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iariaKoshonin Season 1
I finished the first season and enjoyed it overall. I really did not think I would finish it because that first episode was just so hard for me to get through. I kept procrastinating on watching episode two but a number of people loved the series so much that I didn’t want to just drop it. I decided to give it the second episode, and the conclusion of the episode 1 plot line, to see if I could keep watching. Luckily, I found that episode much easier to get through and subsequently the rest of the episodes as well. While I wouldn’t list it as a favourite series I did enjoy it enough that I’m going to watch the second season.
• I knew from the beginning that the season would end with the SIT team having grown to respect Usagi and her skills but I was a little surprised with how much I loved it when it actually came to pass. Sumida was the first to really be actively supportive of Usagi, and Kizaki clearly cared about her by the end but it was Kirisawa – who spent the whole series pushing her and putting her down (but clearly slowly being impressed from as early as episode 2) and who smacked her on her first day – who’s complete confidence and respect he had for her in the final episode that made me happiest. I loved his “If you give her time she can solve anything.” and how clearly proud he was of her.
• The Usagi/Mariya scenes in the final episode, especially that final scene out in the snow, were excellent. I want more scenes like the snow one. It just really worked for me.
• Usagi has to have suspected from almost the beginning that Mariya didn’t kill her father. And as the only person to in his life to visit him in jail – and every week for five years at that – it would be impossible for there not to be a connection between them. I bet Usagi was really relieved to learn that he hadn’t killed anyone. I hope the next season has a lot more of them.
• I also really liked Usagi and her sister Mio’s interactions in the final episode.
Chuck 4x17 ‘Chuck Versus the First Bank of Evil’
I really enjoyed the episode. It was giving me all sorts of AU ideas. For instance I really, really love the idea of Vivian as head of Volkoff Industries with Sarah as her head of security. That is an AU I would love to see (with maybe Chuck as her assistant and Casey as her bodyguard because Casey makes so much more sense as a bodyguard than Chuck.) Or the idea of Chuck and Sarah as bank robbers. Or Chuck/Sarah/Vivian/Casey(/Morgan) as a team of thieves.
• I loved the scene where Sarah and Chuck play bank robber. Sometimes them talking about their personal life during missions annoys me, mostly I’m neutral about it but this time I loved it. It was adorable and amusing. The whole scene was played perfectly and I watched it several times.
- Well, okay, I was sceptical about how easy it was for them to rob the bank and with how little resistance they faced and the lack of pursuit but it played so perfectly that I’m ignoring all that. I’m also ignoring the fact that they burnt all the money they stole. Why the hell would they do that?
• Chuck/Sarah were adorable throughout.
• I love Vivian. I mean some of it has to be residual Lauren Cohan love because I just like her but I do love Vivian for herself I think. Her reaction when Riley pulled a gun on her – stab his hand, smash a vase over his head, grab the card and run – was pretty badass. And she continued that when she agreed to go into the dangerous bank twice and when she played an alternate version of herself really well (her slapping and pulling the gun on Chuck). I was impressed.
- I like that she’s this normal person who is rather unsure about her life and what she wants but has no real interest in either her father’s criminal world or in Chuck’s spy life. I loved that her response to Riley telling her Chuck put her father in jail was to go “...my father was a criminal”.
• The Morgan plotline was okay I mostly loved him inadvertently blackmailing Casey and that now we get to see them as roommates.
White Collar 2x15 'Power Play'
This was a fun episode. There were a number of scenes with the guys acting that I couldn’t really watch but I still found it very enjoyable.
• I loved “As my wife’s husband” so much. ♥ That just hit my buttons and my response was an immediate ‘yes, please’.
• I enjoyed El and Neal pretending to be married. I always like it best when El is involved in cases and I just wish she’d been more involved in this one.
• I really love how very obvious it is that El is the boss in her marriage. Peter may top Neal but Elizabeth tops him – and it is totally canon.
• I found a lot of things in this episode amusing: their phone call and Neal’s amusement during it, Neal and Peter playing agent/thief and having fun with it, them speaking as the other (“I wish I was an FBI agent.” and “I think he’s the single most valuable asset we have.”), Peter’s entire office being gleeful about the deception and Diana and Jones constantly teasing Peter about it throughout the episode.
• I loved June and Mozzie training Peter in the arts of being a thief. I really loved June speaking ‘the language’ of a thief with Mozzie (and confusing Peter).
• It was really nice to see Sara again. I did find her and Neal’s awkwardness with each other weird because that’s not really their dynamic. I did however enjoy the making out. I also liked Sara’s back story – that she had an older sister who ran away and was never heard from again – because as angsty back stories go that’s a new one for me.
• As soon as it became clear they needed a thief my first thought wasn’t that Peter should play Neal but that they should track down Alex. And then Alex turned up at the end! I just really hope they don’t make her a bad guy.
