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I'm not doing well, guys, not well at all. I've been alone a lot lately, which is usually fine as long as I have something to get lost in, but currently I don't and so I'm not fine. I've gotten myself hooked on audiobooks, non-fiction for starters cause fiction is weird to listen to, so the last couple of nights I've been poking around in WoW mostly aimlessly, leveling some baby hunters that I'm not that into, and listening to (mainly) philosophy books. This is not a good combination with winter and loneliness for me, to understate things completely. Philosophy makes me go dark, black-hole-dark, cause being a depressed pessimist is really not a good foundation on which to ponder the mysteries of life. I need distraction, this time of year more than ever, and so naturally WoW chooses this month to go completely and utterly quiet and boring. Of course.
Only life raft at the moment = TV, atleast most shows are back/coming back soon and there's enough of them to fill atleast a couple of hours in the evening. I really wish I had something to marathon though, I crave it like a crackaddict tbh, but I'm not hopeful about the prospects of finding something I haven't already seen. You'd think finding Person of Interest would pursuade me that's not the case, but: pessimist. It was probably just the one show I hadn't discovered yet and all other shows are horrible.
This week's episode btw was fantastic. I love how this show wastes no time and pulls no punches, they don't make anything easy - actually when Donnelly caught up with Carter and Reese at the end there I was about to scream "OH COME ON" before it became clear it was just a lead-up - and they can somehow manage an episode of continuity, humor and nailbiting thrilleryness (it's a word!). I saw a preview post on ONTD about the episode that said Fusco was going to be babysitting a supermodel and while I like the dude plently I honestly was NOT looking forward to an whole episode of that, so imagine my delight when it turned out to just be sprinkled in every now and then as awesome, perfect comic relief. Him getting beat up by her and then later jumping out from behind that car covering her with a hail of bullets... Legit LOLs, of the very OL sort.
Also ridiculously perfect: John and Carter's interrogations (especially the "I just want to go home" bit), the reunion with Bear's former owner, Elias having John's back, Bear making that adorable whining sound when Finch had John talking up on the computer screen, and most of all: Finch going all fullscale Prison Break in order to bust John out. I love how these two are turning into the Winchester brothers, only without the shared DNA and super-mega-uber-angst - saving each other to the point of recklessness. And then NOT having lengthy tearfilled soulsearching talks on top of carhoods, and instead blowing up said cars. If SPN was more like this, I'd totally start watching it again.
I *think* the show is on hiatus for a week or so now, which: NO. NONONONO, NOT COOL. And not just because of that cliffhanger, although that was meeeean, but because this is the only show at the moment that completely grabs me when I watch it, makes time fly etc etc. Castle and NCIS:LA and the comedies are fun, but they don't have that effect on me and I depend on that effect to get me through the winter. :/
Elementary this week on the other hand... Myeah, not sure about that episode. Or: I'm pretty sure that I'm sure that I didn't like it. For a second it felt like the bottom had dropped out of the show, tbh, for a second I seriously almost rage-quitted on it completely, and that's never a good thing - no matter what the payoff. And the payoff here wasn't that great, either, introducing Irene as Sherlock's dead ex girlfriend and not much more was a bad move for one thing and even worse to make her just a chesspiece in the big Moriarty game. The Sherlock canon doesn't have many original characters so it seems an unnecessary waste, and although I have a pretty good hunch she'll turn out to be not-dead (either working with Moriarty or faking her death to escape him/something) that's not really much better. This just wasn't a great way to introduce Moriarty, for me, Sherlock came across as looking a bit dense in not figuring the guy might have been an assassin and of course the worst part was him about to commit coldblooded murder. I have only read about half of the original Sherlock stories, but judging from that and the various adaptations I've seen I can't accept him as a murderer. Killer maybe, in self-defense or defense of others sure, but as hunting down someone and keeping him from the polis? Nope, lame. Also, I have the biggest pet peeve about righteous vendettas carried out for relationships and characters we've never seen. Atleast throw in some fucking flashbacks if you want us to even remotely accept a main characters intention of straight-up murder, unless it's Dexter - and even that show has flashbacks and a motivational backstory.
Also hated the non-solution to the sober companion problem - sure, she won't be getting paid, but aside from that nothing's changed. She's still his keeper, not his friend or partner-in-crime-solving. Way to fiscal cliff that problem, writers (real life economics reference, whutwhut! I know, I watch too much Daily Show).
