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I have seen this week's White Collar! It felt like White Collar again!

I'm fickle, I know.

Anyway, it's time for Sam's Three Things Pieces About White Collar. Spoilers for Episode 3.12, Thank You, Costume Designer

1. OH LOOK MY SHOW IS BACK. With Peter making aggrivated faces and Neal getting into hilarious trouble and being kind of a weasel but only in the most adorable way. It's like Jeff Eastin is sorry too, and trying to make it up to us with Yankees-Red Sox tickets in the form of

2. JESUS H CHRIST PETER BURKE IN A THREE PIECE SUIT. Be still my heart. I'm 90% sure this sounds much, much gayer than I intend it to, because really it's about how PETER BURKE doesn't wear three piece suits and now he is, and character stuff that is delicious. But my passion for a nice waistcoat supercedes any concerns I have about misinterpreted sexual orientation. I think what I'm saying is that I'm not actually gay for Tim DeKay in a waistcoat, but I'm okay if people think I am.

3. It's not just me, right? The guy they were investigating totally thought the dinner that he brought Peter and Diana to was going to end in a foursome. I didn't misread that, did I? Because he was all...ugh I don't even know, but he was sleazing all over Peter in a professional way and then he heard "girlfriend" and started sleazing all over him in a "let's have a key party!" way.

PS: Peter, Elizabeth is the best thing you have ever been near, and I think you know that, I just want you to remember it, and I want you to call her before you take off for the MOST AWESOME BASEBALL GAME EVER WITH JONES.

3a. "Well, Neal is more of a romantic, and I'm a machiavellian puppetmaster, so what we're going to be giving you is...game." I JUST ABOUT DIED. Especially since that ended up being the worst game-giving ever.

Comments

[darthrami.livejournal.com]

Uh, no. You didn't misread that. Or I did, too.

I hearted last night's episode so much (and told one of the writers so on twitter. technology, you so weird). There were several lines that really, truly, had me laughing out loud.


I'd been rewatching episodes leading up to the new season, and I got to the first half of this season the other day, and just... stopped. I don't know if I can do it. I'm so glad it seems to be back.

[kallaneboi.livejournal.com]

I read it that way as well. That man was the sleaziest sleaze ball to ever sleaze.

[phantmchic.livejournal.com]

And with his teenaged daughter in the apartment. That a whole extra side of sleaze.

[in-a-tizzy.livejournal.com]

Psst, there is no I in aggravated.

[kallaneboi.livejournal.com]

Peter's line about "smart, leggy brunettes" made me LOL because that Neal! And El!

I'm glad Neal is realizing that what he does has consequences. Last week he got it full in the face with El being kidnapped and this week Peter came right out and said it, which I was absolutely thrilled about. So yes, your number one was exactly my reaction to this weeks show. This is the White Collar I fell in love with, and I'm glad I stuck it out because it's back.

(Also, my inner English major was having paroxysms of joy at all of the literature references in this episode. I quite literally laughed out loud several times.)

[aelfgyfu_mead]

PS: Peter, Elizabeth is the best thing you have ever been near, and I think you know that, I just want you to remember it, and I want you to call her before you take off for the MOST AWESOME BASEBALL GAME EVER WITH JONES.
Oh, I know he called her! I bet he even asked her if she'd be okay without him for the evening, and she laughed at him and told him to go.

Totally happened that way.

[madripoor-rose.livejournal.com]

I....really didn't like the whole matchmaking subplot, in a mildly skeeved out way. But loved Mozzie's hairgel line.

[fiveforsilver]

I didn't like it either, but I found it too stupid to be skeeved out. White Collar: Teenage Drama Version. Ick.

[madripoor-rose.livejournal.com]

The kid was skating on the edge of Nice Guyism, we had two adult men manipulating a teenage girl into liking someone...the poem that Mozzie wrote that they lied and said was from the boy, the fact that the boy was the one who set the feds on her father and she was never told that...I don't mind teenage drama, if it's well written, this was just a giant stack of fail.

[fiveforsilver]

I admit there's a lot of that plot that I missed. I deliberately skipped the "we're going to give you...game" scene because, wow, no. So yeah, I'm really not disputing that the skeeve is there.

[nezumiko.livejournal.com]

Completely agree. My housemate and I were both shouting at the TV last night, and still talking about how skeevy it was when I gave him a ride to work this morning.

