Sooner or later, you're gonna want it. And the second — the second — that happens, you know I'll be there. I'll slip in, have myself a real good day.

Spike ,'Conversations with Dead People'


Cable Drama: Still Waiting for the Cable Guy to Show Up with the Thread Name...

To be determined... (but it's definitely [NAFDA])


brenda m - Aug 13, 2007 5:44:15 pm PDT #286 of 11998
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there

Great choice for Brenda's dad. Also I loved Chip and Roy.

I almost put this one off for a while because I hate when detective shows go all "this time, it's personal...duh duh duhhhhnnn" but this was excellent.


Vortex - Aug 13, 2007 5:51:16 pm PDT #287 of 11998
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman

My only issue with Chip and Roy is that I don't think that you could make it to SWAT being that stupid. they were awfully cute, though.

I almost put this one off for a while because I hate when detective shows go all "this time, it's personal...duh duh duhhhhnnn" but this was excellent.

Brenda's scene in the elevator was excellent. I loved that she called Gabriel her partner, her friend, and I loved that Gabriel threw himself over her to protect her. And I loved when he confessed to dating Daniels (though I have noticed that she is getting marginalized at Homeland Security training) Just great stuff this week.


sumi - Aug 13, 2007 7:38:32 pm PDT #288 of 11998
Art Crawl!!!

Wasn't it good?

I wondered about the SWAT team stuff -- I believe that this is the only show where I've ever seen the SWAT team treated like it wasn't elite. I can imagine that Priority Homicide considers itself pretty important too.

I loved that family dinner vibe at the end where Brenda blurts out that she and Fritz are engaged.


esse - Aug 13, 2007 8:37:25 pm PDT #289 of 11998
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!

Man, that was good Closer! The elevator scene was awesome, I loved Brenda's parents, Chad (Chip?) and Roy were adorable, and once again I laughed as much as I was tense. Awesome.


askye - Aug 14, 2007 5:41:13 am PDT #290 of 11998
Thrive to spite them

SA I like the voice overs too.

The Closer was great, not just stuff like the Brenda in the elevator, but little things too. Like when they are watchng the tape and it shows Pope rushing in all upset and the it shows Pope's reaction to the video. Also when Gabriel, Pope, and the security gaurd were watching Brenda and Pope clarified to the guard what the don't have.


Vortex - Aug 14, 2007 5:44:42 am PDT #291 of 11998
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman

I also love the great reaction shot from Gabriel when Brenda said "my partner, my friend " I don't think that he had realized how she thought of him. Especially in light of the recent issues.


askye - Aug 14, 2007 6:02:10 am PDT #292 of 11998
Thrive to spite them

I finally watched the episode where Provenza and Flynn screw up with the dead body. The main reason I can think of that they didn't written up and Gabriel did is that with the dead body Brenda was able to keep it in her squad and didn't have to go to outside help. But with Gabriel she had to look to Taylor for help and once he knew she couldn't (or felt she couldn't) keep it hidden.


Vortex - Aug 14, 2007 7:09:10 am PDT #293 of 11998
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman

Also, beating up a prisoner is such a huge deal. Provenza and Flynn was more of a Keystone cops issue. If she had reported them, it would have gotten them a reprimand and her squad would have looked bad, no positive outcome.


esse - Aug 14, 2007 8:20:53 am PDT #294 of 11998
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!

Also when Gabriel, Pope, and the security gaurd were watching Brenda and Pope clarified to the guard what the don't have.

Oh, yes, totally. That "no, we don't have that." "No, that doesn't exist." Brilliance.

The main reason I can think of that they didn't written up and Gabriel did is that with the dead body Brenda was able to keep it in her squad and didn't have to go to outside help. But with Gabriel she had to look to Taylor for help and once he knew she couldn't (or felt she couldn't) keep it hidden.

Well, and the context of both misdemeanors. With Flynn and Provenza, it was kind of a victimless thing--they *were* going to report it, just after the funeral took place--and was so comedic that having them brought up on charges would have been ridiculous, given the situation, and the fact that the widow had no interest in pursuing anything related to her husband's murder.

With Gabriel, he was incited to violence by a crazy racist serial killer, but it was *on tape* *in the police station* and had an obvious, if unsympathetic, victim. I'm not sure the two scenarios can really be compared, because while F & P were in the doghouse for the duration of the case, they didn't actually hurt anybody. Gabriel did, and I think that's what Brenda reacted to the most. The fact that her partner, her friend, hurt someone under the aegis of his badge. To her, that's such a desecration of their duty.


Vortex - Aug 14, 2007 8:24:47 am PDT #295 of 11998
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman

SA said it better, but I said it first t /kindergarten