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So, the most epic picspams I've ever made. Reed Diamond's most recent guest stint in Cold Case. The one thing I really appreciate about this show is their song choices. They have very good song choices which are quite appropriate to the era they flashback into. Heh.
Okay, so it's 1999, and there's a debate competition going on. Reed plays Darren, a debate team coach of some preppy high school. That floppy-haired guy, Luke, just trounced his best debaters. (AND GODDAMNIT, I was a debater when I was in high school, and I talk fast BUT I DO NOT TALK THAT FAST. O_O)
Darren is at awe with how Luke processes information and applies it to debate. He offers him a scholarship to the preppy high school.
He tells Luke that in 1987, he got to the finals of the biggest debate blar evarr in College and it was the most exhilarating feeling evarr.
So, basically, Luke ends up dead. It was ruled as a suicide, but new evidence suggests that it wasn't, so they open the case. Their first interview is with Darren, the debate coach. Cold Case's style of flitting through flashback self + wardrobe and present day self is quite jarring, to be honest. And I kinda think it's silly to shoot a scene twice with different wardrobe to achieve such effect. Heh.
UNF. Anywhoo, Darren explains that Luke was their best debater evarr and that maybe because he gave him a chance, it sorta painted a target on his back.
Another jarring style, which I think is just exclusive to this episode, is the shrinking of the screen. I'll take the under/over-saturated screens any time. Pszfth.
This is pseudo-flashback hair. Hah. In this scene, he turns into the slave driving debate coach. He also mentions the 1987 debate championship again, which they lost because apparently, his partner was made of FAIL. He disses Oliver, that skeevy-looking debater with slicked back hair and praises Luke.
UNF again. And yes, I'll keep on saying UNF every time I see him with eyeglasses on. Anyway, he says that Luke and Elisa (that girl with the headband in the other cap) was the best team he ever coached, ever.
So, the Cold Case detectives learned that Luke's been taking prescription drugs that weren't exactly prescribed to him and it was given to him by Darren. Dun dun.
The Cold Case detectives are all "OMG, YOU LYING LIAR WHO LIES.". Darren's all, well, Luke asked for help and giving prescription drugs to someone who doesn't need them, though illegal, totally helps. But he got all weird and went to our house and tried to return it.
FLASHBACK again. I like it that even when witness account says that they were already getting ready for sleep, Darren's not in a sleeping attire. lawlz.
Luke makes a new argument about the educational system from scratch. The boy's a genius, I tell you. And Darren's impressed. He gives Luke a book by Foucault to help him even further with his argument.
Darren's all, I've been pushing debaters all throughout my career and that was the only time a debater pushed me.
The Cold Case detectives get to the bottom of this case. They take Darren "downtown". He gets into that 1987 spiel again, which sorta reminds me of a joke I had with my friends about going all hysterical in a job interview and screaming, "I WAS ALMOST A CUM LAUDE WHEN I GRADUATED. I ONLY NEEDED A POINT 6!!!!1!".
I feel bad for his character. He's been carrying this burden for years only to be revealed that it wasn't his partner who failed. It was him. And his temper.
And his dreams of becoming a lawyer were dashed after that tournament (maybe because he was so embarrassed about what he did), and went on to be a teacher, where he hoisted that failure of his to his students. :(
FLASHBACK TIEM. Luke tells Darren that he's not happy in the preppy prep school and he was quitting.
Darren thought it was because of Luke's stunt (which led to his partner scrawling the death threat in his evidence tub in shorthand, which was the primary thing that re-opened this case), and told him that it was okay, they'll do better next time. But Luke says no, that he needs to take care of his dad, and he can't do that if he's pressuring himself with the preppy prep school and the debate team.
And then they get into an argument and a shouting match. Luke presses his buttons, Darren presses Luke's buttons. Darren doesn't want Luke to regret his decision. (Dude, Luke should have totally just slept this decision through. Couldn't he have waited for morning or something? There's always tomorrow, my gads).
Darren's temper prevails, and he shoots Luke with the gun Luke's dad tried to kill himself with earlier. I liked how they used the multiple screens with this. Makes the sequence tidier. And you know why Luke died? Because he didn't shut up. Debaters always die because of their big mouths.
The leading-the-bad-guy-away scene with the flashback wardrobe.
I hate that Reed Diamond's the bad guy, for the nth time. I understand that he possesses a face that makes you think that he's nice and friendly (you know, when he's not frowning), and I can see why casting people will want to cast him as the bad guy to get that shock factor-- the guy who looks so nice is the KILLAH, OMG. But then, if you continue to cast Reed Diamond as the bad guy, then the shock factor will be gone, because you already know that Reed Diamond's going to be the bad guy. Dabnabbit.
At least we get him back in Dollhouse. (I hope there's a trippy scene in the Attic wherein what Echo sees is a trippy, noir-ish version of the other characters and Laurence Dominic will be in a nice, three-piece suit and a Fedora, and will be cavorting around with DeWitt, who will be in an appropriate 1930s sexy siren look-- and yeah, this just all came from my head right now, and if this won't happen on the show, I'm going to write it in fic. Mark my words. HAH.)
