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* Since the prank war started I’ve been waiting for it to lead to that moment where neither Ben nor Sammy know when the other is joking. Particularly on Ben’s end ’cause his pranks are just that, pranks, but Sammy’s pranks trend more toward fucking with your head.

Ben not only has difficulty working within a partnership because his ended so badly with John, but he also has difficulty with deep interpersonal relationships in general. The only real relationships we’ve seen him in are with his parents [completely skewed in every direction], his sister, John, Sammy, and all his one-night stands. He has deep-seated trust issues. He doesn’t read people well. His trust issues play into his not reading people well. I think it’s sad how much better he could read people last season before John broke his little boot heart.

And he isn’t getting any better. If he had some skill at reading people [not only his one night stands where a more astute observer of humans may have twigged that one of the girls was married] he wouldn’t have read Sammy’s obvious happiness at finding the crackpipe as him having planting it.

* John and Tang is by far my favorite partnership on this show ever.

* Sammy’s issues are getting uglier. And more sad. I have a very small hope that he and Ben will somehow find better footing and get some trust between them.

* If vampire media portrayed vampire attacks in the way they showed that man eating John’s neck last night, fewer people would sexualize them.

I curled into a ball, had my face over my head ducking down to get away from that scene all the way shouting, JOHN JOHN JOHN.

Thank Christ they showed him in the preview. I hate shows that want you to be afraid for the life of the character so they won’t show any clue the next week.

* Lydia. It was another partner themed week. If Lydia only had a life partner to raise that baby with she *might* feel better about being able to be a mom and a cop at the same time. If there were enough people in LAPD to staff the shift, Lydia would never have been put in that position. Lydia — like Ben — doesn’t feel like she has anyone to lean on. Unlike Ben, she can read people, she does trust people to do their jobs, so long as she can see for herself that it’s been done. I’m really curious who the father is. I wonder if its Ochoa’s son. Going back to partner parallels that would be a fantastic one.

* In conclusion, Ben Sherman is a *pussy hound* and it’s going to bite him in the ass sooner than later.

How do I not have any SouthLAnd icons?

ETA: copied from my comment at HDJM