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maybe you were watching Kick-Ass recently, too?  I watched that again the other night and Hit-Girl does the gun in cheek move.

oh yeah! I saw the bagpipes, and was wondering why they were there, but then forgot about them with the rest of the drama going on.

True, and we aren't knocking him or his contributions. it's that Mike has played Cooper for five years and we've seen numerous one-off partners on the show, mostly paired with Regina, but we also had Lucy Liu paired with Mike for last season.

This has been discussed before:  Ben, Shawn, AND Regina have all signed on to pilots.

I got the feeling from watching Regina play out Lydia's baby drama last season that she was starting to feel reluctance for agreeing to do it, and now she knows that this entire motherhood arc for her is just an anchor on her character, dragging her down, which does help her play it, but Regina also knows the real…

Tel me about it! LOL
at least we didn't get a wasted scene explaining how they tracked the residence down, running a partial plate, matching it to blue trucks, etc. we had some tech turn to her screen, then SWAT rolling in to the house after the commercial break.

Arija's lack of presence has been noted long ago.

yeah, that took me a minute to get that. D'oh!

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Pretty much my only complaint is the shift away from the detectives' side of the show once Nate died and Sammy went back to the beat.  Lydia's got musical chair partners and dumbed down arcs since she was left to carry the office side of the law, while we get more time on the beat with the guys.  We even lost our main…

yeah, Wednesday night is the night most of my shows are on, and considering two were repeats (on CW), i didn't even bother with the two comedies that I usually save for a palate cleanser after the hour longs, but last night?  Southland was IT.  I didn't even bother with the MF/Sub shows after watching this.  It would…

Well, I hate to break it to you, BUT….

Cooper's too "by the book" to simply shoot one perp because a surprise second perp knocked his partner cold.  He was off his game because of their falling out the night before, and that whole scene was one series of rookie mistakes after another, which was the point.  not even SuperCop Cooper can be on his game Every…

that runs the risk of making her Tammy 2.0, which we REALLY don't need.  I won't argue that scene was unnecassary, but damn if Emily wasn't getting a huge nod to there.

I was wondering if part of the reason they were concentrating on hurting Lucero is because he wasn't white.  He already explained to Cooper that he wasn't anything but "Blue" on the job several eps back.  Having him be the motormouth, "we can talk this out" guy made him a target for them, nonetheless.

Maybe it's just the fact I watched "A Serbian Film" over the weekend, but also having come to admire the effort Cudlitz has put into this role the past five years that really drove home the horror of what they were going through.  Not to mention a peripheral view of officers being slain on the job at my dad's dept a…

Oh, I definitely flashed back to last season's "vampire tweaker" incident with the useless camera guy and Tang trying to save him.  That was only ruined by promotional pics that showed Cooper with a large neck bandage before the ep aired, so it was more a matter of "how did that happen?" and knowing he's going to pull…

Unfortunately true.  I told Mike on FB last night I would BUY him a statue! LOL

oh definitely, she called 911 to report this dirty man claiming to be a cop.  Only when the locals do arrive and find out who they have is when everything goes ballistic.  I do hope we get to see at least part of that in next week's opening moments, too.