Willow ,'The Killer In Me'
A topic for the discussion of Farscape, Smallville, and Due South. Beware possible invasions of Stargate, Highlander, or pretty much any other "genre" show that captures our fancy. Expect Adult Content and discussion of the Big Gay Sex.
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I didn't see him/her. I saw COPS. (Not the TV show.) They were uniforms and weapons, not people at all. (Really, as befits a bunch of extras acting as a plot device.)
I saw it this way too. I didn't know any of the characters before last night. None of the scenes made my mind head in a race direction. Was just people. I don't know if something in the previously established relationships would have made me view them in a different light.
Nutty, in the same way as you just saw people with guns, I just saw Gordon the person being arrested.
I just saw Gordon the person being arrested.
me too. The way Gordon as a character was written was so race neutral to me that his capture didn't ping any racial reaction.
There are 2 (!) director's cuts for next week's Supernatural.
And they are both made of awesome!
t points to tag, which used to say "I've got the Jensen Ackles real bad"
GF still says this all the time but it has morphed into (whitefonted for the squeamish) cramps at that time of the month. HA!
That's both hilarious and kinda sense making.
I too noted there was a non-white cop in the background of the arrest scene.
Does this affect anyone's discomfort, those of you who were bothered?
A little bit. I wasn't much pinged by the scene myself, though it did make me think "I bet people are going to be bothered by this scene," but then seeing the black cop made it a much more neutral tableau, in my eyes.
I think you have to have your Tivo hooked up to broadband, but I may be incorrect about that.
Remote programming works with regular cable + phone line connection, too. I was programming sweeps month finales from a cramped, sweaty Internet cafe in Mexico last Nov. and May.
eta fix tenses
I admit I wasn't much pinged by Gordon's arrest. What made me twitch was the "racial purity" line and the Godwin Hitler invocation; both of them because they sound bad coming out of anyone's mouth, but the racial purity line was particularly problematic coming from a black man, given the history in which that reasoning was used against the black community.
I think it's possible the SPN writers thought it would be interesting to have Gordon say it; I think it just sounded stupid and made Gordon's case that much weaker.
As for what was Gordon planning to do with Dean, well, 2 issues there. First, turnabout is fair play--he may well have planned to leave him tied up there for three days and then call the cops. Second, as noted above, he really was trying to bond with Dean, to convince him he was right. Hell, his taunt of Sam at the end was more about convincing Dean Gordon was right than anything else. Gordon's gotta get Dean on his side, or Gordon's killing of his own sister is unjustified, and he can't have that, not if he respects Dean, and he clearly does. And he can't convince Dean if Dean's dead.