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18 hours ago, Danielg342 said:
I think Hondo deciding to be Leroy's partner is an indication that he's at least starting to turn around on him. Leroy's finally got a chance to actually show Hondo that he's a changed man and that he has his life together in showing him that he can work hard and put in the time to make a business succeed. Conversely, Hondo wouldn't go all in on Leroy's deal if he didn't think Leroy deserved that chance.
So, while it's not much, at least Hondo vs. Leroy has moved on from "Leroy says he's changed but Hondo doesn't believe it" to "Leroy says he's changed and now Hondo wants him to prove it". Baby steps.
Until Daryl walked out of the room, that was how I saw it.
But when he left, and Leroy said he was sneaky, and Hondo was still looking at him like, "I don't trust you," I started to think maybe I was being too hopeful.
We shall see...
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Things I was glad about:
1. This wasn't a "Mumford spirals into a long and sad descension into depression and being reckless."
2. That he didn't wreck the case by being overenthusiastic. I was worried that when he went to see the mom, he'd find out something, and go off on his own.
3. That the case was wrapped up for real, and that they found a way to keep him busy and stick around, which is great.
Things I wasn't glad about:
1. I was hoping this wasn't the beginning of Christina's long and sad descension into alcohol and depression. Her working it out on the bag with Tan gave me some hope. But alas, we're going to have to see this through. to the end. Only two things can happen. One is that she winds up forfeiting her win. Two is that she ALMOST loses her leadership deal, but she pulls through in the nick of time.
This will not be a fun story. It will also not be fast and/or furious. It will be sad and depressing.
2. I was hoping Hondo's fight with Dad might come to an end. Perhaps them being partners will do it, but I'd like to see an end to this as well.
However, him getting Daryl to go to school was good. I was afraid that Dad would try to get him not to go, but he went with it, despite gritting his teeth through it.
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22 hours ago, waving feather said:
Yes this is probably it. Still, it's a giant leap between making a diamond, wanting to propose to his gf and suddenly wanting to explore it with someone else. It means he was never all in with Desiree. Des already has an issue with having her walls up, this is going to make it so much worse. I haven't watched all of season 4, but has Mac ever shown a romantic interest in Riley?
Totally agree about everything.
When he was talking to Bozer, he mentioned how topsy-turvy his life has been re: Jack, his father, his aunt. Then I think it was last week when he became overprotective, because he didn't want to lose anybody else.
Mac is desperately grasping at straws, trying to find something solid in his life, and he thinks proposing is the answer. It's not. He needs some serious counseling, because he's trying to overcompensate.
He and Riley had a "moment" during the episode where they flashed back to the beginning of the pandemic, and Riley was still living there. He brought it up to Bozer but then quickly covered it up/denied it.
Mac is not in a healthy headspace. He's grasping at straws. He said it himself, that he and Desi have been a rollercoaster ride. They've been on solid ground for like five minutes, and he's proposing.
He's not all-in. He's searching for stability, and that's so unfair to Desi. It's also pretty jerky to play with Riley's feelings.
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6 hours ago, waving feather said:
How unfair of Mac to go to Riley to ask her if she still has feelings for him when he's not risking anything himself. He should analyse his own feelings before approaching her. So unfair to Desi too who has been nothing been loyal to him. MacDesi relationship is not exactly healthy because their communication sucks. Riley and Mac are more on the same wavelength, so they may work but the way things are going down is not great.
I think he did analyze his feelings and realized there was an attraction to her, so perhaps he's asking if he can do that with her? That's weird and cruel. I'm hoping that's not the case, but why would he ask if it was possible to sublimate your feelings if he wasn't attracted to her and trying to fight the feelings, right?
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20 minutes ago, WinJet0819 said:
Do remember though, when her character first started on Med, she was strong and only cared about being the best. And then the writers tried to put her with Colin Donnell's character, and she devolved into only existing to be drama for him, going from top surgeon, to loving Rhodes, to being obsessed with him, to murdering his father, to committing suicide. It was really pathetic what they turned her character into.
I think you were just talking about this character. Weird that the actress turned up here, right?
