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Post by stovetop on Mar 15, 2006 16:35:09 GMT -5
I also agree that it is good for the action to tone down a little inbetween the really good episodes because it sets up what will become very important.
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Post by stovetop on Mar 15, 2006 16:37:04 GMT -5
Hey axeman61, that is a good way of thinking about it. I like when people define the meanings of the titles.
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Post by acc on Mar 26, 2007 12:28:15 GMT -5
5x06 Rap Payback is in my estimation the weakest episode of Seaon 5. I give it a C+.
The storylines aren't particularly interesting to me. Kavanaugh's looong interrogation of Corrine is, as jwc pointed out, kind of bordering on being unrealistic (Corrine not having a lawyer... though, as I wrote in the 5x05 Trophy thread I can see it happening--the Danny thing, not so much).
The white drug dealer Casper was entertaining. The Vic-Shane interrogations of him recall Season 1 in their straightforwardness. Danny giving up so easily to Kavanaugh was pretty weak--as you say, jwc, it seems as though she could have easily ducked that.
The episode really comes alive from the Dutch-Claudette story, which I find vastly more interesting here (and in the very next episode, too) than the other stuff. Trying to nail Kleavon is really tough and the writers played it up just as well as I would hope they would. His hurried killing of another woman, and cutting off of her hair, really makes the storyline not only engaging but rather harrowing, at least in the next episode
The episode feels a little strained at times because Kavanaugh's bullying of Corrine gets kind of repetitive.
The episode feels like a real set-up episode and it is. 5x07 Man Inside really gets to the actual "meat" in all of these arcs. I don't mind set-up episodes but this is still Season 5's weakest episode in my opinion.
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Post by electroshockblues on Mar 26, 2007 12:48:38 GMT -5
I agree with you, acc, though I'd say that episode 7 was joint-place with it for weakest episode of the season.
They're by no means bad episodes (they're certainly better than a lot of S4 episodes), but thrown in amongst the 9 potential classics that make up the rest of the season they really don't stand out.
In fact, the only bit I can really remember standing out from those two episodes was the scene where Vic half-confesses the Strike Team's corrupt past to his lawyer (which episode was that?). I thought that was a brilliant scene. On the one hand you've got Vic confessing and actually repenting what he's done, but on the other he's holding back most of the truth (Terry, the money train etc) which casts a lot of doubt over the sincerity of his repentance.
Edit: Actually, I also like the outdoors scene in ep 7 where Kavanaugh questions Aceveda's loyalties and brings up the suspicious circumstances surrounding Juan's death. I'm hoping this is developed in S6.
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Post by acc on Mar 26, 2007 13:12:26 GMT -5
Yes, electroshockblues, in many ways the whole Vic/Lem/Kavanaugh arc that had been bounding with such energy for the first few episodes gets a cooling off period in these two episodes.
And you're right about Vic's confessional to Becca. It's one of the best scenes of 5x07. It's so rare to get that kind of truth, and so much of it, from Vic, and you can't help but be impressed when something like that goes down. It really establishes Becca's guileless reaction when Lem points out the Money Train robbery and says that people were killed.
And, again, the Dutch-Claudette-Kleavon stuff is really good, especially in 5x07. Yet as you say, compared to the majority of Season 5, they just seem a little tentative.
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