Watching Warehouse 13 Season 2
Jaime Murray as HG Wells: the bestest. Those suits. That accent. Hair up, hair down. That competence. Those skills of manipulation. That (ambiguous) evilness and gray morals (and/or insistence that the world adopt her morals). Unf. (That's like every one of my weaknesses, guys. In the mold of Melisande [Kushiel] and Europa [Monster Blood Tattoo] and Olivier [FMA] and any power badass I've fallen for in fiction, just seriously, this is the easiest way to win my fangirl heart: be a little power hungry and ambitious, be a little conflicted, be committed to it anyway, be assertive and leader material, but be a little squishy inside too and ooze charm like you can sweat it out of your pores. Oh, and be sex on a stick. Insta-love!)
Like I love how HG went on this long road trip and we see her in the car with her hair down. And then the next time we see her at her destination, she's donned and buttoned up this hot blazer and taken the time to pull her hair up into this super neat ponytail, the picture of evil-with-intent and "bitches get stuff done." Unf.
Claudia: *tries to imagine her Asian now, which is kinda really distracting, still wants to cuddle her, side-eyes all the romance stories, but it's much easier understanding Claudia tripping through her relationships and not getting very emotionally deep or connected than it is to for, say, the others, which, see below* LOL, she's still too young to buy a wine cooler, oh, this show.
Artie: *loves him with Claudia* But, like, dude, don't make promises you can't keep, yo. I kind of liked him sappily in love, writing the most awful poetry.
Pete: LOL, this Kelly story line! *doesn't care about it because there is obviously no development, because you don't even have conversations, just sex, which is cool, but we're supposed to believe there are ~feelings~ and what we've been shown is about as deep as a rain puddle--ROFL, this break up, so predictable and actually really stupid, why do you have to move out of the city and start a whole new life, Kelly, that seems like it's really troublesome to establish a whole new practice every time a relationship doesn't work out for you, Kelly, good job, show, for making me Not Care*
Myka: "A Cautionary Tale about the Dangers of Gay Love: Why You Need to Resist the Seductive Sexiness of Evil (That is The Gay)" I can't stop laughing inside at how much Myka wants to believe in HG (because maybe she kinda wants to bone her, but Myka can't bed/be bedded by evil, it would just go against her morals and self-worth. Wait, self-worth, can we talk about Myka being into the high school football team guy--did she say "captain" because I can't remember--seriously, Myka, that dude came off as interesting as Kelly did, I expected more of you, but it may have been a while for you because of the whole thing in DC, was it?, so I understand, I guess, but no, not really. Myka, you have excellent taste in women [and considering your last love was a peer and equal to you, this high school crush playing out in the present years and years after the fact when you've moved into "out of his league" territory is really confusing to me], I can't see how Mr. Football appealed to you at all) and how completely HG ruined her for her folly. Ruined her! LOLOLOLOLOLOL. This is what (gay) love will do to you! (Can we talk about how gay she looked in a wifebeater, ranting at Pete about how HG played her [again and again and again] and LOLOLOLOLOLOL.)
But HG and Myka aren't an actual love story, but one about betrayal of trust and whatnot, which is why it got some actual development instead of the pseudo-effort put into all the love entanglements on this show. The "family ties" dynamics are much more important on this show than developing outside connections, which is a bit frustrating, since that's just as legitimate part of the story to address, because if Myka is going to be happy for Pete, I want to feel like she has a reason to. I don't mean you need to waste storytelling time addressing the development of the romance, but give the romantic interest some actual character! And the romantic relationships actual dynamics! They're not even generic, they're just kind of . . . there without reason. I don't know if I can describe it without you just watching the show. It's also a very feel-good show, so we're not getting nitty-gritty, though the show certainly could go there with how much every one of these characters need psychiatric evaluations. Though maybe not Pete.
LIKE HONESTLY, HOW IS HG NOT RAVING, BLUBBERINGLY CRAZY AFTER DECADES TRAPPED IN HER OWN MIND??? Solitary confinement breaks people . . . now make that infinitely worse by immobilizing someone's body, OMG. I CAN'T EVEN IMAGINE HOW STARK RAVING MAD/INCOHERENT/BRAIN MUSH SOMEONE WOULD BE EVEN AFTER A YEAR OF THAT.
