Resolutions Summary

Janeway and Chakotay are stuck on a planet
Janeway: Gawd, what a shithole
Chakotay: Ooh, let's play house!
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Chakotay: Heh heh, just have to add in the jets and then the hot tub's finished!
Janeway: What are you doing?  Oh, you made me my own private bath!
Chakotay: ...bugger
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Chakotay: If you didn't have such a short attention span you'd know that I'm totally hot for you
Janeway: I do not have a short atten - oh, look!  A monkey!
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Chakotay feels up Janeway
Janeway: WTF?
Chakotay: Uhm...
Janeway: Wait, what's going on?
Chakotay: Well...there was once a girl called, um...Chathryn.  A boy called...Jakotay...met her and was totally hot for her.  The End
Janeway: Is that based on a true story?
Chakotay: Yes, in fact -
Janeway: Aaw.  Well, goodnight!
Chakotay: Bugger
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Janeway: Chakotay, I -
Tuvok: Voyager here - we're coming back to get you
Janeway: Woohoo!  Smell ya later, monkey!

Resolutions analysis

As the only episode with (intentional) J/C references, Resolutions is obviously always going to have at least a small place in any J/Cer's heart.  Sexual tension aside, however, I have to admit that it's not reeeally my favourite Voyager episode. 

Good points:

• Tuvok kicking some Vidiian arse.
• Chakotay perving on Kathryn in her towel.
• The inappropriate touching during the storm scenes

Bad points:

• Kathryn being completely impervious to teh hotness
• Some of the banter between Janeway and Chakotay at the start is a bit cheesy
• Despite the title, nothing is really resolved between Janeway and Chakotay - everything sort of hangs in the air after the infamous hand-clasp
• Janeway's voice is quite scary in this.  I'm not really sure why - it just seems different in the later seasons.  Good example is the "What could you be building...and why can't you tell me?!" line.

Ugly points:

• The non-Starfleet clothes.  Really, the wardrobe department must've been having a Get High Friday when they dressed the cast for this episode. Poor Janeway really gets the worst of it in that hideous green all-in-one with the yellow granny waistcoat over it, followed closely by that awful red dress and shoes she wears when the storm hits.  If you don't believe me about the dress...
  *pic*
  ...take another look.  What on earth are those random strips of cloth on the front?  I'm willing to overlook the pyjamas (completely shapeless, but since they're pyjamas I'll let it pass), but the rest is inexcusable.  Chakotay wears a spectacularly ugly Noel Edmonds-esque diamond-patterned waistcoat towards the end. 
• All the scenes with Janeway and the monkey.  What the fuck was all that about?  The monkey comes into shot and suddenly Janeway's manic.  I am not joking when I say that I used to be a bit scared of the spooky "Well, hello there..." line.

Thoughts:

• Apparently Janeway and Chakotay were bitten by insects.  No-one else was, therefore...what was the command team doing at the time?  Dirty dirty!
• Just what happens after the Angry Warrior legend and hand-clasp?  The next shot on the planet is of Janeway gardening the following(?) day.  I'm tempted to make a poor taste joke here involving the term "sowing one's oats", but I won't.
• As he tells the Angry Warrior legend Chakotay's eyes well up.  Aaw - boys who cry!
• When Chakotay fetches the combadges from the shelf there are some extremely ugly artefacts lying there.
• When Kathryn gets up after the massage she really reminds me of Susan Kennedy from Neighbours (back when she had long hair) in those two lines.
• When Kathryn is following Chakotay to the shelter to look at the plans for the boat she does a rather sluttish walk.  The hips are all over the place.
• I'm convinced that the Italian audio for the massage scene is solely responsible for Season 2's PG rating (BBFC).
• Kathryn has no trouble chucking the case over her shoulder and trekking out to the insect traps, so one really wonders why she can barely walk four steps with it when the storm hits.  The only thing she added to it was a specimen from one of the insect traps and, given that she lifted it out with tweezers, it can't be that heavy.

J/C Moments

• Janeway tells Chakotay to call her Kathryn, which he does outside command situations for the rest of the series
• There are numerous significant looks throughout the episode - too many to count
• A lot of banter
• Chakotay gets an eyeful of Janeway wearing nothing but a towel
• Chakotay helps Janeway back to the shelter when she gets caught in a storm and there's much touching - by the end the only reason they're struggling along is because they're clinging to each other
• Chakotay holds Janeway as they shelter under the table
• Chakotay runs Janeway's hair through his hands briefly before pushing it out of the way
• Chakotay gives Janeway a neck massage, which she enjoys a little too much (the phrase "hot under the collar" is wonderfully appropriate here).
• Janeway asks Chakotay to "define parameters [about their relationship]", which is the most ridiculous euphemism for "Do you want to do me?" I've ever heard
• Chakotay tells Janeway a thinly-disguised story about how he wants to do her.  She cries.
• Chakotay and Janeway hold hands.
• Janeway's sad and bitter upon leaving the planet
   

Best line: "Well...excuse me." The quick eye-flick downwards, the husky whisper, being the perfect gentleman and excusing himself...Chakotay is just on fire here.  Even Tuvok would do him after that line.
Worst line: "What's happened to the sky?"  I'm sure that Janeway knows what storm clouds look like.  She is clearly on something non-Starfleet approved in this episode.
                "Do you understand me?" Addressed to a monkey.  Just say no, Janeway! 

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