Don't blame me for your sexual tension!
zabira recorded Yeats' "Song of Wandering Aengus" at my request, and it is beauuuutiful. *beams at her*
I have not watched this week's TSCC yet, but I did watch Chuck, and, as usual, I loved it. I really liked the Sarah backstory, largely because of the twist at the end; the bait-and-switch there was excellent. And I love that we're getting Sarah backstory at all-we so rarely see things from her POV, and I think it's awesome that they're starting to delve into her and Casey as characters a bit more. (I also like that they're backing off from the Chuck/Sarah a bit, because while I'm totally on board with the Chuck/Sarah, clearly they're not going to hook up anytime soon, and as such, it feels weird for their relationship to entirely dominate the story.) And speaking of Casey, DJ Casey was the BEST THING EVER. And Patel finally resigning his power (and his power trip). And did I mention DJ Casey? I keep thinking that someday I'm going to get over the glee of having Adam Baldwin being awesome on my TV on a regular basis, but it has not happened yet.
Also, now I cannot shake the awareness that Chuck Bartowski is CLEARLY Seth Cohen, all (or at least kind of) grown up. Which brings me to the newest feature of this journal, a little something I like to call, "SETH COHEN, HOW ARE YOU SO AWESOME?"
No. SERIOUSLY. I know I am a few years late on this, but I LOVE HIM. So for those of you who have not discovered the joy of Seth Cohen, allow me to enlighten you. For those of you who have, please feel free to squee.
In Exhibit A of Seth's Awesomeness, I bring you the fact that his emo puppydog-face foster brother is totally in love with him. In fact, the fact that Ryan loves Seth is possibly my favorite thing about Ryan. (Not that Ryan doesn't have other good qualities. But his relationship with Seth brings them all out in spades. Unlike his relationship with his canonical love interest, which-to my eye, seven episodes in-involves a lot of him and Marissa sitting there making emo puppydog faces at each other in heavy silence and not DOING anything, OH MY GOD JUST DO SOMETHING, ONE OF YOU. Occasionally they wrestle each other into the pool, and that's pretty cute. But mostly? Emo faces and heavy silence. Argh.)
ANYWAY. Let's examine a scene from THE SECOND EPISODE, mind you, when Ryan and Seth have been friends for, you know. A couple of days. Seth's mother has forbidden Ryan to live in their house anymore because he and Seth went to a party and Seth got drunk and almost got beat up and Ryan leapt to his aid even though Seth had just done something kind of assholish to him (more on that later), and they both came home bruised and therefore Ryan is a Bad Influence. Seth, naturally, is really not okay with this arrangement, because he is UTTERLY SMITTEN with Ryan, but he's trying to put a brave face on. The boys are floating in the pool, like so:
If it looks like they're holding hands, it's because they practically are.
Ryan is also making an emo face, as he tends to do, while he meditates on the woe of a Seth-less life, also possibly because his alcoholic mother abandoned him and he's looking at a couple of years in foster care, but really, it's clearly mainly the Seth thing.
have sex in the poolhouse go get some tattoos and hookers and lose our virginity'>Seth is all: So, Ryan, since it's your last night in Newport, we should do something special, like have sex in the poolhouse go get some tattoos and hookers and lose our virginity.
Ryan: o.O
Seth: Okay, dude, I don't know, there's a shark movie at the IMAX if that's more your thing.
And Ryan-puppydog emo-face Ryan-honest-to-god GIGGLES, and it is the cutest thing you have ever seen. SO FREAKING CUTE.
And then he says that he'd just like to stay in and take it easy, by which he CLEARLY means "have sex in the poolhouse."
Let me just just run that by you one more time:
Before Seth = emo face
After Seth = giggly face
See? HOW IS THAT NOT ADORABLE? (You can watch the scene in all its live-action glory here, BTW.) And that is not actually the first time that Ryan has given Seth that look of "OMG I cannot even deal with how much I dig you." Witness also the night before, after the aforementioned fight, when the boys stumble back to the poolhouse and Seth is demonstrating the ninja moves that Ryan should teach him:
And Ryan goes:
Because that's what you DO, when you're faced with Seth Cohen. You GRIN. (You can watch the whole bit-including Ryan leaping to Seth's aid-in this clip, which you should really do, because the stills don't nearly do the dorktasticness of Seth's ninja flailing justice at ALL.) And the insane amount of AFFECTION in that grin is just… EEEE. I CANNOT TAKE IT.
