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postmodernmulticoloredcloak Ā· 4 years ago
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I decided to watch the Walker pilot so you donā€™t have to. #1
I donā€™t know why Iā€™m doing this, but Iā€™m doing this and the more I put it off the less Iā€™ll want to do this. So. Letā€™s start.
The fist thing we see is Jared Padalecki, em Walker, driving. Heā€™s vaguely smiling and thereā€™s the sun behind him. He seems happy. Heā€™s driving a truck, for some reason my mind goes to Twilight. Iā€™d rather watch that. At least there are vampires (not dressed like clowns) there. Anyway. Walker is meeting someone. Heā€™s meeting his wife! ā€œLook at you!ā€ she says. The camera makes us look at him. He looks like this
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I am unsure whether weā€™re supposed to see this as sexy or cool. It looks frankly ridiculous. I donā€™t know if Iā€™m just not American enough to appreciate the aesthetic of this. But I didnā€™t go through 15 seasons of Americana-in-British-Columbia for nothing. If a character appeared like this on Supernatural, it wouldnā€™t be presented seriously. It would be played for a chuckle or in a light-hearted way at least. Not even Dean Winchester would find this hot.
The Padaleckis tell something to each other. Apparently he needs to go home with the kids and his parents because itā€™s game night. My mind immediately goes to Game Night the episode and I am sad now. But Walker lifts my mood in its own weird way.Ā  He doesnā€™t know the rules because every time she tells him the rules, he blacks out. I would make a fun quip about this, but the truth is that I relate to him a lot right now because I blacked out during the entire scene. Iā€™m not sure what they said other than the game thing because I wrote it here. I already forgot the rest.
Anyway. What weā€™re supposed to get from this scene that theyā€™re Very In Love (see that soft warm light?), and that heā€™s anxious because heā€™s not great at being a father because heā€™s shit at games apparently, but his wife is like ~donā€™t worry so much~ because sheā€™s a kind, understanding wife. He tells her to be safe, because the Texan countryside is dangerous or something. She needs to stay on a route he approved for some reason. Is she traveling with supersoldier serum in her car? Is Hydra going to murder her? [cue the Marvel snipers shooting me to death because they donā€™t want Marvel to be associated to this]
Later, everyone is having fun playing fake monopoly, but Walker (whose mannerism is just Jared, heā€™s not even trying) is apparently too stupid to understand a game for kids. Plot twist, this is anti-cop propaganda because it says cops are dumb.
ā€œEt tu Bruteā€ Jared says when the kids point out he broke a rule so they get an extra turn. I thought I was safe from hearing Jared speak Latin! I thought I was safe! I am never safe!
Emily (Gen) suddenly texts him ā€œSOS. Answerā€ which is OMINOUS! Oh my god! Arenā€™t you feeling the tension. The rest of the family keeps playing fake monopoly. Someone throws dice. Are we supposed to go ā€œoh! The dice are ~symbolic because someoneā€™s playing dice with her lifeā€ or have I been watching too much good tv.
She is running somewhere in the countryside, wearing a white shirt (is this the cowboy lady equivalent of the Wife Nightgown?). She says something is not right. Heā€™s worried. Then he hears gunshot and her scream. He does the Alarmed Jared face, presses lips together and does a Upset Jared face.
Then he goes out, tries to call her again, and again, does a Jared Upset Sniff--
Oh! We actually see her! Sheā€™s alive, but sheā€™s been shot in the stomach. Her white shirt is definitely the cowboy lady equivalent of the Wife Nightgown! Ah the blood coming from the stomach! How terrible! Her phone is ringing but she cannot reach it. She is definitely alive right now, though. Sheā€™s breathing heavily because of the wound, which is breathing, which is the opposite of being dead.
He decides that sheā€™s dead, and lets out the already infamous manly scream of anguish.
It would be sad if it wasnā€™t that literally one second ago we saw her wounded but alive. Her turning out alive in the season finale or so will shock everyone. Nobody will have seen it coming. Who wrote this? They should have just shown the ringing phone and her bloody hand/side, making the audience assume she was dead, instead of showing her breathing. Now the audience is gonna assume she didnā€™t actually die, and wonder ā€œwhy didnā€™t he call someone or went looking for herā€ but apparently Jaredā€™s characters have forgotten that, like, ambulances are a thing. Jaredā€™s manly screams of anguish are more important than common sense.
Iā€™m not going to say anything about the manly scream of anguish. Iā€™m not going to say anything about the manly scream of anguish. Iā€™m n
Weā€™re just 4 minutes in, guys. Why am I doing this?
Eleven months later, says the screen.
Itā€™s night, outside a house. The son is waiting for him. The daughter doesnā€™t think heā€™s coming. On the porch there are two men, one is his brother and one is apparently his former partner, now new boss. Heā€™s dressed like youā€™d expect a normal person to be dressed in a casual Texan night, hat and tie and all. If you are law enforcement in Texas and donā€™t wear a cowboy hat at any moment, you will be executed. Thatā€™s what the death penalty in Texas is for.
Somebody arrives, but to the kidsā€™ disappointment is some dude whose function is to tell us the menā€™s names. The brother is Liam, the cop dude I forgot.
Walker is being sad on the back of his truck and drinking alcohol, which is the only way television can express a man having trauma. Holy shit - he reminisces of his wife like this is some emotional Lord of the Rings scene in a place where Elves live except this is not the Lord of the Rings and is just ridiculous, look
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Sheā€™s seen running towards the gazebo, then she turns
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This is exactly shot like the scene where Arwen has a vision of her son. Flowy hair and all. I cannot take this seriously.
He smiles sadly. Then a cop car arrives.
Mexican Lady Cop(TM), whose function in the story is to be a Mexican Lady Cop(TM) asks for his licence since heā€™s drinking alcohol in a public place.
ā€œYou ask so nicelyā€ drunk Walker says. Ew. ā€œYeah, they train the girls specialā€ Oh! Can you see? She is the Feminist Icon who Takes No Shit from the Dude! Iā€™m so excited. I am slowly losing the will to live.
She drives him home on the police car. His legs donā€™t fit. At least this is realistic.
He does exposition in the car, including ā€œI needed to visit a ghost insteadā€. There-there was no need to say it. Whatā€™s the demographic theyā€™re aiming for? Five year olds? Do they have to spell everything out loud?
ā€œItā€™s been a while since I had an actual conversationā€ he says, which supposedly explains why heā€™s making awkward exposition, but itā€™s just bad writing. At least they acknowledge itā€™s bad writing.
She figures heā€™s law enforcement coming back from an undercover mission from some drunken ramble he makes. This is worse than the Sherlock phone cable port thing.
She says she just got promoted from state trooper, ehe she will work with him wink wink nudge nudge. Is she going to be a cop-buddy-character slash love interest except when theyā€™re almost about to realize theyā€™re into each other, his wife comes back and draa~ama? I can already see it.
He goes home, makes some Jared grunts, and falls asleep on the couch.
Next morning, he goes out and jogs to where he left the truck. He puts on a cowboy hat which is supposed to be an artistic shot.
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Iā€™m slowly dying. He makes some Jared Deep Breaths, at least this made me laugh.
Wait, heā€™s now wearing a black hat. Heā€™s in mourning, see? What.
He drives to his fatherā€™s ranch. His father is Super Not Impressed. Itā€™s awkward. They took about horses. Mitch Pileggi is thinking that at least the other show was more exciting and there was Jensen Ackles in it.
He gets into his parentsā€™ house and the dogs run to him, he does the Jared Dog Chuckle. He hugs his mom. He hugs his son - ā€œAugust, my boy!ā€ he says, like a normal person his age says.
He hugs his brother and they joke-wrestle and he says ā€œIā€™m still the big brotherā€ and did I mention Iā€™m dying inside. I just can tell this is SUPPOSED to be reminiscent of Dean and Samā€™s first meeting at Stanford in the pilot except Jared is the big brother now. Ew.
We learn that the brother is a DA and gay. All pilots suffer from Forced Exposition Syndrome but itā€™s like this isnā€™t even trying.
He goes to work and hugs (very manly hug of course) his friend-now-boss, who is called James. James asks him if heā€™s good and heā€™s like yeah Iā€™m good, which our Iā€™m Fine Lie Moment #1. Some things never change.
Enter the case of the week - a cop offered roadside assistance but he was assaulted. Weā€™re already starting with a ā€œOh No Poor Cop :( Someone Doesnā€™t Like Cops And Gets Violentā€ plot. Yay.
