sometimes you just have to make a leap

I think ... I have actually lost count of how many times I've seen Mountie on the Bounty; this is at least the eighth time but I might be erring on the conservative side. I just thought it should be known that it's demonstratably my favourite episode, and yes, the buddy breathing probably has something to do with it but it's mostly the sheer wealth of character stuff. I take roughly the same amount of analytic joy from it as I do from the Victoria episodes, but this one has the wonderful bonus of a happy ending.

Anyway, my point is that I got some lovely responses to the Victoria meta, which made me very happy; this is another one of those episodes that I actually want to dialogue about instead of just providing joy and screencaps. In the main I am doing these commentaries just so that I will get all the plot threads and thematic things fixed in my head, and comments obviously make me happy but if no one responds I do not mind and cheerfully go on to the next few episodes; I will cheerfully go on to s4 after this also, but I would love to actually talk about these episodes. Your thoughts, tell me them!

( Asylum & Mountie on the Bounty: In which Ray and Fraser have all sorts of wacky emotional issues at each other for nearly three hours; mostly lots of talk about their partnership and shippiness and character arcs, with great glee. )

...That was later than I meant to stay up. This is how much I love that episode; I will happily burn the midnight oil, whatever that actually means.