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

I found it a bit weird, but I also recognised it for the homage to Shakespeare, who had a lot of that going on. Not that it justifies it, in terms of "transplanting a 400 year old system into the modern day", but I think that's why I didn't find it as creepy as I might have otherwise.

[scarletscarlet.livejournal.com]

Yes, *precisely* this! I found it creepy as hell.

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

It was a sendup of Shakespearean romances, because Neal's teaching English. I'm not sure it was 100% supposed to make sense, or possibly they were going to go full-on romantic farce and just never got there. You're not alone in finding it skeevy, though.

[51stcenturyfox.livejournal.com]

I was JUST in the mood to talk about this ep!

It was very much GOOD White Collar. Peter and Neal were fantastic. The thing I didn't buy was the plot with the skimming school trustee guy and his bodyguard (LOL seriously, he brings his muscle to a prep school! And he stands in the room while the guy eats dinner with his gf and another couple! When they have tight security at that house. You'd think he could be excused to read the paper or guard the study or something.)

I totally didn't get the foursome thing, but I was super tired when I watched it.

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

The bodyguard was weirdsville, but IDK, I've never been at a prep school, maybe they are that way!

[51stcenturyfox.livejournal.com]

It was his personal bodyguard, though? A finance guy at a school isn't really an assassination target.

I mean, the reason he was there was "for the plot" but... it was odd. It was only set at a school so Neal could be all teacherly and spout Byron. :D

[metallumai.livejournal.com]

Best line was when they busted him and Diana says "Your girlfriend's a lousy cook."

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

LOL yes. Diana, how so awesome.

[wanderingwidget.livejournal.com]

It was not just you, I too thought that mr. embezzler wanted some hawt foursome action, but I just assumed it was because all of the slash reading has skewed my ability to watch these things objectively ^^;

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty sure there was intent there. He probably made Peter bring his girlfriend because his own girlfriend was going to get mad if he suggested a threesome again with no hot girl action for her.

[arsenicjade.livejournal.com]

But he got the girl...

Yeah, I just about had a spontaneous orgasm at the 3-piece thing.

Also, Diana and Peter's faces when Woods' gf was all, "except the snow." LMAO.

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

I noticed in the middle of a scene and almost died of "OH YES." :D

[arsenicjade.livejournal.com]

No, I saw it the second it happened and had to pause and pant for a little bit before I could PAY ATTENTION TO WORDS.

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

I did totally miss two whole scenes, one because I was Noticing the waistcoat and the other because I was Noticing that he didn't take it off when they got back to the FBI.

[queenofspades89.livejournal.com]

Apparently all Mozzie needs to do to earn my forgiveness is make Dickens references because MAGWITCH, OH LOL, MOZZIE, WHY WAS I EVER UPSET WITH YOU?

But it also helps that he's stopped being such a dick.

[moralimperative.livejournal.com]

Smaaaart leggy brunet(te)s! Was that not a line from Exquisite?

Is it safe to hope that you are OK with the show again and will eventually continue the story? Because out here in Scotland.... lets just say, TV is limited now that Sherlock is done for the year.

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

I'm sure it's a line from one of my fics somewhere :D I'll have to look it up.

I will probably do Exquisite, I just have to figure out what angle to hit it from....

[moralimperative.livejournal.com]

I'm almost positive - if it's not in Exquisite, it's in something you've written. I heard it and thought of you immediately!

Understandable, considering how unlike itself White Collar was for a while.. "the MOST AWESOME BASEBALL GAME EVER WITH JONES" sounds like a wonderful substitute! :D Just saying.............

[mythologian.livejournal.com]

This episode just killed me, it's like the writers aren't even trying to tread the line of subtley when it comes to Neal/Peter/Elizabeth, and have decided to just make it off screen canon. Between Peter and El's heart to heart over lying by omission about Neal, and Peter's line about leggy brunettes I just about died.

[kannnichtfranz.livejournal.com]

Is it bad that I did not even notice the three piece suit? At that time I was thinking, dude, how is Peter going to talk about kids when he has no experience with -- well, I guess he could use his parental feelings towards Neal. ZOMG, he really IS talking about Neal, LOLOL.

PS. So, comment preview in LJ is really gone and not coming back? I'm behind the times. I liked comment preview! It gave me one last opportunity to ask myself, do I really want to say this thing? Oh well.

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

I don't know if preview is gone...I can still preview stuff, but I don't post much outside of responding to stuff through gmail.

I didn't even catch on that Peter was talking about Neal for a while *facepalm*