H50 Ep: Ho'oma'ike

[the_other_sandy]

This is the cold that never ends
It just goes on and on, my friend...

By the way, I finally made a post about last week's episode here if anybody is still interested.

Grover amused me mightily by passing up wearing a coat to go into the freezer while the Hawaiians all bundled up, especially since Hawaii looked to be having lovely trick-or-treating weather while we got snow today. Because this is Greater Chicagoland and that's how we roll.

I loved the scene with Steve and Danny at the beginning. Steve must've been really worried to go so far as to physically track down Danny when he couldn't reach Danny by phone. Danny is clearly not okay no matter what he says, but he's putting on a brave face for everybody, much like someone else we know.

It's in Danny's nature to feel responsible for what happened to Matt because he's the big brother and he's a caretaker personality, but ultimately Matt is responsible for his own poor life choices. The way he was going, it was just a matter of time before he got stuffed in a 50 gallon drum of consequences.

It pleases me that Ellie got her first dose of Steve/Danny banter. She might as well get used to it now if she wants to hang around with Steve.

Comments

[superbadgirl]

The coats cracked me up - that he got them. I mean, do the people who regularly use the freezer have to put on a jacket to spend a few minutes in there? Haha, no.

I'm not sure I get some of the choices made with this episode. Plenty of pretty to look at, interesting-ish plot (not the Jerry one), though honestly? "They made me poor because they bullied my dad" as motivation for murder is ... eh. But why on Earth were Danny and Steve going to gung-ho on the Jerry one, going so far as to bend the rules for this guy who's more often a wingnut than not? Also, barrels full of money (even counterfeit)... well, if I'd just lost my brother and had him delivered to me stuffed in a barrel in which there were copious amounts of cash, that would have been a likely trigger. And also fishing at the end felt ... eh, it's really okay if Steve doesn't have a lady friend he can use blatantly for favors.

[mangacat201.livejournal.com]

I really like how they've been framing the episodes in different case arcs to actually give all of the extended team something worthwhile to do (also, Icechamber!Grover was awesome) and even if they still engage in too much on screen 'hole-poking with subsequent marginally satisfying explanations for actions' for my tastes, it still shows again a very telling commitment to fixing some things that have been griped on by fans time and again.

And I really want to like Elly with her competent badassery and taking no flack from McGarrett, instead giving him some, but I still wish that last scene would have made time for Danny (though that little private heart-to-heart at the beginning was splendid). I feel like they're setting her up half as a buddy and half as sneak-peek love interest (so they can actually safely drop it if there's backlash?) and that hasn't ever worked with any other female character they introduced that way, so...
Ah well, we'll see... I think the actress has really got something of a cool spark, so I'd definitely like to see more of her.