Work. Hawaii Five-0. Pineapple zombies. You know, the usual.

[inmyriadbits]

HI THERE, INTERNET.

Haven't posted in a while, have I? Probably because work is crazy due to it being the season for all the holiday parties, and also having a social life, and about a half-dozen doctor appointments. *sigh*

BIG NEWS: Katie and I caught up on Hawaii Five-0! PLEASE COME DISCUSS IN THE COMMENTS! I want to talk for ages about how pretty the scenery is, or how pretty the wildlife (i.e., EVERYONE on the team), or about how rapidly this show has become my happy place, only to make me wait for new episodes. But I really have to sleep at some point tonight, so I won't. I am making myself pick three things to talk about instead:

1. In the last episode, how great was that scene where Steve and Danny have a car conversation that is serious? I mean, that's how normal people talk about heavy memories -- they share personal experiences, and then they go AWKWARD, NEED TONE SHIFT. And if you're Danny, start ranting about the radio. (And if you're Steve, practice your deadpan face to perfection while egging him on, because at least now he's not staring sadly out the window in a completely unnatural-for-Danny kind of way. <3333333333333333)

2. KONO. How awesome is she? I love that she's new but not dumb, confident but not cocky, self-assured but not stupidly authority-challenging, emotional but not irrational, clever and innovative. She is, in short, much like a lot of awesome ladies I know, only since she is a TV character, she can also spin-kick a guy off a speeding motorcycle while saving a small child, and looks freaking awesome in ridiculously tall spy compartment high heels. :D I loves her. And I also like the way she interacts with the team -- the guys treat her like the guy friends I know would treat a coworker, with respect and friendship and affection, with the discernment to know that playfulness does not automatically equal flirtation, and the wherewithal to actually NOT hit on her even though she's quite pretty.

3. THE LACK OF CLOTHING. I'm looking at you, Steve. Okay, and Kono. It makes sense for Hawaii, too; growing up in warm weather climes, I personally can attest to the fact that it tends to make people a lot less weird about stripping down when necessity demands it. Necessity...demands it quite a bit on this show. I really can't complain. *ogles* :D

3a. The problem with working in a hotel with continental breakfasts is that I spend a great deal of time in the morning with pineapple right in front of me, reminding me of H50, while also being a giant nerd. These things lead to thought processes like: Ever since I found out that pineapple has an enzyme that literally breaks down flesh, I have had a bit of weirdness eating it. Hmm, I bet Danny would also have a problem with that. He already hates pineapple; maybe that's why. They're flesh-eating! Flesh-eating...ooh, maybe someone should write H50 zombie fic. It's set on an island, that's inherently interesting. Plus, you just know Steve would be awesome at killing zombies. They probably have a section of SEAL training all about beheading the living dead. Or he just decided he wanted to be prepared. OH WAIT -- pineapples, zombies, both flesh-eating...THE PINEAPPLES ARE CAUSING THE ZOMBIES. AHAHAHAHAHA....

...and then, I have not a single person at work to share these thoughts with. It's very sad.

Anyway, stopping there! Because I have to be awake at 5am, and then work for about 18 hours, and then do the same thing on Friday, only waking up at 4am instead. But please talk to me in comments. :D?

Comments

[ericaplease.livejournal.com]

hello you! I agree with all of these points, especially 1. Kono's awesomeness and 2. the conversation in the car that was completely serious and awesomely realistic. LOVED IT.

[inmyriadbits.livejournal.com]

Yay! It's just so much fun. It's like, you don't have to think too hard about it, but when you do, it holds together nicely. I'm quite fond. :)

1. Kono is the bomb. I liked her plenty in the first episode, but the way she handled being kidnapped and tied up in the second? My heart, it was won. ♥

2. Their car conversations are the BEST, even when they're not being serious about the tough issues they face as cops and Steve's orphan backstory. HEARTS FOREVER, GUYS. And a rainbow, too! I don't care if there are already a million in Hawaii...

