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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Monday, January 6, 2014

'Grimm' GifTweetCap: Russian Wesen and Revenge!

"Grimm" begins a new Juliette-centered story arc in the episode "Red Menace," but it's a very small part of the episode. The main plot is all about the Wesen-monster-of-the-week, who may or may not be so monstrous.
The episode begins with a nod to the pilot: a girl in red, who looks as if she's about to get dead via a mysterious man in a hoodie. It's not exactly the same, but the "Li'l Red Riding Hood" (The Brooke) music playing over the opening certainly brings back memories. The hoodie guy is just Nick (David Giuntoli), doing some heavy exercising without losing his breath or sweating. When are we going to learn what's going on with zombie-Nick?
Meanwhile, a seemingly wonderful man, Boris (Mark Ivanir), heals a young girl in pain with cancer. He appears to be a very special kind of green healing Wesen, which we later find is called a Koschie Wesen.
Later, sweet ol' Boris is attacked by a man named Alex Renko (Vladimir Tevlovski) in a store room while at an event in his honor. He is stabbed with scissors, but is able to grab Renko by the wrists and send him some green pulses. In this case, the healer uses his powers to harm. He throws Renko out the window, but the reverse-healing is not finished.
The infection sent to Renko through Boris's green vein-pulses is radiation poisoning. Renko speaks with an unknown person on the phone, lamenting the fact that he failed to kill Boris. After his little phone conversation, he decides to pull out one of his teeth, solely for the purpose of grossing us out.
The gang finds another dead man in the freezer at the same restaurant where Boris's event was held. Renko had killed him before attacking Boris, but they don't know where Renko is, so they go speak with Boris. Renard (Sasha Roiz), Hank (Russell Hornsby), and Nick watch as Boris heals someone, but only Nick can see that he's Wesen. Later, Renard, who's back from "vacation," learns that Boris used to be an assassin. He also knows that Grigori Rasputin was also a Koschie Wesen.

Nick, Wu (Reggie Lee) and Hank show up to check out Renko's apparently dead (and incredibly disgusting) pustule-ridden body lying in the tub. Oops! He's not dead yet! He jumps out of the tub and grabs Hank, barfing some oozy vomit in a nice shade of black right on Hank's coat.
Because of the radiation in the room, Hank, Nick and Wu are forced to take a shower. Nick almost looks as if he's in a GQ ad, and Hank looks a bit touchy-feely... with himself.
All of their clothing must be confiscated and burned, so the men are forced to wear their blue clean-room-type suits and booties. Anyone who has ever seen Ghostbusters gets the reference right away, although they add a comment from someone to the side for good measure: "Who ya gonna call?"
Boris enjoys sleeping around with his #HotMaid Larissa (Alicia Lagano), even while his wife Olga (Alexsandra Kaniak) is around. The next time he does, however, Larissa tries to kill him with poisoned Vodka. She becomes frustrated when he won't die (because he can heal himself), leaving Boris entirely confused... until she confesses that she only got close to him so she could pay him back for murdering her father, back when Boris was an assassin.
Boris insists that he has changed, but she runs off down the stairs. Our gang of cops show up just in time to see it all go down. The wife is a boar-like Malin Fatal Wesen, and rips into Larissa's throat for attempting to kill Boris. Boris, who dies a little each time he heals someone, makes the ultimate sacrifice in doing one more healing on Larissa, proving that he is truly reformed. But that is his final act, and he dies by Larissa's side.
Meanwhile, a new story arc begins when Juliette's (Bitsie Tulloch) battered-wife friend Alicia (Angela Gots) calls, and Juliette offers to let her stay in her home. While Juliette is busy, Nick notices that Alicia just happens to be a Fuchsbau Wesen. Her cruel husband Joe calls their house in search of her, but they deny she's there. Little do they know, he's staking out the place, and he's a Klaustreich Wesen to boot! Klaustreich are alley-cat-like jerks of the Wesen community. What happens next is left for next week.
Oh yeah, Hank finally looked for some action in the form of his beautiful physical therapist Zuri (Sharon Leal). He's just finishing up healing from his Achilles tear, which he got zip-lining on vacation a while back, and decides to "celebrate" his recovery with her. Unfortunately, she doesn't go out with patients. Poor Hank never gets the girl! Or any girl, for that matter!
GRIMM -- "Red Menace" Episode 309
(Photo by: Scott Green/NBC),
Airdate: Friday, January 3 on NBC (9-10 p.m. ET)
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Saturday, January 4, 2014

'Elementary' GifTweetCap: Moriarty is 'The Diabolical Kind'

Moriarty returns for the Elementary episode "The Diabolical Kind"! The title fits, as Moriarty proves just how diabolical she can be.
A small group of people in scary-looking night vision goggles and black clothing break into a home, kill a husband and father, then kidnap his daughter. Poor girl is terrified!
Meanwhile, Sherlock pulls out letters from Moriarty he has hidden with his bees. He's still writing to her!

