Love and Guns

[krossero]

Here's my episode notes from this week's discussion episode, Love and Guns. (season 1, episode 8).

 

(nothing is in any coherent order, just the order it pops into my mind)

Okay, first of all-- yes, Blair loves Maya. (ick, right?) It is undeniable, and many slash goggles can’t get around it. Most people don’t even bother to try. Me? I’m not most people.

Why I can still believe in slash after this ep:

Blair runs off when Maya tells him that he’d be her first. He realizes how serious this is for her, and can’t go through with it. He is a Good Guy. We’re supposed to believe that he’s distancing himself from her because he feels bad about lying to her, but *I* say that it’s because he knows he’s *really* in love with someone else….guess who?

EVERY time it’s mentioned (or shown) in front of Jim that Blair is involved with Maya, you can tell he’s not a happy camper. Not a single smile for Maya, not from Jim. He *hates* that he hooked them up. When Blair tells Jim over the phone that he loves Maya, watch Jim FREEZE.

Little things: the usual gratuitous touching, of course; the cute little snippet in the beginning where they’re talking about where to eat (they’re *so* married, whether they know it or not); Jim trying to comfort Blair after the guns-hose-Blair-gets-the-bad-guys scene; cutie Jim trying to offer support in the form of noodles at the end of the ep.

 

Other things:

Does Jim *have* to drop his gun in every episode? Is it in RB’s contract or something?

Jim sniffing flowers is adorable.

Mix in gunpowder? With the soil? I think I’m missing something here…

The fed-- I call her “what’s-her-name” -- is made out to be ridiculously stupid. She can’t *really* be that dumb, can she?

Jim is *nice* in this episode. He doesn’t make me scream at him once. He’s great when he helps out what’s-her-name with her issues over her partner being shot.

*sigh* I looove Blair… but why does he have to change that wonderful story about the tree people into wooing stupid Maya??

Maya is stupid. She hates/loves Blair, and leaves him to ‘figure out who she is’ or something. Dumb girl.

 

Hmmm, no actual plot discussion this time…oh well.

As always, don’t take me too seriously, ‘cause I don’t. *g*

Comments

[cross-stitchery.livejournal.com]

Does Jim *have* to drop his gun in every episode? Is it in RB’s contract or something?

yeah, pretty much. it was (over)used mainly because with sentinel senses, Jim pretty much couldn't miss, and they wanted/needed to have fight scenes.

[krossero.livejournal.com]

I figured they wanted the fight scenes, but I didn't think of the Jim-never-missing thing.

I understand that they don't realize that their real fanbase(NOT 19-25 yr old guys) would rather see different kinds of action, really I do, but still- couldn't they think of something else? LOL