POP QUIZ: Cliff, shag, marry...and, er, makeouts? -- Steve, Danny, Chin, and Kono, go! :)

[mercurybard.livejournal.com]

POP QUIZ: Cliff, shag, marry...and, er, makeouts? -- Steve, Danny, Chin, and Kono, go!
I'm butting in and taking this :-p

Marry: Danny and Steve...to each other

Shag: Chin

Makeouts: Kono

:D

[inmyriadbits.livejournal.com]

Hee! Welcome! Everyone can play this game. Also, I love your answers. No one gets cliffed! You are clearly a genius. :D

[ericaplease.livejournal.com]

cliff: Mary
shag: Steve&Kono (together? separately? FOREVER?)
marry: Chin (♥ ♥ ♥)
make out with Danny? actually, I dearly love Scott Caan, but I sort of just want to pat him on the head and maybe buy him a hot chocolate on this show, ngl

\o/!

[inmyriadbits.livejournal.com]

Aww, not a Mary fan? Or is she just your least favorite?

Mmm, Steve and Kono? YES PLZ.

Danny looks like he would be a good kisser, don't you think? I also had him in my makeouts column. He's not really my type, either, but I'm pretty fond of him. ♥

[dotfic.livejournal.com]

HAWAII FIVE-0! ♥♥♥

Yes, yes, that conversation in the car. All the conversations in the car, but that one, what you said. And Kono, your whole paragraph, I'm delighted with how they're portraying her. Her badassery is growing in believable increments. She's a rookie and they do delegate certain kinds of jobs to her, but they clearly respect her intelligence and skill and I love how Chin mentors her and she gets increasingly more badass. She's learning on the job. The guys are a little protective but not condescending ever.

Do you think Danny knows about the flesh-eating properties of pineapple? When he finds out, he'd just say "see? See I told you pineapple was bad news! It breaks down flesh, Steve! And yet you want to put it on your pizza and eat it!"

I love them so much.

[inmyriadbits.livejournal.com]

*twirls with you* IT'S SO MUCH FUN, DOT. It just makes me super happy. :D

Yes, all the conversations! So good. Their arguments are especially hilarious now that we've met Rachel (WHO IS AWESOME, BTW) and know that Danny argues with Steve the exact same way he argues with her. ♥! But especially that one. OH BOYS. HAVE MORE AWKWARD BUT SINCERE HEART-TO-HEARTS, PLEASE.

Kono is great! I keep thinking that it should be weird that she's already so confident (and in some writers' hands, it would be), since she really is rather young and inexperienced. And then I remind myself that she had and lost a professional career before she was even old enough to drink, and that gives her all kinds of self-assurance. Also, she's awesome. :D I do love how the team works with her, too. On another show, Danny's "It's not because you're the woman, it's because you're a rookie" comment would've felt like contrivance or the showrunners being all "shit, we're treating her like the woman! BETTER LAMPSHADE IT." Instead, it just felt like the honest truth. She's the rookie, and they protect and mock her, but they respect her abilities as a cop, and her as a person. And she has the confidence and self-awareness to, say like the ep when they're telling her to take herself off her mentor's murder investigation, to stand up for what she actually can handle, and then handle it. She's just great, and the team is just great. :D

He might know! It can be used as a meat tenderizer, and he might've come upon the fact that way. Or maybe he was just wondering why it makes your mouth burn when you eat it. Steve, though, would be the one who knows the exact name of the proteolytic enzyme. And would also call it a proteolytic enzyme. And then Danny would mock him, and possibly rant a bit: "What the hell does that mean? Do you even listen to yourself when you talk?" "Proteolytic means it breaks down protein. You know, from the Latin roots--" "Okay, seriously? Protein is animal flesh. Why can't you just call it a 'flesh-eating chemical' like it is?" "It's not a chemical, it's an enzyme." "So?" "So, that's a protein, not a chemical." "Are you telling me it's a protein that eats other proteins? That is just so wrong." "It doesn't eat them, Danny...oh, never mind." It's my personal canon that Steve was a chem nerd in school. There is just NO WAY that's not true.

I love them LOTS.

HEY, LET'S TALK ABOUT CHIN NOW. He's falling behind on the love parade! And that's just not right.

