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A few quick (spoilery!) thoughts on End of the Tunnel, which is a funny name for an ep that falls right in the middle of your season, no?
-- ENSIGN RO! I heart Michelle Forbes. Lynne totally got screwed over on 24 a few years back. I'm still sore about that shit.
-- IfNot!Kellerman (what the fuck is this guy's name? Kellerman said it tonight and I forgot it already) Danny wasn't wearing a bulletproof vest under that bulky ass jacket, then he deserved to die.
-- I love thatNot!Kellerman Danny tried to appeal to his partner's sense of fidelity and friendship...when Kellerman's holding a statement in his hand that implicates him in the murders of like a dozen people. That's fucking hilarious. I would have shot Danny just for trying to pull that card on me AFTER RATTING MY ASS OUT.
-- I also love that the writers/director tried to draw the moment out like we were supposed to believe there was any chance in hell Kellerman wasn't gonna pull the trigger. A big Whatever to the idea that Kellerman even has the capacity for remorse. The man has been killing innocent people from day one; I'm supposed to believe he has any compunction about killing a man who tried to screw him over? When Danny shot Lisa, Kellerman told him, "She made the choice, not you." Picking up the phone and trying to get help when a man put a gun to her son's head was enough in his mind to mark a woman for death, so again, whatever to the idea that he would get all emotional about having to kill Danny once Danny turned. I don't care how long they've known each other.
-- That being said, I can't decide if he was lying about Allison or not. The murder of a Secret Service agent's entire family would have to send up some red flags he and the VP couldn't quash on their own.
-- And Steadman's not dead? They've killed all these people...to help a guy shake an indictment? There aren't easier buttons to push to make an indictment not happen? There aren't easier ways to disappear a guy than to fake his murder and kill a dozen people trying to cover it up? 'The World's Most Baffling Conspiracy' indeed.
-- C-Note has a name! I can't remember what the fuck it is, but he has a name! Awesome. And his wife thinks he's in the military. How in the hell did he manage to swing that? Doesn't she wonder about his pay? Hmmm.
-- Upon reflection, I really like the scene between Fernando and Michael at the beginning of the ep, after the others have said they want to make a run for it without Lincoln. It was a first time in a long while where I felt that they were on equal footing, and they're just talking, man to man. I'm not one of those people who thinks those two are BFF or anything, they're definitely using each other, but for a moment I kind of forgot all that.
-- A big, big WHAT-THE-FUCK-EVER to that maintenance worker noticing the problem with the pipe in the medical wing and fixing it within a matter of a few hours. I have a hard time believing a guy that industrious is working in the state penal system as a handyman. Wouldn't he have to inform someone of the problem, and then get the okay to fix it, and then put in a requisition order for the part, and you know, other things that would have taken him more than a couple hours?
-- So there are what? 11 eps left? And 12 hours to go until Lincoln's execution? What are the chances we get the remaining eps set in something approximating real time? ^_~
-- Veronica used a baseball metaphor. I knew there was a reason I could stand her.
-- Is it wrong of me to like it when Michael gets all flustered and emotional? Because I totally do. The argument in the courtyard with C-Note and T-Bag, for a moment he was human! Don't get me wrong, I like cool, calculating Michael. But I also like seeing what's under that facade. One of my favorite moments in the series to date is in the Doc's office after he lost his toes and in the midst of trying to keep it together while quietly freaking the fuck out, he brings his balled fists to his eyes. Or similarly, after MayTag is killed and Michael, covered in his blood, stumbles back to his cell and just sits, trying to compartmentalize it and move on.
-- Hmm. As far as cliff-hangers go...I must admit, I'm not really feeling all on the edge of my seat about what's gonna happen next. Except that I can't fucking believe they didn't let us know if John was gonna make it or not. That's the only thing I wanted to know, damn it! (Or did they tell us he'd died and I missed it? I just remember Fernando calling and not getting any information.)
March sounds a mite bit better than May...but both of them are FAR OFF AS FUCK.
So Prison Break will run into baseball season, but how fortuitous that it falls on a Monday when my boys are usually off or traveling ^_~
-- ENSIGN RO! I heart Michelle Forbes. Lynne totally got screwed over on 24 a few years back. I'm still sore about that shit.
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-- I love that
-- I also love that the writers/director tried to draw the moment out like we were supposed to believe there was any chance in hell Kellerman wasn't gonna pull the trigger. A big Whatever to the idea that Kellerman even has the capacity for remorse. The man has been killing innocent people from day one; I'm supposed to believe he has any compunction about killing a man who tried to screw him over? When Danny shot Lisa, Kellerman told him, "She made the choice, not you." Picking up the phone and trying to get help when a man put a gun to her son's head was enough in his mind to mark a woman for death, so again, whatever to the idea that he would get all emotional about having to kill Danny once Danny turned. I don't care how long they've known each other.
-- That being said, I can't decide if he was lying about Allison or not. The murder of a Secret Service agent's entire family would have to send up some red flags he and the VP couldn't quash on their own.
-- And Steadman's not dead? They've killed all these people...to help a guy shake an indictment? There aren't easier buttons to push to make an indictment not happen? There aren't easier ways to disappear a guy than to fake his murder and kill a dozen people trying to cover it up? 'The World's Most Baffling Conspiracy' indeed.
-- C-Note has a name! I can't remember what the fuck it is, but he has a name! Awesome. And his wife thinks he's in the military. How in the hell did he manage to swing that? Doesn't she wonder about his pay? Hmmm.
-- Upon reflection, I really like the scene between Fernando and Michael at the beginning of the ep, after the others have said they want to make a run for it without Lincoln. It was a first time in a long while where I felt that they were on equal footing, and they're just talking, man to man. I'm not one of those people who thinks those two are BFF or anything, they're definitely using each other, but for a moment I kind of forgot all that.
-- A big, big WHAT-THE-FUCK-EVER to that maintenance worker noticing the problem with the pipe in the medical wing and fixing it within a matter of a few hours. I have a hard time believing a guy that industrious is working in the state penal system as a handyman. Wouldn't he have to inform someone of the problem, and then get the okay to fix it, and then put in a requisition order for the part, and you know, other things that would have taken him more than a couple hours?
-- So there are what? 11 eps left? And 12 hours to go until Lincoln's execution? What are the chances we get the remaining eps set in something approximating real time? ^_~
-- Veronica used a baseball metaphor. I knew there was a reason I could stand her.
-- Is it wrong of me to like it when Michael gets all flustered and emotional? Because I totally do. The argument in the courtyard with C-Note and T-Bag, for a moment he was human! Don't get me wrong, I like cool, calculating Michael. But I also like seeing what's under that facade. One of my favorite moments in the series to date is in the Doc's office after he lost his toes and in the midst of trying to keep it together while quietly freaking the fuck out, he brings his balled fists to his eyes. Or similarly, after MayTag is killed and Michael, covered in his blood, stumbles back to his cell and just sits, trying to compartmentalize it and move on.
-- Hmm. As far as cliff-hangers go...I must admit, I'm not really feeling all on the edge of my seat about what's gonna happen next. Except that I can't fucking believe they didn't let us know if John was gonna make it or not. That's the only thing I wanted to know, damn it! (Or did they tell us he'd died and I missed it? I just remember Fernando calling and not getting any information.)
March sounds a mite bit better than May...but both of them are FAR OFF AS FUCK.
So Prison Break will run into baseball season, but how fortuitous that it falls on a Monday when my boys are usually off or traveling ^_~
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