My notes:
-What was the point of killing off Donovan? Especially in the abrupt way they did it? I didn't care that much about him as a character, but he deserved better than that. Especially since Greg, Sandoval, and Angela's murders were such a big deal. I don't think Saxe could even be bothered to give a shyt at this point. It's just crazy how damn near the entire office has been killed and Saxe is still around stirring up bullshyt. He's an actual Nas lyric ("Everybody's under six feet of ground but you").
-I don't know whether or not I'm supposed to care about Dre at this point. I would have felt sympathy for him losing his daughter if he didn't go psycho and kill the one federal agent that was trying to keep him alive.
-I feel like there's a period every season now where Ghost gets punked out and disrespected by everyone. It's not really interesting when your main character is just a punching bag that doesn't do anything. A lot of scenes with him are just really depressing.
-50 is a piece of shyt, but I did notice a few interesting things about his direction of this episode. Like when Jason was talking to Tommy, he turns around to get a drink, and when he turns back, Ghost is in Tommy's seat. Or this one scene that dissolves into a scene of Ghost sitting down. The transitions were really smooth and I don't think I've ever seen the show use tricks like that, so I have to say, he did a really good job.
-The comedy is one of the few things this show excels at. The scenes with Tommy's crew, the scenes with Tariq's roommate. I feel like the show should have transitioned into a dramedy at some point because it would have allowed the audience to accept more of the ridiculous things that happen.
-Tariq doesn't give a fukk about Raina. He feels alone because Kanan is gone, not her. I don't think he even talked about her outside of situations where he had to ("Happy Birthday"), but here he goes being upset over a plan he helped set up, and giving a eulogy for Kanan's ashes like they were lifelong best friends. By the way, he couldn't have been more disingenuous in that scene with Ghost. At least make me believe that you have your father's back.
-Jason wanted those L.A. ports bad enough to orchestrate two separate plans to bring Alicia over to him. He has all the power and control in that scene to make Alicia give him what he wants. He could have tried torturing her, blackmailing her or something just to have her give up the information he needs. But no, let's just have Tommy go through all that so Jason could kill her without getting anything from her. And Jason pretty much admitted that he played Tommy but I don't think he cares at this point.
-Tommy rejecting Ghost's offer to kill Jason as a team actually surprised me. I thought he would have said yes once he realized what Jason did, but I think he's too wrapped up in his hatred for Ghost, he doesn't want to listen to anything he has to say. In fact, this scene probably highlights why Ghost had to tell the Italians about Teresi. Tommy either doesn't listen, or he wants to do things his way. He's never interested in just playing the part. But I guess Jason just has to keep pulling more shyt for Tommy to realize it's not worth having him as the connect.
-And the original theme song is back. Best part of the episode, hands down.
It better stay that way.
the writing is abysmal
