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kristen999) wrote2012-11-26 11:20 pm
kristen999) wrote2012-11-26 11:20 pm
H50 3.08
Thoughts under the cut.
The episode was kind of like they stuck two different ideas together into one script.
Steve's sudden jumping to conclusions with the shrink seemed out of character, but I blame it on pacing or the lack of good pacing at the start.
Don't get me wrong, once Olivia started screwing around with him and getting under his skin, then I enjoyed the cat and mouse. It was cool to have a smart female villain, but there was no real build to justify such heavy suspicion, unless it was her profiling him that really riled him up? Steve really is not normally this so hot-headed unless children or fathers are involved. *scratches head*
Again, if there had been enough of a lead-up than it would have been easier to understand the fact that he hates being played. I get that. It's so Steve. And wow, did she really get him good at the restaurant. The flat tire?
EDIT: I have come around to the idea that this was really about Steve trusting his gut when everyone else didn't. I can see that raising his hackles and making him more determined.
EDIT2: On the re-watch, I found Steve's behavior more reasonable and found it much more in character.
Catherine.
I liked her a lot. She really got to show a ton of skills and I don't want to hear things like 'how does she know how to kick ass?' She was in naval intelligence, we don't know what she did, and we've gotten enough hints that she's done this thing before.
I really, really hope she doesn’t lie to Steve. I hope we learned she told him off-screen and considering that Steve always ready knows Doris is lying about stuff, but please, don't go there. Don't let this be another betrayal. Since we don't know...I'm going to assume she DID tell him, just like I think anyone on his team would tell him and nod to Doris to her face.
EDITED to add: If she did lie to him, as much as it'll hurt Steve, it will be add a lot of layers. I mean what can I say. I hate seeing him hurt but at the same time, Steve angst is a thing of beauty. Conflict is good drama and the idea of Steve and Catherine trying to work through something like this, even if it results with them on the rocks guarantees great acting from both Alex and Michelle. With MB a regular, it gives her
and Steve something meaty to play with and an arc. Calm. Conflict. Resolution.
Doris.
Um. Whoa.
Guess her and Wo Fat have something in common.
And how is Doris going to explain the broken lamp, the blood on the floor, and her bruise?
There was stuff I didn't like, but there was good stuff in between. And a lot left for future eppys!
The episode was kind of like they stuck two different ideas together into one script.
Steve's sudden jumping to conclusions with the shrink seemed out of character, but I blame it on pacing or the lack of good pacing at the start.
Again, if there had been enough of a lead-up than it would have been easier to understand the fact that he hates being played. I get that. It's so Steve. And wow, did she really get him good at the restaurant. The flat tire?
EDIT: I have come around to the idea that this was really about Steve trusting his gut when everyone else didn't. I can see that raising his hackles and making him more determined.
EDIT2: On the re-watch, I found Steve's behavior more reasonable and found it much more in character.
Catherine.
I liked her a lot. She really got to show a ton of skills and I don't want to hear things like 'how does she know how to kick ass?' She was in naval intelligence, we don't know what she did, and we've gotten enough hints that she's done this thing before.
I really, really hope she doesn’t lie to Steve. I hope we learned she told him off-screen and considering that Steve always ready knows Doris is lying about stuff, but please, don't go there. Don't let this be another betrayal. Since we don't know...I'm going to assume she DID tell him, just like I think anyone on his team would tell him and nod to Doris to her face.
EDITED to add: If she did lie to him, as much as it'll hurt Steve, it will be add a lot of layers. I mean what can I say. I hate seeing him hurt but at the same time, Steve angst is a thing of beauty. Conflict is good drama and the idea of Steve and Catherine trying to work through something like this, even if it results with them on the rocks guarantees great acting from both Alex and Michelle. With MB a regular, it gives her
and Steve something meaty to play with and an arc. Calm. Conflict. Resolution.
Doris.
Um. Whoa.
Guess her and Wo Fat have something in common.
And how is Doris going to explain the broken lamp, the blood on the floor, and her bruise?
There was stuff I didn't like, but there was good stuff in between. And a lot left for future eppys!
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But characterwise there was some meaty bones coming to the surface of the soup of people's emotions. Ah, Steve your issues have issues. But at least you've Danny to help -- Danny who def. has had some experience with therapists, his dialogue ('control the narrative')-his insights?
Doris -- Wow, she (a female actor) was torturing a man, after evidently beating him in a fight, either at the house, or in the torture den (was it his or hers?). Catherine and Doris having one-on-one discussion. Catherine making a poor decision, when normally she is so sensible, despite being far too amenable to Stevie’s batting of the eyelashes, even as she calls him on it.
Doris is manipulative, with a capital M.
Which takes us to Olivia – now that was manipulative, and calculating. From the outset, she set hackles rising. Thinking back, Steve jumped to massive conclusions, which were right, but was interesting that he was right when Olivia was so manipulative (cos I was thinking red herring). I think that I would have liked Kono to have been on Steve’s side, because she had seen Olivia being so calm and snide, and avoiding Steve’s questions, with her own at the start.
I actually found it hard to stay in the story because I had to analyse what was happening.
Tldr!
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I also wondered who that torture set-up belonged too and who kidnapped who?
Doris. With every layer we see, I'm more curios about her and I really hope we get a meaty scene with her and Steve when everything comes falling apart.
Totally agree that Steve's issues have issues and it was fun watching Danny in all this as she pushed every one of his buttons. Danny had some sound advice in the car and I loved that scene in the office later on.