And, you know, I sometimes think, "Okay, they're two cute boys and clearly they care about each other a lot, but maybe they're just friends." And then Seth feels the need to demonstrate the comfortableness of Ryan's bed by ROLLING AROUND ON IT, and THEN they do the whole "alone we're incomplete, but together we're better than we are separately" thing, and. Okay. I AM NOT MADE OF STONE. Also, the series is pretty much bookended with Seth/Ryan hugging. And they are such BOYS together, OMG: shoulder-punching and shoving into lockers and all. (Those clips also illustrate a theme which I fear may also appear in this journal in the future, namely, "Sweet Lord, Ryan, What the Fuck is Up With Your Hair?")
So I have no choice but to conclude: BOYS. ♥ ♥ ♥
However, thanks to the joy of Multiple! Branching! Universes!, as well as the episode I just watched a couple of nights ago, I am also happy to ship Seth/Summer. Because they bring the bantery awesome, and drive each other nuts in all the best ways. (What really got me was watching Seth-who has been in love with Summer pretty much since they were zygotes-realize that even though she is his perfect unattainable longtime crush, he also sort of wants to kill her. HEE. ♥)
You will notice a common denominator here, and his name is SETH. Because SETH. Still don't believe me? Have some random clips of Seth being adorable (with bonus Ryan being adorable and Seth's parents being adorable, because Cohens, by blood and by association, = ADORABLE).
I will leave you with this clip, which I have watched approximately twenty times in the past twelve hours, which encapsulates both the off-the-charts cuteness of Seth/Ryan, and the glorious adorkableness of Seth: Drunk Seth makes the worst ninja ever, and Ryan loves him anyway.
Which brings me back to: SETH COHEN, HOW ARE YOU SO AWESOME?
Thank you.
I have not watched this week's TSCC yet, but I did watch Chuck, and, as usual, I loved it. I really liked the Sarah backstory, largely because of the twist at the end; the bait-and-switch there was excellent. And I love that we're getting Sarah backstory at all-we so rarely see things from her POV, and I think it's awesome that they're starting to delve into her and Casey as characters a bit more. (I also like that they're backing off from the Chuck/Sarah a bit, because while I'm totally on board with the Chuck/Sarah, clearly they're not going to hook up anytime soon, and as such, it feels weird for their relationship to entirely dominate the story.) And speaking of Casey, DJ Casey was the BEST THING EVER. And Patel finally resigning his power (and his power trip). And did I mention DJ Casey? I keep thinking that someday I'm going to get over the glee of having Adam Baldwin being awesome on my TV on a regular basis, but it has not happened yet.
Also, now I cannot shake the awareness that Chuck Bartowski is CLEARLY Seth Cohen, all (or at least kind of) grown up. Which brings me to the newest feature of this journal, a little something I like to call, "SETH COHEN, HOW ARE YOU SO AWESOME?"
No. SERIOUSLY. I know I am a few years late on this, but I LOVE HIM. So for those of you who have not discovered the joy of Seth Cohen, allow me to enlighten you. For those of you who have, please feel free to squee.
In Exhibit A of Seth's Awesomeness, I bring you the fact that his emo puppydog-face foster brother is totally in love with him. In fact, the fact that Ryan loves Seth is possibly my favorite thing about Ryan. (Not that Ryan doesn't have other good qualities. But his relationship with Seth brings them all out in spades. Unlike his relationship with his canonical love interest, which-to my eye, seven episodes in-involves a lot of him and Marissa sitting there making emo puppydog faces at each other in heavy silence and not DOING anything, OH MY GOD JUST DO SOMETHING, ONE OF YOU. Occasionally they wrestle each other into the pool, and that's pretty cute. But mostly? Emo faces and heavy silence. Argh.)
