S03.E15: One Last Time

[Danielg342]

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Bode and Jake respond to a lighthouse rescue operation that turns into a mission to prevent a ship from crashing during an intense storm. Meanwhile, Eve investigates the origins of a flu outbreak at Three Rock

 

[DanaK]

Another good episode. Glad Papa Lione decided to go to the facility after so much resistance though he’s probably not done being a jerk

Good to see Eve figured out the Three Rock problem was the well water. That lawyer was a jerk but it suggests the company knows they are doing something wrong

[Danielg342]

I'm sure someone in the writers' room- maybe even showrunner Tia Napolitano- looked at this episode and said,

"This is gonna be good!"

They couldn't be further from the truth.

I won't really bother with recapping the episode because it was pretty much filler all around.

What I will do is raise two topics.

One, as much as I hate the "shady obstructionist company" plot (which is not just cliched but also patently stupid and terribly unrealistic), Violet may be a wild card here...though I don't know if it helps the story. Violet will either side the company and break Jake's already multi-time broken heart again, or Violet will be the one to make the shady company less shady...making this story predictable.

Do writers even try anymore?

Two, I'll just lay this out there:

Can the show survive another edition of Stupid Bode?

I've said it before and I'll say it again- Bode refusing to give up his criminal past isn't a character flaw, it's a sign of narrative malaise. Because it's a clear sign that the writers are so bereft of ideas that the only way they can see a path forward is to just go down the same paths they went through before...and for what?

Sure, recidivism is a thing...but I feel like Bode has come along so far that Bode getting back into crime is just a regression of the character. There's no growth, nothing gained...just a character going through the motions, setting the cycle for rehashed storylines because the writers can't come up with new ones.

I feared that, when Manny was only going to be at Three Rock for a year, Bode was going to be the show's target to put back in there, because this show seems to think a main cast member needs to be a Three Rock inmate at all times.

Please show...I would hate to be right.

[Dowel Jones]

Didn't Finn just lay his leg wide open in that fall last episode?  That's not the type of injury you go hobbling around Edgewater with.

So, there's a railroad through town, a chemical processing plant nearby, but Edgewater doesn't have a hospital in town?  I don't think so.  Load that surfer up and get him to proper medical attention.

It's always been my impression that the when the Coast Guard shuts down a lighthouse, they replace it with an automated system.  They don't leave the area without safety lights.  What was going on all the time when the Point Cruz lighthouse was dark.  By the way, Petrolia is an actual community (very pretty) right close to the southern Humboldt County coastline, and the Punta Gorda lighthouse is a short distance away.

Was it ever identified what Bode's "other job" was, specifically?  I take that's the supposed criminal activity being investigated.  Egg smuggling, maybe?  

I also find it a bit odd that California's notoriously strict permitting process would allow the construction of a hazardous materials company next to a wetland but hey, anything that drives the plot.

[The Wild Sow]

7 hours ago, Dowel Jones said:

Was it ever identified what Bode's "other job" was, specifically?  I take that's the supposed criminal activity being investigated.  Egg smuggling, maybe?  

Who are the "known criminals"?  Audrey?  Manny?!  

7 hours ago, Dowel Jones said:

I also find it a bit odd that California's notoriously strict permitting process would allow the construction of a hazardous materials company next to a wetland but hey, anything that drives the plot.

Yeah, what the heck?  Did they just build the thing?  How long's it been there?

[possibilities]

They said the usual navigation system was down due to the storm. Seemed like as good a handwave as any TV show ever gives us.

I also wondered if they were actually thinking Audrey or the 3 Rock guys were the "known criminals" being referred to by Bode's parole officer, but it could be that his mysterious other job is what they are referring to? We don't know what that is or who it's with.

 

 

 

I really like that whenever Vince and Sharon go anywhere, Sharon is the one who drives. It's a small thing, but I really like it.

[JamieLynn832002]

I'm guessing the side job is working for/with someone Bode met in prison. I'm hoping it's not actual criminal activity because you can only have him do dumb ass shit and be gobsmacked by the consequences so many times before I refuse to believe there's anything but rocks rattling around in that head. Part of me is afraid it'll end up being an intimidation tactic by Oxalta which I'd hate because it would mean turning the parole officer, who's always seemed like an okay guy,  into a villain, I'm already not really looking forward to the story and don't want it to overtake the entire show and there's pretty much no better way to guarantee mindnumblingly stupid behavior from Bode than something like this.

[Sake614]

Could his former coach be the ‘known criminal’? Known to the cops but not Bode. He did give Bode a packet of pills (presumably Oxy) to help with his knee pain.

As for his second job, other than working at the bar, have we even heard anything about it? I admit to not paying attention when watching, so maybe I missed it.