Okay, for the first time, Peter from Warehouse 13 made me laugh. "That's right, girlfriend, I am the sassy best friend!" Usually, he annoys the crap out of me.

this GIF will represent Awkward! to me for some time hence

Good one. That was epic awkward.

And they did quell my "can't con an honest man" issues. It wasn't used as a moral high ground, or a crutch, or an obstacle. Or even, really, a shared viewpoint. I really liked what they were doing there, in fact. Usually they just magically know the weakness. It's interesting when the person they need to influence isn't the bad person, and doesn't have the obvious places to get traction.

Also, it was pretty much only Elliot expressing the view, and he's not coming from the con background. And it was kinda disproved to him.

I did find his slideways look at Nate at the end a bit ominous. I couldn't tell if it was worry, or something else (and I really hope they don't go THERE).

I couldn't tell if it was worry, or something else (and I really hope they don't go THERE).

I took it as worry with some frustration and resentment mixed in.

I'm trying to work out my Major Crime feels.

I'm not sad to see the back of Brenda--I didn't like her. But I'm not that in love with Sharon or Provenza either, and Provenza's war with Sharon, and Sharon's war with ...good god...show websites are consistently not helping me out. Or incompatible with Opera. I'm just trying to get character names right. Fine. IMDB it is.

Right--Raydor going up against Taylor--we already had him and Brenda jostling for supremacy. Provenza battling Sykes (god, she's beautiful) is also not fun.

I do get the feeling that we're getting closer to the crew, but I think it'd be a shame for Mary McDonnell to not get as high a profile as Kyra Sedgwick.

But most of all--most of all--I hate Rusty. In one and a half episodes, he hasn't said anything new. He's whiny and grating, and while his circumstances are obviously awful, he's doing a good job of making being abandoned and pushed into teenaged hooking seem like no nothing.

Yes, the whole Rusty thing is ridiculous and pointless. Is it supposed to humanize Raydor?

Breaking Bad--this GIF will represent Awkward! to me for some time hence:

Oh man, yeah.

It's such a striking image. Very juvenile. He almost looks as if he is sucking on a baby bottle. Jesse's stuck between these two powerful adults with a feud, and he's powerless.

It reminded me of an essay that I read about how a key quality of the Mr. White-Jesse relationship is that Mr. White (notice the honorific) is an abuser, and he keeps manipulating abusee Jesse. I thought it was in Jezebel but if it was, I can't find it.

Here it is! [link] Oh wow, it's an ongoing commentary tracking each ep, I didn't realize that. [link] [link]

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Breaking Bad--this GIF will represent Awkward! to me for some time hence: [link]

Aaron Paul made the best faces in that scene.

In that general vein: [link]