Painkiller Jane - 1x06 - Breakdown
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fembuckOh, PKJ! *shakes head* I just don't know what to do with you.
Everyone on this team is a complete moron.
Jane is less of a moron than the others, but it cannot be denied that she too, is uncommonly slow. I mean, honestly how did it take her like a day to realize that brandy Dr. Lewis gave her was drugged after Mohinder told her that she had been dosed with a slow-acting tranquilizer? Slow.
And when they were waiting outside of the motel, why did they just stand around for like 15 minutes waiting for Dr. Lewis to come out. I'm sorry, he should have been out of the room about a minute after he went in. The fact that Jane kept on muttering, "something isn't right, this is taking too long" does not make things better. It makes them worse because she KNEW something wasn't right and still kept out standing out there doing nothing like a moron.
Also, how is it surprising that Jane could possibly be neuro or neuro-like? You know that she can heal almost instantaneously. What did they think it was, magic beans? A fairy godmother? The effects of diligently taking Flintstones chewables? Idiots!
I liked that there was more Jane/Mo interaction this week.
It wasn't very meaningful, but at least they got to be partners. And also, Mo was standing beside Jane when she was droning on in her voice-over at the end about the power of love and people standing by you or whatever, which was kind of subtexty.
Lokinator gives good scream.
And considering that Jane spent most of the episode looking traumatized, rolling around on the ground, waking up from nightmares and pretending to drown, I guess that's a good thing.
Moral Ambiguity
I like my characters moral ambigous (Irina Derevko, Chase, Faith, Atia of the Julii, Captain Tightpants, etc. *swoon*) and Jane being a spectrum of gray would be totally cool with me. But her lie to Dr. Lewis about how they would be able to cure Elyse wasn't cool moral ambiguity it just sucked. Especially with the Jane-is-probably-a-neuro "reveal" at the end, it's becoming more and more distasteful that she's working for these people and now lying for them as well.
Going along with that, the teams belief that they are beyond the law or really human fucking decency is really really chaffing. They're just a unit of big, stupid thugs.
Really, that's enough to make you crazy?
I'm sorry, maybe this point will show that I have led an incredibly trauma-free life and don't understand the depths of PAIN, but is what Elyse went through really enough to keep someone in a nearly vegetative state for over a decade? I mean, with therapy and a proper regime of medicine shouldn't she have been at least functional? Like isn't that the whole point of therapy? I just feel like the entire episode could have been avoided if Elyse had been treated by a decent psychiatrist. I mean, if I had seen my parents murdered in front of me and nearly drowned to death when I was nine would I be traumatized and haunted? Yeah, probably. Would I need to be restrained in a straight-jacket in an empty cell where I muttered to myself for the rest of my life? Probably not.
Annoying non-continuity issue.
In the pilot Jane goes on about how she hates high heels when she and Mo are going undercover in the club. Yet the last shot clearly showed Jane just strolling around in like 3 inch heels, and I've seen her just casually wearing them before. Now, I'm sorry, if you want her to be no-nonsense type of girl who wears her hair in ponytails, shoves people in the street if they're in her way, and doesn't give a rats ass about the latest fashion tips in Cosmo or Jimmy Chos and Kate Spade hand bags, then DO NOT HAVE HER WALKING AROUND IN 3 INCH HEELS ON THE JOB!
And finally...
Jane needs to never ever make a comment that could be construed as sexually flirty to McBride again. The "How am I good to you?" line and him checking out her ass as she walked away made me throw up a little in my mouth.
And I hope that Loken wearing that red jacket and having her hair up while fighting a giant of a man was an intentional homage to T3, because I just giggled and kept on muttering "I like your car" in a Loken-esque growl the whole time she was in that outfit.
edited because Mo chipping Elyse actually did make sense in the context of the show and is probably the one action taken by a character this episode that SHOULDN'T be picked on
Everyone on this team is a complete moron.
Jane is less of a moron than the others, but it cannot be denied that she too, is uncommonly slow. I mean, honestly how did it take her like a day to realize that brandy Dr. Lewis gave her was drugged after Mohinder told her that she had been dosed with a slow-acting tranquilizer? Slow.
And when they were waiting outside of the motel, why did they just stand around for like 15 minutes waiting for Dr. Lewis to come out. I'm sorry, he should have been out of the room about a minute after he went in. The fact that Jane kept on muttering, "something isn't right, this is taking too long" does not make things better. It makes them worse because she KNEW something wasn't right and still kept out standing out there doing nothing like a moron.
Also, how is it surprising that Jane could possibly be neuro or neuro-like? You know that she can heal almost instantaneously. What did they think it was, magic beans? A fairy godmother? The effects of diligently taking Flintstones chewables? Idiots!
I liked that there was more Jane/Mo interaction this week.
