random: Justified, season one
Recently needing some escapist brain-candy, and, as a result of some comments with bitterlimetwist, having a Timothy Olyphant jones (although Timothy Olyphant alone is enough for that sort of thing to occur), I succumbed to watching the back half of Justified S1. Following my less-than-enamoured response to the pilot, my desultory watching of episodes got me to
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I also didn't have a problem with the idea that the Crowder boys could be as ruthless and brutal as the Miami cartels, but with the way it was shown. That level of violence up until that point was communicated through someone telling the story, not visually, and it was jarring to suddenly switch gears in the finale. It felt gratuitous. For the effect, it would have played just as well just seeing Boyd's reaction. But that was a minor thing, really. I was watching the season hoping Boyd's conversion was real (because that's more interesting, and because, frankly, I like Boyd a lot), but cynically watching it thinking they were deliberately playing it so that it could go either way. However, I also assumed that we the audience were intented to go with Raylan's (and everyone else's) assessment of it, to think it was a scam.
I've been thinking more about the Ava situation, and my own conclusion at this point is nearly all of it came about as a result of the way Bowman (spelling?) treated her. I mean, she sees her old crush and shining knight roll back in town, and just latches on (and I don't blame her - no matter how much you can take care of yourself, she is really messed up at this point, and she needs someone). And as for him, when I rewatched the pilot, I watched his face while she was telling him her story. He feels terrible for what she went through and guilty that he didn't stay and marry her himself (no matter what kind of mistake that would have been in itself). I think he gives in to her as much out of that guilt as anything else. I also got the sense that he was a bit relieved when he had to end it. Because she's right, if he'd WANTED to continue, he would have. So if he changed at all, I think it was in not letting himself make dumb decisions for emotional reasons, now that he could see what kind of consequences could come from it.
Argh, Bo's nose. It was so ... rubbery! I couldn't concentrate on anything else while it was onscreen. :(
It really helps talking it over with others, which makes me think about it more. Nailing what I think Raylan's worldview is (predators/herd) really helped, actually. I'm warming to him. Slowly. I'm okay with it taking a while. :)
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It took me a while to warm up to Sam. Sometimes slow is good. :)
"Argh, Bo's nose. It was so ... rubbery! I couldn't concentrate on anything else while it was onscreen."
OMG YES. His nose had to die.
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