Hawaii Five-0 Episode 2.08

[azziria]

I loved this episode, absolutely loved it. It’s like the writer took my wishlist and gave me *almost* everything that was on it: bromance in spades, Steve and Danny *together* rather than Steve being paired with Lori, Danny mentioning Grace and Rachel, lots of Chin and Kono, Max with his new car, Kamekona, Kono calling Fong a geek god, a guest star with a decent amount of time onscreen, and no awkward ‘bonding’ scenes between Lori and Steve. Best episode since the S2 premiere, hands down.

And did anyone else notice Steve doing the old 'casually stretching the arm along the back of the sofa' thing when he sat down next to Danny in the first scene? Steve, you old Smooth Dog, you... you were totally about to go for it... ;)

Even Lori was more bearable this week, although it’s sad that she was better because of what she *didn’t* do rather than what she did: no awkward scenes with Steve, no being paired off with Steve in situations where Danny should have been, no overload of screen time, and no emotional/personal interaction stuff to deal woodenly with. I still don’t see any personality or particular skill set, but she was more ignorable this week.

By my reckoning this was the first episode shot completely after the feedback started coming in from 2.02/2.03, and it read to me like the showrunner taking on board what we’ve all been missing and throwing it all into one show in a desperate attempt to get the show back on track and the fans back on board. Here’s hoping that I’m right, that this is a turning point and that it’s all uphill from here, especially given the drop in viewing figures this week (a reflection on viewers' opinions of previous weeks, not of this week). We need the next few episodes to be consistently this good to turn the slide around.

Still waiting for another “Book ‘em Danno”, though…

Comments

[portraitofafool.livejournal.com]

Gah, in the previews Chin tells her, "You look hot." I seriously had a D: moment that quickly morphed into, "Oh, no, you fucking didn't" because it was so OOC to me. In the previews I, personally, have seen there is NO Steve and Danny. I mean that, like, they're not even hanging out in the background. It's just Lori-Lori-Lori. This, to me, looks like more of Lenkov pretty much dropping trou and saying to the fans, "Kiss it, I'll do what I want, kthnxbye." Ass. It is yet another way to cram her down our throats and--yes--objectify her to the Nth degree and so shamelessly it kind of makes me ill. Also, she is not hot, not to me anyway and I don't like looking at some chick dressed up like the pseudo goth biker bitch hooker from bubblegum hell. Ugh.

The only upside I've seen so far is that Kono looks like a BAMF in a couple of scenes. That... it not enough to make me watch that episode though. If I don't see/hear something better about it by next week then I will be skipping that episode because I just... I can't take her. :(

[portraitofafool.livejournal.com]

I think Kono is made of awesome and win and Jenna was really cute and I liked her personality a lot. That and she, yanno, had personality. I waited pretty happily to see the previews after how amazing this last episode was because I was thinking, "Maybe they're getting the hint at last" then I saw them and I my stomach kind of did this unpleasant flip-flop. That flip-flop melted into disgusted, disappointed anger and that is where I am left. Next week's previews were nothing but a HUGE buzzkill for me after such a great episode. Fuuuuuck. :(