Rizzoli & Isles 1x06 Thoughts
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“He always liked the finer things in life.” – Isles
“Yeah, he liked you.” – Rizzoli.
♥ These two... I love them. They were especially slashy in this episode. I loved their fight and make up.
1x06 ‘I Kissed a Girl’
I loved this episode. This is a surprise because it did not get off to a good start with how the whole Jorge situation played out. Post episode that plot line still bugs me but Jane and Maura were so awesome that it overcomes it. In the end despite any issues I may have with a show – writing or plot or how they deal with issues – it always comes down to the characters and on this show I love Maura and Jane and their oh-so-slashy relationship.
• I would have thought that in an episode dealing with lesbians and having Jane go undercover as a lesbian TPTB would have toned down the subtext between them for the episode but instead I think this was the slashiest episode yet. Oh, I love them. I love them teasing, and talking, and being such close friends. I love Jane letting Maura drag her to yoga class every week, I love them lounging in bed talking about if they dated girls, I love them sleeping in the same bed, I love them. That bed conversation was wonderful. On a more individual note:
• Jane and everyone else’s reactions to Jorge being a nurse really, really irritated me. Is it seriously still that big a deal for a guy to be a nurse? Why? Then they piled things up – sending her flowers/chocolate/lunch/poems, wanting to be a house-husband, cooking, being environmentally conscious – and it all apparently added up to him being ‘a sissy’ and ‘unmanly’ to the point that Korsak even says so (thought we also later get that moment where Korsak wonders if he could have Jorge if Jane didn’t want him). If she found him corny or just not her type, and that was clearly the case, that’s fine but that she disliked him because he was sensitive and felt him being a nurse was something to laugh at him for and not something worthy of a man doing (after all it’s a woman’s job and thus below a man? Yuck) bugs me. We did get this exchange though:
“Nice and supportive doesn’t mean weak.” – Maura
“Please. Jorge is more submissive than my dog.” – Jane
Oh, I love Maura and I really loved that line. That line needs to be on a t-shirt and on message boards.
- This was also the start of me not being as irritated with Jane over the Jorge situation and it told us something important about Jane – Jane isn’t attracted to submissiveness. She’s a dominate personality and she is attracted to a dominate personality in turn. She likes conflict and push/pull.
- Also helping with on the Jorge irritation front is the fact that he sent her ten e-mails apparent over the course of one night, which after one date and knowing her only a week at most, is kind of creepy.
• “I want to connect with someone who can make me more of who I am, who can be strong without needing me to be weak.” Maura and Jane both laugh at this but I love how obvious it is that it describes them and their relationship.
• “Just think because of you this time tomorrow I could be on a date with a killer.” – Jane. What I loved about this was that Jane said killer not woman. She singled out possibly dating the killer as being more important than dating a woman (as she should).
• “What you think of as a great guy is an average woman.” – Jane. ♥ I don’t even know what I can add to that.
• I really wish that we’d gotten the ‘Maura dresses Jane’ scene this episode was so clearly meant to have but disappointingly skipped. I wanted a music clothes-trying-on montage! Plus, she went to a gay bar to meet possible female suspects on a pretend date and the least she could have done was dress up. She actually looked much better throughout most the rest of the episode then she did during the actual date which is sad.
• What I found interesting was Korsak, and to a lesser extent Frost’s, obvious and even verbal visual appreciation for both Maura and Jane.
• I do wish that we could have had it not be the wife as the killer. Sigh.
• Jane is adorable with her dog.
“He always liked the finer things in life.” – Isles
“Yeah, he liked you.” – Rizzoli.
♥ These two... I love them. They were especially slashy in this episode. I loved their fight and make up.
1x06 ‘I Kissed a Girl’
I loved this episode. This is a surprise because it did not get off to a good start with how the whole Jorge situation played out. Post episode that plot line still bugs me but Jane and Maura were so awesome that it overcomes it. In the end despite any issues I may have with a show – writing or plot or how they deal with issues – it always comes down to the characters and on this show I love Maura and Jane and their oh-so-slashy relationship.
• I would have thought that in an episode dealing with lesbians and having Jane go undercover as a lesbian TPTB would have toned down the subtext between them for the episode but instead I think this was the slashiest episode yet. Oh, I love them. I love them teasing, and talking, and being such close friends. I love Jane letting Maura drag her to yoga class every week, I love them lounging in bed talking about if they dated girls, I love them sleeping in the same bed, I love them. That bed conversation was wonderful. On a more individual note:
• Jane and everyone else’s reactions to Jorge being a nurse really, really irritated me. Is it seriously still that big a deal for a guy to be a nurse? Why? Then they piled things up – sending her flowers/chocolate/lunch/poems, wanting to be a house-husband, cooking, being environmentally conscious – and it all apparently added up to him being ‘a sissy’ and ‘unmanly’ to the point that Korsak even says so (thought we also later get that moment where Korsak wonders if he could have Jorge if Jane didn’t want him). If she found him corny or just not her type, and that was clearly the case, that’s fine but that she disliked him because he was sensitive and felt him being a nurse was something to laugh at him for and not something worthy of a man doing (after all it’s a woman’s job and thus below a man? Yuck) bugs me. We did get this exchange though:
“Nice and supportive doesn’t mean weak.” – Maura
“Please. Jorge is more submissive than my dog.” – Jane
Oh, I love Maura and I really loved that line. That line needs to be on a t-shirt and on message boards.
- This was also the start of me not being as irritated with Jane over the Jorge situation and it told us something important about Jane – Jane isn’t attracted to submissiveness. She’s a dominate personality and she is attracted to a dominate personality in turn. She likes conflict and push/pull.
- Also helping with on the Jorge irritation front is the fact that he sent her ten e-mails apparent over the course of one night, which after one date and knowing her only a week at most, is kind of creepy.
• “I want to connect with someone who can make me more of who I am, who can be strong without needing me to be weak.” Maura and Jane both laugh at this but I love how obvious it is that it describes them and their relationship.
• “Just think because of you this time tomorrow I could be on a date with a killer.” – Jane. What I loved about this was that Jane said killer not woman. She singled out possibly dating the killer as being more important than dating a woman (as she should).
• “What you think of as a great guy is an average woman.” – Jane. ♥ I don’t even know what I can add to that.
• I really wish that we’d gotten the ‘Maura dresses Jane’ scene this episode was so clearly meant to have but disappointingly skipped. I wanted a music clothes-trying-on montage! Plus, she went to a gay bar to meet possible female suspects on a pretend date and the least she could have done was dress up. She actually looked much better throughout most the rest of the episode then she did during the actual date which is sad.
• What I found interesting was Korsak, and to a lesser extent Frost’s, obvious and even verbal visual appreciation for both Maura and Jane.
• I do wish that we could have had it not be the wife as the killer. Sigh.
• Jane is adorable with her dog.
