The Great ProsWatch - The Ojuka Situation

[byslantedlight]

The Ojuka Situation! We all like The Ojuka Situation, right?

And there he is, Clarke Peters, who I can never imagine without a top hat and jazz hands after Facelift... *g* He's good though - I do like him.

And there's Cowley... oh, and he's talking to the baddie from... from... the one where Doyle tucks himself in beside Bodie at the stables... NaVCCS! *g*

Yeay our lads - the "muscle"... *g* Bodie looking very Liam Gallagher (or is it the other one?) - in a very cool parka. Doyle wearing a fairly naff V-neck... bless 'im...


Doyle's seen worse than the bloodbath at the school... I guess the massacre in ODNT for a start...

Hee - and Cowley's grumpy with him - apparently he's full of "juvenile metaphors"! *g*

Oh dear, and BC all full of repetitions - he used the tie your camel first line in Sinbad as well... *g* But Doyle looks at Bodie already, and it feels as if they're a bit more together than they have been lately


Hee - the lads amused at Cowley being all coy to Madame Ojuka! Another look between them!


And hee - Bodie making bad jokes too - disarming... *vbg* (Also - is that a picture of a crushed Dalek on the wall behind them, top right? *g*)


Ooh, nice building the Ojukas get to live in... and the lads with them for a while...
(Gratuitous screencap of the lads going upstairs, including long-legged Doyle bringing up the rear...)


Yeay, Doyle reading! Bodie's guarding the outside, and they'll change over soon... *g*


Awww, and the lads on the R/T together, I do like that... And heee for priapismic - Bodie's little silence as he thinks about it, and Doyle being so amused cos he can just imagine it, can't he...


Oh, Doyle falling asleep over his book (did we figure out which one that is?)... 'til Bodie calls him again... *g*


And ohhh - "It's your priapismic monster... *sighs happily*


And how happy does Doyle look that Bodie's coming up?


Doyle leaps down many sets of stairs to shoot one of the baddies, and then shoots another one just as someone else is about to shoot him... Oh, and they look at each other... *g*


Eeep - Doyle is told off by Cowley when he interupts the Cowley/Ojuka conversation... but I love that he interjects again almost immediately after... *g*


Hee - "Trust in god mate," says Bodie wisely, as our lads stride down the corridor, "But with Ojuka in the back seat we'd better take Armalites and grenades..." *vbg* Oh, and see the way they're smiling at each other - they're together!


Yeay, lads together in the car! Bodie telling Doyle to "Keep your big eyes on that..." *g* Hee - Doyle refusing to hand over their gun, and sounding very northern with it - and just that slight grin when he knows that Bodie's going to put his foot down.


Doyle kills both baddies very efficiently, runs and grabs the guns... and they work together beautifully... Aha - Doyle with a gun down his waistband (hee!) - who was I talking about that with?


Hmmn - Murphy's on call - Priority One... and the lads are checking into a rather nice looking country hotel... Hee - lovely little smile from Bodie as they walk in - what's he seen? What was the girl doing that she put way so quickly?!


And even more hee - Bodie's face when Doyle says they're travellers in tropical fish... and oh, the both of them when they say that the really... didn't mind having to share a... bath... *vbg*


You know, I think they're re-using an awful lot of actors in this ep... *g* Lots of time without the lads - lucky they're being lovely together when we do see them...

Doyle all cross-legged bendy on the bed, cleaning his gun... Bodie automatically goes to sit beside him on his bed too... Hee, Bodie all impressed and happy by the scrambler...


Oh... and they're separated again... Waah!

Doyle and Ojuka - all friends, although Doyle dares to speak plainly to Ojuka about his past... "Which of us remains spotless on his road to power?" Ojuka asks, and Doyle looks up, as if he's... as if that makes sense to him, as if he understands it? How many men has Doyle killed already in this ep?

Oh, but Doyle in the bathroom in his white t-shirt... white t-shirt is a good colour on him! *g*


Ah, Bodie palely loitering in the bushes... Doyle in the pink-papered hotel...

Oh, and oh-no, Doyle's trapped - too many men, too many hostages... though he takes his chance and gets a vicious kick in, but...too many men and he's knocked out, and dragged half-awake through the hotel... Luckily he annoyed Parker enough that he's being kept alive for later punishment... which starts in the car...


Bodie's first question when he hears that it's gone wrong is about Doyle... and later "Doyle's in there, you know"... Oh, bless...


And Doyle's winded by that blow, but he manages to figure out a way to escape... fire... oh, and can't you just feel that flame blistering his skin... *cringes*


Bodie lurking behind drainpipes... doing what Cowley's told him so far - waiting... At least, until he decides not to... *g*

Eeeh - Doyle manages to break free just as Parker goes back in to kill him - saves himself, and brings Bodie running and shooting into the fray... Doyle takes a moment to appease his own temper before wading into the other fray...

Oh, and bless - Bodie wasn't talking about Ojuka... and the look between them... just... *sighs*


(And Doyle's tucked his gun into his waistband again!)


And then Bodie's smile as he's free to join Doyle again at last...


