Burns as Goa'uld!
= Ya know, I really hate mornings. A lot. I suppose they would be better if I was able to get a lot more sleep the night before. But as it is, I'm just a huge grump because waking up so early is the last thing I want to do. *yawn*
= My local radio station has a serious hard-on for Eva Longoria. Well, rather, they have a frequent guest in the morning (some comedy troupe chick named Kiki) who's super best friends with Eva. So they've gotten her in the studio a lot and she's auctioned herself off (a celebrity date) for their charity things, etc. This morning, Kiki comes on and says that Eva is taping Oprah tomorrow. With Tony. And her entire family. Weh? Anyway. It gets better. Or more weird. So the DJ guy says, "I thought she was going out with.. uh.." (and yes, for a second I thought he'd say JC) "...Jamie Foxx?" and he explains the rumors going around since the Golden Globes. Kiki says that no no no, Eva and Jamie were just hanging out like ALL celebrities hang out. lol And also that on GG night, Tony Parker was on the phone with Jamie telling him, "Take care of my girl, take care of my girl!" Not only that. But that Tony Parker is a rapper in France (I really could've gone my entire life without knowing that) and that he's actually worked with Jamie in the past, so it's allll fine, no problems. This Kiki woman is like free spin patrol for Eva, it was kinda funny.
= Don't you hate it when you just can feel the manipulation dripping off of every word someone says? And you still let it get to you? Ugh. (This is work-related, btw, not a cryptic LJ statement.)
= Not feeling very fandomy lately. I think I'm mostly in waiting mode. All this other small stuff means very little to me. I'm kinda sitting here twidling my thumbs until some records or movies come out and I can fall butt-crazy in love with them again. Or maybe I'm just grumpy today, I can't tell. It's definitely one or the other, though.
= So I now officially have seen all 187 episodes of SG1. I started at the end of November, and almost 2 months later, I'm all caught up, having just finished watching Season 8 last night. Whew. What a universe. I'm so in love with it, it's ridiculous. And now, just a couple of thoughts about Season 8, nothing too thorough.
Coming off of Season 7, which was a bit of a disappointment, I wasn't sure what to expect. But the first 6 episodes of S8 really impressed me and I was thrilled with how it was going. It wasn't the classic team interaction, but it seemed more even and cohesive than S7. Then episodes 7-14 were kindof boring and uninteresting to me (And I have so many thoughts about Prometheus Unbound, boy oh boy), even though they did cover some important stuff. So I was thinking "oh god, don't suck, please don't suck the rest of the season" and thankfully episodes 15-20 did a complete 180 and were, very possibly, in my own very humble opinion, 5 of their best episodes that they've ever strung together. And to find that in late Season 8 was such a wonderful surprise!
"Citizen Joe" was sooo much more than a clip show. I loved how self-referential they were, and I know that some people thought the writers were mocking the fans, but I thought they were saying, "Hey, we hear you. Maybe we can't always do things the way you'd like, but we HEAR you." and as a viewer, that's pretty much all I can ask for. I mean, when Joe saw the flash of Daniel dying and was just SO sad and crying and all that, I was both touched and rolling around in laughter. And then when he saw that he was alive and jumped around all happy? God, that was worth it. But really, there were SO many little inside jabs, I could barely keep them all straight.
JOE: Doctor Jackson, can I just say, thank goodness you're back. (He shakes his hand.) Not that Jonas was a bad guy, but after all you've been through together, you belong here with SG-1.
Awwwww!! He was like one of us! And he got to say that TO Daniel ON the show? It was just really brilliantly constructed, the whole story around it, and how they incorporated it into a clip show. I loved it.
And then they followed that up with Reckoning 1 and 2, Threads, and Moebius 1 and 2, and they were all just amazing. I know I need to watch them again and properly write down my thoughts, but they really REALLY could've ended the series on these episodes and I think most people would've been pretty satisfied. What a wonderful batch of episodes. I won't lie when I say that I kindof teared up at seeing Teal'c and Bra'tak finally win the freedom of the Jaffa. All I could keep thinking was how far he'd come, how that one decision back in the pilot to turn on his own and trust Jack effectively changed the lives of thousands of Jaffa. It was so beautiful.
SIGH.
I love this show so much.