Later, when Sherlock and Watson arrive at the scene of the murder-kidnapping, they find that the family had a state of the art security system. The kidnappers call the mother with their demand for $50 million, but Sherlock recognizes the voice as the man who had pretended to be Moriarty (or as Sherlock calls him, "Fauxiarty," played by Andrew Howard) in order to protect the real Moriarty's identity.
Gregson arranges a meeting with Moriarty. Sherlock is worried to find that she has been given concessions in return for information. He warns FBI Agent Ramses Mattoo (Faran Tahir), the only person allowed to communicate with Moriarty, that Moriarty is extremely dangerous. Mattoo insists that, as a gay man, he is immune from her charms.
As the gang walks into Moriarty's fancy cell, Moriarty rudely greets Sherlock with, "You look a bit tired." Quick-witted Sherlock responds with, "You look a bit evil." That evil is apparent when Joan is unnerved to find a giant excellent but creepy painting with her likeness leaning against the wall. Is Moriarty obsessed with Watson? Of course, she denies any involvement in the child's abduction, but agrees to share information about "Fauxiarty" and her other cohorts.
Watson's a bit upset to learn that Sherlock has been sharing details about his companions, including Watson's love life, with Moriarty. That wouldn't be such a problem if Moriarty were still locked in a maximum security prison. Even worse, Mattoo walks her out of her fancy cell and right into the precinct. Sherlock is amazed at the FBI's stupidity.

Moriarty gives the cops some sketches of the probable kidnappers, then requests to see the crime scene. Watson agrees to accompany her so she can ask about why Moriarty seems to be obsessed with her. Moriarty concedes that she is obsessed, but only because she doesn't understand the non-sociopathic Watson. She says that she will tire of the obsession once she gains satisfactory understanding, and insists that Sherlock will also tire of her for the same reasons because Moriarty is the only person he can relate to.

Sherlock is frustrated that none of the names and sketches Moriarty has supplied lead anywhere. In his frustration, he pulls out a rotary-dial phone so he can hang up on people "with more emphasis," all while speaking French.

Sherlock becomes even more frustrated when Watson shares her belief that Sherlock still has feelings for Moriarty. Still, he later admits that she was right.

Later, Moriarty's old pals kill a couple of cops just so they can steal their phones and look at Moriarty's sketches of them.

It turns out that they needed to see the sketches because Moriarty hid numbers in their sketch-stubble. Sherlock is furious when he deduces that the sketches are messages, knowing that Moriarty must be involved in the kidnapping. Her denial only serves to infuriate Sherlock further.

After her entirely predicted betrayal, Mattoo brings Moriarty back to her fancy room. Of course, Moriarty is much smarter than the agents. She figures out a way to escape by cutting the link of her electronic cuffs with glass, cutting herself in the process. She then proceeds to strangle Mattoo into a deep sleep without killing him.

Sherlock breaks the stubble code, along with their other means of communication, realizing that Moriarty wasn't in on it after all. The girl is Moriarty's daughter, and Fauxiarty and company really did kidnap her in order to get something of value (other than money) from her. Moriarty refuses to reveal what the object is, and nobody else can tell them either: she kills all of them in the process of saving her daughter.

Thankfully, Sherlock is not the father of the girl. In fact, the real father is probably the person who told Fauxiarty about Moriarty's child. Moriarty is slowly dying from her wrist-cutting escape wounds, and Sherlock hands her over to have her wounds tended to. Hopefully, the Feds have learned their lesson, and will discontinue all concessions.

Quick side note: at the beginning of the episode, there is a short clip of Bell trying to fire his gun during target practice. He still doesn't have full use of his hand, but at least he's still on the show (for now)! The previews indicate that he is in the next episode as well.

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