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« on: August 10, 2011, 08:51:17 pm » |
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Writer: Elizabeth Bear
Airdate: April 1, 2012
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« Reply #1 on: August 10, 2011, 11:08:15 pm » |
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I look at the date and go o.O in a dubious fashion.
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« Reply #2 on: August 11, 2011, 03:02:06 am » |
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I look at the date and go o.O in a dubious fashion.
Why? The world won't end until December 21st 2012...  |
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« Reply #3 on: August 11, 2011, 09:50:03 am » |
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I look at the date and go o.O in a dubious fashion.
Why? The world won't end until December 21st 2012... Aw, shoot. You mean I created all those topics for nothing? |
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« Reply #4 on: August 11, 2011, 12:55:03 pm » |
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I look at the date and go o.O in a dubious fashion.
Why? The world won't end until December 21st 2012... Aw, shoot. You mean I created all those topics for nothing? I was assuming that Todd would be using his Time Lord powers and post from the future again. |
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« Reply #5 on: March 28, 2012, 01:21:11 pm » |
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The wiki has these tidbits about Sunday's episode: According to Elizabeth Bear's LiveJournal, the first line of "Latency" will be:
Barry Petrewski lived in a hole in the ground.
On 27-Mar-2012 Bear tweeted
"Working on the next #ShadowUnit episode, and I have this to say: I adore @artfultan"
Strongly implying that Arthur Tan will appear. So Arthur meets a hobbit. Should be good. |
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« Reply #6 on: March 30, 2012, 09:23:18 am » |
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I am so ready for this episode, I cannot even tell you all. March has been full of joylessness (bad knees, head colds, work angst, money woes). A month that starts off with a Shadow Unit episode has GOT to better. I'm holding its promise before me like a little beam of light. How is that a show that often makes me sad, angsty, confused, angry and frustrated also entertains me this much?
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« Reply #7 on: April 01, 2012, 11:52:36 pm » |
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Uh. (Sound of reaction to something like a punch to the gut.) Reyes does *what*  OK, I'd not have expected that, at all. Nothing else I can put into words, at least not yet. |
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« Reply #8 on: April 02, 2012, 12:41:53 am » |
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I appear to have left an entire crate of pens in the bathroom. Ill be back in a bit.
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« Reply #9 on: April 02, 2012, 01:38:00 am » |
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I really liked the developments for the team in this episode. also, hi! I exist! I'm still reading!
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« Reply #10 on: April 02, 2012, 08:21:01 am » |
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Oh. Think I'll have to read this one again, as I've been left with a "Huh?" feeling. I don't think this is just an eleborate April Fools, but then I'm not really sure I'm following what's going on. I find it difficult to beleive that they let Hafs back so easily, anf why would Reyes walk away at this point? Don't get this one at all.
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« Reply #11 on: April 02, 2012, 08:36:49 am » |
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Damn you people for making me care so much about people who don't exist. *sniff*
OK, analysis:
The takeaway message from last ep and this one: repetition is going to become a problem for the FBI sooner rather than later. Gamma incidents are happening in the same places frequently and conspicuously enough that people are taking notice, to various effect. Celentano's going to have to push a little harder with Justice and the Congressional oversight groups for increased visibility.
And speaking of oversight: Reyes did what now? I really hope we're not going to end up with a pair of ancillary domestic sitcoms attached to the main SU plotline. =) OK, so Esther takes over leadership of the team. Brady is the next ranking agent, and the only other SSA, so he's second in command - unless Celentano sends Pauley Down the Hall to keep an eye on things. Speaking of SSAs, I think Nikki's about due for a promotion. And I'm sure I'm not the only one who's noticed that the WTF contingent of Active Agents Allowed to Have a Weapon in the Field is, with Reyes' retirement, down to four: Esther, Brady, Nikki, Chaz. There's gonna have to be *some* new blood, budget cuts or no. Bets that Tan gets a transfer? Padma's not gonna like that *at all*. (Alternately, you could roll the WTF back into the main BAU and make this part of their essential mission. Raise your hand if you want to go into the field against a gamma with Murchison watching your back....)
Autumn's presence throws a number of potential wrenches into the works. I bet Chaz is gonna love the idea of a surrogate little sister. Hafs, not so much, I'm thinking. And how will the Survivor's Club react to the idea that Reyes is raising a potential gamma outside Idlewood? More to the point, isn't she an awfully ripe target for our putative shadowy gamma-hunter? As victim, or recruit to the cause?
And finally: yay for that moment of domestic coziness with Brady and Gray! I'm just hoping they haven't been given it so it can be taken away. (Too many Joss Whedon plotlines in my formative years, maybe.)
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« Reply #12 on: April 02, 2012, 04:39:32 pm » |
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Huh. Ouch. I think I need to read that one again, at a slower speed. ECR, but I'm not sure what it is I feel about this one. I feel bad for Autumn. And all those women. How awful.
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« Reply #13 on: April 02, 2012, 05:59:46 pm » |
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I will say that I think the episode suffered a little for not showing us more inside Reyes' head. It made his decision moment come out of nowhere in a way that, to me, interrupted the flow of the story I thought was going on. There are times when that can be a good thing, but for something changing the dynamic of the series, it was a little jarring.
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« Reply #14 on: April 02, 2012, 07:04:10 pm » |
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First reaction: That was NOT a hobbit.
Further analysis is going to have to wait for things to settle. There's a lot of pieces there, and most of them are still in motion.
It was nice seeing Arthur, and semi-amusing to notice just now that he was more spooked by the team than by the Gamma.
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"Danny, that's good," his mother said, sounding strange and strained and cautious. "What's--"
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