Wheel of Fortune - Episode 73

[amyk]

Mar 17, 2023 19:30:37 GMT -5 Katia said:

Nov 4, 2018 21:48:10 GMT -5 amyk said:

I watched this one tonight...I only give it a 4 on the Sidney scale, because it is just okay to me, but not what I would probably call "good." There are aspects to it which never make sense to me, namely who are those guys at Bach's stereo and why are they monitoring the VA? Were they connected with Joshua? And I hate, hate, hate the fact that Hannibal is just off playing Hugh Heffner with those twins in Rio when one of his men is in real trouble.

YES, that bugged me so much. That's another thing that is just... not characteristic of Hannibal. I suspect this is one of those episodes they needed to leave GP out of (for whatever reason), but... wow. For Hannibal to just be like, “eh, it's nothing, good luck” is... not him. I tell myself he thought they were exaggerating and thought Murdock was just messing around? (which, actually, is another sad blow for Murdock, if he can get in major trouble but it's maybe assumed that he's just being flaky or playing a trick somehow-- which is not something Murdock would do, not with something like that.)

I wish they had come up with some other way for Hannibal to be MIA in this one. Like if he had to be off helping "Kid" Harmon for some reason.....maybe he could have been invited to the baby's christening or something. I don't even remember if this episode was before or after that one. Or maybe for some reason Hannibal could have been off in Rio or some other country doing some investigating before agreeing for the team to take a big mission or portraying a movie monster like in WHERE IS THE MONSTER WHEN YOU NEED HIM. Or he had to get his appendix out. Anything but him being with those two twins.

[amyk]

Mar 17, 2023 19:30:37 GMT -5 Katia said:

Jun 16, 2020 22:44:40 GMT -5 amyk said:

I think I would prefer that the mission truly be about an international situation (even the fictional country of "Barak") rather than them just wanting to rob that casino using that fancy helicopter.

Yeah, I found that whole scenario weird. Really, the whole plot felt sort of contrived. Like they were like, “we want Murdock to get kidnapped... hm, what could we have as a plot for that?” But it was fun to see Murdock playing with the helicopter. I was surprised though when he blew up that building... doesn't seem like something he'd do, destroy stuff just for the sake of it, OR believe bad guys when they claimed it was unoccupied...

Oh, yes, I hate that he blew up that building. Even if there were no people in it, there could have been animals in there - even if only some feral cats living in the structure.