16 minutes ago, WinJet0819 said:And all because he loves someone who is unobtainable. He threw away a good relationship over a pipe dream. It's pathetic, IMO.
Chris turned him down point-blank, so I'm guessing it's that now he knows what real looooooove feels like, and he doesn't have it with Molly.
It's crazy, and you know this ship is going to turn around, and he and Chris will be a thing. But if he hounds her while on the job, that will be putting Street into a whole new category. Because she didn't just say no, she said HELL NO.
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4 hours ago, nittany cougar said:
I really dislike Molly, but not because of her relationship with Street. The actress just does nothing for me. Her attempt to emote over the break-up with Street was painful. She's easily the worst actor on the show.
She's gotten only slightly better than when we first met her, but yeah, when she first came on the scene I thought she was wooden. Then when she got with Street, I was like, "Crap. We're going to be seeing a lot more of her."
And like with most female characters on the show, they didn't flesh her out much beyond "Street's girlfriend. Hicks' daughter."
I thought Kuhling was great, and if they hadn't gotten rid of Erika for her, I would have been totally happy to see her. BTW, who thinks something is up with her son? Like she lost custody or something? She keeps looking at his picture.
1 hour ago, jabRI said:I thought the rescue scene was ridiculous.. Hondo was a 'medic' so he goes instead of a fully trained medical professional? Its not like they were in any danger of getting shot or something, it was totally a rescue mission. Her abductor wasn't in that well/mineshaft/whatever with her.
That seemed like it was done purely for plot purposes. He doubted her shooting skills, not her medical ones. Him wanting to keep her out of danger, so he didn't have to worry about her messing up an operation she hasn't trained for, made sense. Him not letting her into that hole was pure nonsense. He should have said, "Okay, now you can do your thing." Like, the whole show he kept saying if someone was injured, he'd call for her. Finally, when there was ABSOLUTELY NO DANGER, and an injured person on the brink of death, he's going to say she can't come down? Even after she said the woman wouldn't survive being pulled up? Nope.
17 hours ago, Danielg342 said:I felt the writing and direction for her was- no surprise here- pretty terrible. I find it hard to believe Hicks couldn't find someone more qualified to take Erika's place, and you'd think he'd at least ask Hondo and Rocker what their opinions on new candidates would be before thrusting someone new on to them.
Hicks is someone who understands the importance of team dynamic. To just throw her out there after she's barely met the team and go into dangerous situations at the beginning, before they know if anyone is injured, made no sense.
It was because of the way Hicks handled it that she got the cold shoulder from Hondo in the first place, rather than integrating her organically.
QuoteSo we now know a plot is coming where it is not safe for Fire Department paramedics to move in
When there's an active shooter, they won't enter, so I assume that will be what happens.
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I'm confused. They ditched Erika to bring in a Molly clone?
At first I thought that was her doing the shooting.
And Street...
Well, it was a big surprise that Chris won the competition. So, I guess the death of Erika was totally worth it.
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15 hours ago, HurricaneVal said:
What in the name of prairie brand Coleman™ tents was Nell wearing last night?
1 hour ago, Gramto6 said:I laughed so hard at this comment...boy did I need that laugh. What the hell is with Nell's wardrobe? Can she really be on board with this??? She hasn't worn anything flattering in longer than I can remember. Does she really have that bad a taste in clothing that she likes these things?
Someone was watching Little House on the Prairie and thought, Man, that Laura Ingalls had some great fashion sense.
This has to be a personal choice, as I cannot imagine any wardrobe department being this cruel without someone saying something.
5 hours ago, secnarf said:I thought they said they screened the package for biological and chemical material and there was none. Is a finger not biological material?
No, I think he said there were two indicators of it, and that's why they brought it straight to Callen.
Anna has grown on me slowly, but man, no matter her situation, her makeup is always on point, and her hair is brushed to a glossy shine.
She also kept widening her eyes as she talked to Callen, which distracted me.
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7 hours ago, Aliconehead said:
I came here for the same. My workings theory is that Callen is deep undercover trying to rout out a high level operative. This was set up by Hetty. There is no way Callen is bad, I refuse to believe it. That or Callen has an evil twin/clone/surgically enhanced double.
