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		<title>White Collar 2&#215;04 &#8211; By The Book</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Aug 2010 10:24:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mozzie plays the lead this episode as his crush goes missing, and when he realizes she&#8217;s in real trouble,  he enlists Neal and Peter to help him save her. I love the Mozzie-Neal relationship! Neal really respects Mozzie, even though he seems to be doing crazy stuff, Neal just goes right along with it. From [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jacbuiltthishouse.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3934906&#038;post=1174&#038;subd=jacbuiltthishouse&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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<p>Mozzie plays the lead this episode as his crush goes missing, and when he realizes she&#8217;s in real trouble,  he enlists Neal and Peter to help him save her.</p>
<p><span id="more-1174"></span>I love the Mozzie-Neal relationship! Neal really respects Mozzie, even though he seems to be doing crazy stuff, Neal just goes right along with it. From the whole lift shenanigan where Neal pretends to be claustrophobic (his face!), to breaking and entering into a Colombian mobster&#8217;s place of business (ok he didn&#8217;t know it then). They really are a stellar team together.</p>
<p>They created the Perfect Exchange together, which as Peter points out, turns out to be not so perfect. Neal and Mozzie are a good team together, but Neal and Peter are another kind of awesome together. So technically, the 3 of them would make make a great crimefighting trio! Peter as the lawman/suit, Mozzie as the underground undercover street guy, and Neal as the go-between soothing both of them when their feathers get ruffled.</p>
<p>Mozzie is awesome this episode. Usually we see his really eccentric side when he&#8217;s with Neal, his strange actions (swapping the cups) and his capable side happens offscreen when he bring Neal his findings, but this time we actually get to see him work. He quickly figures out Gina&#8217;s clues, and when the plan starts falling apart, he storms into the lion&#8217;s den, all assertive and capable. Him taking the gun away from the Colombina mobster(did you hear the gasp in the bkgrd? hee) and then heaving a sigh of relief as he hands it off to Peter&#8230; awesome.</p>
<p>Love him panicking as he entered the FBI bureau, and then being all smug and bossy at the end after he &#8216;conquers&#8217; his fear. Will we be seeing more of Mozzie at FBI HQ?</p>
<p>What is in Mozzie&#8217;s messenger bag of tricks? He just kept pulling out helpful stuff for the job:</p>
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<li>Stethoscope</li>
<li>Peephole reversal</li>
<li>Brush</li>
<li>Gloves</li>
<li>A file on his crush Gina Destefano</li>
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<p>Peter doesn&#8217;t get as much play this episode, but he&#8217;s still the one to save the day. He pulls Neal&#8217;s ass from the fire (the crooked finger which Neal obeys instantly! heh) and is the one to point out the flaw in the Perfect Exchange (he also figures out Mozzie&#8217;s clue, even if a little later than Neal) and catch Navarro in the end.</p>
<p>Also, hello El! Come back soon!</p>
<p>JONES. As the pimping Colombian gangster with his open collar menancing Neal and Mozzie. AWESOME. &#8220;Oh you guys have more fun than we do&#8221;. Jones really does enjoy playing the bad guy doesn&#8217;t he?</p>
<p>Overall, can&#8217;t wait for more White Collar!</p>
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		<title>Sherlock 2/3 &#8211; The Blind Banker</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Aug 2010 17:03:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The middle installment of the Sherlock mini series &#8211; this time around&#8230; well there was a helluva lot going on in this episode, so let&#8217;s just say there were Chinese dudes, gangs, cryptic ciphers, smuggling, antiques, shooting, circuses, mistaken identity, murder&#8230; Yup, there was lot going on this episode&#8230; more below. My first thought at [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jacbuiltthishouse.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3934906&#038;post=1175&#038;subd=jacbuiltthishouse&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The middle installment of the Sherlock mini series &#8211; this time around&#8230; well there was a helluva lot going on in this episode, so let&#8217;s just say there were Chinese dudes, gangs, cryptic ciphers, smuggling, antiques, shooting, circuses, mistaken identity, murder&#8230;</p>
<p>Yup, there was lot going on this episode&#8230; more below.</p>
<p><span id="more-1175"></span>My first thought at the end of the episode, was that this felt like a filler episode in a longer series &#8211; when 20+ episodes proves to be too much and the writers need an episode where our characters just do what they do without too much changing the status quo. Considering this is a 3 part series (though possibly with more mini-series to come), I expected it to be a lot tighter and less convoluted.</p>
<p>After all the flurry of activity, nothing much has progressed since the last episode,  I expected more progression in terms of Moriaty (which we only got right at the end, that tiny teaser) and perhaps more of Sherlock and John&#8217;s relationship.</p>
