H50 2.01

[thegrrrl2002]

Eeeeeeeeee! Steve! Danny! Kono! Chin Ho Kelly!!!! Oh no, not Jenna! I refuse to accept it!!

That's about all I have right now. Yes, I've watched the car scene with Steve & Danny about ten times so far, and no, that was not eye-fucking. That was eye-lovemaking. Because their faces, the most smooshiest faces of LOVE that I've ever seen. Oh, and I adore Max. And while White is a total Mary Sue, I like him. And Kono? you don't try and take Kono down with only one guy, because she'll kick his ass with BOTH HANDS TIED BEHIND HER BACK.

Chin Ho Kelly should wear a uniform more often. I'm just sayin'.

I wish they had given the Rachel/Danny thing a little more weight in the ep, but I get that it's the Action Packed Premiere. So hopefully we'll get a better resolution on that next week. Right now it's making Rachel look like a bit of a flake, and I don't like that. Because she isn't. And I'm firmly convinced that Jenna is a double agent. I refuse to believe she's working for Wo Fat. I like to think that she has her own agenda in taking Wo Fat down, which just happens to coincide with Steve's and that's why she's working with him.

In conclusion, Steve LOVES Danny and Danny LOVES Steve.

Comments

[ariadne83]

She's been shown to be cool and manipulative (how she managed to meet Danny; crashing her car into the neighbor's gate so Danny could escape without detection), yet wildly irrational (threatening to take Danny back to court over visitation after the football field incident, yo-yo-ing between Danny and Stan....she immediately hooks up with Stan when her and Danny fall apart, and moves thousands of miles away with no thought about the impact on her daughter, now she boomerangs back to Danny when things get rocky with Stan. Not to mention the completely irrational urge to leave Hawaii immediately in the absence of coercion by Wo Fat---again with no thought to how this will affect her daughter. They've made her come off as completely cuckoo)

Umm... I see all of those things as being consistent with Rachel having a bit of an impulsive streak and needing someone to counter that, to steady her. Which is why she's attracted to Danny - he's impulsive too sometimes - but also why they're bad for each other.

YMMV but I don't see her as cuckoo *shrugs*

[gyri.livejournal.com]

Cuckoo might not have been a good word to use, but I'm afraid I just don't have a very charitable view of how Rachel has been written.

btw, what does YMMV mean?

[ariadne83]

No, I don't like the way the writers have used Rachel, but I do still like Rachel herself. I have people in my life who I love dearly even though they done really dumb shit and hurt *other* people I love dearly; I have a finely-honed ability to facepalm and carry on.

Literally it's "Your Mileage May Vary" but in practice it's more like agree to disagree :-)