super awesome dream! // The Mentalist // Supernatural
I had an epic amount of dreams last night omg. The one I remember best? a;lfja;fdjal;kjfd I was in a threeway relationship with Michael and Fiona from Burn Notice. OMGGGGGGGGGG EPIC AMOUNTS OF AWESOME. It was like a case ep, too. Like, we got conned into helping this guy with stakes in a gold mine, and we helped him, but then we totally got cheated and Fiona was SUPER upset and so was I, but Michael was all, "there there, it's okay." And he made it better with kisses. NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNGH.
Anyway.
The Mentalist continues to be LOLARIOUS. Like, srsly, this show is such a fucking comedy. BUT IT STILL DRIVES ME INSANE ON THE THEMATIC STUFF
It seems like I'm mostly yakking away about the show in other people's journals (pensive1 and mswyrr). I figure I should bring back some deep thoughts to my own journal instead of being all LOLCANO all the time. But rest assured, the show is still VERY VERY LOLCANO, but for once, I will use my words and complete sentences.
I'm kinda fascinated by the fact that by placing a Trickster figure as the protagonist, the whole show's moral center is skewed. Because Bosco kinda fascinates me in the sense that he's the hero here. He's the good cop trying to do it right, by the book, adhere to a strict sense of morality. Jane is the one who really ought to be scorned. He's the interloper, the one who defies rules and regulations, who escapes punishment time and time again by sheer charm and influence, who never fucking learns.
The fact that they cast the anti-Simon Baker for Bosco says a lot. Terry Kinney is awesome, yeah, but he's, you know, not Simon Baker. And he plays Bosco gruff. Bosco is not a man who functions on charm. Interesting to compare and contrast how the audience is supposed to feel about Jane versus Bosco. One would naturally be hostile toward Bosco. He's interfering with our gorgeous crimefighter. He's got a stick up his butt. He's not gorgeous and sparkly. Then you've got Jane, and oh Jane, you'd forgive him because he's got MANPAIN and he's just so cute when he's breaking all the rules.
I have to think it's a deliberate statement about the inherent shallowness of people.
I want this to pay off, SOMEHOW. Especially the consistent compromise on Lisbon's part. If Jane is right and Lisbon has compromised once, I wonder if this means she'd do it again or if this means she'd know better than to this time, when the moment comes. It's hard to say, because there's something vaguely unconvincing about the way Lisbon justifies her action by saying that Jane closes cases. Really, Lisbon? The end justifies the means? I don't know if she really believes that, or just something she tells herself to assuage... whatever.
Awesome contrast to Cho, btw. Who doesn't hesitate, doesn't flinch, doesn't blink. He's the most "end justifies means" kind of guy of the whole team, outside of Jane. And he's the one who's got the soldier mentality: loyalty above all else. I'm probably stretching it a little, but of all the ways Jane could rile that guy up, he used military honor. Semper fi. Always faithful. Coincidence?
Also: more than ever, Lisbon = Jane's mommy. Even more reason why I can't see them together. The way he needs and needles her, the way he yearns for her attention and approval. Lisbon is the strong female authority figure that Jane's never had.
As for SPN,
Oh, Kripke. Not enough that you're cribbing fanfic, now you're cribbing fanvid, too.
I LOVED the episode up until the final bits. I actually don't mind the retcon twist that the Trickster is actually Gabriel. It worked for me, insofar as it's always weirded me out that such an overtly pagan figure would exist in a world that's totally Christianity-based. I would've LIKED for him to have stayed pagan, but. Yeah. My only major issue is the EXPOSITION. Oh my god, the endless endless exposition. WE GET IT ALREADY. REALLY. Every-fucking-body gets it. Do they think we have an IQ of 25? Where we need all the themes spelled out for us, just in case? Hur de derp. Richard Speight, Jr. was awesome, don't get me wrong. He threw it out there and he was awesome. But the exposition, man. And the lack of forward movement. That has always been a huge problem with the show. The epic fail of arc-long pacing. More useless information that we already know, endlessly repeated, with no progression or development. Bleh.
And I'm getting progressively more and more... weirded out? Disappointed? Something. With regards to Jared Padalecki's acting. It's been simmering for awhile, but it REALLY showed in "The End" when he was playing Lucifer and how much his acting didn't work for me. Now it's gotten more and more noticeable, where I feel like he's playing a parody of Sam than Sam. Remember "Tall Tales"? When the Trickster first showed up? There was that skewed POV of sensitive soul Sam. But now it's like, more and more, show Sam feels like parody Sam. Now, granted, I feel like the whole SHOW has gotten fairly ridic and is, a lot of the time, a parody of itself. But weirdly enough, Jensen gives me more sincerity even at the most ridiculous than Jared does. I don't know. Maybe it's just me.