Ta-da! Mexican Lady Cop appears, cowboy hat and all. James says sheā€™s Walkerā€™s new partner. My heart cries while Walker says ā€œfigured youā€™d be a guyā€ and she replies ā€œso did my momā€. The feminism is so strong :ā€™) Sheā€™s such a strong female character :ā€™) Iā€™m so happy :ā€™)
Then Walker makes such a quintessential Jared thing with his mouth that I need to stop this here and take a break.
Itā€™s been 13 minutes. So much still to go. Iā€™m bored. Why am I doing this.
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postmodernmulticoloredcloak Ā· 4 years ago
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And now Iā€™ve watched episode 3 of Walker because of reasons. (You guys asked, thatā€™s reasons.) #1
My review of episode 1 got a lot of positive feedback and a lot of you asked me to cover more episodes! But my review of episode 2 didnā€™t get much feedback at all. Possibly because episode 2 was boring and you can only make so many funny jokes about the glowy wife before it gets stale, so I get it, itā€™s fine. It was boring for me too. Hopefully this gets funnier! I actually have high expectations for this episode, since apparently it introduces NotDean. You know, the childhood friend who Walker loves like a brother and is the Han Solo to Walkerā€™s Luke Skywalker. Like, what. Stop comparing Jared Padalecki characters to Like Skywalker 2021 challenge. *insert you keep using that word...*
Anyway, in case you missed it - here are all my reviews of Walker episodes, in chronological order.
EDIT: *screeching* GUYS YOU ABSOLUTELY HAVE TO KNOW WHAT HAPPENS IN THIS. YOU CANNOT IMAGINE WHAT HAPPENS IN THIS. Read to the end, donā€™t stop at the padalacting. Iā€™m begging you asdfghjkl
Alright. Letā€™s start this. Actually I have a thought before we start. You know, I was thinking that episode 3 of Supernatural is when Dean gets genuinely introduced as a person. Sera Gamble and Raelle Tucker were the first to give Dean the personality that stuck and developed into the character that we love. Dead In The Water is, not coincidetally, the episode that sold Supernatural to me. The first couple of episodes were weirdly compelling, without which I wouldnā€™t have continued watching, but you must understand that Iā€™d never watched horror before. It really wasnā€™t my genre. I was just watching on the assumption that it would get better at some point, and if it didnā€™t Iā€™d stop. But Dead In The Water got me. Because thatā€™s when weā€™re really shown Dean for the first time. The rest is history and now weā€™re here.
So I wonder what will happen in episode 3 of Walker. Is it going to magically pull a Dean out of the hat and get me?
Letā€™s start. The Texan countryside. The yellow, glowy light tells us this is a flashback. Closeups of Jared and Gen. He is somewhat concerned. Heā€™s at the wheel of a car, still on the street - a red Mustang. Unlike the red Mustang of the horseman War, it is a convertible. Fun fact: a Mustang was Kripkeā€™s original idea for the Winchestersā€™ car, but then switched to the Impala for body-in-the-trunk reasons. I am the šŸ˜¬ emoji.
Actually guys I need to show you a couple Jared faces. I think theyā€™re supposed to be purposely comedic faces, but honestly this is just how he acts normally. I promise I am not coming in this with a bias towards Jaredā€™s acting. I just observe, with my eyes. He was actually good in many Supernatural episodes.
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I just canā€™t see Cordell Walker. Iā€™m just seeing Jared and Gen Padalecki delivering what is a somewhat padalecki acting in front of my eyes and I swear I had to close the video in the middle of this scene and start over because of a sudden attack of second-hand embarrassment.
Letā€™s continue
Basically, Walker is trying to drive the Mustang, but he is not good at it and the car stops after two meters. He feels exactly how I feel when I watch Walker.
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ā€œDamn it!ā€ Jared exclaims, jaredly. I think that this scene is supposed to be set Many Years Ago, because Walker is wearing a backwards cap and Emily has her hair styled like Bad Janet but straighter, which actually says a lot about this show somehow.
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God, I wish I could gif the entire scene to show you guys the padalacting. I mean, I could, but ainā€™t nobody got time for that. Have a bit of the scene.
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For some reason she puts this thing on the dashboard, because he ā€œputs your mind at easeā€.
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He makes more Jared faces, which weā€™ll skip because I donā€™t want to spend 7 hours on this.
Wait look at this shot of the car (with some bonus Jared face).
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Why does this look filmed by your dad with a videocamera on Christmas afternoon after you received a toy car as a present? I suddenly have a newfound admiration for the directors who did Impala shots on Supernatural because it would seem car shots are not that easy to make. Maybe this is why Supernatural always filmed at night with a black car.
Guys I am telling you, if you need to watch one scene of Walker in your life, watch this scene. Itā€™s so embarrassing. I almost decided to gif the moment of the car going and commenting ā€œnyoomā€ but the Impala does not deserve this.
Anyway.
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Listen, if I have to see thing thing over and over, you have to see it too.
Heā€™s brought the damn thing onto a new cop truck while on a stakeout with Ramirez, who is just as happy about it as any normal person would.
I think theyā€™re outside a strip club, judging from the posters outside.
He keeps quoting lines from the scene with his wife, which is sort of weird since Ramirez is not his love interest. Yet. Oh no. Donā€™t. Donā€™t do that. Donā€™t even thinking of doing that. Ramirez has a perfectly fine boyfriend.
Walker says that since theyā€™re sitting there just waiting for the suspectā€™s movements or whatever, they should use that time to get to know each other, like ā€œfavorite movies, the teams you root for, middle namesā€.
Ramirez is me.
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Heā€™s like ~letā€™s bond~ and Ramirez goes immediately for the jugular and asks how Stella (his daughter) is doing. ā€œWowā€ he says. He says he and Stella are ā€œin a good place, I thinkā€. Youā€™re not and weā€™re definitely not. This is the bad place.
Basically, theyā€™re trying to live in a bubble of ignoring her upcoming court date for the marijuana thing. Ramirez says that the easy route is not a good idea. Heā€™s like, are you speaking from experience? Basically they keep implying Ramirez also has a ~bad girl past, which I can absolutely live without.
Aaand now we see the inside of the strip club. The suspect is there, a lady with a Latinoamerican name, apparently bisexual because sheā€™s surrounded by a woman and a man in underwear, the woman is touching her, it leaves no doubt about it. šŸ˜¬ Enter the stripper on stage, who captures the ladyā€™s attention.
The stripper is a man. Dressed as a slutty cowboy. Thereā€™s glitter.
Yeah, you read it right.
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Oh no. No I absolutely change my mind. If you have to watch one scene of Walter, it must be the slutty glitter cowboy stripper.
Thereā€™s. Thereā€™s a. Thereā€™s a slutty glitter cowboy stripper.
The CW could do slutty glitter cowboy strippers and Dean Winchester is not there?!
I repeat, they killed Dean Winchester and then did slutty glitter cowboy strippers in Walker?!
This is a travesty. This is an outrage.
Crime. Pure crime.
Listen, Iā€™m not optimizing these gifs, take these super quick gifs, I canā€™t possibly spend my night optimizing glitter cowboy stripper gifs. But you need to see.
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Whatā€™s the target demographic of this show? Texan housewives? The gays? Are they trying to test all the waters and see what happens? Is Walker going to become about gay people and Jaredā€™s character a secondary character in his own show?
Wait
*sweats* Are they really trying to replicate Supernatural in everything after all?
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The bisexual lighting is there and all.
The guy in skimpy underwear is distracting. I canā€™t believe yesterday I saw a Jared interview where he said he couldnā€™t watch Supernatural with his kids because of all the violence but Walker is a show you can watch with kids. I mean, aside from this scene, Walker is definitely more kid-friendly than Supernatural for obvious reasons. But hey, since Supernatural already was non-kid-friendly, they could have at least put more dudes in skimpy underwear.
You know what, I think theyā€™re just aiming for Texan housewives.
ā€œYouā€™re hotter than Austin asphaltā€ suspect lady tells the stripper. You know. Something normal people say.
(If Texan people actually speak like this, do NOT tell me.)
Guys, weā€™re only four minutes in. Itā€™s midnight. I will continue tomorrow...
*screams into the void* These have been the four wildest minutes of my life.
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postmodernmulticoloredcloak Ā· 4 years ago
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I decided to watch the Walker pilot so you donā€™t have to. #3
Good news: this is the last part. Bad news: we still have more than 10 minutes of Walker.
