... and a random, probably pointless White Collar observation

[sholio]

This journal is a Season 4.5 Spoiler Free Zone (TM), by the way! Please don't mention anything from unaired episodes, promos, etc. Thank you! :)

Anyone else notice that Sam/James doesn't drink?

I was rewatching bits of 4x10 and it jumped out at me particularly in the scene where he, Mozzie and Neal are gathered around the table in Neal's apartment -- Neal and Mozzie with glasses of wine, Sam with a glass of water. Which made me realize that the only thing we ever see him drink at all is water.

I have no idea if there's any actual significance to this, plot-wise or as a character detail, or if it's just a coincidence (after all, we haven't seen much of him yet). But it was something I had noticed on the rewatch, and it struck me as interesting.

(Someone -- not me, I don't remember who -- pointed out awhile back that there are two water glasses visible in the scene in which Neal rescues(??) Sam from the thug in the warehouse. A clue??? Or just an accident of the prop department?)

Comments

[frith_in_thorns]

There was an enormous and incredibly passionate argument on fandomsecrets the other night around the proposition "Kili doesn't look like a dwarf because he's attractive and dwarves can't be attractive". Unfortunately both sides are hampered by Tolkien's utter lack of descriptions.

(Newbie, bemused: "But the books are really long, and you all say he didn't describe characters or battles? He must describe something!"
About five people, simultaneously: "LANDSCAPES.")

...I have the rather bad character trait of finding this type of argument hilarious. The release of the Hobbit film is providing me with considerable entertainment. Although everything else in the film pales in comparison to Thranduil's magnificent steed.