With that said, I really did enjoy most of the episode. It was some pretty epic gayest gay that's ever gayed. Dean and his mancrush on Dr. Sexy, played by the still tremendously hot Steve Bacic. Hey bb, I've missed you! Dean rooting about in Sam's butt trunk. I wanted more Sam as the car. That was some awesome stuff. Something about Castiel with tape over his mouth. Doot doot doot.
Anyway.
The Mentalist continues to be LOLARIOUS. Like, srsly, this show is such a fucking comedy. BUT IT STILL DRIVES ME INSANE ON THE THEMATIC STUFF
It seems like I'm mostly yakking away about the show in other people's journals (pensive1 and mswyrr). I figure I should bring back some deep thoughts to my own journal instead of being all LOLCANO all the time. But rest assured, the show is still VERY VERY LOLCANO, but for once, I will use my words and complete sentences.
I'm kinda fascinated by the fact that by placing a Trickster figure as the protagonist, the whole show's moral center is skewed. Because Bosco kinda fascinates me in the sense that he's the hero here. He's the good cop trying to do it right, by the book, adhere to a strict sense of morality. Jane is the one who really ought to be scorned. He's the interloper, the one who defies rules and regulations, who escapes punishment time and time again by sheer charm and influence, who never fucking learns.
The fact that they cast the anti-Simon Baker for Bosco says a lot. Terry Kinney is awesome, yeah, but he's, you know, not Simon Baker. And he plays Bosco gruff. Bosco is not a man who functions on charm. Interesting to compare and contrast how the audience is supposed to feel about Jane versus Bosco. One would naturally be hostile toward Bosco. He's interfering with our gorgeous crimefighter. He's got a stick up his butt. He's not gorgeous and sparkly. Then you've got Jane, and oh Jane, you'd forgive him because he's got MANPAIN and he's just so cute when he's breaking all the rules.
I have to think it's a deliberate statement about the inherent shallowness of people.
I want this to pay off, SOMEHOW. Especially the consistent compromise on Lisbon's part. If Jane is right and Lisbon has compromised once, I wonder if this means she'd do it again or if this means she'd know better than to this time, when the moment comes. It's hard to say, because there's something vaguely unconvincing about the way Lisbon justifies her action by saying that Jane closes cases. Really, Lisbon? The end justifies the means? I don't know if she really believes that, or just something she tells herself to assuage... whatever.
Awesome contrast to Cho, btw. Who doesn't hesitate, doesn't flinch, doesn't blink. He's the most "end justifies means" kind of guy of the whole team, outside of Jane. And he's the one who's got the soldier mentality: loyalty above all else. I'm probably stretching it a little, but of all the ways Jane could rile that guy up, he used military honor. Semper fi. Always faithful. Coincidence?
Also: more than ever, Lisbon = Jane's mommy. Even more reason why I can't see them together. The way he needs and needles her, the way he yearns for her attention and approval. Lisbon is the strong female authority figure that Jane's never had.
As for SPN,
Oh, Kripke. Not enough that you're cribbing fanfic, now you're cribbing fanvid, too.
I LOVED the episode up until the final bits. I actually don't mind the retcon twist that the Trickster is actually Gabriel. It worked for me, insofar as it's always weirded me out that such an overtly pagan figure would exist in a world that's totally Christianity-based. I would've LIKED for him to have stayed pagan, but. Yeah. My only major issue is the EXPOSITION. Oh my god, the endless endless exposition. WE GET IT ALREADY. REALLY. Every-fucking-body gets it. Do they think we have an IQ of 25? Where we need all the themes spelled out for us, just in case? Hur de derp. Richard Speight, Jr. was awesome, don't get me wrong. He threw it out there and he was awesome. But the exposition, man. And the lack of forward movement. That has always been a huge problem with the show. The epic fail of arc-long pacing. More useless information that we already know, endlessly repeated, with no progression or development. Bleh.
And I'm getting progressively more and more... weirded out? Disappointed? Something. With regards to Jared Padalecki's acting. It's been simmering for awhile, but it REALLY showed in "The End" when he was playing Lucifer and how much his acting didn't work for me. Now it's gotten more and more noticeable, where I feel like he's playing a parody of Sam than Sam. Remember "Tall Tales"? When the Trickster first showed up? There was that skewed POV of sensitive soul Sam. But now it's like, more and more, show Sam feels like parody Sam. Now, granted, I feel like the whole SHOW has gotten fairly ridic and is, a lot of the time, a parody of itself. But weirdly enough, Jensen gives me more sincerity even at the most ridiculous than Jared does. I don't know. Maybe it's just me.
With that said, I really did enjoy most of the episode. It was some pretty epic gayest gay that's ever gayed. Dean and his mancrush on Dr. Sexy, played by the still tremendously hot Steve Bacic. Hey bb, I've missed you! Dean rooting about in Sam's butt trunk. I wanted more Sam as the car. That was some awesome stuff. Something about Castiel with tape over his mouth. Doot doot doot.