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How is it Wednesday already? @.@
I think part of the reason I'm having trouble keeping track of this week is because our magic box TV is broken - not, like, the actual television set itself, but something about the connection between the set and the dish. It maintains that it has not received a satellite signal for about two days now. :P Probably the roofing guys just kicked the cable out of the delicate alignment it requires to function. On the upside, this will give us an excuse to rewire so the cable is taking a route that's actually efficient, instead of winding around three-quarters of the house just to get back into the one-quarter it hadn't touched yet.
Fortunately, it was only broken for part of Monday, so I missed neither The Event nor H50.
I'm kind of tangled up in this show, now - it's like Twilight, I need to hang on long enough to find out what happens so I can gripe about it properly. If I'm going to dislike this show, dammit, I'm going to do it well.
I still can't figure out what the hell they think they're doing, besides doing their best to emulate Lost without investing nearly as much time or effort making their characters interesting. The revelation that Sophia is That One Morally Gray Alien Guy's mother, and possibly the mother of more/all the other detainees, is ... kind of contextless, and therefore not really all that much of a revelation. I mean, unless it's supposed to be some kind of surprise that aliens have families, or something? Maybe they're hinting at some kind of beehive-esque Queen Mother structure to the alien society? I don't know. And the thing about the files and Blond Reporter-ish Lady and everything was ... just sort of yawn.
I think the biggest thing that bugs me about it is how little tension I'm feeling, for whatever reason. I should be worried about these people, and I'm not. Well, okay, I was a little worried about Simon; him, I am actually a little interested in. And I'm interested in Sophia, Assassin Lady, and Girlfriend, except pretty much nothing is happening with any of them. I don't know, maybe I'm just not their target audience. :P
OMGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG. That was AWESOME. Sierra/Priya, so nice to see you again! She did a wonderful job selling the mingled grief and frustration, I thought, without beating me over the head with it. And I loved that Kono and Chin went to talk to her and her kid. All PoC, and none of them had committed the crime! That was lovely. Also, her kid was mad adorable.
They were all incredibly hot in the gallery scene, although, jesus, could that Bing product placement have been any more INTRUSIVELY OBVIOUS. NO IT COULD NOT. :P If there had ever been a sliver of a chance that I would use Bing, it is gone now, because that was seriously obnoxious. Ugh. But anyway: TEAM. Also, Chin and Danny in the bar was the BEST EVER. And I'm so glad Sang Min helped them out; that scene at the end where he was watching his wife and son at the beach was very sweet, and only a little anvilicious.
And Danny and Steve just about made my head EXPLODE OFF MY NECK. That exchange - outside the prison? - was just priceless. I cannot believe Danny literally used their love to make Steve understand why he was still defending his old partner. And at the end! "I know you didn't know him-" "I know you." HEARTS IN MY EYES. :DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD Love!
I am still pressing forward on my NaNo, though it is turning into a bit more of a slog - Week Two is usually like that for me, though, so I'm not super worried. I have a couple days' slack, so if I really get stuck, I can slow down a little and still be okay. I'm also polishing up the Dead Moms, and adding a few more; if I get it all settled, I'm hoping I can submit it for Round 1.5 of
ladiesbigbang - with an actual title, too, if I can manage it. It's certainly over the minimum, so. I'll admit that I have not yet attacked the next chapter of ItO, but I'm doing a little outline wrangling - I have a fix in mind for the plotting issue that's confronting me, I just need to lay it out in a doc and make sure it all fits together okay.
... And, okay, I may also be letting myself fill out a couple cliché_bingo prompts with rambly self-indulgent Jack/David. I am just getting the Newsies stuff out of my head so that it doesn't clog up the works, okay. THAT IS ALL. >.> <.<
[crossposted; original at Dreamwidth]
I think part of the reason I'm having trouble keeping track of this week is because our magic box TV is broken - not, like, the actual television set itself, but something about the connection between the set and the dish. It maintains that it has not received a satellite signal for about two days now. :P Probably the roofing guys just kicked the cable out of the delicate alignment it requires to function. On the upside, this will give us an excuse to rewire so the cable is taking a route that's actually efficient, instead of winding around three-quarters of the house just to get back into the one-quarter it hadn't touched yet.
Fortunately, it was only broken for part of Monday, so I missed neither The Event nor H50.
I'm kind of tangled up in this show, now - it's like Twilight, I need to hang on long enough to find out what happens so I can gripe about it properly. If I'm going to dislike this show, dammit, I'm going to do it well.
I still can't figure out what the hell they think they're doing, besides doing their best to emulate Lost without investing nearly as much time or effort making their characters interesting. The revelation that Sophia is That One Morally Gray Alien Guy's mother, and possibly the mother of more/all the other detainees, is ... kind of contextless, and therefore not really all that much of a revelation. I mean, unless it's supposed to be some kind of surprise that aliens have families, or something? Maybe they're hinting at some kind of beehive-esque Queen Mother structure to the alien society? I don't know. And the thing about the files and Blond Reporter-ish Lady and everything was ... just sort of yawn.
I think the biggest thing that bugs me about it is how little tension I'm feeling, for whatever reason. I should be worried about these people, and I'm not. Well, okay, I was a little worried about Simon; him, I am actually a little interested in. And I'm interested in Sophia, Assassin Lady, and Girlfriend, except pretty much nothing is happening with any of them. I don't know, maybe I'm just not their target audience. :P
OMGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG. That was AWESOME. Sierra/Priya, so nice to see you again! She did a wonderful job selling the mingled grief and frustration, I thought, without beating me over the head with it. And I loved that Kono and Chin went to talk to her and her kid. All PoC, and none of them had committed the crime! That was lovely. Also, her kid was mad adorable.
They were all incredibly hot in the gallery scene, although, jesus, could that Bing product placement have been any more INTRUSIVELY OBVIOUS. NO IT COULD NOT. :P If there had ever been a sliver of a chance that I would use Bing, it is gone now, because that was seriously obnoxious. Ugh. But anyway: TEAM. Also, Chin and Danny in the bar was the BEST EVER. And I'm so glad Sang Min helped them out; that scene at the end where he was watching his wife and son at the beach was very sweet, and only a little anvilicious.
And Danny and Steve just about made my head EXPLODE OFF MY NECK. That exchange - outside the prison? - was just priceless. I cannot believe Danny literally used their love to make Steve understand why he was still defending his old partner. And at the end! "I know you didn't know him-" "I know you." HEARTS IN MY EYES. :DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD Love!
I am still pressing forward on my NaNo, though it is turning into a bit more of a slog - Week Two is usually like that for me, though, so I'm not super worried. I have a couple days' slack, so if I really get stuck, I can slow down a little and still be okay. I'm also polishing up the Dead Moms, and adding a few more; if I get it all settled, I'm hoping I can submit it for Round 1.5 of
ladiesbigbang - with an actual title, too, if I can manage it. It's certainly over the minimum, so. I'll admit that I have not yet attacked the next chapter of ItO, but I'm doing a little outline wrangling - I have a fix in mind for the plotting issue that's confronting me, I just need to lay it out in a doc and make sure it all fits together okay.
... And, okay, I may also be letting myself fill out a couple cliché_bingo prompts with rambly self-indulgent Jack/David. I am just getting the Newsies stuff out of my head so that it doesn't clog up the works, okay. THAT IS ALL. >.> <.<
[crossposted; original at Dreamwidth]