relationships with both her mum and dad, which made what happened to her dad so damn sad.
The ending was a bit rushed and very few loose ends are tied up, but that didn't really matter do me. I loved the story of Kay and Artegal's relationship so much and the personal stories between them and the rest of the people important in Kay's life that I could live with the lack of resolution.
I only hope that the nasty ass general gets a roasting from both the media and the President for being such a cack-handed asshole.
There is so obviously going to be a sequel and I can't wait to see what happens next.
I loved the premise of this book and had great fun working out which myths and legends were being referenced. You definitely need to have at least a working knowledge of the myths and legends of western civilisation.
It's also the first story I've read where I've been happy to have the apocolypse arrive and start the world anew. Although I was sad when Bruce died.
The mysterious Alex was awesome and although his relationship with Apollo is...dubious, to say the least, at the beginning, I like how it evolved and found myself liking them together, even if I knew I really shouldn't. Also, all the stuff at Troy was fascinating.
Because the world is about to end you have Merlin and Arthur around to help save the day (or, I suppose, to help start the world anew, really). Arthur's enthusiasm for fighting is adorable and Merlin is hilarious. My favourite part of the book was definitely the stuff that dealt with the sword in the stone. Hilarious.
The ending is a bit abrupt, really. I had to re-read the odd bit to get what had happened as it passed me by - a bit like when Sirius fell through the veil in OoTP.
Otherwise, a brilliant read.
Okay, so I love the HIVE books. They are awesome and make villians really fun heroes to root for. Although there is a part of me that finds them really...unscary villians. There was a moment when I thought 'holy fuck, they've blown up 2 submarines' but then they kind of hadn't and while killing that many people is evil...that's what the adults in the books are supposed to be. It's a little bit of a strange thing to reconcile.
There were moments of real 'oh, crap how the fuck with they get out of this', especially once you realise that Raven has been compromised. She really is quite the ruthless assassin *g*
Wing and Shelby getting together was all kinds of awesome and god, but is Shelby awesome.
Laura was, of course, brilliant, although I felt so sorry for her when Otto had a bit of a thing with Lucy.
I didn't hate that, but I didn't love it either. I liked Lucy for the most part but the way she moved in on Otto when Laura so obviously cares about him made me...U dunno how to put it. Because on the one hand, very teenage girl thing to do, on the other, I like Laura, dammit, and don't like her being hurt.
I think the thing that bothered me the most was the fact that Lucy knew that Laura liked Otto but she went after him anyway. When Otto couldn't work out when Laura was so pissed and Lucy tells him he's so clever but also so stupid, I was like, yeah, that's SO Otto but also then why the fuck are you moving in on him?
It wasn't as bad as it would have been if Shelby had moved in on Otto (if she wasn't head over heels for Wing) because Shelby, Laura, Otto and Wing have been best friends from the beginning of the books and that would be a terrible thing. Lucy was the new person and so there wasn't that bond or that friendship.
The friendship between Otto and Wing is still one of my favourite elements of the books, although I do keep seeing elements of the slash despite trying not to.
Franz and Nigel are as cute and hilarious as ever. And, like Shelby, I find the idea of Franz beating Wing absolutely hilarious.
I would love to know more about Raven, though.
Movies
So, I started watching this months ago and never got around to finishing it. I don't remember being overly impressed by it then, but watching it now, I loved it. I think this probably has to do with the fact that I've watched the TV programme since, and it's one of my favourites.
All the performances are brilliant and I can definitely work out which character everyone in the TV show is based on.
I'm also so happy that Connie Britton got cast as Tami Taylor in the TV show since she just didn't get enough air time in the film.
Okay, this was more than a little terrible. Really, really terrible. I really hope that once MGM gets all it's shit in order and Bond 23 (it is 23, right?) gets going they make an altogether better film.
Some of the editing was just atrocious. So bad that it just made me laugh during what was, I pressume, a rather tense moment.
I did like Bond's line about M not quite being his mother. But that was about it.
The Hustler - Yep, Paul Newman rocks. I doubt this is news.
Glengarry Glen Ross - Both Al Pacino and Jack Lemmon rock in this. And Kevin Spacy and Alec Baldwin (both looking so much younger) are pretty amazing too.