Okay, so it's 1999, and there's a debate competition going on. Reed plays Darren, a debate team coach of some preppy high school. That floppy-haired guy, Luke, just trounced his best debaters. (AND GODDAMNIT, I was a debater when I was in high school, and I talk fast BUT I DO NOT TALK THAT FAST. O_O)
Darren is at awe with how Luke processes information and applies it to debate. He offers him a scholarship to the preppy high school.
He tells Luke that in 1987, he got to the finals of the biggest debate blar evarr in College and it was the most exhilarating feeling evarr.
So, basically, Luke ends up dead. It was ruled as a suicide, but new evidence suggests that it wasn't, so they open the case. Their first interview is with Darren, the debate coach. Cold Case's style of flitting through flashback self + wardrobe and present day self is quite jarring, to be honest. And I kinda think it's silly to shoot a scene twice with different wardrobe to achieve such effect. Heh.
UNF. Anywhoo, Darren explains that Luke was their best debater evarr and that maybe because he gave him a chance, it sorta painted a target on his back.
Another jarring style, which I think is just exclusive to this episode, is the shrinking of the screen. I'll take the under/over-saturated screens any time. Pszfth.
This is pseudo-flashback hair. Hah. In this scene, he turns into the slave driving debate coach. He also mentions the 1987 debate championship again, which they lost because apparently, his partner was made of FAIL. He disses Oliver, that skeevy-looking debater with slicked back hair and praises Luke.
UNF again. And yes, I'll keep on saying UNF every time I see him with eyeglasses on. Anyway, he says that Luke and Elisa (that girl with the headband in the other cap) was the best team he ever coached, ever.
So, the Cold Case detectives learned that Luke's been taking prescription drugs that weren't exactly prescribed to him and it was given to him by Darren. Dun dun.
The Cold Case detectives are all "OMG, YOU LYING LIAR WHO LIES.". Darren's all, well, Luke asked for help and giving prescription drugs to someone who doesn't need them, though illegal, totally helps. But he got all weird and went to our house and tried to return it.
FLASHBACK again. I like it that even when witness account says that they were already getting ready for sleep, Darren's not in a sleeping attire. lawlz.
Luke makes a new argument about the educational system from scratch. The boy's a genius, I tell you. And Darren's impressed. He gives Luke a book by Foucault to help him even further with his argument.
Darren's all, I've been pushing debaters all throughout my career and that was the only time a debater pushed me.
The Cold Case detectives get to the bottom of this case. They take Darren "downtown". He gets into that 1987 spiel again, which sorta reminds me of a joke I had with my friends about going all hysterical in a job interview and screaming, "I WAS ALMOST A CUM LAUDE WHEN I GRADUATED. I ONLY NEEDED A POINT 6!!!!1!".
I feel bad for his character. He's been carrying this burden for years only to be revealed that it wasn't his partner who failed. It was him. And his temper.
And his dreams of becoming a lawyer were dashed after that tournament (maybe because he was so embarrassed about what he did), and went on to be a teacher, where he hoisted that failure of his to his students. :(
FLASHBACK TIEM. Luke tells Darren that he's not happy in the preppy prep school and he was quitting.
Darren thought it was because of Luke's stunt (which led to his partner scrawling the death threat in his evidence tub in shorthand, which was the primary thing that re-opened this case), and told him that it was okay, they'll do better next time. But Luke says no, that he needs to take care of his dad, and he can't do that if he's pressuring himself with the preppy prep school and the debate team.
And then they get into an argument and a shouting match. Luke presses his buttons, Darren presses Luke's buttons. Darren doesn't want Luke to regret his decision. (Dude, Luke should have totally just slept this decision through. Couldn't he have waited for morning or something? There's always tomorrow, my gads).
Darren's temper prevails, and he shoots Luke with the gun Luke's dad tried to kill himself with earlier. I liked how they used the multiple screens with this. Makes the sequence tidier. And you know why Luke died? Because he didn't shut up. Debaters always die because of their big mouths.
The leading-the-bad-guy-away scene with the flashback wardrobe.
I hate that Reed Diamond's the bad guy, for the nth time. I understand that he possesses a face that makes you think that he's nice and friendly (you know, when he's not frowning), and I can see why casting people will want to cast him as the bad guy to get that shock factor-- the guy who looks so nice is the KILLAH, OMG. But then, if you continue to cast Reed Diamond as the bad guy, then the shock factor will be gone, because you already know that Reed Diamond's going to be the bad guy. Dabnabbit.
At least we get him back in Dollhouse. (I hope there's a trippy scene in the Attic wherein what Echo sees is a trippy, noir-ish version of the other characters and Laurence Dominic will be in a nice, three-piece suit and a Fedora, and will be cavorting around with DeWitt, who will be in an appropriate 1930s sexy siren look-- and yeah, this just all came from my head right now, and if this won't happen on the show, I'm going to write it in fic. Mark my words. HAH.)
music: Diaspora Oratorio - Bear McCreary
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