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Tonight's Hawaii 5-0 has left me with TOO MANY FEELINGS to post.
1) STEVE AND KONO. IN JAIL. AND ONLY ONE OF THEM FOR A REAL CRIME. WHAT IS THIS SHOW THAT I NEED TO MAKE THAT DISTINCTION. But...seriously, doesn't tasering leave a mark? How can Wo Fat just TASER STEVE IN THE NECK and then three seconds later Steve is conscious and unharmed just in time to be framed for murder?
2) THE GOVERNOR? I DID NOT SEE THAT SHIT COMING, HOOOOOLY CRAP.
3) P.S. I hate cliffhangers.
4) Chiiiiiin. Having to be all grown up and police officery while Steve is just in full out crazy ninja-fugitive from justice mode and Danny is totally failing to be a police officer because of his ~FEELINGS~. You remember you're a member of HPD, right, Danno? And therefore you probably shouldn't be tapping on the window of the person who is held on suspicion of ASSASSINATING THE GOVERNOR, saying, "I WILL TOTALLY GET YOU OUT OF THIS," at the scene of the crime?
5) Is there any skill Jenna Kaye doesn't have?
6) Hahahaha, Steve doesn't like Danny's eggs.
Okay, and now the part I am MUCH LESS PLEASED about, which isn't even that much of the episode but I have a lot to say about it. Fair warning:
I think the show dropped the ball on the Rachel/Danny front. They never established Stan as a real person that Rachel had a real relationship with; he was always just some schmuck who existed to give Danny someone to be angry at. So I was really disappointed that rather than give him ANYTHING ELSE TO DO, they went the cheap route and completely disregarded him to get Danny back together with Rachel, especially since they did it with no build-up. Just: cuddling one episode, next episode they are having a full-on she-is-leaving-her-husband-for-him affair.
This thing? Infidelity? Does not make either of these characters look good, and it does an especial disservice to Rachel, establishing her as the kind of person who would leave her husband and move herself and her kid thousands of miles for a relationship that didn't even work out, and then start fooling around on that guy with that same ex-husband. And then uproot her ex and her daughter again to move back to Jersey. It makes her look selfish and capricious. But the show doesn't even seem to care about that -- because Stan was never a real threat at all, just some buffoon that can't protect his family the way Danny does, this just feels like, "Oh, now the family's back together, like it's supposed to be, like Danny deserves." As if Rachel's second marriage doesn't count. As if there were no reasons that she and Danny split up to begin with. (And I bet there were plenty of reasons. I love seeing these two become friends again, but they do not seem like a sunshine and butterflies couple. And as much as I love Danny? I get the sense that a lot of that is on him.)
In short: I do not seeing Rachel basically treated like a prize for Danny because we like him; that actually (astonishingly) pushes my willing suspension of disbelief for this show one step too far. I also do not like really poorly thought out, rushed plots that seem to exist to add dramatic tension to an already plenty tense (mostly with things that are the pay-off to an entire season worth of tension-building) season finale.
So, yeah. There was that. But I actually mostly loved the episode and am really psyched for next season.
1) STEVE AND KONO. IN JAIL. AND ONLY ONE OF THEM FOR A REAL CRIME. WHAT IS THIS SHOW THAT I NEED TO MAKE THAT DISTINCTION. But...seriously, doesn't tasering leave a mark? How can Wo Fat just TASER STEVE IN THE NECK and then three seconds later Steve is conscious and unharmed just in time to be framed for murder?
2) THE GOVERNOR? I DID NOT SEE THAT SHIT COMING, HOOOOOLY CRAP.
3) P.S. I hate cliffhangers.
4) Chiiiiiin. Having to be all grown up and police officery while Steve is just in full out crazy ninja-fugitive from justice mode and Danny is totally failing to be a police officer because of his ~FEELINGS~. You remember you're a member of HPD, right, Danno? And therefore you probably shouldn't be tapping on the window of the person who is held on suspicion of ASSASSINATING THE GOVERNOR, saying, "I WILL TOTALLY GET YOU OUT OF THIS," at the scene of the crime?
5) Is there any skill Jenna Kaye doesn't have?
6) Hahahaha, Steve doesn't like Danny's eggs.
Okay, and now the part I am MUCH LESS PLEASED about, which isn't even that much of the episode but I have a lot to say about it. Fair warning:
I think the show dropped the ball on the Rachel/Danny front. They never established Stan as a real person that Rachel had a real relationship with; he was always just some schmuck who existed to give Danny someone to be angry at. So I was really disappointed that rather than give him ANYTHING ELSE TO DO, they went the cheap route and completely disregarded him to get Danny back together with Rachel, especially since they did it with no build-up. Just: cuddling one episode, next episode they are having a full-on she-is-leaving-her-husband-for-him affair.
This thing? Infidelity? Does not make either of these characters look good, and it does an especial disservice to Rachel, establishing her as the kind of person who would leave her husband and move herself and her kid thousands of miles for a relationship that didn't even work out, and then start fooling around on that guy with that same ex-husband. And then uproot her ex and her daughter again to move back to Jersey. It makes her look selfish and capricious. But the show doesn't even seem to care about that -- because Stan was never a real threat at all, just some buffoon that can't protect his family the way Danny does, this just feels like, "Oh, now the family's back together, like it's supposed to be, like Danny deserves." As if Rachel's second marriage doesn't count. As if there were no reasons that she and Danny split up to begin with. (And I bet there were plenty of reasons. I love seeing these two become friends again, but they do not seem like a sunshine and butterflies couple. And as much as I love Danny? I get the sense that a lot of that is on him.)
In short: I do not seeing Rachel basically treated like a prize for Danny because we like him; that actually (astonishingly) pushes my willing suspension of disbelief for this show one step too far. I also do not like really poorly thought out, rushed plots that seem to exist to add dramatic tension to an already plenty tense (mostly with things that are the pay-off to an entire season worth of tension-building) season finale.
So, yeah. There was that. But I actually mostly loved the episode and am really psyched for next season.