i will be thinking about wilson giving house an old medical textbook for christmas with the note "Greg, made me think of you." for YEARS. GREG, MADE ME THINK OF YOU????????
Okay Buck waited for Abby for MONTHS, I just don’t see him cheating on a woman he said he loves. And even after it happened he was just not that upset with himself?? For me this is out of character and just sets back his character development. This entire episode was so frustrating, the bomb under the car chase was awesome but the cheating, Bobby making an assessment on whether sb is fit for work on his own AGAIN pissed me off and then Eddie bringing up the fire to Bobby pissed me off even more. This episode was unbearable
I've just rewatched the Season 5 episode "Lockdown", and for the most part, I really like it. The interactions between Lex and Lana especially are great. That said, characters constantly referring to Lex as a villain was really jarring, as was the way Clark was acting.
But the thought I was left with was that the episode seems to want to claim that the only difference between Lex saving Lana by taking a bullet for her, and Clark saving Lana from an explosion, is that Lana doesn't know that Clark saved her, and that just doesn't sit right with me. Because surely, there is a fundamental difference between someone saving you even though he has to put his own life on the line to do so, and someone saving you from something that could never actually harm him.
Sure, someone saving you with no risk to themselves means that they don't want you dead, which isn't nothing, but... Clark called an ambulance for Lex too, despite pretty much hating Lex at this point, so not wanting someone to die isn't some huge statement. But someone saving you when they know doing so could kill them? That carries the implicit message, "Your life is worth more to me than mine," and that's just not the same thing.
Which also once again left me thinking, "Someone explain to me again exactly how Lex is the villain here?"
New fic on AO3-- or rather, a very old fic, rescued from the Wayback Machine and reposted-- Star Trek: Voyager, the Doctor, a short "Latent Image" post-ep: