I made this...

[howlinchickhowl]

Two posts in two days?! Surely not, you say. Oh yes, I say, yes indeed!

Mainly this is just because I'm excited that I learned to do something new today :D I made my first gif! Which ok., is not rocket science, or brain surgery, or even like, incredibly complex long division or anything, but it's new, and I'm proud.

Go me!

I can't post both of them

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[howlinchickhowl]

OH MY GOD IT WAS SO EPIC!! And yeah, ok, not surprised, but it was still awesome. Especially when he kind of finally got it and he was just like, "Alex?" Like he was really disappointed even though it was clearly what he had been looking for the whole time.

And yes, his face, his face when he was all, "Ask me how I got here" Saddened, and angry and disappointed and menacing and oh my god it gave me FEELINGS. I was having so many feeling about that episode, I just need to know what happened next.

He's not bad at lying to people, he'd be a pretty awful spy-type if he were, and I think for the most part, he fools pretty much everyone, pretty much all the time, even Percy I don't think gets the full extent of his deal with Nikita. I think the person closest to understanding it would probably be Birkhoff, but I have theories about that that go off into a whole different realm of imaginary backstory.

I am reaaally intrigued as to how the whole things gonna go down, because yeah, he stopped Alex from essentially getting herself killed by getting to that door and he had to know that that's what he was doing, and he clearly wants to undersstand what's going on and it's all just too much for me to take.

April needs to hurry up and happen. Now.

(I am working on a response to our now ridiculously long discussion of once and again, but it's taking some time to gather my thoughts in a coherent way :D)

[meko00]

Well, y'know, I don't really watch for the plot, primarily. Maybe I've just read and watched far too many stories... though I'm interested in narratology, most plots only have a fairly finite number of probable ways to evolve. I'm all about characters and setting. And language. Also, where applicable, the acting. Hee.

Seriously, I'm rewatching it for the nth time today, and well... the entire episode is really about what can be seen from his face and stance. I think I said somewhere that West uses his face as a fluid canvas. *admires* During that first scene with Birkhoff, when he's told that Nikita was the one who took out Whitfield, his reaction... and well, all the rest. Yes, that sadness, disbelief and disappointment and worry and anger and resolve, and...

See, I don't really think he started off as a spy or even undercover; more a really keen intelligence analyst. But yes, he's definitely better at lying to people than his unguarded moments would suggest. As for Percy, I'm not sure he understands what goes on inside Michael, mainly because he seems to consider feelings a liability that he hasn't indulged in for many years. And when it comes to Birkhoff, I just love each and every scene between those two. They simply must show us flashback scenes with B., M. and Nikita. Birkhoff definitely has hidden depths, even if he often appears clueless.

Mmm, he knew. And I need to see the rest. Not even 2 weeks left to go!

As for that promo, I don't mind it since the reality probably is a bit different. Besides, they're just so sweet together. Somehow it's almost not even hot, just incredibly gentle and tender and it just leaves me completely mushy. Sigh.

(Hee. I had to hunt down the episodes again, and so rewatched bits and pieces and well, the looks and the tells.)

[howlinchickhowl]

Hi! Remember me? I'm sure you don't. Sorry this has been so long, I was putting off replying to you until I'd seen new Nikita, which I still haven't because I keep getting distracted, so bear in mind I haven't watched anything since the last time we conversed, but I;ve decided to just say hey because Lord knows when I'm gonna get round to it.

Sooooo...

I get what you mean about plot and the finite number of ways a story can evolve, but I really meant that I like to watch the ways in which the particular characters evolve as opposed to the plot in general, like, a story arc is gonna go one of three different ways, but a character arc can always surprise you I think.

I soo dig watching Michael and Birkhoff together, I just want to see more of them, and see them working together over a more sustained period of time as opposed to just like a minute in the tech room and then off on a mission. They need to get captured together or something.

I'm aware that a whole mess of shit has gone down and that I seriously need to catch up with this show, and maybe my entire view of it will be completely changed, but that's how I feel right now.

Sorry for being such an absentee sqee friend!

[meko00]

;-) Season finale on Thursday. Come on, you can do it.

Oh, yes. Character arcs. I mean, you can never really know a person in real life, so some degree of unpredictability in character arcs is lovely. I'm into that. :-)

We'll just have to wait and see. But they have had more scenes together.

I'm just glad you're back. It's not as I've been around much either.

[howlinchickhowl]

I don't think that I can, no, I'm not home until tomorrow and then I have to go for a job interview, but I will soon, and then we can talk all about Shane's face and the ways in which it is awesome.

Yay for being back! And look, next day reply, I'm totally being good at this this week :)

[meko00]

Heh, I knew you couldn't possibly. But yes, I'd absolutely love to talk more about Shane's face. And I could hook you up with keepvidded interviews so you could see it non-acting, too. Thing is, we have some facial features in common, so looking at him always weirds me out a little. Of course, that's also probably why he speaks to me; it's really not hard reading his face.

;-)

[howlinchickhowl]

Cool :) I will catch up now that it's over and I don't feel the pressure. In fact, I will go start downloading today, yes I will.

Hook me up, hook me right up, I like his face in all it's different permutations. Acting, not-acting, can't quite tell if he's acting (ER?) love it.

Which features in particular? I am curious.

[meko00]

I'm readying myself for the finale, but since I haven't seen it yet I might just wait until the big web-dl is up tonight.

Will divide the loot into roughly equal folders (or as equal as possible), zip them and upload to megaupload.

Mouth+chin and shape of the eyes. And general body shape, he's about the male counterpart to me, what with the baby animal-face, all the curves and walking in a fairly distinctive way. Sometimes you can hear the rhythm and other times it just looks funny to see someone else move around corners like that. Now I almost understand why someone I know finds me so amusing for just being. Actually, I kind of look like the more Scandinavian lovechild of SW and Jensen Ackles, only my eyes are bluebased and I'm not underweight. Also, not male. When it comes to JA, it's mostly the hair(iness) and the general colouring.

[meko00]

swclips1 (181.26 MB) hxxp://www.megaupload.com/?d=AOAH07Q4

swclips2 (131.49 MB) hxxp://www.megaupload.com/?d=RUS6UZ2F

swclips3 (168.8 MB) hxxp://www.megaupload.com/?d=6YZGV1C3

swclips4 (284.08 MB) hxxp://www.megaupload.com/?d=MR0G08L4

Clips and photos of Nikita-related SW things. I have other stuff (Nikita actors as well as non-Nikita SW stuff), and in some cases fairly large files, one of which I substituted for a smaller file (the Poptimal NYCC interview). There's another, different NYCC roundtable interview to be found on the Nice Girls TV website, as well as a short interview on Buzzfocus.

[meko00]

Oh, and I meant to say that while I love Ray Barnett, I think that the character perhaps wasn't all that developed by the ER writers. I do think that SW put a lot of nuance in him already from the start, but the show drew too much on his natural charisma and the fact that he was in a band. I've read that some viewers found Ray obnoxious at first, which I never did. Immature and irresponsible, yes. But then, a whole lot of other ER characters over the years were quite immature and irresponsible as well (I saw some of the first 3-4 seasons before I gave up).

[howlinchickhowl]

Aces, thank you :) that's a lot of stuff. I will download it tonight and hopefully have time to watch some of them tomorrow.

Yeah, Ray Barnett. I have to say, in later episodes he became much more of a character that I could see the writers crafting, but when he first showed up, and for maybe a couple of years, I felt like they were basically like, "well what did Shane do last week? Let's have Ray do that this week, only with medicine"

There's an interview I remember watching with SW where he's talking about how he got the part, and he says that he thinks they probably weren't going to give him anything, but he showed up for the meeting in all his band gear, with the nail polish and eyeliner and stuff, and they ended up giving him a part, so I think a lot of his character was probably derived from what they found appealing about him.

I don't remember finding him obnoxious, but then maybe it's because I was distracted by sitting there yelling at the tv "he's just Shane West!" And eating chocolate...

[meko00]

Ah. That was that Late, Late Show that Duchovny guesthosted, I think. (Thank you, YouTube.)

Mmm, chocolate. But yes, Shane West is another of those inherently appealing people. Also, that illustrates one of the downsides of the 22-25 full season of US network television, and with large casts it gets even messier.