Rizzoli and Isles - season 2

1-We don’t need another hero

It starts three months later, and I wonder if for a moment they wanted us to believe that Jane died… come on!  Jane receives a medal although she doesn’t feel heroic (obviously, that’s how real heroes are). She even has to make a little speech. She also meets her old boyfriend Casey.

She still hurts from the wound. Jane and Casey get together but in the morning Angela barges in to clean the place and he has to go. She says they ‘almost’ had sex, and now he has to go back to Afghanistan. 

A bomb on a car kills the young soldier who received the other medal. The bullet in soldier Abigail’s shoulder turns out to be American, not Taliban. There’s another bomb but Abigail’s fellow soldier survives. Lt Forman dies too (before the bomb). He was in a relationship with Abigail. Soldier Campbell was her ex, he shot her in Afghanistan and killed the two of them here: that’s people for you :-/ 

Apparently Maura is always advising Jane to have sex… 

Angela cries because her husband asked for a divorce! I loved this scene: when she started crying Jane looked for a pen saying “when she gets very emotional and she can’t talk we have her write it down” OMG that’s so like me! Well, I don’t have anyone understand that so I usually just stay silent because I can’t talk…  :’(  Dad moved out already, Tommy is in prison and Angela has lost her house so Maura offer her her guest house. Maura had started dating Jane’s surgeon but stops it quickly when they talk about Jane’s condition and he says to her “you’re only a pathologist”…

Apparently Jane is a “not girly, crabby, social deviant” :-p Her wound doesn’t hurt anymore. 

Love the ending, with Jane teasing Maura: “Dr Isles guessed, Dr Isles gue-essed” :lol:

2-Living proof

Maura and Jane are having a clay-bath: Maura claims it’s good, Jane is very bored :-p when a man barges in with a pregnant woman that was just stabbed. She’s already dead, but Maura and Jane manage to save the baby. It turns out that she was a surrogate mother, and two couples come to claim the baby. A woman at the fertility clinic couldn’t have children, no procedure worked on her, so she wanted Tracy’s baby but she wouldn’t give it to her. They stop her when she tries again.

The Tolliver couple gets the baby because tests reveal that he’s the biological father.

Now that she’s getting a divorce, Angela is driving her kids crazy. She wants to repaint Jane’s apartment, but Jane hates pink :-p or begonia as well :-p

At the end, Maura and Jane are back at having their clay-bath, talking and joking :-p

3-Sailor man

Angela’s car breaks down and their mechanic Giovanni lends them a AlfaRomeo Giulietta, his red car :-D  Jane is very much against the idea of Maura dating Giovanni, or even just sleeping with him, and when he comes to the station with flowers she just assumes they’re for her :-p

Maura invites Giovanni to her house because she wanted to sleep with him..if only he didn’t talk :-p or lick *gosh* so now she wants to get rid of him, but not even seeing her with a saw about to dissect a body convinces him to leave :-p Finally Maura and Jane pretend to be lovers to get rid of him “we are more than bff, we are llbff, life-long-bff” :-p and eventually he got the message :-p

Frost and his father don’t get along at all; once he took his wife and son to Japan then went away on a ship and stayed away for so long that after two years his wife just gave up and moved back to Boston. 

A girl was raped and strangled, presumably by a sailor. Frost’s dad is in the navy, an Admiral. He bails a suspect out of jail and another girl is raped and ‘almost’ killed - she’ll die later at the hospital. The first suspect was locked in the brick though. Eventually they get the rapist, he was not in the Navy after all. 

4-Brown eyed girl

A little boy witnesses his sister being abducted: she’s the daughter of Jane’s ex-partner Dan. It was an emotional scene when a body is found and Jane can’t tell if it’s her because she hasn’t seen her in 7 or 8 years, so the father comes forward and cries and then says “it’s not her” and keeps crying along with Jane, and it’s good news because his daughter might still be alive, but there’s still the body of a young girl right there and it’s so sad… that poor girl has been kept prisoner for three to five years, and raped, and it’s all heartbreaking. Someone pretending to be Mandy’s best friend chatted with her, and the dead girl Sophie maybe died protecting Mandy. Sophie’s father is proud to hear that… the fact that this time there’s a witness of course helps :) they find the woman, who thinks her man is a ‘prophet’ and they arrest her, then they find the man and when he goes at them with an hatchet Jane Korzak and Frost shoot him dead and save Mandy. 

After this case Jane tells Maura: “I’m never getting married or having children” - “you think that will protect you?” - “no”

5-Don’t hate the player

Jane still has the little doggie :-) and her name is Joe Friday :-p Korzak gave her that name.

Tommy comes back home, Jane’s brother, and Maura lets him stay. Later he fights with the vet who says that Joe Friday is depressed and for that charges him 300$ ! Korzak will solve the mystery of the dog: she’s allergic to poultry :-p

When Maura’s place is burglarized Jane and Frankie suspect Tommy but it turns out it was someone else so Jane has to apologize. 

When Jane has to meet a player at a chic place, Maura has her exchange their clothes :-p lovely :)

Maura gives her her dress and shoes, after cutting off the point: “tiptoes! :-D” and Maura is lovely and sexy in Jane’s clothes, with the too-long pants and barefoot :-) dressed like that, she’ll say she’s been hitting on twice, by women :-p

Maura tries to get prints from a pair of latex gloves and tells Jane “this is not CSI Boston” :-p

A body is found at the Pilgrim’s stadium, in the showers. Jane is a Red Sox fan apparently, but likes to watch all baseball games.

The detective they meet at the scene wants to declare it an accident, but Maura is suspicious so Jane takes over as “homicide detective”. The guy had been hired as a special coach to the team star player who has a drinking problem. This Manny Vega drives a Ferrari and is arrogant af.

Manny dies in a car accident, but he had been slowly drugged. The murderer is the same player that took Jane out to dinner. When she arrests him she smiles and says “I’ve got to admit you’ve got balls taking a cop to dinner. You thought you could charm me too?”

6-Rebel without a pause

Maura’s mom is coming, the first time in her house. She’s very very nervous about dinner; her mom is in Boston for an opening and she has booked at the Ritz to she won’t be staying with Maura. I found her so snob she came out utterly rude, like when Jane offered her ‘cannoli’ and as a reply, to decline, she told her she was tired, in French! The next day she cancels her dinner with Maura! Jane goes with her to her mother’s art gallery and is upset when Maura’s name is not on the list! They get in anyway after Jane flashes her badge. She can’t let it go and as soon as they are alone she tells Maura’s mother about the list thing, and also that she’s protective and doesn’t want to see her best friend hurt. Mom doesn’t seem to understand so she explains “not staying with her, canceling dinner, forgetting to put her on the list, yeah I think that hurts her” and as a reply she gets “I was never good at being a mother”. 

Korzak speaks of his difficulty in breathing to Maura. He starts eating differently, but later Maura tells him that he had no heart attack, it’s his crackers giving him gas.

The bird that Korzak picked up and gave to Angela to care for dies, so Maura gave her a new one, without explaining it to her, so Angela thinks he’s ok “you can not believe how healthy Starsky is (the bird)” :-p

During a historical reenactment a guy is shot dead for real. His girlfriend says all the others were angry at him because his jacket and his buttons were not historically accurate. A modern bullet was used, and he wasn’t even the designated target, only ‘collateral damage’ . 

