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The Great 38 Rewatch-- #BlueBird

Will he or won’t he?  Will she or won’t she? 

Can Cho really be THAT blind?

#BlueBird

Since this episode was one of the three "given" in the Great 38 I doubt I have to say much about it.  We all know that this is the episode where Santa Heller finally delivered on the ultimate Jisbon moment.   My only complaint is the one I've aired before: I never will understand the relationship between Lisbon and the Geek of Gluten.  I can understand her dating him but not the moving to Washington DC with him after only knowing him a couple months.  Had she met his ex-wife?  Had she met his oldest and dearest friends?  What about his family?  It was too sudden and-- to me-- seemed as manipulative as Jane was with the Blue Bird case only in a passive aggressive way.  And conversely, it seemed less like love and more like possession that a man would push a woman to move away with him and marry him when it was obvious to him that she was working through feelings she had for her partner.  But again, that's just my thought.  

One of the things I've tried to do from time to time during this rewatch is to reminisce about what was happening in my life when certain episodes were first shown.  Since this was such an important episode of the series, I bet many of us will remember the first time we saw it.  In my case, it was a very crazy time. My mother had sold her home and was moving in with me.  For this to work, I had moved also so it was double amount of boxes and movers coming from two different directions.  In fact, it was the day before this episode aired that she and the cat arrived.  We were surrounded by our boxes and dead tired from weeks of cleaning, moving, and in Mom's case, getting rid of a number of things she had owned for almost 50 years.  By the time the program started, we were ready to put our feet up, drink some wine, and let the show wash over us.  We said little which is unusual for us and at the commercials we would wonder how Jane was going to stop Lisbon from leaving.  Would he find the courage to tell her how he felt?  Would she be the one who had to pin him down and make him talk?  When the airplane scene arrived, one of us said, "Finally!" but I honestly don't remember which one it was.  However, we were a chorus of "Awwww!" at the ending.  

I hope you'll have the time to watch #BlueBird with us, Tuesday April 18th at 5pm DST, eastern time zone USA. We will be live tweeting our thoughts as we watch and we would love to have you with us.  If you’re feeling a bit shy, feel free to follow along or lurk on my timeline, @finewineornot.  If you can't, I hope you'll share your thoughts about the episode and what you remember from the first time you saw it later either on Twitter or here.  

Take care and remember to give yourself a break. tivarocks!