"General Mills? the cereal guy?"

[chicafrom3]

This episode is kind of breaking the hell out of me. It's breaking Shawn and it's breaking Gus and it's breaking me.

And there are little squeeful moments in it, like the callbacks to "Weekend Warriors" and significant Karen&Henry interaction and Shawn really laying the one-liners on thick and the Return Of Shawn's Mom who I like quite a lot. And none of that is stopping it from breaking me.

ETA: Post-episode thoughts. I...I don't know how I feel about this episode. I'm unlikely to watch it again because, seriously, broken here. There were some wonderful, light-hearted moments, the tension was really well done, I'm going to come out and say it was definitely one of if not the best episodes Psych has done to date.

I do think the last ten minutes were kind of...out of place? Because when they took the crazy chick off to jail and there were still ten-plus minutes left in the episode, I was expecting a twist of some sort. Especially with the heavy-foreshadowing Yang did about Shawn's date. And then instead we get...Shawn/Juliet and Shawn/Allison and Shawn/Gus cuteness? It was cute, don't get me wrong, it just felt really out of place and weird and not organic at all.

Like I said. I don't know how I feel about this episode, and it ripped me up too much for me to say that I'll be watching it again in the immediate future.

Comments

[regann]

"I think in an ep like this, if you have 15 minutes at the end to wrap b-plot, your timing is off."

That's what I said in the psych chat I'm in and I stand by it. The random shipping crap on the end was out of place and the same essential stuff (shawn blowing jules off for allison even tho jules is finally interested) could've been done in a minute or so through looks and cameras, etc. and it would not have felt so weird.

This ep was awesome until the last 10 minutes and now it's...pretty lame.

[neutralalienist.livejournal.com]

I'm almost done, and I was wondering why there was ten minutes left, and...now I know. :/ What, guys.

Still. Wow. Guh. Oh, Shawn.

I think that woman is one of my favourite fictional serial killers.

[oc-pixie.livejournal.com]

Yeah it left me broken too...gotta applaud James' little dramatic streak here....it was what broke me most. When his voice would break, his confidence waivering...made me wanna cry!

What REALLY made me wanna cry...finally...FINALLY after 3 seasons...we get THE moment...we get that moment where Juliet finally admits she has feelings for Shawn....but for the first time in 3 seasons...HE'S the one not ready. GAH! Broke my fangirl heart.

But it was a marvelous finale in my opinion...wrapped a lot of great things up...and I LOVED that Ally Sheedy from the Breakfast Club was the bad guy...nice throwback to the high school reunion episode.