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Three Eyed Turtle
I have such conflicted reactions to this episode, and the one before it.
On the one hand - TET has awesome Paul/Madeline stuff going on.
On the other - both episodes have Greg Hillenger.
I like the first episode he is in in the (first? second? season - I've just watched them all, you'd think I could remember).
But this pair of eps? There is something about Greg and his interactions with all the other characters that triggers in me that horrible - cover my eyes because OMG (!!!111!!!!1) they are *all* going to embarrass themselves terribly over this!!!11!!!! - feeling.
There is something about the structure of the eps that is so heavy handed with it's telegraphing that "Greg=trouble" that the utter obliviousness of *everyone* else to this problem, even after Greg is deliberately guilty of murder of a sr. operative, just makes it almost impossible for me to enjoy anything else going on.
Or, seriously, for that matter - in the final scene in the hanger - when George suddenly rolls over and plays dead?
OMG - Paul!!! Wake the frak up!!!
Okay, this is a total DON rant.
I think this series of episodes in particular, though with plenty of other evidence from the very beginning through the very end, is what make me just seethe over the notion that Nikita will *obviously* fail immediately (as opposed too -- in time) at running Section because she isn't as good as Paul/Madeline. I mean, maybe she will, but Paul and Madeline fuck up all the dang time, and yes, they did eventually fail - after ten or eleven years. If they are the baseline - Nikita doesn't have to be any better than she is shown to be to be *just as good as they were.* Arrrgghhghgh! flail!~!!!!
On the one hand - TET has awesome Paul/Madeline stuff going on.
On the other - both episodes have Greg Hillenger.
I like the first episode he is in in the (first? second? season - I've just watched them all, you'd think I could remember).
But this pair of eps? There is something about Greg and his interactions with all the other characters that triggers in me that horrible - cover my eyes because OMG (!!!111!!!!1) they are *all* going to embarrass themselves terribly over this!!!11!!!! - feeling.
There is something about the structure of the eps that is so heavy handed with it's telegraphing that "Greg=trouble" that the utter obliviousness of *everyone* else to this problem, even after Greg is deliberately guilty of murder of a sr. operative, just makes it almost impossible for me to enjoy anything else going on.
Or, seriously, for that matter - in the final scene in the hanger - when George suddenly rolls over and plays dead?
OMG - Paul!!! Wake the frak up!!!
Okay, this is a total DON rant.
I think this series of episodes in particular, though with plenty of other evidence from the very beginning through the very end, is what make me just seethe over the notion that Nikita will *obviously* fail immediately (as opposed too -- in time) at running Section because she isn't as good as Paul/Madeline. I mean, maybe she will, but Paul and Madeline fuck up all the dang time, and yes, they did eventually fail - after ten or eleven years. If they are the baseline - Nikita doesn't have to be any better than she is shown to be to be *just as good as they were.* Arrrgghhghgh! flail!~!!!!
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As for Mad Damaged Jim...I'm not especially a Star Trek fan, and I haven't seen the reboot, so when you mention this character trope, I immediately envision it being played by William Shatner in his over-the-top campy melodramatic style, and it's actually HILARIOUS to think about in that way. Setting that aside, though, that's a really common trope in House fandom, too. Super SUPER common. Mind you, canon provides a basis for some of it, but people go to unbelievable extremes in fic. It's an interesting socio-fannish pattern, isn't it?