The backs of my eyes hum with things I've never done.

[daygloparker]

1. I already Tumblr'd (Tumblred? Tumbled?) about L&O UK, but it's my social media synergistic identity so I'll cry if I want to, etc. Also because the downside of trying to sound at least 50% smart and semi-professional is that these type of thoughts have to go SOMEWHERE.

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[aj]

RIGHT. So, I'm starting on the Mike and Connie show. When'd that start again?

In other news, oh, West Wing. I've been pondering a rewatch. It's been many moons since I've seen that show and I'm kind of hankering for it. (I went to DC and now am all "AW, BONES. AW, WEST WING.")

YOU SHOULD POST HERE MORE BECAUSE YOU AMUSE ME, BTW.

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EEEEEEEE! Season 18! I could recommend some choice episodes, but they're all pretty great so I won't. YOU'LL JUST HAVE TO WATCH THEM ALL. (Plus, The Mike and Connie Show is largely only half the fun. I loved the Law half, too. Lupo's introduction to the show is one of the better ones in L&O history, and him and Bernard later on are ace. Favorite: Van Buren basically tells them they've turned into slobby dressers, etc., so the next episode until the end of the season/series, they are always clean-shaven and wearing nice suits. Basically - Season 20 was AMAZING, ALL AROUND. Connie tries to quit!)

I'd been eyeing a TWW rewatch for ages, and baggers eventually pushed me over the edge. I had never watched past the end of Season 4, and had previously just watch choice (cough Josh/Donna) scenes on YT. Which isn't to say I still didn't skip all over large portions of Season 6. Just saying.

(My favorite part about DC: THE BONES BAR IS REAL. I WENT AND HAD A MOMENT OF FLAIL.)

I shall try. Just for you, I shall try.

[liminalliz]

oh noooooooo but i want your mad men thoughts cry cry cry cry

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All the Peggy/Joan stuff: OH MY HEART. It's weird that I kind of side with both of them - Peggy was absolutely right to fire Joey, even if Joan was sort of handling him in her own way (which wasn't really handling it, just strategically ignoring it then quietly making Joey go away). I want to go back in time and let Joan keep her small copywriting job, because SHE WAS SO HAPPY WHEN SHE HAD IT. Now she is Old Wave, and Peggy is New Wave, and being married to the rapist is not as fulfilling as she hoped it would be :( :( :( :(

The narration/film noir/Don swims metaphorical pretentious laps in a pool because he is DISCOVERING HIMSELF: oh what the fuck was that even.

(Also: re "The Suitcase" - would Don beat up Pete if he ever found out that he got Peggy pregnant? Uhh... yup. Probably.)

IS THIS BETTER? *BOUNCES*?

[liminalliz]

MUCH MOAR BETTER, THANKS. I literally only watched the scenes with Joan and Peggy and after reading the ew.com recap, I'm kinda glad I did.

JOAN. I WAS SO HEARTBROKEN FOR HER and sad in my sooooooul about how "women just don't have a sense of humor!" has just NEVER GONE AWAY. EVER. And probably won't! I flailed about in that final elevator scene because Joan had a point; but so much of her fire aimed at Peggy was just because hitting another woman is easier than lashing out in another, more prudent direction? IDK? OH JOAN. I'm made of sadeface since that ep.

THE SUITCASE. omg Don and Peggy and Don and Peggy and Don and Peggy. <3

XOXO

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I'm a fan of most of the crazy things Mad Men does (The Decemberists! <333333), but this was too much. I don't care if it's based on some fancy short stories or whatever - I am very intelligent, I like to think, and I don't think I should need to have read some other thing to enjoy this thing. On my television. With, honestly, pretty clothes and people.

Every season, you think Joan is finally gonna COME INTO HER OWN AND RUN THIS BITCH, and more and more... Joany has drank the shitty Kool-Aid! She still dresses the same, and wears the same pen necklace and the same hair every day while all the other ladies are getting new hairdos and wearing comfier clothes. THIS PLAN IS GONNA WORK, GOD DAMMIT. IT HAS TO. :(

[grenadine]

In conclusion, show, you should give Harriet Walter something to do.

God, seriously. Although last week was technically a George episode, so I'm hoping there'll at least be a matching one for Natalie.