TV
I still have the most recent episode of Burn Notice to watch, along with the last three episodes of True Blood
Psych is still fun and Shawn has been annoying me less recently. That's kind of amazing.
Okay, that was possibly the best, or one of the best episodes of Leverage ever.
It was brilliantly put together and I loved how they were all so gleeful about beating each other. And it showed, beautifully, how they all work so well together.
I knew from the very beginning that Nate was the one who finally got the dagger and that he'd tell everyone who it worked. I didn't quite get that the guy was trying a bit of insurance fraud, although, in hindsight, it should have been freaking awesome.
I loved the use of different people in Sophie's version so you didn't know that Hardison, Parker and Elliott were involved.
The running gag of how everyone hears Sophie's accent was hilarious and made me laugh SO much. When Sophie was all 'god, we all sound the same to you, don't we?' I was all, 'God, I know, right?'
And then Sophie changing her story to make Elliott sound like a southern redneck was hilarious.
The way the head of security was all terrifying to Sophie, Elliott, Hardison and Parker but just a bumbling idiot to Nate was a lovely touch, and possibly my favourite.
And then the show ends before the con is even on. Brilliant. Genius.
OMG! Auggie!!!
There is a part of me that, despite loving the chemistry between him and Annie, really justs wants them to be BFFs because, damn, they are adorable together.
Also, Auggie is fit. Very, very fit.
Of course he's not the leak. Of course he's working the reporter. Of course it's going to become all tangled and complicated. Of course Joan is going to kill him when she finds out.
Annie's discovery that Auggie isn't quite the guy she thought he is was awesome. I liked that they've had Auggie change slightly because of what happened to him.
I loved Joan in this. She was awesome. And I kind of love the sisterly affection she has for Auggie.
Jai did make me laugh in this episode. Especailly when he came to tell Annie to get the photos online taken down and she thought he was hitting on her and was all flirty. That was hilarious. I really hope they don't have them getting romantically involved. I find the flirting amusing but I really don't want a full blown romance.
My favourite line was the crack about ComicCon:-
'It's like ComicCon for nerds.'
'I thought that was ComicCon.'
*G*
The side plot of Annie's homelife is still a bit clumsy but I do love her sister so I'm willing to wait for them to make it work.
This was adorable and brilliant.
The second I saw the guy who plays the dirty marshall I knew he was corrupt because he was a bad guy in Dark Blue so I just assumed he was bad from the beginning. A wise choice, as it turned out.
God, but it's good to have El back properly. She was, as usual, awesome. Her and Mozzie sitting around drinking wine was adorable and the look on El's face when Mozzie said the wine was Neal's was hilarious.
Neal trying to get Peter to admit that if he ever went on the run he'd be the first person Peter turned to was hilarious. Especailly Peter saying that if he had to go on the run it would be Neal's fault. But then there was the bit between Peter and on the run FBI agent (god, what was his name?) and Peter said that if he got into trouble his CI would be the first person he turned to.
And then when Peter is on the run and Neal is all gleeful that Peter is on the run but then he's all 'Are you okay?' and is really concerned and worried. Adorable.
And Neal won in the battle of the CI's. Well, of course he did *g*
And Joe Morton as the boss's boss was great. The two finger point was hilarious. And then he went with Neal to the art exhibition. How awesome. And the way Neal lights up. Bless.
I love Jones. Just thought I'd say. All the looks shared between him and Neal while they worried about Peter were adorable and hilarious.
I really, really can't wait for them all to work together on discovering the secrets of the music box. I may not care who killed Kate (if she's dead) but the idea of them all working together is an awesome thought.
Books
So, a year or so ago, tahariel lent me Urban Shaman. I liked it well enough but didn't read any more of the series. While in the US I was in a used bookstore and there was the next one in the series. I thought what the hell and bought it and the fourth one (my first stop in San Francisco was, in all honesty, a Borders so I could get the third one. I blasted through these books.
I kind of love this series now. Joanie is obviously awesome. I like how she grows. She learns and she remembers. And, most importantly, she takes responsibility for her actions, even those ones done accidently or because she didn't know any better. I love heroines who aren't morons; who don't think they can go it alone and who realise that they have friends/allies whether they like it or not.