Maura climbs a tree to collect evidence :-p

There’s another shooting, they miss but the victim dies of a cardiac arrest. Maura Jane Korzak and Frost all dress in historical clothes to enter the historical society, and Jane’s so pretty when she runs after the shooter lifting her long skirt :-p The suspect was a woman, Kathleen Dunn, that had claimed rape (18 years ago by one of the reenactors, professor Kraviz) but her rape kit was never even tested! (I guess that explains how this world cares about rape…). She confesses the murder but when Maura says that the DNA was male they understand she was covering for her son, the rapist’s son. Having found out the truth, he wanted to kill the monster and tries again in class. When they stop him he begs them “please let me shoot him”.

END: Maura’s mom joins them at the bar, and it’s a lovely scene, Maura and Jane with their mothers :-)

7-Bloodlines

Angela makes a bunny pancake at work :-) Maura has solar panels on the roof of her car.  Frankie’s ex Teresa stops by: she left Frankie to pay for her car loan years ago. Jane doesn’t like her and talks about it to him in front of Frost, so Frankie tells him of a certain Steve “she was nuts about him, she started wearing dresses…” :-p Maura and Jane spy on them, but he notices. Teresa told him that he has a daughter, a pretty little girl :-) They have a family dinner with Teresa and little Lily, and Jane takes Lily’s glass and gives it to Maura to test. It turns out that Lily is Not Frankie’s daughter, and he feels sorry about that.

CASE: a girl, Helen, is burned alive. At her apartment Korzak finds her black cat. Frost has to bust open two doors with his shoulder :p They find out that two girls and a guy were Helen’s witch family. Maura Jane Korzak and Frost attend their seance to contact Helen. The youngest witch Sabrina got attacked but is alive, while the guy is killed. Truth is Sabrina is schizophrenic and she killed the other two but they stop her before she kills the third one. 

8-My own worst enemy

A guy, Ian, shows up at Maura’s place and she jumps on him and they start kissing right away. After that Maura will show up late at the crime scene and with two different shoes, one black and one blue :-p Maura keeps Ian a secret from Jane as long as she can :p (This Ian’s voice/accent is lovely!) Angela of course figured it out and she tells Jane who fakes (badly) knowing about it. 

Maura says he’s “just an old friend”. Ian is Australian but lives in Africa. Maura and Ian were once together in Ethiopia. Angela spies on him and then tells Jane that he is a spy because he has different passports with different names. Jane checks him out and tells Maura: “Ian is wanted by Interpol for stealing drugs” but she knows. She cries while talking about him because he’s gone again, and she tells Jane that Ian is the love of her life and that’s why she can’t talk about him, because it makes her sad because she loves him but can’t be with him. He went back to Africa: “his crime is risking his life to bring drugs and basic supplies in places nobody cares about and I helped him so go ahead and arrest me”. No arrest here of course. 

Jane keeps limping so Maura takes a look at her foot. When Jane will show up at her place because of her aching foot, Ian is there and is more qualified than her for the job :p !!

Maura tells Jane that Angela reorganized her entire kitchen ‘alphabetically’, “so now the corkscrew is near the chopsticks” :-p Jane replies “I’m so sorry” about her mom and she means it :-p

At the end it appears that Angela also threw away Maura’s shoe boxes (!!!) and she says “can you arrest your mother?” - “ok” and they hug :-) lovely. 

Jane gives a lot of money to that man that calls her Vanilla, but it doesn’t seem to me like he’s actually giving much information…

The case starts with a dead man and his injured son. He smuggled heroine and now the son’s family has been taken. They save the family.

9-Gone daddy gone

Tommy spent the night at Maura’s place playing chess. Jane tells her “don’t sleep with my brother!” :-p Maura likes playing with him, and at the end Jane reveals she knows how to play chess too. “who do you think taught him? Tommy’s not the only Rizzoli with a beautiful mind” :-p

Jane’s annoyed because she has to go to “sensitivity training”, mandatory for everyone. 

Maura has a gift for “not lying” :-p

The body of a girl, killed with an icepick, is found. Her father got badly injured at the docks and she went there to investigate. 

Doyle breaks into Maura’s house because he’s injured, he got shot, and his man has a gun at Tommy’s head to convince her to treat him. He says he did NOT kill that girl. “I don’t kill children or women or anyone who doesn’t deserve it. I’m being framed”. Jane doesn’t believe it but Tommy does and he’s serious: “He lives by a code that’s why he has respect. He has a heart Jane. You didn’t see the way he looked at her. He may be a bad guy but he loves his daughter”. 

One of Doyle’s men turns up dead. The autopsy on the girl is performed by a Dr Pike, very arrogant guy, and Maura has to pull rank and be bossy because he didn’t do an accurate job. 

The girl’s murderer is killed by Doyle, and he almost kills the guy who ordered it. He goes away when they come to arrest that guy. 

10-Remember me

A man, in prison for a misdemeanor, is about to go out, but gets killed. When they go to investigate,  Hoyt is in the infirmary, apparently being treated for cancer - Maura confirms it. The dead guy had swallowed a little bag with four teeth of children. Jane goes in the basement to look at cold cases ( and makes a mess opening lots of boxes; did she put everything back in order before going out?? It’s a bit annoying that big detectives in the movies always make a mess but never put the papers and pictures back where they were, but if they find a file not perfect they get all judgmental on whoever did it… :-/ )

Jane finds the case of a missing family, parents and two daughters. Thinking of the few words Hoyt told her, Jane finds the bodies of the Wilson family. When a guard calls her saying that Hoyt is dying and wants to tell her more, she goes with Maura. The guard is on Hoyt’s side, though, and when they get there Hoyt takes Jane by the throat while the guard ties Maura up. The guard is the one that killed that poor guy. When the guard holds Jane down and Hoyt starts hurting Maura, Jane finds it in her to free herself and fight and kill Hoyt. Korzak comes in in time to shoot the guard and Jane cries in his arms. 

Maura tells Frankie that he’s getting fat :-p He thinks he failed his detective test. 

Jane’s birthday is coming up but she hates it, because it never turns out the way she imagined it. When the case is finally over, they go to the bar but there is nobody there, no party… because the surprise is at her house, a birthday party for her: Frankie passed the test with 96% :-D and Jane loves Maura’s gift: racing lessons :-) Jane’s happy :-) good :-)

11-Can I get a witness?

When the media cover the story of the trial of a murderer, we see Jane on TV. Her witness gets killed right outside his hotel. Without this witness the case will be dismissed unless Korzak can produce his CI but he keeps saying he doesn’t know how to find him. They tell him that he must find him or give back his badge. He surrenders the badge…

Jane can’t let it go of course and finds out who this CI is: he wanted to protect Relita, the young mother of Dante’s baby. It turns out that the counsellor herself killed Dante because she had had a deal with that Little T boss for a long time.

