I think her goal has always been be #1. Plus, she joined the big law firm first, and her need to lord it over Sharon make it seem like her motivations were other than helping out the tribe.

Well, if law was going to be her tool, law school was going to be useful. Going to law school before using the law to protect them made perfect sense to me, without calling her nationalism into question -- it's also something I've seen (and roll my eyes at in fiction, but that's another thing) appropriating the tools of the MAN to uplift the people. But with this crazy look in the eyes. In the end, she does just that, but all subvertily. I thought that was too downplayed, in comparison.

Why didn't people like "Safety Canary?" I really enjoyed that episode. "Cocktail Bunny" was hard for me to watch. Yikes. I think upon additional viewings I'll enjoy it, but seeing Jaye in pain wasn't no fun for me.

Too much wrapped up too saccharinely sweetly in Safety Canary for me. I don't know from the snowy owl, so the fauna portions of the objections went right over my head. Also, I despised the casting of actors who looked like birds. It's a thing.

You might want to nuke the pain in your post, LeN, for the untouched.

It wasn't the going to a good law school but the joining the big law firm that I think points to her being more self centered than about helping her people.

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After all of them, I'd put Barrel Bear and Totem Mole at the bottom of my list, while they are still some of the best teevee out there, just because something has to be at the bottom of the list. I think that, for me, Totem Mole was too much of a departure from the arc when I was in a frenzy over it. Maybe the storyline needed an ep to cool out, but I wasn't in the mood for a stand-aloneish ep that close to the end. It was kind of 'The Girl in Question' for me that way. I've only watched it once thus far, so that's all the commentary it'll get from me for the time being .

Barrel Bear, I was kind of all over "Meh" about, but it still had some great stuff. I loved Jaye's asking Eric why the hell he was helping Mahandra steal the barrel, and his straight out "Don't ask me. I really don't know what I'm doing" reply.

Also, Tim killed a Golden Girl. That's ballsy. Or nature. Whichever.

See, Barrel Bear is much more A Girl In Question for me. Totem Mole had a clear purpose to achieve -- putting Jaye's fears of and aversion to the tchotchkes to rest. And it did. I just don't love the "how."

I don't get why people didn't like "Safety Canary" either. I thought it was brilliant. That's my second favorite episode.

I agree that "Barrel Bear" and "Totem Mole" are the worst episodes. They didn't completely suck, but they really weren't that great either. I didn't particularly care for "Wound-Up Penguin" or "Wax Lion" either, though those episodes did have some brilliant scenes.

I hated Safety Canary.