Hey everyone!
This week marks the return of everyone’s favorite fire hydrant, Helen! And yes, I will continue to call her Helen because I can’t spell the Spanish version. :-)
Anyway this review contains huge honkin’ spoilers for Frozen in Time, and all ideas are my own thank you very much.
Overall:
The back nine has shown that IM is moving more towards a larger scale story arc, something that started to happen with Farscape as well. No longer is the big story simply Darien trying to deal with the gland...now we have a regular set of bad guys (besides Arnaud) bent on world domination that the Agency is directly put against. Plus we get a look at what might have happened to Darien if he had gone with Arnaud instead of staying on the "good" side. Life just got a bit more complicated, it should be fun to see how this Agency vrs. Evil Co story plays out.
The Good:
-On the quote roster this week we get a bit of Henry Kissinger, and one that’s stumped me. Anyone know who said "Opinions were made to be changed, how else can we get at the truth"?
-Well I asked for it...we ALL asked for it. Now we know where Darien gets his clothing from. Someone needs to get that boy a Bon-Ton card! OK Darien, just put that jacket down and back away slowly...
-If you watch for her, you can see Kate appear in the mirror from the first shot, before even Darien realizes she’s there.
-So the cowboy jacket had me groaning, but when that western music stared playing and Darien did his little wild west maneuver I was on the floor laughing. Tonto say "You look like dork, Kemosabe."
-"Aren’t you a little grown up to be a cub-scout?"
"Well I’ll have you know it’s never to late to follow the ways of
Akela."
(for those interested, I looked it up. Camp Akela is resident camp for Cub
Scouts in Minnesota so they can do...whatever it is cub scouts do. Sorry, I was
too busy being a music geek to sell cookies)
-Cool Shot Alert: Darien leaning over the desk to get in the Official’s face, while the Official looks almost bored. It’s wonderfully framed between the two of them, and is just very cool!
-"How about a couple guys to watch her, that’s the least you could
do."
"Oh no...no I can do much, much less."
-"You know the last time I saw Kate she was a genius in distress." Uh, correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t she STILL a genius in distress?
-Gotta love Darien trying to convince himself he’s got more control over the gland then the last time he met Kate...only to suffer some more from premature invisibility! I especially loved when Kate says she’s engaged, and the music just falls as Darien’s face falls as the quicksilver falls like he just wet his pants. :-)
-Great Scene #1: Darien all but winks and nudges at Hobbes about the "scientist search", Hobbes desperately tries to wake up enough to play along, and Claire just starts grinning in the background and can’t stop. You can almost see Darien trying to send his partner telepathic messages. But the best part is Claire’s gigantic grin as she says "Boy you suck at this!"
-The poor stuntmen in this episode got the crap knocked out of them left and right! First we have the agent guarding Kate do a tumble down the stairs and hit his head so hard on the railing that MY head hurt!
-"Back away, mermaid."
-Darien does the Marx brothers, "If we don’t find Hit-O-Ram we don’t find Kate and by the way that’s about the stupidest code name I’ve ever heard."
-Finally the boys at F&G get a little respect!! Guess it’s all who you’re talking too.
-Great Scene #2: as the Internet Chick digs up the information necessary, watch the love triangle at work. Hobbes tries his hardest to hit on her, while she gazes adoringly at Darien, who only has eyes for the info on the screen. For extra laughs watch Hobbes look upset and almost saying "Hey, hello? I’m here too ya know!" while the Chick looks at Darien.
-Perhaps next time Darien will listen to his partner when they go to get a witness. Hobbes sure learned his lesson fast...they say once bitten twice shy, well once shot at twice careful!
-"We wait for the blowfish to show up and grab your pal Brittany here, and boom she takes us right to the missing scientists." Gotta love how Darien comes up with this plan that uses Hit-o-ram as bait, and yet he still feels bad about it later when it looks like he’s gonna get hurt.
-So who is Brittany Spears married to anyway? :-)
-Hobbes really hasn’t grown up yet, has he? That little discussion in the van about Darien "striking out" with Kate sounded more like something teenagers would say in a locker room!
-So in case you missed it, the DNA pin that Hobbes picks up at the end of the show is clearly on Helen’s shirt when Darien and Hobbes go after the truck with Hit-o-ram.
-LOVE the Official walking into the padded cell, only to be told not to even try all his nifty tricks, and then simply walk back out again.
-"And you could use some stronger mouthwash!"
"Maybe that’s part of my interrogation technique!"
"You have no technique, shorty!"
-The scene where Darien and Helen talk in the padded cell was fun to watch...poor Darien never looks happy going in that room (and for good reasons!), and for once is able to resist Helen turning on the charms so he can go and come up with a much better plan. Plus we got to watch Helen stalk the room like a tiger in a cage.
-Stuntman number 2 gets smacked up against the cell door and does the almost-comical slide down.
-The "escape" out of the F&G building was fun to watch, although I never noticed those alarm buttons on the wall before...
-...Stuntman number 3 gets tackled by Darien to keep from pressing the alarm button. Wow...did Darien play football or something, that was a hit worthy of the NFL! Took the door off the alarm button box!...
