The Shark is sinking
By fred | February 5, 2007
What’s happening with Shark? I remember how I felt and what I said after watching S01E11, and funnily a few things that happened in the latest episodes, and more specifically the last one, S01E13, can be seen as going against what was said, which should be a good thing. It should make me happy, but Hell it doesn’t!
After a special episode last week where Shark was directly opposed to a super-smart killer and, incredible, he actually lost! That was indeed a shocking moment, even though many things on that episode were just not really believable…
But let’s focus on today’s episode. Starting back the usual way, with a moment between Shark & his daughter. Shark is pretty scared because the smart killer he didn’t send to jail had made some threats against him, and more specifically his daughter, so he doesn’t want her to be alone, ever, and he’ll ask his ex-cop of partner to follow her for the day, make sure she’s safe, and then Shark will hire someone else to do the job. And that someone will be no less than the best, who specialized in those type of cases.
Well at least what’s what we are told. However later on the guys shows up, and anyone still believing he fits the description must have a serious problem.
Our guy will appear in a scene that is one of the most cliché there could be, a scene we’d have hoped we wouldn’t have to go through, again, because even the very first time it’s been made years & years ago it was already pretty lame.
Obviously we’re not lucky and the scene goes… Julie (Danielle Panabaker) is getting out of school, walking & talking with a friend of hers. Both of them are talking, laughing, she’ll grab a paper from him and as he’s trying to get it back our best of the best guy pops out of nowhere, grabs the guy’s arm and ask her if she’s all right.
I mean come-on. Anyone, even a kid, watching those two could have seen they knew each other, they were just having fun, both coming out of the same school, wearing matching uniforms…
All it takes for someone watching to know what’s happening here is a couple of eyes, actually even one would be enough, and brain. Since we could see this amazing bodyguard – which let me recall you do specialize in those kind of cases – got both his eyes, seems that he simply doesn’t have a brain.
In the mean time Shark and his puppets are on a new case : a very rich guy got shot in his living room. Rapidly Shark will think that his son might be the killer, but that he’s probably been influenced by someone else. Like his art teacher, since things indicate that they’re actually sleeping together.
We got a few scenes to show that Shark is sharp, makes again a few lines like he likes to do, such as asking a widow whether “bronzing is the third or fourth stage of grief� or not. Ok, sure, but I seriously don’t think those lines are ever as good, funny or smart as writers would them to be.
What a crappy article!