When the counsellor’s car has a flat tyre, Maura changes it for her: she just needs to change her shoes and wear gloves because she’s wearing a pretty dress :-p 

Maura takes Angela to a famous journalist’s book signing event and Angela gives him Jane’s phone number :-p

12-He ain’t heavy, he’s my brother

Tommy has found an apartment so he moves out. He gives Maura a bottle of good wine and makes a move on her, but she pulls back. 

There’s a bank robbery, a man died, the Feds get involved. The Feds had been watching a van for like an hour, but then Jane comes, looks at it for five minutes top and notices some blood coming out of it :-/ Inside there’s the body of one of the robbers. 

The task force leader is the woman Frost was engaged to before “she married her job instead of me”.

Maura learns that Tommy is suspected to be involved in the robbery as their driver because his fingerprints are on the van, but she can’t talk about it to anyone. When Tommy comes to her to apologize (for trying to kiss her I guess) some agents take him away. Jane is very angry at her.

Jane asks Tommy “why?” and he says he had nothing to do with the robbery, he simply borrowed the van to move! Jane believes him and works to free him. Maura tells her that she likes Tommy but she loves her , and hates it when she hates her, and doesn’t want to compromise their friendship, and Jane says something like “good, because I hate it when I have to hate you” :-)

13-Seventeen ain’t so sweet

Casey is supposed to come back and go with Jane to her school reunion, but he’s called back (soldier in Afghanistan) so Maura goes with her instead. When they meet Giovanni they tell him that they are still a couple :-p Jane meets her former bff  Emily and all the mean girls and guys that she didn’t like. A man, Steve, asks for her phone number saying he needs to talk to her, but he gets killed before he has a chance. Debby is next, also from her school. “I’ve got another dead classmate” when Maria dies of a heart attack, because a ‘valve failed’: it was made by Rory’s company, where Steve worked. Steve knew they were making defective valves, so Rory’s wife killed Steve and Debbie, and when Jane arrests her for their murders she also arrests Rory for Maria’s death. Good. Disgusting people. 

14-Don’t stop dancing, girl

Jane giving boxing lessons to Maura :-) Jane went to ballet lessons for four years :-p

Apparently Jane was kind of jealous of Emily because she was the one with the big boobs… and Korzak’s third ex-wife Melanie comes back after five years. 

Melanie’s son (therefore Korzak’s stepson) Josh has been arrested for shooting a cop. The kid believes that Korzak abandoned him and wants nothing to do with him; that because when his mom left Korzak she told Josh that he was in love with his job, not them.He doesn’t give up and finally gets thru to him and they talk. The cop regains consciousness so Josh is safe and will testify against his ex-friends who actually shot the cop.

To get Maura to answer a simple question, poor exasperated Jane goes “yes or no. Practive with me= yes! no! “ :-p

Frost says that dancers and ice-skaters are not athletes! :-/ but golfers and racers are :-/ such silly thinking from usually nice Frost is unnerving :-/

 A woman walks on stage with a pair of scissors into her chest. The young ballerina’s real father is a drug dealer who killed the girl’s mother and her sister and tried to take his daughter away, but failed. The new dad comes to help and is injured, but the dealer dies. Good.  

15-Burning down the house

Agent Dean brings Jane flowers :-) he tells her that he came back for her and they sleep together. Jane tells him that Doyle’s back in town but also that she doesn’t want him to do anything, and he agrees… Jane is worried that Maura might be in serious trouble and in that case Doyle might be of help, he would protect her. 

Maura’s mom is back :-) they had a nice dinner together but then a car runs her mom over after she pushed Maura aside to save her. Jane was supposed to dine with Sean but of course she runs to Maura’s side. Doyle comes too but she doesn’t listen to him and sends him away. Doyle comes back, watching over her mother and showing her more pictures he has in his wallet. Maura’s birthmother was only eighteen. When her mother wakes up she tells Maura that “someone was here telling me I must live for my daughter” and Maura smiles, then her mom adds “was it Patrick?” (!!!) 

Frost doesn’t know the Blues Brothers! Come on, that’s unbelievable, he’s young but that’s a classic! I love that he always keeps his ‘action figure’ on his desk though :-)

A fireman dies in a fire. Whoever tried to kill Maura also started the fire, wanted that fireman dead. They set a trap, the murderer goes to kill Maura but Doyle shoots him first, then Dean and Jane shoot him. Maura shouts “No!” then runs to his side. Jane runs there too trying to help , but Maura yells at her “don’t touch him, I mean it, don’t you dare touch him!” and the look on their faces! Such an intense, emotional scene. Wow, both of them. 

Rizzoli and Isles - season 1

I like it enough, but the best part of it is of course the lovely friendship between Jane and Maura, it’s a beautiful and precious relationship, I love it. 

I hate that, in movies, females always have to wear heels!! It’s really stupid to have Jane wear heels! They’re loud and not practical at all. That’s so not-Jane!!!  I find this very annoying.

1-See one, do one, teach one

It starts with Jane and Frankie playing basketball together. Jane:”I will beat you someday” - F”you beat me in everything, let me be better at something, ok?” Their mom is upset when she sees her nose bleeding after the game :-p At the crime scene later, Maura fixes her nose bones :p

The murder scene MO is the same as another killer in jail: Hoyt, so Jane thinks he had an apprentice. She goes to see him in prison but she gets nothing out of him. 

There are two serial-killers working together; they go after women and kill them, and they also go after Jane. The senior one almost killed Jane some time before, but Korzak came in time to save her. He takes her again, with the help of his apprentice, and this time she manages to save herself.

Jane takes care of the stray dog that Korzak picked up after he was wounded. 

There’s a cute FBI guy that both Jane and Maura like :-) Agent Dean. Jane put lipstick on before meeting him at another crime scene :-p Maura has a big tortoise at home called Bass (sorry to say there will be no more reference to Bass in further episode, or at least very little)

Maura and Jane lay on the bed together talking, and Jane tells her “I’ve never been so scared in all my life”. She wouldn’t say that to just anyone…

2-Boston strangler redux

The Boston strangler was arrested and died in prison, but now that women with the same names as the Strangler’s victims  are being strangled, Korzak starts wondering if the real strangler might still be out there. Jane and Korzak asks an ex-cop who worked the Boston strangler case for his help, and he points them in one direction. It turns out that he was obsessed with this case, and lost his mind. He himself killed three girls to frame the scumbag he thinks was the original killer.  He takes Maura hostage, but together with Jane they win :-) Of course :-)

It starts with a baseball game: homicide vs drugs division, interrupted by a corpse falling down (because the guy wanted to attract their attention, that was the whole point). A guy asks Maura out and seems to like her, even her non-stop chatting about science doesn’t put him off, until she diagnoses him having some kind of syndrome, and then he runs off (well, at the end at least he’ll call her to thank her :-D ). 

There’s a new lieutenant as chief of the squad, and Jane knows him since they were kids and she doesn’t like him. 

Angela wants Frankie to go work with his father, but dad knows it’s not what he wants to do. 

3-Sympathy for the devil

Jane has the little doggy at her home :-) Angela arranges a blind date for Jane, inviting home her Lt. It’s an awkward evening for a few minutes, then she leaves! :-p 

At the end, the Lt comes to tell her goodbye because he’s going away, and he tells her that he always liked her. He tries to kiss her, but she kisses him on the cheek, says goodnight and goes inside her home. 

