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Post by alex d'onofrio on Sept 23, 2006 15:55:12 GMT -5
i voted B as well
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Post by mikeyrocks on Sept 27, 2006 21:10:38 GMT -5
Wow - I'm really suprised at all the A+'s given to this episode.
I actually found it really melodramatic YET not that riveting - if that makes any sense LOL!!
There are so many more CI episodes that I have liked so much more than this one.
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Post by amberlight on Sept 28, 2006 22:54:02 GMT -5
I gave it an A. I enjoyed mixing the formula up a bit. I also enjoy when Vincent emotes a bit. Season 5 he was so calm and detached I submit, his character was on antidepressants. I agree with the melodrama, but it for me, I am enjoying the emotional outbursts. Signs of life are refreshing. However, I was also impressed with other Season premiers, Semi-Detached comes to mind, only to return to formula. I am hopeful this years changes will be positive
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Post by Patcat on Sept 29, 2006 9:20:26 GMT -5
Well, I don't give A+ (I got in some trouble for this when I was an associate instructor, but there's nothing better than an A, right? I also got in trouble for not giving F's). I gave this one an A because, while it certainly dealt with some cliches, the execution was superb.
Patcat
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Post by spaniard on Sept 30, 2006 11:49:40 GMT -5
I voted A+ against my own will because I miss the cha-chan but I thought I can´t rate an episode under the lever it deserves just for a silly (but very important) sound. And I think that in this case the places and dates were hard to define so I understand they took them off.
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Post by Ronni on Oct 1, 2006 14:53:13 GMT -5
I rate the episode A+. This episode was unique for me. The producers said that this season they were going to show a little of the toll police work takes on the characters. And this one certainly did! I've always wanted to see something of that; after all is said and done, what is it really like for them? And this one showed it both during and at the end.
Aside from the characters, I loved the music. It added a little suspense, kind of a spooky music that kind of makes you know that something is not right.
The acting was great. This was an opportunity for Vincent D'Onofrio to show a different side of Goren, where he is personally hurt by a case emotionally and he did it well. And for Kathryn Erbe to show some of that also as her character struggled with fear and hurt physically.
I was totally impressed with everything. The music, the acting, the whole look. How about AA+?
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Post by Jill on Oct 27, 2006 22:19:07 GMT -5
A+ for sure. loved it. go eames! finally... it only took 6 SEASONS to take some spot light off of goren...
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Post by elizabethbay on Nov 15, 2006 23:42:24 GMT -5
Out of the blue, one of this board's leading lights and Detective First Grade (I like to call them the Dragonesses) has just sent me dvds of Season 6. Talk about one sweet Santa!
I've just finished racing through "Blind Spot" and "Siren Call". I am amazed. I loved Blind Spot. Didn't expect to, at all, but yes, I did. I give it an A, subtracting the plus only because it is Goren Mark II, not Goren Mark I (Seasons 1-4). Like a different series, in away, and one I don't despise at all. Just not LOCI, quite, anymore. Merci milles fois, O Dragoness! Thanks for thinking of me. Hope all goes well with you.
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Post by gibbsfandan on Feb 15, 2007 20:17:48 GMT -5
....I gave this one an A because, while it certainly dealt with some cliches, the execution was superb. I watched Blind Spot for the second time last night and liked it even better after having absorbed more of everything that went into it. (How's that for vagueness? Too lazy to break it down into much detail, and it looks like that's been amply covered in any case.) I think Patcat made a very good point. A few cliches — or as they seemed to me, familiar dramatic elements — don't necessarily turn drama into melodrama (the execution makes a big difference in my eyes, as well.) And I think it's become a little too standard to use the term "melodramatic" when the performances vary from a minimalistic acting style some viewers may have grown accustomed to, or if a storyline isn't virginal. That latter element becomes problematic when crimes themselves can have a lot in common, are being covered so thoroughly by the media, and when so many crime shows are on the air. I thought this episode did a good job of bringing in originality via characterization. Blind Spot had some nicely used, subtle but revealing touches that I missed the first time around. The odd relationship between Declan - Jo - Goren - criminals was even more interesting in the second viewing. I also realized that with every episode I see, I'm getting more and more into the grittiness and jaundiced eye that Capt. Ross brings to Major Case. The tension — voiced or palpable — between Ross and Goren brings more opportunities to see the toll that police work takes on the characters, as Ronni posted above. It was great to see Eames as a really major character. Her toughness has never been in doubt; now, it's good to know more about the intelligence she clearly has and which helps her to be such a stable, effective partner for Goren. Loved Kathryn Erbe's performance.
