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[which_chick]

Seen elsewhere on the internet, discussing most recent episode of Justified: So it's obvious that "we dug coal together" is just a Boyd-euphemism for "we had a beautiful gay love affair in our youth that was filled with witty banter and snide jokes but also we were super in love and best buddies and the fact that we had to keep it a secret from our daddies and everyone else in Harlan just made it even hotter".....right, guys? RIGHT?

Y'know, when we as a society achieve full equality for gay/lesbian/queer persons, it's gonna go hard for the slash fanfic community.

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[fooliv.livejournal.com]

Really? and here I thought it had become a euphemism for "we totally killed a half-dozen guys together in a Bolivarian-Army standoff a couple seasons back". That or "Walton Goggins is so damn awesome that his presence warps the plot to maintain his participation in storylines, no matter how outlandish".

The weird thing is, he wasn't nearly this awesome in The Shield. It's like he stole Michael Chiklis's mojo on the way out of that show in revenge for the lame way the writers wrote him out.

Now I'm picturing some sort of actorly monkey's paw that gets passed from character-actor to character-actor which allows them to steal shows.

Oh, and the Californication of the locations was really over the top this week. That shot of a train moving through a pass, everybody knows about the mesquite scrubland covering the mountains of Kentucky, right?

[which-chick.livejournal.com]

I haven't seen The Shield, for some reason, but perhaps I will put it on my list. Right now I'm gently working my way through Lost, which made no sense in the first season and continues to make no sense in the second season, only more so. I think that's supposed to be the compelling thing about it, that it makes no sense. (Have not been spoiled on this. Have no urge to go read wikipedia to suss out the lack-of-sense. It's fine. I'm good, here, happily consuming a couple of episodes a week like a normal person.)

As for Justified... I think they need to not-kill-Boyd because I *like* Boyd. (Because television does exactly what I want it to do, all the time.) He's delightfully fun to watch. However, the situation is untenable. Boyd's the bad guy. There is not going to be a happy ending for him, no matter how much flirty banter there is between him and the hero. Raylan's the good guy. He's not going to stop being that good guy and go off to be a slightly more morally flexible good guy who raises chickens with Boyd in a post-apocalyptic Harlan. (I am not making this up. Someone else is, and writing it down, to boot.) At the end of the day, justice will be served even if it's cold and tastes like ashes. (It would be awesome if they could do that, btw. Someone make a note.) Raylan is going to arrest and incarcerate Boyd (or shoot him which would maybe be kinder) and that will be that.

There isn't really any other way for it to end -- we're supposed to compare them, they're too similar for that not to be the point. Boyd's not gonna run off to Mexico or blow himself up or get hit by a drunk driver or get shot by a little kid after he stopped in a convenience store to pick up some smokes. Those endings cheat the narrative expectations that we have been staring at since the first season, when Raylan shot Boyd in the chest and inexplicably failed to make him dead. ("I've never had this problem before... Seriously, first time it's ever happened to me.")

As for the Californication of the scenery, I was like "Totally doesn't even TRY to pass for Kentucky", but what particularly killed it for me was the background during the convoy stop. So flat and scrubby and not-appalachian-looking. I didn't notice the train scenery because I was looking at the train, not the scenery.