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jetpack_monkey) wrote2006-10-05 10:31 am
jetpack_monkey) wrote2006-10-05 10:31 am
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Heroes and Veronica Mars and BSG: The Story So Far
Oh my!
I only caught the last half of this... and I am really glad that I did. I had assumed that the first two episodes would just be the pilot I saw at Comic-Con split up. Turns out that I was wrong. Sure the Grunberg stuff was more or less the same (okay, not a terrorist situation but a serial killer -- way to tie it in, although the nuclear bomb thing is much hazier now), but everything else was new. Plus more Hiro. Poor Hiro.
Also known as the calm before the storm. VM is back, she's fun, she's spunky, she's with her kinda-suddenly-Zen boyfriend Logan, and she has Wallace's roommate crushing on her hardcore. Plus, there's Logan/Dick slash springing up all over the Internets (I haven't seen it, but you know there is).
It was a solid opener -- gives us a good intro to our main characters, establishes a nicely quirky mystery-of-the-week (although it's basically a VM translation of the Buffy opener The Freshman with crooks instead of vampires and sleuthing instead of stakes), and gives us some new faces that I quite liked. I've become a Piz fanboy, even if he does have a really stupid nickname.
Of course, PI-daddy is in trouble, but I suspect that our good buddy Vinnie Van Lowe will save him. I mean, it'd be very Rob Thomas. Hi, here's a jerk... here's a jerk with surprising depth. Here's a jerk with surprising depth and self-destructive tendencies that make you want to slap him despite the depth. This season's PI-daddy arc? All about Vinnie. Just sayin'.
Missed Lamb and Weevil this week, but I'm sure we'll see them next. Oh, and my GOD what is up with the depressing credits of doom? I said it before in someone else's journal -- it's like the Growing Pains version of the VM credits. I mean, the opening scene ended on such an upnote... and then oh discord, oh woe... these are the days of our unappealing earthtones. And I like earthtones (I was just commenting that Marsters looks quite good in them while watching mid-S7 Buffy).
BSG: The Story So Far -- I realize that compressing a miniseries and just under 40 episodes of a sci-fi series with complex arcs is difficult, but you guys couldn't give me just a little more? There were like three things in there that I didn't glean from the general context of my flist and playing in FH -- and I was staying spoiler-free (well, up until the recap... I just don't have time to watch Season 2 before 3 starts on Friday). I guess I'll pick things up as I go.
I only caught the last half of this... and I am really glad that I did. I had assumed that the first two episodes would just be the pilot I saw at Comic-Con split up. Turns out that I was wrong. Sure the Grunberg stuff was more or less the same (okay, not a terrorist situation but a serial killer -- way to tie it in, although the nuclear bomb thing is much hazier now), but everything else was new. Plus more Hiro. Poor Hiro.
Also known as the calm before the storm. VM is back, she's fun, she's spunky, she's with her kinda-suddenly-Zen boyfriend Logan, and she has Wallace's roommate crushing on her hardcore. Plus, there's Logan/Dick slash springing up all over the Internets (I haven't seen it, but you know there is).
It was a solid opener -- gives us a good intro to our main characters, establishes a nicely quirky mystery-of-the-week (although it's basically a VM translation of the Buffy opener The Freshman with crooks instead of vampires and sleuthing instead of stakes), and gives us some new faces that I quite liked. I've become a Piz fanboy, even if he does have a really stupid nickname.
Of course, PI-daddy is in trouble, but I suspect that our good buddy Vinnie Van Lowe will save him. I mean, it'd be very Rob Thomas. Hi, here's a jerk... here's a jerk with surprising depth. Here's a jerk with surprising depth and self-destructive tendencies that make you want to slap him despite the depth. This season's PI-daddy arc? All about Vinnie. Just sayin'.
Missed Lamb and Weevil this week, but I'm sure we'll see them next. Oh, and my GOD what is up with the depressing credits of doom? I said it before in someone else's journal -- it's like the Growing Pains version of the VM credits. I mean, the opening scene ended on such an upnote... and then oh discord, oh woe... these are the days of our unappealing earthtones. And I like earthtones (I was just commenting that Marsters looks quite good in them while watching mid-S7 Buffy).
BSG: The Story So Far -- I realize that compressing a miniseries and just under 40 episodes of a sci-fi series with complex arcs is difficult, but you guys couldn't give me just a little more? There were like three things in there that I didn't glean from the general context of my flist and playing in FH -- and I was staying spoiler-free (well, up until the recap... I just don't have time to watch Season 2 before 3 starts on Friday). I guess I'll pick things up as I go.
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Y'know, I think you're right...
... and I fear that there will be Keith/Vinnie slash as a result.
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OW.
JUST OW.
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Ow.
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HAHAHAHAHA. You are a funny, funny dude.
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It's not as appreciate at work, though. Something about sarcasm not being a positive statement.
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CREDITS. OMG. I MISS THE OLD CREDITS SO MUCH. I may just start pausing my Tivo for a minute while I watch in real time, JUST so I can fast-forward through those ugly credits.