Showing posts with label episode 7. Show all posts
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Wednesday, January 8, 2014

'Almost Human' GifTweetCap: Dorian has Low-Charge PMS!

"Simon Says" is probably the best episode of Almost Human to date, and not because of the main plot of the episode. It's yummy goodness is entirely due to Dorian's off-kilter personality. As such, I had originally devoted all of the gifs to Dorian, or Kennex's reactions to Dorian's behavior. I figured I should add a few about the plot, so I wound up with 50% more gifs than usual. By the way, I wrote a second Teen Wolf recap the same night, in case you'd like to check out that one as well.

 Det. Paul announces a solar flare has caused rolling blackouts, and they will be forced to consume less energy for a few days. As the man in charge of energy consumption, he has given charge priority to certain androids. Dorian soon enters and decks Paul for giving priority to the "superior" MXs.
Dorian says it's Paul's fault, as having half a charge makes him a bit emotional, but he appologizes for hitting Paul anyway. Meanwhile, Kennex thinks it's hilarious.
Although he appologized, Dorian can't help but laugh at a joke directed at Paul. Kennex blames the behavior on the half charge, using some humorous facial expressions.
In the car, Dorian pleads with Kennex to let him live at his place, so he doesn't have to deal with this crap, but Kennex refuses. His only free room is his "trophy room," which displays his college victories. Dorian wants him to grow up already, but all Kennex is compelled to offer up the story of his glory days, when he was labeled the "White Cheetah," on account of being so fast. Dorian promptly falls asleep, but Kennex wakes him and repeats the painfully embarrassing story which he deems as awesome.
Meanwhile, a guy offering a car window wash sprays a man named Ramon (Alessandro Juliani, who was awesome as Gaeta on Battlestar Galactica) with drugs to knock him out. When Ramon wakes, he finds himself wearing a bomb collar. He must follow instructions in order to get the code for the collar. The instructions include robbing a bank and evading police. That doesn't stop Kennex and Dorian, however. They catch Ramon, dooming the poor guy to an explosive death. There's nothing they can do, so they put up a fancy shield to protect themselves. 
Simon, the weirdo who killed Ramon (Get it? Simon Says? Yeah, I know, kinda dumb), recorded the whole thing for a "dark net," unpatrolled Internet site, and gets off on the accolades of other creeps who enjoy watching people die.
This is where viewers began comparing the episode to many other shows and movies.
Kennex pulls evidence from Ramon's car, including the Bitcoin (I just have to say, that's ridiculous! No way Bitcoin will be anything other than play money in the future, but whatever… minor gripe) drive containing the money robbed from the bank, and a data recorder sent to Rudy for decoding. Dorian has major disco face about the Bitcoin drive, indicating he's thinking harder than normal about the evidence to make it sink in.
Back at Rudy's lab, Dorian goes through some color-shifty eyes as he listens to Rudy and Kennex speaking about the evidence. 
Kennex wonders whether the "happy toaster's" outbursts are cause for major concern, but Rudy assures him that it's only temporary. Dorian doesn't like that they're talking about him, so he throws a mini-tantrum.
Creepy guy Simon kidnaps another person (the daughter of a man-made flower store-owner), and the new feed for the live broadcast is brought up at the precinct. Simon forces her to dance in a gazebo while holding a boquet of flowers, but Kennex and Dorian show up to save the day. They manage to disarm the bomb as the Kennex and the damsel in distress discuss Simon's nerdy creepiness. Simon's "fans" have a field day making fun of Simon, pissing him off to no end. Dorian celebrates their victory by bringing Kennex and the girl in for a group hug, albeit a bit too aggressively.
Back at the precinct, the gang goes over what they know, but Dorian can't stop his emotional meltdown. He even laughs heartily at Paul's lame jokes, trying to make up for punching him.
When they arrive at an area where they believe Simon may be located, Kennex refuses to allow Dorian and his emotional state to be involved. Instead, he suggests Dorian and Paul "hug it out," while goes in alone.
Of course, Kennex is nabbed by Simon, later waking up on a bench with a bomb collar. Simon targeted Kennex because he was accepted back on the force despite a poor psych evaluation. Simon, meanwhile, was rejected from the force for a similarly poor eval. In fact, Simon's whole reason for killing people has to do with the fact that each of his victims rejected him in some way.
Simon threatens to blow the collar if the cops come close, if Kennex warns anyone, or if innocent bystanders are evacuated. Kennex must disarm the collar himself. He initially has some trouble, but barely grabs a token that will serve to separate the wires, proving why he was allowed back in the field. This only upsets Simon, who doesn't much like being one-upped by Kennex-the-brave-hero all the time.
Simon has a dead-man's switch with cameras all around, preventing the cops from approaching or taking him out with a sniper rifle. But Dorian is able to calculate a path to Simon's location that evades cameras, and involves climbing up a clock tower as if he's Spider-Man. Simon decides to blow the collar early as Kennex is about to win Simon's disturbing little game by disarming the collar, but Dorian saves the day by electrocuting Simon and grabbing the dead-man's switch.
Earlier, Rudy had voiced his depression over being lonely all the time. So, Kennex hands Dorian over to Rudy, at his new charging station in Rudy's lab. Rudy becomes overly excited, dreaming up all sorts of fun times they will have together, going to clubs and meeting women. Dorian subtly pleads for help, which Kennex clearly thinks is hilarious. He gives Dorian a thumbs-up for being pulled into his epic prank-of-all-pranks. Dorian got Punk'd!
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Tuesday, November 12, 2013

