Hi there Elr, missed you last week. Hope you are feeling better.
I agree with most of what you said. I’m not that much into Peter!Whump. Neal!Whump is more my thing. Have we even had that on the show beside 4x02 when Neal got shot on the leg? And if you took that as an example you’d remember how Neal was running around and climbing trees a few hours after getting injured and no one even mentioned the bullet in his leg, so we shouldn’t be surprised that Peter got the same treatment. If Neal is a superhuman specimen who won’t let a bullet in the leg slow him down why shouldn’t he think the same of Peter?
The thing with El made me clutch my heart and roll my eyes at the same time. I could see it happening and it was a nice way to create tension between the three of them and highlight my OT3. But at the same time it was used as a vehicle to split Peter and Neal on the trust front again and do a rehash of what we already saw on the show many times. In fact, has there been a time when the two of them weren’t working separately on the McGuffin of the season? First it was Kate’s clandestine messages, then it was the music box, then the Nazi treasure, then Sam and now the key. I hope they put this trope eventually to rest because it is becoming quite repetitive.
I also didn’t buy the architecture con one bit. That must have been the fastest turnaround for someone in a highly specialized business who should know better. Had they not thrown in the added urgency of Pratt arriving I may have accepted that Neal and his last minute assembled maquette were that good. But to convince a guy who never met you, didn’t invite you, and is close to throwing you off his premises, to take you on for a multimillion dollar project that he’s not particularly coloring inside the lines is a big leap. I guess the writers were trying to be innovative or something but like you said, as with the whiskey last week, it was a bit much to ask the audience to believe it.
The part where Neal faced Pratt was great. Still I don’t know why I cringe every time someone mentions Neal and “his father.” I guess I still haven’t bought James as Neal’s father and someone who deserves Neal’s and my sympathies. I had the same feeling about Kate so maybe that’s how I roll. The only people I expect Neal to care enough about to make such a move are Peter, El and Mozzie. For that same reason when Neal said, “You messed with my family once, I won’t let you do it again,” I considered the second instance of family to mean Peter and El.
I’m actually happy with the villain this season. It’s a leg up from average Joe Fowler and pretentious yet unscary Adler. I know the actor from my other favorite show Supernatural in which he played the Apocalypse’s White Horseman, War. So I have no problem picturing him as a bad guy. Hopefully he’ll have a lot of interaction with Neal and Peter in which he gets the chance to be real nasty.
Speaking of nasty, I hope Hughes’ replacement is also a pain in the butt and gives our boys and their arrangement a lot of problems. It’ll feed my “another FBI authority takes control and mistreats Neal” kink. I haven’t seen the actress in anything but if she’s not going to play a villain there is no point for her replacing Hughes. Also I’m almost 95% sure Hughes will be back at the end of this arc.
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I agree with most of what you said. I’m not that much into Peter!Whump. Neal!Whump is more my thing. Have we even had that on the show beside 4x02 when Neal got shot on the leg? And if you took that as an example you’d remember how Neal was running around and climbing trees a few hours after getting injured and no one even mentioned the bullet in his leg, so we shouldn’t be surprised that Peter got the same treatment. If Neal is a superhuman specimen who won’t let a bullet in the leg slow him down why shouldn’t he think the same of Peter?
The thing with El made me clutch my heart and roll my eyes at the same time. I could see it happening and it was a nice way to create tension between the three of them and highlight my OT3. But at the same time it was used as a vehicle to split Peter and Neal on the trust front again and do a rehash of what we already saw on the show many times. In fact, has there been a time when the two of them weren’t working separately on the McGuffin of the season? First it was Kate’s clandestine messages, then it was the music box, then the Nazi treasure, then Sam and now the key. I hope they put this trope eventually to rest because it is becoming quite repetitive.
I also didn’t buy the architecture con one bit. That must have been the fastest turnaround for someone in a highly specialized business who should know better. Had they not thrown in the added urgency of Pratt arriving I may have accepted that Neal and his last minute assembled maquette were that good. But to convince a guy who never met you, didn’t invite you, and is close to throwing you off his premises, to take you on for a multimillion dollar project that he’s not particularly coloring inside the lines is a big leap. I guess the writers were trying to be innovative or something but like you said, as with the whiskey last week, it was a bit much to ask the audience to believe it.
The part where Neal faced Pratt was great. Still I don’t know why I cringe every time someone mentions Neal and “his father.” I guess I still haven’t bought James as Neal’s father and someone who deserves Neal’s and my sympathies. I had the same feeling about Kate so maybe that’s how I roll. The only people I expect Neal to care enough about to make such a move are Peter, El and Mozzie. For that same reason when Neal said, “You messed with my family once, I won’t let you do it again,” I considered the second instance of family to mean Peter and El.
I’m actually happy with the villain this season. It’s a leg up from average Joe Fowler and pretentious yet unscary Adler. I know the actor from my other favorite show Supernatural in which he played the Apocalypse’s White Horseman, War. So I have no problem picturing him as a bad guy. Hopefully he’ll have a lot of interaction with Neal and Peter in which he gets the chance to be real nasty.
Speaking of nasty, I hope Hughes’ replacement is also a pain in the butt and gives our boys and their arrangement a lot of problems. It’ll feed my “another FBI authority takes control and mistreats Neal” kink. I haven’t seen the actress in anything but if she’s not going to play a villain there is no point for her replacing Hughes. Also I’m almost 95% sure Hughes will be back at the end of this arc.
Read you next week.