Walker finds Stella at the gazebo of doom. He chides her, and the tone and mannerism he uses here are so familiar. Itā€™s the tone he does when Sam is mad-upset at Dean for something. It feels Iā€™m watching a scene with Sam and Dean where weā€™re supposed to be criticize Dean for something.
But Stella apparently is allowed to talk back at Jaredā€™s character, which is an unexpected positive development in this. She says he and her brother needed him, and she calls bullshit that he ā€œhasā€ to answer when he gets a work call. Sheā€™s like, canā€™t you tell your boss ā€˜whoops turns out I am supposed to take care of my kids nowā€™?
He replies ā€œwhat am I supposed to say here? how can I fix this?ā€. You are the adult, youā€™re kind of pushing responsibility on her like you and she have the same amount of responsibility here, but youā€™re the father, sheā€™s a kid. All through the ep heā€™s had this weird attitude with her, like they both need to do the same amount of work here. They donā€™t. Heā€™s the adult and the father here. Of course sheā€™s not a little child but sheā€™s still not an adult.
She ends the confrontation with a harsh reminder that her mother is gone, so he does the Jared mouth things, but dramatic. You deserve to see this
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Meanwhile Ramirez and other cops get into the figurine workshop. She starts confronting the owner and Walker also arrives. The ownerā€™s wife pulls out a gun, Ramirez does a roundhouse kick to unharm her. Chase scene through the workshop begins. It ends pretty much right away. The action is super short.
They get to the bossā€™ office and we get this visual they copied from shows with better cinematography.
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The boss compliments them and Walker acknowledges Ramirezā€™ importance in it. ā€œShould have known the woman was the brains of the operationā€ she says, because she is Feminism(TM).
Apparently this drug dealing thing made them discover a link to a bigger thing and the boss recommended Walker to go work on it. He also calls him out for the way the roughed up the suspect earlier, which. Bare minimum but okay.
He goes home and sits on a bench with his brother. He starts fidgeting with a poker chip and Liam is like ā€œstop doing that it makes you think about your wifeā€. Turns out there was a chip on her when she died. Oh, so they actually found a dead body lmao. Alright, sheā€™s dead, I guess.
Blah blah about the case of her death. I was going to type more about it then I realized I donā€™t care. Basically he feels like he missed something! Thereā€™s a big mystery and I donā€™t care. You know what, Mary Winchester also died after ten seconds of the pilot of Supernatural, but the scene that leads to her death was shot from her point of view. The audience is her, gets scared with her because thereā€™s a stranger in the nursery, and then suddenly we are not seeing her. We go looking for her with John, and we see her die. Itā€™s not exceptional television, Mary isnā€™t really given a personality or anything, but for a brief moment sheā€™s the protagonist. Emily isnā€™t even given that.
Liam tells him that the only thing he can do is be here. Jared does another mouth thing. God, when heā€™s the only lead you are forced to focus on him. You canā€™t escape his acting. Why is he putting in so little effort?? Itā€™s a pilot episode, not motw #84 in the fuckteenth Supernatural season.
Then Walker goes inside and his mother gives him parenting advice. Parenting doesnā€™t happen automatically, he needs to get to know them again...
So the daughter is feisty and smart and basically Walter number 2. The son is ā€œtwisted into bitsā€ because he does everything he can to be a good kid so that no one will worry about him. Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm this does not remind me of anything! Iā€™m dead inside!
He mentions the force heā€™s been recommended for. Of course the kids hear it. Why does Jared need to grunt when he gets up from a chair. I mean, my dad does it but heā€™s 66.
Walkerā€™s mother has fixed a little house on the property for them to live in, and Walker has another elvish vision of his dead wife.
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The screenshot kind of subdues the effect but yes thatā€™s a glow around her. Dead wife nods and then turns. Itā€™s embarrassing. Thereā€™s a weird sound effect when you see her, thatā€™s supposed to be ethereal or something but is just embarrassing. The weird light effect. The very fact that itā€™s there.
Then father-son moment. ā€œI never meant to made you grow up so fastā€. Boo-hoo. They sit on the couch, the son is asleep, the daughter comes in and brings up what she heard before. He says heā€™s not gonna take that job and that heā€™s learning. The end.
So they. uh. Really thought it was a good idea to make a show about John Winchester but a cop. They really thought it was a good idea.
This is just that. What if John Winchester is the main character but heā€™s a cop and has parents and a place in the countryside outside of Austin Texas. Also add in a gay brother and a Mexican-American colleague for the Liberals(TM).
Iā€™m flabbergasted. The entire premise of this show is John Winchester is the main character but heā€™s a Texas Ranger asdfghjkl
Mr Padalecki please never have ideas ever for the rest of your life.
I suppose the show will be about Walker becoming a good dad for his kids while developing better relationships with the various grownups in his life and also solving the big mystery of his wifeā€™s death. That concept isnā€™t bad on paper. Except Walker is the least compelling person you can imagine. Heā€™s just unlikeable. I donā€™t root for him. I just donā€™t want to see him. Heā€™s not even Jeffrey Dean Morgan.
The aesthetic would almost be enjoyable but Iā€™ve seen too many cowboy hats. I will go to sleep tonight and dream of cowboy hats. They will haunt me forever.
This could be a decent job if it werenā€™t about law enforcement. Itā€™s just a classic cop show. Thereā€™s nothing new or progressive about it. Itā€™s just a cop show.
Also it would be a decent show if Walker werenā€™t the main character. I donā€™t want to say ā€œif you remove Walker from itā€ because thatā€™s harsh, but Walker is terrible as the main character. You donā€™t like him. You canā€™t relate to him, not even if you had similar issues to him, because heā€™s just unlikeable. Not even in a ā€œIā€™m looking forward to see him grow and develop as a personā€. I donā€™t care.
Iā€™ve been pretty critical of Supernatural lately but after watching this I have a renovated appreciation for Supernatural, even with the faults. (Finale not included.) At least Supernatural is, you know, enjoyable to watch. We deserved Wayward Sisters. We deserved Wayward Sisters. We d
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postmodernmulticoloredcloak Ā· 4 years ago
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I decided to watch the Walker pilot so you donā€™t have to. #2
Because I donā€™t love myself enough, I guess. Letā€™s continue.
Recap in case you missed the first part: itā€™s boring, Jared acts like he stumbled on the set and never heard about it before, Texan law enforcement must wear very pristine shirts and cowboy hats or they will die, I guess, the cinematography wants to be good but Iā€™m not sure it knows how to do it.
The last thing I mentioned in the first post was Jared doing a thing with his mouth but I think you need to see it. Itā€™s basically the extent of Jaredā€™s acting in this show. I had nothing against you, man, I swear. I even got your autograph once. Iā€™m not a hater. Iā€™m just looking at him...
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THE TITLE CARD! I had paused the episode riiight before the title card. You have to witness it in all its embarrassing glory
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Whose idea was it??
Some shots of the city of Austin. Walker and Martinez (Mexican Lady Cop) are having lunch. She says sheā€™s heard about him, he asks what sheā€™s learnt, she says, I textuallty quote, ā€œI hear you are the edge of the coinā€. Again, we are not allowed to have any kind of slight metaphor without the dialogue slapping us in the face with it.
ā€œNot head or tail, just... your wayā€ Jared didnā€™t even come up with the metaphor in that interview, it was in the script. Unless he came up with that line, which isnā€™t even a good line.
She basically tells him not to get in the way of her career. Being a Mexican-American cop is hard! Such deep commentary.
They start discussing the case, which I had already forgotten about. The cop who was slightly assaulted and wonā€™t talk about it. ā€œMaybe whatever was in that truck spooked him enough to abandon his oathā€ maybe it was a monster. god I wish it was a monster so thatā€™d mean Iā€™m watching Supernatural and Jensen is in it. The ā€œoathā€ thing is kinda icky, like they want to remind us that being a cop is a noble path. It is in some places under some conditions. But weā€™re talking about Generic American conditions.
Heā€™s like ā€œletā€™s use the traffic cams to see if we can see somethingā€ and he slips right into his Sam tone. Admittedly thatā€™s a Sam kind of thing to say.
It was day, and now itā€™s night. Walker house. He arrives when his family have already started dinner. Except the daughter isnā€™t there, sheā€™s out with a friend. ā€œIsabel, some Mexican girlā€ Walkerā€™s father calls the friend. ā€œMexican American, dadā€ the gay brother corrects him, a deep and interesting commentary on ethnicity in the United States, weā€™re weeping with emotion.
