Oh, hey. Center mass shots.

I'm glad I've been recording this one. I'm gonna hafta catch up.

How much do I love that I fell in love with the one mafia guy and his awesome death?

Seriously, what other show clearly says "bad guy" for the bad guys, but makes you feel bad when they die? I don't know, maybe that's the wrong question to ask, since I don't watch every show out there, but this seems so unique in making the adversaries bad without resorting to making them unrepentantly evil, kick the dog, shoot the horse for spite, rape the women and sell the children into slavery evil in order to make their point and make the good guys extra good for putting them down.

I love that the angry black man is from the Mod Squad.

::whimpers::

See?! SEE?!!

Seeing Rolly die was awful. Here's a person, and I can see all the decisions that got him to this point in his life, and all the situations that sprung from and influenced those decisions. He's a guy. He could be me. It's fucking sad.

::hugs Frank::

Seriously, what other show clearly says "bad guy" for the bad guys, but makes you feel bad when they die?

That's what gets it for me. Their bad guys could be people I know or have known or are related to me.

Seeing Rolly die was awful.

So agreed. That was not the outcome I was hoping for. I was really hoping witprotec was going the be the result so he might be a recurring character (much like how I hope the bookie from last episode turns up again). I suspect he knew the knife wound was pretty bad, though, which is why he just said enough. Damn.

Also, I like how in most situations, Raylan is decidedly NOT a shoot first and ask questions later kind of guy, despite the fact that he seriously shoots to kill. He gives more than fair warning, and woe betides them that underestimate him.

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Also, I like how in most situations, Raylan is decidedly NOT a shoot first and ask questions later, despite the fact that he seriously shoots to kill.

That's one of the first things that I loved. That his gun was holstered and he was explaining to them that if they took it to the point where he had to draw, he would shoot to kill. He tries to talk first.

I LOVES this show. Olyphant has Raylan's easy swagger down. He's the yummiest kind of alpha male--unshakable but relaxed. I love how Olyphant seemed to not be acting in Deadwood and he doesn't seem to be acting here, and yet the two characters are so very different.

I haven't even seen this show but I'll say this about Olyphant; he's got the same quality that Viggo can bring: white hot intensity, but banked. Whether he's playing a good guy or a bad guy he really burns on the screen.

He stood up to Ian McShane's typhoon of cocksuckery and did not flinch.