Thor is growing on me and I was even a little sad when he and Joanie broke up, although I totally get why it had to happen.
The idea of Morrison riding with the Wild Hunt is all kinds of awesome and I totally cheered and laughed at the same time.
I have to admit though, that my favourite character, without a doubt is Billy. Him and his family are awesome. Even his stick in the mud brother, Brad.
Now all I have to do is buy Demon Hunts, which, as far as I can tell, means getting it the next time I buy something from Amazon.com. I can't believe I forgot to buy it while I was in the US. Idiot.
Okay, so the premise for this is hilarious:
A strange novel for strange young people.
Young Samuel Johnson and his dachshund Boswell are trying to show initiative by trick-or-treating a full three days before Hallowe'en. Which is how they come to witness strange goings-on at 666 Crowley Avenue.
The Abernathys don't mean any harm by their flirtation with Satanism. But it just happens to coincide with a malfunction in the Large Hadron Collider that creates a gap in the universe. A gap in which there is a pair of enormous gates. The gates to Hell. And there are some pretty terrifying beings just itching to get out . . .
Can Samuel persuade anyone to take this seriously? Can he harness the power of science to save the world as we know it?
I know this is technically a children's book, but I promise that it's brilliant. His footnotes are a thing of beauty (similar to those of Jasper Fforde) and I laughed through, well, all of it. My friend I was staying with in the US was so intrigued by what I was enjoying so much that I had to leave the book with her so she could read it too.
So I love her Ink trilogy - Inkheart, Inkspell and Inkdeath, in case you were wondering. They are so well written, that even translated, they flow beautifully.
Reckless was strange because, while the story was an intriguing, the writing kept on distracting me. I just couldn't stay involved in the story for very long. I wish it had been better written (or translated, I guess) because I liked the story.
There is so obviously a sequel on its way. I have to admit that I will probably only read it if we get a proof of it.
This was kind of brilliant. I love big, thick books full of political intrigue, sword fighting and magic. This was the book that got me through lots of lining up at ComicCon.
I immediately ordered the next one in the series as soon as I got back to work. Of course, I've not actually managed to get round to reading it yet.
And according to my friend at work I shouldn't get too attached to any one character. People die a lot in these books, apparently.
So, the first book in this series - The Looking Glass Wars is amazing and definitely one of my all time favourites. It's so clever and imaginative and I love it.
This...wasn't quite as great. Don't get me wrong, I loved it but just not as much as the the previous two.
The Mad Hatter is still my favourite character and I love Molly.
I swear, though, that some of the flare from the first book got lost in the writing of the second and third.
Although I do wonder if I'd change my mind if I read all the books straight after each other. I might find a day to do that - maybe over Christmas. Maybe.
I'm not as fond of these books as I am her Rachel Morgan series, but they are still fun.
It was a fun read, although it was woefully obvious that the hacker was going to end up being the other kid.
I love these books. You don't need to think to read them and they are fun, and damn, but do they remind me of the South. Which, you know, makes sense, what with them being set in the South, but it still makes me laugh and kind of wish I was still in NC.
Okay, so this is a bloody brilliant book. Possibly my favourite book of the year so far. Or at least definitely in my top five.
Basically dragons exist (so, similar to Naomi Novik's books) but they hibernated from the middle ages until the end of the Second World War, when they got woken up by the Nuclear bombs dropped on Japan. Then there was a slight war until it was decided that the Dragons would be given some territory, people would have the rest and there would be borders and the two species wouldn't bother each other.
Then there is a seventeen year old girl, Kay, who is a total tomboy and one day she's out climbing rocks by the border and she slips and falls into a river but is saved by a dragon.
Kay and the dragon - Artegal - then become friends (very How to Train Your Dragon - I mean, they even learn to fly together and those were possibly my favourite parts of the book - much like the movie, you really get a sense of how freaking awesome flying with a dragon would be) and teach each other about the others culture.
While this is going on, there is unrest in the dragon/human relations. There is a belligerent military (obviously not based on reality at all *coughs*) who, after 60 years, have decided that dragons aren't really all that dangerous and try to provoke the dragons to see what they would do if the military decided they wanted a bit more territory.