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Post by DonnaJo on Feb 15, 2007 20:38:59 GMT -5
Just a "lurker" when this poll and episode were in hot discussion. Now, I add my A+ to the voting! This is, even now after half the season is over, still my favorite episode.
I don't know if the anticipation over the summer has anything to do with it. We were all so ready to see something new. For me, it was because there was so much Goren & Eames drama, and I thought that it was very tastefully done.
In my opinion, the best aria of this season & last season is the one between Goren & Jo Gage.
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Post by gibbsfandan on Feb 16, 2007 3:47:09 GMT -5
"Aria" -- new term to me in this context, but sounds like a good'un. I also really enjoyed the final interaction between Goren and Jo. I appreciated his compassion for her mental disease, so much different from Nicole Wallace's. It must have been very hard for him, though, to remain so calm and even empathetic with the woman who had brutally abused and murdered three other women, and then planned to kill his partner. Jo would have gone just as far as she needed to go. That's very chilling. Something else I appreciated was the low-key approach to this scene, providing good contrast with Goren's confrontations with Declan when Declan was the prime suspect. The slow unfolding of Jo's guilt was, imo, masterfully written and performed.
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Post by Patcat on Feb 16, 2007 11:29:15 GMT -5
I also saw this episode again recently and, aside from its use of Eames as the victim--admittedly a very tough one who saves herself--I like it very much. The visuals--with the constant use of light to blind the viewer--impressed me.
I think Goren recognized that, while Jo's actions were terrible, it was Declan who made her a monster. I also think Goren was fully aware that Declan was trying to manipulate him.
Patcat
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Post by gibbsfandan on Feb 16, 2007 22:35:16 GMT -5
Good point about the visuals. Nice creative thinking, and great lighting and camera work, seen also in the cuts from one crucial story element to another.
Your post now reminds me of the unique audio effects in Eames's captivity scenes: first, the eerie absence of voices (except for the gut-wrenching distress of the victim being abused behind the curtain); then, the "squeak-squeak" of the pulley-and-hook mechanism as Eames rotated her body to unscrew the mechanism from its anchor in the ceiling. For me, that sound created the proverbial tension you can cut with a knife. And her resourcefulness in using the items at hand to try to escape, right after she'd been through an unbelievably traumatic experience — that was great, and I thought well done by all, not made melodramatic as it easily could have been.
I agree that Goren was fully aware of Declan's manipulation, and that in all ways we saw the awesome horsepower that normally is under Goren's hood. He had to have had adrenaline just about coming out the ears in order to do and think everything he did (and on little if any sleep, at that, and I'm glad that the strong implications of sleeplessness were backed up by Goren's sleep-deprived appearance. We've probably all seen some show where a character supposedly didn't sleep at all, and still looks 100% ready for action, presumably without use of stimulants. Right.)
Loved how calmly Eames told Goren that her captor wanted her to scream, so she didn't. How tough do they come?
All in all, amazing.
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Post by ladyday on Mar 29, 2007 19:35:11 GMT -5
I am torn between and A and A+. I'll say A because I loved the energy, emotion and the story. The crime was not as precise, and if he was not distracted, Goren would have solved it earlier. That is my only criticism. The crime solving needed as much care as the emotional story.
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