"Is that anything to say to someone with a solid-silver self-serving sauce-separator?"
Guides last night. We had split the meeting into three sections, for each of us to run one. My bit was making chocolate chip buns - always fun. Went off fairly smoothly. Played memory games, and guessing what things are by feeling them, and the newspaper game, and the m&m game, which I really like - each Guide takes m&ms, and then we say, for example, if you have a red m&m, tell us what your favourite possession is etc, then they eat the m&m. It was bon, and Hannah and I joined in the last round. They are still so *difficult*, though, and have such a bad attitude at the meetings, even when they’re being nice, if that makes sense. Heigh ho. Half term next week, which is fortunate, under the circs.
katie__pillar spent part of the day at Fangirl Towers, and you can see the fruits of her labour at the_love_nest. I can’t wait to move! I spoke to the mater yesterday, and as usual she is brilliant, and had assumed she would be packhorsing for us, which is fine as long as she’s allowed to go into Richmond to visit Hobbes. Which I spose is fair enough. I won’t deny her that opportunity. And I was thinking on Saturday I might finish painting the fourth wall in my bedroom (this tickled me and Katie last night: it sounds like some kind of avant-garde television techniquery), and possibly la fenêtre as well.
We watched the finale of Heroes last night, which was excellent and nailbiting, BUT (and this is a big but), I was ultimately a little disappointed, which is actually heart-breaking, because I have loved every minute of this series, and to suddenly not be satisfied right at the end is really vexing. Claire and Mr Bennett (now revealed to be Noah), at the very least, had accepted that they might have to shoot Peter in order to stop him exploding. OK. Works for me. Claire was the obvious choice, because if Peter was going radioactive, she would be able to survive it. So far, so peachy. The moment of Peter’s imminent explosion arrives. Mr Bennett has been flung against a wall and not in the best of health, so he doesn’t shoot him. Again, OK. Claire appears, and retrieves his gun. And then, for some unknown reason, she vacillates wildly about shooting him. Eventually Nathan appears, having presumably ditched his morally charcoal mother, and says he won’t let this happen, and scoops Peter into his manly arms, and flies him into the atmosphere, where Peter explodes and presumably Nathan, at any rate, dies. In terms of Nathan and Peter’s characters, this works pretty well. Peter realises that he can, indeed, always trust his brother: Nathan will ALWAYS help him. And Nathan realises what’s important, that he has to stop the bomb blah blah blah he’s not evil yay. Excellent, well done Petrellis. But here’s the rub. WHY DIDN’T THEY JUST FUCKING SHOOT PETER IN THE FIRST PLACE? Why did Claire hesitate? HE CAN REGENERATE. It wasn’t going to kill him! It might not have stopped the explosion, but it might have done (when he passed out earlier in the episode the radioactive mojo stopped), and it was worth a shot (pardon the pun - didn’t mean to, honest!) So why didn’t she do it? It was unbelievably stupid, and I don’t believe Claire *would* have been that stupid. So that whole denouement didn’t work for me. Rawr.
katie__pillar spent part of the day at Fangirl Towers, and you can see the fruits of her labour at the_love_nest. I can’t wait to move! I spoke to the mater yesterday, and as usual she is brilliant, and had assumed she would be packhorsing for us, which is fine as long as she’s allowed to go into Richmond to visit Hobbes. Which I spose is fair enough. I won’t deny her that opportunity. And I was thinking on Saturday I might finish painting the fourth wall in my bedroom (this tickled me and Katie last night: it sounds like some kind of avant-garde television techniquery), and possibly la fenêtre as well.
We watched the finale of Heroes last night, which was excellent and nailbiting, BUT (and this is a big but), I was ultimately a little disappointed, which is actually heart-breaking, because I have loved every minute of this series, and to suddenly not be satisfied right at the end is really vexing. Claire and Mr Bennett (now revealed to be Noah), at the very least, had accepted that they might have to shoot Peter in order to stop him exploding. OK. Works for me. Claire was the obvious choice, because if Peter was going radioactive, she would be able to survive it. So far, so peachy. The moment of Peter’s imminent explosion arrives. Mr Bennett has been flung against a wall and not in the best of health, so he doesn’t shoot him. Again, OK. Claire appears, and retrieves his gun. And then, for some unknown reason, she vacillates wildly about shooting him. Eventually Nathan appears, having presumably ditched his morally charcoal mother, and says he won’t let this happen, and scoops Peter into his manly arms, and flies him into the atmosphere, where Peter explodes and presumably Nathan, at any rate, dies. In terms of Nathan and Peter’s characters, this works pretty well. Peter realises that he can, indeed, always trust his brother: Nathan will ALWAYS help him. And Nathan realises what’s important, that he has to stop the bomb blah blah blah he’s not evil yay. Excellent, well done Petrellis. But here’s the rub. WHY DIDN’T THEY JUST FUCKING SHOOT PETER IN THE FIRST PLACE? Why did Claire hesitate? HE CAN REGENERATE. It wasn’t going to kill him! It might not have stopped the explosion, but it might have done (when he passed out earlier in the episode the radioactive mojo stopped), and it was worth a shot (pardon the pun - didn’t mean to, honest!) So why didn’t she do it? It was unbelievably stupid, and I don’t believe Claire *would* have been that stupid. So that whole denouement didn’t work for me. Rawr.