-...and for extra laughs you gotta enjoy the Official smacking Hobbes upside the head for shooting at Darien and Helen. Although we know he’s a good shot and wouldn’t have hit anyone, just marking the walls was enough to piss the Official off!
-So I’m very curious about what "strings" were attached to Helen getting the operation she needed to save her life and turn her into Fountain Woman. It is something as simple as then having to work for Evil Co, or does she have a counteragent she needs to survive?
-Schasenbaumer Ice Machines. That’s a name and a half.
-As if we had any doubt, Hobbes: "Yeup, I do love my job."
-"You lied to me."
"Yea, life’s a bitch, ain’t it?"
"And then you die."
-Now for the Only Darien Moment: in the process of stealing what’s necessary for him to be able to escape from the cryo-pod, only Darien would also search the guy’s wallet and pocket any cash he found. Still would have been more fun if he used a pen. :-)
-Hey Darien, it’s real nice that, next to Spiderman, you’re idol was Houdini. However you haven’t figured out how to escape from the straight jacket yet...let’s not skip steps and go right to the water torture cell OK?
-Stuntman number 4 gets to play Being Punched By Invisible Darien and is thrown into the cryo-pod.
-Well so far Darien’s 2 for 2 when it come to getting what he wants from Helen, despite Helen’s insistence they are even. It’ll be fun to see what round 3 brings the next time they meet.
-Love Claire’s little "I don’t mind this at all." as they storm the warehouse. She loves doing the exciting agent stuff...gives her a chance to play with that big gun!
-Who needs to see "To Be Continued" when you have an ending like that. I’m with Hobbes, I don’t like not knowing about this world wide disaster.
The Bad:
-So why didn’t Darien quicksilver when being shot at by Hit-o-ram? You’d figure even if his adrenaline didn’t cause it, he’d want to be invisible so he wouldn’t get shot!
-Like floating babies, I guess floating beehives are hard to spot. Hello?!
-Who was it that suddenly pulled the truck forward when Darien and Hobbes were going after Hit-o-ram? It wasn’t Darien ‘cause it was the wrong clothes. It wasn’t Hobbes ‘cause seconds later we see him running around the car towards the truck. The truck pulls away after Darien jumps out, was it just some random thug trying to get away? If so, why pull the stop and go maneuver?
The Crap Count: We have a new record for number of craps in a one hour eppy!
-"Oh crap" Darien, when watching Kate makes him turn invisible.
-"Aw crap!" Darien, on the floor turning invisible.
-"Aw crap." Darien, after finding out Helen is involved.
-"Aw crap." Darien, when sprayed visible in the truck.
-"Aw crap!" Darien, on seeing the guard in the hallway.
-"Aw CRAP!" Darien, when the guard sees the alarm button.
The Nitpicky:
-So I’m guessing from Hobbes’ kitchen and the fact that he has flour that he can cook (Trust me, if you can’t cook you don’t own flour!) And from this eppy apparently Darien can cook. So we have 2 good looking single guys who can cook. Now I KNOW this is make believe!
-OK even though this may be right in line with Darien being a bit of a slacker, it still pisses me off. Look behind Kate when she’s stretching...Darien has a whole bookshelf full of CLIFF NOTES!! Some laying open as if just used!! For cryin’ out loud...the guy reads Philosophy Now and yet has to read the Cliff Notes for "Flowers for Algernon"?
-Poor Darien...can’t get near Kate or he turns invisible, can’t get near Helen or she tries to kill him...one of these days he’ll find a nice girl to settle down with without these problems.
-So apparently Darien liked the Keeper’s clear fridge door so much he went out and got himself one.
-MiSTing moment: Darien downs the glass of wine. Me: "Chug! Chug! Chug!!!"
-Used Footage Alert: The shot of the van rolling down the abandoned highway in the middle of nowhere is right from the Pilot. That’s the third time they’ve used that footage (the Pilot, TOIM, and now here)
-Rejected Dialogue: Hit-o-ram starts firing his gun, Hobbes, "Retreat! Run away! Run away!"
-Darien’s been watching Dukes of Hazard...watch the smooth way he slides over the hood of the car to avoid being shot.
-I’ve always been curious how one is hired to be one of the thugs for an evil guy. They always appear to have plenty around. Do they have to take out an ad?
-Rejected Dialogue: Darien enters the padded cell to interrogate Helen. Helen, "How do you put up with them, Darien?" Darien, "Well if I don’t put up with them they stick me in here."
-That GPS locator Hobbes and Claire were carrying around looked like a prop from the old Star Trek series.
-When Darien runs into the hospital carrying Kate, she’s got her arms looped around his neck and is holding on...uh, isn’t she unconscious?
-Hobbes must have bionic eyes. First he spots the burlap in the bush in Ralph, then the needle in the burnt building in Tiresias, and now that tiny pin on the floor of the warehouse.
"I don’t know if you know this, but the Surgeon General has recently declared that taking me apart can be hazardous to my health. Did you get the memo on that?" -Darien