'Person of Interest' in Motion: The Original Gang is Highlighted

"The Perfect Mark," PERSON OF INTEREST on CBS
lt to rt: Kevin Chapman and Taraji P. Henson
Tuesday, Nov. 5 (10:01 – 11:00 PM, ET/PT)
Photo: Giovanni Rufino/CBS
©2013 CBS Broadcasting Inc.
Quick Note: I had the animated gifs for the following recap completed last week, but I waited on the recap to make sure it wasn't going to be posted on Yahoo. They have been having some tech difficulties, so my usual recaps are not being posted at the moment. Until I can post on Yahoo, I'll be posting these on my blog. The downside is that I don't get paid for these. The upside is that I get to upgrade the recaps to include gifs and tweets, and I can say whatever I want! You can find my past recaps here and here Please enjoy!

"The Perfect Mark" episode of "Person of Interest" brings all of our favorite original characters back to the forefront. Finch (Michael Emerson), Reese (Jim Caviezel), Carter (Taraji P. Henson), and Fusco (Kevin Chapman) all see some action. Some fans love the whole crew, including the new characters, while others want everything back the way it used to be.
Finch sees a hypnotherapist about his resentment of Reese... actually, he's just trying to scope out his latest number, Hayden Price (Aaron Staton), hypnotherapist of the rich and powerful. Problem is, he's not actually certified. Nope, he's really a con man, hypnotizing people into giving him their private info so he can make bank off their stupidity.

The gang learns just how deep Price will sink into the weeds for a con when he cheats a poor sap out of $50,000 for a fake dealing in which Price and a "Det. Decker" (James Joseph O'Neill) fake kill each other in front of a their very freaked out mark. Then Price proceeds to con the other con man, Decker, out of $30,000 of the stolen money.

Price makes one huge mistake, however: stealing from HR by intercepting one of their money-laundering efforts. HR attempts to take him out, but Reese and Shaw are there to put a stop to their first attempt. Reese even punches one of them out after shooting him!
HR launders money through an antiques dealer named Sven (Carsten Norgaard) by having Sven pay millions of dollars of HR money for a worthless autographed baseball, sold by someone representing HR. They are essentially paying themselves, cleaning the money in the process. Price intercepts the email telling Sven which ball to buy, and he ends up buying a real one. Then he sells it to some kid for five bucks, but that kid is actually working for Price.

Simmons (Robert John Burke) tasks Carter's rookie cop partner Laskey (Brian Wiles) with killing Sven after the bungle, but Fusco and Carter take care of faking his death with a nice "bloody" picture. Carter tries to have a say in the blood-spatter design, but this is Fusco's territory: he's going for a "hollow-point special motif."

When Simmons realizes the bungle was caused by Price, he orders Terney (Al Sapienza) to get the ball from Price before killing him, and orders Laskey to kill Price's girlfriend Natalie, who finds Reese "creepy" (What?!). Reese and Carter take care of it, with Reese intervening by slamming Terney over the head with a stool (a gif of that can be found at the bottom of TV.com's article), while Carter punches Laskey in the face (love the way she looks as if she's "just had it" with the kid, below). This is all an attempt to set Price and Natalie free and blame the screw-up on "the man in the suit."

It's a bit annoying to see Price walk free, until we learn that Natalie is also a con woman, and cons Price out of the real ball. Supposedly, the jerk really loved her, which is usually impossible for con men at Price's level of douchebaggery. Ha! Take that scumbag!
Later, Terney creeps up on Carter and Laskey while they are talking about the case. Just when the rookie is becoming more likeable, this happens:


Carter immediately shoots Terney in retaliation, and Terney finally gives up the identity of the HR boss, Quinn (Clarke Peters). Carter had just trusted Quinn with her suspicions about HR's involvement in her boyfriend (and Quinn's godson) Beecher's death. If only she had known Quinn was behind the whole thing before spilling her guts!


The episode also included a fantastic Reese-Carter fist-bump. Rather than reinvent the wheel, I direct you once again to two fantastic gifs that Tim Surette over at tv.com created (both are at the bottom of the article on that page).
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