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The Pretender 212: Toy Surprise
I didn't much like the last ep, but this one was awesome, which more than made up for it.
I'll leave the A story aside except to say that I knew Jarod hadn't broken his leg--look, he's a pretender!--and that it's a change on the usual avenger plot because he's helping someone rather than trapping them into an admission of guilt.
I also knew that there'd be an attempt on that helicopter Mr Parker was in as soon as they showed it, but from then on, it was all, well, toy surprises. :-) Like Daddy not being the evil bastard who killed his wife / let her be killed that I'd thought, and Raines not being involved in the assassination attempt. I wonder if he told Parker later who it was, and who killed her mother; it looked as if he knew, but on the other hand he could just be assuming the two killers are the same and not know their identity. And I almost feel sorry for the guy for having to live in the Centre.
This was a great Parker and Broots ep. And Angelo, who knows as much as Jarod about the Centre in his own way. I'm getting fonder of poor Angelo. And it was little Parker who gave Angelo his first cracker jacks! He more than repays her with a box with a recording of her father showing his grief at her mother's death. Poor tragic broken people, you need each other and you're starting to realise it.
Awwww, poor Hayes with his crooked Parker-offending necktie and sweet tooth! I love this show for giving him enough character to make me think he'd be around for a while, then killing him off. He didn't look like a redshirt.
So Brigitte has dropped her British accent. I wonder why she assumed it. I'm pretty sure Parker got her with the screwdriver, so if she survives for more eps, I can't imagine those two being in the same Centre without trying to kill each other. Hmmm. She probably knows who's behind it all, so I suppose she's dead.
I am strangely relieved to find that Daddy isn't quite the cold unfeeling bastard I'd thought.
Best lines:
Wake up and smell the oxygen." (Not that you can.)
"I want to kill her, not screw her." (Actually, a well placed screwdriver will do that.)
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As for the rest, oh man, I'm sitting on my fingers to avoiding saying anything with spoilers. :) Except that it was Brigitte behind the assassination attempt, she was playing her own game. She's pretty high up and well-connected in the Centre, remember.
It was an awesome Parker and Broots ep, for sure.
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Heh. Yeah. I do know what you mean. :)
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Huh! I always thought of Brigitte as Raines's lackey. Ah well, on to the next ep. Maybe even this evening.
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I must say, I quite enjoyed "Gigolo Jarod," even if there were a couple of aspects to it that had me rolling my eyes a bit, but, yes, this one is unquestionably awesome. :)
And I almost feel sorry for the guy for having to live in the Centre.
I don't. I bet he does it by choice. :)
And Angelo, who knows as much as Jarod about the Centre in his own way.
More than Jarod, in some ways. :) I adore poor, dear Angelo, I really do.
Poor tragic broken people, you need each other and you're starting to realise it.
This is so very, very true, and I think it's a major emergent theme of the show.
I am strangely relieved to find that Daddy isn't quite the cold unfeeling bastard I'd thought.
I would be, maybe, but damn it, every time I find a shred of sympathy for the man, he always seems to go and do something to remind me why I hate him. As a character, though, he's grown on me a lot as I've watched the show. He is more complicated than he might at first appear, which is great.
[ETA: Sorry for the multiple edits. I haven't finished my coffee yet this morning.]
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I bet he does it by choice.
Probably. I was sort of thinking, the guy has nothing but his work so that's why he lives there. I bet he has no friends or hobbies. And I did say "almost". :-)
The more I know Angelo, the more I like him. He's taken longer to grow on me than Jarod (that was about three eps), but he has. I'm not sure that Kyle ever will though.
Well, I like Daddy more for caring about his wife after all (I'd felt so sorry for her for marrying him) and for loving Parker. I'd thought he didn't give a damn about either. It at least gives him some grey.
Yeah, I should catch up. I've been so slack lately. I haven't watched any more Farscape either.
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See, I thought that was both very amusing and very him. I mean, she wants to get down to business, and he wants to look at pictures of her family, and then makes it a personal project to save her marriage? That's our Jarod. :) Besides, it makes sense to me that the thought of going too far with that particular Pretend might make him uncomfortable, even apart from his complete psychological inability to participate in adultery. Sex is pretty intimate, after all, and intimacy is one thing he really doesn't have a lot of experience with.
I dunno, somehow the whole story just didn't hang together well for me.
The actual plot of the week is extremely boring, as I recall. I'll definitely give ya that much. :)
Probably. I was sort of thinking, the guy has nothing but his work so that's why he lives there. I bet he has no friends or hobbies.
Yeah, that's probably very true. Although I kind of think playing mad scientist is his hobby. :P
It at least gives him some grey.
Yes, the touch of gray really is excellent. That's one of the things I really like about the show. There's a lot of gray, and even the most reprehensible characters are also, in some sense, victims.
I do still feel sorry for Catherine Parker, though. Even if he did have some degree of caring for her, she was clearly unhappy, and he was clearly neglectful, at the very least.