Walker apparently isnā€™t happy that his mother has enrolled his daughter in a Catholic school, his father snaps back at him. We donā€™t care. Weā€™re not emotionally invested in any of this.
Thereā€™s some awkward dialogue because he mentions the daughter playing basketball, but sheā€™s switched to soccer. Wow, itā€™s like sheā€™s become an entirely different person in those eleven months he was undercover! Can you believe? Apparently she used to play soccer before, sheā€™s come back to it. Whoa. Sheā€™s an utterly unrecognizable person now, itā€™s going to be so hard for Walker to get to know her again from scratch. Can you believe?
Then he gets a call. He needs to pick up the daughter from the police station. He does some Jared awkward faces and leaves.
The daughter (Stella) was at a party and was arrested for possession. I miss when possession meant demonic possession. Dramatic music plays. Sheā€™s there with the Mexican American friend, whose parents arrive and he starts a speech on how they should get to know each other better. It is so not the right context to start making friends. ā€œEpic first meetingā€ Isabel says. ā€œIā€™m so sorry, this is so embarrassingā€ Stella says. ā€œFor who?ā€ Walker quips, like a normal person does.
Heā€™s like, letā€™s go, and the girls hug, which is the only believable expression of affection Iā€™ve seen so far in the episode. Canā€™t the story be about Stella and Isabel?
Father-daughter conversation in the truck. Apparently we have emotional moments in cars, which we have never seen on television before.
He asks what she was thinking, sheā€™s like, duh what do people use drugs for. She calls him out for disappearing completely. She mentions how it was bad enough that they didnā€™t have mom. He says ā€œwe both got to stop acting like sheā€™s gonna come back and put us rightā€ which makes absolutely zero sense. Itā€™s like someone wrote it on a note for how to develop the characters and they just decided to slap it into the script of the pilot. Remember these people havenā€™t seen each other for eleven months, he left shortly after his wife died. They didnā€™t have the time to process the grief together, why is he even saying that line here?
Meanwhile Martinez get home and we meet her boyfriend, a very cute Black man. Theyā€™re cute. Why canā€™t the story be about them?
He asks her about Walker, she says heā€™s a mess. Oh god. She says he was a Marine, ā€œsigned after 9/11ā€. Holy shit. Heā€™s a Marine who signed up after asdfghjkl canā€™t you feel the Manly Trauma here????
Heā€™s a Marine who signed up to fight Muslims after 9/11 and now has a dead wife, heā€™s exactly the kind of male lead character we need right now.
She says sheā€™s trying to figure him out. Her boyfriend is like ā€œdude stop thinking about that guy, heā€™s not at home trying to figure you outā€ and she replies ā€œoh Iā€™m pretty sure he thinks he knows everything about me alreadyā€.
This is the first scene that hasnā€™t felt bad so far.
Meanwhile Jared and his brother go to a bar. Itā€™s very ~Texas Aesthetic~, and theyā€™re wearing cowboy hats, of course. You are not allowed to go to a bar without a cowboy hat in Texas. ā€œThe brothers Walkerā€ the flannel-shirt-clad bartender says, coming with drinks. Jensen Ackles makes a face somewhere in the mountains.
The brother goes to call his partner and the bartender starts chatting with Walker. She has a conversation with Jaredā€™s awkward faces and sheā€™s like, I guess you left because I couldnā€™t answer your questions about what happened yo your wife. This is how people converse in real life.
She asks him if heā€™s alright and he doesnā€™t answer, instead is like ā€œletā€™s have a danceā€. He doesnā€™t say heā€™s fine, but I think it still counts as a Iā€™m Fine Lie Moment #2 because thatā€™s what it is in spirit.
I know youā€™re bored, Iā€™m bored.
They dance in the Texan bar, Iā€™m distracted by the pool tables and wish this was Supernatural so weā€™d see Jensen Ackles play pool.
Obviously the dance is interrupted by work - a text from Ramirez who says sheā€™s got something, ā€œoffice 8am?ā€ so he leaves because he has to wake up early. Iā€™m not kidding.
I was kind of warmed over by Ramirez and her cute boyfriend and by the bar who was kind of nice as a location, when the next scene at the office immediately starts with Ramirez saying ā€œMy mom wouldnā€™t let me play with dolls when I was a kid, so Iearned about cars insteadā€. I die a little inside. Itā€™s the second time sheā€™s referred to her mother wanting a son...? So sheā€™s badass because she wasnā€™t raised to be feminine...? Ew.
So they have this lead thanks to her knowledge of cars. They go investigate. Iā€™m bored.
I shouldnā€™t have said I was bored, because Walker destroys my boredom by having Jared pick up a cross and start talking to ā€œJCā€ sarcastically asking him for guidance about his kids going to the Catholic school. ā€œCan you stopā€ Ramirez says, along with all of us.
By the way theyā€™re in a workshop run by an ex-convict who employs former criminals to make figurines (like that cross). I got a bad feeling about this. Former criminal in cop shows is always code for current criminal.
The investigation leads to two guys who work in the store - ā€œoh I know you,ā€ one immediately says when he spots Walker, ā€œyouā€™re the ranger with the dead wifeā€. Walker is like, what did you say. And the guy is like oh I heard the story of a rangerā€™s wife biting a bullet near the border, guess you couldnā€™t protect her uh~~~
They exchange more provocations - Walker calls him some lowlife something and the guy goes to punch him and Walker beats him up. Violently. Iā€™m uncomfortable. Weā€™re supposed to think heā€™s exaggerating here but... he does get very violent and should not be a cop. Period.
They go to Ramirezā€™ house because he cut his hand. Her boyfriend is like ā€œbaby thereā€™s a dude bleeding on your couchā€ I want a season of him, exclusively him.
She scolds Walker. Not because he beat up a guy with more force than needed, but because he acted stupid and thatā€™s bad for her career. Iā€™m uncomfortable.
Also, whatā€™s bad is that theyā€™re supposed to work *together*. He says he has his own way of doing things. Yikes yikes yikes.
She says that her theory is that they put them together because he always break the rules. Apparently she read up his cases and he always break the rules. The main character of the show is a cop who break the rules in half the cases he works. Yikes yikes yikes but also did I mention yikes?
No, wait, he acknowledges that he ā€œbendsā€ the rules, like thatā€™s better! Yikes!
More bad dialogue, then Stellaā€™s school calls him. She hasnā€™t been at school.
He goes to ask Isabelā€™s mother, who reveals they havenā€™t their papers yet, so any criminal activity would mean deportation. He talks about it with Ramirez and mentions that his brother whoā€™s a DA could get in contact with the Feds to speed up the papers. Are we supposed to be like ā€œoh what a good guyā€? The thing is just creepy to me.
Well, at least Ramirez says something about it, or actually quotes her mother who used to say that the law doesnā€™t protect us. Thatā€™s why she ~burned bridges~ with her family! Apparently because she became a cop.
Ow. Her mother is not speaking to her because for her, her daughter being a cop is like a betrayal. But for her itā€™s a way to set things right! Weā€™re supposed to think her mother is exaggerated. #notallcops #individualgoodcopscanchangethesystemfromtheinsideforsuredefinitely
Meanwhile their investigation continues. Remember the cross Walker randomly picked up to mock the concept of Jesus? Ramirez stole it. And now they find out thereā€™s heroin in it. Alright... obviously the business that was supposed to rehabilitate former criminals is a cover for cartel drug dealing. What were we expecting. Iā€™m tired.
Ramirez decides to work the case alone and sends Walker to look for his daughter. ā€œI was that kid once, I always wanted to be foundā€. The impression you get from the scene is that Walker had forgotten about his daughter missing lol. Ramirez insists he goes. Iā€™m uncomfortable with how many times people put on cowboy hats. Someone should count. Weā€™re only 30 minutes in and it feels like itā€™s happened 80 times.
Alright, a break now! My laptopā€™s ventilation is running like crazy, VLC and long tumblr drafts are a bad combination. Or maybe itā€™s just my laptop being allergic to this show.
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postmodernmulticoloredcloak Ā· 4 years ago
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And now Iā€™ve watched episode 3 of Walker because of reasons. (You guys asked, thatā€™s reasons.) #2
If you guys havenā€™t seen part 1, go see it immediately. Because of reasons. This time, reasons is Slutty Glitter Cowboy Stripper. No, itā€™s not a joke.
