"Did you grow up in a public service announcement?"
Awesome!
- Having plane tickets to the bitchinparty! We're coming in Thursday; will anybody else be around that early?
- asta77 having plane tickets to San Francisco! She's going to get the full Beloved Money Pit experience. (Hint: don't turn the bathroom doorknob or you could be trapped forever.)
- These shoes. via The Manolo
- This story about dogs from Michael Vick's ( Read more... )
I think I got through half of the remaining episodes that one weekend where I had the terrible cold. Without many new shows on at this point, I'm mostly watching DVDs in my TV-watching time now. Up next: Slings & Arrows.
He's such a great character, and CKR plays him so very well. I think he gets the best arc of any of the characters in those last seasons, and it's a nice grounding influence.
One of the things I really liked both about Ray K's character arc and "Call of the Wild" in general was the circularity. Ray was introduced as Ray Vecchio, having stepped into his life; he had to build his own relationship with Fraser, though. So having the real Ray Vecchio show up to reclaim his place was just perfect, both to give us a chance to say Hi to Ray V and to give Ray K the motivation he needed to start carving out his own life, as whatever he has become, which was not Stanley Kowalski, but isn't really Ray Vecchio either. The whole issue of identity played out so well there.
(And Ray V's part in "Call of the Wild" was a little rushed, and a little segregated from the rest of the action, but I hadn't expected to see him again at all. And since both Rays were the sarcastic half of the Ray/Fraser duo, it was intensely amusing to see how different their styles of sarcasm are when they actually met face-to-face.)
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So having the real Ray Vecchio show up to reclaim his place was just perfect, both to give us a chance to say Hi to Ray V and to give Ray K the motivation he needed to start carving out his own life, as whatever he has become, which was not Stanley Kowalski, but isn't really Ray Vecchio either.
Yes, exactly! It's very neatly done.
since both Rays were the sarcastic half of the Ray/Fraser duo, it was intensely amusing to see how different their styles of sarcasm are when they actually met face-to-face
Heee, yes. They're so alike in some ways, and very different in others. (I'm totally suppressing my whole Ray/Ray ship manifesto right now. I want you to appreciate my effort. Hee.) It's kind of amazing how weirdly connected they are, given their lack of screen time together--so when they meet, there's the jockeying for position, but there's also the fact that they get things about each other that no one else is going to get. The undercover thing, the experience of being Fraser's partner--I love the idea of them getting together for a beer and going, "He licked what?" and "He helped who?" and comparing baking accident scars and whatnot, for HOURS. And I think when Fraser claps them on the shoulders and says "I knew you'd get along," he's not kidding or being naïve; he's actually right--they go from shoving and arguing to working together very quickly. It's a neat dimension to the Ray switch that makes me that much gladder they brought Vecchio back.
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I noticed that. Hee.
so when they meet, there's the jockeying for position, but there's also the fact that they get things about each other that no one else is going to get.
I liked that they immediately connected as cops, because that is such a strong part of both of their identities, and the way they both connected to Fraser at first. I totally agree with you that FRaser wasn't kidding or being naive, and you could tell that he was more pleased than anything in the world that he was right.
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Yes! It's totally that thrill you get when two of your friends hit it off, only even more so because they're his family, them and Maggie, and I would imagine he's just overjoyed that they like each other. (If unsurprised, I think, knowing them both as well as he does.)
It makes me really happy.
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