[spatz.livejournal.com]

And she has the confidence and self-awareness to, say like the ep when they're telling her to take herself off her mentor's murder investigation, to stand up for what she actually can handle, and then handle it.

And Steve does the exact same thing to Danny in the episode with his murdered ex-partner.

"What the hell does that mean? Do you even listen to yourself when you talk?" "Proteolytic means it breaks down protein. You know, from the Latin roots--" "Okay, seriously? Protein is animal flesh. Why can't you just call it a 'flesh-eating chemical' like it is?" "It's not a chemical, it's an enzyme." "So?" "So, that's a protein, not a chemical." "Are you telling me it's a protein that eats other proteins? That is just so wrong." "It doesn't eat them, Danny...oh, never mind."

*dies laughing* Especially "It's not a chemical, it's an enzyme." That is *so* Steve.

[inmyriadbits.livejournal.com]

I LOVE THEM ALL.

But especially Steve, the stealth-chem-nerd. ♥!

[dotfic.livejournal.com]

The line of dialogue about Kono could've been lampshading -- maybe it was, but now that we're further along it looks like they're doing what I hoped/expected with her, how she's growing as a rookie. Her badassness is progressive. I think they know exactly what they're doing with Kono and it wasn't lampshading -- it was Kono raising her flag to remind them she's serious about this job and wants to do more than be relegated to babysitter/rookie duties.

Ahh, what happened to my fannish life? We still need to talk about Chin! I love that he's sort of quiet and serious but then he makes fun of the others when the occasion arises and even though Steve is the boss, technically, Chin is really the big brother, the one who I think may have the most years of experience as a detective (unless Danny is because he was continuously a detective for longer?) and he's so...detective-ish. And I love how he mentors Kono, he respects her and is so proud of her but he also is protective and guides her. Also, Chin, hotass on a motorcycle and such a badass, he radiates badass just standing there. Like if the team is stuck in a firefight, Chin just being there already makes me less scared that they'll get killed (aside from the obvious that they won't get killed because then the show will have no characters).

[celli]

I am writing fiiiiiic!

[inmyriadbits.livejournal.com]

OMG YAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Can you tell me the concept? I'm going to go out on a CRAZY LIMB HERE and guess that it's slash, because everyone and their mother and all the guest stars know that Danny and Steve are totally married. *chinhands* DO TELL. :)

[celli]

I flew them to South Dakota and buried them in the snow. BECAUSE I'M LIKE THAT. And my prompt was "snowbound and seduced." you can probably fill in the blanks from there.

[inmyriadbits.livejournal.com]

Oooh, I like it. :D But who is seducing whom, I ask you?

[gingerwall.livejournal.com]

Dear Bits,

I <3 you. Will you be working so busily all Christmas long? I'm not sure what exactly, but we should marathon something.

Besos,

Ginger

[inmyriadbits.livejournal.com]

Dear Ginger,

I ♥ you, too! Our last event is on the 19th, and then I'm basically off for WEEKS. When are you in town?

OH HAI, WE SHOULD WATCH HAWAII FIVE-0. I KIND OF LOVE IT. :D?

Besito besito besito,
Bits

[mercurybard.livejournal.com]

I particularly enjoyed how Steve and Danny's tactic for handling a standoff with a serial killer was to BICKER LIKE AN OLD MARRIED COUPLE until the serial killer got so confused he let his guard down enough for Steve to shoot him.

♥ Kono

I want a big exciting plot for Chin.

[inmyriadbits.livejournal.com]

LOL I KNOW. IT WAS AMAZING. I'm pretty sure the BAU would not approve, but hey, it worked! Hee, now I am imagining the BAU coming to Honolulu. OMG THAT WOULD BE SO GREAT. And by great, I mean HILARIOUS.

♥ Kono!

Me too! I also think the rest of the team (i.e., Danny and Chin) need to take their turn being hostages, because that trope is really working for me with these characters. I VOTE CHIN FIRST. :D

(p.s. I love your icon! Kono's tiny little lean forward over the side was ADORABLE, for all that it was so small. Like the expression she made over that little dog in the earlier episode. HOW SO CUTE.)