Of course, people don't understand the dragons because neither species has spoken since the peace agreement. Humans know next to nothing about dragons, only what they have from old myths and legends and stuff that has been, more or less, made up.
Kay and Artegal see what is happening and want to stop any senseless war because people and dragons dying for no good reason kind of sucks.
I loved the portrayal of Kay and Jon's romance. There is a lot of confusion and hesitation as they go from friends to something a little bit more. Her best friend, Tam, was also awesome. And I loved that both of them were prepared to trust Kay once they found out about Artegal and help them try to stop the war.
The use of the media in this was pretty damn neat and the use of the virgin sacrifice was a clever twist and made me laugh.
There is very little teenage rebellion which was kind of refreshing and I loved her relationships with both her mum and dad, which made what happened to her dad so damn sad.
The ending was a bit rushed and very few loose ends are tied up, but that didn't really matter do me. I loved the story of Kay and Artegal's relationship so much and the personal stories between them and the rest of the people important in Kay's life that I could live with the lack of resolution.
I only hope that the nasty ass general gets a roasting from both the media and the President for being such a cack-handed asshole.
There is so obviously going to be a sequel and I can't wait to see what happens next.
I loved the premise of this book and had great fun working out which myths and legends were being referenced. You definitely need to have at least a working knowledge of the myths and legends of western civilisation.
It's also the first story I've read where I've been happy to have the apocolypse arrive and start the world anew. Although I was sad when Bruce died.
The mysterious Alex was awesome and although his relationship with Apollo is...dubious, to say the least, at the beginning, I like how it evolved and found myself liking them together, even if I knew I really shouldn't. Also, all the stuff at Troy was fascinating.
Because the world is about to end you have Merlin and Arthur around to help save the day (or, I suppose, to help start the world anew, really). Arthur's enthusiasm for fighting is adorable and Merlin is hilarious. My favourite part of the book was definitely the stuff that dealt with the sword in the stone. Hilarious.
The ending is a bit abrupt, really. I had to re-read the odd bit to get what had happened as it passed me by - a bit like when Sirius fell through the veil in OoTP.
Otherwise, a brilliant read.
Okay, so I love the HIVE books. They are awesome and make villians really fun heroes to root for. Although there is a part of me that finds them really...unscary villians. There was a moment when I thought 'holy fuck, they've blown up 2 submarines' but then they kind of hadn't and while killing that many people is evil...that's what the adults in the books are supposed to be. It's a little bit of a strange thing to reconcile.
There were moments of real 'oh, crap how the fuck with they get out of this', especially once you realise that Raven has been compromised. She really is quite the ruthless assassin *g*
Wing and Shelby getting together was all kinds of awesome and god, but is Shelby awesome.
Laura was, of course, brilliant, although I felt so sorry for her when Otto had a bit of a thing with Lucy.
I didn't hate that, but I didn't love it either. I liked Lucy for the most part but the way she moved in on Otto when Laura so obviously cares about him made me...U dunno how to put it. Because on the one hand, very teenage girl thing to do, on the other, I like Laura, dammit, and don't like her being hurt.
I think the thing that bothered me the most was the fact that Lucy knew that Laura liked Otto but she went after him anyway. When Otto couldn't work out when Laura was so pissed and Lucy tells him he's so clever but also so stupid, I was like, yeah, that's SO Otto but also then why the fuck are you moving in on him?
It wasn't as bad as it would have been if Shelby had moved in on Otto (if she wasn't head over heels for Wing) because Shelby, Laura, Otto and Wing have been best friends from the beginning of the books and that would be a terrible thing. Lucy was the new person and so there wasn't that bond or that friendship.
The friendship between Otto and Wing is still one of my favourite elements of the books, although I do keep seeing elements of the slash despite trying not to.
Franz and Nigel are as cute and hilarious as ever. And, like Shelby, I find the idea of Franz beating Wing absolutely hilarious.
I would love to know more about Raven, though.
Movies
So, I started watching this months ago and never got around to finishing it. I don't remember being overly impressed by it then, but watching it now, I loved it. I think this probably has to do with the fact that I've watched the TV programme since, and it's one of my favourites.
All the performances are brilliant and I can definitely work out which character everyone in the TV show is based on.
I'm also so happy that Connie Britton got cast as Tami Taylor in the TV show since she just didn't get enough air time in the film.