ANYWAY. Let's examine a scene from THE SECOND EPISODE, mind you, when Ryan and Seth have been friends for, you know. A couple of days. Seth's mother has forbidden Ryan to live in their house anymore because he and Seth went to a party and Seth got drunk and almost got beat up and Ryan leapt to his aid even though Seth had just done something kind of assholish to him (more on that later), and they both came home bruised and therefore Ryan is a Bad Influence. Seth, naturally, is really not okay with this arrangement, because he is UTTERLY SMITTEN with Ryan, but he's trying to put a brave face on. The boys are floating in the pool, like so:
If it looks like they're holding hands, it's because they practically are.
Ryan is also making an emo face, as he tends to do, while he meditates on the woe of a Seth-less life, also possibly because his alcoholic mother abandoned him and he's looking at a couple of years in foster care, but really, it's clearly mainly the Seth thing.
have sex in the poolhouse go get some tattoos and hookers and lose our virginity'>Seth is all: So, Ryan, since it's your last night in Newport, we should do something special, like have sex in the poolhouse go get some tattoos and hookers and lose our virginity.
Ryan: o.O
Seth: Okay, dude, I don't know, there's a shark movie at the IMAX if that's more your thing.
And Ryan-puppydog emo-face Ryan-honest-to-god GIGGLES, and it is the cutest thing you have ever seen. SO FREAKING CUTE.
And then he says that he'd just like to stay in and take it easy, by which he CLEARLY means "have sex in the poolhouse."
Let me just just run that by you one more time:
Before Seth = emo face
After Seth = giggly face
See? HOW IS THAT NOT ADORABLE? (You can watch the scene in all its live-action glory here, BTW.) And that is not actually the first time that Ryan has given Seth that look of "OMG I cannot even deal with how much I dig you." Witness also the night before, after the aforementioned fight, when the boys stumble back to the poolhouse and Seth is demonstrating the ninja moves that Ryan should teach him:
And Ryan goes:
Because that's what you DO, when you're faced with Seth Cohen. You GRIN. (You can watch the whole bit-including Ryan leaping to Seth's aid-in this clip, which you should really do, because the stills don't nearly do the dorktasticness of Seth's ninja flailing justice at ALL.) And the insane amount of AFFECTION in that grin is just… EEEE. I CANNOT TAKE IT.
And, you know, I sometimes think, "Okay, they're two cute boys and clearly they care about each other a lot, but maybe they're just friends." And then Seth feels the need to demonstrate the comfortableness of Ryan's bed by ROLLING AROUND ON IT, and THEN they do the whole "alone we're incomplete, but together we're better than we are separately" thing, and. Okay. I AM NOT MADE OF STONE. Also, the series is pretty much bookended with Seth/Ryan hugging. And they are such BOYS together, OMG: shoulder-punching and shoving into lockers and all. (Those clips also illustrate a theme which I fear may also appear in this journal in the future, namely, "Sweet Lord, Ryan, What the Fuck is Up With Your Hair?")
So I have no choice but to conclude: BOYS. ♥ ♥ ♥
However, thanks to the joy of Multiple! Branching! Universes!, as well as the episode I just watched a couple of nights ago, I am also happy to ship Seth/Summer. Because they bring the bantery awesome, and drive each other nuts in all the best ways. (What really got me was watching Seth-who has been in love with Summer pretty much since they were zygotes-realize that even though she is his perfect unattainable longtime crush, he also sort of wants to kill her. HEE. ♥)
You will notice a common denominator here, and his name is SETH. Because SETH. Still don't believe me? Have some random clips of Seth being adorable (with bonus Ryan being adorable and Seth's parents being adorable, because Cohens, by blood and by association, = ADORABLE).
I will leave you with this clip, which I have watched approximately twenty times in the past twelve hours, which encapsulates both the off-the-charts cuteness of Seth/Ryan, and the glorious adorkableness of Seth: Drunk Seth makes the worst ninja ever, and Ryan loves him anyway.
Which brings me back to: SETH COHEN, HOW ARE YOU SO AWESOME?
Thank you.