Hawaii Five-0 Episode Ramblings

[shinysylver]

Hawaii Five-0 episode thoughts:



There were a lot of things I really liked about this episode but at the moment the ending has left a slightly sour taste in my mouth. So lets start there:

Setting the slash aside for a second the writers missed the chance for a perfect symmetry to the episode. They should have had Steve show up with a case of beer and just talk to Danny all night the way he said his brother did after the divorce. It would have been seen as a brotherly thing which I'm sure CBS would have been okay with.

And putting the slash back on the table. I would have liked that much better than him turning to Rachel :(.

I'm fine if they want his relationship with her to improve but I am afraid they are going for a reconciliation and I'm not as good with that. I don't expect CBS to actually bring Steve/Danny out of the closet. It's not about that. I enjoy my leads with minimal romantic entanglements and if Danny were to be involved with Rachel again it wouldn't be minimal. The have a daughter...it would be MAJOR. Also I kind of like the fire the contentious relationship gives Danny.

Now on to the things I liked more:

I adored the entire dinner scene. The body language between Steve and Danny was so AWESOME. And so was the trust and the support and it was just beautiful.

Scott Caan really brought it tonight (doesn't he always?) and I found myself crying twice. I started crying when he told Steve about his brother taking care of him after the divorce and then again during the final scene with his brother. Loyal!Danny and Hurt!Danny go straight to my tear ducts and pull on my heartstrings.

I already mentioned the support Steve showed Danny but the fact that that meant pushing the case aside and lying to the FBI was so intense. It is very obvious that Steve considers Danny his family and that means that Danny's family is his responsibility by proxy. That realization also makes me hurt for Steve who has lost his family.

Gosh do I love this show. Even if they persist in the Rachel thing I think I will still love this show. Especially since I actually kind of like her...I just don't want them together. So I hope Step-Stan gets home soon.

Comments

[lydia-petze.livejournal.com]

Not looking at the post, waaaaiiiiting on my download! /refreshes

[shinysylver.livejournal.com]

Lol...I had trouble waiting the 2 minutes it took for my DVR to get onto the right channel.

[lydia-petze.livejournal.com]

It's up it's up it's up.

/downloads

Back later to talk, lol

[jesseofthenorth.livejournal.com]

I was OK with pretty much everything in this episode right up until the moment when it occurred to me the PTBs might be setting up a reconciliation with Rachel.

I get why Danny would tell her what happened because she clearly has a very good relationship with Matt, obviously independent of her relationship with Danny.

I get bending the law to try to get his brother to turn himself in. I even mostly understand the choice he made at the airport but to see him burn his sense of right and wrong to the ground with a married woman?
What will throw the whole thing off for me is if they take a guy like Danny who has a pretty clear morality and turn him into an adulterer. And with the woman who completely ripped his life apart by dragging their kid 5000 miles away and then trying to keep him away from her? Not gonna work for me.
I hope they spend a little more time thinking about these characters than that.

[perkyrusalka.livejournal.com]

Yes, but-I kind of understand why he would go to Rachel. She knows - really knows- what his brother means to him. And Matt is family to Grace. All those ties don't just dissolve because the marriage did.
I maybe read to much into it, but I just think about my brother and his daughter's mother-that tie is always going to be there, and even if they don't reconcile, they can get along. Better if they're friends, for Grace's sake.

Which is not to say I wouldn't have loved Steve showing up with beer.

[shinysylver.livejournal.com]

I understand that part of it as well as the fact it is probably easier for him to let go emotionally with a woman but I don't have much faith that it isn't step 2 on the path toward an attempted reconciliation.

Plus I just would have loved the symmetry the other scene would have offered.

[lydia-petze.livejournal.com]

I didn't mind the ending, to be quite fair. If they keep it to Danny and Rachel just managing to stay friends, and being there for one another, then I'm actually very good with that. Rachel is Grace's mother and she is going to be part of Danny's life one way or another, may as well make it as painless as possible. Here's hoping they do keep it platonic - Rachel is married and Danny and Steve are (OK, I'm a slasher) obviously in love as well.

The dinner scene was *fantastic*. It totally felt like a "meet the boyfriend" kind of thing - and Steve was so keen to meet Danny's brother, lol. Loved it. Loved Scott right through this episode, as well.