Okay, this was more than a little terrible. Really, really terrible. I really hope that once MGM gets all it's shit in order and Bond 23 (it is 23, right?) gets going they make an altogether better film.
Some of the editing was just atrocious. So bad that it just made me laugh during what was, I pressume, a rather tense moment.
I did like Bond's line about M not quite being his mother. But that was about it.
The Hustler - Yep, Paul Newman rocks. I doubt this is news.
Glengarry Glen Ross - Both Al Pacino and Jack Lemmon rock in this. And Kevin Spacy and Alec Baldwin (both looking so much younger) are pretty amazing too.
TV
I still have the most recent episode of Burn Notice to watch, along with the last three episodes of True Blood
Psych is still fun and Shawn has been annoying me less recently. That's kind of amazing.
Okay, that was possibly the best, or one of the best episodes of Leverage ever.
It was brilliantly put together and I loved how they were all so gleeful about beating each other. And it showed, beautifully, how they all work so well together.
I knew from the very beginning that Nate was the one who finally got the dagger and that he'd tell everyone who it worked. I didn't quite get that the guy was trying a bit of insurance fraud, although, in hindsight, it should have been freaking awesome.
I loved the use of different people in Sophie's version so you didn't know that Hardison, Parker and Elliott were involved.
The running gag of how everyone hears Sophie's accent was hilarious and made me laugh SO much. When Sophie was all 'god, we all sound the same to you, don't we?' I was all, 'God, I know, right?'
And then Sophie changing her story to make Elliott sound like a southern redneck was hilarious.
The way the head of security was all terrifying to Sophie, Elliott, Hardison and Parker but just a bumbling idiot to Nate was a lovely touch, and possibly my favourite.
And then the show ends before the con is even on. Brilliant. Genius.
OMG! Auggie!!!
There is a part of me that, despite loving the chemistry between him and Annie, really justs wants them to be BFFs because, damn, they are adorable together.
Also, Auggie is fit. Very, very fit.
Of course he's not the leak. Of course he's working the reporter. Of course it's going to become all tangled and complicated. Of course Joan is going to kill him when she finds out.
Annie's discovery that Auggie isn't quite the guy she thought he is was awesome. I liked that they've had Auggie change slightly because of what happened to him.
I loved Joan in this. She was awesome. And I kind of love the sisterly affection she has for Auggie.
Jai did make me laugh in this episode. Especailly when he came to tell Annie to get the photos online taken down and she thought he was hitting on her and was all flirty. That was hilarious. I really hope they don't have them getting romantically involved. I find the flirting amusing but I really don't want a full blown romance.
My favourite line was the crack about ComicCon:-
'It's like ComicCon for nerds.'
'I thought that was ComicCon.'
*G*
The side plot of Annie's homelife is still a bit clumsy but I do love her sister so I'm willing to wait for them to make it work.
This was adorable and brilliant.
The second I saw the guy who plays the dirty marshall I knew he was corrupt because he was a bad guy in Dark Blue so I just assumed he was bad from the beginning. A wise choice, as it turned out.
God, but it's good to have El back properly. She was, as usual, awesome. Her and Mozzie sitting around drinking wine was adorable and the look on El's face when Mozzie said the wine was Neal's was hilarious.
Neal trying to get Peter to admit that if he ever went on the run he'd be the first person Peter turned to was hilarious. Especailly Peter saying that if he had to go on the run it would be Neal's fault. But then there was the bit between Peter and on the run FBI agent (god, what was his name?) and Peter said that if he got into trouble his CI would be the first person he turned to.
And then when Peter is on the run and Neal is all gleeful that Peter is on the run but then he's all 'Are you okay?' and is really concerned and worried. Adorable.
And Neal won in the battle of the CI's. Well, of course he did *g*
And Joe Morton as the boss's boss was great. The two finger point was hilarious. And then he went with Neal to the art exhibition. How awesome. And the way Neal lights up. Bless.
I love Jones. Just thought I'd say. All the looks shared between him and Neal while they worried about Peter were adorable and hilarious.
I really, really can't wait for them all to work together on discovering the secrets of the music box. I may not care who killed Kate (if she's dead) but the idea of them all working together is an awesome thought.