Yeah, Iā€™m not sure whatā€™s happening either.
I canā€™t believe theyā€™re airing cowboy strippers in Supernaturalā€™s air slot and Dean Winchester isnā€™t there. I think this is why they had to kill Dean, because otherwise he would have ripped through the CWā€™s show layout and appeared in Walker sponteneously, instantly adopting Walkerā€™s entire family and friends as his own and single-handedly implementing the depolicement of the state of Texas, with Castiel rolling his eyes at him in the background while he murders ICE agents at the US-Mexican border.
*slides the CW a twenty euro bill* so I have an idea for season 2 of Walker
Anyway, thereā€™s this lady Walker and Ramirez are doing a stakeout on, a woman called Torreto who is presumably part of some criminal organization since theyā€™re doing a stakeout on her, and whoā€™s bisexual given she was being entertained by a lady and a guy at a strip club. Which is like, fine, not problematic at all, alright.
So the stripper straddles her and is like ~wanna come with me in the back, and sheā€™s like ~maybe another time, and heā€™s like ~torreto i saw cops outside you probably wanna come to the back with me, and sheā€™s like ~mmm yeah that sounds like a good idea. We were rooting for you, slutty glitter cowboy stripper! We were all rooting for you! Or not.
Meanwhile, Walker has horrible car manners.
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Also, he asks her how her parents were to her growing up, which is a question you normally ask to people youā€™re not close to when you want to do some small talk. For some reason she brings up a friend she had some ~crazy teen years~ with, called Garrison, which doesnā€™t make me think of angels in Supernatural, no, I am a normal person.
But then people start coming out of the strip club, but not Torreto. So they go in.
Torreto is not there, so Walker just stops the first person he sees and heā€™s literally like ~excuse me, do you know if thereā€™s someone in the back. The visual is hilarious
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ā€œExcuse me, sir, have you seen my brother from another show, I suspect he might be hereā€
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Give me a spinoff about this strip club.
Anyway, the guys answers, ā€œNo, why, you two interested?ā€ to which they immediately answer ā€œno!ā€ at the same time, and share a look which makes me think weā€™re supposed to be like ~~ooh, talking in unison moment! or something...?
Meanwhile their truck gets stolen, and Walker yells that his bobblehead is in there. Cue disgruntled Jared face.
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Oh man. We are at the title card. Itā€™s less than 6 minutes. This will never end.
It was night, now itā€™s day, and Stella and August are walking around Austin. Heā€™s mimicking David Attenborough, describing the teenagers around them as though he was doing a documentary about animals.
Two girls approach them, bringing up a party thatā€™s taking place tomorrow. She says itā€™s not the best idea with her court date approaching. The girls are like, your dad can figure something out, heā€™s an elite ranger or something and also owes you for disappearing for a year. Sheā€™s like, heā€™s being kind of cool, I donā€™t want to ruin this, and the girls ā€œcall BSā€ because this is like ā€œthe best party of the yearā€.
Ruby, the girl August has been hanging out with, appears and August goes from ā€œnah the party is not my thingā€ to ā€œIā€™ll totally be thereā€ in like 0.02 seconds.
I cannot overstate how much I am not interested in high schooler drama.
Meanwhile, at the Walker Seniorsā€™ place, Walkerā€™s parents are preparing the table for a family dinner. From their banter we can infer someoneā€™s who ~is like family although he isnā€™t ā€œbloodā€~ is coming for dinner and Grandpa Walker doesnā€™t like him at all and actually expects the guy to steal their china and bourbon. ā€œItā€™s been years, could you please give him a chance?ā€ Grandma Walker says, and he accepts, although she grabs the fancy bourbon from behind his back.
Meanwhile, at the police station, all the cops are having a briefing about Torreto, the woman at the strip club. She apparently steals weapons all over Texas and sells them over the border at triple the cost. Remember that Torreto escaped from Walker and Ramirez because she stole their truck while they were inside the strip club. Ramirez is worried sheā€™ll already become the laughingstock of the precinct.
Uh. James plays security camera footage from outside the strip club. Walker and Ramirezā€™ truck was stolen by Torreto and the cowboy stripper himself.
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Obviously the other cops laugh when Ramirez admits it was her truck.
James tells them to find Torreto, find the truck, and find out who the naked cowboy is.
I have a bad feeling about this.
Then Walker drives home, and as soon as he gets out of his car, you know how in the Supernatural pilot Dean gets into Samā€™s apartment and wrestles him before revealing itā€™s him to ~test if his fighting skills are rusty and laughs when Sam realizes itā€™s him? Alright, now think intensely and guess how Walkerā€™s like-a-brother best friend is introduced. Think intensely! Itā€™s really difficult to guess!
Something something about violence and male intimacy except this is too ridiculous to, you know, write something serious about it.
ā€œOh, man!ā€ the guy laughs, lying on the ground where Walker threw him. ā€œThe look on your face!ā€
ā€œYou son of a-ā€
ā€œOh, cā€™mon man, donā€™t talk bad of a mother I never knew.ā€
Iā€™m facepalming soooo hard. This is the first thing we learn about him (well, after the fact that he definitely stole something from the Walkersā€™ house in the past), that he never knew his mother!
HOLY FUCKING SHIT
GUYS
I AM SO SORRY
I am faceblind I didnā€™t realize
THE GUY IS THE STRIPPER
I REPEAT
THE ā€œDEAN BUT IN JARED PADALECKIā€™S MINDā€ CHARACTER IS THE SLUTTY GLITTER COWBOY STRIPPER
THIS IS NOT A DRILL
I SWEAR MY HANDS ARE COLD AND CLAMMY
I AM EXPERIENCING EMOTIONS NO WORDS EXIST IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE TO DESCRIBE
Oh my god guys. I am so sorry.
ā€œYou did your touchdown victory dance before you stole my partnerā€™s truck!ā€ Walker exclaims.Ā ā€œI should arrest you right here and right now!ā€
The guy acts like he has no idea what Walker is talking about, and says heā€™s in town to see his best pal.
Walker keeps accusing him, but then his mother appears, super thrilled to see him, and Walker lets is go.
Theyā€™re at dinner (NotDean brought wagyu steaks, which obviously means he does crime for a living) and Walkerā€™s mother tells him to say grace, which he does in a semi-serious, semi-mocking way. Obviously NotDean does not believe in god, but heā€™s grateful for the people around him.
Stella calls him uncle, in case you missed that this is supposed to be a friend whom Walker loves likeabrother.
He talks about jobs he did here and there, and Walker and his brother tease him asking if heā€™s been to some prisons around the country. Stella doesnā€™t get the joke and NotDean explains it to her, adding, ā€œnow, from what I hear, Iā€™m not the only outlaw in this familyā€. Grandpa Walker leaves the room.
NotDean asks Stella if sheā€™s going to the bonfire (the party they were talking about earlier) and tells her that her mother started the thing when they were young. She didnā€™t know that. This is supposed to be a Meaningful moment.
Meanwhile the stolen truck is found... at Walkerā€™s ranch. Gasp! What a shocking turn of events.
NotDean gives Stella advice on how to act in court to get on the judgeā€™s good graces, ā€œwhich means actingā€. ā€œPlease donā€™t get legal advice from a criminalā€ walkerā€™s brother Liam says. Is the gay brother also a NotDean of sorts, to be fair? Well, CriminalNotDean tells her to dress her best and cry. ActualbrotherNotDean tells her to use the correct legal arguments. Walker just stops them, quoting something Ramirez said earlier in the episode, ā€œnobody benefits from the easy routeā€. Stella is like, what does that mean, which, mood, but Grandma Walker interrupts bringing in a plate of different hot chilis. Apparently they have a tradition of a competition. Which we donā€™t even see. Boo.
Ramirez finds the truck... right outside the Walkersā€™ house. Grandpa Walker, whoā€™d gone outside, points a rifle to her and she explains what sheā€™s doing there. They introduce themselves and she is like, sir why is the man who stole my truck inside your house? ā€œWife invited him to dinner.ā€
Sheā€™s like, I need to arrest him. But heā€™s like, I bet thereā€™s not enough evidence to arrest him, or my son would have done it. Join me for steak and burbon in the bunkhouse! As one does. So they have wagyu and bourbon together, and she asks him whatā€™s the guyā€™s story.