[mercurybard.livejournal.com]

now I am imagining the BAU coming to Honolulu. OMG THAT WOULD BE SO GREAT. And by great, I mean HILARIOUS
Team Moms who wear ties unite!

I VOTE CHIN FIRST
I've seen promising spoiler photos!

(I love that part of the episode where they're like "someone's gonna have to get in the water" and Kono's like "by 'someone' you mean me, the rookie" and then everyone turns to Steve, who had automatically started stripping and he's like "what?!?"

...I have the sudden burning desire for Steve the mer-man fic.)

[inmyriadbits.livejournal.com]

LOL, Hotch and company would have a field day with Steve and Danny...

Okay, we are PSYCHIC. Chin down, Danny to go! :D

...I hate you a little bit right now for that. You know, in a loving way.

[mercurybard.livejournal.com]

Reid's little head would explode. Morgan would just take Chin out for a beer.

...now that's a pretty picture.

Okay, we are PSYCHIC. Chin down, Danny to go! :D
*blows on the internet to try and make it upload tonight's episode faster*

...I hate you a little bit right now for that. You know, in a loving way
It's a BRILLIANT idea. *is NOT currently trying to figure out the logistics of a Disney Little Mermaid AU*

[inmyriadbits.livejournal.com]

Hahahaha, Morgan and Chin would probably get along, yeah. And mmm, to be a girl in that bar...

Sorry, didn't mean to be a spoiler! D: *zips lips*

*giggles madly* DO TELL. Is Danny Sebastian? Is he?

[mercurybard.livejournal.com]

And mmm, to be a girl in that bar...
Garcia, I think, would enjoy it immensely.

Sorry, didn't mean to be a spoiler! D: *zips lips*
No worries...unlike 99% of fandom, I don't care about spoilers. I'd actually seen the scene where Victor calls McGarrett on the cellphone in Chin's pocket.

Is Danny Sebastian? Is he?
*snorts water giggling* No, I was thinking he was the loud-mouthed prince, but Sebastian would be hilarious! Victor, of course, would be a shark. Kono would be a small, brightly colored fish (maybe a lionfish?)

[inmyriadbits.livejournal.com]

Damn straight, she would! :)

Lol. I like this plan, although I doubt following the original fairy tale will really work here. SO TELL ME MORE. How does Chin fit in?

[mercurybard.livejournal.com]

I wasn't even thinking original fairy tale--too grim for Hawaii Five-0 (which, for all its drug-and-arms dealers and homegrown terrorists, is not very grim). Definitely Disney here.

And I'm still trying to think of what Chin would be. An eel maybe? But eels are usually evil, but then I remember that's stereotyping eels...which just goes to show that I have spent way too much time in MCR fandom.

[inmyriadbits.livejournal.com]

I would just like to inform you that there now exists in the world:

1. A Little Mermaid AU,
and
2. H50 zombie fic.

I feel totally psychic/ahead of the curve, how about you? :D

[mercurybard.livejournal.com]

This is getting a little freaky, bro

[inmyriadbits.livejournal.com]

Seriously, dude. o.O

[spatz.livejournal.com]

Morgan would just take Chin out for a beer.

Steve and Morgan would get in each other's way trying to tackle the Serial Killer of the Week, y/y?

[mercurybard.livejournal.com]

Y.

And Prentiss would be the one to take said Serial Killer down.

[spatz.livejournal.com]

I VOTE CHIN FIRST. :D

I am now blaming you for the events of this week's episode.

[inmyriadbits.livejournal.com]

I am okay with that being my fault! :D

[bloodygoodgirl.livejournal.com]

I would read all of the Hawaii 5-0 zombie fic. And you know those elite military forces totally have a 'just in case' section on killing the undead. Write it! And text me when such ideas pop into your head dude.

[inmyriadbits.livejournal.com]

It would be totally awesome, right? I may write it indeed. You know, after Yuletide...

[mercurybard.livejournal.com]

Zombies are an "island thing". Danny automatically Does. Not. Get. It.