Fun scene:

Jane: Maybe ghosts are real. Maybe I’m losing my mind

Maura: I could do a brain scan if you like

and it’s funny because she means it for real :lol: she’s not joking :-p 

Case: A 15 y.o. kid is found dead. There was no gang involved, and the boy’s mother talks about evil, so Maura suspects an exorcism. After many test they still don’t know the exact cause of death, until Jane has a dream and following it they find the right plant. It’s a plant they already saw at Matt’s dad’s house. He’s now living with another woman but he’s always said very clearly that he doesn’t want to have children with her because he already has a son; so, his new partner got rid of the boy in order to start a new family and have kids of her own. The strange voodoo church had nothing to do with it after all. 

4-She works hard for the money

Angela trades her car for a used old wreck and Jane has to intervene :-p and what a surprise, Maura seems to be an expert on cars too :-p I don’t see how it is possible though that she doesn’t know that sport teams have “attackers”, there are words that everybody knows, who listens to the news :-/

Jane tells Maura she regrets never going to college, and that she got admitted but gave it up because it was too expensive for her dad, and she never told him of course. She’s always had a big heart :-) and a strong character too :-D

Case: student Danielle is murdered at her University. Raphael Sbarge plays her father. Her scholarship got revoked because she couldn’t play in her soccer team anymore because of a serious injury, so she started to work as an escort to pay for her education, actually working for her school advisor :-/and it was him who killed her probably because she wanted to quit. 

At the end Jane says that she talked the school into giving a scholarship to Danielle’s best friend who had followed her same path and she also was hurt by the murderer when Jane wanted to arrest him (she ended up shooting him, and I think he died).

5-Money for nothing

Maura went out with Garrett Fairfield when she was 20. Now Adam Fairfield is found dead in the water. They are extremely rich, and Jane is hurt because Maura doesn’t back her up when she tries to interrogate the family. They have a fight; Jane complains that she didn’t support her, and Maura says “their brother just died, I’m sorry I couldn’t stand and just let you badger his family” which obviously hurt Jane. “badger? Is that how you describe how I do my job?” by the way, she didn’t in this particular case, she just asked a few  questions, nothing badger-y 

“The Fairfields helped build the city” ; Jane”my grandfather was an iron worker. He helped build the city”  and Maura“Are you mad at me for who my friends are?” and then “I’ll tell you if there is a case or not!” Come on Maura!!! :-/ 

Korzak tells Maura: “when you grow up like Jane you’re gonna have an attitude about people who… who are entitled” and Maura thinks it’s just prejudice :-/ Korzak also tells her “where people like me and Jane come from, we didn’t have a lot, but we had each other’s backs. Sounds to me like all Jane wants to know is: do you have hers or not?” Right! It seemed like she sided with them against her :-/

but of course she’ll come around and help her, because they’re too important to each other :-)

Maura even buys her a dress to go to the memorial :-) It’s really sad for her to find out that Garrett killed Adam, who was only a half-brother. 

At the end, Maura and Jane drink a beer together, Maura’s first beer ever :-p

6-I kissed a girl

Maura and Jane are doing Yoga together at the gym :-p 

Maura takes Jane on a double date and tries to get Jane to sleep with the guy, to have fun since Jane says she likes him , but Jane says “no, I didn’t shave my legs” and Maura”nice try” and she has a shaving kit in her bag :lol: she’s impossibly weird like that; Jane”what kind of person are you?” :lol: but I side with Jane on this one, because fun it’s not determined on how much sex you have, what a stupid concept, plus sex is much more fun if you actually really want to do it so Maura shouldn’t try to force her :-/ and as it turns out, talking a bit more he’s not exactly her type :-p

That Jorge guy kept sending Jane flowers and emails and chocolates and Jane told Maura to get rid of him, and somehow she let him assume that Jane was gay :p probably the only thing that could work with guys like that :p

When Frost stops a really big guy by himself Jane is surprised “wow you’ve been holding out on me Bruce Lee” :lol: 

A woman is killed, and she was married to another woman. Frost explains what LGBT means for those who don’t know (lesbians, gays, bisexuals, transgender community). Not that hard to figure out. In Massachusetts same sex marriages are legal, but of course there are pathetic thugs who like the excuse to feel all superior and powerful and hate them, I guess they have nothing else going on for them ‘look at me look at me I’m a woman with a husband and children, I’m so much better than you are because of this; of course if it wasn’t for this I’d probably be more stupid more useless and more pathetic, but I have a husband and children so I’m the master and you’re the slave who should live as I The Almighty say you should’- kind of thing. 

 During the investigation, Jane goes undercover and they put her picture on a gay-dating-website and Maura tries to give her her clothes but Jane refuses :p and she goes to the bar with her everyday clothes… :-p Maura is there too posing as a waitress to collect the women’s glasses for their fingerprints (like in that Pacino movie). 

It turned out it was the same old story: the woman was killed by her spouse for the money (and probably the cheating) and also had a girl help her: she told her she loved her, calling her baby… same old story really 

7-Born to run

Maura and Jane are running the Massachusetts Marathon together, when they find a man who’s been shot dead. Maura is very stubborn and Jane has to insist a lot to stop her from creating a problem. Jane wants to pretend the guy was not at all shot and not dead either to avoid mass panicking, therefore she doesn’t stop the marathon. Maura has to do the autopsy right there under a tent. Mom and dad Rizzoli were there to cheer for Jane but they keep fighting all the time because she’s enjoying herself and having a good time while he’s not. 

When a second man is shot dead, they find out that those two 15 years ago had raped an underage girl along with a third man, a rich guy, so rich the thing never went to trial. Her family was ruined because of it, she committed suicide, and now her sister is out for revenge. They find him and stop her before she can kill him too (I suppose that was the right thing to do…) but arrest him for the rape… what good can it do now to arrest him? 15 years, girl dead, him a rich guy… it’ll never go anywhere :-/

At the end, Maura and Jane run the marathon alone, with Frankie following them to help them with the light of his bike, and mom and dad are there holding the finishing line :-) it was nice :)

8-I’m your boogie man

Hoyt is in prison but they are all afraid he might still be a danger. The hot Fbi guy comes back when they find the body of a man that Hoyt probably killed two years ago and froze it, and that somehow turned up now on a bench. Jane is off the case, but she finally talks to Korzak about the whole Hoyt business. He feels guilty for not being there, for making it hard for her to ask his help; she tells him he saved her life, and when he asks her why then they’re not partners anymore, she tells him that she can’t be his partner after he saw her like that, how could he trust her to have his back after seeing her broken…. aww poor Jane, she was never broken, only hurt and scared as anyone in her position would have been, but she’ll never be broken.