Anyway, I felt that there was not as much Leena this season, though more Mrs. F than Season 1. They read much more as background characters to me, so no real comment. I kind of like the cloud hanging over Claudia's head now as of 2x11, the implication that the whole system has already settled on her being Mrs. F's successor. Will she be Ms. Donovan to everyone in the future? XD Though in Season 2, Claudia is much more the center pivot for all the different parts of the Warehouse spokes, with HG being more Myka's tangent and the thorn in Artie's side.
Random, but I kept thinking this was a cartouche. In Egyptian hieroglyphs, the cartouche, the circle that encircles a group of hieroglyphs and is underwritten with a horizontal line (which is what is missing from that screencap of WH13 2x11), were for names, usually of royal persons. It was for protection! So while watching that episode, 2x11, I kept thinking, "But why would they put messages in a cartouche?" But I suppose it isn't a cartouche! The only reason I know this is because years ago I saw the King Tut (traveling?) exhibit where, among many amazing things, there was an awesome plaque showing how to read his name in hieroglyphs. (Tutankhamen. Surprise, there's an actual ankh in his name! It is awesome. People obviously should be getting Egyptian hieroglyph tattoos, not ones of Chinese characters.)
And just because it bears repeating: Unf, HG. Myka looks good in a suit too, but unf, HG.
ETA: Completely unrelated, but Yo, Tumblr peeps! Tumblr is apparently adding a chat feature, to be launched May 7th. You can sign up for it now. This is my tumblr. It's just "Lost Girl." I really just signed up so I could look at all the LG gifs and pretties, but apparently I got every other femmeslash fandom in the deal. (I am not kidding. I have seen pop up on my dash: Warehouse 13, Spartacus, Legend of the Seeker, Pretty Little Liars, Bomb Girls, Xena, Glee, Skins, Buffy, Mass Effect & other Bioware games, Adventure Time, Grey's Anatomy, Once Upon a Time, Defiance, True Blood?, Rizzoli & Isles, The L Word even popped up today, and I see some people shipping in Game of Thrones, apparently, because why not! This is from following 24 blogs I hopped onto to get LG stuff. The overlap of femmeslash fandoms!)
Like I love how HG went on this long road trip and we see her in the car with her hair down. And then the next time we see her at her destination, she's donned and buttoned up this hot blazer and taken the time to pull her hair up into this super neat ponytail, the picture of evil-with-intent and "bitches get stuff done." Unf.
Claudia: *tries to imagine her Asian now, which is kinda really distracting, still wants to cuddle her, side-eyes all the romance stories, but it's much easier understanding Claudia tripping through her relationships and not getting very emotionally deep or connected than it is to for, say, the others, which, see below* LOL, she's still too young to buy a wine cooler, oh, this show.
Artie: *loves him with Claudia* But, like, dude, don't make promises you can't keep, yo. I kind of liked him sappily in love, writing the most awful poetry.
Pete: LOL, this Kelly story line! *doesn't care about it because there is obviously no development, because you don't even have conversations, just sex, which is cool, but we're supposed to believe there are ~feelings~ and what we've been shown is about as deep as a rain puddle--ROFL, this break up, so predictable and actually really stupid, why do you have to move out of the city and start a whole new life, Kelly, that seems like it's really troublesome to establish a whole new practice every time a relationship doesn't work out for you, Kelly, good job, show, for making me Not Care*
Myka: "A Cautionary Tale about the Dangers of Gay Love: Why You Need to Resist the Seductive Sexiness of Evil (That is The Gay)" I can't stop laughing inside at how much Myka wants to believe in HG (because maybe she kinda wants to bone her, but Myka can't bed/be bedded by evil, it would just go against her morals and self-worth. Wait, self-worth, can we talk about Myka being into the high school football team guy--did she say "captain" because I can't remember--seriously, Myka, that dude came off as interesting as Kelly did, I expected more of you, but it may have been a while for you because of the whole thing in DC, was it?, so I understand, I guess, but no, not really. Myka, you have excellent taste in women [and considering your last love was a peer and equal to you, this high school crush playing out in the present years and years after the fact when you've moved into "out of his league" territory is really confusing to me], I can't see how Mr. Football appealed to you at all) and how completely HG ruined her for her folly. Ruined her! LOLOLOLOLOLOL. This is what (gay) love will do to you! (Can we talk about how gay she looked in a wifebeater, ranting at Pete about how HG played her [again and again and again] and LOLOLOLOLOLOL.)
