As Nottingham Was to Robin Hood
Meanwhile, on Organized Crime... Everyone is just out there, trusting cyber security expert Richard Wheatley!
It's... great fun, actually? Because Elliot can't prove shit but he doesn't trust Wheatley and can't/won't hold his tongue about it and Wheatley is baiting him and trying to make Elliot seem irrational and hotheaded and of course everyone believes Elliot is irrational and hotheaded because he's Elliot Stabler, Ahab and Energizer Bunny in one!
Yes, really, Wheatley referred to him as both Ahab and the Energizer Bunny in one scene. A scene in which he's just warning his new BFF the governor of New York about Elliot being the kind of renegade cop the governor should want off the force.
The thing I'm going to take away from this episode, though, is blue balls. As in, Wheatley saying to Elliot, "I got the love of my life back, and what do you got? Blue balls?" That is not an exact quote, but "love of my life" and "blue balls" were the important parts. Just... Wheatley taunting him about not being with Olivia yet, and the show --
Okay. Here's the thing. OC has tried, I think, very hard to earn people's trust regarding Elliot and Olivia. It has said multiple times that Elliot loves Olivia, and even though each time has had some wiggle room where a very tired and world-weary shipper could say they didn't really mean it, every time, the show comes back and says, "We said what we said." I am, at this point, willing to trust them... unlike SVU.
So my point is, that was not just Wheatley taunting Elliot, that was the show acknowledging the pain of people who've been shipping this for 23 blessed years.
And now comes the part where I may regret trusting the show! Next week! Next week, Elliot is going to fake romance Angela to provoke Richard? I shit thee not, the preview had him saying, "I thought I'd pretend to be in love with you," as he and Angela had a big romantic scene in the front window of a restaurant while Richard watches and then Richard and Angela being all, "What were you doing with Stabler?"/"It's none of your business," later and then Elliot head-butting Wheatley in an elevator to the tune of, "I'll have your badge"/"I had your wife."
HELLO.
I'm pretty sure anything Elliot felt for Angela is long fucking gone now that she blew up (um, pardon the expression) Kathy's murder trial and he knows she was faking her decline, so I'm not too nervous, but making men think with the wrong head is Angela's superpower, so! You never know. (I 100% do not care if he sleeps with her for real; I can totally buy Angela only agreeing to go along with the fake date if it ends in sex. And, hey, better that he put in some practice and learn some new tricks so he can live up to Olivia's standards when the time comes.)
Anyway, this is all very problematic and maybe I should be offended and defending Elliot against this character assassination but... I cannot wait. And I would like fandom to cough up some Elliot/Richard because that's all pretty gay.
Hm, you know, it occurs to me... what does Richard say to provoke Elliot into laying hands on him? 🤔 Looking forward to finding out! Dreamwidth: Comment | Read Comments
It's... great fun, actually? Because Elliot can't prove shit but he doesn't trust Wheatley and can't/won't hold his tongue about it and Wheatley is baiting him and trying to make Elliot seem irrational and hotheaded and of course everyone believes Elliot is irrational and hotheaded because he's Elliot Stabler, Ahab and Energizer Bunny in one!
Yes, really, Wheatley referred to him as both Ahab and the Energizer Bunny in one scene. A scene in which he's just warning his new BFF the governor of New York about Elliot being the kind of renegade cop the governor should want off the force.
The thing I'm going to take away from this episode, though, is blue balls. As in, Wheatley saying to Elliot, "I got the love of my life back, and what do you got? Blue balls?" That is not an exact quote, but "love of my life" and "blue balls" were the important parts. Just... Wheatley taunting him about not being with Olivia yet, and the show --
Okay. Here's the thing. OC has tried, I think, very hard to earn people's trust regarding Elliot and Olivia. It has said multiple times that Elliot loves Olivia, and even though each time has had some wiggle room where a very tired and world-weary shipper could say they didn't really mean it, every time, the show comes back and says, "We said what we said." I am, at this point, willing to trust them... unlike SVU.
So my point is, that was not just Wheatley taunting Elliot, that was the show acknowledging the pain of people who've been shipping this for 23 blessed years.
And now comes the part where I may regret trusting the show! Next week! Next week, Elliot is going to fake romance Angela to provoke Richard? I shit thee not, the preview had him saying, "I thought I'd pretend to be in love with you," as he and Angela had a big romantic scene in the front window of a restaurant while Richard watches and then Richard and Angela being all, "What were you doing with Stabler?"/"It's none of your business," later and then Elliot head-butting Wheatley in an elevator to the tune of, "I'll have your badge"/"I had your wife."
HELLO.
I'm pretty sure anything Elliot felt for Angela is long fucking gone now that she blew up (um, pardon the expression) Kathy's murder trial and he knows she was faking her decline, so I'm not too nervous, but making men think with the wrong head is Angela's superpower, so! You never know. (I 100% do not care if he sleeps with her for real; I can totally buy Angela only agreeing to go along with the fake date if it ends in sex. And, hey, better that he put in some practice and learn some new tricks so he can live up to Olivia's standards when the time comes.)
Anyway, this is all very problematic and maybe I should be offended and defending Elliot against this character assassination but... I cannot wait. And I would like fandom to cough up some Elliot/Richard because that's all pretty gay.
Hm, you know, it occurs to me... what does Richard say to provoke Elliot into laying hands on him? 🤔 Looking forward to finding out! Dreamwidth: Comment | Read Comments