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| Gun Crazy Part Two |
| Start working with your colleagues, Debbie - not against them - and that's not just a friendly piece of advice. This is an excellent Cullen and Chandler episode - right up there with Long Shadows Part 2 for significance. It feaured a huge amount of Cullen and Cahndler interaction, both verbal and non-verbal - and the very fact that it is difficult to understand the significance of most of it only makes it truly mystrious ;o) While Chandler's tame clinical psychologist expinded theories about the suspect's likely profile Cullen and Chandler exchanged grins, eyerolls and deeply significant looks. There are many theories about waht was going on - I came up with about 16 different interpretations of those moments - they were just brilliant. I wonder what the actors/director/writer thought was going on? One of my favourites was Alex thinking "Dominant...wants to be a leader of men.... that's what his problem is! S'pose I'm lucky he doesn't have a gun..." Word of caution, sir? Of course. Get a result here and no-one gives a toss tomorrow - just doing your job, but if the woman and child get hurt or worse could be a real career killer. I'd like to quote Ainsel from the Forum on this - "I was a bit troubled by Alex's "word of advice" to Chandler. A dead child may be a career killer, but first and foremost it IS a dead child. Cullen has Chandler's measure, however, so he could have been following a sound business practice - when you make your pitch, appeal to the client's dearest-held interest. For Chandler, that's his career." I'd like to know (a) What the writer thought was going on in that scene and (2) What Ged thought Cullen's motivation was? Does anyone really think that Chandler is such a psychopath he would carelessly get civillians killed? Does anyone think he is so stupid he couldn't see the above conundrum? My best interpretation, and I very much doubt this has anything to do with what the PTB thought was going, is: Cullen has worked out - as he said - that this is basically a lose/barely win situation. Chandler is a Super - he doesn't really need to be there and he could lose his *highly important* career. Alex does have to be there and has comparitively little 'career' to lose. He's subtly suggesting to Chandler that he should carry the can. Fashion review - NO! No, Alex - NOT the button down collar look, please! The episode started, of course, in last eps gear but the following day saw Alex in an off-white shirt with a button down collar *whimper* and a dark blue tie with spots on it plus a grey suit. Later on when out on the estate he looked cute and bundled up in a dark jumper over the shirt plus his black leather jacket... sigh... The picture above doesn't show the right shirt but it is the leather jacket. |
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