<p>So which episode is this one based on? The first was very obviously based on the Sudy in Scarlet, this one was more vague&#8230; the symbols-cipher thing made me think of The Dancing Men, where threatening messages were being left in code for someone to figure out, and did I catch a glimpse of some dancing men whilst they were trying to decode the ancient chinese text? I also vaguely remember a story about there being a locked room&#8230;</p>
<p>They&#8217;ve updated <a href="http://www.johnwatsonblog.co.uk/" target="_blank">Watson&#8217;s Blog</a> and <a href="http://www.thescienceofdeduction.co.uk" target="_blank">Sherlock&#8217;s Website</a> accordingly after the last episode. I think the most interesting thing is reading the &#8216;comments&#8217; the &#8216;readers&#8217; leave. It&#8217;s really very meta and adds a whole new level of context to the show. We&#8217;ve never seen Harry Watson, John&#8217;s sister, but you already have a feel for what type of character she (yes, she, Harriet) is just from the commentary on the blog.</p>
<p>Ah well, hope the last episode is great! Will we finally get to see Moriaty? The great thing about the Sherlock-Moriaty battle was seeing the both of them outwitting each other, and the final climax with the Reinchenbach falls where they both go over the edge&#8230;</p>
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		<title>Leverage 3&#215;08 &#8211; The Boost Job</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Aug 2010 15:01:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Leverage team hit the racetracks as they take on car thieves, while Parker reveals more hidden talents from her youth. We&#8217;re finding out a lot more about Parker this season, from her childhood mentor to former occupations&#8230; Parker as a former car thief! Awesome! Love that she was a getaway driver and car thief [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jacbuiltthishouse.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3934906&#038;post=1168&#038;subd=jacbuiltthishouse&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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<p>The Leverage team hit the racetracks as they take on car thieves, while Parker reveals more hidden talents from her youth.</p>
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<p>We&#8217;re finding out a lot more about Parker this season, from her childhood mentor to former occupations&#8230; Parker as a former car thief! Awesome! Love that she was a getaway driver and car thief before the tender age of 12! She has lots of great lines this episode.</p>
<blockquote><p><em>*mockingly* I got hit by a car! *annoyed* GET OVER IT!<br />
</em></p>
<p><em>WE&#8217;RE THE GOOD GUYS! *Swerves*<br />
</em></p>
<p><em>*blasts horns* GET OUT OF THE WAY YOU OLD BAT!</em></p></blockquote>
<p>She also takes pity on the young girl Josie, seeing something of herself in this kid just trying to fit in, teaching her some tricks. She tries to save the girl by telling her not to turn up, but silly young girl sells them out and nearly lands them all in trouble, with poor Eliot getting shot at, banged up and dumped in the water.</p>
<p>Poor Eliot seems to be getting banged up a lot lately eh? He did have fun plaing with the EMP gun, blowing it off like an old western, hee.</p>
<p>Our Leverage team seem to be a bunch of gear heads, Eliot owns the hot rod which they jazz up, Parker obviously has had lots of car boosting and mechanical experience while Nate absolutely LOVED the racing bit. Sophie is well, Sophie &#8211; she&#8217;s really good at selling cars while Hardison probably only really likes driving Mario-Kart.</p>
<p>How they each grift is really quite interesting &#8211; it usually plays on their own personalities. Sophie is usually the beautiful distraction, the bombshell you can&#8217;t take your eyes off. Nate&#8217;s grifts are always of the conspicuous annoying man, providing the  distractions that allow the rest to do their work conspicuously, the jerk. Hardison plays roles where he can get away with spouting a little nonsense and Parker plays a kookier sort of role, where it&#8217;s not so conspicuous if she&#8217;s not so convincing. Eliot is a little different, usually playing someone a lot meeker and weaker than he really is.</p>
<p>Some other noteworthy points:</p>
<p>- Eliot watching Sophie play out her neurolinguistic programming on the mark, hee. Making sure he doesn&#8217;t fall prey to that anymore?</p>
<p>- I liked the end scene, circling the team as they sat together joking post-con. That&#8217;s something they did a lot more of in Season 1, reminds me of that episode where they ended up eating dinner in the Italian diner.</p>
<p>- Loved Parker just totally trusting Hardison to get the job done. You now have one and a half minutes left!</p>
<p>Anyway, Leverage is getting renewed for Season 4, whoopee to one more season of cons and our Leverage team!</p>
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		<title>Sherlock 1/3 &#8211; A Study In Pink</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Aug 2010 09:43:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sherlock Holmes, reinvented in the 21st century! Produced and written by Steven Moffat, the same guy who did Coupling and Dr Who, that&#8217;s really about all you need to know to watch this. Also, it&#8217;s Sherlock Holmes! I love Sherlock Holmes! I&#8217;ve read all his stories and then some. And I loved the Guy Ritchie [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jacbuiltthishouse.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3934906&#038;post=1156&#038;subd=jacbuiltthishouse&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Sherlock Holmes, reinvented in the 21st century! Produced and written by Steven Moffat, the same guy who did Coupling and Dr Who, that&#8217;s really about all you need to know to watch this.</p>
