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The first half of S5 didn't really grip me. I don't know, something felt... off. The stories seemed boring and the cinematography cheap. Very cheap. Especially in the second episode, The Blue Line Job, the hockey ep.
As far as boring episodes go, it started with the season premiere, The (Very) Big Bird Job which was so convoluted that it didn't make any sense at all. Many times during that ep, I went, "What?!" They completely lost me with the plane and the buy-out and whatnot. Not a good way to start a season.
Episodes like The French Connection Job or The D. B. Cooper Job were better - slightly - but I still wasn't wow'd. There were bits and pieces, here and there, that I liked, but not one episode as a whole. The only ep that I really liked was The Broken Wing Job, the one where Parker was incapacitated and couldn't go with the team to Japan. That was cool.
What I really loved were the small character centric scenes between the "kids" - Eliot, Hardison and Parker. Like all the tiny couple-y bits between Hardison and Parker. Or when Eliot taught Parker how to like things again and when he trusted her to do her job right. Or when Eliot advised Parker over the phone how to turn her weakness into an advantage. Or when Eliot told Sophie that he had always wanted to own a restaurant of his own - but now he was stuck with Hardison's bar, that he considered it his job to make sure it didn't go under. Those throwaway lines and intimate scenes were great because they showed just how in sync the "kids" were, that they really didn't need Sophie and Nathan anymore, that they outgrew them, and were now a perfectly working unit.
Still. As a whole? This season really hasn't wow'd me yet and I'm halfway through. It's like the writers ran out of ideas.
As far as boring episodes go, it started with the season premiere, The (Very) Big Bird Job which was so convoluted that it didn't make any sense at all. Many times during that ep, I went, "What?!" They completely lost me with the plane and the buy-out and whatnot. Not a good way to start a season.
Episodes like The French Connection Job or The D. B. Cooper Job were better - slightly - but I still wasn't wow'd. There were bits and pieces, here and there, that I liked, but not one episode as a whole. The only ep that I really liked was The Broken Wing Job, the one where Parker was incapacitated and couldn't go with the team to Japan. That was cool.
What I really loved were the small character centric scenes between the "kids" - Eliot, Hardison and Parker. Like all the tiny couple-y bits between Hardison and Parker. Or when Eliot taught Parker how to like things again and when he trusted her to do her job right. Or when Eliot advised Parker over the phone how to turn her weakness into an advantage. Or when Eliot told Sophie that he had always wanted to own a restaurant of his own - but now he was stuck with Hardison's bar, that he considered it his job to make sure it didn't go under. Those throwaway lines and intimate scenes were great because they showed just how in sync the "kids" were, that they really didn't need Sophie and Nathan anymore, that they outgrew them, and were now a perfectly working unit.
Still. As a whole? This season really hasn't wow'd me yet and I'm halfway through. It's like the writers ran out of ideas.