sleep and SPN, Heroes, L&O:CI finale reactions
The universe decided that despite the fact that last night was the last night I'd have to get a full night's sleep before MediaWest, I didn't deserve said sleep. First I unexpectedly discovered that the Criminal Intent finale was going to air at 10pm, which forced me to stay up until 11pm. So I decided I needed my sleep and I'd just have to sleep in in the morning and deal with exercising in the middle of the day instead of the morning, which is a pain in the butt, but oh well. But then I woke up at 6:40am anyway! I lay in bed for 25 minutes trying to get back to sleep, deciding that rest was still more important, but I didn't drop back off right away. At that point I decided that I was going to be tired for the day anyway, I might as well exercise as the good time. So I got up. I did, however, have to mark it up as a day of lost sleep (after four straight weeks of good sleep! :-( ), which miffed me.
I'm going to try to go to bed tonight at 8:00pm so that I can have 8 hours of sleep tonight. I'm planning to wake up at 4:20am so that I can exercise before we leave the house to catch the plane to MediaWest*Con, hence the hoped for early bedtime. I really do want to try not to get too exhausted. I like being well rested.
I don't normally post about Supernatural because I'm not into the fandom, I just like watching the show. But I feel like chatting about it a bit, because I liked it. And not because of the Sam/Dean. Incest pairings don't work for me. It's not a squick thing (not between brothers at least; parent/child is a whole other story), it just that there is a type of angst inherent in incest pairings that doesn't appeal to me.
Anyway, I liked it because it's rather unusual for TV writers these days to be willing to tie up their major storyline and source of motivation and strike out on a new one. Granted, Sam and Dean are still tracking demons, but the revenge thing is out of the way. They got their closure. Now it's less of a personal quest and more like they're going to war, which appeals to me.
I've read at least one reaction post that said TPTB did that because this could have turned out to be the series finale, so it was kind of a "just in case" storyline. Said person was not pleased with that, but personally I'm glad the writers went that route. You can only use a single source of emotional motivation for so long before it gets tired and stupid. Now there's a different dynamic to explore, which pleases me.
And now some spoiler space before I discuss Heroes...
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Overall, I'm very, very happy with it. Bullet point reactions, followed by reactions requiring more musing:
* HRG's name being Noah = complete and total win
* Micah and Molly = awesome cute
* Hiro in feudal Japan = ultimate peak of awesomeness
* I actually liked the Niki/Jessica, DL, and Micah parts!
* Matt and HRG just make great partners. I'd love to see them work together again.
Longer reactions:
I am, weirdly, happy with how Nathan's story arc turned out. It was pretty much what I hoped for. I mean, I would have liked for him not to die (and season two spoilers do leave that a gray area, so I'm hoping), but what I wanted most was for him to do the right thing and show the core of his character, which is that he is a good guy. He's the type of character who makes the hard decisions, and those decisions often make him look like the bad guy, but he's always making them because he knows, from his perspective, that that's what has to be done.
Being this kind of character is what made it a concern that he might actually let the bomb go off, because if he really believed it was necessary and that it would work, he'd have done it. But Nathan is a smart enough guy to know that one bomb isn't going to unite the world. If that was the case, we ought to have world peace by now! I think that he wavered on the idea and had his moments of, "What if this could work?", but I also believe that he never really committed in his head or heart to letting it happen. And when it came down to the wire, he trusted his own instincts and not those of the people pressuring him into a particular course of action.
I do wonder what will happen with Nathan if he comes back next season, though. I mean, his story arc came to a rather definitive end. Not that there aren't loose ends (his wife getting healed, for one), but...where does he go from here? I guess if he does come back the new arc for him would depend heavily on how long he was missing. I kind of hope that if he returns it works out that he doesn't end up being the congressman. Partly because he has to know the election was horribly rigged and while the writers might be able to make me buy that he'd be okay with taking up his role based on a fraud, I'd rather I didn't have to.
I feel like I'm forgetting other stuff I wanted to post about, but that'll have to do for now.
And now some spoiler space for my L&O: CI reaction...
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Oh, Mike.
Why do the Law and Order powers that be have to crap so hard and so consistently on Mike? Hasn't the man been through enough shit already? Alcholic mother and father, abusive mother, sexually abusive priest, first partner shot and killed, second partner shot and disabled, forcibly separated from his third partner who later dies, career all but demolished, exiled to Staten Island, which he hates, goes through two more partners (in a hopefully less traumatic way; I haven't see the movie so I don't know for sure), gets back to Manhatten, kills an undercover cop, loses another partner for unknown reasons after less than a year working together, and then his seventh partner skips off with no definite promise of return also after less than a year and at the same time a woman Mike made a genuine connection with kills herself. *sighs*
I know Mike makes a good woobie but at this point I desperately want just a couple of truly good things to happen to him. I want him to have a solid, non-dramatic romance with a happy ending, or hook up with a partner who is just as old-school-loyal to his partner as Mike is, or...I don't know, just something good. At this point it just hurts to watch Mike get ground down further and further until I have to wonder why the man hasn't at least contemplated eating a bullet. I suspect he's thought about it; there's a scene in the ep where he kills the undercover cop when he's talking to Liz Olivet and he says it should have been him.
