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quarterturn) wrote2008-05-27 08:50 pm
quarterturn) wrote2008-05-27 08:50 pm
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The tornado that hit south of us pretty much obliterated an entire town. I guess Bush is supposed to be here Thursday to do an assessment; he's already declared it an emergency zone. :-/
In less depressing news (I always feel a little weird following something like that up with frivolous TV talk. Double :-/) I watched some TV.
So, the chick from 300 is still hot, huh? And the kid from Heroes is apparently a lot hotter than I thought he was in Heroes. And I still don't get the appeal of Summer Glau. Not that I have anything against her, but my brother thinks she's amazing and I just don't see it.
In less shallow observations, hey, this a pretty decent show. I'm kind of amazed by the special effects, not that they're blockbuster movie level, but pretty good for a network show. You know how when the machines take their skin off, they're just those shiny metallic things underneath with red eyes and skull heads? Yeah, those terrify me. A lot. The night I watched the season straight through, I had a dream that one of those things was after me and I had to save my family. I woke up thinking I was having a heart attack.
Definitely a few things that I was very "...what?" about, like the girl that killed herself. I was far, far too thick to understand that the paintings were indications she was sleeping with the guidance counselor until I read some message boards, but that just seemed like a really intricate storyline that didn't pay off. I know they wanted John to come out of it with a more defined sense of right and wrong and more determination to make things right, but still, it seemed really odd that it went into so much detail for that payoff. Also the girl at John's school with the mysterious past, what is going on with that?
ALSO I DID NOT KNOW DEAN WINTERS WAS IN THIS. Oh Ryan O'Reily, you will always be my favorite. I also did not know Penny from Lost is in it, or Brian Austin Green, haha. But he's decent! I was so shocked.
I LOVE THIS SHOW. Seriously, I've heard people talking it up for a while now, but I was not prepared to like it as much as I did. As I watched it, this was my train of thought:
"Mitchell is great. I like him the best."
"George is good, but I still like Mitchell the best."
"Mitchell wears leather bracelets, he is the best."
"Annie is cute, but Mitchell's still the best."
"SLDKJSDLKJSDFLKSDFSJSD I LOVE GEORGE AND MITCHELL CANNOT COMPARE." (This occurred while watching the scene with his ex-girlfriend and his ex-girlfriend's boyfriend, and continued to grow in 'SLKSFLKJSDFLKJSD'-ishness through the scene in the basement of the hospital. Russell Tovey acted the shit out of those scenes.)
I also very much like Herrick, and was so pleased to discover that![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
hackthis, one of my favorite authors in a handful of fandoms, wrote a Herrick/Mitchell fic, you can't ride the concept of the horse. (It also contains some Mitchell/George, and I certainly can't complain about that.)
We have to wait until next year for more of this? COME ON.
Ok, finally got caught up on this, and holy shit. It got GOOD! I stopped watching five or six episodes in because I just could not deal with the crappy writing and acting, but I forced myself to finish the series out last night and by the last few episodes, I was really disappointed there wasn't more.
The biggest surprise for me was that I actually started liking Beth, or at least actively disliking her. She really got her crap together - or she did in some episodes. Which brings me to my biggest complaint, which would be shoddy characterization in some episodes and not in others. Sometimes Beth is brave and independent and doesn't take Mick's shit, and in the next episode she'll be helpless and confused and fawning over him. Not that people don't fluctuate, but this was a little much. I was so, so giddy over the exchange when Mick asked if he should be jealous re: a situation I don't really recall, and she said something to the effect of, "Of course you should be jealous; even if I'm not attracted to him, your jealousy makes me feel desirable." I mean, it was said with some obvious humor, but it was so honest.
And when she kind of put it out there about the two of them, I thought it was great. He really was the one dragging his feet and sending her signals but not following up on them, and he needed a little nudge, he needed for her to say, look, I'm not doing this dance with you forever, make up your mind.
On the other hand, that is basically the entire reason I didn't like her in the first half of the season - how she jerked both Mick and Josh around. By the time she and Mick went to New York, it was obvious she didn't want to be with Josh anymore, and she was either staying because it was comfortable/familiar or she just hadn't gotten up the courage to leave. Either way, it was ridiculously unfair to Josh, and pretty shitty for Mick, too.
I am PSYCHED that they've been using Josef more often, but I kind of feel like they haven't figured out exactly what they want to be doing with him yet. So far he's kind of been just Mr. Exposition, or he pops up just to solve the problem of the week (what's the term for that? Deus ex machina? I have that in my head but I'm not sure it's right.)
But uh. Him re-siring Mick? YESSSSSSSSSS. Absolutely yes. Thank you, writers. Thank you Mick and Josef for being so unbelievably hot right there that I kind of thought I was dreaming up a particularly good slash story.
The Coraline thing...eh. I could take it or leave it. The family of royal vampires was a little far-fetched, but I do like the idea they've set up for a clan of more powerful vampires out there somewhere.
I wasn't concerned in the least when I heard Moonlight wasn't being renewed, but now I'm kind of disappointed. I've heard there may be a move to a different network? Let's hope.
Good GOD this has gotten long. I leave you with adorable macros that have come across my flist at some point recently.
