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[gyzym]

Right, so, White Collar.

I didn't hate it, although I didn't enjoy watching it as much as I could have. It was...er, well, I've never had the singular experience of watching my own fic be so completely and utterly jossed before. Oh, Captain Americaverse, I hardly knew ye. But even that wasn't so bad, really--I maintain that Stupid Is As Stupid

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[hllangel]

Last night was really really good in places (Like the "ohai, shiny fed" and "You're under arrest" and THE FUCKING LOLLIPOP) but also let me down in a bunch of big ways.

On the other hand, I see why Neal's still chasing after Kate: they never got a resolution, and he doesn't like unfinished business.

Also, I'm beginning to think that Kate's prison visits were part of a long con. I think Adler contacted her when Neal was arrested, and they've been playing him for that long, because they thought he had the box. Once the box was found, Kate was a liability on the whole thing, so out she goes. Adler has the measure of Neal better than Neal does. Almost as good as Peter.

BB!Satch, BB!Diana and BB!Neal were all adorable. Poor Diana got ambushed on her first day.

Also love the throwbacks to a bunch of old episodes. (homing pigeons, Jimmy Burker/Jimmy the Snitch (they've got to be the same person), there were a few more, too.

Like I said, really good in places, but not so good in others.

[surreal_44]

I agree that Adler paid Kate, or at least blackmailed her into doing the long con. I just wonder when it began. Adler suspected Alex, and I'm sure he knew even before Neal's picture cropped up in the paper who Neal Caffrey was.

How much of Kate was true, and how much wasn't? Did you notice right at the very beginning, when Neal first meets Kate, how she walks off with Adler? He bends down and kisses her cheek and they walk arm and arm away. I thought that was vaguely strange. How deep is their connection?

[gyzym]

Yeah, I mean, don't get me wrong, there were parts of it I definitely loved. OH MY GOD THAT LOLLIPOP (although copperbadge pointed out in his WC post today that that lollipop was like three years old, ew.)

To a certain degree, the idea occurs to me that Kate could be an even longer con than that; Adler could have paid her off to leave him, could have helped set him up for capture by tipping the Feds to her location originally, could have etc etc etc. It'll be interesting to see where they go with it :D

[surreal_44]

It looks to me like they messed up straightening her hair. I have massively thick, curly hair and when I straighten it, that will sometime happen. Then if I sweat even a little, they do funky things. Oh hair.

I recognize that this is a small thing to nitpick on, I do, and maybe I should hold onto my faith in the writing on this show and assume it's an intentional mistake. But it doesn't feel that way, and it bums me out.

This is not a small nitpick. This is a humongous issue. Pretty much all of what happened in season 1 is BS because of this episode. I believed for the most part that Neal and Kate spent a lot of time together, and it seems like they barely spent any time together at all.

I still don't get Neal's almost-creepy obsession with her. The writers totally missed it. She was an artist...why didn't they have her do the artsy talk to Neal? Why couldn't she have stolen the Raphael? Instead, we're left with a plastic doll with no substance. I have no idea why Neal practically ruined his life for her.

THAT SAID: bb!Satchmo

[gyzym]

Lmfao, I have curly hair too, and I know how that happens, but this is a television show. They have a hair and makeup team! It just surprises me that they wouldn't fix that.

I really, really want Kate to be a badass amazing character, and her consistent failure to be such is a huge disappointment for me. BUT I KEEP HOPING.

And I agree, real-time Peter & Neal: amazing.

[celemie]

THE LOLLIPOP!!!
AND NEAL'S JAMES BOND VOICE!
BB!SATCHMO TAMPERING WITH EVIDENCE!
THE BOYS HAVING ALLLLLLLL NIGHT!
THAT TANKTOP NEAL WAS WEARING!
JONES REMARKING ON THE FACT THAT PEOPLE TALK AND HE KNOWS PETER IS IN LOVE WITH NEAL!

I tried to only focus on the things I liked... And ignore how boring Kate is and how weird the timeline was. Ah well, they tried.

[gyzym]

James Bonds is fucking INSPIRED, it's true :D

[photoash]

I found myself more amused to daydream what Matt was saying to Simon back home about the episode as they watched it <3
(Alexandria had nice breasts I got to see them on multiple takes, That naked dancing thing? Even in my pants I got so teased by that - someone snapped some iphone photos and they put a little photo of it on my chair just to make it worse. Those are Willie's old toupees, why didn't his friends love him enough to tell him to take those rugs off?, Do you think Willie wore them during sex? That's kind of funny and horrifying to think about. Look there's Nate, isn't he the cutest! Seeing him on set makes me wonder if Kit will be like that in a few years?...)

that helped whitewash the multiple canon jossing O_o of my own stories and of the show's own backstory as well!

[gyzym]

Ahahaha, an excellent technique :D

[elrhiarhodan]

Yeah...to pretty much everything you said.

Particularly about head canon / fic getting completely jossed. I estimate that about 125,000 words of my fic is now purely A/U.

Sigh.

Just think of the pretty. And the nekkid dance. And bb!Sachmo and Assertive!Jones (oh, what happened to you, man?)

And it's snowing here.

Most, most unhappy about that.

[gyzym]

I AM SORRY ABOUT THE SNOW, BB.

Although, lol, at this point I'm so used to the snow that it's kind of a non-issue when it comes up here. BEST OF LUCK, THOUGH :D