H50 Ep: Ho'i Hou

[the_other_sandy]

I took the day off from work today to go see Captain America: The Winter Soldier. Holy shitballs, that was amazing. I'm trying not to spew spoilers all over the Internet, but none of my friends have seen it yet, so if anybody wants to squee with me, message me here on LJ.

Oh, and I also watched Hawaii Five-0.

So this was the fan-created episode? The poll was so long ago I don't even remember what I voted for. Heck, I forgot there was supposed to be a fan-created episode. Given how ridiculous the choices for suspect, setting, and murder weapon were, I was really expecting the episode to be more fun. Instead, we got the most incompetent murder ever. Who kills someone just after she's been calling for help on the school intercom? Every school I've ever attended only had one microphone connected to the intercom, so it's not like a building full of people who actually went to school there wouldn't know exactly where she was. And Max said she would've survived the fall if she hadn't landed on the stiletto she left there herself, and there's no way the killer could've predicted she'd do that, or that the heel would be face up, or that she'd land on it in just the right way to be fatal. What if it had punctured her in the arm or the butt or something? I would be willing to forgive the writers if they'd been doing it on the fly and only had a week to come up with a case with the plot elements we gave them, but they had all freaking season to work this one out.

You know, I only went to one of my high school reunions (the 10 year), but I don't remember any red carpets or limos. I didn't go because I was filled with school spirit or nostalgia, I went because I knew it was going to suck but I couldn't rest until I knew to what degree and in what specific ways it would suck. It was attended mostly by people I didn't remember talking about events I didn't attend, and I got to be seated at a table with my ex-boyfriend and his wife. Yay. Curiosity satisfied, I haven't been to any of the other reunions. Instead, my best friend (who was also in my graduating class) and I break out the junk food and watch Grosse Pointe Blank on reunion nights. Martin Blank's reunion was so much cooler than ours.

On the other hand, color me stunned that Steve took Danny to Cambodia with him rather than Catherine, or Joe White, or Jerry, or some guy he met in line at the post office. Danny was remarkably patient to travel all that way when Steve wasn't even really talking to him. But I guess the writers needed this episode and the last one to remind us that Steve and Danny are supposed to be close friends before next week's episode, because the rest of the season that came before was more likely to make us forget that.

It must say something about the other TV shows I watch that when Steve was on the phone with the mysterious caller at the end saying "You think making an agent disappear and cleaning up that body in Cambodia is going to stop me?," I honestly expected the caller to say "No" and then take Steve out with a sniper shot through the window.

But that would have been awesome (you know Steve would've survived), and the world's supply of awesome is currently concentrated in Captain America: The Winter Soldier, so there's no awesome to spare until somebody makes more. Seriously, somebody come squee with me about this movie before I pop.

Comments

[bookwurm.livejournal.com]

It was nice to actually see the group working as a team again, and I was as stunned as you were that Steve actually took Danny to Cambodia. I was significantly less stunned to discover that the grave had been emptied, despite the remarkably haphazard way it was done. Mostly, though, the whole episode just seemed sortof "meh."

I've never been to any of my high school reunions, and this didn't exactly encourage me to go. They may have started with limos and red carpets, but once Chin and Jerry got inside, it was all plastic cups of who-knows-what, obnoxious people asking painful questions or flirting inappropriately, and overly cheery people trying to infect everyone with Spirit! [shudder] I'll pass.

Also, could someone please, please talk with the writers. I know we don't watch the show for its stunning realism. However, a Navy SEAL who was in Intelligence expecting that the CIA will spill their secrets because he won't give up until he learns the truth, darn it, is really stretching things. There is only so far I can suspend my disbelief.

[the-other-sandy.livejournal.com]

And while they're at it, they can explain to the writers that the CIA works with classified information, so they tend to lock the doors so random Navy SEALs off the street can't just wander in, appointment or no.