Also, new Heroes kink meme! Why is there never a kink meme in any fandom I participate in except Heroes? Have all the kinks been written in SPN? I kind of wouldn't doubt it. >.>
In less depressing news (I always feel a little weird following something like that up with frivolous TV talk. Double :-/) I watched some TV.
So, the chick from 300 is still hot, huh? And the kid from Heroes is apparently a lot hotter than I thought he was in Heroes. And I still don't get the appeal of Summer Glau. Not that I have anything against her, but my brother thinks she's amazing and I just don't see it.
In less shallow observations, hey, this a pretty decent show. I'm kind of amazed by the special effects, not that they're blockbuster movie level, but pretty good for a network show. You know how when the machines take their skin off, they're just those shiny metallic things underneath with red eyes and skull heads? Yeah, those terrify me. A lot. The night I watched the season straight through, I had a dream that one of those things was after me and I had to save my family. I woke up thinking I was having a heart attack.
Definitely a few things that I was very "...what?" about, like the girl that killed herself. I was far, far too thick to understand that the paintings were indications she was sleeping with the guidance counselor until I read some message boards, but that just seemed like a really intricate storyline that didn't pay off. I know they wanted John to come out of it with a more defined sense of right and wrong and more determination to make things right, but still, it seemed really odd that it went into so much detail for that payoff. Also the girl at John's school with the mysterious past, what is going on with that?
ALSO I DID NOT KNOW DEAN WINTERS WAS IN THIS. Oh Ryan O'Reily, you will always be my favorite. I also did not know Penny from Lost is in it, or Brian Austin Green, haha. But he's decent! I was so shocked.
I LOVE THIS SHOW. Seriously, I've heard people talking it up for a while now, but I was not prepared to like it as much as I did. As I watched it, this was my train of thought:
"Mitchell is great. I like him the best."
"George is good, but I still like Mitchell the best."
"Mitchell wears leather bracelets, he is the best."
"Annie is cute, but Mitchell's still the best."
"SLDKJSDLKJSDFLKSDFSJSD I LOVE GEORGE AND MITCHELL CANNOT COMPARE." (This occurred while watching the scene with his ex-girlfriend and his ex-girlfriend's boyfriend, and continued to grow in 'SLKSFLKJSDFLKJSD'-ishness through the scene in the basement of the hospital. Russell Tovey acted the shit out of those scenes.)
I also very much like Herrick, and was so pleased to discover that
hackthis, one of my favorite authors in a handful of fandoms, wrote a Herrick/Mitchell fic, you can't ride the concept of the horse. (It also contains some Mitchell/George, and I certainly can't complain about that.)We have to wait until next year for more of this? COME ON.
Ok, finally got caught up on this, and holy shit. It got GOOD! I stopped watching five or six episodes in because I just could not deal with the crappy writing and acting, but I forced myself to finish the series out last night and by the last few episodes, I was really disappointed there wasn't more.
The biggest surprise for me was that I actually started liking Beth, or at least actively disliking her. She really got her crap together - or she did in some episodes. Which brings me to my biggest complaint, which would be shoddy characterization in some episodes and not in others. Sometimes Beth is brave and independent and doesn't take Mick's shit, and in the next episode she'll be helpless and confused and fawning over him. Not that people don't fluctuate, but this was a little much. I was so, so giddy over the exchange when Mick asked if he should be jealous re: a situation I don't really recall, and she said something to the effect of, "Of course you should be jealous; even if I'm not attracted to him, your jealousy makes me feel desirable." I mean, it was said with some obvious humor, but it was so honest.
And when she kind of put it out there about the two of them, I thought it was great. He really was the one dragging his feet and sending her signals but not following up on them, and he needed a little nudge, he needed for her to say, look, I'm not doing this dance with you forever, make up your mind.
On the other hand, that is basically the entire reason I didn't like her in the first half of the season - how she jerked both Mick and Josh around. By the time she and Mick went to New York, it was obvious she didn't want to be with Josh anymore, and she was either staying because it was comfortable/familiar or she just hadn't gotten up the courage to leave. Either way, it was ridiculously unfair to Josh, and pretty shitty for Mick, too.
I am PSYCHED that they've been using Josef more often, but I kind of feel like they haven't figured out exactly what they want to be doing with him yet. So far he's kind of been just Mr. Exposition, or he pops up just to solve the problem of the week (what's the term for that? Deus ex machina? I have that in my head but I'm not sure it's right.)
But uh. Him re-siring Mick? YESSSSSSSSSS. Absolutely yes. Thank you, writers. Thank you Mick and Josef for being so unbelievably hot right there that I kind of thought I was dreaming up a particularly good slash story.
The Coraline thing...eh. I could take it or leave it. The family of royal vampires was a little far-fetched, but I do like the idea they've set up for a clan of more powerful vampires out there somewhere.
I wasn't concerned in the least when I heard Moonlight wasn't being renewed, but now I'm kind of disappointed. I've heard there may be a move to a different network? Let's hope.
Good GOD this has gotten long. I leave you with adorable macros that have come across my flist at some point recently.
Also, new Heroes kink meme! Why is there never a kink meme in any fandom I participate in except Heroes? Have all the kinks been written in SPN? I kind of wouldn't doubt it. >.>