Tonight's H-50

[janedavitt]

Going behind the cut.



About time, Chin!

Lovely Danny/Steve bit there when Steve is heading out (you'd better be thinking of him, Steve!) but it's 15 mins in before we see Kono. Why is she always left behind at the initial crime scene?

What, do they have MATTER TRANSPORTERS? How the hell could Steve get to the corner shop, let alone North Korea before they contacted him? He left as Chin and Kono were heading off to see whoever it was; he wouldn't have even left Hawaii when they found out about Jenna, for God's sake.

The timeline makes no sense.

So Jenna's not evil, just putting Josh first. Okay. I don't approve, but I get it. Uck, digging that thing out had to have been hard to do. Like that she's being kick-ass.

Lori's showing emotion! Wow.

And everyone's looking to Joe for guidance. ::sigh:; I get it but I don't have to like it.

Love Danny yelling 'where's Steve' over and over.

Um, shouldn't this be the point where Lori reports them? Since it's her job and all.

Major Steve whumpage. Meep.

AoL's accent is slipping a LOT this episode.

If Wo Fat doesn't have this room bugged he's an idiot.

Tangerine needs to meet Mimi :-)

Steve is so damn hot sneering through his own blood.

OMG, DID NOT EXPECT THAT.

Steve is damn agile. Um, wasn't he just VIOLENTLY BEATEN? Like, thirty seconds ago? Yet still perfectly capable of taking down a couple of armed men. Of course, he is.

Clever Wo Fat...

OMG, Danny's face when he saw Steve...and Steve's face when he saw Danny...

Lori running over to hug him, do not want. Sorry, just don't. And those hands all over Steve's shoulders should've been Danny's but I'll take that small, quiet exchange of looks we got.

Really resent that Kono was left behind and Lori had the (literally) touching moment. Kono is Core Four and could just as easily have fired the rocket launcher; we saw what a good shot she was last week. What she was doing on the computer Lori could've done. I really don't like Kono being marginalized this way.

So, some epic, EPIC, Steve/Danny, some major plotholes and Lori continues to leave me cold.

Comments

[born2slash]

I really don't like Kono being marginalized this way.

preaching to the choir! i don't understand what the writers thought they were doing introducing a new character who is only doing the same things that Kono could have done anyway. if she'd actually had a distinct role i wouldn't have minded so much that she was taking screen time away from Kono.

[janedavitt]

With practically everyone saying the same, I wonder if things will change once they start filming new episodes? This first bit of the season was already in the can so couldn't be changed, I guess.

[born2slash]

well, i hope so, but what i've heard from those who follow Lenkov on Twitter is that he's doing the old "you don't understand what i'm trying to do" routine. with the implication it's the fans' fault for being so dim, instead of the writer/producer's fault of not communicating clearly enough... not very reassuring, i'm afraid.

[janedavitt]

Yeah, I remember that attitude from Stargate. Pshaw.

[green_grrl]

WRT the timeline, Kono and Chin flew over to Maui to find out the Jenna info. Not as long as a flight to Korea, but Steve would be gone by the time they found out.

Otherwise, totally agree, why the hell is Lori even on my TV? I want Kono back! It's like what they do when an actress is pregnant and they minimize her time, but GP is very obviously not pregnant. >:(

[janedavitt]

I got that it was a different island, and that on a flight cell phones are turned off, but they couldn't have shot off a text that Steve would've gotten on landing? Makes no sense to me.

[green_grrl]

TV logic. :-(

My mom used to pass by the TV and say, "Why don't they just (fill in the plot hole)?" and my dad would say, "But then there wouldn't be any STORY!"

[janedavitt]

This is so true..yet somehow I'm sure as fanfic writers, we could do SO MUCH BETTER.

[green_grrl]

I really wish PTB would use panels of fans to give feedback on scripts: "that's OOC," "last season that character's birthday was 4/12," "why don't they just xyz" ...

[janedavitt]

They NEED one of us. We're so nitpicky and wildly creative ::broods::