Question. So, do you think it's legit to talk about shipping at all outside of Livejournal? Like, I mean, not in terms of going rabid all over the place as is our time-honored tradition in LJ fandom, but talking about shipping in terms of what a show is doing with its romances? If I write Character A/Character B on Tumblr, is anyone outside of fandom going to know what that is? (I sort of want a more general-subject Tumblr, to be honest, but I still would like to talk about TV on it, and for better or worse, fandom is where I learned to talk about television.)

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Homegirl has never had a storyline! Not even the ubiquitous "DI Chandler's life is very difficult because the CPS is never satisfied" go-to! There's a very strong early Anita episode, in which she kills (in self-defense, she claims) two young kids who were trying to mug her at an ATM, so - I DON'T KNOW SHOW, JUST DO THAT? MAYBE? I really don't care, just do something.

In terms of Tumblr: I think it's a larger issue, of vocabulary. What is "shipping"? For instance - I ship Nicola/Malcolm... but what does this mean to me? On a raw understandable fandom level, it means that I totally have an unfinished fic where they make out accidentally (uh. a- ...about that). But it also means that I like their scenes a whole lot; I like their dynamic. What would motivate you to read a gen or PG-rated fic about a ship that doesn't feature making out or sexytimes, but it is still fundamentally that ship? That's usually how I talk about television on Tumblr without using fandom vocabulary.

Also, Alan Sepinwall started as a NYPD Blue fanboy. An honest-

[grenadine]

What would motivate you to read a gen or PG-rated fic about a ship that doesn't feature making out or sexytimes, but it is still fundamentally that ship? That's usually how I talk about television on Tumblr without using fandom vocabulary.

That...makes perfect sense! Especially considering that all the fic I ever write is the fic you describe just there. (YOU ARE SUCH A TEASE, BTW. Is any of it available for preview? *bats eyelashes*) Tumblr is so weird because on the one hand you've got the Great LJ Fannish Migration going on, and on the other...Newsweek. (Plus a ton of fairly serious music criticism, which is part of what's making me think about this.) And I don't know how those things go together yet, or if they do at all, and which side of that dividing line a Tumblr that's doing more long-form TV criticism would go on.

Alan Sepinwall started as a NYPD Blue fanboy. An honest-to-God wrote fanfic, ran a fan site, probably would have been an annoying super-fan on Twitter if it existed in 1995 FANBOY.

AHAHAHAHAHA, THAT IS AMAZING.

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(HERE IS WHAT I WILL SAY ON THE SUBJECT: it's still your birthday jubilee? It's- ...yes.)

MAN. And here is also what I love about Tumblr: serious music criticism, REALLY? I've seen none of that. It's amazing how once you pick whatever you vein you choose to pursue (me: mostly entertainment; somewhat political), you are set. I figure, unless you personally reblogged it, I probably would never see it (since this must mean we have no related Tumblrs in common). Your Dashboard is whatever community you want to create it to be!

Hehehe, the Great Livejournal Migration. I feel like they are all suddenly realizing that Tumblr doesn't care that they want to just post their pretty pictures over and over again, oh my god? That it might actually care more if they had something to say on top of them? /cynical

[eolivet]

"Broken" is based on "Killerz,"

ARGH! That's "Jenny hit him -- Jenny hit him with a rock," right? That girl (and that ep) was cree-py. I found myself not sympathizing with that girl at all, no matter how much the family court wanted me to. I was sorry for her crappy upbringing (Mary Mara played her mom, didn't she?) but the fact that she was luring another boy at the end... :shudders:

I'm glad they changed the ending, because the original sure made Jenny seem incapable of redemption (or remorse). :x

Is Tumblr your more serious TV blog or is that still to come? :)

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The wonderful thing that L&O UK does is that girl-perp is still very creepy, but the nuanced grey between "is she fundamentally this way?" and "is she just the by-product of an extremely disturbed homelife?" is much more, well, nuanced? Her creep factor is toned down just enough. (OH MY GOD, the last scene of "Killerz." The way she looks at that little boy! Still haunting.) Even though the law puts away the guilty party, and even though she's guilty, there is a huge sense of "wow, that still does NOT feel good in any way."

Is Tumblr your more serious TV blog or is that still to come? :)

it wasn't meant to be, but it sort of has become...? Tumblr amazes me sometimes. NEWSWEEK! Newsweek has a Tumblr. That fact blows my mind even still.