Just... *hugs Mike*
Also... 24 hours from now I'll be on a plane to MediaWest! (Okay, really to meet up sithdragn and bluster before we all head to the con, but it's all part of the same excitement for me. :-) :-) :-) )
I'm going to try to go to bed tonight at 8:00pm so that I can have 8 hours of sleep tonight. I'm planning to wake up at 4:20am so that I can exercise before we leave the house to catch the plane to MediaWest*Con, hence the hoped for early bedtime. I really do want to try not to get too exhausted. I like being well rested.
I don't normally post about Supernatural because I'm not into the fandom, I just like watching the show. But I feel like chatting about it a bit, because I liked it. And not because of the Sam/Dean. Incest pairings don't work for me. It's not a squick thing (not between brothers at least; parent/child is a whole other story), it just that there is a type of angst inherent in incest pairings that doesn't appeal to me.
Anyway, I liked it because it's rather unusual for TV writers these days to be willing to tie up their major storyline and source of motivation and strike out on a new one. Granted, Sam and Dean are still tracking demons, but the revenge thing is out of the way. They got their closure. Now it's less of a personal quest and more like they're going to war, which appeals to me.
I've read at least one reaction post that said TPTB did that because this could have turned out to be the series finale, so it was kind of a "just in case" storyline. Said person was not pleased with that, but personally I'm glad the writers went that route. You can only use a single source of emotional motivation for so long before it gets tired and stupid. Now there's a different dynamic to explore, which pleases me.
And now some spoiler space before I discuss Heroes...
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Overall, I'm very, very happy with it. Bullet point reactions, followed by reactions requiring more musing:
* HRG's name being Noah = complete and total win
* Micah and Molly = awesome cute
* Hiro in feudal Japan = ultimate peak of awesomeness
* I actually liked the Niki/Jessica, DL, and Micah parts!
* Matt and HRG just make great partners. I'd love to see them work together again.
Longer reactions:
I am, weirdly, happy with how Nathan's story arc turned out. It was pretty much what I hoped for. I mean, I would have liked for him not to die (and season two spoilers do leave that a gray area, so I'm hoping), but what I wanted most was for him to do the right thing and show the core of his character, which is that he is a good guy. He's the type of character who makes the hard decisions, and those decisions often make him look like the bad guy, but he's always making them because he knows, from his perspective, that that's what has to be done.
Being this kind of character is what made it a concern that he might actually let the bomb go off, because if he really believed it was necessary and that it would work, he'd have done it. But Nathan is a smart enough guy to know that one bomb isn't going to unite the world. If that was the case, we ought to have world peace by now! I think that he wavered on the idea and had his moments of, "What if this could work?", but I also believe that he never really committed in his head or heart to letting it happen. And when it came down to the wire, he trusted his own instincts and not those of the people pressuring him into a particular course of action.
I do wonder what will happen with Nathan if he comes back next season, though. I mean, his story arc came to a rather definitive end. Not that there aren't loose ends (his wife getting healed, for one), but...where does he go from here? I guess if he does come back the new arc for him would depend heavily on how long he was missing. I kind of hope that if he returns it works out that he doesn't end up being the congressman. Partly because he has to know the election was horribly rigged and while the writers might be able to make me buy that he'd be okay with taking up his role based on a fraud, I'd rather I didn't have to.
I feel like I'm forgetting other stuff I wanted to post about, but that'll have to do for now.
And now some spoiler space for my L&O: CI reaction...
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Oh, Mike.
Why do the Law and Order powers that be have to crap so hard and so consistently on Mike? Hasn't the man been through enough shit already? Alcholic mother and father, abusive mother, sexually abusive priest, first partner shot and killed, second partner shot and disabled, forcibly separated from his third partner who later dies, career all but demolished, exiled to Staten Island, which he hates, goes through two more partners (in a hopefully less traumatic way; I haven't see the movie so I don't know for sure), gets back to Manhatten, kills an undercover cop, loses another partner for unknown reasons after less than a year working together, and then his seventh partner skips off with no definite promise of return also after less than a year and at the same time a woman Mike made a genuine connection with kills herself. *sighs*
I know Mike makes a good woobie but at this point I desperately want just a couple of truly good things to happen to him. I want him to have a solid, non-dramatic romance with a happy ending, or hook up with a partner who is just as old-school-loyal to his partner as Mike is, or...I don't know, just something good. At this point it just hurts to watch Mike get ground down further and further until I have to wonder why the man hasn't at least contemplated eating a bullet. I suspect he's thought about it; there's a scene in the ep where he kills the undercover cop when he's talking to Liz Olivet and he says it should have been him.
Just... *hugs Mike*
Also... 24 hours from now I'll be on a plane to MediaWest! (Okay, really to meet up sithdragn and bluster before we all head to the con, but it's all part of the same excitement for me. :-) :-) :-) )