I enjoyed this week a lot, too. I actually liked last week's ep as well (Peter was so adorable with his sextant!), but this week feels like we're back to normal and that was really what I wanted.
I think there may have been a shot or two of Neal and Sara looking vaguely uncomfortable, which was a bit unnecessary, although it is possible I imagined it.
I interpreted that as similar to their discomfort when they had dinner with El and Peter last season - like secretly, they both kinda want what Peter/El and Diana/Christie have, but aren't sure if it's okay to want it, possibly because neither of them thought they'd ever get to have it (well, Neal wanted it with Kate, but this is the first time he's ever thought about having it with someone else) and possibly because they just haven't talked about it, so neither of them knows if this is what the other one wants.
I'm a little disgruntled, because I feel we somehow got cheated out of seeing the Neal/Sara relationship actually start. We went from "you owe me lunch" to "sleeping together on a regular basis" and I wanted to see that progression way more than I wanted more badly handled Nazi loot plot.
As for the badly handled Nazi loot plot . . . I'm sort of okay with ignoring it as long as it only gets four minutes of screentime each week, but at some point we're going to have another episode focused on it, and that is going to annoy me. And I agree, I don't like what it's doing to Mozzie's character. He used to be a fairly decent influence on Neal; they would get up to some shady stuff, but Moz was there to make Neal think about consequences, and he always seemed like a fairly decent guy. I feel like his role has completely changed this season, and I'm having a hard time reconciling that with the character he was for the first two years. I can't tell if hints of this were supposed to be there the first two seasons and I didn't see it because I didn't want to, or if this really is the sloppy writing it feels like.
In any case, I'm like 80% mollified at this point. At least until the next Nazi loot-centered episode.
Edited because I thought you would appreciate this: fuzzyboo03 just said to me, "$5 says that Neal's safeword is 'Raphael'." To which I replied, "Well dammit, now I have to write that story!"
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I think there may have been a shot or two of Neal and Sara looking vaguely uncomfortable, which was a bit unnecessary, although it is possible I imagined it.
I interpreted that as similar to their discomfort when they had dinner with El and Peter last season - like secretly, they both kinda want what Peter/El and Diana/Christie have, but aren't sure if it's okay to want it, possibly because neither of them thought they'd ever get to have it (well, Neal wanted it with Kate, but this is the first time he's ever thought about having it with someone else) and possibly because they just haven't talked about it, so neither of them knows if this is what the other one wants.
I'm a little disgruntled, because I feel we somehow got cheated out of seeing the Neal/Sara relationship actually start. We went from "you owe me lunch" to "sleeping together on a regular basis" and I wanted to see that progression way more than I wanted more badly handled Nazi loot plot.
As for the badly handled Nazi loot plot . . . I'm sort of okay with ignoring it as long as it only gets four minutes of screentime each week, but at some point we're going to have another episode focused on it, and that is going to annoy me. And I agree, I don't like what it's doing to Mozzie's character. He used to be a fairly decent influence on Neal; they would get up to some shady stuff, but Moz was there to make Neal think about consequences, and he always seemed like a fairly decent guy. I feel like his role has completely changed this season, and I'm having a hard time reconciling that with the character he was for the first two years. I can't tell if hints of this were supposed to be there the first two seasons and I didn't see it because I didn't want to, or if this really is the sloppy writing it feels like.
In any case, I'm like 80% mollified at this point. At least until the next Nazi loot-centered episode.
Edited because I thought you would appreciate this: