White Collar 2.2 & Covert Affairs 1.2
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rmWell, those were both a lot better.
White Collar
!. Diana is AWESOME and does not need rescuing.
2. Peter is a heavy-handed dumbass when playing bad cop.
3. I liked the idea of a politically-related plot, but I felt it was both oddly complex and oddly simple in a way that didn't quite work.
4. 10K sex-work exchanges, aside from ludicrous, would usually be charge, not cash.
5. I still hate these central mystery things -- the music box, the jigsaw man, I don't care. We need it to raise the stakes and have the push-pull of Peter and Neal's relationship be interesting, but beyond its use, I still find it annoying as hell.
6. Deviled ham can now be added to the list of tragically cock-blocking foods. Along with beans.
Covert Affairs
1. Well, it's better.
2. Slightly less agressively heterosexual. But now instead of romance it's the KIDS AND FAMILY episode.
3. Hey, Anglicans celebrate Lent too.
4. I am so in this show just for Auggie, who I adore more with every millisecond. He is hot and funny and charming, and the fight-training stuff was not stupid and I feel like the camera really lingered on reaction shots from him a few times that are like a bottomless pit of fanfic character development potential. Maybe now I can figure out this story.
5. I almost care about the married couple of CIA execs this time. Almost. But why are they in this show? That's some other show.
6. I don't have a 6. I'll just say AUGGIE again. Guh.
White Collar
!. Diana is AWESOME and does not need rescuing.
2. Peter is a heavy-handed dumbass when playing bad cop.
3. I liked the idea of a politically-related plot, but I felt it was both oddly complex and oddly simple in a way that didn't quite work.
4. 10K sex-work exchanges, aside from ludicrous, would usually be charge, not cash.
5. I still hate these central mystery things -- the music box, the jigsaw man, I don't care. We need it to raise the stakes and have the push-pull of Peter and Neal's relationship be interesting, but beyond its use, I still find it annoying as hell.
6. Deviled ham can now be added to the list of tragically cock-blocking foods. Along with beans.
Covert Affairs
1. Well, it's better.
2. Slightly less agressively heterosexual. But now instead of romance it's the KIDS AND FAMILY episode.
3. Hey, Anglicans celebrate Lent too.
4. I am so in this show just for Auggie, who I adore more with every millisecond. He is hot and funny and charming, and the fight-training stuff was not stupid and I feel like the camera really lingered on reaction shots from him a few times that are like a bottomless pit of fanfic character development potential. Maybe now I can figure out this story.
5. I almost care about the married couple of CIA execs this time. Almost. But why are they in this show? That's some other show.
6. I don't have a 6. I'll just say AUGGIE again. Guh.
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Date: 2010-07-21 02:30 pm (UTC)Re: the A plot, I missed the first three or four minutes and wondered if I'd missed some key scene. Apparently not. (Though if the network allows, I may rewatch the ep online during lunch just to make sure.)
I was boggling at the $10K in cash thing, but it set up another installment of the Peter 'n' Mozz Show ("I need a shoelace, a magnet, and an issue of Sports Illustrated"), so I'm willing to handwave how ridiculous that was.
ETA: Also, Peter's tragic mustache. BRB, dying of laughter.