Frankie has a new love interest: he starts seeing and dating Lola, so when Jane is under protection, they are both allowed in the house. Unfortunately Lola points a gun at them once there. She was an abused wife, Hoyt killed her husband and kept her prisoner and abused her too, and after a while she was completely under his power. She holds Frankie and Jane prisoners; Jane tries to talk to her to make her realize that Hoyt doesn’t care about her, then Frankie manages to take her gun and shoot her. At the end Jane is finally having dinner with FBI Dean but she says to him “I’m not ready for someone like you” and he goes away…

9-The beast in me

A very smart identity thief is killed with an icepick. After a Dna test Maura learns that the dead man was her half-brother. She was adopted, we knew that from the last episode. The dead guy was the son of a mob boss, Patrick Doyle. When Doyle goes to identify his son, using a false name, Maura knows she’s looking at her biological father. She offers him a glass of water, he says “I’ll make it easier for you if that’s what you want”, and then he cuts his own hand with a knife without even flinching and gives her the handkerchief with his blood. “Goodbye Maura” he says and leaves.

Maura’s shocked when she learns who he is. He introduced himself to her as Mr Selsi, which is Isles backwards “he was toeing with me from the start, while he was staring at his murdered son”. Jane:”come on, he came to say a final goodbye to Colin and he knew that you wanted a dna sample so he gave you some of his blood, this is a guy with balls” - Maura”you’re defending a stone cold killer” - Jane”No I’m… yes I am and I’m gonna stop now”

Patrick has his people abduct Maura so he can talk to her. He tells her that her mother is alive : “you have her intensity and intelligence and class. She gave you up to keep you safe, we both did” and “I need to keep her safe too, she has a right to live her own life, but know she was heartbroken and never forgave me” - “for giving me up?” - “for who I am”

Colin was raised by his mother and only learned about him when she died: “the FBI couldn’t find me, my enemies couldn’t find me, but my 15 year-old son did”

He also tells her “I’ve always kept an eye on you” and he shows her pictures of her school, her graduation… he wants to protect her now, and he gives her a phone, he wants to know who killed Colin so he can keep her alive by sending a message. Maura tells Jane”he had a gentleness I wasn’t expecting” - “if he wants to protect you maybe we should just let him handle it” but Maura says no. When they trace Colin’s killer’s name to Tommy O’Rourke, Jane wants to make that call, but Maura doesn’t. Jane takes the phone with her anyway, with an excuse, and later they’ll find O’Rourke’s body with a picture of baby Maura on him. 

Jane:”it was Doyle” - Maura”who tipped him off?” - Jane”not me, you said not to. I think the message’s pretty clear though” - Frost”don’t mess with my family” - Korzak”you do what you need to do to protect family” good scene :-) I guess the thing here is that one of them made the call to protect Maura, but maybe not Jane herself so she wouldn’t have to lie; I mean, she didn’t say “I don’t know”, maybe she does know, and Frost and Korzak said nothing so maybe they did it.  

Frankie helped his father with a job :-p When Frankie called Jane, Maura went with her and they worked all together, having some family-time :-p Last scene is Maura and Jane throwing peanuts or something at Frankie joke-fighting with his dad. 

Nice scene: Maura”it’s a shame that they penetrated his temporal lobe, that would have been an excellent brain to study” ; Jane looking at her “yeah. bummer” :lol: it was funny :p

10-When the gun goes bang, bang, bang

A cop, Danny, is shot dead, then the bad guys assault the police station; they shoot two cops (one is Frankie) in their search for some piece of evidence. When Jane sees Frankie has been shot she brings him to Maura. He had the vest on but he was so close he got wounded badly anyway, and he’s got internal bleeding. Maura must operate on him , something she’s never done before but Jane insists. She helps him momentarily but he needs a hospital and surgery. 

Danny’s partner Bobby killed him, and when he’s found out he takes Jane hostage. They can’t shoot him because they’re too close so she gets hold of his hand and shoots him through her body! They all see them fall down together!

That was a great hero-moment to end it, episode and season. 

Jane is with Maura at the gym and feels  rather embarrassed when Maura compliments a guy on his muscles :lol: 

Rizzoli mom and dad are throwing a surprise party for their other son Tommy “he’s getting out early for good behaviour”. Angela is always fighting with her husband, and there’s probably something behind that because there’s rarely a good reason; this time it’s “I wanted the blue cups” :-/

Arrival - 2016

I liked it. A lot. There is basically no action, it’s very slow, not even many words, but I liked it. it’s a complex story about feeling, understanding, communicating, and it left me with something. I kept thinking: I understand him, but I also understand her. Would I have done the same? Probably, yes.

The story: we meet Louise (Amy Adams) who has a child, raises her, and then loses her maybe to cancer. Then we learn that some aliens have arrived on Earth; well, twelve starships, just hovering in twelve different parts of the planet (USA of course, then Australia, China, Japan, Russia, UK, and also I think Venezuela, Sudan and… oh I can’t remember now :-/ )

A colonel (Forest Whitaker) comes to get her because he needs her help. She’s an expert linguistic, and he wants her to help them understand what they are saying. There she meets Ian (Jeremy Renner) who is a scientist, a theorist (like Sheldon, only nice, so make it Leonard). 

They are part of the team that will go inside the ship to meet with the aliens and try to establish communications. The same is happening in all the other Countries where the ships have arrived. 

Inside the ship, gravity is rather peculiar and they interact with two gigantic sort of octopus-like creature (octopus=octopods, so they call this race heptapods because they don’t have eight but seven ‘tentacles’) who don’t use words but sounds, as easy as talking to a whale, so Louise tries a different approach. She writes, to see if they have any kind of written language, and they do. They write by spreading ink from their tentacles into their thick air, where it draws a circle-sign that is their entire phrase. They don’t have a linear language but a circular one, no beginning and no end, but Louise and Ian work at it for months with the help of computers and slowly figure bits of it out. 

Thinking about their ‘non-linear ortography’, Ian wonders if that’s how they think too! 

He tells Louise that he’s been reading about “this idea that if you immerse yourself into a foreign language, that you can actually rewire your brain” - “the language you speak determines how you think and….” - “it affects how you see everything” then he adds “I’m curious, are you dreaming in their language?”.

At one point she says they gave her a message that she roughly translates as offering ‘weapon’, and it all goes crazy. She tries to explain that it may mean something different, that they need to ask them what they meant, but instead they start thinking that the aliens might be trying to offer weapons to turn them against each other; China understood the message as “use weapon” so they say they don’t trust these aliens that are “trying to divide us” and call for a UN meeting. They all cease communications, and every Country is left on its own. At least a couple of soldiers went crazy stupid and tried to blow the ship up using explosive, and I’m convinced that the aliens knew about it, and still talked to Louise and Ian (who went there to seek a clarification, knowing nothing about it) and at the last few seconds they tried to warn them of the danger and ultimately saved them by somehow pushing them back out (they got injured, but not too seriously). One left earlier, the other stayed to leave a big message for them and then to help. 

China gives the aliens an ultimatum, leave or be destroyed. Studying the last message, Ian finds out it’s only a part of a bigger message, 1/12, so each Country should put together their messages.

A Russian expert gets shot for divulging his message “there is no time, many become one”, and Louise insists they should stay and communicate with other, but they’ve been ordered to evacuate because after the bomb they fear the aliens might retaliate, but instead she goes to their ship and they send a pod for her. 

