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Annoyed Sandy (no, the other one) is annoyed.
You know, sometimes I'd really like to be able to sit down with the writers and ask them what the hell they're thinking, besides OMG THERE'S ONLY TWO EPISODES LEFT AND WE HAVE A MILLION DROPPED PLOTLINES TO RESOLVE OMG, which seems to be what they were mostly thinking tonight.
Let's start with Gabby. So they write Danny into a relationship with Gabby, but then Autumn Reeser gets cast in a series of her own and becomes unavailable. Bummer. But instead of writing her out of Danny's life, they decide to give Danny and Gabby a long-distance relationship by way of Morocco (Morocco!) for nine months (nine!), theoretically while waiting until Autumn Reeser becomes available again. And then Autumn's series gets canceled and she does become available again, so the writers can finally give Gabby and Danny some scenes, right? Yay! Except for how they suddenly decide to end the barely-mentioned relationship instead, without Gabby ever reappearing even though she is now available to reappear. How did that make sense in their heads?
Moving on to the giant clusterfuck that was Doris' storyline, really Steve? Your biggest objection to Doris' "covert op" is that she's too old? Way to be an ageist dick. How about this for an alternative objection: you have to belong to an organization that can authorize a covert op before you can run a covert op. Otherwise it's just called breaking and entering (and criminal trespass and burglary). And since Doris is doing this on her own, you can indeed arrest her (and Wade and Mick) for planning the crimes they are about to commit. And as a complete aside, planning all this, which did not take an afternoon, means that Doris trusted Wade and Mick enough to confide in them about what she was doing, but not Steve. And Doris? Deciding to suddenly do a magic trick for your son in the middle of committing a crime and while braced on the ledge of an elevator shaft is, sadly, not the most ridiculous thing you've ever done, but did you have to act like he was still in elementary school when you did it?
And finally, there was the clusterfuck that was Kono's storyline. Yay, the writers finally remembered Kono had a clone of Adam's phone, but are we really supposed to believe that's the first suspicious call made or received on that phone since January? And even after hearing the call herself, Kono still believed everything Adam said and was ready to tell him all about how mean and untrustworthy she was by cloning his phone. I'd say she was saved by the CT scan, but Adam found out anyway. And what do you know? Two calls in one afternoon on a phone that apparently hasn't had a single call in five months. Oh, and we finally found out who Michael killed with Kono's gun. I guess we'll have to wait until next season for Five-0 to figure it out.
And we didn't even get an episode 23 hug to help make everything better. Really, the only thing I liked about this ep was Steve trying to take off and do things by himself again, only to have Danny chase him down and force him to talk about it. Remember, Steve, there is no "my own" in a friendship.
You know, sometimes I'd really like to be able to sit down with the writers and ask them what the hell they're thinking, besides OMG THERE'S ONLY TWO EPISODES LEFT AND WE HAVE A MILLION DROPPED PLOTLINES TO RESOLVE OMG, which seems to be what they were mostly thinking tonight.
Let's start with Gabby. So they write Danny into a relationship with Gabby, but then Autumn Reeser gets cast in a series of her own and becomes unavailable. Bummer. But instead of writing her out of Danny's life, they decide to give Danny and Gabby a long-distance relationship by way of Morocco (Morocco!) for nine months (nine!), theoretically while waiting until Autumn Reeser becomes available again. And then Autumn's series gets canceled and she does become available again, so the writers can finally give Gabby and Danny some scenes, right? Yay! Except for how they suddenly decide to end the barely-mentioned relationship instead, without Gabby ever reappearing even though she is now available to reappear. How did that make sense in their heads?
Moving on to the giant clusterfuck that was Doris' storyline, really Steve? Your biggest objection to Doris' "covert op" is that she's too old? Way to be an ageist dick. How about this for an alternative objection: you have to belong to an organization that can authorize a covert op before you can run a covert op. Otherwise it's just called breaking and entering (and criminal trespass and burglary). And since Doris is doing this on her own, you can indeed arrest her (and Wade and Mick) for planning the crimes they are about to commit. And as a complete aside, planning all this, which did not take an afternoon, means that Doris trusted Wade and Mick enough to confide in them about what she was doing, but not Steve. And Doris? Deciding to suddenly do a magic trick for your son in the middle of committing a crime and while braced on the ledge of an elevator shaft is, sadly, not the most ridiculous thing you've ever done, but did you have to act like he was still in elementary school when you did it?
And finally, there was the clusterfuck that was Kono's storyline. Yay, the writers finally remembered Kono had a clone of Adam's phone, but are we really supposed to believe that's the first suspicious call made or received on that phone since January? And even after hearing the call herself, Kono still believed everything Adam said and was ready to tell him all about how mean and untrustworthy she was by cloning his phone. I'd say she was saved by the CT scan, but Adam found out anyway. And what do you know? Two calls in one afternoon on a phone that apparently hasn't had a single call in five months. Oh, and we finally found out who Michael killed with Kono's gun. I guess we'll have to wait until next season for Five-0 to figure it out.
And we didn't even get an episode 23 hug to help make everything better. Really, the only thing I liked about this ep was Steve trying to take off and do things by himself again, only to have Danny chase him down and force him to talk about it. Remember, Steve, there is no "my own" in a friendship.
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Date: 2013-05-14 04:16 am (UTC)From:Please Mrs. McG, just go away.
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Date: 2013-05-14 04:49 am (UTC)From:and this is why I don't understand why people are getting all freaking out happy that she's back. no telling if she's going to come back next year for them to make a proper go at a relationship
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Date: 2013-05-14 05:03 am (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2013-05-14 06:24 am (UTC)From:That said, I enjoyed it more than you. I found enough good stuff to overlook the admittedly semi-truck sized plot holes. Oh, and thanks for that little bit of info about Autumn - I didn't know she was in a series this year. I have to agree its a tad mindboggling what they've done with her character just in this episode.
I would have liked this ep much better with a hug - hell, every ep is better with a hug! But I loved that Steve/Danny part that you did. And I love that you closed with... Remember, Steve, there is no "my own" in a friendship. =)
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Date: 2013-05-14 03:42 pm (UTC)From:no subject
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Date: 2013-05-20 12:29 am (UTC)From:Sadly, Kono seems to have decided that that was her cue to go off without telling anyone when she was going to do some breaking and entering. I guess Danny and Chin have to wait until the next episode to do something stupid and illegal, although if they're lucky, that will include pounding Micheal Noshimuri's head into the pavement.
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Date: 2013-05-20 05:39 am (UTC)From: