Pretender 1x05: The Paper Clock

[kerravonsen]

More Pretender (sniffle, sniffle). Here, have a Miss Parker icon (yes, it is Miss Parker, well, her feet, anyway).

The thing that sticks in the mind from the A-plot is the cross-dressing taxi driver, Isaac. He's just such fun!

Ah, another cuts-both-ways remark: if you spend your time pretending to be someone you're not, you forget who you are.
Jarod doesn't know who he is, and he absolutely spends way too much time pretending to be other than he is.

Another crumb of information: the face of Jarod's mother.
Ah, the Center: where double-crossing is just part of doing business.

Interesting that Jarod is canny enough to, more than once, be in a position where he has a "home ground" kind of advantage (court security, casino security) and the Center's propensity for carrying guns gets used against them. Indeed, whenever the Center accomplishes anything, its power has not been in its gunpower; for example, money-power paying for information.

Why does Whittaker have a broken wrist?

So, Jarod at the rodeo. Perhaps that was one of those Pretends where Jarod was investigating something and it turned out not to have been foul play after all.

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[astrogirl2.livejournal.com]

The thing that sticks in the mind from the A-plot is the cross-dressing taxi driver, Isaac. He's just such fun!

I do really like it when they give Jarod an off-beat sidekick for an episode. Isaac was great. :)

Ah, the Center: where double-crossing is just part of doing business.

I am constantly amazed at the stuff people at the Centre seem to take casually in stride, as if they were simply normal business practices. :)

Perhaps that was one of those Pretends where Jarod was investigating something and it turned out not to have been foul play after all.

Surely there must have been some. Although it's also reasonable to imagine that he occasionally does fun stuff just to relax in between.

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I guess the reason why I thought it might have been a non-foul-play pretend is that rodeo riding is more dangerous than music conducting, and therefore there might have been a death or accident that he was investigating.

[astrogirl2.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that sounds like a reasonable point to me. :)

[butterflykiki.livejournal.com]

Isaac is another one of those 'quirky' individualists, but he is one of my faves. Largely because Jarod's reaction is so interested and curious, Not Getting It, but willing to listen.

Jarod doesn't know who he is, and he absolutely spends way too much time pretending to be other than he is.

And he hangs on to his idea of family as a talisman to keep himself believing he's more than just a puppet, or someone else's story.

Indeed, whenever the Center accomplishes anything, its power has not been in its gunpower; for example, money-power paying for information.

Yup. Jarod always makes sure to have home-court advantage when he can, and to not be anywhere they'd expect without it being a trap for them, and not him. It's only when he gets surprised that it gets close.


So, Jarod at the rodeo. Perhaps that was one of those Pretends where Jarod was investigating something and it turned out not to have been foul play after all.

Or he just wanted to ahve fun with something. I suspect that most of his flying Pretends that we see in the end credits are just his way of relaxing.

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Largely because Jarod's reaction is so interested and curious, Not Getting It, but willing to listen.
Yeah, he treats cross-dressing with the same interested curiosity as other weird things like ice cream, fake dog poop and silly putty. "In the strange outside world, there are people who cross-dress. I wonder why they do that?"

Or he just wanted to ahve fun with something.
As I said above, since rodeo-riding is more dangerous than music-conducting, he might have been investigating something that turned out to be a pure accident.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Isaac was indeed a fun character. Its a pity that Jarod never makes any connections that last, as he's constantly moving and being someone else. It must be lonely, but he's spent his whole life being lonely.

Great icon! Is that from the first ep where she's on the oil tanker? Perfect text for it (and a great intro for her).

[wrong icon; had to edit]

[kerravonsen]

Great icon! Is that from the first ep where she's on the oil tanker? Perfect text for it
8-) Yes, it is.