I know this'll sound whiny and self-pitying (although hello, have you met me?), but: I miss having friends. Friends that are around and does stuff, I don't even care what stuff as long as it's moderately fun and not done solo and requiring audiobook companionship. I mean, I'm liking the audiobooks - way overdue for a brain exercising - but I don't like needing them in order to keep my mind busy. (The way they keep my mind busy is not that great, either, but atleast I'm learning stuff.)
Only life raft at the moment = TV, atleast most shows are back/coming back soon and there's enough of them to fill atleast a couple of hours in the evening. I really wish I had something to marathon though, I crave it like a crackaddict tbh, but I'm not hopeful about the prospects of finding something I haven't already seen. You'd think finding Person of Interest would pursuade me that's not the case, but: pessimist. It was probably just the one show I hadn't discovered yet and all other shows are horrible.
This week's episode btw was fantastic. I love how this show wastes no time and pulls no punches, they don't make anything easy - actually when Donnelly caught up with Carter and Reese at the end there I was about to scream "OH COME ON" before it became clear it was just a lead-up - and they can somehow manage an episode of continuity, humor and nailbiting thrilleryness (it's a word!). I saw a preview post on ONTD about the episode that said Fusco was going to be babysitting a supermodel and while I like the dude plently I honestly was NOT looking forward to an whole episode of that, so imagine my delight when it turned out to just be sprinkled in every now and then as awesome, perfect comic relief. Him getting beat up by her and then later jumping out from behind that car covering her with a hail of bullets... Legit LOLs, of the very OL sort.
Also ridiculously perfect: John and Carter's interrogations (especially the "I just want to go home" bit), the reunion with Bear's former owner, Elias having John's back, Bear making that adorable whining sound when Finch had John talking up on the computer screen, and most of all: Finch going all fullscale Prison Break in order to bust John out. I love how these two are turning into the Winchester brothers, only without the shared DNA and super-mega-uber-angst - saving each other to the point of recklessness. And then NOT having lengthy tearfilled soulsearching talks on top of carhoods, and instead blowing up said cars. If SPN was more like this, I'd totally start watching it again.
I *think* the show is on hiatus for a week or so now, which: NO. NONONONO, NOT COOL. And not just because of that cliffhanger, although that was meeeean, but because this is the only show at the moment that completely grabs me when I watch it, makes time fly etc etc. Castle and NCIS:LA and the comedies are fun, but they don't have that effect on me and I depend on that effect to get me through the winter. :/
Elementary this week on the other hand... Myeah, not sure about that episode. Or: I'm pretty sure that I'm sure that I didn't like it. For a second it felt like the bottom had dropped out of the show, tbh, for a second I seriously almost rage-quitted on it completely, and that's never a good thing - no matter what the payoff. And the payoff here wasn't that great, either, introducing Irene as Sherlock's dead ex girlfriend and not much more was a bad move for one thing and even worse to make her just a chesspiece in the big Moriarty game. The Sherlock canon doesn't have many original characters so it seems an unnecessary waste, and although I have a pretty good hunch she'll turn out to be not-dead (either working with Moriarty or faking her death to escape him/something) that's not really much better. This just wasn't a great way to introduce Moriarty, for me, Sherlock came across as looking a bit dense in not figuring the guy might have been an assassin and of course the worst part was him about to commit coldblooded murder. I have only read about half of the original Sherlock stories, but judging from that and the various adaptations I've seen I can't accept him as a murderer. Killer maybe, in self-defense or defense of others sure, but as hunting down someone and keeping him from the polis? Nope, lame. Also, I have the biggest pet peeve about righteous vendettas carried out for relationships and characters we've never seen. Atleast throw in some fucking flashbacks if you want us to even remotely accept a main characters intention of straight-up murder, unless it's Dexter - and even that show has flashbacks and a motivational backstory.
Also hated the non-solution to the sober companion problem - sure, she won't be getting paid, but aside from that nothing's changed. She's still his keeper, not his friend or partner-in-crime-solving. Way to fiscal cliff that problem, writers (real life economics reference, whutwhut! I know, I watch too much Daily Show).
I know this'll sound whiny and self-pitying (although hello, have you met me?), but: I miss having friends. Friends that are around and does stuff, I don't even care what stuff as long as it's moderately fun and not done solo and requiring audiobook companionship. I mean, I'm liking the audiobooks - way overdue for a brain exercising - but I don't like needing them in order to keep my mind busy. (The way they keep my mind busy is not that great, either, but atleast I'm learning stuff.)