Ok, since your sweet and precious Fay (
) will be sans computer for a while (
again), I'm going to quickly post my comments for this episode. I won't be back for a while, though, so I'm probably going to end up trying to resuscitate this thread after everybody else has lost interest. :lol:
Anyway, here's what I wrote in my notebook before I got back to my computer. It's all out of order, but bear with me
(I'm positive that some of it has been mentioned before, as usual):
~ I couldn't hear the first half very well because people were around making noise, but then it cleared out and I was able to watch the second half in peace.
~ It seemed like the episode kinda dragged ass, especially in the beginning. Maybe it's been like that for a while and I don't normally notice as much because I'm usually chatting at the same time. *shrug*
~ I enjoyed the little B-story with Danny and Rikki and with Don trying to keep up with the little shit (aka Danny
). Eddie and Carmine are so good, and seeing that mixture of conflict and friendship was really nice. Danny's a lucky bastard to have Don as a friend, and he'd better know that.
~ It amazes me that the same writers who did those scenes also wrote that lame line about Lindsay not 'catching' whatever Danny supposedly had. *cringe* Then again, maybe D/L just
has to be corny as all hell.
~ Ah, Lindsay is upset because she has to test fire a shotgun like the one that killed her friends...no, wait, she's confused because it misfired (did she take the round out of the gun before she walked away? If not, should she have done so? [/random tangent])...oh no, wait, that expression is because Danny didn't show up for work...Oh f*ck it, I give up trying to interpret her facial expression.
~ Draaaaaaagged aaaaass...Maybe I was just impatient for more with Danny and Rikki...
~ WTF was up with Mac playing Horatio the whole time? It's like he just walked around a lot and told his underlings what to do.
~ *loves her some Angell* I prefer Jennifer to Jessica, but it's their call.
~ Speaking of Angell, I liked the little scene with her and Don where he suggested that they get coffee. Go Donnie.
And I couldn't hear very well, but I liked their little moment at the beginning where she asked why he was there and he said something about it being a busy neighborhood (or something like that--as I said, noisy people around), and they shared a little look--Hai, that iz subtlety. Once again with the 'are these really the same writers?' thing. Flack and Angell can be subtle, but Danny and Lindsay have to be smothered with cheese?
~ WTF was with Mac, Flack and Hawkes running across the roof? It was just silly. Why in the hell were they running? The body wasn't going to get up and walk away--Angell was handlin' thangs.
~ Sheldon was nummy as usual though--and was he wearing jeans at one point in the episode? I thought he might have been, but I couldn't tell. I wish I had more to say than that he's pretty, though. You'd think they could throw the man a bone one of these days.
~ I'll only say it once--boo, no Adam!
They shouldn't list him with the series regulars in the press releases if he's not going to be in every episode--I'd rather they list him with Sid (who should totally be listed with the regulars, but I digress) and only put his name in when he's actually, you know,
there. I didn't pay attention to see if they still stuck his name at the beginning of the episode like they did in that other episode, but anyway--boo, I says.
~ Dude, WTF was Flack doing in the dumpster at the beginning? I can't see him being cool about climbing in there in his suit while Hawkes just chilled nearby.
~ I liked Danny's gentle treatment of Rikki and the way he tried to protect her. I also had to cheer him on when he tried to beat the s*it out of Ollie after he was talking trash about Rikki. I wonder how many strings Don had to pull to get Rikki walked through the way he said? He acted like it was nothing, but you can bet it wasn't easy. Once again, Danny's a lucky bastard to have a friend like Don. He worried about Rikki and Don took care of everything else--no hesitation. *hugs them both and then smacks them both upside the head*
Men.
~ Overall, it was an okay episode, but the case wasn't the reason--it just didn't hold my interest. It might be because I knew what would happen (the downside of reading all of the spoilers, I suppose), but anyway...The stuff with Danny, Rikki and Don was good, and I'd love to see them continue to bring Rikki back--that's so much more interesting than some of the other 'character development' they wrote for Danny the past few seasons.
Anyway, I'm rambling. These last few episodes are going to make or break whether a lot of people continue to watch the show. The Danny/Rikki/Flack stuff was a good choice, but case-wise I think it could have been a bit more exciting.
*****
By the way, how do you think this episode stood up to the ones that had writer participation in the production aspect of them? Personally, I felt like something was a little bit off, but I'm not sure what...
