Sentinel 1x4 The Debt

[zelempa]

"Blair insists, 'It's about dominance and submission of subgroups!' Is he trying to hint something? Other things I expect Blair has said today: Man, I can't believe I signed up for this English class; I must be masochistic. Hey, Jim, have you read this book, Of Human Bondage ? Cause if you don't have a copy I'll have to go out and buy a brand spanking new one."

THE DEBT

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[janedavitt.livejournal.com]

Way, way too much Earl. Is he Jim or Blair? No, so I don't really care all that awfully much.

'I'm all yours, little buddy' ::melts and is melted::

Pivotal episode, just... too much people who are not our boys.

[zelempa.livejournal.com]

I totally agree. Earl is fine and it would be okay to see this much of him if he was a recurring character, but I have very little interest in developing characters we don't see in more than one episode and who don't impact Jim or Blair's backstory.

"I'm all yours little buddy" is such a strange line (esp. to Jim) and so self-consciously said. Like he had already decided to say "I'm all yours" but then decided it was weird but then decided to say it anyway. As, ha ha, a joke! (But maybe I'm overestimating the extent to which people besides me plan out what they will say.)

[erda-3.livejournal.com]

They *are* so adorable in the kitchen. I'm watching the show for the first time and I'm really enjoying your, um, whatever you call what you're doing here.

[zelempa.livejournal.com]

Thanks! Think of it as "Sentinel without pity" :)

It's good to know someone besides me is watching the episodes for the first time. I did most of the recaps when I was watching the episodes for the first time, which is why some of them display amazing ignorance about future episodes and indeed what is to come in the rest of the episode. The first season is re-watches, though.

[sallymn.livejournal.com]

The main lts as weak as water, but you've got the vital stuff down pat {eg}

[zelempa.livejournal.com]

Yeah, notice how I cram four Earl scenes into one paragraph and then take four to describe each of Blair's four lines :)

[t-verano.livejournal.com]

Your ep reviews make me grin out loud. I love the 'roundup' thing at the end, too.

He got an automatic extension due to the department chair being out of town (because that's how that works), so he has plenty of time to ignore his project now!

The writers on this ep just outdid themselves -- the gang stuff was so who-cares, and Blair's project was pretty much the antithesis of science (or of a project of any kind -- 'ignoring the project' is so dead-on).

BLAIR: I'm all yours, little buddy!
JIM: That's a very generous offer, but I think you'd be a little in over your head.

Seriously? Seriously, they--oh, the case. The case, everyone.

::snickersnort:: (Not to mention the *beg* over the D/s riff.)

[zelempa.livejournal.com]

It's not even just that he's ignoring the project. The project doesn't make any sense to begin with. He has one monkey; I mean, a test sample of one is bad enough, but he doesn't even have a control. He's doing the project in his own home, which is the opposite of a controlled environment. The fact that he changes location midway through the project confounds things a lot; the monkey could just be acting out because of that. Also, what is he measuring? I mean he shows the monkey some TV violence and--what? Just watches what it does? Short of a fantastic freakout of the kind that actually occurs (which, granted, doesn't really seem to bother him that much, but does seem to surprise him), what was he expecting to write about?

I'm sorry. I've just given this a lot of thought. :)

Thanks for your comments!

[liz6446.livejournal.com]

He has one monkey; I mean, a test sample of one is bad enough, but he doesn't even have a control. He's doing the project in his own home, which is the opposite of a controlled environment. The fact that he changes location midway through the project confounds things a lot


That sounds just like Blair's Sentinel project :)

I'm surprised Jim fell for Blair's line about not having a place to go. Ten years at the same university and he doesn't have a single friend that could put him up for the night? I don't think Blair really wanted to consider any other options. :)


Liz

[zelempa.livejournal.com]

Agreed. And Jim didn't really put up much of a fight, either. :)

HA HA HA it totally is the Sentinel project.

(Course there's more of an excuse for doing a case study there, since there's only one of him. And Blair did *try* to get data from the second Sentinel when he had the chance.)