I finished the first season and enjoyed it overall. I really did not think I would finish it because that first episode was just so hard for me to get through. I kept procrastinating on watching episode two but a number of people loved the series so much that I didn’t want to just drop it. I decided to give it the second episode, and the conclusion of the episode 1 plot line, to see if I could keep watching. Luckily, I found that episode much easier to get through and subsequently the rest of the episodes as well. While I wouldn’t list it as a favourite series I did enjoy it enough that I’m going to watch the second season.
• I knew from the beginning that the season would end with the SIT team having grown to respect Usagi and her skills but I was a little surprised with how much I loved it when it actually came to pass. Sumida was the first to really be actively supportive of Usagi, and Kizaki clearly cared about her by the end but it was Kirisawa – who spent the whole series pushing her and putting her down (but clearly slowly being impressed from as early as episode 2) and who smacked her on her first day – who’s complete confidence and respect he had for her in the final episode that made me happiest. I loved his “If you give her time she can solve anything.” and how clearly proud he was of her.
• The Usagi/Mariya scenes in the final episode, especially that final scene out in the snow, were excellent. I want more scenes like the snow one. It just really worked for me.
• Usagi has to have suspected from almost the beginning that Mariya didn’t kill her father. And as the only person to in his life to visit him in jail – and every week for five years at that – it would be impossible for there not to be a connection between them. I bet Usagi was really relieved to learn that he hadn’t killed anyone. I hope the next season has a lot more of them.
• I also really liked Usagi and her sister Mio’s interactions in the final episode.
Chuck 4x17 ‘Chuck Versus the First Bank of Evil’
I really enjoyed the episode. It was giving me all sorts of AU ideas. For instance I really, really love the idea of Vivian as head of Volkoff Industries with Sarah as her head of security. That is an AU I would love to see (with maybe Chuck as her assistant and Casey as her bodyguard because Casey makes so much more sense as a bodyguard than Chuck.) Or the idea of Chuck and Sarah as bank robbers. Or Chuck/Sarah/Vivian/Casey(/Morgan) as a team of thieves.
• I loved the scene where Sarah and Chuck play bank robber. Sometimes them talking about their personal life during missions annoys me, mostly I’m neutral about it but this time I loved it. It was adorable and amusing. The whole scene was played perfectly and I watched it several times.
- Well, okay, I was sceptical about how easy it was for them to rob the bank and with how little resistance they faced and the lack of pursuit but it played so perfectly that I’m ignoring all that. I’m also ignoring the fact that they burnt all the money they stole. Why the hell would they do that?
• Chuck/Sarah were adorable throughout.
• I love Vivian. I mean some of it has to be residual Lauren Cohan love because I just like her but I do love Vivian for herself I think. Her reaction when Riley pulled a gun on her – stab his hand, smash a vase over his head, grab the card and run – was pretty badass. And she continued that when she agreed to go into the dangerous bank twice and when she played an alternate version of herself really well (her slapping and pulling the gun on Chuck). I was impressed.
- I like that she’s this normal person who is rather unsure about her life and what she wants but has no real interest in either her father’s criminal world or in Chuck’s spy life. I loved that her response to Riley telling her Chuck put her father in jail was to go “...my father was a criminal”.
• The Morgan plotline was okay I mostly loved him inadvertently blackmailing Casey and that now we get to see them as roommates.
White Collar 2x15 'Power Play'
This was a fun episode. There were a number of scenes with the guys acting that I couldn’t really watch but I still found it very enjoyable.
• I loved “As my wife’s husband” so much. ♥ That just hit my buttons and my response was an immediate ‘yes, please’.
• I enjoyed El and Neal pretending to be married. I always like it best when El is involved in cases and I just wish she’d been more involved in this one.
• I really love how very obvious it is that El is the boss in her marriage. Peter may top Neal but Elizabeth tops him – and it is totally canon.
• I found a lot of things in this episode amusing: their phone call and Neal’s amusement during it, Neal and Peter playing agent/thief and having fun with it, them speaking as the other (“I wish I was an FBI agent.” and “I think he’s the single most valuable asset we have.”), Peter’s entire office being gleeful about the deception and Diana and Jones constantly teasing Peter about it throughout the episode.
• I loved June and Mozzie training Peter in the arts of being a thief. I really loved June speaking ‘the language’ of a thief with Mozzie (and confusing Peter).
• It was really nice to see Sara again. I did find her and Neal’s awkwardness with each other weird because that’s not really their dynamic. I did however enjoy the making out. I also liked Sara’s back story – that she had an older sister who ran away and was never heard from again – because as angsty back stories go that’s a new one for me.
• As soon as it became clear they needed a thief my first thought wasn’t that Peter should play Neal but that they should track down Alex. And then Alex turned up at the end! I just really hope they don’t make her a bad guy.
