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icepixie- It's Michael Shanks! Being evil! Or maybe just crazy, because Daniel Jackson and evil don't really mix well together. Nevertheless, I enjoyed him. IMDB suggests he comes back, which I approve of. (I also approve of how this show is raiding Sci-Fi's stable for its guest characters. First Lucy Lawless, then Tricia Helfer, now Michael Shanks--can we get Claudia Black next? Ben Browder? Oooh, I'd love to see Mary McDonnell as someone behind Michael's burn notice! Alessandro Juliani could be very nifty as a slick con-man or as a client. Saul Rubinek could play a technical expert of some kind. I'll stop here, because I could go on all night.)
- (Okay, one more thing about casting: Amy Pietz turned up as the millionaire's wife client! I'm glad to see her getting work.)
- I'm enjoying Madeline more of late. Her admission that she'd forged her husband's signature so Michael could leave for the Army at 17 was touching, and I liked that she really was able to take care of herself with Virgil (and even tailed him! Ha!).
- In "Good Soldier," Michael as "Brad" giving that speech about his supposed religious conversion over the phone was excellent, but also a little confusing. I thought it was a spot on metaphor for Michael's post-burn notice life, in that he obviously is being tested by someone and is sharpening himself against it, but he was pretty clearly speaking to Fiona and intending it in some kind of shippy way, which destroys a lot of the sense it made. "As iron sharpens iron, man sharpens man"--oh, yeah, they've got that in spades. That totally works. But is she supposed to be an angel who tests him? And he's not afraid of her anymore? Doesn't hate her anymore? What? Maybe he meant that staying in one place and being forced to develop and keep relationships with friends and family has been a test in which she's played a not insubstantial part, and he's finally coming around to the idea of not going back to his old life and not being afraid of personal entanglements.
- Yeah, I had a feeling Campbell wouldn't last. That ended about the way I expected it to in "Do No Harm," with him telling Fiona she was obviously still hung up on Michael. I was amused by the "Campbell - Fiona's Boyfriend" changing to "Campbell - Fiona's Ex-Boyfriend" once he'd done it, though.
- I was never entirely sure why Fiona would even want a "normal" boyfriend in the first place. I guess she originally picked him up to make Michael jealous, but then it seemed to turn into something more concrete. I guess that's explanation enough, but...hmmm.
- The little boy's picture of Fi and Michael at the end of that episode, though, may have been laying it on a bit thick.
- That said, Fi explaining all of the plastic army men's weapons and where they would need to be standing to use them effectively to the completely enthralled kid was completely and utterly hilarious. Best scene of the show so far. Bwahahaha!
- I was kind of iffy on Fiona cracking and breaking her cover when the slimy medical scammer started talking about her scams (and then she lost the fight! WTF?), but I guess she was never a spy, really. She's a little too in your face for play-acting to be her strength like it is Michael's. (And damn, Jeffrey Donovan is so good at playing these entirely different characters!)
- "Who Talks First" was hardcore and chilling, even if no one actually died. Oof.
- "[Carla's] a machine!" Heh.
- Something that's been bugging me essentially since the pilot: Why on earth don't Michael & co. wear some frigging gloves when they break into bad guys' hideouts and look for things? Fingerprints EVERYWHERE! Not to mention they should wear gloves when they build bombs, because if the endless parade of cop shows on TV has taught us anything, it's that evidence can always be found, even on little fragments.
- (Okay, one more thing about casting: Amy Pietz turned up as the millionaire's wife client! I'm glad to see her getting work.)
- I'm enjoying Madeline more of late. Her admission that she'd forged her husband's signature so Michael could leave for the Army at 17 was touching, and I liked that she really was able to take care of herself with Virgil (and even tailed him! Ha!).
- In "Good Soldier," Michael as "Brad" giving that speech about his supposed religious conversion over the phone was excellent, but also a little confusing. I thought it was a spot on metaphor for Michael's post-burn notice life, in that he obviously is being tested by someone and is sharpening himself against it, but he was pretty clearly speaking to Fiona and intending it in some kind of shippy way, which destroys a lot of the sense it made. "As iron sharpens iron, man sharpens man"--oh, yeah, they've got that in spades. That totally works. But is she supposed to be an angel who tests him? And he's not afraid of her anymore? Doesn't hate her anymore? What? Maybe he meant that staying in one place and being forced to develop and keep relationships with friends and family has been a test in which she's played a not insubstantial part, and he's finally coming around to the idea of not going back to his old life and not being afraid of personal entanglements.
- Yeah, I had a feeling Campbell wouldn't last. That ended about the way I expected it to in "Do No Harm," with him telling Fiona she was obviously still hung up on Michael. I was amused by the "Campbell - Fiona's Boyfriend" changing to "Campbell - Fiona's Ex-Boyfriend" once he'd done it, though.
- I was never entirely sure why Fiona would even want a "normal" boyfriend in the first place. I guess she originally picked him up to make Michael jealous, but then it seemed to turn into something more concrete. I guess that's explanation enough, but...hmmm.
- The little boy's picture of Fi and Michael at the end of that episode, though, may have been laying it on a bit thick.
- That said, Fi explaining all of the plastic army men's weapons and where they would need to be standing to use them effectively to the completely enthralled kid was completely and utterly hilarious. Best scene of the show so far. Bwahahaha!
- I was kind of iffy on Fiona cracking and breaking her cover when the slimy medical scammer started talking about her scams (and then she lost the fight! WTF?), but I guess she was never a spy, really. She's a little too in your face for play-acting to be her strength like it is Michael's. (And damn, Jeffrey Donovan is so good at playing these entirely different characters!)
- "Who Talks First" was hardcore and chilling, even if no one actually died. Oof.
- "[Carla's] a machine!" Heh.
- Something that's been bugging me essentially since the pilot: Why on earth don't Michael & co. wear some frigging gloves when they break into bad guys' hideouts and look for things? Fingerprints EVERYWHERE! Not to mention they should wear gloves when they build bombs, because if the endless parade of cop shows on TV has taught us anything, it's that evidence can always be found, even on little fragments.