Ok...first..for easy stuff I guess you could say.. The case was cool. I liked that it was like DaVinci Code with all the clues and everything. And they even acknowledged it was like DaVinci code. Rick in that sword fight was awesome..too bad Kate didn't see it. Few sweet little moments between them would have been good, but overall I'm ok with it. Rick did make that remark about that not being how he wanted to go to a chapel with Kate. I like little things like that. I liked the episode overall.
Now to the..well what is ticking me off a bit.
So we see the apartment. It doesn't look too bad. Pi seemed to be trying really hard..as was Martha. Rick was not happy. Yes he was slightly...snippy at times, but he's still in shock over all this that Alexis has dumped on him. And really. He's an overprotective father..other things have taken him a little while to work through, and those previous things weren't as big as her moving in with a somewhat questionable guy. At least we know he has a job now. I think Rick was trying..he's just very worried about her. He did offer them a couch, only to have Alexis snap at him over it. Then later Martha tears into him about how she and Alexis are both mad at him over how he acted at the dinner. He did make a few cracks, but he wasn't as bad as Martha made him out to be.
Now...to what is really ticking me off.
Alexis is on very, very, very thin ice with me at this point. Paper thin, and it is starting to crack. She has turned into an arrogant, smug, nasty little brat. Yes Rick messed up - and I will get that to in a minute - but there at the end of the episode, how she wouldn't even let him in the apartment and then shut the door in his face when he was trying to start to make things right..she was deliberately hurting him. She has claimed that she is an adult in other talks with Rick, like when she was moving out. Well she sure as hell isn't acting like one. She is acting like a spoiled brat having a temper tantrum. She needs to grow up and deal with stuff like an adult, and not be petty. She was mean and petty to Rick tonight. They have talked out other problems with ice cream in the past...I don't think the ice cream was supposed to magically make things better, but they would have ice and talk out other things. I see him saying that about ice cream as another olive branch from him to get things back to normal between them. That he is willing - like he said - to make things better. She just threw that back in his face...she is trying to make him suffer and punish him since she thinks he did her wrong first. ARghhhhh. I am really annoyed with her right now.
If she has been so upset and hurt because Rick didn't tell her about the engagement himself - and that is a completely dumbass move on the part of the writers there...The Rick they have established over the first five seasons would not have done that..it is just bullshit to add drama since things are settled with Rick and Kate - then she should have said something sooner, instead of letting it fester and build up like she has done. Again, the grown up thing to do. She hasn't been shy about telling him when he's upset her in the past..like when she showed up at the police station and ripped his head off for daring to check out the violin teacher. Yes it sucks that she found out from Martha during a call...but sheesh. She needs to get over it by now. She has to realize that Rick wasn't trying to hurt her - we still don't know exactly when she left for Costa Rica..at least I don't think we do..maybe she was on her way there when they got engaged. Maybe Martha spilled the news too soon before Rick had the chance. There is still too much we don't know because of skipping those 2 months. Alexis knows her dad and knows that he can be clueless about some things at times, or that he doesn't always pick up on things..she should have been the adult she keeps insisting she is and talk to him sooner about what upset her. And Martha plays some part in this mess too. She's the one that told Alexis..she seems oblivious to how Alexis is hurting Rick but she is quick to point out what Rick is doing wrong in the situation. He is the parent and he is older, but the way Alexis has been acting is not right or acceptable. She was raised better than this. She is being disrespectful to her dad..who is paying for her to go to college.
I was trying to keep an open mind with everything tied to Pi. Yes he has annoyed me, but he has seemed harmless enough overall. I tried to have an open mind about the relationship that maybe she truly does care for him and is just rushing into things. Well...after her little snit there at the end, it really seems like she is just using him as a pawn to hurt and tick off Rick. Even if she has some kind of feelings for him, she is still using him to hurt her dad instead of dealing with her issue with him head on. I'm feeling bad for Pi because of how Alexis is using him. It doesn't seem like she really cares about his feelings with what she is doing, though she is quick to jump down Rick's throat if he even looks at Pi wrong. She said that Pi didn't deserve how Rick was acting..Pi doesn't deserve what Alexis is doing either. Unless he fully knows what Alexis is doing..in which case he is getting what he signed up for.