I have to agree with this, because I can't believe Hetty would be this off the mark. But Callen telling her he would kill her was pretty heavy-duty. He really sold it.
NCIS: LA has chosen an idyllic post-Covid world. I'm assuming this was to avoid having the actors wear masks.
FBI: Most Wanted is living in a Covid world where sometimes they wear masks and sometimes not, while their mothership isn't dealing with it at all. I don't think I've seen anyone wearing a mask.
So, I think this is why NCIS: LA went in the other direction. It would be clear they were being inconsistent, and they just didn't want to deal with it.
Deeks' hair in each scene is distracting. I really wish that when he came there as a lawyer, he had his hair in something resembling what a man in a suit would look like, but alas, no.
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Can someone please tell me what the heck just happened?
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Ugh. I HAVE MISOPHONIA, and that apple bit was driving me...uhhh...bananas.
The final scene at the gravesite was probably the first time I truly enjoyed Mac and Desi. I like that she thought of the small details and was just sweet to him.
My favorite part was when the guy was a second away from killing Desi, and Riley is explaining her pulley concept. I mean, if he wasn't interrupted, he literally had a gun on Desi and was about to go bang bang, and Riley's all, "Okay, so when I'm writing code..." and Maddie says, "But you have no computers there..." and I'm screaming, "They have a gun literally pointed at Desi's head! Can you hurry this up a bit?"
But of course that was right after, "Hey, you know the bad guys who were headed our way?" "Yeah?" "They're here."
How about, "The bad guys are here! Everyone scatter!"
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4 hours ago, Danielg342 said:
Heck, during the show's run we've already seen Deacon get kidnapped and held hostage and another time we've seen Deacon get his house shot up by a gang out to get him.
That latter part is why Lila apparently has to switch schools...because the shooting still traumatized her.
Oh my gosh! I almost forgot about this, but YES.
Her whole family nearly being shot up, and her daughter traumatized. wasn't enough for her to say, "Yo, maybe it's time for you to hang up your boots."
Nope. ERIKA.
So, okay, I've figured out the theme of her death.
Nothing that came before matters. No trauma I've endured or dangerous situations where I've nearly died or seen people die.
Nope.
ERIKA'S DEATH is the one and only thing that will be the catalyst for either changing my entire life, and/or asking those closest to me to change theirs.
It never occurred to Street that Chris could die...AS A S.W.A.T. team member...until ERIKA died?
It never occurred to Annie for over a decade that Deac could die until she ATTENDED ERIKA'S FUNERAL?
Yeah. No buildup. No making this the straw that broke the camel's back. Just, "Now that Erika died, I can see everything so clearly."
THIS was why they killed her off? To catapult the Chris/Street hookup? Are you kidding me with this crap?
What a bunch of a-holes.
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4 hours ago, DanaK said:
Annie was already ruined as a character when she got all high and mighty about Chris's sexuality
Agreed. Was also going to bring up that they'd almost rehabilitated her from that fiasco before telling her husband he could help the family by quitting five minutes before he receives his pension.
8 hours ago, Raja said:But on the other hand he is a Sergeant and there are roles on a police force other than SWAT, just like Bravo on the other CBS shoot um up show SEAL Team for their retirement aged Jason where the same story is running
Jason's gf isn't asking him to literally retire and deny his pension. As far as she knew, Jason had voluntarily quit "spinning up" and was hating his current role, so she offered him something that would, as you said, let him remain but give him something more exciting to do than push papers around.
I see this as a completely different thing. Jason needs the "excitement" of going on missions. He's having a hard time transitioning into normal life, and rather than dealing with it, he keeps trying to stay in the game.
He has no attachments, and the one attachment he does have, he's pushed away twice in favor of the excitement.
Deac is a level-headed guy who wants to be there for his team. He loves his job, but he also has a family that grounds him. He's able to do normal stuff in a normal way. He can form attachments. He has a balanced life. He's not gone for a month at a time on missions. He does his job and comes home.
He's about to receive his pension.
Also, she didn't ask Deac to transfer jobs. She asked him to retire. Another job within the system didn't even occur to her.