During all this, she seemed to me to act a bit strange; I mean, she made a big deal the first time she went through the experience, and I was like: after all you went through, you get scared for a couple of aliens? If I had lost my daughter I’d be like ‘I’ve been through the worst already, nothing scares me now’  and from time to time we saw bits of her life with Hannah, her daughter, as if remembering those moments or conversations could help her now.. but somehow it felt off and I didn’t see why at first. I can’t remember exactly when I understood about the child, but things started to make sense. 

While inside their ship, in their own atmosphere, with only one of them, Louise learn that the other is dying, and she asks him to give a message to the others. He tells her that she already has the weapon. He writes “we help humanity, in 3000 years we need humanity help”. Not yet able to understand, she asks him “who is this child?”, the little girl she keeps seeing - “Louise sees future”, and “weapon opens time”, and she finally understands. By learning their non linear language she started thinking their way, their non-linear way, and seeing bits of her future. She understands the image of the little girl’s drawing “mom and daddy talk to animals” with her and a man and a bird in a cage, like the one she always had during her visits to the aliens (like miners, of course, that’s why she stopped wearing those big things, the bird breathed fine).

We see it all with her: the book she’ll write on universal language about translating heptapod , when she’ll explain to her daughter that her father left because she told her something about the future, telling her that she made the wrong choice (because she knows the girl will die of some rare, unstoppable disease. When she gets back to the others, she realizes that now she can read their language, she understands that she sees time as they do, and she sees a celebration: 18 months from now, she’ll meet there General Shang and he’ll tell her that she changed his mind when she reached him on his private number; she says she doesn’t know it and she shows it to her, and also tells her what she told him on the phone, his wife’s dying words, so she now knows what she has to do. While the others prepare to evacuate she takes a satellite phone and calls that number and speaks to him in Chinese, repeating the words he said/will say to her. Shortly after that, every news channel reports that China is standing down and wants to share their information with the others. Now the aliens leave. Mission accomplished, Earth is on its way to unification (honestly, it’s easier to believe their chats with the aliens than this). 

We finally see that Hannah’s father will be Ian, but that’s no surprise at this point. In the present she hugs him saying “I forgot how good it felt to be held by you”, and we see that they’ll have a relationship, that she’ll say yes to his idea of having children, that they’ll be happy for a while, but we already know that he’ll leave when she’ll tell him what’s about to happen to the child. 

“Despite knowing the journey and where it leads, I embrace it and I welcome every moment of it”.

To the viewers to decide if they agree with him or with her. I understand his pain and how it might be hard to accept but I also understand her decision. She didn’t tell him sooner because she wanted the baby, and she wanted the baby anyway for all the moments she had with her and for all the love they shared. I can’t know, of course, but I don’t think that any parent who lost a child ever wished to have never had that child. 

About the movie, I also liked the fact that all the other Countries had their own experts and they all made progress. 

Wonder woman - 2017

Not bad, I liked it enough, it had a great start and some lovely scenes, but it wasn’t what I had hoped, but I guess it’s useless hoping for something knowing that in our times I’ll never get it. So, I loved the beginning, enjoyed the middle, was rather disappointed by the end. 

The beginning was beautiful, I liked a lot the child playing Diana, and then all the Amazons together. Diana is their Queen Ippolita’s daughter; she’s told that she was born from clay, that Zeus created her. Ippolita tells her that Zeus created humanity good , that Ares got jealous and tried to corrupt mankind, that in the following war Ares killed all the Gods until he was injured and forced to retreat. The Amazons train to be prepared for his return, but Ippolita’s wish is not to find him and kill him but to hide her daughter as long as she can. 

When Diana sees a plain crashing she saves the life of the pilot, Steve (Chris Pine), and learns that there is a big war going on and millions of people dying. 

When the Nazis find Steve on the island, they attack. The amazons fight and win but many of them die because they don’t have firearms like the others. To protect Diana’s life Antiope (Robin Wright) puts herself in front of her and dies. I had big tears in my eyes when she got shot. She was the best.

Diana is sure that it’s all Ares’ doing and that it is their duty to find him and stop him. Ippolita refuses to get involved in the men’s war, but Diana goes anyway. (Bit on a nonsense though. She most of all wished to keep her safe, and then she let her go alone? Not telling her the truth - not a big revelation but still - because that would make it easier for him to find her, when it’s Diana herself that is determined to find him?? I think all the amazons should have joined her fight)

Diana and Steve go to London, and she sees a world that is strange to her. Women wearing long dresses that she finds very unsuitable for combat, and men more worried about a woman entering their room than about soldiers dying because ‘that’s what soldiers are for’. She shouts that a general should lead his warriors and that he should be ashamed of himself. Good.

She follows Steve and three other men on their way to find a dangerous man, General Ludendorff, to stop him from releasing a deadly gas. She helps to free a village, because her armor protects her against bullets and she’s much stronger than men. 

Knowing where they’ll be able to find Ludendorff, Diana steals a woman’s dress to infiltrate the party (nice scene when she walked in front of the woman to see that they were of the same height, and stood at her side to check that they were of the same built :-p).

She’d want to kill Ludendorff right there but Steve stops her saying that they need to find the gas first. Unfortunately right after that, the general releases the gas in the village she had saved and everybody dies. She’s very upset, she tells Steve that Ares corrupted him too, and she goes alone to stop him. 

She finds Ludendorff and fights him and kills him with her ‘Godkiller’ sword, but nothing changes. She then meets the real Ares, revealing himself for what he really is. Sir Patrick who helped them in London wanted her to see what humanity really is, that the war is actually men’s fault.  She doesn’t side with him of course, and fights him. Ares tells her that she is the daughter of Zeus (how can that be shocking? Only because Dad left her? Not unsual, specially in this case, that’s actually what Zeus did, constantly). Her sword breaks against him, and he tells her that she’s the Godkiller herself, as the daughter of Zeus and Ippolita. 

She’s desperate when Steve dies. He couldn’t beat Ares of course, but he could save lots and lots of lives by getting rid of the gas, and he did, sacrificing himself. Ares tries to direct her pain towards humans but in Steve she saw that there are good men, and she chooses love and fights Ares off and wins. 

The battle scenes were very cool and I liked her remarks on generals and dresses, but all that kind of clashes with the heels she wears in combat :-/  

And of course I could have done without the love story honestly. Why was it necessary to have her fall in love and sleep with the first man she ever saw in her entire life? What’s all this about fighting for love? She used to fight to save lives, to help people, to do the right thing… now it seems she only keeps doing it because she fell in love??? 

Passengers - 2016

I liked it, it was better than I thought. I only have a couple of things bugging me but all in all it was a good movie, well done. The story is rather simple: A starship on autopilot is supposed to reach a colony in 90 years, and everyone on board is hibernated for the journey. 5000 passengers and something like 258 members of the crew. The ship gets hit: it’s programmed to repair itself but something goes wrong. One passenger wakes up. He thinks they’ve arrived, only four months left, but has a bad surprise: he’s alone and it’ll take 90 years before reaching their destination. He looks around for a solution, someone to call for help, a way to get back to sleep, anything, but there is nothing he can do. 

