Oct. 6th, 2019

rionaleonhart: the mentalist: lisbon, with time counting down, makes an important call. (it's been an honour)
Gus: You know how fire's attracted to me.
Shawn: Can you blame it? Man, look at you!

I've just finished the third season of Psych!

'Tuesday the 17th' is all about Shawn being jealous because there's another boy Gus likes. Gus even calls him out on it: 'You're trying to interpret everything as creepy because you're jealous of Jason.'

Oh, Lassiter has so many feelings about his ex-wife!

Interestingly melancholy tone to the end of that episode. 'Tuesday the 17th' generally feels a little more serious than most Psych episodes, even if Gus attempts to defeat a murderer by throwing a pool noodle at him. (The episode that follows, 'An Evening with Mr Yang', is also pretty serious for Psych.)

'Tuesday the 17th' feels a lot like a potential Dark Pictures Anthology game, actually. It sort of makes me want a choose-your-own-adventure fic in the style of a Dark Pictures game, narrated by the Curator. Gus, Shawn, Juliet, Lassiter and Vick find themselves in a horror situation, and, depending on your choices, any combination of them can survive or die. But it seems far too ambitious to attempt.

'An Evening with Mr Yang': according to Gus, Shawn hit on an eighty-year-old woman. My 'Shawn is entirely up for it with much older women' suspicion holds true.

Shawn is so, so upset and violated to realise that a serial killer broke into his office to screw with him. It's really interesting to see him like this; he's been afraid before, he's been pissed off, but this is something completely new.

'An Evening with Mr Yang' is a very traumatic episode for Shawn, and I, predictably, am highly in favour of this. I said in my first Psych entry that I didn't like Shawn because he wasn't traumatised enough; evidently the writers travelled forward in time, saw my complaint and decided to fix it. I'd already started to like him, guys, but I appreciate the effort!

Gus is just there on Shawn's date! Shawn just brought him along! You're not fooling anyone, Shawn; we all know you have Gus third-wheel your dates because that way it's kind of like you're dating Gus.
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