erm, difficult one this - on one hand i quite liked it. the case was interesting enough, the interactions were fun etc etc. but i found the really blatant homage (or just plagiarism) of keyser soze really really hard to handle without laughing. now, mr sinise, you're ace and everything, but no matter how much you want it csiny will *never* be the usual suspects....:lol::lol:
ok so... i made notes! again!
opening: oh look. another shot of woman in skimpy clothes. like we needed more of that....
"wild stallions" - reference to bill & ted deliberate?
liked the music, that was cool.
danny as a teacher - in fact the whole danny shebang:
the deputy looked really familiar.... some of the scenes seemed really (well, more than usual) contrived, some of the acting was pretty rubbish.
it also crossed my mind - could this whole "put danny back in as a cop" thing be an attempt on the producers' part to slightly alter the show's dynamic? a few years ago cop procedurals like csi were all the rage - but now it's the cop shows that are more about beat work and less about procedure that are popular (blue bloods, the sadly short lived chicago code etc) - are csiny aware of this and trying to just ever so slightly shift their dynamic so they can attract that audience too? i mean, good if they are, it's a clever idea, but it does seem a tad... er... blunt.
it also crossed my mind that since the titles still have danny in the lab maybe he'll be going back there - then again they had a titles change when jo arrived so maybe it's too soon for another.
i liked jo's line about ferraris and whether it was stock or modified ones - i always enjoy when she surprises mac.
i also liked mac disturbing jo under the car, that was fun. and the way he tapped her legs with his foot was very reminiscent of when gary as george tapped john malkovich as lennie in the pond scene in OMAM.
adam and jo and mac interact brilliantly together. honestly, they could get rid of all the others (apart from sid) and i'd just watch those three. i liked adam's demo, especially the throwing of the keys. i also liked how mac told him to go get them back after, as a "oh by the way" kind of line.
i quite liked the idea of a genuinely remorseful criminal.
quite liked the scene where we saw danny in mac's role from s1, learning how to be the boss etc.
i think i worked out what annoys me about hawkes - and it's really weird - it's the way he waves his hands about. ok, i know, just call me nuts. i don't mind.
i did quite like adam's demo tho, all the exaggerated pained noises were funny.
also lots of people helping each other up - mac helped jo up and hawkes helped adam up.
lindsay with the gun. bleh.
mac telling nicole to "siddown!!" was totally channeling austin and it was ace
at the end when mac and jo were in the car looking for the drugs or ids or whatever, the light made their lab coats look shiny and grey. mac had on a black shirt and the light made that look shiny too - basically the lighting made mac look like some kind of pimp/pusher. bonkers.
danny in the bar - ok, cheesy as hell and poorly acted but also veeeery reminiscent of... i think it was in s2 when mac was asked to the bar and refused after aiden died but went anyway? i forget exactly - jade nolan will probably know...
ok so back to this keyser soze thing:
1: the guy is some kind of urban legend because of his ferocity
2: he's impossible to catch
3: they had an exploding boat - ok so KS wasn't burnt in his boat but his eye witness was, and he was in a fire earlier in the movie.
so yeah, it just felt horribly like a pastiche of the usual suspects (which is one of my favourite films of all time) in parts. that said it was quite entertaining. enjoyed it more than last week's but was baffled too so it's a: B