So NotDean and Walker grew up together, NotDean had a rough life, ā€œmy wife has a soft spot for strays, she canā€™t give up on himā€. But Grandpa Walker doesnā€™t feel the same. He tells her that she cannot arrest him tonight, but itā€™s only a matter of time before the guy gives her enough rope. He adds that Walker has a blind spot for faces from the past, and needs someone to fix that.
Meanwhile dinnerā€™s over and NotDean calls a uber. He and Walker arrange to meet the next day and hang out like old times. Eventually, Walker tells him that if he is involved in this case, he will have to take him down. ā€œTheoretically, if you catch me.ā€ They do a manly hug with manly pats, and the guy leaves. ā€œTheoretically, go to hell,ā€ Walker says after heā€™s left.
The next day, NotDean brings Walker to a storage in the middle of nowhere... full of cursed objects, no wait, wrong show. Whatā€™s inside the storage is the red Mustang. Walker is shocked that he hasnā€™t lost it in some bet - which apparently is how he got the car from Walker in the first place. Now NotDean says that, after everything Walkerā€™s been through, he deserves a chance to win it back.
Glowy flashback of Walker and his wife in the car, right after the scene in the beginning of the episode. They bet it during poker night, decision of Emily, because Walker is ā€œstarting to get attached to herā€. Emily teases him for calling the car a she, and Walker decides to call the car Stella.
They gave their daughter the name of a car they lost at poker.
Oh. She tells him sheā€™s pregnant.
So, apparently, they had their first daughter when they were broke, to the point they had to try and get money at poker for a bigger place and baby things. Thatā€™s... kind of irresponsible.
Meamwhile, Ramirez goes to James to tell him about the thing, but James already figured NotDean was involved, because apparently stealing things and returning them is just something he does. ā€œWhy are you so calm about this?ā€ she asks. He says because they cannot pin anything on him. Questioning him could scare the big crime lady. So he tells her to just keep an eye on him. ā€œWalker, Torreto or Hoyt [NotDean]ā€ she asks. ā€œYesā€ he answers.
Blah blah. I apologize, Iā€™m being too detailed. Iā€™m just bored by this. Ah, a butcherā€™s truck was stolen right after the strip club thing, guess where NotDean got the wagyu steaks.
Walker and NotDean go to the bar with the bartender whoā€™s their friend, and NotDean flirts with her. They start playing poker, when Ramirez arrives, and has some banter with NotDean and spills some glitter on him that she found in the truck. He buys her a drink and she arrests him for trying to bribe a police officer. Walker is shocked.
At the precinct, he says they cannot prove heā€™s working with big crime lady. But she brings up he stole the wagyu steaks.
She calls him out for trying to be everyoneā€™s friend even if they do something wrong, also with Stella.
She says she can hold NotDean for 24 hours, long enough to figure out the big crime ladyā€™s plans. Common trope in cop shows. Arrest someone without proof, you have to release them after 24 hours, but the cop finds proof and bam, forgiven for arresting someone without proof.
I know youā€™re bored, Iā€™m bored too.
Actually, nope, it goes differently and kind of worse. In the interrogation room, Ramirez offers NotDean a deal: he tells her where the big crime ladyā€™s weapon deal is happening, and walks free. He points the location on a map and he compliments her. Walker is watching from the cameras and is shook.
Meanwhile the bonfire is happening, and Stella is there with her girl friends. So is August, breakdancing to impress girls. We donā€™t care.
Meanwhile, a lot of cops in serious cop gear surround the location NotDean pointed at. Nobodyā€™s there, though.
What is there, is the red Mustang with the creepy bobblehead in it and a letter from NotDean that says he gives him the car back because it was always his wifeā€™s.
Walker figures out where the deal is actually happening - the storage where the red Mustang was before.
Meanwhile, at the bonfire, August is drunk on booze he stole from Grandpa Walker and brought to the party. He asks Stella if sheā€™s trying to drive their father away, breaking the law and all, he asks if she wants him to leave again. Then he throws up. She calls Walker but he obviously doesnā€™t answer. So she calls her uncle, whoā€™s doing shopping with his partner or something. Theyā€™re buying cake? Doing cake testing for their wedding? Maybe.
Meanwhile, NotDean calls Grandma Walker to tell her he cannot go mushroom hunting with her tomorrow but needs to leave town, and heā€™s sorry to let her down again. She tells him that just because his familyā€™s bad, doesnā€™t mean he is too. ā€œYou saved my boy, and Iā€™ll never forget thatā€ she says. Oooh, thatā€™s so intriguing!, nobody says. They share a cute moment and then he hangs up, while the weapon deal goes down around him.
Uncle Liam and his partner pick up the kids, and Stella asks him if heā€™ll be in court with her tomorrow. He says he canā€™t, because itā€™s her fatherā€™s decision to make.
August turns up music and they all sing in the car. Itā€™s funny how everyoneā€™s got better chemistry with everyone else except with Walker. I know itā€™s, like, on purpose for plot reasons, but still, Walkerā€™s interactions with everyone feel so stilted compared to anyone else. And itā€™s not the other characters are that compelling.
The police arrives at the location of the weapon deal, and NotDean gets arrested trying to steal the truck again. Ramirez gives a speech how thatā€™s hard but itā€™s the right thing to do. Walker makes a comment about tough love, implying Stella needs to get that too.
The next day, they leave for Stellaā€™s court thing on the red Mustang. It took Walker three episodes, but now they also have a cool classic car to show off! Yay! *eyeroll*
Meanwhile, Grandma Walker and Grandpa Walker have a conversation about their failing marriage or something.
Ramirez goes to the bar to apologize to the bartender for arresting NotDean. They have a drink together and if lesbians were watching this theyā€™d start shipping them, but no lesbians are watching this. Theyā€™re wiser than me.
Stella got like a gazillion hours of community service and her license suspended. Sheā€™s upset, but since she has her license for one more day he teaches her how to drive the Mustang.
Wait. Americans donā€™t learn to drive normal cars when they get their license?? They only learn to drive cars with automatic gear?? What the hell??
They drive while August runs after the car to get over his hangover or something.
Would be a cute moment if the entire thing wasnā€™t so cheesy and weird.
Well. We know NotDean is a recurring role so weā€™ll see more of him. (Well, Iā€™m not sure I will be there to watch, because this is boring af.)
This episode used all its interest coins in the strip club scene and then became dreadfully boring. I donā€™t even have some witty line to close this post.
This was a rollercoaster that went my brain go through a blender in the first six minutes or so and then killed the remaining braincells through boredom.
Thatā€™s it guys. What can I say. This is the CWā€™s Walker. Yee.
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postmodernmulticoloredcloak Ā· 4 years ago
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So due to popular demand I watched episode 2 of Walker for you guys. Part 2 of 2
The pilot was more interesting and it wasnā€™t interesting. But letā€™s continue, maybe itā€™s gonna get better.
So my cookies are ready now! I ate the smallest one to check if theyā€™re good. They are. At least I have my cookies.
Apparently now they have to take a horseriding test. Walker puts the saddle on a horse. But he gets emotional. The flashback music starts. If I see more of these I will develop rabies symptoms. Iā€™m sorry this is what weā€™re talking about. This is GeneviĆØve Padaleckiā€™s role in this show.
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Walker gets on the horse. He touches the bad and the flashback sound effect plays. Rabies. ā€œWalker are you okay?ā€ Ramirez asks. He nods. Iā€™m Fine Lie #9000.
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No, wait. He gets off the horse. Dude itā€™s called handling a loss badly and they have therapists for that. Please go to therapy. There are literal professionals trained to help you with that.
He takes off his hat, which lets you know this is serious.
He goes at the bar run by the lady who was with Emily when she died. He is no longer a ranger until he passes the test. We are happy about it because he is not in the psychological conditions to be a law enforcement officer. Oh, wait, weā€™re supposed not to be happy about it. Honestly, Iā€™m not sure. Is he supposed to be relatable, or are we supposed to think that heā€™s screwed up and should not be a cop or a parent right now? Because heā€™s ostensibly the latter but maybe the intentions of the writers are the former.
He says that James thinks heā€™s ā€œnot quite right in the headā€. Mmmā€¦ are we supposed to think James is being exaggerated? Because itā€™s true. Heā€™s not in the conditions to do this jobā€¦ he needs to get professional mental health support, period.
They reminisce about Emily and Walker repeats the same things that made him think thereā€™s more to the case than it appears, like the way her eyes were closed. The bartender confesses she closed her eyes. Well. That was anticlimactic.