——Here is the first thing I have a problem with, because it makes no sense, but I understand why they did it, I only wish they’d find another way, something more reasonable. When Jim (James Preston - Chris Pratt) tries to go on the bridge, access is denied to him, and that’s obvious of course, passengers shouldn’t go to the bridge. Still, why deny the passengers access to the crew sleep chambers? I mean, the crew is supposed to wake up one month before the passengers, and there’s never been a malfunction like this in the sleep chambers ever, it’s considered impossible, so why?? why deny access to someone that will never be there to try to enter? I mean, once the crew is awake, they have quarters, they don’t go back to the pods for the nights! So why should it matter if people entered the room and had a look at some empty pods!?! Of course the answer is: Jim can’t be allowed to do that or bye-bye-movie! Only reason I can think of.

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Jim can only talk to Arthur (Michael Sheen), an android working at the bar. It’s better than nothing but it’s not much, Arthur can’t even leave the bar. He tries everything: working to find a solution, enjoying the comforts that the ship has to offer, being apathetic… months later he’s on the verge of suicide. Then he sees a girl inside a pod. Aurora (Jennifer Lawrence) is beautiful as we all know. He reads every information, watches every video about her, and likes her more and more. He’d want to talk to her, but he knows he can’t. For weeks and weeks he torments himself because he knows he shouldn’t wake her up, but he’s losing his mind and is all alone and has a lot , A LOT of 

time on his hands, so one day he wakes her up (without telling her, even making Arthur promise he won’t tell her). It’s good that he tried to resist the impulse, etc. At one point, just before he saw her for the first time, I said “tell me that he doesn’t wake her up just because she’s young and pretty..”. Basically he does that, but not so simply. 

Anyway, she thinks her pod malfunctioned just like his pod did. For her it’s a bit easier because she’s not totally alone, there’s Jim to explain things and spend time with. They get to know each other, they fall in love, then after another year she says to Arthur that there are no secrets between her and Jim - she believes that, but Arthur knows that’s not true, so to be sure he asks Jim if that’s true, and when Jim confirms of course he thinks he has no more secrets to keep, and he tells Aurora that Jim woke her up. She’s devastated of course, but days later they meet another man !!! 

Gus Mancuso (Lawrence Fishburne) is a member of the crew, engineer or something, and when he learns that Jim woke Aurora he sort of understands what he had gone through. She yells that he basically killed her, but he replies that it’s difficult to judge because he was drowning there. His pod broke down badly, leaving him badly injured inside. He tries to figure out what’s wrong with the ship, but he dies too early. Still, he can now give his identification bracelet to Jim, granting him access everywhere on the ship. Jim and Aurora join forces to search the ship for whatever is wrong with it, and find the section where all the problems are. They find a super-heated reactor that Jim can’t cool down from the inside, so he goes outside to open a door… She’s scared that he might not make it, which would not only mean losing him, but also that she’d be all alone in there, but they had to risk it because there are more than 5000 people not just the two of them, about to die if they don’t repay the ship, and there isn’t time anymore. They succeed and she has to go outside too to retrieve him in a sort of “Gravity” scene, only this time she catches him - she must have heard me when I told her that she doesn’t necessarily need to reach his hand to take him back, she just needs to grab hold of the rope attached to him…

She brings him inside and in the infirmary because he kind of died out there, but as I said, if they wanted to kill him off they would have done it outside; once she brought him in it was obvious that he had to be saved, so she has him revived. Now everything’s fine, they are alive and together, the ship has been repaired and is functioning the way it’s supposed to, and all is good. He finds a way to put her back to sleep if she wants, but she doesn’t. She accepts his ring and they live together who knows for how long. Last scene is set 88 years later, when the crew wakes up to find the ship quite different - full of plants just like I imagined. She wrote about their life story. 

Just one thing. How come they never have children? I mean, it happens, I supposed one of them couldn’t have children, nothing unheard of, but there was no word on the subject, is what I find odd. 

Andy Garcia has a very small part as the captain of the ship.

ITA passengers :-)

Mr Holmes - 2015

I liked it. It is very sad and slow for a while, but it has the most important thing: a good ending, touching and sweet and meaningful and right. Ian McKellen is great, but that’s no surprise :-) 

The story goes back and forth in time but it’s never confusing. In the present we see a very old Sherlock Holmes who needs supervision and who’s forgetting more and more things. It is sad, even more so because he is somehow alone. A housekeeper and her young son leave with him, and only now he starts feeling some affection for the boy Roger who proves to be a smart kid, but his mother doesn’t approve their friendship and would like to go away. She’s sad, and scared, because her husband had ambition and died in the war, while his ambition-free friends came back.

A recent flashback shows us Sherlock’s trip to Japan to collect an herb that might improve his memory (in 1947, Sherlock and Mr Umezaki pick up some plants or dirt or whatever in a dead field in Hiroshima…). When Umezaki reveals that he blames Sherlock for causing pain to him and his mother (showing him a letter where his father wrote that the great SH had advised him to leave his family and stay in England forever), Sherlock simply replies that he never met the man and that the letter was probably an excuse from a man who wanted to change his life and abandon his family.

The other flashbacks takes us back thirty years or so, to his last case. He knows that Watson’s story about that case can’t be right, it makes no sense at all, but he can’t remember what really happened, and throughout the film he tries to put things together and solve the mystery of what went so wrong that he decided to retire.

I liked this case, and the fact that I saw more here that Sherlock did :-D As he puts the pieces together we see a husband asking Sherlock’s help to find out what his wife is doing. He says she really wanted to have children, got pregnant twice and both time she lost her babies. He says she’s  so devastated ‘as if’ she actually lost two children ( ! can you believe the man?!?) , and that she had the insane idea of buying two tombstones for them but he disagreed. He says he suggested her taking up music and that she got very much into it, but that then she changed somehow and once he even heard her call out the names of the children. After that ‘he decided’ she had to stop the lessons altogether and forget about it, and that he didn’t gave her money anymore and forbid her to go to her music teacher (I mean, do I need to comment on that?!? the man!!!) . Sherlock started following her, but the husband did too and he busted into the teacher’s apartment sure that she was there and ‘demanding’ that she’d be given to him! Sherlock tells him to stop and leave the job to him. When Sherlock reaches the street again thinking he might have lost her given all the time he lost with the husband, he finds her outside looking at a taxidermy window shop (taxidermy? a young sad woman with no pets? come on) , and follows her: he sees her buying a poison, asking about their will, forging her husband’s signature to get money from the bank, and paying a mysterious man… I didn’t think for one second that she wanted to kill her husband, that would have made no sense given the character: she had a devastating sadness, not a murderous anger, come on! When he sees her sitting on a bench he approaches her and starts talking to her. Soon she tells him his tricks don’t work on her because she knows exactly who he is: she does the laundry in the house, of course, and she found his card on her husband’s jacket pocket. Still, they talk some more: Sherlock understood that she was playing a part to see if he would have believed she wanted to kill her husband or if he would have understood that she loved her husband and yet felt so so lonely, so unbearably lonely… he understands loneliness but he says that logic is enough for him. Before going away she throws away the poison she bought, and he’s satisfied of his work and goes home. Would you have been? I think that another woman would have understood there, would have said something more, tried something more, because that simply could NOT be enough. It’s like her first-hand-sadness left place to a deep deep depression, and you don’t beat depression simply because of logic reasons! I know lots  of logic reasons not to be depressed, and that only makes me feel worse, which makes me feel more guilty, which makes me feel even worse…

Anyway, Sherlock was surprised and profoundly shocked when she killed herself, walking in front of a train. I wasn’t. She reunited with her children. She had nobody to talk to, nobody who could understand, nobody who wanted to understand…and when she asked him if they could share their loneliness together he told her to go back to her husband instead!  After her death, we see three tombstones she paid for: one for her and one for each of her children. 

