There's no need to go and blow the candle out
PSYCH
SERBIAN GANGSTER THUGS OMG (or were they the mafia? I think officially they're supposed to be part of a mafia but I like calling them gangster thugs /for reasons/). What the little dialogue I could catch--the thugs were yelling but there was gun fire so most of it was muffled for me--sounded like the correct Serbian. (At one point I think one of the thugs was yelling for his partner to aim at the window.)
It reminded me of the story arc on One Tree Hill's final season when Nathan Scott was kidnapped by the Serbian mafia and I thought the writers were creative in using thugs of a nationality no one used. And then I thought about it some more and realized, hah, the Serbian mafia, rightly, didn't really portray the culture in a positive light. WE ARE REALLY LOVELY PEOPLE, I SWEAR. I suddenly and heart-wrenchingly know how minorities feel--though I am aware that it's not really the same thing at all. (But still...I guess my point is that I'm wary whenever a specific nationality/race is portrayed in popular media.)
I really liked the episode though. Jules! Kicking a tree into the river! And taking out the Serbian gangster thugs mostly by herself with Lassie watching her back like the awesome partners they are! Not a spoiler: Gus and Shawn end up being mostly useless, of course. I laughed when I shouldn't have--especially toward the end when the stakes were getting high and I just couldn't keep it in because it was so absurd but so uniquely Psych. Bless the little show that could, I still love it.
ELEMENTARY
ALFREDO! ♥♥ I love that the episode we get him back and find out he's officially Sherlock's sponsor is the episode in which he teaches Joan how to break into cars. Hey, it's a bonding moment. I want him to be involved in all of Joan's & Sherlock's cases from now on, though I know that might be impossible narrative-wise.
I liked that the episode also introduced us to Joan's friends, people she knows outside of her relationship with Sherlock.
I felt like mostly this was Joan's shining episode (Sherlock was there, but more in the background, being the good mentor he is to Joan), and though there were a few mishaps, she was kickass. And I loved the ending scene. BABIESS.
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SERBIAN GANGSTER THUGS OMG (or were they the mafia? I think officially they're supposed to be part of a mafia but I like calling them gangster thugs /for reasons/). What the little dialogue I could catch--the thugs were yelling but there was gun fire so most of it was muffled for me--sounded like the correct Serbian. (At one point I think one of the thugs was yelling for his partner to aim at the window.)
It reminded me of the story arc on One Tree Hill's final season when Nathan Scott was kidnapped by the Serbian mafia and I thought the writers were creative in using thugs of a nationality no one used. And then I thought about it some more and realized, hah, the Serbian mafia, rightly, didn't really portray the culture in a positive light. WE ARE REALLY LOVELY PEOPLE, I SWEAR. I suddenly and heart-wrenchingly know how minorities feel--though I am aware that it's not really the same thing at all. (But still...I guess my point is that I'm wary whenever a specific nationality/race is portrayed in popular media.)
I really liked the episode though. Jules! Kicking a tree into the river! And taking out the Serbian gangster thugs mostly by herself with Lassie watching her back like the awesome partners they are! Not a spoiler: Gus and Shawn end up being mostly useless, of course. I laughed when I shouldn't have--especially toward the end when the stakes were getting high and I just couldn't keep it in because it was so absurd but so uniquely Psych. Bless the little show that could, I still love it.
ELEMENTARY
ALFREDO! ♥♥ I love that the episode we get him back and find out he's officially Sherlock's sponsor is the episode in which he teaches Joan how to break into cars. Hey, it's a bonding moment. I want him to be involved in all of Joan's & Sherlock's cases from now on, though I know that might be impossible narrative-wise.
I liked that the episode also introduced us to Joan's friends, people she knows outside of her relationship with Sherlock.
I felt like mostly this was Joan's shining episode (Sherlock was there, but more in the background, being the good mentor he is to Joan), and though there were a few mishaps, she was kickass. And I loved the ending scene. BABIESS.
~*~
This entry was originally posted at http://dahlia-moon.dreamwidth.org/254126.html.
comments @ DW