In the meanwhile, Liam the gay brother meets his partner for lunch. Heā€™s attractive. Liam would also be if he werenā€™t dressed and hair-styled like that. I dunno. The partner wants them to move to New York. They joke about dying of queso.
Augustus goes to take pictures with his motherā€™s camera and has a glowy flashback of his own. ā€œHeā€™s sensitive. He keeps a lot inside, like his fatherā€ his grandma comments to her husband. They talk about Walker fixing the house. ā€œHe wants to pick up where he left offā€ she says. I am hurting inside. Did they write this with the Supernatural pilot script open on the desk!?
Ramirez keeps working the case. Turns out, the horse that died wasnā€™t the horse it was supposed to be (a famous racing horse). Someone swapped the horses? I donā€™t care, actually. Iā€™m gonna skip the case details.
Walker eats tortilla chips with queso. And begs Ramirez to let him work on the case because thatā€™s all he knows how to do. Thatā€™s stolen from a couple Supernatural episodes when they talk about hunting, but okay.
ā€œYou know how you can see a horseā€™s soul in its eyes?ā€ ā€¦no, but okay.
Theyā€™ll need to find the mysteriously disappeared horseā€¦ which is loose! In the hospital! No, not in the hospital. Just on a road. Best shot in the show, big dark horse walking around Austin.
They need to go find the horse. Obviously Walker volunteers to get the horse. ā€œMight not be a ranger, but Iā€™m still a cowboyā€. Iā€™m crying this is so clichĆ©.
You know Walker is cool because he gets out of the truck without using the little step.
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Itā€™s so deep.
Oh my god. He. He follows horse dung. Itā€™s. Itā€™s literally a plot point. He tracks the horse following horse poop.
He finds the horse, feeds him a lil sugar cube, puts the reins on him. Itā€™s a beautiful horse. Canā€™t the show be about this horse?
Billionaire bad guy (owner of the horse, set the fire to pretend the horse was dead because lots of bets were placed on the horse, but the horse was lightly injured so couldnā€™t win) driving towards his plane to catch his plane to escape. James and Ramirez do a car chase.
Bad guy lackey shoots at their wheels so their car stops. But Walker arrives on the horse, gets Ramirez on the horse and they ride the horse to the bad guysā€™ car. Ramirez gets on the car and punches the bad guys unconscious.
For some reason (I mean, budget limitations) the fighting sequences are very quick. I would have watched more of Ramirez kicking billionaire bad guyā€™s ass on a moving car. But itā€™s fine, I mean, if this show had a bigger budget theyā€™d spend it on more cowboy hats, so itā€™s fine.
Walker, James and Ramirez celebrate at the bar. Apparently the bad guyā€™s lackey that was supposed to get rid of the horse loved the horse too much and set him free in Austin. Mood.
Thereā€™s still a third of the episode still to go, though. Drama will ensue. Indeed Liam arrives and is super pissed off at Walker for missing lunch, which he forgot because he was busy with his lil tests.
Liam says Stella didnā€™t show up to the game. Walker says he know where she is and gets Ramirez to come with him.
Indeed sheā€™s thrown a party at their house. Walker asks her what sheā€™s doing. ā€œBeing a disappointment I guessā€ she answers. He asks her why she missed the game. She says that it shouldnā€™t be so easy to get a second chance after messing up - like him. Heā€™s like, a second chance? Itā€™s not like a stopped being your father. Exceptā€¦ you did? You disappeared from their lives entirely. He calls her out for damaging the house and sheā€™s like, itā€™s not even our home anymore but Iā€™m supposed to treat it like a museum? Honestly her scenes are the only interesting thing in this show. He says heā€™s back now, but she says that being back isnā€™t enough, what makes a parent is *doing parent things*, supporting the kids.
ā€œI wish uncle Liam had gotten custody of us when he triedā€ she eventually drops the big bomb. Ouch.
Heā€™s super pissed off, takes off the hat dramatically, and drives back to Liam. He gets off the drunk and immediately assaults Liam. ā€œYou tried to take my damn kids!ā€
Iā€™m flabbergasted. They. They just wrote a plotline where a gay man tried to ~steal a straight manā€™s children~ like it was a good idea. I mean! Liam getting custody of the kids would have been a VERY GOOD IDEA but what, weā€™re supposed to think he was wrong? I am so confused because I canā€™t tell if weā€™re supposed to be on Walkerā€™s side or not. He is NOT in the condition of being a parent. The kids SHOULD be under the custody of their grandparents and/or uncle. Not because heā€™s traumatized by loss, but because heā€™s not trying at all. He keeps saying heā€™s trying but heā€™s not. He gets aggressive too easily and it could be dangerous.
Anyway the brothers have this physical fight which isnā€™t by far the most embarrassing thing in this show so Iā€™ll let it slide. ā€œYou had no right!ā€ Walker says, to which Liam replies that he gets it was rough but ā€œyou went dark! That was negligence!ā€ Which is absolutely right and he should have gotten the custody of the kids. Liam mentions that their parents also agreed on the thing, and Walker yells ā€œthese are MY kids!ā€ which is appalling, because being the biological father of some kids doesnā€™t make it okay to disappear on them for months and being mad if someone else stepped up to be their parent in your absence. ā€œI didnā€™t want them to be orphans, did you!?ā€ Liam yells back.
ā€œI would never _take_ them, I wanted to protect them,ā€ Liam says, and says more very reasonable things. ā€œEven now youā€™re not here.ā€ Walker yells that he is here (again, being physically in Austin doesnā€™t make you a parent, like Stella said), Liam replies that heā€™s chasing ghosts.
He brings up the things that donā€™t add up again, like the poker chip. Iā€™m afraid that the narrative will prove him right, that there WAS something there and he was right to follow through the case despite everyone else telling him he was being delusional and that he should let it go and focus on the family. It would be actually good if it turned out that there was nothing there, that it was all coincidence (like the friend closing her eyes) and that he just chased ghosts for real, but Iā€™m afraid this isnā€™t that kind of show. I think theyā€™re playing it straight, that theyā€™ll make Walker be right, and it will suck.
A note: now that heā€™s fighting and yelling and being angry, Jared is actually acting properly, which I donā€™t know if itā€™s a good thing or creepy.
Actually Liam says something very reasonable now, that answers will not actually satisfy him, her being gone will never make sense emotionally. The poker chip isnā€™t going to bring her back. He will lose everything if he keeps searching for something that isnā€™t there.
Now that Walker has calmed down, Jared returns to doing Jared mouth things. Oh no! Augustus watched them fight.
Oooh. Augustus gives him the present Emily was going to give him for fatherā€™s day. Poker chips. ā€œShe kept a few of the chips so she could show peopleā€ (what? But okay). Another of the mysteries was actually not a weird conspiracy at all. I suspect the narrative will make us believe there was nothing there to just pull a twist afterwards. It would be interesting if Walker were indeed looking for nothing, but I doubt thatā€™s what theyā€™re doing. Theyā€™re playing the tropes too straight.
Meanwhile Ramirez comes home to her boyfriend preparing a homemade dinner. She says sheā€™s happy heā€™s there, and that scares the crap out of her. She wants to get both the job and the relationship right. Theyā€™re really cute and I hope their relationship doesnā€™t get drama-fied for drama. A healthy relationship where two partners figure out how to navigate it together, with normal minor bumps along the way they face together, would really be a good thing for the show to portray.
The next morning, Walker is making breakfast when Stella enters the kitchen. She doesnā€™t speak to him but gets on her phone so he starts texting her. They have a moment. He was looking for him mug and she gets it out for him. She says it reminded her of him being gone so sheā€™d put it away. They do a bonding activity (bringing a memento from their old house to their new one), she cries, he hugs her.
Back at the ranch, Walkerā€™s father has made him a new saddle. Gramps Walker is rough around the edges but has a hidden wisdom.
The emotional moment is kinda broken for me by the big Texas flag they have inside the house. I suppose itā€™s just how Texas is but itā€™s still funny for that very reason.
Augustus for his school project has put together a video from old family footage. Lots of flashback, but this time with a regular song and not the rabies sound effect and with the soft lighting but not the most extreme glowy effect, so itā€™s kinda okay.
Jared makes emotional faces and the episodeā€™s over.
Well, at least the dead guy having been to prison wasnā€™t really relevant and the bad guy was a billionaire. An improvement from the previous episode.
