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Sep. 14th, 2012 07:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cblj_backupIt's Friday night and I watched White Collar!
Oh show. Sometimes you make me sad.
Spoilers for 4.09, Should Have Been Called STOCKS AND BONDS amirite
1. Jeff Eastin does love his MacGuffins. THE LOCKET. THE BOTTLE. THE MUSIC BOX. THE MALTESE FALC -- wait...
2. Here's the thing though, and I think this is why fandom as a whole has been rather uninspired by this season: there are no real stakes. Yeah, yeah, whatever, Neal's dad, but Neal's dad at this point is just a desire. There's no hard threat. In the first season none of us may have liked Kate, but she was a concrete, visible representation of the threat, and it was easy to understand that Neal had to do everything he could to rescue her. Neal's already lost his dad twice -- there's not a very heavy emotional penalty if he "loses" him a third time. Avenging Ellen's murder is parallel to avenging Kate's in S2, but we also knew there was a race on for the treasure, which heightened the intensity of it. It was Kate Plus Something. The stakes just plain aren't high enough to give as much of a damn as I used to.
I could do a whole post about this but I've sort of sworn off depth in media commentary because I get weary of fighting with everyone about it.
3. That said, it's not like this episode wasn't fun, and full of fun fanservice. The boxing scene was reminiscent of the skeet-shooting scene from S1, and Elizabeth's RANDOM GELATO made me LOL.
3a. Jones unmistakably won this episode. JONES. :D
Oh show. Sometimes you make me sad.
Spoilers for 4.09, Should Have Been Called STOCKS AND BONDS amirite
1. Jeff Eastin does love his MacGuffins. THE LOCKET. THE BOTTLE. THE MUSIC BOX. THE MALTESE FALC -- wait...
2. Here's the thing though, and I think this is why fandom as a whole has been rather uninspired by this season: there are no real stakes. Yeah, yeah, whatever, Neal's dad, but Neal's dad at this point is just a desire. There's no hard threat. In the first season none of us may have liked Kate, but she was a concrete, visible representation of the threat, and it was easy to understand that Neal had to do everything he could to rescue her. Neal's already lost his dad twice -- there's not a very heavy emotional penalty if he "loses" him a third time. Avenging Ellen's murder is parallel to avenging Kate's in S2, but we also knew there was a race on for the treasure, which heightened the intensity of it. It was Kate Plus Something. The stakes just plain aren't high enough to give as much of a damn as I used to.
I could do a whole post about this but I've sort of sworn off depth in media commentary because I get weary of fighting with everyone about it.
3. That said, it's not like this episode wasn't fun, and full of fun fanservice. The boxing scene was reminiscent of the skeet-shooting scene from S1, and Elizabeth's RANDOM GELATO made me LOL.
3a. Jones unmistakably won this episode. JONES. :D
