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- Just when I was thinking the show was starting to feel formulaic, they changed it up by having Michael walk into a bank robbery almost a la Benton Fraser. And Bly came back! (P.S., now I know where I remember him from--he was that irritating Agent Ford on due South, the one who kept calling Thatcher "darling.") They worked together! Without killing each other! And ended the episode on not-entirely-bad-terms! Michael has a bit of a talent for making friends. I think this episode was my favorite of this bunch.
- Sam and Fi bickering over who's first on Michael's speed dial was hilarious.
- The show kept up its streak of raiding Skiffy's stable! Hello, Mark Sheppard, good to see you again. And playing a straight-up criminal! A change of pace from all the sketchy-but-ultimately-good guys you've been for Skiffy shows, eh?
- Plus there was bonus Rod Rowland and later, in the finale, John Mahoney as "Management"! I wonder if this show is especially adept at casting Hey! It's That Guys, or if I've just reached an age/have seen enough TV that I can recognize more of them.
2x14
- "Remember when we met?" / "Yeah, I nearly blew your hand off with C4." Oh, Fi.
- "I need him alive." / "I need you alive." Awwww. (From the way she delivered that line, I'm going to assume she meant in a personal sense and not an "I need you alive in order to carry out an evil plan" one, but one thing I love about this show is that you never know.)
2x15
- Samantha was...okay? I guess? Michael doesn't really seem the marrying type, but whatever, I guess I can buy that he said yes to her proposal some eleven years ago. (And ha, I was right about Fi and Michael meeting in 1997!)
- Awww, Madeline listened in on Mike and Fi's heart to heart! And he let her! *snerk* "You picked the right girl. I just hope you're not waiting for her to propose too." Uh, since both of them have jobs that make avoiding any kind of government authority fairly necessary and marriage involves legal documents, I'm guessing that won't happen any time soon, but hey, maybe someday.
- "You don't marry somebody when you're in love with someone else." Way to make an unexpected homage to The Sound of Music, show. ("You can't marry someone when you're in love with someone else...can you?") Although I'm not entirely certain it was intentional. Nevertheless, very nice, although my favorite part was Fiona's "Well, shit. Now what do I do?" expression after he said it.
- I liked things about this episode other than those that had to do with Mike/Fi--it was nice for Michael to face a villain who's on his level rather than fifty stories below, for example--but don't really have anything to say about them.
2x16
- Well. I wasn't expecting both Carla and Victor not to make it to the next season. Or, you know, for Michael to be the one pulling the trigger on Victor. (He had a spy buddy! Too bad he had to kill him.) I've been reasonably sympathetic toward Victor all season, largely because it's Daniel freaking Jackson and it's hard to find him evil. I was even more sympathetic toward him when they revealed Carla's organization killed his wife and kid. (I wonder if both the "spy with a family" and "family got nuked" things were supposed to be hints about Michael and Fiona, especially after the previous episode.) Anyway, I liked him and was sad to see him go, crazy though he was. That scene where he made Michael shoot him was...yeah. :(
- "Victor: The Client." Awww.
- On the other hand, Fi taking out Carla and being all, "Finally!" about it was very nice. For once, she gets to use her simple, explosive solution.
- What kind of neighborhood does Madeline live in that someone isn't going to call the cops when that many gunshots go off?
- I have a feeling Michael just made a very big mistake by rejecting John Mahoney's offer. I had been wondering why more people like Jan the Czech assassin didn't come along to settle old scores with him; now we know. However, I've been none too thrilled with the Carla storyline for some time now, so I like the idea of going back to S1-style taking cases while working on revoking the burn notice. Apparently now with extra people trying to kill him, whee!
- Aw, he left his sunglasses in the helicopter. Yeah, he's pretty much never gonna go back to the spy life, is he? I mean, aside from the fact that then there would be no show; even after the show, there's just no going back.
- Just when I was thinking the show was starting to feel formulaic, they changed it up by having Michael walk into a bank robbery almost a la Benton Fraser. And Bly came back! (P.S., now I know where I remember him from--he was that irritating Agent Ford on due South, the one who kept calling Thatcher "darling.") They worked together! Without killing each other! And ended the episode on not-entirely-bad-terms! Michael has a bit of a talent for making friends. I think this episode was my favorite of this bunch.
- Sam and Fi bickering over who's first on Michael's speed dial was hilarious.
- The show kept up its streak of raiding Skiffy's stable! Hello, Mark Sheppard, good to see you again. And playing a straight-up criminal! A change of pace from all the sketchy-but-ultimately-good guys you've been for Skiffy shows, eh?
- Plus there was bonus Rod Rowland and later, in the finale, John Mahoney as "Management"! I wonder if this show is especially adept at casting Hey! It's That Guys, or if I've just reached an age/have seen enough TV that I can recognize more of them.
2x14
- "Remember when we met?" / "Yeah, I nearly blew your hand off with C4." Oh, Fi.
- "I need him alive." / "I need you alive." Awwww. (From the way she delivered that line, I'm going to assume she meant in a personal sense and not an "I need you alive in order to carry out an evil plan" one, but one thing I love about this show is that you never know.)
2x15
- Samantha was...okay? I guess? Michael doesn't really seem the marrying type, but whatever, I guess I can buy that he said yes to her proposal some eleven years ago. (And ha, I was right about Fi and Michael meeting in 1997!)
- Awww, Madeline listened in on Mike and Fi's heart to heart! And he let her! *snerk* "You picked the right girl. I just hope you're not waiting for her to propose too." Uh, since both of them have jobs that make avoiding any kind of government authority fairly necessary and marriage involves legal documents, I'm guessing that won't happen any time soon, but hey, maybe someday.
- "You don't marry somebody when you're in love with someone else." Way to make an unexpected homage to The Sound of Music, show. ("You can't marry someone when you're in love with someone else...can you?") Although I'm not entirely certain it was intentional. Nevertheless, very nice, although my favorite part was Fiona's "Well, shit. Now what do I do?" expression after he said it.
- I liked things about this episode other than those that had to do with Mike/Fi--it was nice for Michael to face a villain who's on his level rather than fifty stories below, for example--but don't really have anything to say about them.
2x16
- Well. I wasn't expecting both Carla and Victor not to make it to the next season. Or, you know, for Michael to be the one pulling the trigger on Victor. (He had a spy buddy! Too bad he had to kill him.) I've been reasonably sympathetic toward Victor all season, largely because it's Daniel freaking Jackson and it's hard to find him evil. I was even more sympathetic toward him when they revealed Carla's organization killed his wife and kid. (I wonder if both the "spy with a family" and "family got nuked" things were supposed to be hints about Michael and Fiona, especially after the previous episode.) Anyway, I liked him and was sad to see him go, crazy though he was. That scene where he made Michael shoot him was...yeah. :(
- "Victor: The Client." Awww.
- On the other hand, Fi taking out Carla and being all, "Finally!" about it was very nice. For once, she gets to use her simple, explosive solution.
- What kind of neighborhood does Madeline live in that someone isn't going to call the cops when that many gunshots go off?
- I have a feeling Michael just made a very big mistake by rejecting John Mahoney's offer. I had been wondering why more people like Jan the Czech assassin didn't come along to settle old scores with him; now we know. However, I've been none too thrilled with the Carla storyline for some time now, so I like the idea of going back to S1-style taking cases while working on revoking the burn notice. Apparently now with extra people trying to kill him, whee!
- Aw, he left his sunglasses in the helicopter. Yeah, he's pretty much never gonna go back to the spy life, is he? I mean, aside from the fact that then there would be no show; even after the show, there's just no going back.