Iā€™m not going to give views to the youtube trailers, but Iā€™ve been told in the next episode a new character will be introduced that is a childhood friend that is ~the Han Solo to Walkerā€™s Luke Skywalker. *single tear of sorrow* Theyā€™re trying SO HARD to be Supernatural and theyā€™re managing to pick the least interesting concepts of Supernatural to do so. Canā€™t wait to see Fake Dean. Also we havenā€™t seen Walker lasso a person either. I suppose Iā€™ll have to watch more of this.
Honestly, itā€™s mostly boring with Stella being the only interesting part and Ramirez and her boyfriend being cute to watch. Walker is so unlikeable. You want him to get his shit together for the sake of the people around him, but not really for his sake. He should go to therapy but he is a manly cowboy man so obviously he wonā€™t go (but I will be impressed if they actually have him see a therapist. It would be interesting to have a manly cowboy man see a therapist. But will they do it?) The idyllic flashbacks of Emily are so overdone and itā€™s only the second episode! Everything is cheesy.
This traditional Texan ranch aesthetic meets Austin city would be interesting if played in a way that genuinely questions the values of old, but the show doesnā€™t really, it uses the gay brother and the immigrant friend and the Latina cop and the Black boyfriend as props but the narrative itself doesnā€™t really do anything with the traditional Texan family thing. Unless they really pull the rug from under the audienceā€™s feet and make some big twists regarding the way the narrative is presenting itself, thereā€™s nothing really interesting or useful in the show. Iā€™m afraid they will solve their problems by Wanting To Do Better and Sticking Together As A Family, which is just a conservative fantasy of how to fix problems.
By the way, the cookies were really good and my family loved them too.
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postmodernmulticoloredcloak Ā· 4 years ago
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So due to popular demand I watched episode 2 of Walker for you guys. Part 1 of 2
So hereā€™s my review of episode 2 of Walker. Is this going to be the episode where Walker lassoes a person? Weā€™ll see.
The episode is titled ā€œBack in the saddleā€ and I am already wishing I was eating my cookies. But the batter needs to rest in the fridge first, blah blah.
Night sky. Horses in their stables in the darkness. Security cameras switching offā€¦? Fire! Someone set fire to the stable. Someone hurries to get the horses out. Itā€™s clever, Iā€™m actually invested in making sure the horses are okay. Maybe theyā€™re luckier than Mary Winchester. Wait, wrong show.
The last one is trapped! A brave guy tries to free him but a wooden beam falls down and kills him. Oh no. Did someone at least save the horse?
The ridiculous title card plays, and then our favorite former Supernatural lead currently starring in a new show appears. He loads what looks like a toolbox in the back of his truck. Thereā€™s a horse saddle already on the truck. Soft music and the yellow sunlight shining behind him announce this is an emotional scene. The saddle has a leather bag on the side, with the initials of Walker and his wife engraved on it.
Ta-da! Flashback of Walker and his wife. Thankfully she is not elvish vision glowing this time, although the blurry effect of the flashbacks still make me think of a Lord of the Rings ripoff.
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The saddle was a gift from her! Walker makes this face so we know he loves it.
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Look at how ridiculous this is.
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Theyā€™re trying sooo hard to appeal to bibro Supernatural fans. Theyā€™re BEGGING for the attention of bibro Supernatural fans. Iā€™m not sure if redoing SamandDean iconic moments but with Walker and his dead wife (played by who I assume some hardcore bibros believe is Jaredā€™s beard) is the best way of doing it? I mean, I wouldnā€™t take that direction. But okay. We take our Meaningful Moments from Supernatural because our viewers are not invested in these characters but are invested in those ones, so at least weā€™re provoking emotions by making them think of those ones. It is a strategy, I guess.
Fuck, I spoke too soon! The glowiness is not too strong - it is daytime in this flashback and not nighttime like in the pilot - but itā€™s there.
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Back to the present, Walker is on the phone with his mother, explaining heā€™s back at his place to fix a leak or something. If the kids have been living with their grandparents and Walker has been away for almost a year, how is the patio so clean and pristine? But wait, someoneā€™s been there. There are empty beer bottles. And then the funniest frame of the show so far.
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Stella is a teenager. In 2021. Which teenager in 2021 texts like someone who had to spend 20 cents for text and press the button four times to get an s? Her father should be the one texting like itā€™s 1999. Stella would be the one texting like phones have automatic capitalization and predictive text and shit...
There is absolutely no fucking way the place can be so clean and pristine if no oneā€™s lived there bar some teenagers who drank beer in the patio. But okay.
Oh no. Another glowy flashback. Holy shit. Why. We get it. He misses his wife. They had the perfect little life together. The music they use in the flashback is starting to give me a pavlovian response.
Even Jared is unhappy. Look at his unhappy face.
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In the meanwhile, Ramirez and her boyfriend are having fun when her boss calls her. She dresses up to go to the fire stable place, in the meanwhile they have a conversation about their relationship. She has never really had a longterm serious relationship, and sheā€™s confused because, I quote, ā€œI am one of the first women ever, one of the first women of color, everā€ [thatā€™s it sentence finished]. I canā€™t believe Ramirez has been around for thousands of thousands of years.
She needs to focus on her job and heā€™s a distraction because he has a six pack. No, thatā€™s literally the scene. He takes off his shirt and we see his six pack. Now, heā€™s a pretty impressive physique, thatā€™s not a problem. Why isnā€™t he the main character of a show about doctors?
Meanwhile, Walker joins the family for breakfast. The brother, Liam, is great at making smoothies. What an interesting all-rounded gay character.
Walkerā€™s mom says they should stay living with them because it means stability for the kids. Walker says they should move back to their house because normal whatever. Stella says, does it even matter to you where we want to live?, and leaves. August reveals she goes back to the house sometimes, meaning the beer was hers and she lied. Draa~ama. Stella is the only interesting character in this family.
Jared makes another discontented Jared thing at the end of the scene, I canā€™t gif them all, and we get to the crime scene. ā€œFireā€™s no way to goā€ Walker comments, because they watched the Supernatural pilot before writing the show.
Oh no, the horse didnā€™t make it either :(
So, the stableman who died had just come out of prison. Oh no. Is this another plot about convicted criminals doing shady things after they get out of prison? It must be, otherwise this detail wouldnā€™t be relevant since the guy just died. Oh no.
Ooooh James, the new boss, is making some changes which include following the rules to a t. Meaning Walker has been demoted until he passes all the tests again. I need to show you the face, sorry
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This is it, this is Jaredā€™s acting in this show.
Walker tries to argue with Captain James, but he says he wants to be ā€œon the right side of history for a changeā€, so he cannot have him run around doing whatever he wants. James isnā€™t happy that he went to look at the footage of Emilyā€™s murder again. He tells him again that the case is closed because a guy confessed, and he needs to focus on his family and job now. Weā€™ve heard this so many times Iā€™m so bored. But guys Jaredā€™s acting gives us gems
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Ramirez starts talking about the test, but heā€™s off, she asks him if heā€™s good and he says Iā€™m fine. Iā€™m Fine Lie #3! I think, Iā€™m not really counting.
Something about the case. Whatever.
Stella is training for the big upcoming soccer match. Why canā€™t this be a sports show about teenage girls playing soccer? I can even give them a pass about calling it soccer.
Stella and her friend Isabel chat and Isabel says ā€œICE is sniffing aroundā€, which Iā€™m sure is not what ICE does.
I take it back. I donā€™t want a show about teenage girl soccer. Now thereā€™s drama because Stella and Bel shouldnā€™t be playing in the big game because of their arrest, but apparently Stella is good and the couch will let her play, but not Bel, so she refuses to play. Unsure if this is about racism or Bel simply isnā€™t a great player. They should have made it clearerā€¦
Meanwhile Augustus chats with a schoolmate called Ruby. Yeah. It had been too many minutes without an easter egg.
Walker and Ramirez take the tests. First shooting range. Then driving. Heā€™s very good at these things. Iā€™m bored. I donā€™t care about cops showing off their cop skills. Iā€™d rather watch Ruby and Sam, er I mean, Augustus talk about high school projects, and I donā€™t care about high school projects.
I made the cookies in the meanwhile :)
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nerdysquirrel Ā· 4 years ago
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I am living for your commentary, you are a true hero for watching this so we donā€™t have to
I decided to watch the Walker pilot so you donā€™t have to. #2
Because I donā€™t love myself enough, I guess. Letā€™s continue.
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