But Deac sees what's happening with his team, and he's the glue that holds a lot of it together.
He doesn't want to retire. After having a bazillion kids with a man she knew was in law enforcement while it was happening, suddenly tells him she's scared? No.
If he'd been an accountant or something when she married him, and he suddenly just applied for a job that could get him killed after they had a few kids, then she'd have a leg to stand on.
But they're using Erika's death as a prop. Something to make people act stupid and say stupid things. This is one example of that. Street's dry, emotionless pledge to Chris that she's like his life now, is another. It makes zero sense.
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On 2/17/2021 at 8:40 PM, Danielg342 said:
Earning the (not so) honourable mentions here would be Bre Blair and Annie's predictable exhortations to her husband that "SWAT is just not safe for you" (you just realized that now?) and whatever it was Amy Farrington called acting. David Lim had some moments but he was particularly weak too.
Oh. My. God.
I really thought the wife/girlfriend getting involved with a cop and then suddenly realizing that the hours are horrible, and they might get killed, and ragging on them for it, went out in the eighties.
"Unless you get too busy with work."
ARE YOU KIDDING ME?
Is the show wanting to ruin Annie's character as well? How did THIS funeral become "too real" for her? ARRRRGGGHHH. Making the woman beg her dude to leave just before he gets his pension is crazy. How long has he been on the job?
Like, "Oh, you have a couple of weeks left before we can comfortably take care of our 5 billion kids? I think you should quit!"
Thanks, show, for taking Annie down.
2 hours ago, Danielg342 said:If "Streelonso" really is endgame, then the writers need to do their jobs and adequately build to it. They should not be throwing in these random scenes and having all these awkward moments that "tease" but get us nowhere. I'd rather have these writers take the time to build their friendship and eventually build their relationship so that when the payoff happens we can get a real payoff and not just "oh, well, what took you so long to get there?"
They're both training for the same stupid thing. That would have been a totally natural way of getting them together than this total nonsense.
Street was literally telling Chris he was tossing aside the woman he just told he loved, and that Chris meant everything to him. That he had to rush over there to profess his love on the way home to his girlfriend.
There was no sense of urgency. He never tried to touch her. Not one tear. He never looked her in the eye. There was absolutely no buildup.
Did I know this was coming? Of course. Was I hoping they'd build up some kind of sexual tension? That Street would man up and split up from his girlfriend before professing his love to someone else? Yes.
The disappointment I feel that they bungled this, can't be overstated.
I think Chris kicked Street out because:
1. Her friend JUST died, and she's having huge emotional fallout.
2. He still has a girlfriend. It's not like there's even a corpse of his relationship. It's still alive.
3. Rather than Street coming over there to help her clear out the apartment and offer emotional support, he laid this on her. I reiterate...he's STILL in a relationship!
Agree that Hondo was the only one who hit the mark. It's totally within his character that he'd obsessively go over his every decision and move they made. It made sense that he'd need to take some kind of action. To do something.
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The Texas girlfriend needing to reach him...it makes perfect sense. I agree that she's trying to call to tell him she's pregnant.
Also agree that they have a hard time seeing anything through. Jason's wife died before anything got resolved there, and he's about to dump his current girlfriend for the second time, for basically the same reason.
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3 hours ago, secnarf said:
If they wanted the hairstyle so badly couldn't they just have a wig? That is what they did in Criminal Minds for Paget Brewster. She no longer wanted to dye her hair and so cut it short to grow out her natural hair and colour. She used a wig after that on CM to mimic her previous hairstyle.
I'm thinking the hair is so identifiable, and so central to the character, that they put it in his contract or something.
I don't think they'd allow him a wig at this point, and I doubt he'd enjoy wearing one, so he's stuck with his surfer 'do.
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Re: Deeks' hair. Here's my take.
I'm sure he's wanted to cut it for a while, but the show wants him to maintain his California surfer boy aura and have forced him to maintain that messy style.
I'm thinking the compromise is that he could cut his hair, but he had to keep it in the same style, which is how we get the disaster we see now.
Look, I understand Sam is uber-protective of his family and will stop at nothing to keep them safe, but he's also supposed to be trained military. A man who can stay calm under pressure and get stuff done.