I'm just really not liking Alexis right now. For someone that is so smart, she is acting like a complete stupid idiot. This needs to be fixed and fast. He said he was sorry, but that isn't good enough for her. She's in for a rude awakening with life..other people will do things on purpose to hurt her in some way and they won't make any effort to fix things. Rick didn't set out to hurt Alexis..she is trying to hurt him..and she's succeeding. I know I saw where Terri posted some tweet about not attacking Alexis or whatever, but this is a seriously screwed up situation that they didn't need to do. Let the drama come from the cases. I'm tired of pouty Alexis. We've had some form of this nonsense in all 6 episodes so far...and with how things ended tonight, it is going to spill into at least one more episode more than likely. Make it stop already.
And now...for the What the hell moment of the evenings entertainment.. ;)
What the hell is with Alexis questioning if Kate is even the right person for Rick, let alone the engagement??????? Seriously, someone smack some sense into before I try to reach through my tv and shake her. She hasn't had a problem with Kate before and even looked to her as a role model at times. Now she's going to pull this shit? And excuse me..making those nasty little digs - about not knowing if the engagement or even Kate were right - to Rick, while lecturing him on how to accept her relationship, is not accepting the relationship. That was just catty and mean. And what the hell is with her trying to put her relationship with Pi on the same level as Rick and Kate???? Did she hit her head in Costa Rica? Pick some some tropical brain eating disease? What the hell? Rick and Kate have known each other for like five and a half years now, and they have been together as a couple for over a year now. They were together romantically a year before they got engaged. A year. They still don't fully live together. Alexis met Pi, evidently on a banana plantation, and decided to bring him home with her in a matter of just a few weeks. They have known each other maybe a few months - depending on what is really going on with the time line this season..it seems a bit screwy, but whatever - and they jump into living together. There is no way that relationship is in any way at the same level as Rick and Kate. She has rushed into things and she's refusing to even hear that her dad has legitimate concerns because she's basically having a temper tantrum. Such an adult thing to do.
Someone really needs to sit Alexis down and point some stuff out to her...like how her behavior, beyond just moving in with Pi, is really hurting Rick. Kate was trying to offer him some advice and support this episode. Kate could be the one to say something to Alexis.. something along the lines of adult to adult/woman to woman..something like that... but with how Alexis is acting now, she may not want to hear anything from Kate at this point. We haven't seen them really have any interaction this season yet. Alexis might listen to Martha..if Martha would notice Rick's side of the situation. Heck...maybe in the next episode if she ends up at the station, Ryan or Lanie could make some passing remark that gets her to thinking and realizing that she's being a brat. I think there does need to be a talk between Alexis and Kate at some point. I don't see Kate wanting to butt in...she respects Rick's relationship with Alexis..but it could get to a point where she says something because of how upset Rick is. If there had been any long term friends of Alexis that we'd seen who was still around, the the friend could have been the one to talk some sense in to her. Hmm...ohhhh...I just had an idea. In the preview for the next episode, Alexis says that the person she is trying to get off death row is a friend - how the hell does she know someone well enough for them to be a friend in that situation?? - anyway, she called him a friend. Maybe he'll notice things between Alexis and Rick while they are trying to help him and he'll say something to Alexis that will get her thinking. She's lucky to have him for a dad or something like that.
Though it looks like her being mad at Rick isn't going to stop her from running to him for help next episode. I first heard a little about that one a while ago, so I knew it was coming..I just didn't know this mess with Alexis and Rick was coming. It sort of seems like she wants everything on her terms only. Course I don't know exactly how she gets Rick involved..if things are a little better between them first or what. But with how she ended things tonight, I don't know. So she's going to treat him horribly, deliberately hurt him, and then still go running to him when she needs help. Which of course he will give her..she's his daughter. And we already know that he's had an issue with telling people no who aren't as important to him as Alexis. I did briefly see Kate in the preview..though she wasn't with Rick and Alexis..she was on the phone with Rick.
If Alexis doesn't get an attitude adjustment and soon, then she can follow Pi back to Costa Rica or Amsterdam or where ever. I'm almost to the point where I don't want to see her turn up at all. So...not sure how the next episode will go. But there could be the potential for them to ..work things out. I hope. They better. Or Alexis is going to end up being the Pelatne of Castle.
I think I said after last week's episode that I had a feeling that something bad was going to happen tied to Alexis. Not that I wanted that to happen..just that it seemed like things were being set up for that. I still think things with Pi could blow up in her face. If he doesn't fully know about the little...war she is waging against her dad using him, then if Pi somehow finds out, he could get pissed and leave or something. Which, at this point, she would deserve. After he makes a few points about how she was so focused on getting back at her dad for him hurting her by accident, that she didn't give a thought to who she was hurting.