<p>Also, it&#8217;s Sherlock Holmes! I love Sherlock Holmes! I&#8217;ve read all his stories and then some. And I loved the Guy Ritchie remake with Robert Downey Junior, so am definitely curious to see what BBC and Steven Moffat come up with &#8211; a 3-part mini series based on Sherlock Holmes in the modern day.</p>
<p>My comments below&#8230;</p>
<p><span id="more-1156"></span>&#8216;A Study in Pink&#8217; is a riff taken off the first Sherlock Holmes story &#8216;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Study_in_Scarlet" target="_blank">A Study in Scarlet</a>&#8216;. Several other familiar elements crop up too, like the house being in Brixton, the choice of pills, and the writing of &#8216;Rache&#8217; at the crime scene, though in this case they turned it around and &#8216;Rache&#8217; was actually &#8216;Rachel&#8217; instead of the German for &#8216;revenge&#8217;. Read a little more about what the creators were thinking about <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/tv/2010/07/sherlock.shtml#" target="_blank">here</a>. I loved being able to catch these little details, and I think they did a pretty great job of updating Victorian Sherlock to modern day Sherlock and not just copying wholesale.</p>
<p>Sherlock Holmes seemed a little young to me at first, but they really do capture the essence of Sherlock very well. From the eternal mess and the slightly maniacal qualities of Sherlock quite well. We know him from the books and from Watson&#8217;s perspective as a genius, but he was also one odd fellow, and it&#8217;s interesting to realize that he is also regarded as possibly devious enough to be the criminal rather than the detective.I think the really got the character down pat &#8211; easily bored, mind moving at breakneck pace, able to deduce Watson&#8217;s history at a glance.</p>
<p>He&#8217;s a consulting detective with his own website (that he talks about in the show, whih you can see <a href="http://www.thescienceofdeduction.co.uk/" target="_blank">here</a>). It features some other cases and how he solved them, though not the case featured on the show (that&#8217;s for Watson to blog about). I wish the other casefiles were active links! I would like to know more about the Killer Cats of Greenwich and the Man with Four Legs!</p>
<p>John Watson is also an interesting character. We start off the story with him, and while at first blush he seems to be a Afghanistan war veteran still recovering from the war, we realize he&#8217;s a much deeper character than that, with him being the one to pull the trigger on the serial killer at the end, in essence saving Sherlock from falling victim to his one weakness &#8211; his aversion to boredom. I like that while he&#8217;s kinda adrift and using a cane to get around at first, he&#8217;s running through the streets of London like nothing&#8217;s wrong once he&#8217;s in league with Sherlock.</p>
<p>Also, as part of his Post Traumatic Stress Disorder treatment from the war, Watson is now keeping a <a href="http://www.johnwatsonblog.co.uk/" target="_blank">blog</a>! How&#8217;s that for 21st century memoirs! You see the episode summary from Watson&#8217;s POV as per the original books (cool touch) PLUS, modern day style, you also get to see comments that the various characters leave on his blog, including that of his Landlady and his lesbian sister &#8216;Harry&#8217;. I like that his whole blog starts out reluctantly, with placeholder posts and stuff, very realistic.</p>
<p>And Mycroft. AWESOME. I honestly thought (and I suppose that was the intent) that he was supposed to be Moriaty. Now we know that Moriaty will play a part in his mini-series, I can&#8217;t wait to see him make his appearance. I can&#8217;t believe this awesom sounding show is only going to be 3 episodes long!</p>
<p>I love that Lestrade is kinda how I always pictured him, and they introduced 2 other characters &#8211; the &#8216;anti-Sherlocks&#8217; if you must. The skeptical investigator who honestly thinks Sherlock is going to turn into a mass murderer and warns Watson to stay away from him, and the lead CSI guy, who hates Sherlock&#8217;s guts. Funny Sherlock would refuse to wear the paper suit and &#8216;risk&#8217; contaminating the evidence, given that Sherlock was a forensics pioneer of sorts in the books!</p>
<p>I really like the way they incorporate modern technology into the story. Unlike most TV shows where they will show the phone screen, Sherlock does it in this uber modern way &#8211; simple white text that appears next to the characters. Especially the bit at the press conference where Sherlock msgs all of them &#8216;wrong&#8217; &#8216;wrong&#8217; &#8216;wrong&#8217;. They also use this same technique to showcase Sherlock&#8217;s thought process, as you see his deductive process. Overall, the way they film this show is quite different from the slightly kitschy/low budget BBC style that we&#8217;ve seen in previous shows like Dr Who, Coupling and Torchwood. Somehow, it doesn&#8217;t look anything like American TV, I&#8217;m wondering if it&#8217;s about the way the story is told, or about the way it&#8217;s filmed &#8211; I&#8217;m still figuring that out.</p>