Throwing around a young boy without knowing what was going on, was for me, a step too far. I'm really, REALLY glad they had Roundtree there to calm him down, but the brand-new agent having to calm the pants of the veteran agent and legendary Navy SEAL, isn't a good look.
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On 2/9/2021 at 8:29 PM, Xeliou66 said:
But my main issue was Nestor - he got more screentime than anyone and he annoyed me constantly, and I hope this is the end of him, I do not trust him and I’ve found him smug since the beginning and tonight he seemed borderline controlling with how he signed the lease on the apartment despite Maggie being unsure of whether she wanted to move in with him. I’m hoping Maggie dumps him after this, I don’t like him and he’s taking screentime away from the main characters, all of whom I really like. So please let this be the end of the Nestor show.
I think the concentration on him, etc., was to drive home the point that Nestor is way too cocky for his own good. That he's not a "team player" and refuses to listen to the people he works with, which carries over to his personal life.
At one point, she was telling him not to go after the bad guy and to wait for backup or something, but he totally blew her off and ran out there on his own.
It wasn't borderline controlling that he signed the lease, it was straight-up controlling. It was him bringing his lone wolf persona into his personal life. An extension of his earlier speech about how he wasn't lucky, he was doing the right thing.
Nestor is 100% about Nestor. He doesn't listen and just does what he thinks is right. He gets a real charge out of it.
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5 hours ago, Danielg342 said:
Since I don't have much to add other than "I agree completely with both of you", I have one question to raise: have we hit the moment where we can say S.W.A.T. has jumped the shark or is it too early to tell?
The hopeful part of me is praying they can turn this ship around. As you've pointed out, they can pull it together if they want to. They just have to want to.
If they don't understand just how unpopular and stupid this move was, they will continue down the shark path.
However, if they've read some of the feedback and understand what they've done, they may try and do whatever they can to save it.
Only time will tell.
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On 2/8/2021 at 2:36 AM, Danielg342 said:
You know, the opportunity was there for Christina to want to win the TLI competition so badly that she'd try to "play hero" one time like Tan did just to do it. This can go back to the issue I raised in the last episode's discussion that asked if Hondo is a hypocrite because he got to play hero and Tan didn't.
Imagine Christina going rogue, Hondo chewing her out for it and reprimanding her, and Christina then turns it around and makes it a gender issue. Talk about your can of worms. Lots of story stuff to be mined there. The show may still go there but, with Erika out, it would just feel like "piling on".
This just won't happen. They squandered that on Tan's petty jealousy.
She will win, and she will definitely dedicate it to Erika, and I'm pretty sure that Christina winning the competition was the entire reason Erika dies, which is completely ridiculous.
I don't know how they'll turn this idiocy around, but definitely Christina winning this stupid competition because Erika died, will make me throw things at my TV.
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2 hours ago, WinJet0819 said:
If that happens, this show is toast. The entire fluidity of the team would be compromised. And I can't see Hondo allowing that on his team. He was in a similar situation with Cortez, but he had to let her go because their relationship was in direct conflict of the new guidelines she was trying to pass. Not to mention, how can women be portrayed as strong independent characters in these types of shows if they need to have a relationship storyline pushed with another team member? It just makes the woman look weak.
I think with Hondo, she was his boss, and that's why it wasn't allowed. There was a power differential.
I don't know how it is for two members of the same team.
Now, I have seen the partners into full-on relationship work on NCIS Los Angeles. They started as partners, and Kensi was established at the beginning as a strong woman who didn't need a man. And when they got together, there hasn't been a bunch of drama. They work together well, and like it's not an issue. They have made it like a real relationship, dealing with normal relationship stuff but drama-free, and Kensi is very much her own woman.
But they'd given Kensi her own storyline, and she was there before Deeks got there. Deeks is the kiind who will always defer to her and is not Mr. alpha male.
It also worked on the show Bones, but here they had different jobs that intersected, and there was no drama again. They just were together, with each being their own person.
The problem here is that they haven't established Chris as a strong person by herself, where Street would just be a relationship and not someone to lean on.
