I am LOSING MY MIND
I've been laughing about this for like an hour but like
Can we talk about James Roday Rodriguez's obsession with staring directly into the camera lens during photos?
This is by all means NOT all if them, but it IS enough to get my point across
WHY DOES HE INSIST ON STARING INTO OUR SOULS????
Like, it's a good tactic SOMETIMES, but holt shit PLEASE look past the camera ONCE I am BEGGING
I CANT DO THIS PLEASEHSISHSJKSJSGDJWJ
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Who ya gonna call? (The DID/trans ep)
Ill be honest i was nervous to rewatch this one but turns out it held up better than i thought. I mean, the worst of it is that the DID person is the murderer but that was such a common tv thing back then for procedurals. Every one had to have a DID ep, even though, as Psych points out, its so exceedingly rare. I get it, its a fun concept, but yeah, don’t make them the violent ones when 9 times out of 10 they’re the victims of violent crimes. I will say though, Psych made sure to include they were getting the help they needed and they really didn’t have to.
But what a cool way to show it though, having the other personalities act like ghosts. It feels very poetic. And to have one personality trans is such an interesting layer on top of it. It really can’t get more complicated than that.
This episode also tells us so much about Lassiter! Hes trying desperately to win back his not-yet-ex wife its kind of heartbreaking. We’re starting Psych right at the beginning of Lassiters downfall. He gets separated, has an “affair” with his partner who gets reassigned because ppl found out thanks to Shawn, and i believe its later implied he lost the promotion to captain because of that affair. And then Shawn comes along and he’s solving his cases. I have to wonder though, since we see in this ep how distracted he can be when he has personal issues, if Lassiter isn’t necessarily a bad detective in the beginning but just going through some shit and missing things. It kind of makes me understand why he’s so hostile to Shawn in the beginning. Not that thats any excuse. Just because you’re having a bad day doesn’t mean you get to shit on other ppl’s. And it was fun to see lassiters and Juliets miscommunication. It was nice to see them easing into their partnership, and allowing friction, particularly:
What was henry going to do if that kid just started wailing on shawn??? Honestly, probably would have tried to teach shawn how to hit back and would’ve got him pummeled.
Its kind of funny that in this ep Shawns all this guy believes in ghosts, hes crazy, when in later eps he’s so excited about aliens and bigfoot haha. I can only conclude Shawn doesn’t really believe in anything supernatural but definitely wants to. I think it would have been better if Shawn didn’t think the guy was crazy right off the bat but maybe had a stalker, or intruder. (P.s were the writers implying Shawn was right from the beginning and they were crazy, or was that just poor wording??)
Sidenote: Shawn just casually spoke german and seemingly understood her response. He probably simply knew enough to impress her, but still. He does this a few times i think in the series where he lets it slip how much he actually knows.
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Shawn Spencer Whump | Psych
1x02 Spellingg Bee - Motorcycle crash, hospital, knee brace, limp, bumps into bin, pain
1x03 Woman Seeking Dead Husband - Held at gunpoint x2
1x05 Lives - Held at gunpoint
1x06 Weekend Warriors - Held at gunpoint
1x15 Scary Sherry - Nightmare
2x02 65 Million Years Off - Shot at, scared
2x03 Psy vs Psy - Hostage
2x04 Zero to Murder in 60s - Brief boo-boo (chair race sabatoged)
2x05 And Down the Stretch... - Childhood bully
2x07 If You're So Smart... - Bullied by children
2x09 Bounty Hunters! - Handcuffed, jumps off boat, held at gunpoint
2x13 Lights, Camera… - Nearly nailed to death (38:00), character funeral
2x15 Black and Tan - Sad (18:30)
2x16 Shawn (and Gus) of the Dead - Mummy 'curse'
3x01 Ghosts - [Flashback; emo/arrested] Increasingly angry about mothers' return, confrontation, heartbroken
3x04 Greatest Adventure in the History of Basic Cable - Shot at, chased x3, restrained, held at helicopter-point and gunpoint, betrayed
3x06 There Might Be Blood - Held at gunpoint, dangerous confrontation
3x08 Gus Walks Into A Bank - Held back, worried, bank hostage, tight gus hug, manhandled
3x10 Six Feet Under the Sea - Held at gunpoint
3x11 Lassie Did a Bad, Bad Thing - Punched unconscious, hostage, held at gunpoint, pistol whipped, fatherly care, nearly passes out (40:15)
3x12 Earth, Wind And… - Runs into burning building, oxygen mask, held at firepoint, caught in burning building, briefly thought dead, coughing/smoke inhalation
3x13 Any Given Friday Night at 10PM - 'Abducted'
3x14 Truer Lies - Held at gunpoint
3x15 Tuesday the 17th - 'Trips', held at 'knifepoint'
3x16 An Evening with Mr. Yang - Angry, mom held hostage, scared, heartbroken
4x01 Extradition: British Colombia - Held at gunpoint x2
4x02 He Dead - Daddy issues