<p>Overall, I think the show is fascinating, and I can&#8217;t wait to see more of it! It&#8217;s definite</p>
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		<title>White Collar 2&#215;03 &#8211; Copycat Caffrey</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Aug 2010 08:49:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Someone copies Neal, Alex reappears, and we find out a little bit more about the damn music box. Also, Peter PWNS Neal! No El this episode (and thankfully, that means no bad greenscreen!) but everyone else makes up for it by being AWESOME. We get a little more back history on them &#8211; Peter was [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jacbuiltthishouse.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3934906&#038;post=1149&#038;subd=jacbuiltthishouse&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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<p>Someone copies Neal, Alex reappears, and we find out a little bit more about the damn music box. Also, Peter PWNS Neal!</p>
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<p>No El this episode (and thankfully, that means no bad greenscreen!) but everyone else makes up for it by being AWESOME.</p>
<p>We get a little more back history on them &#8211; Peter was a Mathelete. Well, a Math major who was an athlete, while Neal never went to college even though he has a handful of MBAs and certs. He really keeps his past under wraps, casually deflecting Peter when he asks why Neal never went to collefe.</p>
<p>Mozzie is also hilarious &#8211; his &#8216;secret spy meeting&#8217;s in parks that he insists Alex, and previously Peter, do to meet. Love his interactions with Peter, especially after Peter cons him into helping him play the part of the Detroit mobster. &#8220;Tell him you&#8217;ll cut off his hands!&#8221; and Peter trying his darndest not to burst out laughing in his part as the Peacemaker. hee.</p>
<p>Neal is so happy to get copycatted! That grin on his face when Diana asks who was being copycatted&#8230; and cutting out the article&#8230; and especially when he finds out that there is week&#8217;s syllabus of criminology course especially on him! And then getting annoyed that he&#8217;s not the only one being copied..</p>
<p>Neal and Peter have this great beat running through the whole show where Neal acts like the FBI caught him only because he let them in front of others. Peter quickly sets them straight right at the end in front of the whole criminology class, where after catching the student crew, he tells them how much more fulfilling it is to catch criminals rather than be one. Pointing at Neal, he says:</p>
<blockquote><p><em>I wear a badge; he wears a tracking anklet. Application forms are on the table.</em></p></blockquote>
<p>Neal, PWNED.<em></em></p>
<p>Loved the bit outside too:</p>
<blockquote><p><em>Neal: Saving America&#8217;s youth from a life of crime</em></p>
<p><em>Peter: we&#8217;re a regular afterschool special.</em></p></blockquote>
<p>Alex also makes a reappearance as she goes to Mozzie and Neal for help. Neal helps her out and she gives him the broken piece of the music box, which turns out to be a key, as Peter and Diana discover for themselves. How long before they realize that Neal now holds the key? And what is hidden in the music box? I kinda expected something to pop up when the music box&#8217;s tune ended, but now its obviously something hidden in the lid or something. (how about x-raying the box guys, even if you can&#8217;t hack it in case it&#8217;s booby trapped?)</p>
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		<title>Mad Men 4&#215;01 &#8211; Public Relations</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 18:14:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mad Men is back! Let&#8217;s see how long I can keep up my MM recaps &#8211; it&#8217;s a great show to watch, but I&#8217;ve never really been able to sustain long squee posts about it&#8230; Anyway, we&#8217;re about a year down the road from the last time we saw our Mad Men &#8211; let&#8217;s see [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jacbuiltthishouse.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3934906&#038;post=1150&#038;subd=jacbuiltthishouse&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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<p>Mad Men is back! Let&#8217;s see how long I can keep up my MM recaps &#8211; it&#8217;s a great show to watch, but I&#8217;ve never really been able to sustain long squee posts about it&#8230; Anyway, we&#8217;re about a year down the road from the last time we saw our Mad Men &#8211; let&#8217;s see how they&#8217;re doing&#8230;</p>
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<p>They&#8217;ve got a swanky office space! Well they don&#8217;t have a conference table, but hey it&#8217;s still better than working out of a hotel room! I kinda wanted to see them working out of the hotel room though, I hope they make references or show some flashbacks so we can see what it was like for them right at the beginning.</p>
<p>And it&#8217;s all about Public Relations &#8211; Don and SCDP vs the AdAge reporter and the world, Peggy and Pete in the Ham stunt, Betty vs the Francises&#8230;</p>
