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I gave in and watched the final TS episode I hadn't seen. I can no longer fool myself that somewhere there's an episode I haven't seen with the two of them snuggling on the couch, sharing a sleeping bag whilst fishing, or making sweet, sweet love on every available surface, horizontal and vertical, of the loft.
Darn.
Oh, well, that's what the fic's for...
I needed to cheer myself up as David flew off to Sunnyvale, California yesterday (oh, what a difference a letter makes!). He's back late tomorrow but I still feel bereft and the Giant Bar of Cadbury Fruit and Nut carelessly left lying around suffered, I'm afraid.
This wasn't a very cheerful episode, though. Much cuteness at the start and Jim in boxers, yes, but that aside, this was bleak as hell and although I knew Jim and Blair would be fine I was still all tense watching. Major panic button, someone being undercover, especially in a prison. The subplot was one we've seen before - or rather it was done later on Angel for one, and Torchwood, too, for that matter, and that's just off the top of my head. It's a very, very, old plot and it played out predictably here, but still left me choked up.
This episode had some great acting from RB especially; really lifted the bar, and there was a quality of real stillness and menace, especially at the start when Jim first arrives at the prison.
And it was beautifully subtle, too; Jim stands up for people, yes, but never in a heroic, leaping to the rescue way, and the man who helps him isn't portrayed as being a saint. The scene where they're both in the cell waiting to be taken to fight was perfect.
It was, of necessity, not a big episode for Blair, but he was there for Jim, totally, and his anxiety was matching mine. Odd at the end when you clearly saw Blair by the ring in the crowd and then suddenly the place was empty, no Blair/Jim moment, and just Simon left to watch Jim walk away.
Maybe it was because the whole corrupt system was something that struck hardest for Jim and Simon as police officers who'd helped send men to a place where they were wrongfully killed?
All in all, not a comfortable episode to watch, but one that deserves credit for being genuinely tense and dark.
Darn.
Oh, well, that's what the fic's for...
I needed to cheer myself up as David flew off to Sunnyvale, California yesterday (oh, what a difference a letter makes!). He's back late tomorrow but I still feel bereft and the Giant Bar of Cadbury Fruit and Nut carelessly left lying around suffered, I'm afraid.
This wasn't a very cheerful episode, though. Much cuteness at the start and Jim in boxers, yes, but that aside, this was bleak as hell and although I knew Jim and Blair would be fine I was still all tense watching. Major panic button, someone being undercover, especially in a prison. The subplot was one we've seen before - or rather it was done later on Angel for one, and Torchwood, too, for that matter, and that's just off the top of my head. It's a very, very, old plot and it played out predictably here, but still left me choked up.
This episode had some great acting from RB especially; really lifted the bar, and there was a quality of real stillness and menace, especially at the start when Jim first arrives at the prison.
And it was beautifully subtle, too; Jim stands up for people, yes, but never in a heroic, leaping to the rescue way, and the man who helps him isn't portrayed as being a saint. The scene where they're both in the cell waiting to be taken to fight was perfect.
It was, of necessity, not a big episode for Blair, but he was there for Jim, totally, and his anxiety was matching mine. Odd at the end when you clearly saw Blair by the ring in the crowd and then suddenly the place was empty, no Blair/Jim moment, and just Simon left to watch Jim walk away.
Maybe it was because the whole corrupt system was something that struck hardest for Jim and Simon as police officers who'd helped send men to a place where they were wrongfully killed?
All in all, not a comfortable episode to watch, but one that deserves credit for being genuinely tense and dark.
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