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Blood Ties
Of the good:
A Mike-focused episode, yay! I love that we got to see both what a good interrogator he is and also what a high price entering Vicki's world is costing him. He's losing his partner's trust and the respect of other members of the department; and more than that, he's having to allow extralegal remedies to let justice really be served, and that's got to be hurting him. I guess he was fortunate that he didn't get Catlady to confess and they had to let her go, so that when he found out the truth he wasn't in more of a bind, but still, I have a feeling this sort of thing is really going to hurt him in the long run.
And yet I can't help but love the fact that he has really become part of Vicki's world, and that he, Vicki and Henry are a team of sorts, albeit a team with a lot of tension. I *loved* that he hired her (even if he's not really paying--but he's done her tons of favors, so she owes him), and I loved all of his interactions with Henry. They snark at each other in ways that are supposed to be jealousy, I'm sure, but just read as completely slashy to me.
I really like Henry acting as Vicki's partner, but I'm glad he's still doing his graphic novels (Somebody has to be making money to pay the bills here), and it cracked me up the number of ways he was imagining killing Mike in his next novel. Yeah, Henry, you keep saying that, but you're really drawing Mike without clothes when you go home at night, right?
Though really, I just want threesome fic for this show, because they've developed such a good understanding of each other. Once again, it's the three of them in a parking lot, dispensing their own brand of justice, and Mike acknowledging they're the only three people in the world who can understand certain crimes, and certain brands of truth. I *loved* that.
Of the meh
While I loved them highlighting Mike's mad police skillz, I really wish he was going on more than just instinct. I mean, yeah, they reasonable suspicion of Catlady, given the eyewitness and her flight, and at a certain point he had knowledge he couldn't share because it was supernatural, but...even still, I wish he had had legally obtained evidence, or something. I want Mike to still be able to be a good cop, you know?
If this is going to be the TV version of Blood Trail (I think that was the one with lycanthropy), I'm more than a little disappointed, because that was one of my favorites of the novels, and I don't really think it translated well. And they eliminated the cool backstory where Henry knew all about lyncanthropy because he had werewolf friends!
Of the bad
If that vampire v. panther standoff was supposed to be so LOLarious that it made people practically fall off their chair laughing, it succeeded--but I suspect that wasn't their true intent. You know, I like Kyle Schmid, and about 70% of the time I think he's a good Henry and a convincing vampire, but sometimes I am just thrown out of a scene, and I can't decide if it's the special effects, or that he lacks the gravitas to pull off certain Henry bits, or what, but that scene? Did not read as mutual menace to me.
And the dad, thinking of the animal instinct as evil? Yeah, I'm pretty much not buying that, especially because it contradicts book series canon in a BIG way, where there are whole communities of lycanthropes for centuries.
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*sigh* threesome fic. *sigh*
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I keep hoping for threesome fic.
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As for threesome fics, I'm all for that ... the three of the together ... *happy sigh*
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