<p>Who is Donald Draper? That&#8217;s been the quintessential Mad Men question. Don finds himself in a bit of a state. He&#8217;s been living alone in a dark apartment, divorced from Betty, away from his kids, and work&#8217;s not too hot either as he loses clients by well&#8230; being himself. He does recover though, by the end of the episode, enough to chase in-denial clients out of the meeting room and bragging about their non existent 3 floors of office space! That may not be Don Draper, but that&#8217;s the Don Draper everyone wants to see.</p>
<p>Also, Don Draper is a sub who likes to be slapped? Who knew? It&#8217;s always the most macho looking ones&#8230;</p>
<p>Have I mentioned I&#8221;m quite fond of Roger Sterling and the totally politically incorrect things that shoot out of his mouth? They can be pretty offensive if you think about it, but they honestly make me laugh out loud.</p>
<blockquote><p><em>A wooden leg&#8230;They&#8217;re so cheap they can&#8217;t even afford a whole reporter.</em></p>
<p><em>I love how they sit there like a couple of choir boys. You know one of them&#8217;s leaving New York with VD.</em></p>
<p><em><span style="font-size:x-small;">If you hit it off, come Turkey Day, maybe you can stuff her.</span></em></p></blockquote>
<p>Wow does Betty look old now. She used to wear more Stepford wifely dresses, or cuter things, and that one time as the Italian bombshell, woot. But now, she&#8217;s all matronly suits and without Don around, she looks like an even worse parent. As her new mother-in-law puts it &#8211; she&#8217;s a silly woman. Expect much tension to happen in that part of the family! Also, Don-Betty-Henry Triangle, mi-aow! Don really had some good barbs there.</p>
<p>Peggy and Pete, still a great team! Loved that they were totally into guerilla marketing before it became hip! They are the young, forward thinking ones to drive the agency into a new era. No Trudy this episode though. Peggy also has a new designer partner, who she gets along fabulously with. Thought he was Kurt from SC. Also thought the fella she pulled along to Don&#8217;s apartment when getting the bail money was the same one. All these young dudes look so alike to me&#8230;</p>
<p>I just realized, now that we&#8217;re no longer the old Sterling Cooper, does that mean we won&#8217;t see some of the old guys like Pete&#8217;s nemesis Ken Cosgrove? or Beatnik wannabe Paul Kinsey? Or the other secretaries? Ah well. There&#8217;s still fabulous Joan though, even if she didn&#8217;t do much this episode.</p>
<p>The other thing about setting this episode 1 year later, is it makes you wonder what happened in between? What&#8217;s happening with Joan and her failure doctor husband? or Pete and Trudy? And everyone else? Am very curious to find out what happened in that gap year&#8230;</p>
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		<title>Leverage 3&#215;07 &#8211; The Gone-Fishin&#8217; Job</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 17:42:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hardison and Eliot spend lots of time handcuffed together as the Leverage team takes on a dirty debt collector who also turns out to be a hardcore patriotic militant. They also manage to steal a train. A real-life, chugging, choo choo train. p/s: Season 4 has been confirmed for Leverage, yayness! Poor Eliot. All he [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jacbuiltthishouse.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3934906&#038;post=1142&#038;subd=jacbuiltthishouse&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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<p>Hardison and Eliot spend lots of time handcuffed together as the Leverage team takes on a dirty debt collector who also turns out to be a hardcore patriotic militant. They also manage to steal a train. A real-life, chugging, choo choo train.</p>
<p>p/s: <a href="http://news.turner.com/article_display.cfm?article_id=5275" target="_blank">Season 4 has been confirmed for Leverage, yayness!</a></p>
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<p>Poor Eliot. All he wanted to do is get a good rest after bruising a shoulder from a 10-day Juarez job (what happened there?), and so when the opportunity arises to go out into a little town and possibly throw a worm in the water, he gets all excited about his potential fishing trip! It&#8217;s kinda funny how he volunteered Hardison to go with him &#8211; Nate and Sophie would have to be grifting, and Parker (and her pinata) often weird him out, so he drags Hardison along, even though Hardison hates the great outdoors.</p>
<p>Hardison and Eliot get captured by the rogue militants, and spend a large amount of time handcuffed together as they make their escape. We haven&#8217;t had full blown Hardison-Eliot interaction in awhile, and the 2 of them really had lots of great quips and quotes this episode! Here are some of the fun ones:</p>
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<li>Eliot totally being psyched out to be in the great outdoors and fishing while Hardison just slaps beaky mosquitoes and hates the smell of fresh air. Hee.</li>
<li>The infamous rock-paper-scissors used to settle an argument. Hardison naturally loses, again, because as Eliot constantly reminds him, he has a tell!</li>