Street has had a nice arc. Even Chris said she was the one with her life together when they first met, and he was the screw-up. But they've really rounded him out and made him a strong character, while she's floundering, and now they've taken her one good thing away.
So, I don't mind her getting together with Street, but yes, if it's going to be one of those things where she depends on him for validation, it would weaken her character more. They need to shore her up and give her an identity before she attaches herself to him. Otherwise, it's bad writing that makes these once strong women become weak. In the right hands, it could be great. But I don't trust these writers anymore.
On 2/4/2021 at 7:01 PM, Danielg342 said:When it comes to Christina, if the writers really wanted to give her "an emotional arc", have her lose that TLI competition. That would bum anyone out, and, considering it meant so much to Christina, it would be more than enough of a reason to get really depressed and angry over it.
I think using death of a main character in any form is just lazy. It's a lazy way to create angst. It's a lazy way to promote growth in another character. It's a cheap gotcha for the audience. Like, "Here, we'll give you something to cry about." Ugh. GIVE ME GOOD WRITING. Give me complications that are REAL.
I'd rather one character look the other in the eye and say, "I don't want to be with you, and here's why" than for someone to misunderstand why they don't want to be with them, and have the other person just not say anything, and for nobody to communicate. Drives me up a wall. Give me real tension. Real complications. Make it messy and difficult, and then you have to write your way out of it in a way that creates growth for the character. Not, "OOOOH! I thought you totally didn't like me." "NO! I totally liked you!"
Yes, Chris losing the competition would force her to focus and get in gear. But I think, stupidly, that this death will make her fight harder to win it and blah blah blah. Now I'm sure she will. Unless they want Chris to try and commit suicide or something, and who knows at this point what the hell they're doing?
But making a fan favorite die to prop her up is stupid and lazy and a jerky thing for them to do.
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5 hours ago, Hana Chan said:
wish that we could have gotten more info as to why Cordell's mom was so in love with Hoyt when everyone could see that he was a six pack of trouble.
I was wondering that until the end.
Hoyt seemed to genuinely care that he was letting her down yet again, and you can tell that because Hoyt didn't grow up in a loving home, Cordell's mom tried to be kind of a mom to him, so she keeps hoping that if she doesn't judge him like everyone else does, maybe she can turn him around. She knew him as a boy, so he's probably built up more goodwill with her.
5 hours ago, Hana Chan said:And am I the only one mourning the fact that we missed out the opportunity to see Cordell go undercover as a male stripper? Unfair!
Yeah. I was like wait...is Cordell going to go undercover as well? Because that would be AWESOME.
34 minutes ago, thuganomics85 said:I'm usually not one for family drama, but I continue to actually enjoy the stories and obstacles between Walker and his kids. I think what helps is that no character here comes off either as a perfect saint or an obnoxious scumbag. Instead, all of them are capable of both good and not so good moments, and can be right about some things, but wrong about others. In short, they are flawed in a realistic way, and it makes them more relatable. It probably won't be an easy journey for the three to come back to a place of normalcy, but I do think they're all trying in their own ways.
I agree. I know people have used the word "jerk" when speaking of Cordell, but I never saw that. Just a flawed dude trying to figure out his life.
I'm a fan of characters being shades of gray. Much more interesting, for sure.
36 minutes ago, thuganomics85 said:Thankfully, this type of character is right in Matt Barr's wheelhouse, so he was pretty much a perfect fit as Hoyt. And he certainly seemed to fully commit to the stripping sequence (well, as much has he could for a show on The CW!)
He was really good, because he had that combination of charmer and smarmer, depending on who was talking to him. And then at the end getting you right in the feels. He did a really good job.
Yet another character who wasn't totally bad. Just someone who only knows one way of doing things.
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9 hours ago, Danielg342 said:
Though I'm 39...that doesn't make me old yet...right? :S
No, you're not ready for your cane and caretaker quite yet.
9 hours ago, Danielg342 said:Or did hit me like a metaphorical Mack Truck, seeing Erika's death on screen and realizing that this show joins the list of so many other shows that, in effect, trivialize death by using it in such a cheap manner to drive ratings?
There are three shows in my recent past that killed off a main character, and I vowed never to return.