But HG and Myka aren't an actual love story, but one about betrayal of trust and whatnot, which is why it got some actual development instead of the pseudo-effort put into all the love entanglements on this show. The "family ties" dynamics are much more important on this show than developing outside connections, which is a bit frustrating, since that's just as legitimate part of the story to address, because if Myka is going to be happy for Pete, I want to feel like she has a reason to. I don't mean you need to waste storytelling time addressing the development of the romance, but give the romantic interest some actual character! And the romantic relationships actual dynamics! They're not even generic, they're just kind of . . . there without reason. I don't know if I can describe it without you just watching the show. It's also a very feel-good show, so we're not getting nitty-gritty, though the show certainly could go there with how much every one of these characters need psychiatric evaluations. Though maybe not Pete.
LIKE HONESTLY, HOW IS HG NOT RAVING, BLUBBERINGLY CRAZY AFTER DECADES TRAPPED IN HER OWN MIND??? Solitary confinement breaks people . . . now make that infinitely worse by immobilizing someone's body, OMG. I CAN'T EVEN IMAGINE HOW STARK RAVING MAD/INCOHERENT/BRAIN MUSH SOMEONE WOULD BE EVEN AFTER A YEAR OF THAT.
Anyway, I felt that there was not as much Leena this season, though more Mrs. F than Season 1. They read much more as background characters to me, so no real comment. I kind of like the cloud hanging over Claudia's head now as of 2x11, the implication that the whole system has already settled on her being Mrs. F's successor. Will she be Ms. Donovan to everyone in the future? XD Though in Season 2, Claudia is much more the center pivot for all the different parts of the Warehouse spokes, with HG being more Myka's tangent and the thorn in Artie's side.
Random, but I kept thinking this was a cartouche. In Egyptian hieroglyphs, the cartouche, the circle that encircles a group of hieroglyphs and is underwritten with a horizontal line (which is what is missing from that screencap of WH13 2x11), were for names, usually of royal persons. It was for protection! So while watching that episode, 2x11, I kept thinking, "But why would they put messages in a cartouche?" But I suppose it isn't a cartouche! The only reason I know this is because years ago I saw the King Tut (traveling?) exhibit where, among many amazing things, there was an awesome plaque showing how to read his name in hieroglyphs. (Tutankhamen. Surprise, there's an actual ankh in his name! It is awesome. People obviously should be getting Egyptian hieroglyph tattoos, not ones of Chinese characters.)
And just because it bears repeating: Unf, HG. Myka looks good in a suit too, but unf, HG.
ETA: Completely unrelated, but Yo, Tumblr peeps! Tumblr is apparently adding a chat feature, to be launched May 7th. You can sign up for it now. This is my tumblr. It's just "Lost Girl." I really just signed up so I could look at all the LG gifs and pretties, but apparently I got every other femmeslash fandom in the deal. (I am not kidding. I have seen pop up on my dash: Warehouse 13, Spartacus, Legend of the Seeker, Pretty Little Liars, Bomb Girls, Xena, Glee, Skins, Buffy, Mass Effect & other Bioware games, Adventure Time, Grey's Anatomy, Once Upon a Time, Defiance, True Blood?, Rizzoli & Isles, The L Word even popped up today, and I see some people shipping in Game of Thrones, apparently, because why not! This is from following 24 blogs I hopped onto to get LG stuff. The overlap of femmeslash fandoms!)