<li>&#8220;High-five for morale!&#8221; says Eliot, before grabbing Hardison&#8217;s hand and cutting it for blood, while Hardison yells bloody murder (&#8220;Gangrene! Gangrene!&#8221; to be exact) and they get into a whole argument about one of Hardison&#8217;s peeves -  Hardison suffering more because he&#8217;s a black dude. Heh.</li>
<li>When Nate asks them if they&#8217;re going to attack the militants without a plan, Hardison says &#8220;Oh we&#8217;ve got a plan. CWA.&#8221; Eliot jumps in with a &#8220;Can of Whoop Ass!&#8221;</li>
<li>Trap making! Eliot goes all Jungle man, sneaking up on people and hanging upside down from tree branches, while Hardison totally builds himself a trap and smirks &#8220;Science. It works.&#8221; when his trap actually does spring.</li>
<li>Eliot and Hardison totally buckering at each other even when they were confronted by the one militant dude, and them kicking him in the head in unison.</li>
<li>Since Eliot didn&#8217;t get to fish, Hardison introduces him to computer game fishing. Even with his cute fisherman hat and deckchairs, Eliot just finds it different. Hardison however, is totally loving it.</li>
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<p>We also see more of Eliot&#8217;s military/soldier background, what with his magical navigational skills, his ability to pinpoint his exact location despite not being able to see outside, being able to elude sniffer dogs&#8230; Eliot rocks! He&#8217;s so tough, the militant dude couldn&#8217;t get him to sink to his knees, and punching him hurt his fist more than it hurt Eliot. I really hope we get more of Eliot&#8217;s background!</p>
<p>Nate stealing a train was pretty awesome. &#8220;Next time I steal you a train, get on it&#8221; and &#8220;I stole you a train. Have a little faith.&#8221;  Loved that Parker was so psyched about stealing the train.&#8221;Let&#8217;s go steal a Woo-Woo!&#8221;</p>
<p>Parker features less this episode, with the attention on Hardison and Eliot, but she does get in some golden moments, pissing off Eliot with the pinata so much the tears off the Pinata&#8217;s head, being a really perky exercise instructor (who unfortunately cannot outcycle one persistent student), and terrifying Sophie with her driving. I wanna see Parker drive!</p>
<p>Overall not a bad episode, definitely enjoyable, though I&#8217;ve realized we haven&#8217;t seen The Italian for awhile yeah? Wonder how that story arc is gonna go&#8230;</p>
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		<title>Leverage 3&#215;06 &#8211; The Studio Job</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2010 17:58:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s an Eliot episode! Eliot shows off his country singing skills as he impresses, autographs, and romances all in one. First, watch him perform here: More below the cut! SQUEE ELIOT! I&#8221;m not particularly coherent now, so it&#8217;s bullet point time! John Schneider&#8230; hello Jonathan Kent! You were so awesome as Clark&#8217;s dad in that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jacbuiltthishouse.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3934906&#038;post=1128&#038;subd=jacbuiltthishouse&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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<p>It&#8217;s an Eliot episode! Eliot shows off his country singing skills as he impresses, autographs, and romances all in one.</p>
<p>First, watch him perform here:</p>
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<p>SQUEE ELIOT! I&#8221;m not particularly coherent now, so it&#8217;s bullet point time!</p>
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<li>John Schneider&#8230; hello Jonathan Kent! You were so awesome as Clark&#8217;s dad in that show, it&#8217;s a bit of a disconnect to see him acting totally evil mogul now!</li>
<li>Christian Kane is a popular country singer in real life, so it&#8217;s kinda nice that they took that talent and built it into Eliot. And he does sing well &#8211; has the voice and look of a cowboy which is perfect for country~</li>
<li>Parker startling Eliot who&#8217;s all nervous about singing in front of a crowd is pretty funny.He&#8217;s all gruff and acting tough, while the others are all snickering at his strange nervousness.</li>
<li>His exchange with Hardison about not doing the smurf voice thing again, hee. Eliot and Hardison have some really good exchanges this episode. The whole argument about being pitchy and Eliot totally yelling at Hardison who switches off his mic&#8230; that&#8217;s so them.</li>
<li>Hardison thinking his software&#8217;s not working because Eliot was singing so well..</li>
<li>Does Eliot have a thing for blondes? HE seems to have a thing for sassy southern blonde belles, as evidence from Kate Lynn in this episode and Aimee from way back in episode 1. Wonder if this will last? He was all smitten so quickly&#8230; let&#8217;s just take it that there was attraction real quick.</li>
<li>Love that Eliot is aware enough to take out and switch off  his earbud while he&#8217;s making out, even if it is in the middle of a con. He tells Sophie it was &#8216;notes on his performance&#8217;, to which Kate Lynn had &#8216;no complaints&#8217;. Ooh, Eliot~</li>
<li>So how did Nate take out those 2 guys? I always thought that maybe Eliot ran over in time, you gotta wonder&#8230; He remains cagey about it, even at the end.</li>
