Justified 3x01
Jan. 18th, 2012 04:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chaniHere are my first thoughts:
The episode was a lot of fun and had some good lines. One of my favourite exchange being:
Raylan: I could be the guy on the radio telling everybody what to do.
Art: That's my job, asshole.
I also liked:
Raylan : Felix
Winona: like Felix The Cat
Raylan: yes but without The Cat
Typical Raylan's humour!
What struck me the most was that "The Gunfighter" looked like we were watching a casting!
We had several candidates to be this season's new big bad, but instead of voting themselves out like in any reality show, they shot themselves out!
Well, to be fair, Raylan shot one too. Fletcher "Ice Pick" Nix should have known better than playing gun games with Raylan Givens, really, even when our cool deputy Marshal isn't at 100%. Nix might have been a sadistic cold murderer and looked badass enough to stay a second week (and he wore a black hat that made him look like the anti-Raylan), but he wasn't smart enough so he didn't deserve to be the villain of the season. After the pizza crime scene he should have guessed that the Marshal folks would have figured out his killing routine and where his nickname came from...
That said, the motel scene was great (Raylan just pulling the table cloth and therefore outsmarting the cheating gunfighter was simply perfectwas simply perfect) but I also loved the Raylan/Boyd fight and how Raylan cracked a final joke ("you should have worn that suit")and Boyd laughed while they were taking him away (what he obviously wanted so he would have Dickie served on a plate in jail). Those two they just love to flirt before and after getting physical with each other!
Then it was Winona's turn to get physical with Raylan, and she ended up on top of him...like Boyd did. Well, at least they didn't break a window.
I liked the fact that, even though Raylan is fully aware that everybody wants a piece of his sexy body, he had second thoughts about the information he got from Arnett's assistant. Too easy indeed. He's partly off his game, not paying attention to the Nix' file and missing his target in the shooting room, but he is not stupid.
I liked the elevator scene too, and all the hat comments throughout the episode.Raylan's hat had become one of the characters of the show!
As for the fry pan thing, I was sort of spoiled about it, having read the articles I posted about yesterday so I the minute we saw Ava cooking I knew Devil had it coming...
Duffy is always fun to have on screen (an he watches women's tennis in his RV!) so it was good to have him involved in the mafia plot, and, of course, it was great to see Dewey Crowe. I must say that his pairing with Dickie Bennett is something I hadn't thought of, but it's quite interesting...and a bit scary.
As for the U.S Marshal team, Rachel has yet a storyline to have and lines to say, but Art was wonderful and Tim is reaching the Raylan's level of cool.
I liked that Nix, the gunfighter of the title, was a sort of misdirection but I'm still on the fence about Quarles who obviously wins the Who's This Season Big Bad contest. I like the idea that he is an outsider, from the North, because it's a change and the complete opposite of Mags, but the character has yet to make an impression on me (I'm probably the only person who didn't like the sleeve gun!).
Winona is still my least favourite character but she wasn't too annoying in this episode. Perhaps --if there's no other storyline for her than being Raylan's great love -- the best way to make the character work is to have her and Raylan having fun, laughing together.
And I totally want her shoes!!!!!
Oh and one last thing: I missed cousin Johnny , whom I consider the sexiest of the Crowder family. Where's Johnny? Ava seemed to wonder too...Last season, Johnny wasn't in the pilot either and we had to wait several episodes until we learned that he had survived, and now he's missing in action again. Is that becoming a running gag?
ETA Alan Sepinwall's review
The episode was a lot of fun and had some good lines. One of my favourite exchange being:
Raylan: I could be the guy on the radio telling everybody what to do.
Art: That's my job, asshole.
I also liked:
Raylan : Felix
Winona: like Felix The Cat
Raylan: yes but without The Cat
Typical Raylan's humour!
What struck me the most was that "The Gunfighter" looked like we were watching a casting!
We had several candidates to be this season's new big bad, but instead of voting themselves out like in any reality show, they shot themselves out!
Well, to be fair, Raylan shot one too. Fletcher "Ice Pick" Nix should have known better than playing gun games with Raylan Givens, really, even when our cool deputy Marshal isn't at 100%. Nix might have been a sadistic cold murderer and looked badass enough to stay a second week (and he wore a black hat that made him look like the anti-Raylan), but he wasn't smart enough so he didn't deserve to be the villain of the season. After the pizza crime scene he should have guessed that the Marshal folks would have figured out his killing routine and where his nickname came from...
That said, the motel scene was great (Raylan just pulling the table cloth and therefore outsmarting the cheating gunfighter was simply perfectwas simply perfect) but I also loved the Raylan/Boyd fight and how Raylan cracked a final joke ("you should have worn that suit")and Boyd laughed while they were taking him away (what he obviously wanted so he would have Dickie served on a plate in jail). Those two they just love to flirt before and after getting physical with each other!
Then it was Winona's turn to get physical with Raylan, and she ended up on top of him...like Boyd did. Well, at least they didn't break a window.
I liked the fact that, even though Raylan is fully aware that everybody wants a piece of his sexy body, he had second thoughts about the information he got from Arnett's assistant. Too easy indeed. He's partly off his game, not paying attention to the Nix' file and missing his target in the shooting room, but he is not stupid.
I liked the elevator scene too, and all the hat comments throughout the episode.Raylan's hat had become one of the characters of the show!
As for the fry pan thing, I was sort of spoiled about it, having read the articles I posted about yesterday so I the minute we saw Ava cooking I knew Devil had it coming...
Duffy is always fun to have on screen (an he watches women's tennis in his RV!) so it was good to have him involved in the mafia plot, and, of course, it was great to see Dewey Crowe. I must say that his pairing with Dickie Bennett is something I hadn't thought of, but it's quite interesting...and a bit scary.
As for the U.S Marshal team, Rachel has yet a storyline to have and lines to say, but Art was wonderful and Tim is reaching the Raylan's level of cool.
I liked that Nix, the gunfighter of the title, was a sort of misdirection but I'm still on the fence about Quarles who obviously wins the Who's This Season Big Bad contest. I like the idea that he is an outsider, from the North, because it's a change and the complete opposite of Mags, but the character has yet to make an impression on me (I'm probably the only person who didn't like the sleeve gun!).
Winona is still my least favourite character but she wasn't too annoying in this episode. Perhaps --if there's no other storyline for her than being Raylan's great love -- the best way to make the character work is to have her and Raylan having fun, laughing together.
And I totally want her shoes!!!!!
Oh and one last thing: I missed cousin Johnny , whom I consider the sexiest of the Crowder family. Where's Johnny? Ava seemed to wonder too...Last season, Johnny wasn't in the pilot either and we had to wait several episodes until we learned that he had survived, and now he's missing in action again. Is that becoming a running gag?
ETA Alan Sepinwall's review