1. Sleepy Hollow. Self-explanatory, I think. I believe it hits all the notes you mentioned. It was cancelled by the next season.
2. The Magicians (SPOILER ALERT), where they killed off the MAIN CHARACTER. They said they had no more stories for him, even though it was based on an entire series of books. AND it was a magical show, so they could have brought him back. It was cancelled by the next season.
3. The Good Doctor. They killed off a beloved character because they'd attached him to the female character they constantly love to t0rture. They were like, "It couldn't have worked out between them." So...ummm...you're a writer. Figure it out.
This show has not killed off a main character, however they are subjecting me to multiple episodes of people grieving her and destroying Chris's growth.
I just went on Twitter to gauge the reaction, and it's a mixed bag. A lot of people are like, "NOOOOOOOOO!" A few had "bad writing" and "horrible writing."
One said how the show talked about Chris having an "emotional arc" this season, and I'm like, "You had to kill off her best friend to do it?"
One said this:
This program killed off an awesome woman who succeeded in a male dominated job. Not only was this patriarchal but also racist since she was a person of color. This program is chronically preaching social justice against whites, while killing a great female role-model of color.
So, it seemed a lot of people are not happy with this new development.
I think two of the laziest forms of writing are killing off characters to give another character an emotional arc, and anything based on a "misunderstanding."
9 hours ago, Danielg342 said:Then there's the...*shudder*...possibility that, in comforting Christina, Street will hook up with her again and this will bring Street one step closer to Christina and take him away from Molly, whom he has far better chemistry with.
I don't know if this will happen, but Chris/Street is endgame, and I know this, because they keep bringing it up. Brace yourself. It's happening.
But yeah, since he's the only other person she's closest to, I see rough waters ahead.
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On 1/27/2021 at 8:56 PM, Danielg342 said:
Is there a character on TV right now more misused and underserved than Christina Alonso is? I'm not sure there is, and this episode- and Erika's death- was the bottom of the barrel for her.
Which underscores this episode's issues in a nutshell. Simply put, the episode also hits the bottom of the barrel because the show decided- all around tonight- to go for maximum shock and maximum vile while doing none of the work to do it right.
Ugh.
You know, it's funny.
Sometimes I get a feeling about a certain show that something is about to go wrong.
Maybe it was the lighthearted beginning or the callback to Deac's house being shot up, but something didn't sit right with me, and so I decided to come here and see the grade ol' Daniel G gave it.
Ugh. Why am I not surprised? Kill the black woman, of course.
This is going to seem off-topic, but bear with me.
There's a show I loved, The Good Doctor. Freddie Highmore is amazing, and the characters are pretty solid and have their own stuff going on, despite the ensemble cast. Everyone has gotten spotlighted.
And then a bunch of us realized that they kept throwing the most horrible crap at this one WOC doctor. Like, every time she pulled herself up and brushed herself off, they'd have another Mack Truck headed in her direction.
I stopped watching when they literally killed off a beloved main characters, because they attached him to her.
Nope. Watching a woman get constantly flattened more than any other character, is not my idea of a good time.
I also have noticed they shorten her name to make sure she's seen as "one of the guys." And what was her one story arc? It had to do with her sexuality. And as she even said, it sent her life backward.
So, I don't understand why you'd have someone sitting at the bottom, lamenting about their life, and take away the one good thing in it. What was the point? To improve her image? Give her a storyline by freaking FRIDGING?
No. It's cheap and lazy writing. It's like when an author says, "I like to make my readers cry by killing off characters." Ah, thanks for letting me know you're the laziest writer on the planet and to avoid you like the plague.
Taking someone who's on top of the world and has everything, and making them lose something, is much more interesting. Someone who's already laid low by life and making her grieve? HARD PASS.
So, thanks for letting me know what happens, and I will be skipping this episode.
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S01.E06: Bar None
in Walker
Wow, okay. They're not establishing themselves as a COTW show.
I really liked the boyfriend and am totally bummed that he's a bad guy.
So, is this a coincidence? Because he didn't seem to know who her dad was. Does this mean he was really interested in Stella, and this just kind of fell into his lap?