I know said this before but I'm really going to try to make these write-ups shorter from now on. Less explaining the plot pointlessly and also this means less spoilers, not that anyone cares. Party because 'anyone' doesn't apply when there's likely no one reading these.
S05E08 - K-GAS, the Groove-Yard of Solid Gold
And the award for strangest Baywatch episode so far goes to... 'K-GAS, the Groove-Yard of Solid Gold', not that it had much competition. Say K-GAS out loud and it sounds like 'Kick-ass', get it? The whole title is simply the name of a radio station which will most likely only ever appear in this episode.
Only one story this time, it's all about people flooding to the beach trying to win a load cash, the radio station is running a competition. It's a treasure hunt where clues are hidden around the beach. Problem is, these extras are going nuts and almost killing themselves, the clues are often hidden in dangerous places.
Matt
He gets into the idea of winning the money himself.
C.J.
The radio station DJ falls in love with C.J. on first site, this is barely addressed. C.J. is mostly not into winning the money and gets a bit annoyed at Matt for getting into the idea. She says several things about how money isn't important and stuff like that, I guess the show forgot that gambling addiction episode. To be fair, there can be a difference between wanting the money and being addicted to the gambling games themselves.
There's one moment where Matt convinces her that it would be great if they won the money, since they are a couple. This part is simply so the show can do a montage of C.J. fantasising about being rich. However, it's just an excuse to do a Pamela Anderson fashion shoot, it barely conveys the idea of being which at all. This is the highest peak so far of 'hay look, C.J. has big boobs' in the show. We've seen it before but this is the most extreme example so far and feels out of place, like it has nothing to do with the story.
Kaye Morgan
The most interesting thing to happen, as far as canon is concerned, is that Kaye Morgan returns whose actress was still David Hasselhoff's wife in real life, I think. She takes over Jackie Quinn's cafe and renames it. I don't think we'll be seeing much of her and I don't think she'll ever appear in the intro. I like Kaye Morgan but only because she's an old school character, to be honest she's got virtually no personality and hasn't had any character growth since her first appearance when she was a bit of a antagonist. She was a reporter getting in the way, or something. As far as I can remember.
Not a bad episode overall.
S05E09 - Red Wind
This one is OK but I was hoping for more when the premise was laid out for us at the start, as well as seeing a returning character. Oh, also a really nice bit of music at the start.
A hot Santa Ana winds blows in and planets are aligned in a certain way, or something. It's explained that this leads to men getting aggressive, women getting horny and more crazy people coming to the beach to act, umm, crazy. It turns out we're told this literally to explain that these are going to relate to the three main stories. I don't see this episode being laid out in the usual 'A', 'B', 'C' way, the best way to explain is through what each character does.
Matt
Sadly he gets almost nothing to do, a woman in the sea takes off her bikini and throws it at him, sort of beckoning him to come give it back to her. We don't see her naked, of course. That's it, we barely see him again.
Mitch
It's safe to say that has the main story here even though it's not obvious at first. So perhaps I was wrong earlier, maybe the 'A', 'B' story structure is still here, it's just hidden better than usual. Someone who Mitch rescued eleven years ago comes back, wanting to be with him because she's painted this picture in her head that he's a hero. Problem is, she's engaged, so her fiancee is pissed doff with Mitch. Her fiancee is antagonistic at first but it gets fun when Mitch takes him under his wing, trying to teach him to be like him.
An overly stupid montage shows us the fiancee acting dorky, clumsy and stuff. It's over done but but sort of entertaining, even though they don't sell the idea that he's weak, when he's clearly a dude that's in shape. In fact, besides being smaller, he's possibly more ripped than Mitch. This is why we never see him topless.
This doesn't so Mitch's plan be is to go on a date with her (I really should have looked up these characters names) and act like a immature, selfish jerk. This is done in a montage in-which Mitch does so over the top, that I'm not sure if I loved or hated it. Afterwards, I really like the fact that it turns out she likes him even more now, for being free, fun and boyish. It's a joke that I was hoping the show would be. There's a bit more to this story at the end but I'll leave it at that.
Catherine
She gets the second biggest story and it's the most serious, probably one of the most serious stories we've had in quite some time. Catherine gets a bit obsessed over rescuing a little girl from drowning, but it turns out the father has gone a bit mad. She drowned a year ago somewhere else. The fact that there was never anyone else to rescue is revealed later in the story but it's obvious almost straight away. It's quite a heart felt story, though. The father is played by some dude I recognise from something else, a comedy I think, I like him. Catherine really should be given more stories like this, she's the best actor which was shown in her first appearance, before she became a regular. She's also the hottest, somehow. What a combination.
Destiny
Did I say Destiny? Yeah, I couldn't believe it too, they brought back this one off character who I liked, so she's not a one off anymore. I even said at the time that Destiny should be a main character. The great thing is, it turns out she's a regular in Baywatch Nights, which is a spin-off show. So I'll have to watch that, even though I heard it was bad and the premise does indeed sound bad. I doubt it's been remastered though, so I hope I can get decent copies of it.
The first time we see Destiny here is her reuniting with Mitch, since her original story was with him. But then she goes off and we don't see them interact again, which is new but disappointing. Actually it's probably only a bummer because she ends up doing pretty much nothing which is a bit odd. Why bring her back at all? She's there to calm peoples spirits and transmit positive vibes, which boils down to her and a bunch of others just sort of meditating in a circle. That's it, she does nothing else.
C.J.
She's not much better off than Matt, she has a story with Destiny, well, sort of. Well, actually not really at all. Destiny's first meditation scene has some Taro cards blow towards C.J., which reveal that C.J. is their new leader. It seems like this is going to be the story but it leads to absolutely nothing.
Overall, it's an OK episode but when it started, I thought they were doing to go more crazy with it. I was thinking more along the lines of that beer episode of Buffy. Just having people being more wacky would have sufficed, in fact the wackiest character was Mitch but he wasn't effect by the wind, he was acting.
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