More Due South ramblings

[icepixie]

Here's another list. I enjoy lists.

• Who is this pod person, and where did she stash the real Inspector Thatcher? Ugh.
  
  
• ...I'm just going to erase the whole Fraser/Thatcher subplot of "Perfect Strangers" from my personal canon. Look in the dictionary under "contrived," and you will see a picture of this plot. Ow. Yes, the end scene was touching--and that lullaby at the end brought it dangerously close to tearjerker territory--and Fraser's offer was actually completely mindblowing (but in a good way) once you think about it, but UGH. The only way I can remotely rationalize the lengths the writer went to in order to get them in this predicament is factoring in Frannie's sudden interest in psychology; perhaps we were supposed to have psych on the mind, and were meant to take away that Meg subconsciously does in fact want what Fraser was offering, and her description of "the process" reflected this subconscious desire, and therefore it wasn't completely contrived for some not-all-that-funny humor.
  
  ...Yeah, right. Even I don't believe that, and it plays right into my ship preferences. Dumb plot, yo.
  
  
• Did enjoy Meg getting out of Cahill's headlock, or whatever it was, and disarming him in one smooth motion in "Asylum." Hey, look, she actually is a cop! So often I forget that...
  
  
• Loved "Asylum." Loved. It. So funny. I practically fell off the couch when Fraser and Turnbull were both yelling "Sweeeep!" at the television. Ditto Ray's "I just made a curling reference. I need to go lie down." Poor Ray, bombarded by Canada. I just...dude, the whole thing was hilarious. Turnbull, I heart you.
  
  
• Speaking of Ray and Canada, his trip to Toronto in PS...OMG. Hee. "The mothership." This show is at its best when it's making fun of either Canadian or US stereotypes.
  
  
• On the second watching of MOTB (which is still one of the most awesome and funny things I've ever seen), Fraser and Ray's antagonism still doesn't make much sense to me. It comes out of left field. In the previous episode, Fraser housed Ray at the consulate and kept him from being arrested. And now they suddenly hate each other and never want to see each other again? Eh? I can see them rubbing each other the wrong way¹, but it still strikes me as something that should have come up either way earlier in the season, or which needed an episode or two of build up.
  
  
• At least the real Thatcher seemed to come out to play in these episodes. Meg, I missed you in all your commanding, reserved-and-yet-not-made-of-stone glory!
  
  
• Finally: Dude, I love Mort. I think Mort needs his own spinoff.

¹ Interpret that however you wish. ;)

Comments

[ladysorka]

Asylum was the second episode filmed, and was aired out of order. The antagonism does make slightly more sense if you move the episodes around a bit. Sort of.

[starsburn.livejournal.com]

Gah! When they're watching the curling on TV, man that cracks me up too! They're such complete dorks - I love how defensive Turnbull is when Ray starts bad-mouthing it; he takes it so seriously :P

And yeah, I noticed that about MotB too - it kinda comes out of nowhere, this new frustration between them. I agree it might have been better to spend some time developing it, rather than throwing it in at the beginning of that episode. I know Ray complains about him every now and then in previous episodes, but so did RayV and it was never really serious. Unless you count 'Red, White or Blue'. But they made up in the end :)