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cosmic_llin) wrote2012-10-05 09:37 am
cosmic_llin) wrote2012-10-05 09:37 am
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Warehouse 13 - 4.10
So I was quite happy just chatting about this with Cara and Cleo until I started looking at the Tumblr tag, and I saw someone say something that really annoyed me and I didn't want to get into a Tumblr fight so I thought I'd come over here and go on about it instead.
The annoying comment that spurred this was someone honestly believing that Mrs F hadn't reacted at all to Leena's death, because she was calm while talking to the team about it. For me that was one of the most emotional moments of the episode, watching her wait to get off the phone with the agents to allow herself to feel one moment of pain and loss before getting down to what she needed to do to save the world. And she called Pete by his first name! The amount of sympathy and gentleness in the way she said that one word - I'm sorry, but if you don't think Mrs F reacted you're not watching it properly. (Incidentally AO3 only has eight fics with Mrs Frederic in?! WTF? Am I missing something here?!)
Anyway, for me this episode was just made of those sorts of moments - this is a group of people who know they have a really important job to do but they've still just suffered a terrible loss, and you can see them fighting with that.
For instance, Myka and Pete on the stairs - the way he really needs to go over what happened and react to it, while Myka can't let herself go there, and when Pete pushes it she makes this helpless little crumpled face and you know that she's just barely holding it together, and Pete knows too so he stops. <3 They are the best BFFs ever. In that moment and in the moment where Evil!Artie has a gun to Pete's head, and they both just know that Myka has to drop the dagger and it's ok and they both understand. Although I wouldn't be surprised if they need to talk about that later given Myka's issues with losing partners.
Also Claudia. Claudia is the greatest. She's the youngest of the team and thanks to not having their background and training she's the least experienced at dealing with this sort of thing, and it shows, but she pulls it together anyway. And her and Artie. <3 I love love LOVE their father-daughter relationship and it was so hard to see Claudia go through everything with Evil!Artie and so great to see her get to be so brave and awesome at the end.
I feel kind of bad just being, like, 'also Steve was there', but, also Steve was there! I like him and all but emotionally this episode was less about him which I guess makes sense since he hasn't been part of the family as long and his main connection is with Claudia, who had a lot of Artie stuff going on. Also H.G. wasn't there, but while I would have liked to see her I do think it would have been hard to squeeze her in plot-wise and I'm interested to see what happens when she does come back. Also I enjoyed seeing Myka's little double-take when she found out H.G. had been off on a secret mission.
And last of all, awww, Leena! :( I'm really sad she's gone, I thought they could have done so much more with her, and we seemed to be just getting into interesting territory about what her role actually is and stuff. But I can see why you would pick her if you wanted to kill someone off to prove you were really serious this time. Sigh.
The annoying comment that spurred this was someone honestly believing that Mrs F hadn't reacted at all to Leena's death, because she was calm while talking to the team about it. For me that was one of the most emotional moments of the episode, watching her wait to get off the phone with the agents to allow herself to feel one moment of pain and loss before getting down to what she needed to do to save the world. And she called Pete by his first name! The amount of sympathy and gentleness in the way she said that one word - I'm sorry, but if you don't think Mrs F reacted you're not watching it properly. (Incidentally AO3 only has eight fics with Mrs Frederic in?! WTF? Am I missing something here?!)
Anyway, for me this episode was just made of those sorts of moments - this is a group of people who know they have a really important job to do but they've still just suffered a terrible loss, and you can see them fighting with that.
For instance, Myka and Pete on the stairs - the way he really needs to go over what happened and react to it, while Myka can't let herself go there, and when Pete pushes it she makes this helpless little crumpled face and you know that she's just barely holding it together, and Pete knows too so he stops. <3 They are the best BFFs ever. In that moment and in the moment where Evil!Artie has a gun to Pete's head, and they both just know that Myka has to drop the dagger and it's ok and they both understand. Although I wouldn't be surprised if they need to talk about that later given Myka's issues with losing partners.
Also Claudia. Claudia is the greatest. She's the youngest of the team and thanks to not having their background and training she's the least experienced at dealing with this sort of thing, and it shows, but she pulls it together anyway. And her and Artie. <3 I love love LOVE their father-daughter relationship and it was so hard to see Claudia go through everything with Evil!Artie and so great to see her get to be so brave and awesome at the end.
I feel kind of bad just being, like, 'also Steve was there', but, also Steve was there! I like him and all but emotionally this episode was less about him which I guess makes sense since he hasn't been part of the family as long and his main connection is with Claudia, who had a lot of Artie stuff going on. Also H.G. wasn't there, but while I would have liked to see her I do think it would have been hard to squeeze her in plot-wise and I'm interested to see what happens when she does come back. Also I enjoyed seeing Myka's little double-take when she found out H.G. had been off on a secret mission.
And last of all, awww, Leena! :( I'm really sad she's gone, I thought they could have done so much more with her, and we seemed to be just getting into interesting territory about what her role actually is and stuff. But I can see why you would pick her if you wanted to kill someone off to prove you were really serious this time. Sigh.
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While I do feel like I'm being emotionally manipulated at the expense of plot and careful writing, I did think the whole cast really brought it in this episode – Pete's little-boy reaction to Leena's death just killed me, and you're dead right about the scene on the stairs, and CLAUD, ohhh, Claud, so brave and devastated. And Saul Rubinek is such a fucking genius – remember him as the documentarian in SG-1's "Heroes"? That's what made me start watching W13, actually – he took a role that, as written, was trite and two-dimensional, and just fulfilled it (that speech to Daniel about the ethics of war photography! holy crap!). And I thought, okay, I'll watch any show in which this guy's a principal – and boy did that pay off. ARRRRTIIIIIEEEEE.
... This has been an incoherent feelscomment. As you were.
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Yes, absolutely. And OMG, I'd forgotten that was him! It's been so long since I watched it. And yes, seriously, to me the actual plot isn't at all the most important thing here, I just love watching this weirdo family interact. <3