Episode Notes: Sentinel "Spare Parts"

[sara_merry99]

That squeaking sound you hear, as I'm getting prepared for watching here, is me flossing all of my preconceptions about Naomi right out of my head. I'm trying to go into this episode without *anything* cluttering up my reading of her here. So ::squeeksqueek::, I'm forgetting everything that comes up in later episodes, fanfic, etc

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[sara_merry99]

I'm terribly conflicted about Naomi, but you can see where Blair gets the ability to bulldoze, obfuscate and laugh in the face of danger. *g*

This is true, he's clearly been quite shaped by his mum. As are most poeple.

The face-off in Simon's office is...awful--but gillyp makes some interesting points about what she's gone through between seeing her son drive off with a woman with a gun.

But I guess we have to take Naomi partly at Blair's assessment, and clearly he adores her, even if I doubt that he's blind to her faults.

I imagine that seeing her every six months or so for just a couple of days takes a lot of the pain out of her flight and dip-shitty ways. He adores her--yeah, certainly he's all beaming smiles and hugs when she shows up, but he's not at all sad when she's about to leave either.

Naomi is clearly a lily of the field, and I've often played with the idea that there must be a trust fund or something similar in her background.

I'm kind of liking the "no visible means of support", living on the largesse of her lovers idea that came up during the discussion of "Iceman". She's sexy and very attractive and charming and I imagine that men are quite happy to provide her with cars and housing and food and pocket money and beautiful clothes etc. etc.

The trust fund idea is good too, and her being from the upper crust would help explain her wealthy associates.

I get the feeling that Jim regards the eye-candy and the chance to yank Blair's chain as a pay-off for having to put up with Naomi and her weirdness.

I suppose, but damn it her breasts aren't *that* pretty even if she does display them well. There's really not enough eye-candy there to make it worth putting up with all of her annoying ways.

I wonder if, maybe, Blair knows that there's something not quite *right* with her--like diagnosed not quite right. Naomi's a bit crazy, really, but he loves her and she's mostly harmless and she's got this trust fund so she's not going to starve or anything. So when she starts babbling about the Harmonic Convergence, rearranging the furniture and generally being *Naomi* all over their asses, Blair lets it go. And maybe he's told Jim that his mom's kind of not right in the head, so Jim lets stuff go because of it.

An unformed idea, but I'm getting more fond of it.

[mab_browne]

Somebody, I can't remember who, unfortunately, put forward a convincing case for Naomi being bi-polar.

[sara_merry99]

That's not a bad thought. :) If you remember, I'd love to know.

[mab_browne]

I had a hunt through the archives of ts_talk, which was fun but not successful. If I ever do track it, I'll pass it on.

[sara_merry99]

One of those moments where it would be *so* handy if LJ had a proper search function.

Sigh!