Post by niecie on Jul 23, 2013 19:27:56 GMT -5
It puzzles me that the woman braves the horrible storm to go whine at the captain. It also puzzles me that the captain just leaves her out in the storm without making sure that she gets safely to cover (given the way men would act toward women back in the 1870's).
The gang of marauders are really nasty, wrecking the ship, then using a Gatling gun against the people trying to flee the wreck!
Artie tells Jim to play the chip on number 13, but as best I can tell, Jim never does.
Crystal annoys me. I'm sorry she dies, but I find her very annoying.
When Jim is interrogating her in her room after the fight, he shoves her up against the painting. She yells at him and tries to move away. In that brief space of time before he pushes her against the painting again, you can see the hole in the painting is already there, before the gunshot.
I like Oriana. It's such a pity what happens to her.
As someone else pointed out to me a long time back, Artie gets the name of the ship wrong, confusing Delta Belle with Dixie Belle.
The scene where Artie returns the soap cracks me up. Artie, get your tongue back into your mouth and stop drooling all over everything! But then, why does Artie get kicked out but Jim stays?
I love the dinner scene, and how every time the thunder cracks and the parrot squawks, the camera comes back to find that Jennifer has moved her seat closer and closer to Jim. Now, the dialog is silly, and I'm pretty sure that Jim should have been knocked back in his seat at the very least, even with the bullet-proof vest, even with the gun being a derringer.
Artie's Clark Gable get-up is so cute, and we get another Stephen Foster appearance, this time being whistled. The first time I watched this scene (well, first time recently -- I'm sure I saw it when I was a kid, but I don't remember), I just thought it was a funny scene. Watching it again, though, I realized that Artie had a not-very-nice idea about who Glory was, and he seemed to hang on to that notion for an awfully long time. And if he did think she was a, shall we say, lady of the night -- what's he doing flirting with her when he's supposed to be gathering intelligence? At least he does gather intelligence from her -- but I really doubt he wanted Coffin dead more than she did.
I like better the scene when Artie storms into the dining room and roughs up the butler. I also like when he returns to the hotel and kicks in Jim's door. (I made a little gif of that; it looks like someone is in the room, repeatedly shutting the door again in Action Artie's face.)
And the bath lecture. Probably my favorite scene in this episode! Artie going on and on about the history of bathing, sprinkling in the powder, tossing in the balls of soap, lulling the two bad guys into believing they've got him over a barrel. That line: You're the jolly pirate! And then he strikes, ramming the box of powder into the one guy's belly and knocking him into the tub, then flinging the soap balls all over the floor to trip up the other guy. And then he knocks the hat tree over as he leaves the room and conks the second guy on the head, knocking him out!
Meanwhile, Jim is in the enemy's lair and finds himself inside a big metal cage attached to a lightning rod in the thunder storm. He gets out, of course, but gets blinded by a powder flash, leading to a fight between himself and the blind man Coffin. Very clever writing there, I think. A terrible outcome for poor Oriana. And then Coffin gets poetic justice when the metal cage he used against Jim gets turned against him instead.
Then there's the tag. It's meant to be funny, and is to a certain extent. But I'm with Artie: Jim can't be serious, kissing that girl who tried to kill him and bargaining down how much time she'll have to spend behind bars! The funniest part to me is when she lifts her arms from around Jim's neck and we see the handcuffs on her wrists for the first time! Then she slips her arms around Artie's neck instead and kisses him -- and instantly Artie's brains abandon him completely. *rolls eyes*
The gang of marauders are really nasty, wrecking the ship, then using a Gatling gun against the people trying to flee the wreck!
Artie tells Jim to play the chip on number 13, but as best I can tell, Jim never does.
Crystal annoys me. I'm sorry she dies, but I find her very annoying.
When Jim is interrogating her in her room after the fight, he shoves her up against the painting. She yells at him and tries to move away. In that brief space of time before he pushes her against the painting again, you can see the hole in the painting is already there, before the gunshot.
I like Oriana. It's such a pity what happens to her.
As someone else pointed out to me a long time back, Artie gets the name of the ship wrong, confusing Delta Belle with Dixie Belle.
The scene where Artie returns the soap cracks me up. Artie, get your tongue back into your mouth and stop drooling all over everything! But then, why does Artie get kicked out but Jim stays?
I love the dinner scene, and how every time the thunder cracks and the parrot squawks, the camera comes back to find that Jennifer has moved her seat closer and closer to Jim. Now, the dialog is silly, and I'm pretty sure that Jim should have been knocked back in his seat at the very least, even with the bullet-proof vest, even with the gun being a derringer.
Artie's Clark Gable get-up is so cute, and we get another Stephen Foster appearance, this time being whistled. The first time I watched this scene (well, first time recently -- I'm sure I saw it when I was a kid, but I don't remember), I just thought it was a funny scene. Watching it again, though, I realized that Artie had a not-very-nice idea about who Glory was, and he seemed to hang on to that notion for an awfully long time. And if he did think she was a, shall we say, lady of the night -- what's he doing flirting with her when he's supposed to be gathering intelligence? At least he does gather intelligence from her -- but I really doubt he wanted Coffin dead more than she did.
I like better the scene when Artie storms into the dining room and roughs up the butler. I also like when he returns to the hotel and kicks in Jim's door. (I made a little gif of that; it looks like someone is in the room, repeatedly shutting the door again in Action Artie's face.)
And the bath lecture. Probably my favorite scene in this episode! Artie going on and on about the history of bathing, sprinkling in the powder, tossing in the balls of soap, lulling the two bad guys into believing they've got him over a barrel. That line: You're the jolly pirate! And then he strikes, ramming the box of powder into the one guy's belly and knocking him into the tub, then flinging the soap balls all over the floor to trip up the other guy. And then he knocks the hat tree over as he leaves the room and conks the second guy on the head, knocking him out!
Meanwhile, Jim is in the enemy's lair and finds himself inside a big metal cage attached to a lightning rod in the thunder storm. He gets out, of course, but gets blinded by a powder flash, leading to a fight between himself and the blind man Coffin. Very clever writing there, I think. A terrible outcome for poor Oriana. And then Coffin gets poetic justice when the metal cage he used against Jim gets turned against him instead.
Then there's the tag. It's meant to be funny, and is to a certain extent. But I'm with Artie: Jim can't be serious, kissing that girl who tried to kill him and bargaining down how much time she'll have to spend behind bars! The funniest part to me is when she lifts her arms from around Jim's neck and we see the handcuffs on her wrists for the first time! Then she slips her arms around Artie's neck instead and kisses him -- and instantly Artie's brains abandon him completely. *rolls eyes*