GIP and Green Wing

[elisi]

Firts of all: I made an icon! Isn't it pretty? It'll never happen again, so I'm pleased it turned out OK. (I stole the picture from jamalov29 - I hope that's OK Caroline?)

And then of course last night I watched 'Green Wing'. I've not looked at my flist yet, so I have no idea what other people thought. But here's my reaction.

First of all: Poor Mac. Never seems to catch a break - and now he's dying? Also he was written a bit oddly... Actually a lot of things seem to be getting a little too ludicrous, including Sue's cub (?????) and the 'van-hanging-over-a-cliff'. Of course all good entertainment, but it did feel like the writers were losing the plot.

But of course the BIG stuff is Caroline and Guy! (I never said so, but Jake was a complete freak, if impossibly nice - no man should wear an alice band! And when he revealed that he'd kept his Tamagotchi for 12 years I yelled at her to run away - fast!) Aaaaanyway, I've loved what they've done with Guy. Of course the character is wonderful (always going for the crudest thing possible), and you know exactly where you've got him - in a way he's very, very childish, always focussing on personal gratification. And then he falls in love and of course no one takes him seriously - classic 'boy who cried wolf'! But he tries so hard, and sometimes does well and sometimes fails, because - well he's an idiot. ::pets Guy::

So I absolutely loved the ending! Sorry all you Mac/Caroline shippers who might have been throwing stuff at the screen - but in all his idiocy and sweetness, Guy is a hairsbreath away from Spike - if Guy thought that chaining Caroline up might help his cause, I could totally see him do it. Couldn't you?

Heh.

But it is Saturday and I'll need to do stuff and spend time with the family and all that. Will do my best to catch up on comments. *smooches to you all*

ETA: Via stoney321 something to make you laugh! :)

Comments

[elisi]

it just had to have been Mac who got Guy to go there so both he and Caroline could be happy (self sacrificing to the end)
Oh that's a lovely thought - I really like that. And I also loved how defeated Guy was - something like 'I wanted to see what I could have had if I'd been ginger'. Actually the way he realised that the whole love thing was something he wasn't good at ("Love is... waking up at night.... that's how far I've got."), which contrasted so nicely with how cock-sure he always was.

*loves Mac*
Oh me too! I think it's sadly one of those times when they bent the character to the story and not the other way round. And how could they have test-results if he hadn't done any tests? Or at least hinted at tests or something? Not too happy at all.

Although Mac patting the doctor's leg was a wonderful touch.

[spikereader.livejournal.com]

And how could they have test-results if he hadn't done any tests?

That same doctor did tests on him when he came back to work, way back in episode 2 or 3, so I assume they are results from then.

[elisi]

Oh. I'd completely forgotten that. Or maybe I missed it - I kept forgetting when it was on and missing the first 5-10 mins.

But thank you - that makes a lot of sense. Maybe the falling off a cliff had bad repercussions...