Justified (Season 5 - Jan 7th)

Doh! I'm so embarassed. Been playing TWD, got confused.

Darryl beating up his sister and immediately signing a blood-pact with his nephew was pretty fuckin stupid. Are they implying that he killed her? Or are they implying that he is going to take the kid, while his mom is in no condition to stop him, to be his own little partner in crime? So stupid.

They really wasted Rappaport's character. It started out with so much promise.

Is it just me or is Boyd one of the least successful criminals ever. Pretty much every major enterprise we see him attempt fails badly.

Well, fitting end for Danny Crowe.

Maybe, but it was anti-climatic. I would much rather have seen Raylan shoot him dead, then say something cool/insulting about his dumb 21 foot rule.

Raes_sl said:

Maybe, but it was anti-climatic. I would much rather have seen Raylan shoot him dead, then say something cool/insulting about his dumb 21 foot rule.

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Yeah, but i guess that would've been too predictable. Although it damn well looked like he may have made that 21 feet.

The dialogue has really gone downhill this season. And Raylin's character just feels completely different. I can't really explain it, he just seems like a moron now.

ShakyJake_sl said:

Yeah, but i guess that would've been too predictable. Although it damn well looked like he may have made that 21 feet.

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If you think Danny had a chance in hell then you've completely forgotten how fast and accurate Raylan is. Not to mention he only made it maybe halfway before his faceplant. Raylan is a quickdraw and a marksman. In most situations like this, a law enforcement officer will draw their weapon, even if they point it at the ground. Raylan most often just moves his jacket out of the way and rests his hand on the but of his gun, as he did this time.

What is strange is that Raylan had no idea what he was talking about.

Khane_sl said:

The dialogue has really gone downhill this season. And Raylin's character just feels completely different. I can't really explain it, he just seems like a moron now.

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Yeah his character really seems useless. Struggling to want to bother with the rest of the season but I guess it's only 3 more episodes.

I still love the show but I feel like it went from 90% Raylin being awesome/10% stupid bad guys to 30% Raylin, 20% who gives a shit and 50% bad guys being stupid. I want to watch Raylin shoot stupid people and I want red neck lex to not get fucked in every episode. Byod isn't even fighting Raylin right now and he is just getting shit on.

I appreciate that, knowing next season is the end, they are shrinking the longterm cast down to the inevitable Boyd vs. Raylan showdown, while finally giving Boyd foot soldiers of a competence level equal to his stature in the crime scene (and capable of not getting taken down instantly by the US Marshals).

I just wish that setup for next season was done more elegantly, or at least entertaingly.
If I squint, I can see what the writers were going for with Raylan on the fatherhood angle, giving him surrogate children (Loretta and Kendal) and a surrogate father in Art he's disappointed; I'm just notentertainedby any of it.
Boyd is less clear - the whole Paxton/funeral home arc just seems like time killer from a distance, and unless dealing with the Crowes pushes him into full on Monster for the final season, it too just seems like a time killer.
And I have no idea whatsoever what is going on with Ava - the setup was preposterously inelegant, the proceedings have been disjointed and disconnected to the rest of the show, and I literally cannot see what the endgame is. (I guess she becomes Prison Queen, is shanked by the cute prisoner, and dies, pushing Boyd into full Monster in his kingdom? That'd be disappointingly standard.)

Part of it is they had big plans for the alligator Haitian, but he decided to pull a Half Sack to quit mid-filming. I'm sure that fucked with the story quite a bit.

My episode cut off at the blood brothers bit between Darryl and Kendall. Did I miss something else? Judging from other commentary, I guess some shit happened to Art?

Vycron_sl said:

Mine cut out. Comcast was pretty good about this shit when Sons of Anarchy started running their overlong episodes. I felt like I missed an entire episode when startin this weeks show. Who beat the fuck outta the redhead?

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