Sherlock could not get over it, he failed her completely, he had realized all the cold logic details of her actions, but not her. He couldn’t go on like that, so he retired and never worked again. 

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In the present: Sherlock and Roger become more and more fond of each other. When he finds the child unconscious with many stings on his face and body he immediately calls an ambulance, but doesn’t even think of telling his mother. She finds out by herself. Not because he’s mean, but because by cold logic it wasn’t necessary, so he thought of necessary things first.

Of course Roger doesn’t die, that would have been utterly unacceptable, no but on that, and Sherlock tells the woman that he cares about Roger and intends to leave to the two of them his house after he dies. The house, the ground, everything, and tells her therefore not to leave like she intended to do. From her face I say she appreciates the words and the sentiment and the prospect of being the owner, and also the fact that he’s not cold and heartless as she thought he was.

He understands that to save Ann’s life he should have done more, even lying if necessary, that the cold truth might not always be the best answer, so he writes to Umezaki telling him a made-up story about his father serving boldly and proudly the British Empire.

Now, it might be a good gesture towards a man who grew up without a father and whose mother recently died, but I’m not convinced that lies would have saved Ann. Had she spotted a lie it would have made things even worse. She needed understanding, is what she needed, and understanding company. She needed a comforting hand that would not go away. She needed someone to talk to about what she felt, when the emptiness in her soul threatened to explode, someone who would not judge her but listen to her and hold her hand. 

Anyway, he has now found some peace and can spend the rest of his days in his house with Roger and his mother. 

A good film, good characters, good acting from everyone, lots of feelings.

ITA Mr. Holmes - il mistero del caso irrisolto

Guardians of the galaxy vol.2 - 2017

I liked it. Not as good as the first one, but it was cool, and baby Groot was the sweetest :-D It starts with them doing a job for the Sovereign (very arrogant) race, but then Rocket steals something from them so they try to kill them. Someone comes to their rescue and Peter meets his father Ego.

He’s a celestial, almost a God but not quite, and they go with him to his world, which is not a real world but it’s actually him. At first Peter doesn’t trust him but Gamora tells him to give him a chance, so they go leaving Rocket and Groot to watch over Nebula, their prisoner. 

Ego tells him he’s lived for thousands of years, and looking for a meaning in his life he went to Earth and fell in love with a woman and had him. He says he loved her but had to go away because he can’t stay in that form for long, away from his planet. He shows him that he can use the planet’s light, its energy too to make things. At first Peter can only make a ball, and they start playing ball as if he was still a child playing with dad. If anyone had any doubt that he was faking it that was definitely some tell: come on, playing ball like that, he was clearly manipulating him. Shortly after there was another proof, but Peter didn’t get it yet: Ego told him of what they can do with that light, they can make things, they can shape planets, they can shape the universe… come on, how is that different from all the villains in history of film that wanted to dominate the world? After all he’s called Ego, isn’t that a clue in itself??

Soon Peter is forced to realize the truth when Ego tells him that he needs his life-energy, and also that he planted that brain-tumor into his mother’s head! He killed her, so there’s nothing he can do now to keep Peter on his side. 

Yondu and his men attack Rocket and Nebula convinces Groot to free her saying that she’ll save Rocket. There’s a mutiny among the men, and all those openly on Yondu’s side are killed by the rest of the crew. Nebula leaves to look for Gamora (and kill her). Yondu sends baby Groot to retrieve his arrow-weapon, but he can’t find it; it’s Kraglin that brings it to him because he’s still on his side, he always was, I guess he was just jealous of Peter. Yondu kills everybody on board and they leave to find Peter and save him, because Yondu knows what kind of a being Ego is.  

All together they fight Ego and to kill him they have to destroy that world at its core, and when he dies Peter loses it’s celestial energy too. 

The Nebula-Gamora relationship was never easy: in this movie Nebula comes to Ego-planet to kill her but Gamora saves her life, so later Nebula saves hers. Nebula tells her that when they were young all she wanted was a sister but Gamora only cared about winning. Thanos made them fight to train them and every time Nebula lost a fight he replaced a part of her with a mechanical one. (poor thing) At the end Gamora tells her that she was only a child trying to survive and never realized what that meant for Nebula, and she’s trying to make amends now by helping other people, and asks her to do the same by joining the group, but Nebula leaves because she still wants to kill Thanos. 

Mantis is an empath, a creature that grew up alone on Ego’s planet and he kept her there like a pet. Drax keeps telling her how disgustingly ugly she is (she’s so pretty! but too skinny for him apparently), but during the fight when the planet is about to explode but Ego has still enough energy to overpower them, he tries to bring her to safety and when he gets trapped in the Earth he raises his arms keeping her out of it to keep her safe. That was so nice…

At the beginning of the film we see Stakar banning Yondu for breaking the ravagers code by stealing a child - and I thought, when did he do that? but of course the child was Peter, his job was to retrieve the boy and give him to his father, but later he’ll say that after he learned what had happened to all the other sons of Ego (all dead, he tried to use them too but they didn’t have the energy apparently) he couldn’t bring himself to give Peter to him so he kept him on his ship. At the end of the movie Yondu saves Peter’s life losing his own. Peter realizes that he always had a father-figure with him but didn’t know it. 

Rocket told the other ravagers what Yondu did so they all come to give him a real ravagers funeral. (I could have done with a Kraglin simply crying or looking sad instead of his yelling Yes when he saw them. I understand it, but the yelling still felt wrong.)

At the end of the credits we see Peter yelling at a teenage Groot to keep his room clean and stop playing videogames all the time :-p I also love that Peter in this scene understands what Groot says :-D 

I liked the first movie’s music more, honestly. I felt its absence here. There was music but … :-/

I was also kind of annoyed about Peter’s romantic feelings for Gamora… they keep saying that they are a family, I’d like it to stay that way, not turn into the usual boring love-story. They really can’t have a woman in the group without the human hitting on her? :-/  I’m so tired of this, it seems to me like people who make films only add women characters so the male lead (because the leader is always the man, here too) can hit on her. :-/ so annoying… 

I hope that in the next movie there will be Nebula and Mantis again. 

Peter Quill-Chris Pratt; Gamora-Zoe Saldana; Drax-Dave Bautista; Yondu-Michael Rooker; Nebula-Karen Gillian; Mantis-Pom Klementieff; Ego-Kurt Russell; Kraglin-Sean Gunn

There are also Sylvester Stallone as Stakar, Michael Rosenbaum , Ving Rhames and Michelle Yeoh as other ravagers. There is also a cameo from David Hassellhoff because Peter says that when he was a fatherless child he used to say that David Hassellhoff was his father and was away with his car Kitt to save the world or something. 

ITA i guardiani della galassia vol. 2