Pych(ology) today and Burn Notice
Feb. 7th, 2009 01:56 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gategrrlAh, the psychology of lying
This episode was okay. It's entertainment. I did think it was funny that Henry was their Lie Detector. Somehow, I kept feeling like the writers didn't use that gutsy compulsive liar to as good effect as they could have. I can't pin it down...I guess I think that the Liar, if written that way, would have made a HUGE trickster to Shawn's own trickster, adding new layers of truth (or not) to Shawn's world. A guy that good at lying? Whoa, watch out. Used sparingly, he'd be awesome as a sometime not-quite-nemesis.
And on Burn Notice:
Burn Notice-total fun. Gabrielle Anwar is still skinnier than any woman has a right to survive, but wow, she's really toned up and worked those muscles. She's still not totally believable as a woman who weighs 102 pounds beating up on beefy guys like she does, but at least she *looks* more like the part. Her frisson with Michael as the character is still good. I missed Mom, though. Sam? Is awesome and keeps getting better. I wouldn't say that he's stealing the show from the Star, but Bruce Campbell really has the touch for not overshadowing the rest of the cast-which you TOTALLY know he could do, if he had a mind to. Luckily, he's a team player. This show keeps getting better.
This episode was okay. It's entertainment. I did think it was funny that Henry was their Lie Detector. Somehow, I kept feeling like the writers didn't use that gutsy compulsive liar to as good effect as they could have. I can't pin it down...I guess I think that the Liar, if written that way, would have made a HUGE trickster to Shawn's own trickster, adding new layers of truth (or not) to Shawn's world. A guy that good at lying? Whoa, watch out. Used sparingly, he'd be awesome as a sometime not-quite-nemesis.
And on Burn Notice:
Burn Notice-total fun. Gabrielle Anwar is still skinnier than any woman has a right to survive, but wow, she's really toned up and worked those muscles. She's still not totally believable as a woman who weighs 102 pounds beating up on beefy guys like she does, but at least she *looks* more like the part. Her frisson with Michael as the character is still good. I missed Mom, though. Sam? Is awesome and keeps getting better. I wouldn't say that he's stealing the show from the Star, but Bruce Campbell really has the touch for not overshadowing the rest of the cast-which you TOTALLY know he could do, if he had a mind to. Luckily, he's a team player. This show keeps getting better.