...and his voice so soft asking "What?"... *sighs more happily*


It's still not quite the same sort of joyful camaraderie as the earlier seasons - they're somehow older, somewhat weary, perhaps... but they're together again in this one... and that's much better... *g*

Comments

[sc-fossil.livejournal.com]

They're definitely together and when they're not, they're on the same wave length I think. It's a great episode if only for the clear message that Bodie will do what he needs to do to keep Doyle safe. Even after Doyle's saved his life and knows how to keep himself safe. They need each other, clearly. That's what I get from this episode. Together, they're a formidable force.

Thanks!

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

They're excellent together, aren't they... *sighs happily*

[msmoat.livejournal.com]

Yeah, of course we all love Ojuka. Well, I do, at any rate. (I don't see the weariness in this one, but then it was filmed in the second to last filming block, so maybe that accounts for it.) They are very much together, I'd say. And they seem to be having a great deal of fun. All their scenes at the hotel are among my favorites of the series.*g*

Thank you for the lovely photos to go with the comments!

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

They're not as weary in this one, but compared to their Season 1-2 joi d'vivre I think they really do seem so, all through the end of Season 3 and Season 4... Perhaps they lost momentum a bit when they had the break when LC broke his ankle... and as you say, they're coming to the end of something they'd both been wanting to escape for a while (presuming the media reporting of that is true)... Kind of sad too, but...

... if I wasn't at work I'd watch sc_fossil's Older Lads vid again to cheer me up... Hmmn, maybe some older lads fic compiled would help... *g*

[sunray45.livejournal.com]

I love reading your reviews with the piccies. Some great little scenes between the Lads in this.

Did you notice after Bodie had crashed the car and Doyle had shot the two gunmen, Doyle comes back to the car where Ojuka congratulates him. There seems to be a bit of a mix up as to whether they will shake hands - they don't.

Thanks for this.

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Hee - I did see that with their hands! I love that they left in little moments like that though, cos they're just the things that happen in real life that are so... well, they just do! The world doesn't work as smoothly as Hollywood wants us to believe, so yeay for our Pros! *vbg*

[constant-muse.livejournal.com]

I'm so glad you posted this.
So many lovely moments, sigh. I particularly liked Bodie being positively tender with Doyle when he left the hotel to go on surveillance. Usually in any given Pros scene the lads are together, or they're solo, we don't often get to see these parting gestures in between.

But, ahem, isn't there a favourite Pros character missing from your review? One who has more lines in this ep. than in all the others put together? Murphy-ism I call it. Still, decorative as Murph is, I didn't find him as interesting when he's not interacting with the lads. I see this was filmed straight after 'Foxhole', which might explain the high Murphy content.

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Lol - Murphy's not my favourite, I'm afraid, I just really don't see the fuss. In fact he annoys me in fic when he's made out to be the lads' best friend etc so often... so he climbed a chimney with Bodie once, and they exchanged words in another ep - that's about it for B/D - M communications! There's more canon for Doyle and Benny as mates, or for Doyle and Cook, but no, it's always Murphy who's their best friend! *headdesk*

Okay, I feel better now - cheers! *vbg*

And yes, good point about the parting moments - the other one I remember is from Servant of Two Masters, where they part at the car to go their separate ways... "Don't talk to any strange men..." Bodie says... *vbg*

[callistosh65.livejournal.com]

Love this episode - for the 'fish' scene alone..*g* And there's an ease to the partnership now that just shines through - and that is some intense partner worry we get to see from Bodie too.

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

They are beautifully... settled now, aren't they - just knowing that everything is right, and everything is forever... *g*

[schnuffi.livejournal.com]

Yup, it's one of my fav episodes indeed. So much flirting going on between our lads. And they do use only two of the three rooms they rented *G* Too bad Cowley has other plans with Bodie. And he was so happy to get a night with Doyle, bah! Anyway, Doyle's Bodie's big eyes angelfish and so he disregards Cowley's orders and goes in for the rescue. I love insubordinate Bodie *G* Yup, definitely a fav and the priapismic monster is an extra bonus. Especially as Bodie says "This is your priapismic monster" *BG*

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Hee - yes! It's the way he says your priapismic monster, isn't it... *sighs happily*

[snailbones.livejournal.com]

I love the things you pick out:

white t-shirt is a good colour on him!

Oh totally agree with you there, and I think you're right about the picture of a crushed Dalek - can't think what else it could be *hg*

Lovely piccies too, thank you.

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Hee! It's so fun doing the ProsWatch - I end up watching twice, once while it's actually on, to do the commentary as I watch, and then again to get screencaps - and I quite often see new things when I'm screencapping, like the Dalek picture! *vbg*

[biani.livejournal.com]

Such a wonderful episode, slashy, beautiful lads, the looks they constantly share... And once again proof that Cowley loves to touch Bodie whenever and whereever he can :-).

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Eep, I didn't write back to you! I'm so sorry! Because I would totally have argued about the idea of Cowley wanting to touch Bodie more than he touches Doyle, but now I'd have to go back and re-watch it to see where you're talking about! Cowley's quite touchy with everyone though, I've noticed - definitely not just Bodie! *g*