4x03 High Noon-ish - Stampede/pushed, falls into mineshaft, pain, held at gunpoint, trapped
4x04 Devil is in the Details… - Confession
4x05 Shawn Gets the Yips - Scared/dumb ("bomb" on treadmill)
4x06 Bollywood Homicide - Slapped (39:15)
4x07 High Top Fade Out - Held at gunpoint, shot at
4x09 Shawn Takes A Shot in the Dark - Shot, abducted/missing, bleeding, pain, knocked unconscious, choked, jumps on moving car, weak, sling
4x10 You Can't Handle This Episode - Shot at
4x12 A Very Juliet Episode - Held at gunpoint, punched x2, knocked down x2, kicked
4x16 Mr. Yin Presents - Nightmare, angry, heartbroken x2, fatherly love
5x01 Romeo & Juliet & Juliet - Held at gunpoint, falls through window, kicked through wall, insane dodging skillz, knocked down, sore
5x03 Not Even Close, Encounters - Held at gunpoint/abducted by 'aliens'
5x04 Chivalry is Not Dead - Hanging upside down (tomato face), poisoned, collapse, hospital, unconscious
5x07 Ferry Tale - Held at gunpoint x2, hostage, kicked in the face, tear gas inhalation, restrained, trips/tumbles down a hill
5x09 One, Maybe Two, Ways Out - Seriously heartbroken
5x12 Dual Spires - Trapped in burning house
5x13 We'd Like to Thank the Academy - Held at gunpoint x2
5x16 Yang 3 in 2D - Held at shotgunpoint, scared
6x01 Shawn Rescues Darth Vader - Jumps off roof
6x02 Last Night Gus - Hungover, stressed, jumps from balcony, shot at
6x04 Amazing Psych-Man & Tap-Man - Trips, found unconscious, punched, kicked x2, thrown, sand to the eye, exhausted
6x06 Shawn Interrupted - Mental patient, hands covered, knocked unconscious, restrained, held at gunpoint
6x09 Neil Simons Lover Retreat - Robbed, heartbroken x2 (29:35), smile through the pain (42:00)
6x10 Indiana Shawn and the Temple - Hand stuck, slapped, manhandled, held at gunpoint, 'crying'
6x13 Let's Doo-Wap it Again - Appendicitis, collapse, hospital drama-queen, held at gunpoint, drugged, drugs wear off, le rigor mortis, le pain, le kitty cat!
6x16 Santabarbaratown - Held at knifepoint, knocked unconscious, black-eye
7x01 Santabarbaratown 2 - Scared, angry, thrown, active mine, held at gunpoint x3, Lassie love
7x02 Juliet Takes A Luvvah - Traumatized (27:00)
7x03 Lassie Jerky - Shot at, held at gunpoint
7x04 No Country For Two Old Men - Held at gunpoint
7x06 Cirque Du Soul - Pain from pull-ups
7x07 Deez Nups - Huge confession, heartbroken
7x08 Right Turn Or Left For Dead - Insomnia, regret, depressed, head slammed into glass, bruise, concussion, denial, stabbed, nearly hit by truck, headache, tackled
7x11 Office Space - Poked x2, trips, bloody nose, scared, framed
7x14 No Trout About It - Painful yoga, choked, fired
8x01 Lock, Stock… - Held at gunpoint, "restrained"
8x05 COG Blocked - Jumpscared out of hammock, painful poke, body decked by cane, held at gunpoint
8x07 Shawn & Gus Truck Things Up - Hand squeezed painfully
8x09 Nightmare on State Street - Slapped, zombie
8x10 The Break-Up - Nervous, held at gunpoint, shot at, emotional
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So, to be honest, spelling bee is an ep that had to grow on me. It just always seemed too outlandish of a crime i think, idk. But the ep does show us more about shawns dysfunctional relationship with his father and Gus’s motivation to participate in Psych. Not to mention Juliet.
Gus is highly intelligent but in a way that feels he never utilized it properly. He has the mental fortitude to become a doctor if he wanted, he has the drive and the willpower it takes to become invested (as shown with how deep his knowledge of the bee and other subjects goes), yet he never did. We see in the pilot how little he actually cares for his “real” job. It pays the bills, thats it. At the end of the day, Gus plays it safe, and you get the feeling in the pilot that he’s not happy with where he’s at. He’s stagnant. Unfulfilled. Just as lost as Shawn.
In a lot of ways, they’re similar with that aspect. Both him and shawn have a variety of interests and skills, yet neither seemed to pursue a career in those fields. In shawns case, in his own words “he mastered it and moved on.” He got bored (ahem, ADHD). But i think in Gus’s case, he was too afraid to try. Or maybe nothing quite gave him enough of a spark to want to. As everyone later points out, Gus has a shit ton of potential that never seemed properly used.
Until Shawn comes around. And he needs him. He needs all of Gus’s knowledge and skills. He even finds the clues that the doctor was fake and Jari was sitting next to the kid with the inhaler. And its fun. He’s excited. Psych brings him joy.
As for our intro to Juliet- fantastic. We learn so much from so little screen time. She can banter with Shawn easily, and isn’t afraid to give pushback or to give Lassiter pointers (which considering she’s like brand new and he’s a bit of a prick is saying something), and she trusts her instincts to follow through with Shawns advice. Shes a good cop. Almost the antithesis to Lassiter. Shes warm, friendly, and trusting to his cold, distant, and weary.
Side note:
James motorcycle face makes me lol every goddamn time
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