<li>Parker as the weird Icelandic Bjork-Lady Gaga mix&#8230; HAHAHA FUNNIEST thing I&#8217;ve seen from Parker! Love the homage to the swan dress with the dead duck&#8230; ahahahahahaha i&#8217;m still laughing watching Parker make funny noises and totter around in weird costumes. LOVE her accent. Her running up on stage to stall for Eliot was inspired &#8211; the old Parker would not have done that!</li>
<li>Eliot beating up the dude in the recording studio with a mic stand and drumsticks&#8230; AWESOME! Love him &#8216;silently&#8217; yelling at Hardison and Parker when they finally turn around and realize he&#8217;s in trouble.</li>
<li>The fan thing at the end where Eliot totally stormed off after a &#8216;fan&#8217; rebuffs him, super funny.</li>
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<p>I&#8217;m glad we found out more about Eliot this episode since we&#8217;ve had the Parker and Hardison focused ones previously! Now we know that Eliot&#8217;s past was once with the US government, which was what broke he and Aimee up. Great episode overall, can&#8217;t wait for more!</p>
<p>In the meantime, don&#8217;t forget to check out the updated Leverage Profiles for <a href="../2009/08/02/leverage-profile-eliot/" target="_blank">Eliot</a>, <a href="../2009/08/02/leverage-profile-hardison/" target="_blank">Hardison</a> and <a href="../2009/08/02/leverage-profile-parker/" target="_blank">Parker</a>. If you have any extra information or quotes that you love, do leave a note in the comments!</p>
<p>P/S: Here are the lyrics to the song &#8216;Thinking of you&#8221; as performed on the show.I like the sentiments of the song, something very relatable.</p>
<p>The original song by Christian Kane has an additional verse and can be found <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wlc_PlLd0bE" target="_blank">here</a>. I kinda like the show version better, it feels a little more raw, and I am a sucker for an acoustic guitar.</p>
<p><em>Well I know they say all goods things<br />
Must come to some kinda of ending<br />
We were so damn good, i guess we never stood a chance<br />
Gonna find what you’ve been missing<br />
When the highways tired of listening<br />
You’ll see I’m not that easy to forget</em></p>
<p><em>*When a new moon shines through your window<br />
Or you hear a sad song on the radio<br />
And you don’t know why you but just start to cry<br />
Or you&#8217;re driving round on a sunny day<br />
And out of nowhere comes the pouring rain<br />
And a memory hits you right out of the blue<br />
Yeah that&#8217;s just me<br />
Thinking of you</em></p>
<p><em>And Im thinking about the road you&#8217;re on<br />
I’m thinking about you coming home<br />
I’m wondering if you&#8217;ve got your radio on</em></p>
<p><em>Yeah when you find your way to another town<br />
And someone tries to lay you down<br />
And a memory hits you right out of the blue<br />
It&#8217;s me<br />
Thinking of you<br />
Yeah that&#8217;s just me<br />
Thinking of you</em></p>
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		<title>White Collar 2&#215;02 &#8211; Need To Know</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2010 14:42:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Peter and Neal take on a dirty politician, and Diana gets sent undercover as a high-end escort. Mama mia! Also, PETER IN A MUSTACHE. Edit: new links to the mustache and secret hotel wall art added! Well so much for my conspiracy theory. Peter is well aware that Diana has intercepted the music box, though [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jacbuiltthishouse.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3934906&#038;post=1122&#038;subd=jacbuiltthishouse&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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<p>Peter and Neal take on a dirty politician, and Diana gets sent undercover as a high-end escort. Mama mia! Also, PETER IN A MUSTACHE.</p>
<p>Edit: new links to the mustache and secret hotel wall art added!</p>
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<p>Well so much for my conspiracy theory. Peter is well aware that Diana has intercepted the music box, though he wisely (or unwisely, however you see it) declines to know where exactly it&#8217;s kept. They miss out on seeing Fowler&#8217;s mystery man, and this season&#8217;s Picture of Intrigue (Last season&#8217;s was the mystery FBI hand on Kate&#8217;s shoulder) is a Picasso like jigsaw composite of the man. It&#8217;s no wonder facial recognition didn&#8217;t get anything!</p>
<p>You know, not telling Neal what they&#8217;re up to is definitely not going to go down well with Neal, especially when he inevitably finds out. But what is the Burke-Caffrey relationship without some friction?</p>
<p>Still hardly any El, away in San Fran on business (and still kinda green screened, that face is still kinda wonky). Congratulations to Tiffany on having her baby though! I hope we do get more El, I miss Peter-El banter.</p>
<p>Anyway Diana is super hot! And totally a lesbian, she can&#8217;t even pretend to be interested in the lovely Neal Caffrey. I love that they gave her some backstory &#8211; daughter of a diplomat turned tough nails fed. Her quick draw was fab &#8211; I would have thought her gun was in her purse, and stepping on the guy, heels and all&#8230; hot! I also like that she was amused that Peter was all worried about her.</p>
<p>Anyway. PETER HAD A MUSTACHE. SEE EVIDENCE BELOW:</p>
