Please don't do that again.
West Wing: Transition
All right, that was almost too meta to handle.
Josh retrieving Sam for a job almost exactly like he did in "In the Shadow of Two Gunmen" and both character POINT OUT that it's a callback. Sam's getting married again! Josh thinks Santos is the real deal! HELLO AT ONE POINT JOSH MADE A GAY JOKE ABOUT THEIR RELATIONSHIP LIKE WHAAAAAATTTTTTT. All they needed were the morning hotdogs (HEE). (I don't understand why everyone seems to want to think that Sam's marrying Laurie, though. He said that moving to DC would mean his fiancee having to take the bar again, which obviously means that she's only able to practice law in CALIFORNIA. And since Laurie graduated from law school at the end of S1 and DC is according to Josh "the lawyer capital of the world" or something, I'm pretty sure she took the bar in DC. Or Maryland or Virginia or, you know, SOMEPLACE THAT'S NOT CALIFORNIA.) But, you know, am I the only one who thinks Sam sort of seemed like a bit of an asshole? Not that, you know, I minded or anything-- if anything, YAYE for being slightly prickish, but... I don't know. Maybe it's just Rob Lowe's, err, acting style.
(Ummmm... way to still not explain why Sam wasn't at the funeral, guys! Awesome.)
I can't believe there were no scenes of Sam running into other people he knew! Like, at the very least, I expected one with him and Donna, in which Donna hugs him and it's sort of causal until Sam asks about Josh and it's totally one of those awkward moments because she doesn't know if Josh told Sam about them or if SHE should tell him, or-- you know, THAT KIND OF STUFF.
SPEAKING OF JOSH AND DONNA. Okay. These two, they're... they're kind of like the bag of gleeful puppies that is Jim and Pam, except for the whole part where Donna shows up at Josh's to sex him out of his jetlag/craziness. OH MY GOD YOU GUYS. Also, they're going on vacation together. To something tropical. Without Josh's Blackberry. Where, presumably, they're probably not going to spend a lot of time during normal beach activities. IF YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN. !!!!!!!!!! agjfhkdhana !!!!!!!!!!!. Yes. Carry on.
(VACATION. TOGETHER. THEY MADE OUT ON A PLAAAAAAAAANE. They're probably going to be, like, married and having a kid by the time we flashforward to the dedication of Bartlet's library, aren't they? CAN YOU IMAGINE THAT?!)
One slightly negative thought: Vinick as VP is the stupidest, most politically implausible thing I HAVE EVER HEARD OF. I'm sorry, TWW, but while I can let you bend the rules when it comes to West Wing staffers sticking around far too long or the fact that the American public evidently doesn't care that you want to staff your new administration for practically everyone from the old one... I cannot let this stand. FOR GOD'S SAKE WE AMENDED THE CONSTITUTION SPECIFICALLY TO PREVENT THINGS LIKE THIS FROM HAPPENING. Just... no.
He is a Republican! I don't care how moderate he is or how moderate you are, Santos, VINICK IS A REPUBLICAN ALSO KNOWN AS THE PARTY THAT YOU ARE NOT. Nobody likes an ambitious VP who wants to put his own political aspirations ahead of the President's agenda in the first place, and there's NO WAY IN HELL anyone's going to want to tolerate an ambitious VP who doesn't even play for the same team. At some point, when Hoynes was being annoying in Bartlet's first term, it was because he wanted to be President FOUR YEARS FROM THEN. Not the next election. (All right, nevermind the MS thing. IT STILL WORKS.)
So, so, so stupid.
VINICK: HE WON'T BE LIKE AARON BURR, WE SWEAR/HOPE.
Ummm.... I can't believe I have coherent thoughts again about West Wing. Fuck, I can't believe I am ACTIVELY WATCHING AND COMMENTING ON West Wing again. See, you give a girl a little RST and she CAN'T RESIST.
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Doctor Who: Tooth and Claw
TENNYSON REFERENCE IN THE TITLE. Fucking A, yo.
The short list:
-- That teaser was incredible. I am such a sucker for Crouching Tiger/The Matrix fighting-and-flying colorful stuff, but WHATEVS SO AWESOME. Also, anyone who is surprised by ninja monks has clearly never watched Alias.
-- NINJA MONKS.
-- David's real Scottish accent followed by Rose's terrible horrible hilariously funny imitation was... well, I won't lie, I kind of snorted a little. Yeaahhhhhhhh.
-- HE. LICKED. THE. WALL. Yeah.
-- THE WALL. WITH HIS TONGUE.
-- Rose trying to get Victoria to say "I am not amused." That was great, if only to watch David's facial expressions everytime she failed. THEY HAVE SUCH RIDICULOUSLY AWESOME CHEMISTRY, OMG.
-- Yessssssssssssss, the glasses! Reading is important!!
-- You know, if Queen Victoria turned into a werewolk carrier, then that also means that the son of Tsar Nicholas, last tsar of Russia, was ALSO a werewolf. I don't know, but that's.... that's really vaguely hilarious.
-- omg they didn't forget about the Bad Wolf stuff!! You have to wonder how Rose is going to react when she finds out that she sort of became the TARDIS way back when. (She does not remember, right? I'm not making that up because I read it in a fic or something?)
-- I wasn't hallucinating, right? Queen Victoria's banishment speech was basically the exact same thing, word for word, that the Doctor told the Sycorax in "The Christmas Invasion", right? Oookay, just checking.
Oh Lordie, next week fandom's gonna mini-implode, innit? (It'll save the uber-implosion for the one with the French h0r lady.)