I loved this episode. A lovely, twisty case of the week and amping up on the conspiracy theory and Jack Reese being involved (did he kill Ames?!! They were arguing in that first scene.) And I freakin' loved the team Charlie/Lt/Dani in the conference room with the bottles of wine and the baseball caps. The Lt., in all appearance, is an antagonist to Charlie yet she's also a good cop and recognizes that Charlie is one as well. I really like the ambiguity.

I like the idea that the LT, and also Bobby Starks in this respect, are good cops with motivations outside of setting up Crews, and yet in the process of being good cops they are following the letter of the law which makes them do things that possibly aren't favorable to ultimate justice (acting upon planted evidence, suspect motives, etc.)

I freakin' loved the team Charlie/Lt/Dani in the conference room with the bottles of win and the baseball caps.

It was a nice scene, but the clues were SO over the top obscure that once they got to the payoff I was just WTF? I mean, even Crews doesn't keep track of stuff in that manner. It was like something out of Myst.

I think I liked the fact that it was Dani and the LT working together more than I was befuddled by the revelation of a serial bomber we knew nothing about. I really cared more about the characters than the made-up revelation.

(edited for wiiiine)

I think I loved the scenes where Dani was at one house and Crews was at the other and they were a. realizing that the guy was married to two different women, living two different lives and later b. that he had that same set up in each house - where he could work on what he was really investigating.

And I also loved the parallels between Crews and Farthingale. And how much Ted rocked.

I missed Life this week and last so I'm really going to have to catch up. I watched CRiminal Minds my brother and FSIL are in town and we ended up watching it together. As soon as Smokin' hot guy was interested in Garcia I said I hoped that it didn't turn out bad because the only time a hot guy is interested in someone who looks like Garcia he wants to use/hurt her. Because shows always go there, the only exception I can think of is China Beach when whathisname fell for Ricki Lake's character.

I ended up getting in an argument with my brother because he didn't believe that I could have guessed that Hottie would have turned out bad just from him being interested in Garcia, I had to have gotten it all from the foreshadowing. It kinda ruined the evening because once again my brother can't like I actually do know what I'm talking about and has to contradict me. I wanted to argue that I know television so I do know what I'm talking about, but it felt lame and so I dropped.

Ted totally rocked, and with that one action, became eight times more interesting. I mean, he's been a fine character in the past, as a foil to Charlie, but now that they've given him something interesting to do? Oh, yeah.

I'm glad Constance is back, though I dislike her new haircut. What I love, though, is how Charlie is different around her. Like most of his mask falls away, and he's suddenly a real person.

Okay, so if she's working for the D.A.'s office now, will she have to recuse herself from any case that Charlie's involved in?

Between Life and PD, Wednesday is by far the best night on television. Who would have guessed at the start of the season?

Life gets repeated on either USA or TNT late Sunday night. (11 or 12)

It was a nice scene, but the clues were SO over the top obscure that once they got to the payoff I was just WTF?

The wine-year thing was a bit WTF, but if LT was a follower of the minor league baseball teams and the locations of the teams represented by the baseball caps = sites of the bombing, I can sorta imagine her making that leap, especially if she studied the casefile. My mind doesn't work like that, but she's a cop and used to deciphering clues and putting things together. And really, I'd have been happy handwaving anything because I adored seeing those three brainstorming together.

I dislike her new haircut

Urrghh. Tell me about it. I loved her old 'do, which had this very retro 40's black'n'white movie feel to it. Now, it looks like some 5 year old took gardening shears to her locks.

I think her working in DA's office will need some major fanwanking, because I cannot imagine anyone in their right minds appointing her to the task squad to bring Charlie down for Ames's murder, given the flagrant conflicts of interest. Or maybe she's not directly involved in the case. Then how would she have gotten the info about the DA's office searching Charlie's house? Hmmm.

I was damn surprised that they were able to use a song from the new Radiohead album in the funeral montage at the end. I mean, I loved the song and the montage, but I cannot recall ever hearing one of their songs used on a TV show before. Maybe the music supervisor for the show (who I understand works for KCRW) has some pull with the band? Huh.