It wasn't very meaningful, but at least they got to be partners. And also, Mo was standing beside Jane when she was droning on in her voice-over at the end about the power of love and people standing by you or whatever, which was kind of subtexty.
Lokinator gives good scream.
And considering that Jane spent most of the episode looking traumatized, rolling around on the ground, waking up from nightmares and pretending to drown, I guess that's a good thing.
Moral Ambiguity
I like my characters moral ambigous (Irina Derevko, Chase, Faith, Atia of the Julii, Captain Tightpants, etc. *swoon*) and Jane being a spectrum of gray would be totally cool with me. But her lie to Dr. Lewis about how they would be able to cure Elyse wasn't cool moral ambiguity it just sucked. Especially with the Jane-is-probably-a-neuro "reveal" at the end, it's becoming more and more distasteful that she's working for these people and now lying for them as well.
Going along with that, the teams belief that they are beyond the law or really human fucking decency is really really chaffing. They're just a unit of big, stupid thugs.
Really, that's enough to make you crazy?
I'm sorry, maybe this point will show that I have led an incredibly trauma-free life and don't understand the depths of PAIN, but is what Elyse went through really enough to keep someone in a nearly vegetative state for over a decade? I mean, with therapy and a proper regime of medicine shouldn't she have been at least functional? Like isn't that the whole point of therapy? I just feel like the entire episode could have been avoided if Elyse had been treated by a decent psychiatrist. I mean, if I had seen my parents murdered in front of me and nearly drowned to death when I was nine would I be traumatized and haunted? Yeah, probably. Would I need to be restrained in a straight-jacket in an empty cell where I muttered to myself for the rest of my life? Probably not.
Annoying non-continuity issue.
In the pilot Jane goes on about how she hates high heels when she and Mo are going undercover in the club. Yet the last shot clearly showed Jane just strolling around in like 3 inch heels, and I've seen her just casually wearing them before. Now, I'm sorry, if you want her to be no-nonsense type of girl who wears her hair in ponytails, shoves people in the street if they're in her way, and doesn't give a rats ass about the latest fashion tips in Cosmo or Jimmy Chos and Kate Spade hand bags, then DO NOT HAVE HER WALKING AROUND IN 3 INCH HEELS ON THE JOB!
And finally...
Jane needs to never ever make a comment that could be construed as sexually flirty to McBride again. The "How am I good to you?" line and him checking out her ass as she walked away made me throw up a little in my mouth.
And I hope that Loken wearing that red jacket and having her hair up while fighting a giant of a man was an intentional homage to T3, because I just giggled and kept on muttering "I like your car" in a Loken-esque growl the whole time she was in that outfit.
edited because Mo chipping Elyse actually did make sense in the context of the show and is probably the one action taken by a character this episode that SHOULDN'T be picked on
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Date: 2007-05-20 05:52 am (UTC)lol. Lokinator is really the only thing that's keeping me watching regularly. The scary thing is that the show is getting better, it's just if you're used to watching things that don't suck you'd never be able to tell. This episode was practically genius compared to the first three.
*grumbles* I mean, they have the whole Mo / Jane dynamic, a semi-interesting premise, and the mystery of Jane's abilities, and what do they do? Screw everything over, play the characters off as dumb-as-a-frigging-doorknob, ignore the possibilities (morality / past / secrecy / heroic / identity issues, etc.) AND the subtext, then dangle plot holes big enough to drive a truck through.
Of course, because of all of that, the show will never really be "good", even though it has risen from complete mediocrity. BTW, I totally agree with everything you said there, and those are the things that continue to bother me every episode. It has the potential to be a good show, they've just done pretty much EVERYTHING wrong (except for casting Lokinator).
And for the love of god, show SOMETHING about their security precautions already!!! An alley with a frigging door at the end that somehow connects to a train / subway station is NOT a secret command base, it's an invitation for someone to come in and beat the shit out of you.
Oh, someone already did come in and pwn them all. Then he proceeded to make them his bitches for the rest of the episode. And as punishment they ... let him go home.
And none of that response was a joke.
Security measures would imply competence and this team is in no way, shape or form competent. Besides, the plots pretty much revolve around contrivance and the idiocy of the team so I'm not sure the writers are actually capable of producing something mildly intelligent that makes sense.
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Date: 2007-05-20 11:25 am (UTC)It's like they have this brilliant concept guy that came up with the show and certain ideas, but that's it. The series premise was interesting, parts of the pilot - like her falling out of the building - and certain lines are interesting. A guy that can take people's knowledge and twist the team around like toys? Yeah, that's interesting, though it would have been more impressive if the team wasn't frigging retarded. Even the kid that could re-animate people was cool. But then they hand it off to some utter idiots to flesh things out, and the interesting part gets thrown out the window.
*sighs* I could write better stuff when bored. At four in the morning. After being up for more than twenty hours, no caffine and a killer headache.