<div id="attachment_1124" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 410px"><a href="http://jacbuiltthishouse.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/white-collar-peter-mustache.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-1124" title="WhiteCollar 2x02 - Peter's mustache" src="http://jacbuiltthishouse.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/white-collar-peter-mustache.jpg?w=450" alt=""   /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">m-m-mario! oh! oh!</p></div>
<p>Neal&#8217;s face says it all. BWAHAHAHA. His Mario impersonation made me LOL. <a href="http://twitpic.com/277kdh" target="_blank">Here&#8217;re </a>some better pix that creator Jeff Eastin put up on twitter.</p>
<p>Mozzie and Peter have another great interaction this episode, with Peter basically closing one eye to Mozzie&#8217;s dubious ways of getting the cash, while Mozzie happily perplexes Peter by asking for random items and refusing to tell Peter what they&#8217;re for. I wonder what Mozzie was doing behind R39. I&#8221;m surprised Peter didn&#8217;t even try to sneak a peek! Maybe he just likes confusing the Suit =P</p>
<p>Also, secret paintings behind hotel room artwork are apparently <a href="http://www.secretwalltattoos.com/" target="_blank">a real thing</a>.</p>
<p>Overall, not a bad episode &#8211; I hardly even talked about what the episode was about, like NCIS, it&#8217;s less about the story as it is about the characters!</p>
<p>Spoiler Below!</p>
<p>Is Kate really dead? Tim DeKay (who plays Peter Burke) dishes the lowdown <a href="http://blog.zap2it.com/frominsidethebox/2010/07/white-collars-tim-dekay-kate-is-dead.html" target="_blank">here</a>.</p>
<p>Well now we know for sure! Byebye Kate, who was really on that plane. Poor Neal, at least he won&#8217;t have any rude &#8220;i&#8217;m not really dead&#8217;&#8221; shocks to come!</p>
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		<title>Leverage 3&#215;05 &#8211; The Double Blind Job</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jul 2010 17:31:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The team con a dirty Pharmaceutical company, Eliot beats up people who spill his coffee, and Parker has feelings for Pretzels. Really-bottle-shattering-type feelings. Parker, Parker, AWESOME Parker. This is the first time we see her (and she realizes for herself) get completely jealous over Hardison fawning over some other sweet young thing! Poor Parker realizes [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jacbuiltthishouse.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3934906&#038;post=1118&#038;subd=jacbuiltthishouse&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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<p>The team con a dirty Pharmaceutical company, Eliot beats up people who spill his coffee, and Parker has feelings for Pretzels. Really-bottle-shattering-type feelings.</p>
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<p>Parker, Parker, AWESOME Parker. This is the first time we see her (and she realizes for herself) get completely jealous over Hardison fawning over some other sweet young thing! Poor Parker realizes that Hardison&#8217;s attention isn&#8217;t on her as always, and goes Parker-crazy about it. The bottle breaking scene was FAB. And her totally picking a fight just to vent, hee.</p>
<p>Of course what kind of show would it be if Parker confessed her undying love to Hardison right after, so she instead declares her feelings for&#8230; Pretzels. Hardison, fortunately, isn&#8217;t totally in the dark, as he hands over the pretzels and declares they will be there waiting when she wants them. AWW you big sweetheart! But seriously enough of the coy glancing~</p>
<p>Parker also gets to play a great sales person this episode.<em> &#8220;I&#8217;ve got great drugs, do you want some?&#8221; </em></p>
<p>Eliot gets to be the charming grifter this episode, and poor boy is all worn out walking around and keeping the lady FDA agent busy while Sophie works her own grifter magic. FDA agents just aren&#8217;t his type. Her wanting someone well-travelled and risky and dangerous as Eliot fixed a smile on his face&#8230; hilarious! And Eliot beating up people who spill his coffee.. hee. But what is with the half pony-tail man. Let&#8217;s stick to all up or all down, no halfway in between!</p>
<p>We can also deduce this episode that perhaps Eliot might have done some &#8216;professional&#8217; contract killing in his line as a Retrieval Specialist, given that he knows the secret spots and recognizes a pro job when he sees one. He&#8217;s also not one for subtlety. I did love Hardison&#8217;s line about why Eliot had to change his shirt:</p>
<p><em>&#8220;He got coffee on it. And some blood and some teeth.&#8221;</em></p>
<p>I am suprised though, that they let the client sit in for the behind-the-scenes work, even helping out Hardison with the doorcodes. What if she was a double-crosser!? That would make Parker so angry. In her special, angry, place.</p>
<p>Overall an enjoyable episode! No Italian this time around, though we see Nate &#8216;pull his weight&#8217; as a thief, by putting himself in harm&#8217;s way to get the job done. Sophie was pissed at him for putting Parker on the line, but I see it more perhaps as a deep faith that Parker will get the job done, and that he would do anything to get her out if he had to.</p>
<p>And where&#8217;s my Eliot centric episode? I wanna see more high-school jock Eliot! Or better still, dangerous risky worldly retrieval specialist Eliot.</p>
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