In terms of why people who normally dislike Lucy Liu but don't here - I think it is because she is not playing into the racist stereotype "Asian Bitch-Goddess".
Inara: Who's winning? Simon: I can't tell. They don't seem to be playing by any civilized rules that I know.
'Bushwhacked'
Procedurals 1: Anything You Say Can and Will Be Used Against You.
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Typo Boy - Sep 28, 2012 3:27:51 am PDT #9232 of 11831
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
§ ita § - Sep 28, 2012 5:39:03 am PDT #9233 of 11831
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Lucy has played her share of bitch. If that's what they need from her, they can find it. Her TV role before this was high on the cold bitch scale.
I am super rolling my eyes at H50. Why did Danno drive (I'm assuming at ridic speeds, or did he observe the law?) to tell Steve such important information? Did they cover why phones and police radio were out of the question when he knows he's seeing his mother off, and that his mother's complicit in the Wo Fat shit? How long are we supposed to be sympathetic to that kind of heart-thumping revelation? I just thought they were stupid.
Dana - Sep 28, 2012 6:03:23 am PDT #9234 of 11831
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
I will believe whatever Andre Braugher wants me to.
-t - Sep 28, 2012 6:31:43 am PDT #9235 of 11831
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I'm with Dana.
That's a good point, ita, but I have already forgotten what the revelation was, so...that whole helicopter clampy rescue was pretty sweet...
sumi - Sep 28, 2012 6:43:34 am PDT #9236 of 11831
Art Crawl!!!
I'm guessing that (in the tradition of melodrama) that Steve and Wo Fat are half brothers.
Missed the Braugher show.
I enjoyed Elementary.
§ ita § - Sep 28, 2012 7:04:02 am PDT #9237 of 11831
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Mrs. McGarrett didn't try and kill Wo Fat. No exchange of gunfire like she said--she fired three bullets into the floor. Which is also 101 stupid for someone who's "been doing this since before you were born".
I don't quite buy Lahti as long time action hero, myself. She is hardcore when the role calls for it, but I don't get the action part.
Typo Boy - Sep 28, 2012 7:14:18 am PDT #9238 of 11831
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Lucy has played her share of bitch. I
KInd of my point. Her default role, which for once she is not playing.
-t - Sep 28, 2012 7:18:35 am PDT #9239 of 11831
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Oh, right. Maybe Danno didn't call on purpose so mom would be gone before he told Steve, to avoid difficult choices having to be made...
I can see them going there, sumi.
I don't know that anything about the Mama McGarrett story worked for me, but I am grumpily tired of dead mothers being shockingly still alive in general.
§ ita § - Sep 28, 2012 7:32:34 am PDT #9240 of 11831
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
why people who normally dislike Lucy Liu but don't here
Oh, I thought your "here" was b.org, and "normally" was the rest of viewership.
Where are you getting the information that people have disliked Lucy up until now and like her in this?
Steph L. - Sep 28, 2012 7:36:59 am PDT #9241 of 11831
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Where are you getting the information that people have disliked Lucy up until now and like her in this?
I'm an anecdata point. (Although I wouldn't say I *liked* her in Elementary; I just didn't dislike her, which is a great deal more than I've ever felt towards her before.)