= I get off in a few minutes and I want to go home and go to sleep, but I have errands to run instead. Bah. When did this become my life? Have a great day. :)
= My local radio station has a serious hard-on for Eva Longoria. Well, rather, they have a frequent guest in the morning (some comedy troupe chick named Kiki) who's super best friends with Eva. So they've gotten her in the studio a lot and she's auctioned herself off (a celebrity date) for their charity things, etc. This morning, Kiki comes on and says that Eva is taping Oprah tomorrow. With Tony. And her entire family. Weh? Anyway. It gets better. Or more weird. So the DJ guy says, "I thought she was going out with.. uh.." (and yes, for a second I thought he'd say JC) "...Jamie Foxx?" and he explains the rumors going around since the Golden Globes. Kiki says that no no no, Eva and Jamie were just hanging out like ALL celebrities hang out. lol And also that on GG night, Tony Parker was on the phone with Jamie telling him, "Take care of my girl, take care of my girl!" Not only that. But that Tony Parker is a rapper in France (I really could've gone my entire life without knowing that) and that he's actually worked with Jamie in the past, so it's allll fine, no problems. This Kiki woman is like free spin patrol for Eva, it was kinda funny.
= Don't you hate it when you just can feel the manipulation dripping off of every word someone says? And you still let it get to you? Ugh. (This is work-related, btw, not a cryptic LJ statement.)
= Not feeling very fandomy lately. I think I'm mostly in waiting mode. All this other small stuff means very little to me. I'm kinda sitting here twidling my thumbs until some records or movies come out and I can fall butt-crazy in love with them again. Or maybe I'm just grumpy today, I can't tell. It's definitely one or the other, though.
= So I now officially have seen all 187 episodes of SG1. I started at the end of November, and almost 2 months later, I'm all caught up, having just finished watching Season 8 last night. Whew. What a universe. I'm so in love with it, it's ridiculous. And now, just a couple of thoughts about Season 8, nothing too thorough.
Coming off of Season 7, which was a bit of a disappointment, I wasn't sure what to expect. But the first 6 episodes of S8 really impressed me and I was thrilled with how it was going. It wasn't the classic team interaction, but it seemed more even and cohesive than S7. Then episodes 7-14 were kindof boring and uninteresting to me (And I have so many thoughts about Prometheus Unbound, boy oh boy), even though they did cover some important stuff. So I was thinking "oh god, don't suck, please don't suck the rest of the season" and thankfully episodes 15-20 did a complete 180 and were, very possibly, in my own very humble opinion, 5 of their best episodes that they've ever strung together. And to find that in late Season 8 was such a wonderful surprise!
"Citizen Joe" was sooo much more than a clip show. I loved how self-referential they were, and I know that some people thought the writers were mocking the fans, but I thought they were saying, "Hey, we hear you. Maybe we can't always do things the way you'd like, but we HEAR you." and as a viewer, that's pretty much all I can ask for. I mean, when Joe saw the flash of Daniel dying and was just SO sad and crying and all that, I was both touched and rolling around in laughter. And then when he saw that he was alive and jumped around all happy? God, that was worth it. But really, there were SO many little inside jabs, I could barely keep them all straight.
JOE: Doctor Jackson, can I just say, thank goodness you're back. (He shakes his hand.) Not that Jonas was a bad guy, but after all you've been through together, you belong here with SG-1.
Awwwww!! He was like one of us! And he got to say that TO Daniel ON the show? It was just really brilliantly constructed, the whole story around it, and how they incorporated it into a clip show. I loved it.
And then they followed that up with Reckoning 1 and 2, Threads, and Moebius 1 and 2, and they were all just amazing. I know I need to watch them again and properly write down my thoughts, but they really REALLY could've ended the series on these episodes and I think most people would've been pretty satisfied. What a wonderful batch of episodes. I won't lie when I say that I kindof teared up at seeing Teal'c and Bra'tak finally win the freedom of the Jaffa. All I could keep thinking was how far he'd come, how that one decision back in the pilot to turn on his own and trust Jack effectively changed the lives of thousands of Jaffa. It was so beautiful.
SIGH.
I love this show so much.
= I get off in a few minutes and I want to go home and go to sleep, but I have errands to run instead. Bah. When did this become my life? Have a great day. :)