Lazy Sunday
Apr. 2nd, 2006 08:39 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jetpack_monkeyYeah, I'm at work. Yeah, I have actual work to do. No, I don't have enough to fill the day. I like my Sunday-Thursday schedule, though. Makes the week go by faster.
Time to catch up on my fandom posts...
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midnightfae's education in all things Buffyverse, we caught "Fear Itself" and "Wild at Heart" (skipping "Beer Bad," save our dear Parker Abrams receiving that concussion). midnightfae really likes horror films in the way that they were meant to be liked -- she grips onto something so tightly you're afraid she might break it. Sometimes it's my arm. It's exceedingly cute. After all the nastiness, though, she really enjoyed the payoff. "Who's a little fear demon? Who's a little fear demon?" "Wild at Heart" is a difficult episode to watch, since they basically had to compress an entire Oz-arc into one episode, but they pulled it off. Poor Willow.
Also, apparently there are not enough Willow icons to satiatemidnightfae's appetites.
Still playing catch-up.diannelamerc hooked me up with the season through 2x13 and I've been watching a couple episodes every weekend. This season's a little... huh. I like it. It's quality still, but... huh. There's an awful lot going on and not all of it makes a hell of a lot of sense. Wallace being gone for like, five episodes was really tough on me -- tougher than I'd anticipated (although the resulting lack of Jackie was happy).
"My Mother the Fiend" - Veronica tracking down her mother's history is an interesting plotline, especially given the show's huge undertone about genetic predisposition (we are our parents, for better or for worse). Good to know that she was actually a decent human being back in the day. Now-principal Van Clemmons is one slippery mofo, and I respect him for that. Also nice to see a little Buffyverse reunion for Charisma Carpenter and Alyson Hannigan. Wacky fun.
Still, wtf? Trina is the illegitimate prom baby of the deaf lunchlady and the school principal? Can we get a little stirring soap opera music in, stage left? And Meg is having Duncan's baby? Oy. I'm just glad they didn't go with the alternate ending that would have complicated things even more...
"One Angry Veronica" - Dude. The Todd was in this episode playing... The Todd, essentially. The Todd with hat. "Dude's got some serious ups, yo!" Love that the episode stayed true to the origins of its title -- it really was Twelve Angry Men with a compressed running time and a Neptune cast, down to the Lee J. Cobb character. Good to see Officer Leo again during Keith's investigation of the department, although under the circumstances... I understand that he had the best intentions, but what normally decent character is going to do something stupid and illegal next? Mac? Wallace? Backup?
Oh, and Meg tragically dies off-screen... and they call Keith. Um, what?
P.S. Logan Echolls, you are an idiot.
P.P.S. Welcome back, Wallace.
"Donut Run" - I usually call this stuff early, but Veronica had me fooled. Hardcore. Of course, I should've seen it coming, but Rob Thomas did something smart -- he had her lying to Keith's face. Not that she hasn't done it before, but over a major felony charge? Damn. Veronica is one devoted girlfriend, though. If Lucy Lawless, Warrior FBI Agent comes back for another appearance, she just might be screwed. You get the impression, though, that we're supposed to read into Lucy's character what Veronica might someday become? I could see it, given the proper events...
Not sure how much I can make sense of the ending, though. The detective I get, but Celeste's assistant? Where does she come in?
Poor Lamb. So much pressure, so few brains.
I don't like that Keith and Veronica are at odds now, but his whole bit about not being able to survive without her shocked me and made perfect sense at once. Keith's a good man in a corrupt world, and he's not perfect. Veronica holds him up more than either of them realize.
Time to catch up on my fandom posts...
Continuing
midnightfae's education in all things Buffyverse, we caught "Fear Itself" and "Wild at Heart" (skipping "Beer Bad," save our dear Parker Abrams receiving that concussion). midnightfae really likes horror films in the way that they were meant to be liked -- she grips onto something so tightly you're afraid she might break it. Sometimes it's my arm. It's exceedingly cute. After all the nastiness, though, she really enjoyed the payoff. "Who's a little fear demon? Who's a little fear demon?" "Wild at Heart" is a difficult episode to watch, since they basically had to compress an entire Oz-arc into one episode, but they pulled it off. Poor Willow.Also, apparently there are not enough Willow icons to satiate
midnightfae's appetites.Still playing catch-up.
diannelamerc hooked me up with the season through 2x13 and I've been watching a couple episodes every weekend. This season's a little... huh. I like it. It's quality still, but... huh. There's an awful lot going on and not all of it makes a hell of a lot of sense. Wallace being gone for like, five episodes was really tough on me -- tougher than I'd anticipated (although the resulting lack of Jackie was happy)."My Mother the Fiend" - Veronica tracking down her mother's history is an interesting plotline, especially given the show's huge undertone about genetic predisposition (we are our parents, for better or for worse). Good to know that she was actually a decent human being back in the day. Now-principal Van Clemmons is one slippery mofo, and I respect him for that. Also nice to see a little Buffyverse reunion for Charisma Carpenter and Alyson Hannigan. Wacky fun.
Still, wtf? Trina is the illegitimate prom baby of the deaf lunchlady and the school principal? Can we get a little stirring soap opera music in, stage left? And Meg is having Duncan's baby? Oy. I'm just glad they didn't go with the alternate ending that would have complicated things even more...
"One Angry Veronica" - Dude. The Todd was in this episode playing... The Todd, essentially. The Todd with hat. "Dude's got some serious ups, yo!" Love that the episode stayed true to the origins of its title -- it really was Twelve Angry Men with a compressed running time and a Neptune cast, down to the Lee J. Cobb character. Good to see Officer Leo again during Keith's investigation of the department, although under the circumstances... I understand that he had the best intentions, but what normally decent character is going to do something stupid and illegal next? Mac? Wallace? Backup?
Oh, and Meg tragically dies off-screen... and they call Keith. Um, what?
P.S. Logan Echolls, you are an idiot.
P.P.S. Welcome back, Wallace.
"Donut Run" - I usually call this stuff early, but Veronica had me fooled. Hardcore. Of course, I should've seen it coming, but Rob Thomas did something smart -- he had her lying to Keith's face. Not that she hasn't done it before, but over a major felony charge? Damn. Veronica is one devoted girlfriend, though. If Lucy Lawless, Warrior FBI Agent comes back for another appearance, she just might be screwed. You get the impression, though, that we're supposed to read into Lucy's character what Veronica might someday become? I could see it, given the proper events...
Not sure how much I can make sense of the ending, though. The detective I get, but Celeste's assistant? Where does she come in?
Poor Lamb. So much pressure, so few brains.
I don't like that Keith and Veronica are at odds now, but his whole bit about not being able to survive without her shocked me and made perfect sense at once. Keith's a good man in a corrupt world, and he's not perfect. Veronica holds him up more than either of them realize.
