S03.E04: Keep Your Cool

[Danielg342]

Via Paramount Press Express:

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The temperature is high and tensions are even higher when the crew has to execute an advanced elevator rescue during a heat-induced power outage

 

[Danielg342]

OK, so Vincent Leone and his one-liners gets:

Man was Vince at his visceral best tonight, especially with the overwhelmed building operator. Billy Burke seemed have a lot of fun with this episode. It was also great to see Vince realize that maybe he pushed things too far and that maybe the building operator was just in over his head and not just incompetent.

Vince going to bat for his son was also great to see.

As for the rest of the episode:

Ho-hum. Drama, drama...and more drama...and some more drama on top of that.

This was more tiresome than an actual heatwave.

"Drill Sergeant Jake" really got on my nerves. Maybe that was the point because Vince had to step in and calm Jake down but I felt a sense of relief when "Laid Back Jake" showed up again.

I mean, I got the whole drill sergeant bit worked when Jake felt betrayed by Bode stealing the medic alert necklace, but after that it felt forced and counter-productive.

Bode is your friend...give him a chance to rebound and show his remorse.

As for Bode, I'm glad to see that he's growing as a character.

Spoiler

There's a good chance that Bode regresses next week because Jared Padalecki makes his FC debut and Padalecki's character is supposed to think Bode's lack of restraint is a good thing, but I'll see where it goes.

We also had another edition of hot steamy "Bodella" sex. I'm pretty sure the heat wave premise was merely an excuse to have scenes where Bode and Gabriella shed their clothes.

Not that I think many will complain about that...I'm not anyway.

We also saw the reappearance of Cole who became the episode's designated heat exhaustion victim. Seeing Eve arrange for Cole to see his family in person was great, but I found the pacing of Cole's plot to be too slow, which sapped the tension from the scenes.

Speaking of family, you could say it was a bit of a theme in the episode, with the divorced couple, Bode/Jake, Bode and Vince, Gabriella and Manny, the building operator and his deceased dad (and Vince becoming a surrogate), then there was Eve and her biological family and Eve and her de facto mom, Sharon.

Genevieve also adorably made the case to rejoin her biological family in Idaho, a case that was sadly snuffed out by Jake's hubris.

Quite a bit of stuff and maybe the writer focused too much attention to it, because the pacing was off in a big way in this episode, and that killed quite a bit of the tension needed to make this kind of episode work.

Oh, and there was also a bit where Sharon's kidney transplant might be rejecting her. I guess we'll see where that goes.

Lastly, S.W.A.T. just before this episode had an episode themselves with a heatwave. Considering the similarities of the setting, are we close to a crossover episode between the two? I think it could be a lot of fun if for no other reason that Vince's wisecracking could give some levity the other show kind of lacks.

[DanaK]

12 hours ago, Danielg342 said:

Genevieve also adorably made the case to rejoin her biological family in Idaho, a case that was sadly snuffed out by Jake's hubris.

I wasn't fully paying attention to that and didn't rewind. Did she learn that that guy was her dad or was she talking about her late mom's relatives?

[Danielg342]

5 hours ago, DanaK said:

I wasn't fully paying attention to that and didn't rewind. Did she learn that that guy was her dad or was she talking about her late mom's relatives?

I believe Gen was talking about her mother's relatives. I know Rick threatened Jake to tell Gen on his own that he was her biological father but the threat made Jake agree to be there when Rick spills the beans and we have not had that scene yet.

Maybe they shot the scene but cut it and forgot to edit the writing but it doesn't make sense. That scene should be a big scene for the show's narrative- there's no way it wouldn't get broadcast.

[Sake614]

8 hours ago, DanaK said:

I wasn't fully paying attention to that and didn't rewind. Did she learn that that guy was her dad or was she talking about her late mom's relatives?

She knows that Rick is her dad and she was talking about him and his family. She specifically mentioned her siblings and how Rick’s wide homeschooled them. She wants to meet them and spend the rest of the school year with them in Idaho.

[The Wild Sow]

On 11/8/2024 at 10:42 PM, Danielg342 said:

We also had another edition of hot steamy "Bodella" sex. I'm pretty sure the heat wave premise was merely an excuse to have scenes where Bode and Gabriella shed their clothes.

Not that I think many will complain about that...I'm not anyway.

Hah! I'm just wondering how many hookups that Airstream Fixer-Upper is gonna be hosting this season!  Are there any couples besides Bode/Gabby in need of spur of the moment privacy right now? I can't really think of any. Major characters  (Jake, Eve, Manny...all currently single and not really looking.)

But I  can actually see Vince and Sharon trying it out.... even though they're married to each other and have a house! 

 

Speculation, not spoiler....wonder if they'll both retire from active firefighting and run Smokey's together?

[Danielg342]

32 minutes ago, The Wild Sow said:

Speculation, not spoiler....wonder if they'll both retire from active firefighting and run Smokey's together?

It would make sense. They both have health problems and they're up there in age.

I see that as more of a storyline for later in the series or as a series finale kind of thing where Vince passes the torch on to Bode as Battalion Chief. Or Vince hands the reigns to Jake and Bode becomes captain...either way, it would need a kind of a slow build and the proper setup.

Which means this will all happen by the fall finale because these writers have no idea how to pace- or well, do- anything properly. 😕

[possibilities]

It's a fire show; they think that means burning through stories.

[Danielg342]

1 minute ago, possibilities said:

It's a fire show; they think that means burning through stories.