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Invisible Man watch/rewatch - 1x05 Impetus
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Invisible Man 1x05 - Impetus
Holy moly, it's an episode that ended happily, and even ended happily for the experimental test subject. :O
And a Claire-centric episode, which was lovely. Despite the silliness of the disease-of-the-week plot (Darien's old-man makeup .... XD) I really liked this one. There was quite a bit of fun character stuff, and lots of Claire. And I can FINALLY use her name in the dicussions, since this was the episode in which her name was made canon!
This was the episode I alluded to vaguely back in the 1x01 discussion, with the mention of Darien's invisible-stalkerness not quite going away. At least in this case he had a good plot reason for it -- it was more like incidental/accidental voyeurism than intentionally setting out to do that -- and she did call him out on it later.
Another thing that bugged me about the episode is that Claire and Gloria are the people who suffered the most from Evil Military Guy & Henchman's shenanigans, but it was the male members of the team who took them down.
But overall I liked this one a lot. I continue to enjoy the members of the team all having their own agendas, and this was a more feel-good episode in some ways than the darker ones that preceded it.
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Invisible Man 1x05 - Impetus
Holy moly, it's an episode that ended happily, and even ended happily for the experimental test subject. :O
And a Claire-centric episode, which was lovely. Despite the silliness of the disease-of-the-week plot (Darien's old-man makeup .... XD) I really liked this one. There was quite a bit of fun character stuff, and lots of Claire. And I can FINALLY use her name in the dicussions, since this was the episode in which her name was made canon!
This was the episode I alluded to vaguely back in the 1x01 discussion, with the mention of Darien's invisible-stalkerness not quite going away. At least in this case he had a good plot reason for it -- it was more like incidental/accidental voyeurism than intentionally setting out to do that -- and she did call him out on it later.
Another thing that bugged me about the episode is that Claire and Gloria are the people who suffered the most from Evil Military Guy & Henchman's shenanigans, but it was the male members of the team who took them down.
But overall I liked this one a lot. I continue to enjoy the members of the team all having their own agendas, and this was a more feel-good episode in some ways than the darker ones that preceded it.
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I really enjoyed this expansion of Claire's character. Getting to see her be silly was a treat.
The agency is still making my headdesk. I get why Claire has a better perspective of the Agency, since they were helping take care of Gloria, but her view of them still seems very naive. And Hobbes actually broke his "it's need to know, and we don't need to know", though it was only out of concern for himself. You know, I get that self-interest and self-absorption is inherent to human beings, but there's self interest and self-absorption, and then there's the inability to realize that someone else is having drastically different experiences. But Claire and Darien seemed to make real headway! Though sometimes I feel like Darien and the Official are the only two who aren't bullshitting each other. I loved the bit where Darien was accusing the Official of various awful deeds, and the Official played indignant for a second, before chuckling and admitting that he'd totally do something like that, he just hadn't this time. But I'm still enjoying where the other relationships might go. I mean, I'm not sure I'd say Claire is staying only for Darien. It's a job, and she does interesting work. But the subtext is there. EDIT: subtext is the wrong word. Words slip out of my brain without proper thought. That part of it is important, I mean, though I'm suspicious by nature.
I was far less bothered my Darien's stalkery behavior than I thought I might be. He wasn't doing it for kicks, and Claire got to react.
The government in this show is super scary. That's my final take on this episode.
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And yeah, I really enjoyed getting a Claire episode, and seeing some glimpses of her off-duty life!
But I'm still enjoying where the other relationships might go. I mean, I'm not sure I'd say Claire is staying only for Darien. It's a job, and she does interesting work. But the subtext is there.
I knew what you meant on subtext, and yeah, I agree -- it's definitely not the ONLY reason, because she's a researcher and she's getting paid to do amazing cutting-edge research; she'd have to be made of stone not to be tempted. The fact that she's starting to like and befriend her test subject is a definite factor, but not the only factor, I don't think.
(On a side note here about the other kind of subtext, one thing I really like about the show thus far is that it's not, as far as I can tell, playing any sort of "incipient couple ahead!" game with Claire and Darien. They're nowhere near close enough where such a thing would be feasible yet, even if there weren't boundary issues due to him being her test subject, but that still wouldn't necessarily stop a show from putting in some flirting and "main couple ahead!" signposting. But this show isn't doing that. They're just slowly and quietly getting to know each other.)
I was far less bothered my Darien's stalkery behavior than I thought I might be. He wasn't doing it for kicks, and Claire got to react.
*nods* Yeah, I felt that it shouldn't go unremarked, but then, in the episode it doesn't -- she's angry about it, she's not condemned for her anger, and he's doing it for a specific purpose. It's hard to argue, given everything that's been happening to him, that he shouldn't be able to use whatever advantages he has to get himself some leverage.
And yeah, the government on this show is skeezy as hell. As cynical as I am about the government IRL, I'm pretty sure this show blows right past that into total WTF NO territory ...
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I remember loving that Darien doesn't want the agent-lady being held captive b/c of things that are entirely out of her control. Also - that he might not have broken her out had someone clued him in to why she was there. D'oh!